{"id":255424,"date":"2024-10-04T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=255424"},"modified":"2025-02-16T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:26:26","slug":"joker-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/joker-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"33 Crazy Facts About the Joker You Did Not Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Joker has captivated audiences, writers, and actors alike since the 1940s.\n
His humorous and violent nature makes us wonder what goes on inside the Clown Prince of Crime’s head.\n
Stick around as we can shed some light on this insane criminal’s life with these batty facts about The Joker.\n
The Joker first appeared in 1940 in the first issue of the Batman comic book series, making him Batman’s oldest nemesis.\n
The Joker’s appearance was inspired by the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs. The film is about a man whose face is disfigured into a permanent smile.\n
In the \u201cThe Darkseid War\u201d storyline (2016), Batman finds out that, in this universe, there are three jokers working together: the criminal, the clown, and the comedian.\n
Since 2016, it has been canon that Batman knows the identity of the original Joker, though this identity was not revealed in the comics.\n According to \u201cThe Killing Joke\u201d comic (1998), the Joker was a failed comedian who fell into a vat of chemicals, which gave him his pale skin and made him insane.\n According to one of Batman’s writers, Peter Tomasi, the Joker\u2019s main goal in the books is to make Batman the best he can be, going so far as to say that they have a strange kind of love for each other.\n The Joker has no fear. In the comic \u201cKnightfall\u201d (1993), the Scarecrow sprays the Joker with his fear-inducing toxin, which should make him cower, but this has no effect on him.\n Due to many years of exposure to the chemicals and toxins he makes, the Joker has an incredibly high tolerance to being poisoned.\n Batman has almost killed the Joker many times over the years, always declining to finish the job. Whether he should kill the Joker is a highly debated subject among fans of the comic books.\n The Joker often teams up with the other villains of Gotham City. However, it rarely goes well for them because the Joker loves chaos above all else.\n Many actors have played the Joker on TV, as voice actors, and in cinemas, making it a sought-after role. Both Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix have won Oscars for their roles as the Joker.\n Be careful of the Joker\u2019s flower lapel. In most renditions of this character, it shoots face-burning acid or his powerful Joker Venom, which will have you laughing til you die.\n Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s portrayal of the Joker in 2019 was the first R-rated film to make over 1 billion dollars.\n The Joker\u2019s girlfriend and accomplice, Harley Quinn, was once his psychiatrist, Dr. Harleen Quinzel. After falling in love with him in Arkham Asylum, she helped free the villain.\n The Joker has made several attempts on Harley Quinn\u2019s life, including shooting her point blank and trapping her in a crashing rocket.\n After all the Joker’s attempts to kill Harley Quinn, she left the Clown Prince of Crime for her best friend, Poison Ivy.\n Although the Joker’s real name is unknown, he has created many aliases. Some of these include \u201cJoe Kerr,\u201d \u201cJack White,\u201d \u201cJack Napier,\u201d and \u201cA. Rekoj.\u201d\n The Joker is a master of disguise. He poses as everything from pilots to journalists and even creates new villains for Batman to fight.\n The Joker\u2019s first-ever sidekick, A. Gagsworthy, appeared in Batman #186. He\u2019s had a wide variety of sidekicks since, including Mr. Hammer and a pair of hyenas named Bud and Lou.\n In Batman #427 (1988), the Joker successfully kills Robin. This event was decided by fans who were able to phone in to vote for Robin’s fate, which was then shown in issue #428.\n In the DC multiverse alternate version of Earth, Earth-3, the Joker goes by \u201cthe Jokester\u201d and is the superhero who must fight against \u201cOwlman,\u201d the evil Batman counterpart.\n On Earth 22 in the Dark Multiverse, Batman gets infected by the Joker’s disease, making him \u201cThe Batman Who Laughs.\u201d\n In the 2015-2016 crossover with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Joker almost kills Batman before being knocked out by Donatello.\n In \u201cA Death in the Family,\u201d Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini appointed the Joker as Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations.\n The Joker’s only real power is \u201csuper sanity,\u201d which allows him to control his personality and mind in ways other superheroes can\u2019t.\n Due to his super sanity, he has a high tolerance for pain, once even cutting his own face off and reattaching it with staples.\n One of his abilities, which comes with his super-sanity, is that he is aware that he is in a comic book and often breaks the fourth wall.\n