No.Arthur Fleck is just the protagonist of an origin story which is completely made up by the Joker. The one we see at the very last is the actual Joker.
was a Cuban American film and television actor, who played The Joker in the 1960s television series Batman. In 1966, the show was transferred to movie theaters, and Romero became the first actor to portray the Joker in a motion picture. Romero was born in New York to prosperous Cuban parents.
Arthur Fleck is a completely original name when it comes to the Joker, as it has never once been his given name, an alias, or anything else. In a movie full of plot twists, the seemingly random name of Arthur Fleck is one of the biggest head-scratchers, but there's an explanation behind it.
DC's Flashpoint Beyond #5 reveals the Joker's real name is Jack Oswald White. Flashpoint Beyond #5 comes from writers Geoff Johns, Tim Sheridan and Jeremy Adams, artists Xermánico and Mikel Janín, colorists Romulo Fajardo Jr. and Jordie Bellaire and colorist Rob Leigh.
When it comes to the Clown Prince of Crime, whose alias is Arthur Fleck, he is one of the most popular antagonists in the DCEU. The most notable one is that played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Currently, it is Joaquin Phoenix who is wearing the hat in the Todd Phillips directed franchise.
The Joker has been portrayed by Cesar Romero in the 1966–1968 Batman television series and the 1966 Batman film; Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film Batman; Heath Ledger in the 2008 film The Dark Knight; Jared Leto in the 2016 film Suicide Squad and the 2021 director's cut Zack Snyder's Justice League; Cameron Monaghan in ...
Besides having schizophrenia, Arthur Fleck was also identified as having Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) disease. Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is a condition in which a person cannot control their laughter or crying.
Image via Warner Bros. Key to Arthur's spiral is new information he learns from his mother Penny (Frances Conroy), with whom he lives. Arthur finds a letter Penny has written to Thomas Wayne, claiming that Wayne is Arthur's real father.
Later, Arthur goes to Arkham State Hospital and steals his mother's records, and finds out that he was in fact adopted, and that Thomas Wayne is not his father and that Penny is not his true mother.
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.
Arthur Fleck is a failed comedian and party clown struggling with mental illness and a laughing disorder. It's later revealed that he actually is sociopathic and gradually begins to become evil as result of his abusive treatment from the people of Gotham City, leading him to become the vengeful anarchist Joker.
Each of the three "Jokers" represent the three eras in DC comics "The Criminal" represents the Golden Age "The Clown" represents the Silver Age and "The Comedian" represents the Bronze/Modern Age.
Penelope "Penny" Fleck is the secondary antagonist of the 2019 psychological thriller film Joker, the first installment of the DC Black film series. She is the adoptive mother of Arthur Fleck, a mentally unstable failed comedian whose lack of success and respect triggers his transformation into the Joker.
The original Joker, Cesar Romero, was known for his acting and singing skills well before playing the iconic character in the first of the caped vigilante films, Batman: The Movie (1966).
It was a man named Henry Claridge who had the honor of being the Joker's first kill, which the Clown Prince followed by murdering three more people all in the same story. He almost killed Robin, but it would take another few decades before he achieved that dark goal.
Batman and Joker definitely aren't brothers in the comics. While the Joker movie plays very deeply with this idea, it still maintains the same stance. In the books, Joker's origin story has been a mystery. Readers have come across multiple different ones over the years.
While the Joker movie implied Arthur Fleck could be Batman's older brother, his actual brother Thomas Wayne Jr. is just as twisted. For the longest time, Batman believed he didn't have any siblings and that he was an only child.
The series ended in controversy when the final issue suggested that Anarky was the biological son of the Joker. Originally a suggestion by Norm Breyfogle, the idea was advanced by Alan Grant as an attempt to solidify Anarky's role as a part of the Batman mythos.
Following her introduction to the comics in 1999, Harley Quinn was depicted as the sidekick and lover of the Joker as well as the criminal associate and best friend of Poison Ivy.
In some earlier versions of the story, Morgause is not related to Arthur and is called Anna, Orcades, or Morchades. In almost all versions, Mordred is the son of Arthur. Mordred is Arthur's only child, but he has half-siblings through his mother. Notably, Sir Gawain and Sir Gareth are Mordred's half-brothers.
In the final version of the film however, Jack Napier takes Chill's role as Thomas and Martha Wayne's killer while Chill, according to producer Michael Uslan, became one of Napier's men who accompanied him in mugging the Waynes, was credited as "Other Mugger", and portrayed by Clyde Gatell.
The Joker's age changes depending on the version of the character – for example, in Batman: The Animated Series, he's 44 years old, but in some stories in the comics, he has been portrayed as being in his late 50's, so it's not surprising that the movie went for a younger portrayal.
As the film progresses, the audience learns that his outbursts are the symptom of a brain injury. And while the script never names the Joker's disorder, it's based on a real-life medical condition called pseudobulbar affect.
