In the hospital, Arthur was afraid of losing his mother.

Despite this, when he was on duty as the clown, holding the agency's sign in front of the goers of Gotham, a group of teenagers had stolen the sign, causing him to chase them into an alley where they broke the sign on him and beaten him violently.

When he was preparing for his performance in the said show, he contemplated of committing suicide in living, but after achieving so much love from the Clowns, he abandons it and his purpose of bringing laughter and joy to the world, aiming himself toward the Clowns' ongoing mutiny. Arthur Fleck. It is later revealed that there are apparently three Jokers on Prime Earth, which might explain why there are various origins for the mad man.

However, they decide to keep them on as long as Joker behaves. Afterwards, Arthur is invited to Franklin's show. Josh Pais 12. Douglas Hodge as Alfred Pennyworth The man who would later be known as the Joker was born in Gotham City as Arthur Fleck, the son of As he became an adult, in 1981, he often learned how to control his laughter problem with the help of a therapist and a social worker in Arkham Hospital to obtain medication to help himself handle the problem and later his depression, dissociative personality disorder and psychopathy. So, with Cameron Monaghan's character, first with Jerome and then to Jeremiah, then from Jeremiah to this new character. The same has to be said about the movies. Arthur, however, let Gary leave unharmed for treating him well in the past.

After killing Murray, Arthur shoots Murray’s corpse a second time but didn’t shot Ms. Ruth or anybody else in the area despite the fact he easily could have done so since he still had bullets in his gun. In Batman's chapter, Joker tried to kill Batman by blowing him up with a bomb after while he was trying to take Scorpion to Arkham. DC has published origin stories for the Joker before, but they’re always possible origins and not definitive. Despite his defeat, Joker escaped later encountering Scorpion who defeated him with ease. Robert DeNiro as Murray Franklin 3. Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s 1988 story Since then, the Joker has taken on a mythical quality thanks to writers like Grant Morrison and Scott Snyder. Creating general panic and chaos in Gotham City and everywhere else.Nearly all crimes imaginable, which include but is not limited to:Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Arthur has no superhuman special powers, from the reason he is a human being like everyone around him, yet he indeed had a variety of abilities such as:

Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck / Joker 2. While other familiar Gotham City characters are present, there are no allusions to characters outside the Batman property.

The … On systems and games before the modern era, he has appeared in: Upon the serial murders he committed, Arthur flees away to his home, where he was investigated by two GCPD detectives. While it's revealed to be Arthur Fleck in Joker and Jack Napier in 1989's Batman, in the comics Joker has no legal I.D.

His manipulative mind allows him to control the city with the press of a button.

Bill Camp as a Gotham City Police Department cop 10. He is shown to have a high level of knowledge and is able to comprehend various scientific tasks. As he was abused again by a group of teenagers, Arthur developed a hatred for society. Despite understandably shocked, Franklin decided to carry on with the show instead of shutting it down in hopes to improve the ratings through reasoning with the scarred Arthur.

Taking his parentage to the Wayne Manor, Arthur later met his estranged brother, Bruce, and met Alfred Pennyworth before getting rudely dismissed by him.

Usually, the demands of the movie are the opposite. When they entered the plant, their cover was immediately blown and a shoot out with security guards ensued. At his most harmless, the Joker is still menacing and will endanger lives with no regard for the harm he causes while also pulling dangerous pranks for no reason other than to spread chaos.

"There was something that was great about the mystery of it,” he says.

The next day, when she went into her office, she found a rose on her desk from the Joker. However, he was often physically and mentally abused by his mother and Despite his mental health, Arthur would have never thought of giving up on his goal to be a popular comedian, and, when he goes to achieve this goal, he takes the job of a clown for a talent agency. Read more: Should Chris Pratt Get To Replace Harrison Ford As Indiana Jones? However, his love for Jeannie, his deceased wife, still carried with him even after losing his sanity, to the point where in When she became his doctor at the asylum, he told her that her name reminded him of the clown character Harlequin. People also love these ideas. In the infamous graphic novel Various psychologists in Arkham Asylum have tried to diagnose, though unsuccessfully, the nature of the Joker's mania. Indeed, when DC Comics released the original series of Greatest Stories Ever Told (1987–1988) featuring collections of stories about heroes like Batman and Superman, the Joker was the only villain included alongside them.

Joker's appearance usually varies depending on different artists and media, but typically he wears a lavender suit with matching trousers, gloves, a necktie and a flower on his chest that shoots acid, laughing gas, or knockout gas. Helping the criminals to break in involved the engineer to dress up as the Red Hood. Shea Whigham as a Gotham City Police Department cop 11. With his transformation as the dreaded Joker completed, Arthur danced over the camera over to chillingly give the public a good night. Joker later teams up with Lex's team and the heroes to defeat Dark Kahn. In Joker, Joaquin Phoenix portrays Arthur Fleck, a party clown and aspiring stand-up comedian who suffers from a mental illness that causes pathological laughter. He used the gun to kill two of the three businessmen and chased the third one, killing him as well. Having triumphantly danced on a stair case, he finally basked in the embracing warmth of happiness and the sensation of pleasure which was new and wonderful to him.