| Joker is a super villain of Universe DC Comics, the main enemy of Batman.
Original history from comics:
In comics: murderer of parents of Robin & partner of Batman. In comics “Going Sane”, his present name & surname, merger of which forms the nickname - Joseph Kerr is mentioned. According to this nickname, he operates in style of clown. Joseph falls into acid & receives white skin with black shades & green hair & he always has grin on his face. He wears violet suit & fights with the help of various facilities, which are stylized under requisite of clown and illusionist. He has a partner – girlfriend Harley Quinn, dressed in clown’s suit.
Joker in films:
* Batman (film, 1966) (film & serial) – Cesar Romero;
* Batman (1989) – Jack Nicholson;
* The Dark Knight (2008) – Heath Ledger
Joker in films (from left to right): Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger
Joker first appeared in the serial of 1960’s, where he was somewhat changed with respect to his appearance: now, he has light green hair, combed into ball & corners of mouth are extended using lipstick instead of hardened grin. He wears dark-pink suit & violet colored gloves. In movies, Joker reminds a clown than a villain. Besides, he functions very poorly, only following instructions of Penguin. After that, joker appeared for a long time only in cartoon films & comics.
In 1989, Joker returned in Tim Burton's film “Batman”, portrayed by Jack Nicholson. In this film, he got the name of Jack Napier, ex-right hand of criminal boss Carl Grissom. Jack falls into a vat of chemical waste in a chemical factory & his face is disfigured due to unsuccessful plastic surgery: he always had a grin on face. Robin’s character is not shown in the film & Batman recollects how Joker killed Bruce Wayne's parents when Bruce was still a small kid. Traditional appearance was retained: green hair, white face, red lips, expensive violet suit, violet gloves & constant grin. This is how they tried to keep the grin: Artificial lip & cheek with “grin” were put on as make up for Jack Nicholson. In the end of film, Joker was killed by Batman though much more mileage was given to Joker than Batman. According to the plot, Harley Quinn was killed by Joker (though she was refused clown’s suit & nickname).
In XXI-st century, Joker appeared in new cartoon serial & he became a vampire (as the other super villains) in cartoon film “The Batman vs Dracula”.
In “The Dark Knight”, Joker (Heath Ledger) once again does not have a name (besides, he does not leave evidence & it is impossible to learn about his past life). Appearance is traditional but with some changes: Joker had light green curly hair, black outlines around eyes (taken from comics), dirty violet suit, dark violet gloves & white face. 2 scars, cut in mouth, have become constant grin. During the entire film, Joker gives two versions of their occurrence: humiliation of father & miserable family life but the true reason is not told. Stories are accompanied by phrase “Why so serious?”, which became tagline to film. Falling into chemical waste is not adopted in this film - white face of Joker - inaccurately imposed make-up, which is some times gets wiped during the course of film. Knife is favorite weapon of new Joker: in his opinion, knifes provide the closest victim’s contact. Dynamite and gasoline are also distinctive features of this villain. In the ending, Joker does not die which makes the film a prequel. Heath himself, having closed in a living room for a month devised an image of Joker. He did not want that his Joker was similar to Jack Nicholson's Joker. Heath’s joker was egoistic, with unsurpassed mimicry, with eternal grin in the form of scars, with wonderful intonations of psychopath. In this film, Joker shows all morals of society. Not the Batman, but the Joker protects the citizens of city. Joker of Heath Ledger delivers sense & philosophy of people to us as Harvey Dent & also societies. Joker submerges city in anarchy & leads a clever game.
Tragic death of Heath Ledger put two acute issues during the film release: whether to show recently died Heath Ledger in an image of spoilt Joker saying master phrase & also appropriateness of cutting the scene, where Joker pretends to be dead, during final editing of film. The situation was resolved, justified that Heath Ledger worked very hard for the role & in any case, would have been proud & glad for it.
Other appearances:
Besides Batman, Joker was member of other Universes. In one of the episodes of serial “Superman”, Joker was partner of Lex Luthor. Batman was also present in the serial as an ally of Superman & also new beloved Lois Lane.
Also Joker was in one of the serials about Scooby-Doo. Person-penguin was mentioned in the serial with whom Joker gets united. Batman & Robin were also there, as new friends of Corporation Secrets.
Joker is also found in the game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. In its ending, it is said that after division of worlds, Joker became much stronger. He occupied Gotham City & declared himself mayor. Now, he begins tournament “Deadly Fight” in Gotham City, participants of which shall fight until death for the entertainment sake of Joker. Eventually the winner of tournament will fight with Joker.
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