Joker (Arkhamverse)

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Unknown
Alias	The Joker The Red Hood Mr. J J Jack White Dr. J. Reko The Clown Puddin' The Boss Roman Sionis/Black Mask Payaso Loco Warden Joker Lord Joker Emperor Joker Lord of Arkham Asylum The Payaso General J The Clown Prince of Crime Jester of Genocide The Comeback King Clown Prince of Chaos Filthy Degenerate (by Quincy Sharp) Bruce Wayne/Batman (after possessing him temporarily)
Origin	Batman: Arkham Asylum
Allies	His gang Harley Quinn Bane Scarecrow (formerly) Calendar Man
Powers / Skills	Genius-level intelligence Intimidation Strategic mind Combat prowess Vast array of gadgets (such as Joker gas, Electric Joy Buzzer, Shotgun, Explosive Chattering Teeth and X-Ray Glasses) High pain tolerance Knifemanship Marksmanship Mastery of weapons Knowledge of biochemistry Knowledge of manipulation Acting expertise Skill in torture Stealth Master engineer Electrokinesis (with Joy Buzzer) Fragokinesis (with Joker bombs) X-Ray vision (with X-Ray Vision goggles) Death manipulation (with Smilex) Virokinesis Mind manipulation (with tainted blood) Creating illusions (with tainted blood) Transformation (with tainted blood) Pseudo-possession (with tainted blood) Toxikinesis (with Smilex, Joker Gas and various toxins) Preparation Tactical mind Titan enhancements (formerly; including superhuman strength, superhuman durability, claws)
Goals	Dispose of Black Mask and take his place as the ruling crime lord of Gotham City (succeeded for a while). Take complete control over Batman's mind (indirectly; briefly succeeded). Kill Batman or drive him to murderous insanity. Create an army of Titan-enhanced thugs and send them to destroy Gotham City. Cure himself of his illness and continue his reign of terror. Obtain immortality by gaining access to Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus pit (all failed).
Moral Event Horizon	Massacring an entire kindergarten class just to provoke Jason Todd into coming after him. Torturing Jason to near death for over a year, manipulating him into turning against Batman, and then sending the latter a video of him seemingly killing Jason to taunt him. Shooting and crippling Barbara Gordon. Killing Talia al Ghul in front of Batman.
Kill Count	Hundreds to thousands (at least) Millions (attempted)
Worst Crimes	Mass murder Torture Psychological abuse Mutilation Brainwashing Animal cruelty Slavery Unlawful Imprisonment Extortion Incrimination Desecration of corpses Snuff-filming Cannibalism Usurpation Instigating riots
Type of Villain	Psychotic Mastermind

“	Welcome to the madhouse, Batman! I set a trap, and you sprang it gloriously! Now let’s get this party started!	„
	~ The Joker to Batman at Arkham Asylum and his most famous quote.

“	You of all people should know — there's nothing so cruel as memory. The pointy, bitey little thunderbolts. Unwanted party crashers, screaming through your synapses. Inescapable, unrelenting… not at all friendly. You can't even escape into madness! And then you meet someone who changes your life — and you feel that you don't even know who you are anymore. Isn't it funny how one little encounter can cleave off little pieces of your past, deform your memories and persona until you rethink your whole identity — and as you realize how foolish it all is — your laughter reverberates off the walls of your own emptiness.	„
	~ The Joker explaining his views to Dr. Harleen Quinzel - his most famous quote.

The Joker is the main antagonist of the Batman: Arkham video game franchise. He is the most nefarious, insane criminal mastermind in all of Gotham City and the arch-nemesis of Batman.

In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, and Batman: Arkham Knight, he was voiced by Mark Hamill, who also played him in the DC Animated Universe, the Trickster in the 1990 The Flash show and the 2014 The Flash show, the alternate Hobgoblin in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Malefor in The Legend of Spyro, Colonel Muska in Castle in the Sky, Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Maltruant in Ben 10: Omniverse. In Batman: Arkham Origins, Arkham Origins Blackgate, and Batman: Assault on Arkham, he was voiced by Troy Baker, who also voiced him in the Tomorrowverse, Shinnok in Mortal Kombat, Gul'dan in World of Warcraft, Kul Teska in Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and Van Kleiss in Generator Rex.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

In General

• Though it's stated in his report that he was a broken family man and failed comedian, it is ambiguous if this is true. Even if it was, he severely surpassed that tragedy long ago.
  • According to Professor Strange, this origin is likely fake, as the Joker has told numerous other fake stories about his past.
• Throughout the entire series, he has tried to make Batman break his code in many ways, multiple times.
• He routinely murders, tortures, and experiments on his henchmen, along with threatening their family members for their failures or just because it amuses him.
• He physically and emotionally abuses Harley Quinn, at one point admitting that he considers abusing her a personal hobby. He does all this in spite of Harley's loyalty to him.
• Although he has comedic moments, none of them detract from his depravity, and all of them are connected to his gruesome crimes.

Arkham Origins

• Hijacking Black Mask’s organization, he used it to torture and murder innocent people, as well as to murder all of Black Mask's loyal henchmen. He even forced Black Mask to kill his own girlfriend.
• Tortured Warden Joseph by burning his eye out with a cigar, which left him permanently blind in one eye. to gain access to Blackgate, threatening to slaughter his entire family if he didn't comply.
• Freed Calendar Man and saved him from execution so that Calendar Man would owe him. Calendar Man would then go on to murder Judge Harkness and a street-corner Santa Claus, meaning the Joker enabled him to do so.
• He betrayed and killed Commissioner Loeb, even though he helped him.
• As Black Mask, he sends 8 assassins to go after Batman and kill him, using Black Mask's resources to hire them for 50 million dollars, leading to some of them causing rampages. Most notably Firefly, who was willing to blow up an entire bridge full of police and hostages just to kill Batman.
• He infected the Gotham Merchants Bank owner with his Joker toxin and then killed her with an explosion.
• Killed Electrocutioner for failing to kill Batman and for simply looking at his phone during the meeting.
• Had parts of Gotham wired with explosives and blew up one building right in front of Batman, although he revealed that the building was simply a construction site that was blocking his view. He then attempted to blow up another building that was populated.
• He tried to kill Bane when he was escaping rather than finishing the job.
• Before getting arrested, he killed two of his henchmen for no reason. While he does state they were horrible people, it's more him just trying to prove a point rather than showcasing standards.
• Drove Dr. Harleen Quinzel insane to be his hen-wench.
• Started a riot at Blackgate Prison in an attempt to escape, telling Batman he should not have let him live as he has killed "a lot of people".
• In order to make Batman break his rule, he strapped a heartrate monitor to Bane's chest so that every time his heart beats, the electric chair Joker is sitting in charge until it kills him. In addition to this, he rigs the heartrate monitor to explode if Batman tries removing it. Once Gordon interfered, the Joker placed an electrode on his head in the hopes of killing him too. He then tried to shoot Warden Joseph after Batman put Bane under cardiac arrest, only failing when Gordon jumped in the way.
• He was excited over the fact that Batman had seemingly killed Bane, and when Batman revealed Bane was still alive, he immediately changed his mood, saying that "it's not funny" and tried to kill him.

Between Arkham Origins and A Matter of Family

• The Gotham City Story "The Fall" reveals that the Joker kidnapped and slaughtered an entire kindergarten class to provoke Jason Tod.
  • He then mutilated the children, sewed their corpses back together at random, and sent them back to the crime scene as crude parodies of themselves before mocking the mourning and distraught parents and singing nursery rhymes over a PA system as they struggled to identify their children. This was the act of crime that made Jason Todd finally decide that the Joker had to die.
    • Afterward, Joker captured Jason and tortured him for an entire year, manipulating him into thinking that Batman abandoned him for another protégé, before seemingly shooting and killing him. He filmed all of this and then sent it to Batman to hurt him on the most personal level possible. This eventually resulted in Jason becoming the Arkham Knight.

A Matter of Family

• He killed one of his henchmen by shooting him and then throwing him in the ocean for debatable reasons (making a pass at Harley, talking about Batman to Joker, etc.).
• Kidnapped Commissioner Gordon and threatened to kill him if Batman arrived, forcing both Batgirl (aka Barbara Gordon) and Robin (aka Tim Drake) to go after him.
• He also took some hostages and placed explosives around the oil rig where he was holding the Commissioner and the other hostages.
• He tried to kill Batgirl and Robin with a Rocket Launcher to cause Batman more emotional trauma, not caring that his own henchmen would’ve been caught in the blast radius.
• Showed no empathy at all when he threatened to kill Harley Quinn if the police arrested him.

Between A Matter of Family and Arkham Asylum

• He came to Barbara Gordon's house and shot her through the spine, paralyzing her from the waist down and laughing about it. He would later psychologically torture her father, Jim Gordon, by forcing him to watch a slideshow of him shooting her. This also forced her to quit being Batgirl and become Oracle.
• In the Iceberg Lounge, he poured acid on a waitress just because she accidentally spilled some drinks on him. Even the Penguin was angered by this act and banned him from entering his lounge.
• He and Harley Quinn pretended to be kind businessman and then had Edward Burke's 5-year-old daughter Katie experimented on, sending her into the care of Dr. Penelope Young and thus dooming her to a painful, horrific death via TITAN.
  • After prescribing pills to Edward that made him painfully laugh to death (after he was promised they'd kill him quickly), Joker and Harley took over his carnival.
• He murdered Aaron Cash's son by disguising himself as a birthday clown and scratching him with a rusty nail that contained a disease. Cash's son soon died in the hospital, and his corpse was maneuvered to look like he was smiling.
• On Halloween, he led a horrific unmasking prank at a party.
• He replaced Gotham Church's holy water to baptize newborn children with hydrochloric acid.

Arkham Asylum

• Faked his surrender in order to usurp Warden Quincy Sharp and take control over Arkham Asylum. He freed many prisoners to do his bidding (such as Killer Croc, Scarecrow, Bane, and Victor Zsasz).
• He sets Bane up to be tortured by informing Dr. Penelope Young of the TITAN formula and having her use him as a test subject.
• When Dr. Young wanted to back out of the TITAN Formula, Joker threatened her family and showed her a picture of a dead baby, highlighting how heartless and sadistic Joker is.
• Staged a hostile breakout in Arkham Asylum, resulting in the deaths of many Arkham guards.
• Betrayed and murdered Officer Frank Boles when he felt he was no longer useful and simply because Batman was following his alcohol trail to locate Gordon.
• Kills Penelope Young by rigging Warden Sharp's safe to explode after attempting to help Batman stop Joker's plot. Beforehand, he attempted to goad Victor Zsasz into killing Dr. Young while she was being held hostage by him.
• Unleashes the psychotic lunatics upon Arkham Asylum, after results in many of his henchmen being killed by the crazed lunatics.
• Uninvites Harley Quinn to the "party" out of spite when she failed to kill Batman.
• Plotted to create a TITAN army so he could unleash them on Gotham and kill thousands.
• He tested the TITAN Formula on two of his henchmen, not caring what would happen to them, and while Batman was busy fighting them, the Joker murdered the two hostages Batman had previously rescued.
• When a henchman finishes setting up a bomb on a vantage point, Joker detonates it despite the henchman still being near it.
• Attempts to turn Jim Gordon into a TITAN monster, which would have resulted in his death in the long term, forced Batman to take the hit and forced him to use the cure he made on himself in order to survive.
• At his "party," he captures and tortures Jim Gordon while fighting Batman.

Arkham City

• In the audio files, he continuously kills various doctors Hugo Strange sends to treat his fatal disease and always gets him to send in more in exchange for talking about his past. When Strange deduces that the "past" he shared with him was made up, along with various others that he's told, Joker threatens to expose him should he dig in too deep.
• Poisoned thousands of civilians across Gotham, including Batman, with his TITAN-infected blood to force Batman to find the cure as quick as possible. This act would later infect 4 people with aspects of his blood, turning them evil and leading to their eventual deaths.
• Teamed up with Clayface to kill Batman so that Clayface can steal Batman's life once he dies.
• Planned to kill Catwoman to show the city who is boss.
• Captured Mister Freeze's wife, Nora Fries, leaving her at the mercy of his henchmen, who wanted to rape her. Joker also stole some of Freeze’s equipment and locked it up in the boiler room.
• He murdered hundreds of Penguin's men and coerced the survivors into joining him.
• Tried to kill Vicki Vale by shooting down her helicopter with a bazooka.
• Immediately after Wonder Tower explodes, Protocol 10 ends, and both Ra's al Ghul and Hugo Strange die, the Joker, have Clayface hold Talia al Ghul hostage and threaten to kill her if Batman doesn't show up to the Monarch Theatre in time.
• Murdered Talia al Ghul in front of Batman to get his cure and later gloats over her death.
• Tried to use the Lazarus Pit to become immortal, but failed when Batman destroyed it.
• In a last-ditch effort to retrieve his cure, he tries to kill Batman by stabbing him in the shoulder, ironically causing his own demise due to Batman dropping the vial with the antidote inside.
• While his death was played sympathetically with sad music playing as Batman carried his body, it's not very preventive, as he deserved it for his actions.
• In an alternative ending where Catwoman leaves Batman, it is revealed by Barbara Gordon that Joker's force overtook Gotham, and he killed her father, "everyone else," and presumably several other Gotham citizens too.

Arkham City: Endgame

• After his death, he had his henchmen rig a radio tower within Arkham City to broadcast a message all over Gotham confirming his death as well as offering a reward of over a million dollars to the person who manages to find his corpse and deliver it to Harley Quinn, as a way to ensure that the entire town would tear itself apart.
• It is revealed that after his death, he rigged fireworks with Joker toxin to serve as one last act of villainy after he died, which killed hundreds of Gotham citizens.

Arkham Knight

• Throughout the game, he repeatedly taunts Batman over his failures, such as failing to save Jason Todd and Talia, as well as gloating over his own past crimes. He also blames Batman for getting him killed, although this is his own fault since he was the one who injected himself with TITAN and then got his cure destroyed in the first place. Not to mention that he deserved this fate for his past actions.
• Tried to drive Batman insane posthumously through hallucinations of him, which are triggered by both Scarecrow's fear toxin and the blood he put into poisoning Batman, so it is actually the Joker trying to drive Batman insane and not the fear toxin.
  • He further repeatedly sabotages Batman's efforts to stop Scarecrow and causes Batman to be exposed to fear toxin, weakening Batman's mind and allowing him to slowly take over, which is shown to be evident as he beats Scarecrow's Militia guards to near death.
• Used his blood to influence the receivers into becoming an aspect of himself, thus corrupting them and turning them evil.
• In these hallucinations, he convinced Batman that Barbara was dead and it was all his fault, which made him guilt-ridden and caused Gordon and Robin to temporarily turn against him.
• In one of these hallucinations, he sadistically murdered Penguin, Riddler, Two-Face, and Killer Croc. He even murdered a police officer that Riddler was holding hostage, showing that hostage threats do not work on him and that he will kill them regardless. After that, he planned on completely taking over Batman's body and using his equipment to cause mass destruction across Gotham.
• Although his fear and insecurities of being inevitably forgotten by the world after dying may seem sympathetic, not to mention that his final scene consists of him begging Batman not to seal him away inside his mind while sadly insisting that he "needs [him]," it's more than richly deserved given everything he's done throughout the series and is very much karma at that.

Post-Arkham Knight

• In the comic Batman #135 (Legacy: #900), when an alternate reality variant of Joker named Darwin Halliday, aka the Red Mask, travels throughout the Multiverse, the Joker is mentioned to have been resurrected from the dead, as well as countless other alternate Joker variants due to Halliday's actions. With his second chance at life obtained, he caused mass havoc across Gotham City once more, which prompts Batman to task Mainstream Batman (who just so happened to be traveling across the Multiverse to stop Halliday) with the job of taking down his Joker once and for all.
• His actions still had a major effect five years later, in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The Joker is still remembered for all the pain and misery that he's caused, and Harley Quinn was still upset about his death, which served as a benefactor for her to personally kill Batman, who was brainwashed by the alien warlord known as Brainiac, who also happened to brainwash the rest of the Justice League.

Trivia

• His Elseworlds variant set to debut in the upcoming Season One DLC of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will not qualify as Pure Evil as that counterpart's heinousness is currently unknown and, on top of that, is hinted to be somewhat anti-heroic or a well-intentioned extremist at the very least given how he is hinted to be a genuine teammate for the Suicide Squad in their crusade to kill all Brainiacs.

External Links

• Joker on the Villains Wiki
• Joker on the Arkham Wiki
• Joker on the DC Comics Database Wiki

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