Jack Napier (Arrowverse)

**Jack Napier** is a former wannabe comedian at the Iceberg Lounge, the former leader of the Red Hood Gang, the most dangerous criminal/serial killer in Gotham City, the one responsible for the Kane Family car crash and the archenemy of Bruce Wayne/Batman.

## General Information

### Occupation

Comedian at The Iceberg Lounge (formerly)Leader of The Red Hood Gang (formerly)

Professional Criminal

Leader of his gang

Inmate at Arkham Asylum (briefly; formerly)

### Affiliation

Iceberg Lounge (formerly)Red Hood Gang (formerly)

His gang

### Alter Ego

Joker Red Hood (formerly)

Mr. J (codename)

Jack Napier was originally a nervous, shy man who wanted to become a comedian and was eventually employed under Oswald Cobblepot’s orders. 27 years later, due to unknown reasons, Jack became the leader of the Red Hood Gang, wearing a large red helmet and staged a series of robberies in Gotham City, which eventually caught the attention of Gotham’s new protector, Batman. Jack staged his last robbery at Ace Chemicals, where he was surrounded by the police and Batman.

Batman attempted to arrest the Red Hood; however Jack tripped over his cape and fell into a vat of green chemicals below. The police and Batman, who believed Jack to be dead, left. However, unknown to them, Jack had survived. Unfortunately, the chemical bath had bleached his skin white, dyed his hair green and stained his lips red, which gave him the appearance of a clown. However, the chemical bath had driven Jack completely insane, and he laughed his lungs out, forgetting everything that had happened before that point and escaping into the comfort of madness.

Later on, he became the criminal known as the **Joker**, stylized as **“The Clown Prince of Crime”**, **“The Ace of Knaves”**, or **“Mr. J”**, becoming an infamously dangerous threat to Gotham City and to Batman himself. Over the next 15 years, The Joker would have more and more encounters with Batman, leading to the two of them becoming two sides of the same coin. Opposites and rivals. None could have one without the other. Throughout those years, The Joker was imprisoned at Arkham Asylum. While there, he met Dr. Harleen Quinzel, who slowly began to fall madly in love with him and eventually helped him escape, becoming his sidekick Harley Quinn.

However, The Joker revealed that he never loved her and only used her to help him escape. He often physically and verbally abused her, and occasionally tried to kill her. All this compiled eventually convinced her to leave The Joker. Throughout the years later, The Joker became responsible for numerous tragedies in Batman’s life, one of which was murdering Batman’s adopted son and sidekick, Jason Todd/Robin. This led Batman to become viciously more aggressive, brutal, and violent, completely beating The Joker and almost killing him, however managed to restrain himself.

On January 26th, 2003, The Joker hijacked a school bus full of 34 school children, sending Harley to distract Batman so that The Joker could get away. However, Batman figured it out and rushed to the bridge where he knew The Joker was. While driving the school bus, The Joker turned around to scare the children. However, while not looking, he accidentally crashed into the Kane Family’s car, leaving it dangling off of the edge of a bridge.

Batman arrived on the scene, grappling two hooks to the car and to the bridge, before leaving to deal with The Joker. Batman managed to apprehend The Joker, and managed to save his cousin Kate, however the car, along with his aunty and Beth, went tumbling down into the river below. Batman brutally beat The Joker for killing his aunt and cousin, and The Joker was imprisoned and tried the following month.

In 2015, after years of bloody and brutal encounters, Batman snapped and killed The Joker. The trauma of breaking his one rule led Bruce to leave Gotham City and the Bat Signal to be finally switched off in 2018 to signify his permanent absence. To cover up how The Joker died, Harley Quinn forcibly told the media he was incarcerated at Arkham Asylum.

After the Ant-Monitor Crisis and the creation of the new universe, The Joker was resurrected on Earth-Prime and had his Earth-1 memories restored after threatening J’onn J’onzz to return them to him. It is unknown where The Joker is right now, as the absence of Batman has led his old rogues gallery to go into hiding, The Joker included. It is heavily implied that, due to boredom, The Joker turned himself in. However it is more widely implied that he is hiding out in Gotham City, waiting for Batman to return.