Joker

## Jack Napier

**Jack Napier**, also known as the supervillain **The Joker** is a supervillain, one of the greatest criminal masterminds in Gotham, the archenemy of Batman and a member of the Legion of Doom.

## Biography

### Origins

At an unknown point in time, Jack would fall into a vat of acid and get horribly disfigured; his skin was turned white, his hair green, his face would carry a wide grin for the rest of his life, and his mind would get more deranged than any other. This was the night Jack Napier died and the Joker was born. After said accident, the Joker would go on to commit multiple killings, in order to taunt and get under the skin of the vigilante called Batman, Gotham City’s only hope against supervillains such as him. He defeated the Joker, and imprisoned him in the Arkham Asylum, along with all the other villains he had faced, due to district attorney Harvey Dent convincing him that Gotham Penitentiary was the wrong place for people who obviously needed psychiatrical help. The Joker, though, would continue to refuse said help, and the only thing on his mind was to continue with his schemes of chaos.

### Endeavor on Christmas Eve

In 2020, sometime before Halloween, the Joker threatened to kill a the child of a guard at Arkham and was able to escape captivity. Months later, he then heard about The Holiday Killer targeting The Falcone Crime Family. Not wanting Holiday to replace him as Gotham's most notorious criminal, he vowed to find out who this Holiday was and kill them, so he wouldn’t be dethroned as the most horrifying serial killer in town. On Christmas Eve, Joker visited and ambushed Harvey Dent in his home. He had waited for him there for him to come home, while Gilda, Dent's wife, went Christmas shopping. The two of them fought and the Joker gained the upperhand, while laughing and making jokes all the time. He said that he thought it possible that Dent himself was Holiday, a deduction which his fellow inmate the Calendar Man also had made. He then knocked Dent out after he provoked him by calling his joke unfunny and left, in order to follow other leads. Joker then payed Sal Maroni a visit in his Ristorante, where he poisoned the crime bosses food with his toxin. Maroni, who had survived due to not being hungry that evening, was told that he should share any information he had about Holiday, while his friend Freddie was not as lucky, having become little more than another grinning corpse the Joker had left behind. He went to Carmine Falcone, and silently ambushed him in his tower. Carmine though, had heard him enter the room and pointed with a gun at the clown, only to find out that the Joker had already removed the ammunition from it, rendering it useless and the Roman defenseless. The Joker did not hurt him though, and merely asked him to report directly to him each and every piece of information he found out about the killer and left him again. Upon leaving the room, he was noticed by Falcone’s bodyguard Milos Grapa, who started to chase him and tried to kill him, though unsuccessfully, as the Joker managed to escpae the scene, leaving nothing behind than some of his cards. This though, proved to be a grave mistake, seeing as shortly after the clown had escaped, the real Holiday arrived and killed Grapa, before Batman arrived too in his Batmobile and found the cards, causing him to believe Joker to be the main suspect for the killings.

### Attack on New Year’s Eve

On New Year's Eve, Joker attempts to use his Joker gas to attack the New Year’s celebration at the heart of Gotham, hoping that Holiday would be among the crowd. According to him, there was a fifty-fifty chance of that, and even if not, he still won if he killed lots of innocents. Flying a stolen plane he had no idea how to maneuver, he attacked the crowd, though his gas outlets malfunctioned. Upon fixing them, he noticed that Batman had showed up. On board of his plane, the two of them fought, until he was beaten by the masked vigilante. Upon being asked why he was attacking the city, and why he had killed the others, the Joker explained his deranged reasoning to Batman, saying that both of the, loved a good puzzle. This made the dark knight realize that another suspect might have been guilty all along. He quickly knocked out the Joker and flew the plane into the Gotham River, where the gas couldn’t cause any damage, before hanging the mad clown upside down from the Gotham Clock Tower and leaving. Joker was then arrested by the GCPD and taken back to Arkham.

### The next Halloween and Further Activities

On October 31st, almost one year later, Harvey Dent, now going by the name of Two-Face, due to the scarred left side of his face, and his accomplice Solomon Grundy, attacked the Asylum and freed every major supervillain among the inmates. Among those were Joker himself, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Penguin and Mad Hatter in order to attack Falcone in his tower and take revenge for ruining Two-Face's life. While Ivy, the Hatter and Scarecrow distracted the police, Joker, Penguin, Two-Face and Grundy entered through the main elevator. After Grundy had taken care of the guards, they were attacked by Sofia Falcone, who was taken out by the Penguin. Upon entering Falcone’s office, they found that Ivy’s plants had already restrained him. Joker, along with the others, waited for Dent to finish the mob boss off, before smoke bombs covered the room in blackness. Batman and his new partner Catwoman had arrived, and were now dealing with all of the villains. Joker tried to attack Batman, but was pushed back onto a table, where he acted as if talking to the secretary for his own comedic effect. He then tried his luck another time, before being incapacitated by the Penguin's Umbrella, which Batman used against him. He would later be incarcerated at Arkham once again, along with all of his accomplices. Later, when Batman was trapped on the warrior world of Skartaris, he discussed the topic of evil in all men with the Warlord there. After having a memory of the Joker’s maniacal laugh, he used him as an example for the evil in the hearts of all men, calling him a jester who slit his own king’s throat.

## Abilities

* **Criminal Mastermind**
* **Expert chemist**
* **Expert Tactitian**
* **Expert Hand-To-Hand Combatant**

## Equipment

* **Joker Gas**
* **Joker Cards**
* **Plane**
* **Accid Flower**
* **Bang Gun**
* **Knife**

## Gallery

Joker in the Second Dent Residence.Joker threatening Harvey Dent.Joker fighting Batman on his Plane.Joker, along with Penguin and Two-Face, entering the Falcone Tower.Joker being incapacitated by Batman, using Penguin's Umbrella.
## Notes

* **The Joker** was created by Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson and Bob Kane and first appeared in DC comics in Batman #1 in March 1940.
* In the comics, though his true identity might forever remain mysterious, the most common backstory of the Joker, is that he was a criminal, either willingly or forcibly, under the name of the Red Hood, who fell into a vat of acid and later became as disfigured, both physically as well as psychologically, as he is.