The Joker
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The Joker is a DC Comics villain archememy of Batman created by Jerry Robinson, Bob Kane and Bill Finger for Batman #1 (Spring 1940). He is the nemesis of Batman and is a completely insane, caotic and murderous sociopath master criminal who can murdero or make people sufer for his own amusement. Some authors portray him as the chaos to Batman's order.
The Joker has pale skin, red lips, green hair and a permanent smile deformed in his face that gives him his distinctive clown or joker like appearance. He is also commonly described as having a long thin face with a long sharp chin and nose. His trademark clothes are a purple ring master type of tuxedo with a yellow vest and a green shirt. He is also seen often with purple coat and fedora.
His schemes range from trickster robberies to cruel psichotic pranks and battles of wits with Batman. Since he sees the tragedy of his own life as a cruel joke, he reciprocates by causing the same kind of ironic cruel twists on others. Aside the murder of his parents, the Joker has been responsible for the worst tragedies in Batman's life, including the paralysis of Barbara Gordon (former Batgirl, currently Oracle) and the murders of Jason Todd (the second Robin) and Police Commissioner Jim Gordon's second wife Sarah Essen.
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[edit] DC Comics fictional history
[edit] Powers and skills
Other than being an extremely prodigious yet insane criminal genius, a somewhat poisonus blood and inmune to several toxins like his Joker poison, and the Scarecrow's gas, he has no superpowers. The Joker is a genius with a high level of self tought knowledge and skills in the fields of chemistry, genetics, and engineering. He often relies on especialist like his "cousin" Melvin.
He often relies in the Joker venom, to attack his victims. It is a chemical developed between him and his cousing Melvin, a virtuoso of the chemicals and it causes its victims to die laughin with a horrible grin smile. In some cases it can make its victims become mind slaves instead of killing them. His inmunity to his own toxin comes to the point that he his blood is actually poisonus.
His degree of hand to hand combat skill vary according to his mood. He can sometimes be taken down easyly and others be a threat even to Batman. However he often relies in whatever tools he has at hand, from his lethal prank themed weapons, to a simple chair or a crowbar.
The Joker has no real super power, but his extraordinary ingeniousity has proven that, like the card after which he took his nickneame, place in the right situation he can go as far as becoming the biggest threat to defeat. Some examples in the current continuity are The Last Laught, in which he infected all the inmate supercriminals from the Slab with Joker venom to do his will, and Emperor Joker, in which he stole the powers of Mr. Mxyzptlk.
[edit] Psychological profile
[edit] Duality with Batman
It the comics and other media (like Hugo Strange in The Batman), statements similar to saying that the Joker is the opposite side of the coin of Batman. Dan Didio stated it in the commentaries of the 1989 Batman with the following words: The Joker is (...) this character that represents anarchy, the randomness of crime. And the fact that Bruce lost his parents because of an act of random crime, and he is trying to bring order to the world and order to his life, Joker represents everything that he hates.
