The Original Origin Story
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Though he debuted in 1940's Batman #1, it would be many years before DC attempted to establish some sort of origin story for the villain. Detective Comics #168 revealed that the Joker started out as a small-time thief named the Red Hood. After robbing a playing card company and escaping by swimming through a polluted river, Red Hood found that his face and hair had become bleached. Thus, the Joker was born.The Killing Joke
1986's Batman: The Killing Joke built on the basic framework of the Red Hood origin story but added tragic new layers. This story suggests that Joker was once a chemical plant worker who quit his job to become a stand-up comic. When that failed, he agreed to help a gang of criminals rob his old employer. But after being chased by Batman, this failed comedian fell into a vat of chemicals. Combined with the trauma of losing his wife and unborn child in a freak bottle warmer accident, all the ingredients for a sadistic, killer clown were in place. However, The Killing Joke also suggests that Joker's own recollection of his past may be tainted.
Jack Napier
1989's Batman was the first movie to explore the Joker's origin, offering up the most comprehensive take fans have ever seen. The film reveals that Joker was once Jack Napier, a high-level enforcer for Boss Carl Grissom who also happened to be sleeping with Grissom's girlfriend. Napier's boss set him up to be killed by the GCPD. As in various comic stories, a run-in with Batman culminated with Napier falling into a vat of chemicals and becoming physically and psychologically changed. A bullet wound to his face also left Napier with a permanent rictus grin.
Batman '89 broke with tradition not just by giving Joker an origin story, but by fundamentally intertwining his story with that of Batman's. A flashback scene reveals that a young Napier was responsible for murdering the Waynes, sending Bruce on his path to becoming Batman.
Joker the Gangster
Batman: The Animated Series paid little attention to fleshing out Joker's background, except in the 1993 feature film Mask of the Phantasm. There, Batman encounters a photograph that shows a pre-transformation Joker working as a mob enforcer. But as Joker shows, he has little love left for his former bosses.
Joker's Therapy Session
The Batman: The Animated Series franchise did also briefly flirt with exploring Joker's origin in the graphic novel Mad Love (which was later adapted into an episode of the series). Even as this story establishes the origin of Harley Quinn, it shows Joker confiding in his new psychiatrist and regaling her with a story of his youth. According to Joker, his abusive father only showed signs of affection when he took his son to the circus. After one good-natured prank gone wrong, Joker forever came to associate laughter with violence and pain.
The Case Study
'Case Study' is a story in the Batman: Black and White anthology series. This tale added to the traditional Red Hood origin by suggesting that Joker was once a bank robber who was so successful that he became bored with normal crime. The Red Hood persona was a way of restoring the thrill of the crime. Furthermore, this story suggests that Joker isn't actually insane, but merely fakes insanity in order to avoid the death penalty. However, because the case study in question was written by Harleen Quinzel, its veracity is in serious doubt.
The Dark Knight's Conflicting Stories
2008's The Dark Knight features multiple origin stories straight from the Joker's scarred lips, though none of them seem very plausible. First, Joker tells crime lord Gambol that his father was an alcoholic abuser who turned especially mean one night. According to Joker, his father carved up his face even as he asked his son, 'Why so serious?'
Joker delivers a completely different anecdote to Rachel Dawes later in the movie. This time, he claims that his wife fell deep into debt with the mob and had her face slashed in retribution. A devoted husband, he chose to disfigure his own face in a show of support. Instead, his wife found his scars repulsive and left him for good, driving him a little mad in the process.
While neither Joker anecdote is likely true, some fans believe that a different sequence in The Dark Knight may offer a clue as to Joker's identity. Joker tells a captive Harvey Dent that no one panics when a truck full of soldiers is blown up, because 'It's all part of the plan.' That oddly specific metaphor could be drawn from Joker's own experiences. Is he himself a former soldier who was disfigured in an attack? It would certainly explain his proficiency with weapons and explosives and his desire to bring chaos and suffering to Gotham.
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Lovers and Madmen
A storyline called Batman: Lovers and Madmen offers its own spin on Joker's origin. In this case, he was a career criminal named Jack who gets bored with his line of work until Batman showed up to make things interesting. Jack's face is scarred after being hit by a Batarang. Later, when being tortured by a rival gang, Jack is doused in a spray of anti-psychotic chemicals and completes his transformation.
Joker's Childhood
In The Brave and the Bold #31, the Atom travels inside Joker's warped mind in order to save him from a mysterious, terminal disease. There, the Atom finds himself lost in Joker's childhood memories. This story shows that Joker was a murderous sadist from his early days. He even trapped his family inside their home and set it on fire as payback for finding his collection of animal carcasses.
Alfred as the Joker
A short series called Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? brings together a number of Batman's friends and foes to eulogize him after his death. In this story, Alfred reveals that he was actually Joker all along. He employed his skills as a thespian to create a convincing disguise and give his master a purpose in life. This dreamlike story isn't meant to be taken seriously, but it's still an interesting take on the Batman/Joker dynamic.
Flashpoint's Joker
The Flashpoint crossover introduced an alternate timeline created by Barry Allen. In this world, young Bruce Wayne was killed by the mugger's bullet, compelling Thomas Wayne to become Batman and Martha Wayne to become Joker. The two estranged lovers finally reconnect in the climax of the spinoff series Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance, but only for more tragedy to strike. When Thomas tells Martha about an alternate world where their son lives to become Batman instead, the thought drives her over the edge and she kills herself.
Joker's Aunt Eunice
2013's Batman #23.1 offered a new take on Joker's origin. Here the Clown Prince of Crime reminisces about his childhood living with his Aunt Eunice, a cruel and abusive caretaker who enjoyed washing her nephew with bleach. Eventually, this caused permanent brain damage and Joker's distinctive bleached skin. As usual, it's best to assume Joker is an unreliable narrator.
Red Hood One
The New 52 Batman comic tackled a new version of Batman's origin story with the Zero Year storyline. While Riddler served as the main villain of the story, one subplot involved a conflict between a rookie Batman and the Red Hood Gang. In this version of events, the proto-Joker is Red Hood One, a ringleader who blackmails other Gotham residents into helping him sow chaos throughout the city. Red Hood One even seems aware of his destined rivalry with Batman, willingly plunging into a vat of chemicals and embracing his rebirth.
The Pale Man
The New 52 Batman series conjured up a completely different potential origin story for Joker in a storyline called Endgame. This story gave Joker a supernatural twist, suggesting that he's older than Gotham City itself. Supposedly, Joker discovered a pool of a mystical chemical called dionesium deep in a cave. This chemical transformed him into an immortal demon called 'The Pale Man,' and he's haunted Gotham ever since.
Jerome and Jeremiah
The TV series Gotham has introduced a wildly different take on Joker. The series has focused a great deal on a character named Jerome Valeska, a former circus worker with a penchant for cruelty and murder. Jerome showed many characteristics of the classic Joker, but was eventually killed off in Season 4. However, his final act was to mail a box of toxic laughing gas to his twin brother, Jeremiah. Exposure to the gas drove Jeremiah mad and gave him a very Joker-like appearance, suggesting that this Valeska brother is destined to become the Clown Prince of Crime.
The DCEU
Little is known about the Joker of the DC Extended Universe so far. However, 2016's Suicide Squad shows that this version of the character was born when he fell into a pit of toxic chemicals, as have so many other incarnations. The film shows Joker 'baptizing' Harley Quinn in order to repeat that process all over again.