|
THE JOKER |
|
|
Described as a "monster" and "psychopath" by the ageing Bruce Wayne, the original Joker was a sadistic clown who delighted in tormenting the first Batman and his allies. A one-time nameless underworld gun for hire, the man who would become the Joker once fought Batman during a botched robbery at a chemical plant and fell into a vat of acid. |
|
|
The accident scarred both the criminal's face and mind. Now calling himself the Joker, the madman embarked on a campaign to make every citizen of Gotham a victim of his lethal antics. Joker's determination to wreck havoc on the city continues into the time of Batman beyond, as the clown has apparently returned, alive, unchanged and, "Ready to give this old town a wedgie again!" On his return, he exposed laughing gas to the eldery Bruce Wayne, sending him out of commission. |
|
|
|
He had returned from the grave in the first place by putting a microchip of his DNA into Robin's brain back when Tim was captive by the Joker years ago. Upon discovering this, during one of their battles, the new Batman stole the Joker's electrifying joybuzzer and used it to shock the mole where the chip was located, thus destroying it in the process, and ending the Joker's reign once and for all. |
||
|
Related images: Joker concept art |
||
