In the decades since, Joker has been translated innumerous times over a myriad of different mediums. From Ceaser Romero's campy version battling Adam West in the s, to Mark Hamill's literally cartoonish interpretation in Batman: The Animated Series, to the brooding Heath Ledger's face off against Christian Bale's Dark Knight, Joker has seen countless iterations of the character over his 80 year history.
And with Joaquin Phoenix recently nabbing an Oscar for the role , public interest in the character is likely higher than it has been for a while. So let's all take a break today and wish Joker a happy 80th birthday, especially because any octogenarian that can still go toe-to-toe with Batman deserves it. Outside of work, he can be found continuing his quest to pet every dog in New York. By Kevin Phelan Published Apr 25, He later came to believe Thomas Wayne was his father after reading a letter written by his mother in which she claimed he was her and Thomas's son.
What followed was a heated argument between Arthur and Penny about her lying to him all those years. Penny held her beliefs that Thomas was a good man and that he could help them financially. As he tried forcing a smile on Bruce's face when he saw how expressionless the child was, a then young Alfred Pennyworth intervened.
Arthur stated his mother, Penny, had once worked at Wayne Manor and claimed Thomas Wayne was his father which Alfred denied saying that he knew Penny to be a psychotic and delusional woman who had lied about having an affair with Thomas.
Angered, Arthur choked him, reaching from behind closed gates, but spared his life noticing young Bruce was watching and fled the scene. Having lost his job on the same day that the subway murders had taken place made Arthur a possible suspect, and so two detectives Burke and Garrity came in to question him at his apartment about it. However, Arthur was away at the time, and Penny suffered a stroke during the brief questioning and needed hospitalization.
Later, footage of Arthur's stand-up comedy was broadcast on the Murray Franklin Show, but Murray had used it to ridicule him and his laughing condition, which deeply displeased the failed comedian, further fueling his internal rage. With clown-masked demonstrators protesting outside a charity theater show where Thomas Wayne was, Arthur sneaked into the theater and confronted Thomas in the bathroom about him being Arthur's father. Thomas denied it and asserted Arthur was adopted and that he had never slept with Arthur's mother, alleging that she had been committed to Arkham State Hospital in the past for psychosis.
Arthur grew defensive of his mother and asked why Thomas was lying and why people were so rude to him, as he desperately pleaded for Thomas to be a father to him.
At Thomas's insult toward his mother, an extremely upset Arthur began laughing in hysterics, much to the annoyance of the billionaire, who then punched Arthur in the face and threatened to kill him if he ever touched his son Bruce again.
Falling into a deeper depression, Arthur enclosed himself in his refrigerator after emptying its contents. A representative from the Murray Franklin Show later phoned him and asked if he would like to appear as a guest on the show to which Arthur said that he would.
Extremely depressed and having lost his sanity altogether, he returned home and broke into Sophie's apartment, the door to which was left unlocked. Terrified, Sophie pleaded for him to leave for the sake of her daughter. Through this, it is revealed that every other moment featuring Sophie was just in Arthur's head as he was imagining happier possibilities.
Back alone in his apartment, Arthur sat alone and smoked, laughing painfully as if unable to cry. Deeply disturbed and enraged by the reveal of his past, he felt as if he had been mistreated and lied to his whole life by the only person he truly loved, his mother. He later rehearsed his arrival on the Murray Franklin Show wherein his intention was to commit suicide on live television by shooting himself after pretending to say a joke.
However, Randall's true intentions to visit him were to hear what Arthur had told the detectives about the subway murders so he, Randall, could keep himself out of trouble. Arthur, who had held a grudge against Randall ever since he had got him fired, proceeded to stab the much taller and larger Randall with a pair of scissors before repeatedly bashing his head against the wall near his apartment door and killing him.
Arthur spared Gary's life and allowed him to leave unharmed, saying he was the only one who was ever nice to him. Having dyed his hair green, Arthur donned a red suit and wore clown makeup as he got ready for his appearance on the Murray Franklin Show. The two detectives from before caught him dancing down a flight of stairs on the streets and pursued him into a subway. As Arthur slipped into the crowd on the subway train, clown protesters beat up the detectives, allowing him to escape.
I know he said he remembers his past one way or the another, but does that mean he just remembers his past as totally different people? Much like Deadpool, he can break the fourth wall and know he is in a comic.
Now if you apply this to Joker when you really think about it, it is kind of funny because everyone is convinced that all these horrible things are really happening when in reality its just a comic book and people are just exploiting Batman and putting him through pain and horror because its entertaining. Also if you look at the joker he does what he does because he loves bats and even though bats hates him he laughs it off because he know bats needs him and they will do this dance forever.
Sorry went on a rant but to answer yes and no. RitchieB : To be honest, I don't like the idea of Joker breaking the 4th wall. I honestly like the idea of him being insane and just doing it cause of "a bad day".
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