Credit for the Joker venom's creation is disputed; Kane and Robinson claimed responsibility for the Joker venom's design while acknowledging Finger's writing contribution.
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Credit for the Joker venom's creation is disputed; Kane and Robinson claimed responsibility for the Joker venom's design while acknowledging Finger's writing contribution.
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The Joker venom has had various possible origin stories during his decades of appearances.
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The antithesis of Batman in personality and appearance, the Joker venom is considered by critics to be his perfect adversary.
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Joker venom possesses no superhuman abilities, instead using his expertise in chemical engineering to develop poisonous or lethal concoctions and thematic weaponry, including razor-tipped playing cards, deadly joy buzzers, and acid-spraying lapel flowers.
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One of the most iconic characters in popular culture, the Joker venom has been listed among the greatest comic book villains and fictional characters ever created.
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The Joker venom has been adapted in live-action, animated, and video game incarnations, including the 1960s Batman television series played by Cesar Romero and in films by Jack Nicholson in Batman, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Jared Leto in the DC Extended Universe, and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker venom ; Ledger and Phoenix each earned an Academy Award for their portrayals.
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Joker venom wanted an exotic, enduring character as an ongoing source of conflict for Batman, designing a diabolically sinister, but clownish, villain.
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Joker venom brought in a playing card, which we used for a couple of issues for him [the Joker] to use as his playing card.
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In that first meeting when I showed them that sketch of the Joker venom, Bill said it reminded him of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs.
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Joker venom can be credited and Bob himself, we all played a role in it.
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Joker venom wrote the script of that, so he really was co-creator, and Bob and I did the visuals, so Bob was.
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The Silver Age introduced several of the Joker venom's defining character traits: lethal joy buzzers, acid-squirting flowers, trick guns, and goofy, elaborate crimes.
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In 1973, after a four-year disappearance, the Joker venom was revived by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams.
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Adams modified the Joker venom's appearance, changing his more average figure by extending his jaw and making him taller and leaner.
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The late 1980s saw the Joker venom exert a significant impact on Batman and his supporting cast.
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Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's 1988 graphic novel The Killing Joke expands on the Joker venom's origins, describing the character as a failed comedian who adopts the identity of the Red Hood to support his pregnant wife.
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The Joker venom's face was restored in Snyder's and Capullo's "Endgame", the concluding chapter to "Death of the Family".
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The reasons why the Joker venom was disguised as the Red Hood and his identity before his transformation have changed over time.
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The Joker venom commits crimes ranging from whimsical to brutal, for reasons that, in Batman's words, "make sense to him alone".
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Joker venom's resulting disfigurement drove him insane and led him to adopt the name "Joker", from the playing card figure he came to resemble.
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Joker venom's disfigurement, combined with the trauma of his wife's earlier accidental death, drives him insane, and results in the birth of the Joker.
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The Joker venom is arrested, and then-Robin Damian Wayne beats him with a crowbar, paralleling Todd's murder.
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The story implies that the Joker venom is immortal—having existed for centuries in Gotham as a cause of tragedy after exposure to a substance the Joker venom terms "dionesium"—and is able to regenerate from mortal injuries.
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Joker venom falls into a vat of chemical waste when his heist is thwarted by Batman, emerging with bleached white skin, red lips, green hair and a permanent grin.
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Joker venom has his fateful first meeting with Batman, which results in his disfigurement.
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Snyder's "Zero Year" suggests that the pre-disfigured Joker venom was a criminal mastermind leading a gang of Red Hoods.
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Joker venom has claimed a number of origins, including being the child of an abusive father who broke his nose, and the long-lived jester of an Egyptian pharaoh.
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Still others describe distant futures in which the Joker venom is a computer virus or a hero trying to defeat the era's tyrannical Batman.
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The Joker venom is typically seen in a purple suit with a long-tailed, padded-shoulder jacket, a string tie, gloves, striped pants and spats on pointed-toe shoes.
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In "The Clown at Midnight", the Joker venom enters a meditative state where he evaluates his previous selves to consciously create a new personality, effectively modifying himself for his needs.
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Joker venom tries to prove that anyone can become like him after one bad day by torturing Commissioner Gordon, physically and psychologically.
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Since the Joker venom is simply "the Joker venom", he believes that Batman is "Batman" and has no interest in what is behind Batman's mask, ignoring opportunities to learn Batman's secret identity.
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Joker venom commits crimes with a variety of weaponized thematic props such as a deck of razor-tipped playing cards, rolling marbles, jack-in-the-boxes with unpleasant surprises and exploding cigars capable of leveling a building.
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The Joker has used venom since his debut; only he knows the formula, and is shown to be gifted enough to manufacture the toxin from ordinary household chemicals.
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Joker venom is talented with firearms, although even his guns are theatrical; his long-barreled revolver often releases a flag reading "Bang", and a second trigger-pull launches the flag to skewer its target.
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The story is notable for the Joker venom taking on a god and the ease with which Superman defeats him—it took only 17 pages.
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Since the Bronze Age of Comics, the Joker venom has been interpreted as an archetypal trickster, displaying talents for cunning intelligence, social engineering, pranks, theatricality, and idiomatic humor.
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Joker venom is amoral and not driven by ethical considerations, but by a shameless and insatiable nature, and although his actions are condemned as evil, he is necessary for cultural robustness.
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The Joker venom possesses abnormal body imagery, reflecting an inversion of order.
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Joker venom represents the master, who creates rules and defines them, who judges others without needing approval, and for whom something is good because it benefits him.
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Joker venom creates his own morality and is bound only by his own rules without aspiring to something higher than himself, unlike Batman, the slave, who makes a distinction between good and evil, and is bound to rules outside of himself in his quest for justice.
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Harley's co-creator, Paul Dini, describes their relationship as Harley being someone who makes the Joker venom feel better about himself, and who can do the work that he does not want to do himself.
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Joker venom is considered one of the most recognizable and iconic fictional characters in popular culture, one of the best comic villains, and one of the greatest villains of all time.
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Joker venom's popularity has involved the character in most Batman-related media, from television to video games.
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The Joker venom is one of the few comic book supervillains to be represented on children's merchandise and toys, appearing on items including action figures, trading cards, board games, money boxes, pajamas, socks, and shoes.
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Joker venom has appeared in a variety of media, including television series, animated and live-action films.
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Hamill's Joker venom is considered a defining portrayal, and he voiced the character in spin-off films, video games, related series, action figures, toys and amusement-park voiceovers.
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The Joker venom has featured in a number of animated projects, such as 2009's Batman: The Brave and the Bold and 2011's Young Justice.
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The 2019 film Joker venom focuses on the origins of the Joker venom as portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix.
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