After 40 years of being dead, however, the Joker's chip secretly embedded within Tim Drake's neck activates and grants the Joker complete control over Tim's body, a twisted chain of events that essentially brought the Joker back from the dead.
Subduing the Jokerz with Ace's help, Terry confronts Tim, who subdues Terry by disabling his Batsuit, and before Terry's eyes, physically transforms into the Joker, who gloats that he encoded himself into a microchip built with genetic technology hidden behind Tim's ear—allowing him to survive death by overtaking Tim's ...
How did Tim Drake become the Joker in Batman Beyond?
While Tim was The Joker's captive, the villain encoded his DNA with experimental technology that could override Tim's body and mind with his physical and mental attributes. This meant that Joker not only managed to survive his death but also added insult to vast psychic injury to Batman on top of it.
"Endgame" restores the Joker's face, and also reveals that he knows Batman's secret identity. The story ends with the apparent deaths of Batman and the Joker at each other's hands, though it is revealed that they were both resurrected in a life-restoring Lazarus Pit, without their memories.
How did Harley Quinn survive the fall in Batman Beyond?
In the episode "Harley and Ivy", Poison Ivy injected a toxic antidote to Harley Quinn, increasing her stamina and allowing her to survive falls like the one she survived in the flashback sequence of this film.
Personality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life. People with Histrionic Personality Disorder are “pervasive and excessive emotionally and display attention-seeking behavior” (Bornstein 1998).
What happened to Nightwing in Batman Beyond Return of the Joker?
It is revealed that Dick Grayson retired from being Nightwing after being severely wounded in a fight with The Joker, he was in a coma for some time and his legs were temporarily paralyzed because of a bullet in his spine. He also lost his right eye and began wearing an eyepatch after the incident with The Joker.
The shot actually comes from Harley Quinn who, in Batman #99, showed that she was willing to put the Joker down -- permanently. Her shot doesn't kill Joker, but it does take out his right eye, and it's no accident.
The comics series The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing features Batman's nemesis get pregnant after a curse is placed on him, Daily Mail reported. Eventually, the Joker "vomits a sort of brown goo" that transforms first into a baby boy and then into a mini version of himself.
Emperor Joker was a form The Joker took after tricking Mister Mxyzptlk into donating 99.99% of his reality powers to him. As a direct result, he became near-omnipotent and created a hellish world in his own image.
Dick Grayson's days as a hero are over, and his Nightwing suit is riddled with bullets after a critical injury. Dick's strained relationship with Bruce Wayne and his hatred towards the Batman cowl prevented him from becoming Batman in the world of Batman Beyond.
With false implanted memories in his head, Dick Grayson becomes the Son of Joker, and it looks as though he just got a pretty gross inheritance in Red Hood and the Outlaws #48.
The studio, also exploring other takes of Batman in development eventually placed Batman Beyond on hold in August 2001, but ultimately canceled the proposal. Yakin reportedly wanted the film to be dark, nihilistic, and with swearing and violence, and not the PG-13 film the studio wanted.
Tim Drake as Joker Jr. dispensed entrusted secrets to the Joker. As part of his final joke, Joker molded Drake into a crude version of himself and planned on having Drake deliver the killing blow to Batman.
In one episode where Bruce has a birthday, the writers said his age in the initial script, but had to take it out because the network would not allow it to be revealed. The producers, however, said off-the-record that Bruce Wayne was about 80.
In "Knocked Upside Down" from The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4 (by Matthew Rosenberg, Francesco Francavilla, Tom Napolitano), the Joker is cursed by Zatanna after he makes a pass at her and ends up becoming pregnant with his own child.
Superman may have just gotten his secret identity back again, but it's not business as usual for every DC character in 2023. Case in point - the Joker just became pregnant and gave birth in the latest issue of Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing.
One of the mysteries in director Todd Phillips' Joker is whether Arthur Fleck really is the son of Thomas Wayne as his mother Penny Fleck claimed. Both Wayne himself and Alfred Pennyworth said it was untrue and that Penny was delusional, hence her eventual stay in Arkham Asylum.
Director Todd Phillips considered the character's body size as one way to represent his vulnerability. It is important to emphasize that unlike most people who diet to lose weight or who develop an eating disorder, Phoenix's weight loss was intended for the short amount of time it took to shoot the movie.
Joker suffers from a rare disorder, Vrolic Syndrome, which gives him incredibly brittle bones. He was born with severe fractures in his legs, which is seen by his use of crutches and leg braces. In Mass Effect 2, the Normandy was destroyed by a Collector ship.
Ledger's habitual licking began as a reflex to check the scars were still in place and to ensure they stayed in position. Gradually, the licking became an integral mannerism that Ledger worked into the performance perfectly. Watch an iconic scene from The Dark Knight, full of Ledger's licking, below.
Trivia. Alfred did not appear in Batman Beyond possibly because he passed away due to him being elderly in BTAS and TNBA and Bruce being elderly in Batman Beyond. It did not directly state that he passed away or how he passed away because it is just a theory.
Jason Todd was created by Gerry Conway and Don Newton, first appearing in Batman #357. However, the DCAU version of Jason Todd first appeared in Batman Beyond #11 by Adam Beechen and Norm Breyfogle.
