In most speaking roles, the Joker is often given a high-pitched, comical, bouncy, silly, and over-the-top voice that occasionally stoops down to a slight growl, in accordance to his clown-like appearance and maniacal personality, with the only known exceptions being his appearances in His malevolent, sadistic sense of humor and psychopathic tendency of murdering whoever he wants to depicts him as Batman's greatest foe and not even Poison Ivy or even Two-Face could possibly beat the Joker.

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"War Games" is a 2004-2005 major storyline comic book story arc published by DC Comics that ran in its Batman family of titles, Detective Comics, Legends of the Dark Knight, Nightwing, Batman: Gotham Knights, Robin, Batgirl, Catwoman, Batman, and Gotham Central.

When the Joker attempts to stab a subdued Batman, he is pushed into the path of a falling stalactite which breaks his back. The Joker has also been featured in video games.

With plans to infect the entire world, he sets the super-powered inmates loose to cause mass chaos in their "Jokerized" forms. Like a psychopath, he lacks empathy, a conscience, and concern over right and wrong. Jerry Robinson came to me with a playing card of the Joker. Over the years it has been shown that although Batman is stronger, the Joker is faster and more agile.

), from which his body was not recovered. Following an attack by Scarecrow, Batman recovers in his new base of operations; a safehouse seized from the Court of Owls. Dressed up as playing cards, the Royal Flush Gang did whatever the Joker asked them to do, until things turned for worse and they left. The Joker's exact origin is a mystery, barring that Batman was somehow involved. He was also ranked eighth on the Greatest Comic Book Character of All Time list, which was released by Interpretations of the Joker's appearance in other media include Originally conceived as an evil "court-jester" type, the character was initially rejected by studio writer In his initial dozen or so appearances, starting with For the next several appearances, the Joker often escaped capture but suffered an apparent death (falling off a cliff, being caught in a burning building, etc. However, with Batman foiling his every comically-ridden crime, he feels he may never get that chance, so he attempts constantly to prove himself to Batman as special, so maybe the Dark Knight will leave him be. Apparently Jerry Robinson or Bob, I don't recall who, looked at the card and they had an idea for a character ... the Joker. The Court refuses to aid Batman, but he confronts their Talon assassin Uriah Boone, who has survived since the beginning of Gotham, about the Joker's supposed immortality. The computer reveals a new element in the Joker toxin, "hahnium" (Ha). The Joker initially appeared as a remorseless serial killer, modeled after a joker playing card with a mirthless grin, who killed his victims with "Joker venom," a toxin that left their faces smiling grotesquely.

In "The New 52," the Joker is reintroduced as a homicidal killer being hunted by Gotham's police force in Afterwards, the Joker is assumed dead by virtually everyone except Batman, and hundreds of mourners have surrounded the GCPD building in a mock vigil, calling for the Joker's face and Batman's head. After Batman is sent to the Phantom Zone by Joker and he tells the robotic warden Phyllis that he will bring back every villain into the Zone before he goes back to Gotham City. For his failure to kill Batman "El Penitente" sent four assassins after him, but the villain escaped his pursuers by a rope out of the window.