Matthew Rosenberg - the DC writer behind The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing comic series that recently saw the Batman villain become pregnant and give birth to Zatanna's child - has responded to the controversy surrounding the surprising story twist in a newsletter.
Joker Jr. was born after The Joker, who had manipulated Harley Quinn into re-entering a life of crime, impregnated her without her knowing. Harley out of shame refused to accept the child and gave him up.
The Joker has had children show up before, but in most cases, they turned out not to be the biological offspring of the villain. Joker's Daughter ended up being the child of Harvey Dent, while his son Anarky was intended to be revealed as someone else's kid before his series was canceled.
After this, the DC heroes do what, apparently, nobody has ever thought of doing before, and simply ask Joker if he has a daughter, to which he responds that he doesn't.
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.
Though Zatanna's backward spell, “On eno esle lliw reve evah ruoy ybab!” (“No one else will ever have your baby!”), backfires and the Joker wakes up to discover he is nine months pregnant. Suddenly going into labor, the Joker vomits with the ejected matter morphing to form a mini Joker.
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.
In the latest issue of DC Comics' series, “The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing,” Batman's nemesis actually carries and gives birth to a child. If that sounds strange, that's the way the graphic novel company intended it.
Ultimately it was revealed that Duela is the daughter of the The Jokester (Earth-3) and Three-Face (Evelyn Dent) , the Joker's heroic counterpart and archenemy of Owlman (Thomas Wayne, Jr.) This means she is Joker's daughter, just not the mainstream one.
DC has made it common not to give The Joker any solid backstory or family, but they still managed to accidentally give him a son. Due to DC canceling a comic just a bit too early, they unintentionally left Joker with a son in the form of Lonnie Machin, also known as Anarky.
It is then revealed that the Joker's real name is "Jack Oswald White." Martha then shares that she visited the Flashpoint universe's version of Jack Oswald White, discovering him to be a struggling family man supporting his wife and a child as a janitor at Wayne Casino.
Harley Quinn has a daughter named Lucy based on research and the video game Injustice. She finds out she is pregnant and leaves the Joker to live with her sister, After having her daughter Lucy Harley Quinn's sister raises her and she goes back to the Joker and he acts like she never left.
Arthur was brought up by a foster mother and did not have a father figure. The foster mother herself describes him growing up as a fun and kind boy, but later he was abused and beaten by his adoptive parents and even had a severe head injury.
Summary. "The Nativity" arc in Venom #164 features the alien symbiote becoming "pregnant" and giving birth to the Sleeper symbiote, resulting in Eddie Brock having vivid nightmares and experiencing symptoms similar to an expectant parent.
Summary. Joker's dark tone leaves viewers questioning Arthur's actions, including the fate of his neighbor Sophie. Todd Phillips confirmed that Arthur didn't kill Sophie, but her survival was left ambiguous in the film. Arthur spares Sophie due to her kindness, a departure from his violent tendencies towards others.
The Joker becomes both verbally and physically abusive. Rather than blame the Joker for this abuse, Harley convinces herself that Batman is to blame because Batman is constantly getting in the way of her being with her “Puddin.” After her failed attempt to kill Batman and some time in Arkham, Harleen returns.
Bruce reveals to Alfred that he has known the Joker's true name all along, discovering it shortly after their first encounter. It is also revealed that the Joker's pregnant wife Jeannie is alive, having been taken to Alaska where she now lives with her son as part of a witness protection program.
The ending of Batman: Three Jokers establishes that the Joker's wife did not actually die—rather, she fled to Alaska with the help of Gotham police and Batman because she feared her husband would be an abusive father; the police then told the Joker a story about her dying to protect her.
Like most breakups, this one didn't happen overnight. During the “Death of the Family” storyline, Harley grew alarmed at just how much the Joker had changed and how nothing was fun anymore. The final straw for her was when he infected her precious hyenas with rabies in 2012's Suicide Squad #15.
She soon succeeded in merging genetic information from both humans and plants, and began growing human/plant hybrids that she referred to as "sporelings". Ivy successfully delivered her two sporelings in secret, naming them Rose and Hazel.
The psychopathology Arthur exhibits is unclear, preventing diagnosis of psychotic disorder or schizophrenia; the unusual combination of symptoms suggests a complex mix of features of certain personality traits, namely psychopathy and narcissism (he meets DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder).
