The Joker (Nolanverse)

## Villain Description

### Goals

To cause corruption and anarchy within Gotham and it's citizens at all costs (failed)
To fight with The Batman over and over again and again (succeeded, but eventually it backfired)
To show Gotham that even an idol like Harvey Dent can become insane (succeeded)
To become the world's greatest anarchist and spread his idealism of anarchy across the globe (failed)
To drive Batman mad (failed)

### Hobbies

Causing mass destrcution and chaos
Killing innocent citizens
Turning idols into monsters

### Powers

Combat Prowess
Weapon Use
Speed
Endurance
Ultimate Pain Resistance

### Skills

Charimsa
Manipulation
Insane usage of tactics

### Type of Villain

Psychopathic Anarchist

**The Joker** is the secondary antagonist of Christopher Nolan's *Dark Knight trilogy*, serving as an unseen antagonist in *Batman Begins*, the main antagonist of *The Dark Knight*, and the overarching antagonist of *The Dark Knight Rises* alongside Ra's al Ghul. He is an anarchistic and psychopathic terrorist who attempts to bring Gotham into darkness and drive Batman insane.

He is portrayed by the late Heath Ledger.

## History

### Confronting Gambol

The Joker grows up into a sociopathic criminal mastermind and becomes very brutal and charismatic comparing to the other criminals in his league. He asks Gambol, Maroni and their gang to kill The Batman and wreack havoc in Gotham City for him. However, Gambol requests to kill The Joker. One night, Gambol sends his men after the clown and they kidnapp him, thus taking him to their boss. Gambol seems pleased, but all of a sudden, The Joker lunges at him and does to him what his father did many years ago. He sticks a blade in Gambol's mouth and tells about his origins before slicing his face and killing him. The Joker becomes the most powerful crime lord of Gotham and attempts to wreak havoc in the city while locating and confronting Bruce Wayne aka The Batman. Bruce however manages to escape and ruin his plans.

### On the run

The Joker later interrupts at a ball gala and he confronts Rachel Dawes as well as her new love interest and Gotham's false idol, Harvey Dent. The psychotic clown had the upper hand until all of a sudden, Batman appeared. The Joker fought Batman as he then managed to throw Rachel off the rooftop and escape custody.

He then impersonates a guard and enters a ceremony that Harvey Dent has organized as against The Joker's crimes. After Harvey promised to kill The Joker and stop crime, but then, The Joker managed to shoot the mayor with a sniper and escape once again.

Batman however managed to follow, locate and then to arrest The Joker.

### Creating Two-Face

The Joker was then interrogated by Jim Gordon. Jim however exited in the middle of their discussion, thus telling him that he needs to drink some coffee and take a break. Batman then entered the scene and bashed The Joker's head onto the table. The Joker revealed his plans to bomb up Harvey and Rachel, with some hopes to ruin Harvey or else to kill him. The Batman starts beating The Joker up, thus making him laugh maniacally as he does not feel any pain or resistance. The Joker asks Batman who he is going to save first. After the bomb explodes, Harvey Dent survives but unfortunately Rachel dies from the explosion. Harvey becomes Two-Face and reveals some ambitious plans which he thought of ever since the start of the movie. The Joker came to visit him at hospital and told him to spread some anarchy. Two-Face had willingly accepted that task, but he threatens to kill The Joker if the penny drops on Tails. He flips the penny onto Heads, and lets The Joker live before escaping the hospital and wreaking havoc with his "Heads or Tails game" all around Gotham.

### Attempting to bomb up Gotham

The Joker then reveals to Batman that he has planted bombs around Gotham together with Maroni and his goons. Batman and The Joker have a rough battle on a rooftop of a builiding, and eventually, The Joker kicks Batman, thus causing him to fly off the roof. Batman however grabbed the roof's edge, and The Joker came and confronted him before the mass murder which he shall cause. However, The GCPD deactivated all of the bombs and Batman manages to throw The Joker off the roof. The Joker tries to climb his way back to the surface of the building and also attempts to convince Batman to become as mad as he is. However, Batman refuses and The GCPD come and arrest The Joker. The police presumalby put The Joker onto the electric chair, although his fate remains uncertain.

## Trivia

* Despite the fact that The Joker is the main antagonist by being far more sadistic, overtly evil and dangerous than Harvey Dent and made Harvey Dent an actual villain it's just Harvey Dent is the central antagonist because he was far more calculating than The Joker, he became the true main antagonist during the film's final third, and he's Batman's most personal arch-enemy.