Joker (DC Comics character)/DCAU

The Joker was an unidentified American master criminal of the late 20th and early 21st century.
Despite his death, his legacy lived on in Gotham's underworld and in Drake. Decades later, the Jokerz gang numbered in the thousands, and the stolen microchip implanted into Drake's body allowed for a new Joker to rise and decimate Neo-Gotham.
==Notes==
===Behind the Scenes === 
*The Joker was played by American actor Mark Hamill.
*English actor Tim Curry was originally cast in the part, and spent time recording lines. He at one point came down with bronchitis, and was fired as a result. Hamill was then hired.Exclusive: Tim Curry Reveals Why Mark Hamill Replaced Him As JOKER - Martin Lis - 2 September 2017 - ScreenGeek - Retrieved 28 August 2024 Casting director Andrea Romano recalled that a new producer had come onto the production and disliked Curry's performance, demanding that he be replaced. Hamill's agent had already reached out, and after a successful audition the actor needed to ADR six to seven episodes of dialogue.BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES Voice Director Recalls How Mark Hamill Was Cast As The Joker (Exclusive) - Josh Wilding - 2 November 2021 - ComicBookMovie.com - Retrieved 28 August 2024“Mark… would love to be a part of the series”: Mark Hamill Only Got the Joker Role Because the Original Actor Failed to Please the Producer - Piyush - 24 March 2024 - FandomWire - Retrieved 28 August 2024 Hamill had some confidence during his audition, noting the outcry over the casting of Michael Keaton as Batman, giving him the impression that he would never be cast. His confidence in his own inevitable failure let him relax during the audition.Mark Hamill Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED - WIRED - 29 May 2023 - YouTube - Retrieved 28 August 2024Mark Hamill Says Michael Keaton’s Role as Batman Encouraged Him to Audition for Joker - Christy Piña - 3 June 2023 - The Hollywood Reporter - Retrieved 28 August 2024 Hamill intentionally incorporated variations of the character's laugh, saying "I thought, you know, I could use this laugh almost as a vocabulary. Instead of having it be one continuous laugh, I could use it like color on a canvas. There could be sinister laughs, there could be joyful, gleeful, maniacal laughs, there could be malevolent and evil laughs. There are so many different colors that you can give him, so that kids will have more than one laugh to mimic on the playground. I do have to thank the people at Batman, because this work opened up an entire new career for me."An Interview With Mark Hamill - Jacquie Kubin - Animation World Magazine 2.1 - Published April 1997 - Retrieved 28 August 2024 - Archived 28 August 2024
* Hamill loved playing the role, as it lay on the other side of the spectrum from a character like Luke Skywalker,An Interview with Mark Hamill - Ken P. 3 February 2004 - IGN - Updated 21 May 2012 - Retrieved 28 August 2024 - Archived 28 August 2024 going so far as to say the role was among his favourite characters to play.
=== Reception ===
* Hamill's performance as the DCAU version of the Joker has been noted as both "the most iconic animated version of the character but one of the most well-known across any medium."The Joker's Best Appearances In Batman Animation, Ranked - Guillermo Kurten & Declan Lowthian & Katie Doll - Updated 24 March 2024 - Comic Book Resources - Retrieved 2 September 2024 - Archived 2 September 2024
===Trivia ===
*Footage of Curry's vocal performance surfaced in 2022.Tim Curry's Lost Joker Voice From Batman: The Animated Series Surfaces - Nathaniel Brail - 15 October 2022 - ComicBook.com - Retrieved 28 August 2024
==Links==
*The Joker on the Batman Wiki
*Joker on the DC Animated Universe Wiki
==References==
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