Current Events > Wait, what was the Joker's origin story?

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Didn't he have daddy issues?

Whatever you want it to be.
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I don't think they ever had one. That's the beauty of the Joker.

Fell into a vat of toxic waste that bleached his skin, dyed his hair, and drove him insane. He was chased into the vat as a member/leader of the Red Hood Gang.
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There's no canonical one. He makes up new ones as he goes along.

Someone told him a dad joke and he never stopped laughing
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He invested in bitcoin and people laughed at him, now the jokes on them
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Uncle_Drew posted...

He invested in bitcoin and people laughed at him, now the jokes on them

Lmao

He was an on-again-off again rogues gallery member made world famous by an Alan Moore book, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Hamill.
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Spooking posted...

He bought a DLC skin from EA worth 5 million dollars and decided to play the role of said skin.

Nah, he got the skin from a loot box

The most famous one is that he was an engineer at Ace Chemicals before quitting his job to work as a stand-up comic. He's an utter failure as a stand-up comic though and his wife is pregnant, so he takes a job from some crooks who want to break into a playing card factory that's next door to Ace. Right before the heist, he's informed that his wife and unborn child were killed in a household accident. The crooks refuse to let him quit the job and he's forced to don the Red Hood (the crooks have a different person wear it every time to avoid suspicion). Unfortunately, the police and Batman interfere and the guy dives into a vat of chemicals to escape from him.

Buuuuuut the Joker then states in this same story that he remembers his past "one way and sometimes another" and that if he has to have a past, he prefers it to be multiple choice.
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0/10
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You're all missing the point of the character.
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NewerMernardi posted...

I don't think they ever had one. That's the beauty of the Joker.

There's been seven or eight of them so far, and apparently there's now three Jokers for some reason.

Zack_Attackv1 posted...

You're all missing the point of the character.

It's almost always the vat of chemicals Red Hood thing. Like you can "he has no true origin it's a mystery" all you want, but it still repeatedly comes back to the vat of chemicals in most comics and adaptations.

Well, the idea is that he's always the Red Hood falling into a vat of chemicals, it's just how he got there that's different.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

Zack_Attackv1 posted...

You're all missing the point of the character.

It's almost always the vat of chemicals Red Hood thing. Like you can "he has no true origin it's a mystery" all you want, but it still repeatedly comes back to the vat of chemicals in most comics and adaptations.

That's his origin but we still know almost nothing about him.

"a gangster fell into some chemicals and went insane" is not an origin. Two face has a similar origin (same chemicals too iirc) except it exploded instead of he fell in, but only half his body was exposed.

But we know much more about him and who Harvey Dent used to be.
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