Joker (Injustice)

> I know it's soon but... think you'll ever love again? Maybe you won't kill your next family...
>
> The Joker, shortly before having his heart ripped out of his chest by Superman.

The **Joker** is the overarching antagonist of the *Injustice* franchise. He is the arch-nemesis of Batman, Superman, Harley Quinn and the whole Bat Family. He serves as the main antagonist of *Injustice: Year Zero*, the posthumous overarching antagonist of the *Injustice: Gods Among Us* video game and comic series, and the *Injustice 2* comic series, a posthumous antagonist in *Injustice 2* and the overarching antagonist of the *Injustice* animated film.

Wanting to plunge the world into chaos and torment Batman, Joker sought to drive Superman insane by orchestrating the death of his pregnant wife Lois Lane and the destruction of Metropolis. These actions successfully drove Superman insane, but also drove him to murder Joker in retribution, leading to him become a tyrannical dictator enforcing peace through fear and brutality, killing anyone who opposed him.

This ultimately leads to the outbreak of the Superhuman Civil War, which lasts 5 years and leads to the deaths of many superpowered beings and millions of innocent people. Additionally, the Joker of the Main Universe also appears in the Injustice Universe during the events of *Injustice: Gods Among Us*. The Injustice Joker also reappears in *Injustice 2* with his actions still causing problems several years after his "masterpiece" resulted in the One-Earth Regime's creation.

He is voiced by Richard Epcar, who also voiced Skull in the *Cyborg 009* franchise, Azazel in Tekken and Yhwach in Bleach. He was also voiced by Kevin Pollak in the *Injustice* animated movie.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* After Batman leaves Gotham, the Joker goes on a killing rampage, killing several guards and prisoners to get out of Arkham.
* Breaks another inmate named Andre Chavard out of jail to get the supposed power of the god he talked about, but he refuses to say anything. He later threatens to kill his grandson after he was revealed to him, which causes Andre to cooperate and tell him everything.
* Murders Jay Garrick and Sandman (Not to be confused with Marvel's Sandman) just to hurt Batman.
* Murders Andre after he got the Amulet of Apophis by ejecting him out of the submarine in order to get crushed by the deep ocean's pressure.
* Attempts to blow up the Hall of Justice to kill the entire Justice League.
* Supposedly kills Scarecrow while stealing his fear gas, combining it with Kryptonite to affect Superman. (It was later revealed that Scarecrow survived the attack).
* In the film, he sets up a trap that incapacitated and killed the Flash.
* Murders Jimmy Olsen, kidnaps Lois Lane and implants a dead man's switch into her heart, before manipulating Superman into killing her and their unborn son.
* Sets off a nuclear warhead in Metropolis which was linked in Lois' heartbeat, thus her death causes it to detonate and kill millions of innocent people, along with Starfire (although it was revealed that she survived), Kid Flash and Beast Boy. This led to both Cyborg and Raven's fall to the dark side.
* When the grief-stricken Superman confronted him, the Joker taunts the Man of Steel for his misery, thus successfully forcing him to kill the former in one last laugh. Not to mention that this is what turned Superman into the monster he is today.
* While his death was brutal, it doesn't make him a scapegoat because he got what he deserved for everything he did (even though, that was what the Joker wanted Superman to do in order to prove that his plan worked).
* Like his main universe counterpart, he tricks Harley into thinking he cares about her.
* Noticeably, his crimes are so heinous that practically everyone in the Injustice universe, hero or villain, despises him, even the series most heinous villain Brainiac, albeit for pragmatic reasons.
* In the Injustice 2 non-canon Arcade Ending, he uses Brainiac's Collection to place random cities around the Earth, no matter if they actually came from the planet or not, leading people to kill each other.
* His actions of corrupting Superman led him to corrupt some of the other Justice League members as well. To make matters worse, his actions of corrupting Superman also make him indirectly responsible for Green Arrow, Hawkman, Lex Luthor (who is Pure Good) and Shazam's deaths.
* In his intro lines in the fight against Batman, he blames Batman for letting him live, considering that The Dark Knight's moral code was the reason that Superman was corrupted by Joker himself, despite that it was Joker's own actions that Superman broke his moral code and killed him, even though Joker himself deserved it and meaning that Batman's no killing rule is no excuse of his actions of corrupting Superman in the first place and before then at anyway.

## Trivia

* Because he crossed over to his main conterpart's universe, this makes said counterpart Near Pure Evil as he fails the heinous standards to this version.
* Almost *every* villain in the *Injustice* universe despises the Joker and even blames him for Superman's descent into tyranny - from tricking the Man of Steel into killing his own wife and unborn child, nuking Metropolis to provoking Superman into ultimately killing him for his own sick amusement. Even Brainiac of all people, who is just as evil as the Clown Prince of Crime and 100 times more dangerous, considers him a cancer that deserves to be neutralized. Harley Quinn, meanwhile, rejects him during the events of the game after realizing his utter depravity. On the other hand, Scarecrow only hates him for stealing Fear Toxin from him on top of trying to killing him. Therefore, he only thinks Joker went too far for selfish reasons. The same applies to the heroes with even Batman stating that while he did not approve of Superman murdering the Joker, he couldn't blame him and was more upset over what happened afterwards and that Superman ended up proving Joker right by becoming a tyrant.
	+ Because of this, he is often considered one of the most evil versions of the Joker ever portrayed. He is also one of the most disliked; not because people hate him, but because he lacks most of his typical, more comical traits and some dislike the concept of him being the one who corrupted Superman.
	+ And yet, funny enough, in *Injustice: Year Zero, Issue 4*, it's revealed that even THIS Joker has standards, when he reveals that he hates Nazis, calling them traitorous bigots, which is a nod to a 1997 Batman/Captain America crossover where Joker teams up with the Red Skull, only to terminate the partnership when he learns that Red Skull is a Nazi. Over here though, these standards aren't a genuine redeeming quality as the Joker himself has shown to be a traitor, while also being arguably worse than the Nazis, and solely hates them for being bigots rather being disgusted by their crimes, and that he prefers killing all types of people, not to mention that his hate of them could be considered less as disgust of their actions, and more because their totalitarianism completely opposes his own anarchistic ideals.
	+ It’s taken even further in *Mortal Kombat 11* where all the kombatants are not happy to see him and despise him as well, most of the villains do not take him seriously and the heroes are disgusted by his act in Metropolis (or for those who met him in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe) are angry that he’s even here in the realm in the first place, with Sheeva stating he has somehow done the impossible, he’s united all the realms just to end his tyranny and while Kronika is pure evil as well she didn’t go on a mass murder like he did in Metropolis, something even she is disgusted by.
* In *Injustice: Year Zero*, it is revealed that the real reason why Joker drove Superman to madness is because Batman told the Joker that no matter what kind of power Superman is influenced by, he cannot be corrupted. Joker proved Batman wrong with what he did to Metropolis and died at Superman's hand, knowing that he's proven his point and he's successfully claimed victory over his nemesis.
* Joker is one of the two main reasons why Superman became the Tyrannical Villain he is today. The other is Wonder Woman, who encouraged his excessive actions after the Metropolis incident.
* He is one of the few villains who succeeded in getting Superman to kill a person.

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