The Joker Since the Joker began putting his sadistic smile onto the faces of his victims, he has garnered a kill count in excess of 2,000 people. Granted, that number is only an estimate since you can attribute deaths to him, directly and indirectly, thanks to the work of his minions, but still.
Detective Comics (Volume 2) #1 - Kills one of Dollmaker's "family members". Later kills at least three police officers with a bomb. It is mentioned by Batman at the beginning of the story that he has killed a total of 114 people by this point.
As Batman's nemesis, the Joker has been part of the superhero's defining stories, including the murder of Jason Todd—the second Robin and Batman's ward—and the paralysis of one of Batman's allies, Barbara Gordon.
It was a man named Henry Claridge who had the honor of being the Joker's first kill, which the Clown Prince followed by murdering three more people all in the same story. He almost killed Robin, but it would take another few decades before he achieved that dark goal.
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The Clown Prince kills one of Gambol's men with a pencil through the eye, and later overpowers two of his enforcers. Joker kills Gambol himself with a knife only moments later and, towards the end of the film, lights Lau on fire.
What's the total number of kills in the John Wick franchise? With 77 kills in the introductory film, 128 kills in Chapter 2, 94 kills in the third part and 140 kills in the latest instalment, the total number of kills in the entire John Wick franchise stands at a jaw-dropping 439.
In the 1999 one-shot comic Batman: Harley Quinn, the Joker decides to kill Harley, after admitting that he does care for her, that their relationship is romantic, and that these feelings prevent him from fulfilling his purpose.
As I've written before, Batman never kills. That's pretty much his whole deal. Paradoxically, while Gotham City is the home of the most dangerous urban criminals in all of fiction, the man who stands between them and the dawn is one who steadfastly refuses to ever take a life.
Batman comics have not always been so melancholic, however, and DC Comics now suggests that The Joker's horrific murder of Robin was an attempt to end the Dark Knight's lighthearted era.
The Joker gives a few conflicting explanations for how he got his scars -- first he says he got them from his abusive father. In his second story, he says he gave himself the scars after his wife was disfigured by loan sharks.
Martha reveals that she forced Psycho-Pirate, a villain with extensive knowledge of the entire DC Universe, to tell her the name of the Joker in the main DC Universe. It is then revealed that the Joker's real name is “Jack Oswald White.”
The Joker (2019)
He has mental health issues. He can't get the medication to help with those issues because of state cutbacks. He is treated poorly by people around him because of these issues. He feels abandoned by a father he never knew, infatuated with the mother who stayed.
The Red Hood was originally a disguise worn by the Joker before he was transformed into a laughing maniac. Jason chose to take over the moniker so he could own what the Joker did to him and use it to become the Joker's destruction.
But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people—easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.
While the Joker has been reimagined by a vast range of writers and artists, Bill Finger and Bob Kane's original iteration remains the scariest version. When he was introduced in Batman #1 (1940), Joker was depicted as a strategic serial killer who happened to wear clown makeup.
Back in 1989, Tim Burton caused a little bit of a stir in the comic-book nerd community when his film Batman, revealed that Jack Nicholson's Joker was the one who killed Batman's parents. But now, at the end of Joker, essentially the same thing happens.
Yes in a specific batman comic where joker was doing his meaningless crimes only to get batmans attention, during this joker ends up killing batman and a couple days later some of batmans rogue gallery come to mourn him, the joker becomes depressed and retires from being joker.
Seeing Jason as he was back then though, would have overwhelmed Batman with guilt and shame, perhaps even convincing him to retire as a hero entirely. This in turn showcases that Batman prioritized his own needs over Jason's. He knew that he could have helped his son, but he chose not to because it was easier.
The page everyone remembers from Batman: Knightfall is Bane “breaking the Bat” over his knee. But Bane beat Batman by working smarter, not harder. Bane was able to defeat the Dark Knight physically by first exhausting him spiritually (and, well, also physically).
In the end, however, Batman ultimately decides to spare the Joker's life. So while Batman may be tempted to break his “no-killing” policy when dealing with the likes of the Joker, his moral code and practical considerations ultimately prevent him from doing so.
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Harley reveals to Black Canary that she has a four-year-old daughter named Lucy who is being raised by her sister. After discovering she was pregnant, Harley left the Joker for almost a year to have their baby instead of abortion.
Joker Jr. was born after The Joker, who had manipulated Harley Quinn into re-entering a life of crime, impregnated her without her knowing. Harley out of shame refused to accept the child and gave him up.
Yes, he's killed children before, most notably Jason Todd, the second Robin. The Joker doesn't care if his victims are male or female, child or adult.