Why did Joker kidnap Robin?

Biography: Robin was out to stop crime until he was kidnapped by The Joker & Harley. Robin was mentally and physically tortured by The Joker, who attempted to make him into his own image. It became too much for Robin so he began to reveal secrets about Batman to Joker.
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How did the Joker kidnap Robin?

Some years later, after Batman had left Gotham for Bludhaven, Robin was patrolling as Robin alone, one night. He saved a woman from two thugs but it was actually a trap set by the Joker and Harley Quinn. Robin was taken to the ruins of the first Arkham Asylum and was tortured for three weeks.
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Was Robin brainwashed by Joker?

After Terry saves Bruce's life with an antidote, Barbara finally explains the Joker's disappearance: four decades ago, after Nightwing (Dick Grayson) left Gotham City for Blüdhaven, the Joker and Harley Quinn kidnapped his successor Tim Drake, then Robin, while he was on patrol, torturing and brainwashing him for three ...
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What did the Joker do to the Robins?

While Tim was acting as Robin, the Joker captured him and tortured him for weeks. When Batman finally saved him, the young Tim had been brainwashed into a miniature version of the Joker. The Joker wanted Tim to kill Batman, but luckily, a small piece of the boy's mind remained, and he shot the Joker instead.
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How long was Robin tortured by the Joker?

Jason was strong, held onto the belief that Batman was out there looking for him, and, would soon find him. However, Joker started to break down Jason's will when he showed him a photo of Batman with the new Robin, Tim Drake. The abuse continued for six months, and Joker even let other Arkham inmates beat Jason.
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What did Joker do to Jason Todd?

Which Robin does Joker hate the most?

Joker also brings up the fact he knows there has been more than one Robin. The one he hates most isn't Jason Todd, the Robin he murdered in cold blood; it's actually Tim Drake. Joker admits that he actually rather liked Jason.
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How was Robin killed by the Joker?

The second Robin, Jason Todd. But he wasn't beaten to death, he was beaten with a crowbar, and then Joker blew him up.
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Is Robin's dad the Joker?

No, none of the Robins are biologically related to Joker. In comics, Joker has never been shown to have any relation to Richard Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Carrie Kelly, or Matthew McGinnis. However in the DCAU, Joker did kidnap Tim Drake and turn him into a Joker Jr.
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Which Robin became a Joker?

Robin did not become the Joker. The second Robin in the animated series, Tim Drake, was kidnapped by the Joker, tortured, and turned into a sidekick/pet of the Joker called Joker Junior. Batman rescued him, but he was so traumatized that he quit being Robin.
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Which Robin becomes Nightwing?

In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, the maturing Dick Grayson grows weary of his role as Batman's young sidekick. He renames himself Nightwing, recalling his adventure in the Kryptonian city of Kandor, where he and Batman meet the local hero of the same name.
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Did Robin ever turn evil?

Dick Grayson, formerly known as Robin, later known as the New Joker, is the main antagonist of Frank Miller's comic miniseries The Dark Knight Strikes Again. He was the former Robin, who turned into a murderous individual, because of Batman's actions to him as a child.
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Who was Joker's son?

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.
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Which Robin betrayed Batman?

3 Damian Wayne (Robin)

In the comic series, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Batman suffers betrayal from his own son, Damian Wayne. Damian, the result of Bruce's brief relationship with Talia al Ghul, resents his father for his unwavering view of morality.
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Why didn't Batman save Jason?

Though he never voiced it, Batman did privately admit that he didn't go searching for Jason because he was afraid of what he would find. He knew Jason was killing people, and Batman couldn't live with the shame of knowing that he had unintentionally created a deadlier version of Joe Chill.
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What is the Joker's backstory?

The Joker commits a crime and, cornered by the Batman at the Monarch Playing Card Company, throws himself into a vat of chemical waste. He survives, but becomes horribly disfigured in the process. This is the first and earliest attempt at providing a background for the Joker, written in 1951.
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What is the Joker's real name?

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.
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Which Robin got beat up by Joker?

The Joker got a taste of his own medicine and it was delivered by none other than a Robin. While Jason Todd was the one beaten to death by the Clown Prince of Crime, Damian Wayne gave him the payback he'd had coming for a long time.
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Is Robin Batman's son?

Before he was Robin, Batman's son Damian Wayne was raised by his mother, Talia al Ghul, to lead the vicious League of Assassins.
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Who is the father of Harley Quinn's daughter?

Lucy Quinzel is the daughter of the Joker and Harley Quinn and the niece of Delia Quinzel.
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Who is Joker's biological father?

In Joker, Thomas Wayne (Batman's father) and Penny Fleck (Joker's mother) are key characters. Penny claims that Thomas is actually Arthur's father.
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Who is Joker's real mom?

In comic books the Joker's father looms semi-large in the super-villain's loose backstory, but in Joker—the new origin story in theaters Friday—it's his mother who takes center stage. Penny Fleck (played by Frances Conroy) is a meek, sickly woman who relies on her son, Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix), to take care of her.
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Who is Robins real identity?

Robin the Boy Wonder was actually Dick Grayson, the youngest of a family of circus aerialists, who witnessed his mother and father plunging to their deaths from a sabotaged trapeze. This murder was also observed by wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne.
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Who kills Batman?

The Joker then used his power to repeatedly kill Batman in the most grotesque and violent ways imaginable, highligting the lengths of the madman's depravity. The crowning acheivement was having vultures devour the Caped Crusader. Unfortunately, Joker was eroding the fabric of space and time with his antics.
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Who killed Nightwing?

Harley Quinn Season 4 Confirms Harley Killed Nightwing

However, the truth unfolds when she gets back home and becomes ensconced in her own clone saga.
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Who killed the Joker?

According to one view, Batman and the Joker, who have been fighting for years, end all of their disputes by having a good laugh about it all. Another interpretation, popularized by comic writer Grant Morrison, is that Batman kills the Joker at the end of the story, hence the title "The Killing Joke".
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