The Joker is an infamous super villain and is quite well known to be insane. In fact, it's one of the largest parts of his character. And of course, it's the reason that he's able to carry out such depraved and crazy criminal schemes and yet still find the whole thing hilarious. And the only way that he would ever stop being the clown prince of crime would be if he was to be turned sane. And they have actually been occasions over the years where this has happened, through science, sorcery and other ways that don't really make sense but do make for an interesting story. And this video is going to look at every time that the Joker has been turned sane and exactly how it happened. The White Knight One of the best Joker stories ever told was in the Batman White Knight series and it sees Joker ingest some pills. No one knows why he wanted them or what they even do but somehow they managed to turn him sane. And he becomes Jack Napier, a sane Joker who petitions to be released from Arkham Asylum and not only succeeds but then goes on to be elected as a member of the Goffin City Council. Which sounds absolutely crazy I know but when you read the story it actually makes a weird kind of sense. As I said the story is very well written. And it's later revealed that these pills were created by Harley Quinn who knew the Joker's mental condition well enough to make cure for him. And of course, she is a qualified psychologist and I guess she learnt some chemistry as well in this universe. Unfortunately though the cure is short lived as Joker's body becomes resistant to the pills and he slowly turns back into the clown prince of crime. Now the idea of meds doing this is pretty insane in itself as no current medication comes close to fixing someone's mind quite so well. But the idea isn't impossible and one day a cure for insanity like this may very well exist. And as I said it is a damn good story. Going sane. In Batman Legends of the Dark Knight, issues 65 to 68, the Joker believes that he is finally killed Batman. And so he pushes Batman's corpse into the river and tries to figure out what to do with his life without Batman. And strangely enough without the bat in his life the Joker just turns sane. He forgets his old life and gets an apartment so jargon and even a girlfriend and becomes a boring citizen of Goffin City. But of course Batman isn't dead. He's just very badly injured and slowly recovering outside of Goffin City. And when he's healed enough to return the Joker sees him on a news report. And since now he knows Batman is alive all of Joker's memories and personalities start to return. And he becomes the mad Joker once more and carries on in his crusade against the Dark Knight. Dunkin' him in acid. In Harley Quinn's new show the Joker is trying to remove everything that makes Harley Quinn, Harley Quinn, namely her bleached skin and crazy mind. And he does this because he's basically still in love with her and he wants to stop being in love with her. You're probably asking why not just killer and that would be easier, but he'd still then love her. He wants to make her nothing so he can forget her. And in order to do this he gets a vat of acid. There's no real detail on whether this is some special type of acid or anything. It seems to just be some general green acid. I mean the show's not exactly Shakespeare. But the Joker ends up getting dunked in the acid instead by poison ivy. And it does turn him sane. He also loses all his memories and decides to take up a job tending bar and dates us a burp and mum. That is of course until Harley Quinn needs some information that only the Joker has so she needs to get his memories back. This information is where the location of the book that adjusts the sleeker trapped in is. So she dunks this sane Joker in acid. Once again it's just some random acid. But it does seem to turn him back into the Joker and he gets all of his memories back so he can now tell Harley where the book is. And from then on he's just a normal Joker that we all know and love. The Lazarus Pit. In Batman, legends of the Dark Knight, issues 142 to 145, the Joker is killed. Though he doesn't stay dead for long of course. As Batman needs information from him to save millions of lives. So Batman dunks the Joker in a nearby Lazarus Pit and brings him back to life so that he can tell him the information he needs to know. And somehow the Pit's healing abilities not only bring him back to life but they also cure his mental condition and he becomes sane once more. But he also keeps his memories and he has to deal with the horrors of all the pain that he is inflicted on others. After he's told Batman information, Batman goes and saves these millions of lives. But as usual the Joker's sanity is short lived. As the effects of the Pit start to wear off and he returns once more to the insane Joker that we all know. In case you're wondering how the Pit's effects can wear off but he stays alive, the Pit basically gives you this great mental clarity after it heals you. But only lasts for a short while. Batman Ninja. Now this film is quite unusual in story but the short version is that some of the Bat family and some of Batman's Rogue's gallery go back in time to each in Japan. And of course one of these Rogue's gallery members is the Joker and Harley Quinn who are still together in this story. And Batman discovers that the two of them are living on a farm and seem to be a completely normal couple. So he decides to leave them there and get on with his life. Which makes no sense as it's the Joker and clearly this isn't going to be the last they're going to hear from him and it isn't. Because as it turns out the Joker has hypnotized them into being sane and normal with no memory of the old lives. They don't explain exactly how he was able to hypnotize himself but don't worry about that. Basically the two of them are growing a plant that produces Joker toxin and when this plant blooms and they smell it the mind washing or the hypnosis wears off and they return to being their standard evil nut job selves. As the smell was a trigger to make them remember their past lives. Now you're probably asking why did they do this? And the answer is no one really knows because they really didn't need to in the story. I mean they basically say it's they can hide from Batman safely and basically get him into a full sense of security and take him on a wears which just doesn't really make any sense because Batman would never think the Joker wasn't a threat and he never lets his guard down. But it doesn't really matter because the plan does work in this story he does let his guard down and he is surprised that the Joker becomes insane once more and it does also give him time to grow his gas plant and let's also remember that the Joker is insane and he does love his needlessly complicated plots. Magic sanity. In the Spector volume 3 issue 51 comic the Spector decides to punish the Joker for all his crimes but Batman does them on his brand of justice as he says that the Joker is insane so it's not his fault he's hurting people because he doesn't know the difference between wrong and right and so instead he needs to go to Arkham Asylum and get treatment to be turned sane again. Now the Spector says that that doesn't work as the Joker just keeps breaking out and killing people but he does listen to what Batman says and so he goes into the Joker's mind and turns the Joker's sane and the Joker has a complete meltdown at the guilt he feels and goes into a cathodonic state. Though unfortunately the sanity doesn't last that long as the shock of all the things that he has done in his life kind of sends him insane once more. I guess the Spector should have also removed his memories. Superman, distant fires. In this story all the missiles of the world go off at once thanks to some computer error and the world is pretty much destroyed and becomes your standard post-nuclear apocalypse world and the people of the world have dubbed this event the Holocaust and somehow this event has caused all the heroes of the world to lose their superpowers along with the villains and it also turns the Joker's sane. Again it's not really explained to any of this happens, something to do with the radiation from the nukes basically. And as far as we know the Joker actually stays sane as he isn't really featured in the story again and the heroes do start getting their powers back later on so maybe the Joker does go nuts later on as well but it isn't shown and to be fair it doesn't really matter in this story because soon after this the planet blows up killing everyone but wonder woman and Superman's son who instantly is named Bruce. Rock of Ages. In the JLL issue 15 the justice league need to get the Joker to hand over the philosopher's stone which is an incredibly dangerous weapon that is controlled by a person's thoughts so the Martian manhunter uses his psychic powers to organize the chaos of the Joker's brain and turn him insane. This of course is so the Joker realises what he's doing is absolutely nuts and how dangerous the weapon he's holding is and hands it over peacefully without causing any damage. Unfortunately the Joker's mind is so chaotic that it takes all Martian manhunter's will power to keep it in order and so he can only do it for a few minutes before he passes out and of course the Joker's mind just reverts to normal once more. Joker becomes a god. Now this one's actually debatable but when he gets the powers of Batmite and essentially becomes omnipotent Batman can only defeat him by defeating his mind so he manages to convince the Joker that if he uses his powers to turn everyone insane which is what the Joker intends to do then that means in the new world the Joker will no longer be insane and the Joker turns kind of sane without the Joker makeup and just becomes a sad and normal person and he then gives up his powers because he doesn't want to be normal he wants to be nuts. Now whether this counts as him turning sane is up to you but I just felt that it deserved a mention and that is every time the Joker has been turned sane. Personally I think the best one of these stories is undoubtedly the white knight story but what do you think is that the best story or do you prefer another and are there any other times that you know of where the Joker has been turned sane? Be sure to let us know in the comments and just let us say a quick thank you to those you made this video possible by donating to the Needle Mouse Productions page on Patreon and as always thanks for watching and feel free to subscribe share like and comment.