The Joker

Jack Napier, A.K.A. The Joker, is the main antagonist of Mutatron: The Maestro Of Mayhem! He is a homicidal supervillain and Batman's arch nemesis who a penchant for causing mayhem and chaos throughout Gotham City in the most destructive ways possible. Originally confirmed to be dead a few years back, The Joker has seemingly returned from the grave to exact revenge on Gotham, the criminals that helped Scarecrow in his plan to destroy Batman...and as much of a surprise, his former friend, Harry Cavatica. While he was voiced by Mark Hamill in the Arkham games, in the film, Joker will be voiced by Willem Dafoe, a comic book character actor who had history portraying the role of a crazed supervillain before.

How it all began...
A few years back, The Joker decieved Dr. Penelope Young into creating a superhuman drug called TITAN, created from experiments done on Bane with his Venom. When Dr. Young found out that Joker intended to use the drug to create an army of superhuman henchmen, she shut down production of the project and refused to turn it over to him. So Joker took control of Arkham Asylum and released all of the most dangerous inmates alive, sending them to find the formula so that he can create the army himself. Joker used the completed formula to mutate most of his men and used most of his villain allies to try and slow down Batman while he used the TITAN to upgrade all of his henchmen. When Joker was confronted by Batman, Joker ingested a massive dose of TITAN formula and turned into a superhuman monster. Batman defeated him, but Joker's TITAN overdose had a devastating effect on the Clown Prince of Crime.

One Sick Joke
During the Arkham City incident, the Joker's TITAN overdose afflicted his blood and was slowly starting to kill him. He had Harley Quinn go into Gotham and kidnap doctors to get them to fix him, while he sent his infected blood out to every last hospital and emergency room in Gotham City. Unfortunately, none of the doctors had succeeded so far. But then, Joker was met by a foreign doctor from Brazil, who gave him a special liquid that cured Joker of his affliction and healed him up quickly. However, since everyone thinks he's dying, including Harley, Joker decided to fake his death and make a comeback later in the future and had the doctor dumped into the Steel Mill's incinerator and told Harley that he couldn't fix him to cover up his healed condition, while he told most of his men that he was cured, but to keep it a secret...or he will, in his own words, "skin them alive and make furniture out of their bones". He used make-up effects to make it look like he is sick, decieved Mr. Freeze into trying to make a cure for him and convinced Clayface to act as his body double. During the time Batman was in Arkham City, Joker captured him when Batman broke into the Steel Mill and infected his blood with an earlier sample of his own, forcing the Dark Knight to find and get Mr. Freeze to make the cure. Batman made the cure, but Harley took it during a battle between Batman and Mr. Freeze. Batman went back to the Steel Mill and found a healed Joker who, unbeknownst to Batman, is Clayface in disguise. Batman battled Joker and a large number of his men for the cure and defeated him, only to be buried under debris by Hugo Strange's TYGER choppers. Joker attempted to kill Batman, but Talia Al Ghul convinced him otherwise and asked him to spare Batman in exchange for the promise of immortality. Batman pleaded her not to, saying that Joker will be unstoppable, convincing him more. Joker and Talia left the Steel Mill. It seemed like Talia betrayed Batman, but actually she intended to lure him away and kill him and let Batman track her down. But Joker, being unpredictable as always, outsmarted Talia and took her to the Monarch Theater. After being freed by Catwoman and stopping Hugo Strange and his master, Ra's Al Ghul, Batman tracked Joker to the Monarch Theater, where Talia "killed" him and gave Batman the cure. However, Batman deduced that Joker had a body double the whole time and Talia was killed by the real Joker and the Joker Talia killed was actually Clayface. Clayface agreed to help Joker in exchange for taking Batman's place after he killed him. Clayface fought Batman and was weakened by the bombs rigged around the theater. After defeating Clayface, Joker attempted to jump into the Lazarus Pit in the room below the theater, but Batman destroyed the Lazarus machine, Clayface and most of the room. Pretending to plead for the cure, which had half taken by Batman, Joker reminded the Dark Knight that despite everything he's done, he would still save him. Batman expressed his hatred for Joker and that he would just break out and start killing people again if he saved him. Joker attacked Batman and caused him to drop and destroy the remaining serum, which was technically part of his plan. Batman told Joker that he's right: despite all he's done, he would have saved him. Joker agreed and found it seriously funny, as he pretended to succumb to his illness and die. Batman, subtly grieving his nemesis, carried Joker's body out of Arkham City and placed it on James Gordon's squad car, without saying a word. A cure was administered by Batman's partner, Robin, and all victims of Joker's blood were successfully cured, but that didn't mean Joker's madness had come to an end.

The Legacy of Lunacy
During the time when Joker's autopsy turned into a murder scene when his gas released from a fake layer of skin and killed everyone in the room, Most of Joker's men broke into the room wearing gas masks and carrying his clothes. The Joker got up and laughed maniacally, telling his men that his plan worked. He grabbed his clothes and put him on, then his men told him that there's a car waiting outside for him. The Joker and his goons left the hospital, killed the guards trying to stop him, got into the car and left Gotham City. With everyone thinking that he's dead, The Joker got the opportunity to lay low and start planning his comeback. But even with him gone, his chaos still continues to terrorize the city. There were reports of crimes being committed with Joker's methods and style. Batman discovered that 4 people that were infected with Joker's blood were never cured due to unrecorded hospital records and are now attacking Gotham because of extreme personality shifts. Batman and his allies had these people rounded up and quarantined and spent the last few months trying to find a cure. But it wasn't just those 4 people. A week before Halloween, After a nightmare which showed him killing Nightwing and Robin under Joker's influence, Batman discovered that he was still infected with Joker's blood and kept his allies away from him in fear of what Joker might make him do to them. Batman surpressed Joker's control for nine months, but, during the Arkham Knight incident, Batman came face-to-face with a hallucinogenic version of The Clown Prince of Crime himself, due to Scarecrow's fear toxin accelerating the proccess of Joker's conciousness and enabling Batman alone to see and hear him, making him one of the Joker Infected. The Joker intended to take control of the hero's mind and lock him away in a tiny corner of that mind. With Joker firmly etched into his mind, the psychopath now had access to all his secrets and planned to use Bruce's company, equipment, funds, and resources to murder all his enemies and Batman's allies, consolidate all the gangs under a rebuilt criminal empire, and ultimately lead a campaign of violence on Gotham and the world itself. Doing so through Batman's body would prove to be the ultimate joke for the villain and a way of always being with his old rival and never being forgotten by the world. Taunting the Dark Knight with the death of his parents and Talia, as well as shifting the blame for his own death on the hero, Joker preyed upon Batman's greatest fears of becoming just like him, stating his intentions to make Batman kill before the end of the night and fully taking control of his body. Throughout the long and brutal night, Joker's control over Batman progressed, causing the hero's sanity to dwindle to the ultimate level and see and hear Joker everywhere as the villain recounts the countless, inhuman crimes he performed throughout his life, including the mutilation and murder of an entire kindergarten class, setting fire to a maternity ward, and replacing baptism water at a church with hydrochloric acid. Batman himself began reliving particularly brutal events in his life orchestrated by the Joker, including the paralysis of Barbara Gordon, and the abduction and horrendous torture of Jason Todd, the second Robin, which lasted for over a year in an abandoned wing of Arkham Asylum and ended with Joker brutally murdering him and videotaping the entire event for Batman's eyes. When Harley Quinn learned of the Joker infected and broke into the Movie Studios to take them, with help from Henry Adams, Batman and Robin headed there to stop them, but Joker's progression into control of Batman's mind got worse for him and Adams. With a manipulative and self-aware personality, Henry was able to withstand the physical changes caused by Joker's blood until the appropriate moment presented itself and fool Batman into believing the principal was immune. While Harley believed Henry's goal was to free and consolidate the other Jokers with her gang and unleash a wave of chaos upon the world, his true objective, under Joker's manipulation, was to use Harley in an elaborate scheme to locate and murder the other hosts as a sadistic method of 'purifying the Joker gene pool,' as the villain had already found his perfect host. Unknown to Henry, the perfect host was actually Batman himself, with the unfortunate man being nothing more than another pawn to ensure Joker's image is upheld in the manner that only the Clown Prince of Crime sees fit. When the time was right, Henry switched the security measures to allow Harley and her gang entry into the base in order to release the other Joker-infected victims and kill Robin. As her gang attempted to murder Robin, Harley took complete control of the zone and redecorated portions of it to resemble a shrine to the Joker and her eternal love for the mass-murdering psychopath, similar to her actions nine months prior in Arkham City. Seeing the infected as her children and the next generation of Joker, Harley viewed them as her last chance to have a trace of the villain in her life and planned to embark on sprees of chaos and destruction with them. However, upon being alerted of the situation by Henry in order to draw him into a trap, Batman headed to the movie theaters to neutralize all the Joker-infected and apprehend Harley and her gang. As Harley's gang consolidated their hold over the complex, three of the Joker-infected begin to embark on their own agendas with the support of Harley's men and equipment. Christina Bell had several gang members patrol the corridors that comprise the haunted house set, after shooting one dead, knowing full well that Batman was coming to rescue her. Albert King set up a makeshift fighting ring within the western-style set, beating three of Harley's gang to death as he waited for Batman to arrive, intent to brutalize him to a bloody pulp. Lastly, Johnny Charisma took control of the sound stage, set up dynamite packs throughout the room, and strapped himself to a bomb-vest as he sang to Batman, with the hero actually seeing Joker singing to him due to the villain's blood and fear toxin in his systems, taunting the death of his parents, allies, and Talia. Despite these obstacles, Batman was able to defeat all of Harley's men and recapture the Joker-infected with the aid of Robin. However, Henry revealed his hand and, after cruelly taking Harley hostage, murdered the rest of the Jokers with a gun, believing them to be shames to the original. Henry then drew his gun on Batman, as Joker's influence became stronger on the Dark Knight, with Joker commenting throughout the entire course of events. Joker then declared that, though Henry was an impressive host for him, he still can not compare to Batman, as a small portion of Henry's previous persona surfaces, and used his consciousness to influence Henry into committing suicide, resulting in all four innocent hosts having their lives ruined and taken by the same influence. Batman contained Harley, now emotionally broken, to one of the quarantine cells as her gang disbanded once and for all and Joker continued to taunt the hero with his impending loss of free will and sanity. Scarecrow revealed his true plans to unleash his fear toxin through a device he built known as the Cloudburst, an aerosol dispenser that amplifies the effects of the toxin. As a result, all of Gotham was engulfed in a perpetual cloud of fear toxin, leaving Batman no choice but to dive head first into the gas and into the Batmobile. As the hero attempted to insert an energy cell within the Batmobile's systems, having been short-circuited due to the toxin, Joker taunted him, as hundreds of criminals throughout the city murdered each other and themselves, and attempted to weaken the hero in conjunction with the toxin in order to finally assume control of his body. Despite this, Batman managed to energize his car once again and engaged the Arkham Knight, controlling the Cloudburst, mounted within his tank, and completely destroyed both devices. While the Arkham Knight managed to escape, Batman and Poison Ivy, having sided with the Dark Knight in order to protect her plants, managed to eradicate all the toxins throughout the city through the use of ancient root systems that contained the appropriate pheromones needed to purify Gotham, boldly sacrificing herself in the process. In spite of this great victory, Scarecrow still refused to surrender and took control over the remains of the Arkham Knight's army, believing that the commander had abandoned his followers in light of Batman's victory over him, and revealed his partnership with Deathstroke, the assassin who went on to lead all ground operations throughout the city in thirst for his own revenge against Batman. However, it would eventually be revealed that the Arkham Knight was, in fact, Jason Todd, having survived Joker's vicious abduction and torture as the villain's true goal was to turn Batman's sidekick against him and deceived the hero into believing Jason was dead. Having named himself after the facility in which he was tortured for over a year, Jason lusted to kill Batman for not only failing to find him but replacing him while he was still entrapped and being tortured. Stating that nothing could be further from the truth, Batman told Jason that he never forgave himself for what happened and pleads to not let Joker win, as this is what he wanted to happen as a result of his torture. While Jason escaped after Bruce defeated him and reached out to his son, he finally began to realize just how much Bruce still loved him and did in fact desperately try to find him during his abduction. After Batman neutralized most major threats throughout the city and the Gotham police force began to regain control of the streets, Scarecrow implemented his final hand and commences an all-out assault on the GCPD to serve as a diversion for Batman as the villain abducted Tim Drake from his base built into the movie studios. While Batman managed to destroy the last of Scarecrow's tanks and apprehend the remaining militia, including Deathstroke, the hero would ultimately be forced to surrender to Crane in order to ensure the safety of Robin and Commissioner Gordon, both being held hostage at Arkham Asylum. Arriving at a storage depot, Batman was forced to surrender his equipment and enter the back of a truck, being pumped with fear toxin, which began to drive him to the asylum. At this moment, Joker's victory seemed assured when he and Batman engage in a brutal, mental battle within Crime Alley due to the effects of the toxin, which ended with the Dark Knight being goaded into breaking his nemesis's neck, albeit only in his mind. With this, Joker knew he was pushing Batman towards his ultimate limit and all that was needed was one last dose of fear toxin from Scarecrow. Joker fully took control over the hero when Scarecrow traps the hero at the Arkham Mansion and exposed Batman's identity to the world as Bruce Wayne in front of live television, finally injecting him with a lethal dose of fear toxin. With Joker now controlling Bruce's mind, the villain warped his mental images into a hellish nightmare that outlined his intentions and plans for Gotham, including murdering his rivals, their gangs, and Batman's allies before using Wayne's resources and equipment to completely destroy Gotham, ending by threatening to attack Wayne Manor and Alfred. However, this was all finally playing into Batman's hand, as the hero realized that in order to defeat the Joker, he must be subjected to a much more concentrated dose of Scarecrow's fear toxin, so that he may use the villain's inner demons to purge him from his mind. As Joker laughed insanely at the imagined carnage while exerting dominance over his new body, he then ominously told Scarecrow (who believed him to still be Batman) to "get ready for the encore" while laughing insanely after the latter divulged his plan of setting Bruce free just in time to see Gotham City destroyed and his allies hunted down and killed as a testament to his failure. This prompted Crane to inject him with another dose of the fear toxin out of rage and confusion towards Bruce for not even appearing remotely scared. This ultimately played right into the Dark Knight's plan to rid himself of the Joker infection once and for all, as the Joker underestimated the fact that he too must feel the effects of the toxin once Scarecrow injects another dose. While initially confident that the toxin would have no effect on him as he believed himself to have no fears, even cracking a joke about how his own body ended up cremated after his death when reliving the event, Joker became very disturbed and progressively frightened at the new surroundings around him, including his grave shown to be small, overgrown and vandalized, no one besides a sobbing Harley Quinn attending his wake, and Gotham, Batman, and even Harley moving on without him. Joker eventually realized that, with all the horror he's inflicted on others, no one would mourn or miss him, and his legacy would soon be nothing more than a bad memory best left forgotten as Gotham and Batman move on with their lives. Now genuinely frightened that he was trapped within the nightmare and he would not be remembered by anyone, Joker is stalked by an invulnerable Batman but is slightly relieved when he believed that he has found an exit. Ironically, this was nothing more than a ruse by Batman, having finally turned the tables on his hated nemesis and is regaining control of his mind by preying on Joker's love and insatiable lust for attention to feed his massive ego. Batman revealed to the Joker that the villain is terrified of being forgotten and that he will indeed be forgotten by everyone. For the first time in their battles, Joker was truly horrified and helpless against Batman, as he was severely and unrelentlessly beaten by the hero, who used every move and gadget in his arsenal against his hated enemy in retribution for everything he forced thousands of people, his allies, and himself to endure over the years, before finally punching the villain dozens of times and violently throwing him into the back of a cell within an area of his mind that resembled Arkham Asylum. As Batman locked the door to the cell, Joker panicked and desperately screamed and pleaded with the hero not to imprison and leave him, as he will then be locked away within his mind forever, telling the hero that he needed him. Batman, having finally realized that Joker was always at his mercy, bid goodbye to his nemesis and locked him away in his personal hell forever, as Joker slowly sobbed and faded away. Immediately afterwards, Batman regained his mind and sanity and, having built up a tolerance to the fear toxin after overcoming all his inner demons and freed by a redeemed Jason Todd (now donning the image of the Red Hood and thus ending Joker's final contingency by abandoning the Arkham Knight persona), injected Scarecrow with his own toxin. Scarecrow was reduced to a pathetic and cowering man in front of live television and screamed insanely, as his fears took control and saw Batman as a demonic figure until Gordon punched the villain out. Humiliated, beaten, and mentally broken, Scarecrow was taken to the GCPD jails, with the last of his equipment stripped away from him, and would remain locked up for the rest of his life alongside his fellow criminals. To protect his allies, Batman implemented the Knightfall Protocol, a contingency he previously laid out in the event of his identity being uncovered, which completely destroyed his mansion and any evidence of his vigilante activities with massive explosions. With Bruce and Alfred both presumed dead in the blast, the pair were able to effectively fake their deaths and ensure that the rest of their family is kept safe. With his legacy serving as additional inspiration for Gotham to finally clean up and rebuild itself, with the help of a fully reformed government and infrastructure, Bruce's allies continued to watch over Gotham. As Gotham returned to peace, Gordon was eventually elected as the new Mayor, political and internal corruption was stamped out, Batman was forever remembered as a hero, and crime dramatically declined with the last of Gotham's major criminals behind bars and Joker's influence gone at long last. With the last of his plans and contingencies destroyed beyond repair, his legacy largely forgotten, his remaining followers disbanded, Gotham at peace at long last, and Batman remembered as Gotham's greatest legacy, the Joker had finally lost...or so it seemed.

The Joker's Revenge
Meanwhile, The real Joker was laying low and hiding out, plotting his comeback and watching the events of Scarecrow's attack. However, when Joker saw Batman unmasked as Bruce Wayne and killed following the Knightfall Protocol, Joker didn't just become shocked about who Batman truly was, he was extremely devestated that Scarecrow's plan robbed him of the one thing that gave his criminal life purpose. And in a fit of grief-induced rage, The Joker turned his comeback plan into a quest for revenge, swearing to get even with the criminals of Gotham that killed his nemesis and the fractured society that created these criminals.

Personality
The Joker could best be described as the true source of pure and irredeemable evil within Gotham City, regarding mindless anarchism, unpredictable chaos, madness and uncountable deaths on a malevolent scale as amusing. He was highly amoral, even by other criminals' standards, and had no interest in either money or companionship; his primary motivation was to cause pure anarchy and chaos for the sake of it in order to satisfy his twisted sense of humor and carve a legacy for himself that he hoped would never be forgotten.

Despite his non-interest in money, the villain still fully understood the political side of the criminal underworld and to amass the type of chaos he hoped to unleash within Gotham City and beyond, he would need wealth to build up a massive power-base and assemble an army of henchmen to aid in his plans. As such, the villain would often perform heists and exploits to increase his ill-gotten wealth and power, such as robbing the Merchant's Bank and taking over Black Mask's operations, to enlist others.

Despite Joker's tendency to murder his own henchmen on a whim, many were drawn to his empire due to the benefits they reaped, as Joker allowed his men to keep all the spoils from their crimes, not asking for a cut himself and simply asked that they created chaos, and paid them considerably more than the other crime bosses due to his non-interest in wealth, outside of what was necessary for his operations. Due to this, Joker always had an army of henchmen ready to take the risks of working for him for money or simply because they admired his deranged behavior.

More so than anything, Joker prided himself on having complete control and influence over all his surroundings and everyone he meets, including Gotham, its criminal underworld, Arkham Asylum and its staff and inmate population, his henchmen, Harley Quinn, and especially Batman and his game of cat and mouse with the hero, showing a great amount of ownership over all of them. Joker's plans were all aimed at the goal of increasing influence over all these aspects, with the ultimate goal of leaving a lasting legacy that would overtake the reputation of all other criminals and eventually infect the entire world, as he lives a life of violence and enjoyment with no regrets and spars with his greatest enemy and friend, Batman, while attempting to break the Dark Knight's moral code to further add to the chaos.

While the Clown Prince of Crime did seek to seize complete control of Gotham, his intention was to transform it into a city without rules and corrupt its populace, having no desire to control it politically like many of the fellow rouges, such as Black Mask and Penguin. This would not only further feed the villain's insatiable appetite for destruction and random violence, but would also prove his point of there being no true morality in life, especially to Batman, and ensure that his legacy is forever carved into the scars he leaves behind on the world.

While his motivations for this behavior were never made clear, he implied while fighting Batman at Blackgate that, similar to the Caped Crusader, Joker's actions and outlook ultimately stemmed from the extremely broken society and lawlessness that was Gotham City at that time. After encountering Batman, he became obsessed with defeating his archenemy, but simultaneously cherished their rivalry, as it made his agenda of chaos, and his life by extension, that much more interesting and eventful.

Some individuals, from psychiatrists to even Batman himself, questioned if the Joker was actually insane. While undoubtedly displaying psychopathic traits, he also possessed genius-level intellect and planning, implying that Joker was in full control of his actions. Though he could be delusional with his worldview at times, the Joker nonetheless had a grip on reality, if not a highly cynical one, as he himself even admitted to knowing what he was doing was legally and morally wrong. Regardless, Joker was often prone to vivid hallucinations such as when being beaten by Batman and saw a demonic bat creature similar to the monster he envisioned when describing his first encounter with the Dark Knight to Harleen.

Audio tapes of the villain's various therapy sessions while he was incarcerated within Arkham Asylum revealed him to be Machiavellian as, despite his untrustworthy appearance, he was charming and seductive enough to make others feel sympathy for him. Prime examples of such characteristics could be glimpsed when he fooled Doctor Young into believing he truly longed to be rehabilitated and Doctor Harleen Quinzel into believing that he loved her. He was a pathological liar, exemplified when Hugo Strange revealed during their therapy sessions within Arkham City that Joker concocted at least twelve unique backgrounds over the years to explain his origins, with the one finite detail being Batman. This not only left the Joker's true background a complete mystery but also enabled the villain to solely live his life as a mass murdering criminal, with no bounds to his previous life or memories holding to reason.

Noticeably, while being evaluated by Harleen at Blackgate, he was able to lie and tell the truth at the same time to garner sympathy and express his inner emotions by relating his new-founded feelings for Batman and use of the situation to make it appear as if he was talking about her. The events of Arkham Origins and Arkham Asylum have showcased him as being extremely emotionally unpredictable and unstable as he could quickly go from being a calculated mastermind with a serious tone to a hysteric state, laughing maniacally until he was at the brink of tears. The Joker had a volatile temper but rarely stayed angry for long, as he often expressed his frustrations through violently and randomly killing anyone around him, including unexpected henchmen.

Joker relished in being seen as a force of nature; a chaotic disruption of social order not worthy of any sympathy. Due to this, the villain was extremely protective of his past, demonstrated in his anger towards Hugo Strange when the professor attempted to uncover his true origins, as he did not want anyone to understand him nor attempt to humanize him, unless it was part of a larger plan or manipulation, as with the case of Harley Quinn. It was implied that the villain himself might not even know his true origins, deciding instead to know only that he suffered a bad day, not wanting to remember his past. Unlike most of his fellow rogues, Joker did not hide behind any distorted justifications or pleas for sympathy, but proudly proclaimed himself as a villain, who fully understood the magnitude of his horrific actions and simply laughed in the faces of his victims and those that attempted to reach out to him, with the sole exception being, ironically enough, Batman himself.

Joker did not long to become assimilated back into society, because his views dictated that society was just as sick as he was, as he made it his goal to show the world that, even if he was a self-proclaimed abominable individual, human nature, in general, was no better. The villain's ideology led him to feel absolutely no remorse for even the most barbaric of crimes, including the mutilation and murder of children and infants; to the Joker, he was showing the world that there was no such concept of innocence if innocents can be slaughtered. Even with society's laws, norms, and moral grounds, Joker believed life was nothing more than a sick joke to be toyed with and laughed at.

Joker's unique behavior enabled him to cover his true nature, whether it was a state of insanity or not, with a firm layer of unpredictability, as each doctor who examined him concluded a different condition that the villain may have had. This led to a competition of sorts between the Arkham Asylum's professors over the years, including Dr. Young, Hugo Strange, and Harleen Quinzel, who all lusted to discover what truly made up the Joker's motives and origins to become famous, something the villain greatly took advantage of for his own plans and amusement. Even Joker's henchmen noticed the villain's inconsistent behavior, stating that their employer acted unstable and insane one moment and then formulated complex and ingenious plans the next.

He had little concern for his imprisonment, as he had multiple guards on his payroll and orderlies under his manipulation, and escaped multiple times. He developed a unique connection to Arkham Asylum, despite it being the place of his imprisonment, due to its violent background and environment and often used it as a staging ground for many of his plans and designs. Being a fortress filled with some of the most violent and deranged criminals Gotham has ever seen, Arkham was the perfect ground to compliment Joker's nature and formulate and stage many of his plans, form connections with other rouges, and shield himself from the death penalty, a legal form of execution that would not prove Joker's point of even the most benevolent becoming corrupted, which he primarily hoped to convey through breaking Batman's noble nature.

Whilst he found the pain of others hilarious, he took an equal amount of pleasure in his own. His lack of fear towards intimidation, imprisonment and physical pain has been contributed as masochism. His lack of self-preservation was reinforced further by how he not only took twisted pleasure in being beaten by an enraged Batman but attempting to provoke him into killing him and even shooting himself with a dangerously high dose of Titan formula to simply prove a point. He had very little fear of death itself, as evidenced by his frequent and deliberately letting himself get caught in the crossfire that would have all but ensured his death, and many times even laughing when about to face the inevitability of his death, which was proven false off-screen.

Despite the fact that he faked his death, Joker's love for surprises for the people of Gotham and manipulative traits made him extremely anticipated to make a comeback, as he was shown to be pretending to be desperate to develop a cure to his Titan poisoning to fool Batman and others that would believe he was really dead, perhaps indicating just how much he truly enjoyed the thrills of fighting Batman and was immensely fearful of losing him, as he built his entire life and criminal career around accumulating notoriety and grueling schemes to triumph over the Dark Knight, and was afraid that Batman's death would indeed cement that fear. Additionally, even Joker was not above being mesmerized by the amazing properties of immortality and the absolute power it would grant him to commit one atrocity after another for all eternity, shown by his persistence to locate and use the incredible chemicals of the Lazarus Pit underneath Arkham City and his gleeful state of mind when he cheated death, both mentally and physically by partially taking control of Batman's mind via his contaminated blood and began to exert full dominance.

He was a monomaniac, who underwent extremely deranged fixations upon different obsessions. The most obvious being clowns, which became the motif of his criminal empire, due to the disfigurements that caused him to appear to look like one. One of his most deranged and defining obsessions would be his relationship with Batman, whom he had declared to be his archenemy, but has referred to him as his best friend on many occasions as well. To Joker, Batman was his straight-man to feel the brunt of his sadistic jokes and knew he could always rely on the hero to play his games of cat and mouse, sometimes not even caring about the success of his plans as long as Batman was hurt in some way and he could start the game all over.

The Joker was also highly egocentric and vain enough to commit crimes and not even attempt to hide his involvement. His ego was centralized in his one and only fear of being forgotten and leaving nothing behind in the form of a legacy. This trait dictated the villain's belief that he was above all the other villains within Gotham City and beyond, believing that they were not of his stature or even worthy of facing Batman, often putting him into conflict with them and their own criminal empires, something that he enjoyed immensely. Despite this, Joker still saw the value of working with certain rouges, often those of whom at least partially embodied his ideals of random violence, such as Scarecrow and Victor Zsasz, in order to further his own goals.

Despite his considerable amount of followers, the Joker had no care for them in the slightest, beholding to an amoral attitude for life in general, viewing the nature of morality as ridiculous and has claimed that life itself is the biggest joke of all, wanting nothing more than to corrupt others and reduce them to his own level of evil. Due to this, there were few crimes that Joker did not resort to at least once in his life and murdered men, women, children, his own henchmen, and even infants, seeing their deaths as only contributing factors to an already sick and depraved world. He openly did not think much of humanity, believing everyone was as equally insane and sadistic as he was and that to deny this was madness. Despite this, Joker has never been known to commit, or even show any interest in, any sexual crimes; perhaps serving as the only criminal act he did not partake in. Nonetheless, he had no issues if any of his men committed such crimes, as many members of his gang were known offenders, often spoke of planning such acts, and even attempted to assault Nora Fries.

While having a very low view of humanity in general, the sole exception to the Clown Prince's in-affection may have lied with Harley Quinn, who proved on multiple occasions to be the only individual Joker ever showed any normal affection towards. While Joker did not love Harley, especially to any remote degree that the unfortunate woman believed in, the villain did have a soft spot for her, admiring her beauty and loyalty towards him, forming an often purely physical relationship. This, however, did not prevent him from abusing her on multiple occasions, sometimes beating her within an inch of her life, to keep her in line or simply to enjoy her abuse as his "hobby," even begrudging Batman for hurting Harley during the asylum riots simply because he viewed it as encroaching on his territory. While seeing her pain as amusing as anyone else's, Joker never went as far as attempting to kill her, though the villain's plans and actions often endangered her life. Even when under the effects of Scarecrow's fear toxin, Harley was the one individual that Joker refused to hurt, showing that he did indeed have some affection for her, however fleeting and self-serving.

Regardless of Joker's on and off relationship with Harley, the one individual that the villain openly admitted to being lost without was Batman himself. Despite his affection towards the hero being conveyed in pure violence and torture, the Joker realized how much more enjoyable his life became when he met the hero and challenged his world views. Because of the villain's beliefs that people are only as good as the world allows them to be, he resented Batman for his ideas that people are essentially good and is more than willing to die at the hands of Batman if only to prove his beliefs and that the Dark Knight is no better than the villain himself.

While he retained his nihilistic nature through his adverbial relationship with Batman, he had admitted that his purpose in life was for him and the Dark Knight to meet and be each other's enemies. Whilst he originally viewed him as a "tiny little distraction", all that changed when he saved him from falling to his death from atop the Gotham Royal Hotel, perplexed at the idea that someone else would risk their lives to save his own (and even admits later that he deserved to die), believing that it was fate that he and Batman met that day. Joker then saw a new-found purpose in his life and greatly began not only to value his battles with Batman but become defined by them, seeing the Dark Knight as an old friend that he could always partake in a game of cat and mouse with, as scores of innocent victims were in the cross-hairs.

Joker saw a little bit of himself in Batman: someone who was born of a very bad day and, despite having a polar opposite view of the world, became a symbol for his beliefs and was extremely keen on protecting his ideology, demonstrated when he saved even the worst type of criminal, Joker himself, from death. He gained a deep respect for Batman due to his persistence in upholding his values, seeing him as the ultimate opponent to challenge and ultimately prove that his world views were nothing more than a joke. He saw Batman as a damaged man, refusing to indulge in his inner madness, while Joker embraced his. Despite his respect for the hero, Joker relished in tormenting Batman during his every waking and, in the case of Arkham VR, sleeping moment, and reveled in his despair, especially when murdering a close ally. Consequently, while Batman despised the villain, he was also defined by the Joker, whose presence was the primary motive for the hero to force himself into constantly improving himself and his equipment, becoming the hero Gotham truly needed, in order to protect its populace from the likes of such criminals.

Additionally, though he wouldn’t admit it, the Dark Knight held some degree of respect for Joker as well, though his unwillingness to kill him was more to constantly foil the clown’s belief and end his plans to demoralize Batman himself into the monster he was rather than actual concern for his life, when Joker faked his death, Batman somberly carried his body outside of Arkham City and respectfully placed his body onto the hood of a police car, showing he did share the Joker’s love/hate relationship between the two of them on some level. Joker’s "death" would proceed to haunt Batman for years, to the point where Oracle claims he wouldn’t even talk about him.

Due to his determination to prove Batman's views as a laughing matter, Joker's plans often branched into an extremely psychological battle, being one of the few villains to get inside the Dark Knight's head and challenge his morals. From that moment on, Joker gave up countless opportunities to unmask and kill Batman, as he would become bored without his enemy to challenge him or learning his secret identity, believing the reveal would be anticlimactic and reduce the hero to being just another man and not a force of nature, similar to the world's perception of the villain. Joker never wanted to see Batman as a man, but rather an icon and a symbol that he would slowly unravel for the world to see, destroying everything Batman valued and reducing him to a monster like himself, and proving that morality was the greatest joke of all.

In Mutatron: The Maestro of Mayhem!, when The Joker learned of Batman's identity and his death, he became consumed by grief and depression, since the whole purpose for his criminal life was to basically drive Batman to the brink of madness and psychologically destroy him. And because Scarecrow robbed him of the honor of killing the Dark Knight physically, a burning thirst for revenge grew within Joker, making him more sadistic, more crueller, more angrier and more violent, and even worse, creating his blind determination to destroy Gotham and the corruption that created them, no matter how many people Joker has to kill to get his revenge, which is proven to be the most logical reason of all for his upcoming misdeeds.

Appearance
The Joker retains his appearance from the original Arkham games, dressed in his trademark purple tailcoat, and white gloves, with a yellow buttoned shirt and a green bow tie, with a flower attached to his tailcoat jacket, matching purple pants and dress shoes.

Attributes

 * Insanity: Unrepentant homicidal maniac, albeit without a precise psychological diagnosis. His past was unknown; conflicting, unconfirmed reports stated that he was a failed comedian, a petty thief, and a broken family man
 * Master Hand to Hand Combatant: While having no formal combat training, Joker is a strong hand-to-hand combatant. Being a completely unpredictable fighter, Joker relies on his insanity-fueled instinct to defeat even well trained combatants such as members of Gotham city police force and Bane's henchman. Even Batman required very great effort to subdue the Clown Prince of Crime.
 * Master Strategist: A dangerously cunning and intelligent master tactician, Joker has terrorized Gotham for many years, and masterminded countless anarchic plans for immense chaos and destruction which lead to the deaths of numerous people. He is a unpredictably skilled anarchist planner to an extent that many times Batman could not completely stop the tremendous misfortune and bloodshed caused by Joker's ingenious malevolence. Despite his immensely dangerous nature, through his dark charisma and extremely manipulative leadership, Joker gained the undying loyalty of countless psychopaths and criminals, the most prominent being Harley Quinn to form one of the most dangerous crime syndicates in Gotham City, becoming one of the most feared crime lords in the Underworld.
 * Immense Speed: Joker is a highly quick and agile fighter, able evade assaults from several enemies at once. He was so fast that not even Batman could catch him that easily.
 * Immense Durability: Joker has a very strong endurance, and due to his extremely crazed nature, he has a beyond frightful tolerance to physical pain, to an extent that forceful rage-fueled beatings from Batman did not shatter his will to fight. He even amusingly enjoyed the great pain from the beatings and found the unbearably painful effects of the Titan transformation to be enjoyable while still retaining his intellect and self control without losing his personality like his Titan enhanced henchmen due to the extreme pain. Even while dying from Titan poisoning, Joker was able to exert himself long enough to move about in Arkham City, even physically exert himself to kill Talia and stabbed Batman in an attempt to take the cure for his poisoning. Incredible tolerance for physical pain, which made fights with him unusually long.
 * Weapon Expert: Joker employed various deadly weapons, often based on party-gag items
 * Chemistry Expert: Frequently used a toxin that stretched victim's face's into a Joker-like grin and caused death. He was even able to refine the Titan Formula.
 * Escape Artist: Unbelievable escapist and stronger endurance than a normal human being
 * Dark Humor: His sense of humor could be credited to what he perceived to be wrong with the world around him, as he was often seen laughing at the pointlessly terrible and truly wrong. This gave an indication as to his true feelings on the matter as his laughter was seen as hollow at times. For instance, Joker commented on finding Arkham City funny, even though a normal human being would consider it an abomination. Joker only found humor in what was wrong with humanity and pointed it out, highlighting it before attempting to either broaden the chaos around it or simply destroy it himself, often doing both in the process.
 * Actor/Impersonator: He was able to impersonate as Black Mask for weeks before coming clean about his identity. By that time, even Black Mask's henchmen and organization had known that their boss had been compromised and they are under new leadership.
 * Self-Destructive: Took absolutely no value in money, power, anyone besides his rivalry with Batman, and even his own life, which made him impossible to intimidate, interrogate, bargain with, or persuade.
 * Desire For Revenge: Batman's death has gravely affected Joker, making him more vicious, cruel, violent and merciless and leaving him in a state of grief and hate-filled anger.

Trivia

 * In the Arkham games, The Joker was voiced by Mark Hamill, who voiced the character before in other DC media such as Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond: Return of The Joker, DC Universe Online, Batman: The Killing Joke and Lego DC Super Villains. However, in Mutatron: The Maestro Of Mayhem, he will be voiced by Willem Dafoe, who was best known for the role of The Green Goblin in Sam Rami's Spider-Man film trilogy.
 * The Joker's true origins and backstory are, as with most of his incarnations, are still currently unknown, with unconfirmed reports saying he was a failed comedian, a petty thief and a broken family man. However, he appears to have some sort of connection to Harry Cavatica, since they both apparently used to be friends during Harry's time in military school.
 * Throughout his entire criminal career, The Joker has committed the largest number of crimes than any other criminal, such as kidnapping, torture, extortion, racketeering, fraud, grave robbing, unlicensed dentistry, cabaret entertainment, and taxidermy, counterfeiting, bullying, cyber-bullying, badger, bear, duck, monkey, iguana, and rhino baitings, wildlife smuggling, failure to adequately restrain a rhino, identity theft, malicious mischief, trespassing, arson, assault, normal, grand, and spectacular larceny, vandalism, forgery, impersonating a police officer, a doctor and an airline pilot, livestock theft, involuntary, voluntary, and enthusiastic manslaughter, desecration of a corpse, improper disposition of a body and labeling of meat products, cannibalism, homicide, regicide, attempted omnicide, and finally, littering.
 * The Joker's desire for revenge was created from Scarecrow's inadverdent murder of his arch-nemesis, Batman. This is technically silly and doesn't make sense, since The Joker was the one who tortured and decieved Jason Todd into thinking Batman betrayed him. And because of these actions, Jason Todd became the Arkham Knight and worked with Scarecrow and most of Batman's rogues gallery to destroy him, which apparently succeeded, due to Batman committing suicide following the revelation of his identity. So these events weren't technically Scarecrow's fault, but Joker's fault from the beginning. However, Joker doesn't realize that, so technically he is oblivious to his own faults for these events.
 * Joker's reaction to Batman's death and motivation for his thirst to revenge is largely similar to how his ex-girlfriend, Harley Quinn, reacted to his "death" and her motivation for her thirst for revenge on Batman in Arkham City.