but Heath Ledger's Joker has scars that extend his smile into a freakish sight. The Joker gives a few conflicting explanations for how he got his scars -- first he says he got them from his abusive father. In his second story, he says he gave himself the scars after his wife was disfigured by loan sharks.
This time, his story is totally different: he says that his wife's gambling addiction ended with her face being carved up. So, he – wanting her to know that he didn't care about the scars – carved his own face to look like her. After that, she couldn't stand the sight of his face and left.
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.
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.
Classically, the Joker does not wear makeup. His skin coloring is a result of him being dunked into a chemical vat that changed his coloring. In some story lines, the chemical dunking also gave him his trademark “grin” and increased endurance when fighting the Batman.
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.
What mental illness does the Joker have that makes him laugh?
The condition known as pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is characterized by brief uncontrollable outbursts of crying or laughter that are incongruent with the patient's feelings of sadness or joy.
A few months before filming began, the 45-year-old actor read through the script and met with writer and director Todd Phillips. It was decided that he needed to “look hungry and unhealthy” to do the part justice.
A fan asked Ayer on Twitter about the strange plot hole that Joker's teeth are at the center of. Batman only knocked out Joker's teeth after the Clown Prince of Crime murdered Robin. He has the resulting grill while he's locked in Arkham Asylum, the place he'd first meet Harleen Quinzel.
Harley Quinn (Harleen Quinzel) is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for Batman: The Animated Series as a henchwoman for the Joker, and debuted in its 8th episode, "Joker's Favor", on September 11, 1992.
Batman: Three Jokers #1 (August 2020). In Batman's origin story, Joe Chill is the mugger who murders young Bruce Wayne's parents, Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne. The murder traumatizes Bruce, inspiring his vow to avenge their deaths by fighting crime in Gotham City as the vigilante Batman.
The Joker has undergone many revisions since his 1940 debut. The most common interpretation of the character is that of a man who, while disguised as the criminal Red Hood, is pursued by Batman and falls into a vat of chemicals that bleaches his skin, colors his hair green and his lips red, and drives him insane.
Narratively, he got a permanent smile scarred into his face just by being born, which is tragic. But cinematically, the idea came from the 1928 silent movie that inspired the character's creation in the first place, The Man Who Laughs (the link to The Batman Who Laughs is clear).
The Joker's mask is a means of fabricating a (false) past pain and instilling a present fear. Bane also wears a mask that covers his mouth, but his mask fulfills a purpose outside of terror: Bane's mask provides him with analgesic gas for his immobilizing pain.
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.
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.
Starting with 'Joker's Five Way Revenge,' the Joker went from being either a dark, foreboding murderer or a goofy prankster to a villain who split the difference with threatening, thematic crimes that confounded Batman's status as the world's greatest detective while also standing in stark contrast to the Dark Knight's ...
Borderline personality disorder is one of the most painful mental illnesses since individuals struggling with this disorder are constantly trying to cope with volatile and overwhelming emotions.
Joker remains one of the evilest bad guys in all DC, but there have been a few times in history that he has done good things, and even acted heroic. One thing that has always defined Joker in DC comics, movies, and TV shows, is that he is not a good person.
Throughout various media, male and female versions of the Joker have developed romantic interests with popular characters like Harley Quinn and even Batman himself. Some of these relationships were mutual, others were rebuffed, and some were figments of the Joker's strained mental state.
One of the biggest revelations in Joker was that Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck's relationship with Zazie Beetz 's Sophie was not real and was all inside his mind. This, according to Beetz, was not set from the start and Sophie's role and story actually evolved and changed during filming.
