Post by Seaheart on Aug 26, 2009 2:25:51 GMT -5
Name: The Joker
Where did they come from: Na na na na na na na na NAH NAH. BATMAN.
History: The Joker has no so called definitive history to speak of. Not one that he remembers anyway, which is what matters to him. Along with that, no birth records, fingerprints, or blood samples relate to a positive identity, which would make telling anyone a history of origin about the psychotic prankster a near crime unto itself. What can be told are the legends of how The Joker himself came to be, most of which follow along the two previous aliases of The Red Hood, and Jack. The most simple tale, which haunts both the children and adult community of Gotham to this day, is that of a no name chemical engineer, one day deciding to steal from the facility he works at, going under the persona of the Red Hood. Almost needless to say, the theft failed, hindered by the man in black himself, Batman. Now, not only did it fail, but apparently the Red Hood fell into a vat of chemicals, somehow surviving the toxic encounter, only to come out with chalk white skin, rose red lips, bleached green hair, and a permanent, one of a kind, clown grin.
Another, perhaps just as believable and even sympathetic to say the least, is of a man, referenced as Jack, who also worked as a chemical engineer, who decides to try and make it as a comedian. This occupation was apparently not to be his callin', and was soon unable to support his wife, and soon to be child. To amass funds, he agrees to help out two criminals break into the plant as to gain easier acess to a card company next door. In this sort of scam, the inside man is given the persona Red Hood, happening to be Jack. The twist in this would be tale is halfway through the heist, Jack is informed by a policeman that his wife, and inevitable child, died in a household accident. Hesitant and stricken with grief, the fellow criminals muscle Jack into working with them, the plan foiled by security guards, and an investigative Batman, whom Jack unfortunately runs into. Gripped with fear, he jumped over a railing, into a vat of chemicals, eventually washing up on a murky resorvoir. What he sees in a reflection is the dilluted image of a so-called 'man', with pale white skin, rose-red lips, and bleached green hair. This image, coupled along with the series of unfortunate events that occurred throughout the day, apparently drove Jack insane, birthing Gotham's gotta love clown, The Joker.
There are other tales and legends, some which involve corrupt cops, others spun by the near definitely insane Harley Quinn, and some that pop into the Joker's head, each imaginative and sometimes, even believable, as the next. Still, nothing is credible, and most likely never will be. What is proof positive though, are the facts in the seemingly long line of his criminal background, he has killed more than his fair share of police officers and innocent civilians, occasionally plotting it out so they practically did all the work for him, crippled Barbara Gordon aka Oracle, as well as kill Jason Todd, the second Robin. But most of all, he's given Batman a bitching time. While usually never quite succeeding in his plans due to the Caped Crusader, he tends to always remain one step ahead of him and avoiding capture, and even when it finally does come to that, Joker has proven to be quite the escape artist.
So in the end, it's not who Joker was, or how he became. It's who he is, and what he will do. And his plans are no longer limited to simply ridding the streets of Gotham of the petty criminals and wanna-bes so he can make way for the heavyweights and himself to cause some havoc. No no. With the gates to Alicuna, along with all the others worlds, The Joker would have to be out of his mind to not step up and contort the chaos. The possibilities are simply..... hilarious.
Personality: Psychologists worldwide, and in all likelihood, soon to be multi-universal wide, have argued over the motives, desires, base, and nuances of The Joker's persona. To be able to cause so much havoc and near constantly elude Gotham's greatest detective again..... and again..... and again, all the while keeping a constant, apparently insanity driven clown smile and laugh, in short, certainly does offer a discussion for the ages. He is most commonly stereotyped as a psycho sociopath, accompanied with a sadistic, perhaps even masochistic, sense of humor.
On a basic level, this is close to the truth as it gets. From a certain viewpoint, The Joker creates a new mentality everyday, a supersanity if you will, enabling him to do what benefits him most, ranging from being a a vicious killer one day, and a harmless clown the next. Another benefit of insanity, or at least the guise of such, is that time and time again, he is able to dodge the death penalty, despite the fact his crimes would allow him to receive the death penalty thousands of times over.
Speculations of Joker's mental state and persona could go on endlessly, so it may be time to wrap up this critique. Joker, in essence, is the anti-embodiment of Batman, which enables him to constantly be on top of his performance, to make allies of Batman's near inifnite amount of foes, and to always be one step ahead due to the fact has no rules, not even his own, while Batman does. This grants Joker the power to be totally unafraid, unremorseful, and perhaps most important, unpredictable.
Perhaps what the greatest weakness of his mentality is though, is the fact that by being the anti-embodiment of Batman, he cannot kill the Dark Knight. The Joker practically defines himself by his struggle with The Batman, and for this reason, while having no hesitance or remorse on destroying everything Batman may love, his sanity, or beating him within an inch of his life, The Joker will never be able to kill The Caped Crusader. He would even go as far as to intervene in the case there's a likely chance the tight-toting hero were to perish if not by the Joker's hand.
As far as anyone knows, despite the extremely conflicting personalities of the two, The Joker will most likely never kill Batman, and vice versa. Still, The Joker will constantly strive, and most likely succeed, in reigning as one of the greatest, murderous, sadistic supervillians the world, and soon universes, will ever have the experience of going up against. Even titles among the evil and villian community remark "If you want to scare a supervillian, tell a Joker story."
Picture [If the image is large, use a link, please!]:
Abilities: The Joker has few actual superhuman abilities. In honesty, he defines the motto 'knowledge is power', which is an ability that has benefited him, time and time again. Not to say his intellect wouldn't be a strongpoint, but on the other hand, Joker is also a lover and a fighter. Yes, lover, to a certain degree. Or at least a charmer. He has an unhinged and magnetic persona/aura to most, which will at least get him noticed, and from there, respected, loved, or feared, and ultimately, followed. Except for The Batman, yet Joker still considers that tight-toter one of his biggest fans. Back to business though.
Once the Joker is able to rally up a deck of cards, he shuffles, deals, and bets the max. And he never bluffs. Joker always keeps his threats, no matter the cost to him or others. In his eyes, he has the world, or rather soon to be worlds, to gain, and absolutely nothing to lose. Not even his life. With Batman, Harley, and other esteemed members of the superpowered community as his witness, The Joker has walked out unharmed, multiple times, from neck wrenching drops, explosions, firefights, and apparent maulings. And each time, he keeps walking out with that insanity, and even annoyance driven, clown smile on his face. I mean, you'd be annoyed too after walking out of a burning fire and didn't have The Caped Crusader's comfy bombproof Snuggy tucked around your shoulders, right? We both know the answer.
In any case, whether this inhuman survival rate is due to some form of wicked chance, fate, ungodly effect of the chemicals he's been bathed in, The Joker isn't dying anytime soon. Torture is a near equally ineffective method to rid of Joker. On the contrary, when The Joker has the living clown putty beat out of him, his sense of humor, smile, and laugh, only grow increasingly more deranged, insane, and unpredictable as a jackrabbit on crack cornered by an unwary coyote. DO YOU REALLY WANNA FUCK WITH A JACKRABBIT ON CRACK? Of course you do.
As well as being a competent, if slightly.... oh so slightly unorthodox hand-to-hand fighter and marksman to match up to Batman, The Joker has an unruly amount of toys he likes to bring along with him on his playdates. Imagine a Christmas bag from The Circus of Hell. Exploding monkey bombs, toy blocks filled with C-4, gag flowers that douse acid, highly lethal joy buzzers, and bubble gum that when chewed, even if forced, expands until it sucks the air pressue out of the room, and the lucky user goes 'pop', along with the bubble. Dare you to swallow it.
After hearing this, don't you just want to pay extra, just to see one of Joker's upcoming, most spectacular performances in PRIVATE? After all, you don't wanna make him feel bad about himelf right? Nah. Even you're not that insane.
Weaknesses: The Joker has two main weaknesses, if you'd like to call them that. And those would be The Batman, and himself. Cliche as is, he, along with his anti-embodiment, tend t always hold him back from realizing his ultimate goals, whatever they may be at the time. The Batman knows The Joker, and vice versa, and has a bittersweet knack of always stopping The Joker righ before he's about to blow up Gotham, or shoot a political figure's brains out, or some other fun sort of havoc.
Of course, The Joker, when looking back at these would be defeats, a nagging feeling realizes that he's almost letting The Caped Crusader get the better of him. Of course Joker could have pulled the trigger. Of course he could have set an even more unpredictable medley of traps than there was. Of course he could have gotten more suitable super-powered allies to do the job more properly. Joker could have done all these things making that much more of a difference, but he didn't, doesn't, and most likely never will. The reason being, as stated earlier, and thus defines himself on the premise everything Batman isn't.
The Batman is the only person Joker will allow himself to be stopped, hell, even killed somehow, by. Because by effectively killing Joker, Batman effectively kills everything he stands for, and thus, the hope of Gotham, perhaps all costumed vigilantes everywhere. In the end, the one line Joker will never cross is killing Batman or crippling him, and inevitably, leaving alive the only person who can do the same to him.
Anything you want to add?: Rawr?
Where did they come from: Na na na na na na na na NAH NAH. BATMAN.
History: The Joker has no so called definitive history to speak of. Not one that he remembers anyway, which is what matters to him. Along with that, no birth records, fingerprints, or blood samples relate to a positive identity, which would make telling anyone a history of origin about the psychotic prankster a near crime unto itself. What can be told are the legends of how The Joker himself came to be, most of which follow along the two previous aliases of The Red Hood, and Jack. The most simple tale, which haunts both the children and adult community of Gotham to this day, is that of a no name chemical engineer, one day deciding to steal from the facility he works at, going under the persona of the Red Hood. Almost needless to say, the theft failed, hindered by the man in black himself, Batman. Now, not only did it fail, but apparently the Red Hood fell into a vat of chemicals, somehow surviving the toxic encounter, only to come out with chalk white skin, rose red lips, bleached green hair, and a permanent, one of a kind, clown grin.
Another, perhaps just as believable and even sympathetic to say the least, is of a man, referenced as Jack, who also worked as a chemical engineer, who decides to try and make it as a comedian. This occupation was apparently not to be his callin', and was soon unable to support his wife, and soon to be child. To amass funds, he agrees to help out two criminals break into the plant as to gain easier acess to a card company next door. In this sort of scam, the inside man is given the persona Red Hood, happening to be Jack. The twist in this would be tale is halfway through the heist, Jack is informed by a policeman that his wife, and inevitable child, died in a household accident. Hesitant and stricken with grief, the fellow criminals muscle Jack into working with them, the plan foiled by security guards, and an investigative Batman, whom Jack unfortunately runs into. Gripped with fear, he jumped over a railing, into a vat of chemicals, eventually washing up on a murky resorvoir. What he sees in a reflection is the dilluted image of a so-called 'man', with pale white skin, rose-red lips, and bleached green hair. This image, coupled along with the series of unfortunate events that occurred throughout the day, apparently drove Jack insane, birthing Gotham's gotta love clown, The Joker.
There are other tales and legends, some which involve corrupt cops, others spun by the near definitely insane Harley Quinn, and some that pop into the Joker's head, each imaginative and sometimes, even believable, as the next. Still, nothing is credible, and most likely never will be. What is proof positive though, are the facts in the seemingly long line of his criminal background, he has killed more than his fair share of police officers and innocent civilians, occasionally plotting it out so they practically did all the work for him, crippled Barbara Gordon aka Oracle, as well as kill Jason Todd, the second Robin. But most of all, he's given Batman a bitching time. While usually never quite succeeding in his plans due to the Caped Crusader, he tends to always remain one step ahead of him and avoiding capture, and even when it finally does come to that, Joker has proven to be quite the escape artist.
So in the end, it's not who Joker was, or how he became. It's who he is, and what he will do. And his plans are no longer limited to simply ridding the streets of Gotham of the petty criminals and wanna-bes so he can make way for the heavyweights and himself to cause some havoc. No no. With the gates to Alicuna, along with all the others worlds, The Joker would have to be out of his mind to not step up and contort the chaos. The possibilities are simply..... hilarious.
Personality: Psychologists worldwide, and in all likelihood, soon to be multi-universal wide, have argued over the motives, desires, base, and nuances of The Joker's persona. To be able to cause so much havoc and near constantly elude Gotham's greatest detective again..... and again..... and again, all the while keeping a constant, apparently insanity driven clown smile and laugh, in short, certainly does offer a discussion for the ages. He is most commonly stereotyped as a psycho sociopath, accompanied with a sadistic, perhaps even masochistic, sense of humor.
On a basic level, this is close to the truth as it gets. From a certain viewpoint, The Joker creates a new mentality everyday, a supersanity if you will, enabling him to do what benefits him most, ranging from being a a vicious killer one day, and a harmless clown the next. Another benefit of insanity, or at least the guise of such, is that time and time again, he is able to dodge the death penalty, despite the fact his crimes would allow him to receive the death penalty thousands of times over.
Speculations of Joker's mental state and persona could go on endlessly, so it may be time to wrap up this critique. Joker, in essence, is the anti-embodiment of Batman, which enables him to constantly be on top of his performance, to make allies of Batman's near inifnite amount of foes, and to always be one step ahead due to the fact has no rules, not even his own, while Batman does. This grants Joker the power to be totally unafraid, unremorseful, and perhaps most important, unpredictable.
Perhaps what the greatest weakness of his mentality is though, is the fact that by being the anti-embodiment of Batman, he cannot kill the Dark Knight. The Joker practically defines himself by his struggle with The Batman, and for this reason, while having no hesitance or remorse on destroying everything Batman may love, his sanity, or beating him within an inch of his life, The Joker will never be able to kill The Caped Crusader. He would even go as far as to intervene in the case there's a likely chance the tight-toting hero were to perish if not by the Joker's hand.
As far as anyone knows, despite the extremely conflicting personalities of the two, The Joker will most likely never kill Batman, and vice versa. Still, The Joker will constantly strive, and most likely succeed, in reigning as one of the greatest, murderous, sadistic supervillians the world, and soon universes, will ever have the experience of going up against. Even titles among the evil and villian community remark "If you want to scare a supervillian, tell a Joker story."
Picture [If the image is large, use a link, please!]:
Abilities: The Joker has few actual superhuman abilities. In honesty, he defines the motto 'knowledge is power', which is an ability that has benefited him, time and time again. Not to say his intellect wouldn't be a strongpoint, but on the other hand, Joker is also a lover and a fighter. Yes, lover, to a certain degree. Or at least a charmer. He has an unhinged and magnetic persona/aura to most, which will at least get him noticed, and from there, respected, loved, or feared, and ultimately, followed. Except for The Batman, yet Joker still considers that tight-toter one of his biggest fans. Back to business though.
Once the Joker is able to rally up a deck of cards, he shuffles, deals, and bets the max. And he never bluffs. Joker always keeps his threats, no matter the cost to him or others. In his eyes, he has the world, or rather soon to be worlds, to gain, and absolutely nothing to lose. Not even his life. With Batman, Harley, and other esteemed members of the superpowered community as his witness, The Joker has walked out unharmed, multiple times, from neck wrenching drops, explosions, firefights, and apparent maulings. And each time, he keeps walking out with that insanity, and even annoyance driven, clown smile on his face. I mean, you'd be annoyed too after walking out of a burning fire and didn't have The Caped Crusader's comfy bombproof Snuggy tucked around your shoulders, right? We both know the answer.
In any case, whether this inhuman survival rate is due to some form of wicked chance, fate, ungodly effect of the chemicals he's been bathed in, The Joker isn't dying anytime soon. Torture is a near equally ineffective method to rid of Joker. On the contrary, when The Joker has the living clown putty beat out of him, his sense of humor, smile, and laugh, only grow increasingly more deranged, insane, and unpredictable as a jackrabbit on crack cornered by an unwary coyote. DO YOU REALLY WANNA FUCK WITH A JACKRABBIT ON CRACK? Of course you do.
As well as being a competent, if slightly.... oh so slightly unorthodox hand-to-hand fighter and marksman to match up to Batman, The Joker has an unruly amount of toys he likes to bring along with him on his playdates. Imagine a Christmas bag from The Circus of Hell. Exploding monkey bombs, toy blocks filled with C-4, gag flowers that douse acid, highly lethal joy buzzers, and bubble gum that when chewed, even if forced, expands until it sucks the air pressue out of the room, and the lucky user goes 'pop', along with the bubble. Dare you to swallow it.
After hearing this, don't you just want to pay extra, just to see one of Joker's upcoming, most spectacular performances in PRIVATE? After all, you don't wanna make him feel bad about himelf right? Nah. Even you're not that insane.
Weaknesses: The Joker has two main weaknesses, if you'd like to call them that. And those would be The Batman, and himself. Cliche as is, he, along with his anti-embodiment, tend t always hold him back from realizing his ultimate goals, whatever they may be at the time. The Batman knows The Joker, and vice versa, and has a bittersweet knack of always stopping The Joker righ before he's about to blow up Gotham, or shoot a political figure's brains out, or some other fun sort of havoc.
Of course, The Joker, when looking back at these would be defeats, a nagging feeling realizes that he's almost letting The Caped Crusader get the better of him. Of course Joker could have pulled the trigger. Of course he could have set an even more unpredictable medley of traps than there was. Of course he could have gotten more suitable super-powered allies to do the job more properly. Joker could have done all these things making that much more of a difference, but he didn't, doesn't, and most likely never will. The reason being, as stated earlier, and thus defines himself on the premise everything Batman isn't.
The Batman is the only person Joker will allow himself to be stopped, hell, even killed somehow, by. Because by effectively killing Joker, Batman effectively kills everything he stands for, and thus, the hope of Gotham, perhaps all costumed vigilantes everywhere. In the end, the one line Joker will never cross is killing Batman or crippling him, and inevitably, leaving alive the only person who can do the same to him.
Anything you want to add?: Rawr?