Cesar Romero / The Batman Series (1966) 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).
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.
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.
In the very-similar-to-reality Flashpoint timeline reveals Joker's original name was 'Jack Oswald White. ' While Three Jokers soon added that Bruce Wayne had uncovered Joker's true identity within the first week of encountering him.
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.
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 ...
The Joker is explicitly shown killing 23 people in The Dark Knight, but the number exceeds 30 if the kills made on his orders or due to his manipulations are also counted.
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.
He falls into a vat of chemical waste when his heist is thwarted by Batman, emerging with bleached white skin, red lips, green hair and a permanent grin. This story was the basis for the most often-cited origin tale, Moore's one-shot The Killing Joke.
Official confirmation will be required before we can consider Todd Phillips' Joker to be the brother of the much younger Bruce Wayne. Until then, they aren't officially related. In other comic updates, check out what Pink Kryptonite does to Superman.
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.
According to Penny, Arthur was born of an affair she had with Thomas when she worked for him. She said in a flashback that Thomas' wealth, power, and influence helped to produce the claim and paperwork that Arthur was adopted.
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.
The film was submitted for formal classification on September 24th and was passed at 15, with the insight strong bloody violence, language. The detailed Ratings Info notes that the film contains: '… Scenes of strong violence include stabbings and shootings, with accompanying bloody injury detail.
One of the creepiest moments in Joker comes when Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), the deeply unstable party clown who eventually becomes the film's titular character, meets a young, very wealthy child by the name of Bruce Wayne.
Thomas is furious and swiftly lets Arthur know that he and his mother never had an affair, and that he fired her because she was increasingly unstable. Oh, and she did a stint at the Arkham Asylum. Oh, and Arthur was actually adopted.
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.
According to the Joker, his wife (who often mentioned that he needed to "smile more") found herself in trouble with gambling sharks who "carved her face." As the pair couldn't afford surgery, and in an effort to reassure his wife that he didn't care about her scars, the Joker disfigured himself in solidarity.
That includes the Joker, whose endless cycle of committing crimes, killing innocent people, being captured, and breaking out of Arkham Asylum has caused severe problems in Batman's life and Gotham City.
Damian Wayne is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, created by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert, commonly in association with Batman. He is the son of Batman and Talia al Ghul, and thus the grandson of Batman villain Ra's al Ghul and the potential inheritor of Wayne Enterprises.
DC Comics have generally made one man responsible for killing Bruce Wayne's parents, a common criminal named Joe Chill. Small-time mugger Joe Chill first appeared in Detective Comics #33 in 1939 and was created by Bob Kane.
After he woke up, Batman discovered that Joker suffered from a horrible side effect of Titan which gave him a fatal disease that progressively killed him. At the time of Arkham City's final night of full operations, Joker only had a few hours left to live.
One of the Joker's one biggest claims to fame is the fact he murdered the second Robin, Jason Todd, but looking back at the event shows Joker never actually wanted credit for his most famous crime at all.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #3 (August 1986) by Frank Miller. The Joker doesn't shy away from killing anyone, and that includes children. After Joker killed everyone at a late-night talk show and escaped in The Dark Knight Returns, he set up a booth at the county fair.
