- This article is about Joker animated standard continuity. For other incarnations, see Joker (disambiguation).
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The Joker is one of Batman and Robin's greatest foes in Gotham City. He frequently pairs up with the Penguin.
Physical appearance
The Joker is a Caucasian male whom resembles a clown. He wears a purple suit with a red bowtie and gray gloves.
Personality
Jack Napier was originally a chemist turned comedian turned mob hitman known as the Red Hood. During a fight with Batman at age 25, Napier fell into a vat of chemicals, giving him a clownlike appearance. This, combined with the previous hardships he endured, drove him insane, and thus he became the Joker.
Jason Todd, a former Robin, became the second Red Hood after being resurrected. However, Todd is an antihero rather than a villain.
Skills and abilities
-Chemistry genius -Combat skills
History
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Season one
Joker and Penguin (right) unmasked in their haunted house.
The Joker and Penguin were involved in a counterfeiting operation, and they used the haunted house at the Gotham City Amusement Park as their hideout. When Batman and Robin explored the haunted house in order to search for them, the criminal duo used numerous spooky tricks and mechanisms to attempt to scare them away, which proved fruitless. However, they captured Batman and Robin by luring them into a trap room, which they couldn't escape from because the walls were too smooth for their Bat-lines to hook onto anything. When the heroes failed to return, the gang got worried and decided to investigate the haunted house themselves. When they did, they too were subject to the Joker's and Penguin's tricks and traps. However, despite their best efforts, they failed to scare the gang away. In a final attempt to get rid of them, they disguised themselves as skeletons and tried to chase them off. The disguises backfired; Scooby-Doo mistook them for "delicious-looking bones" and started chasing them. They ended up falling into their own trap, the very same one they used to capture Batman and Robin. After their capture, the two villains revealed that while they did pass the counterfeit money, they did not print it; the actual mastermind behind the operation was someone else whose identity they didn't even know. [1]
The Dryad is really the Joker.
The Joker and Penguin later attempted to steal a flying suit from a spoonerism-prone inventor. They disguised themselves as a dryad and a troll, hoping to scare the gang off their trail. [2]
Appearances
Apocryphal
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
He and Penguin attempted to find the fortune of Bulldog Benson.[3]
Background in other media
The Joker is widely regarded as Batman's greatest adversary. He was originally conceived as a comic-book character by artists, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson, and writer, Bill Finger, for DC Comics; first appearing in Batman #1 (April 25, 1940).
Joker's first animated appearance was in the The Adventures of Batman segments of the Filmation-produced, The Batman/Superman Hour, which were later repackaged as Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder. He was voiced by Larry Storch, who would reprise the role for The New Scooby-Doo Movies. He also appeared in Hanna-Barbera's The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, voiced by Frank Welker.
In the special Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!, one segment had Bat-Mite show an encounter with the Dynamic Duo and Mystery Inc., and broke the "fourth wall", by pointing out animation mistakes (as if he knew he was watching a cartoon) and made Scooby and Shaggy fight back. Joker was voiced by Corey Burton.
In 2014, DC Comics published the bi-monthly Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, which featured a "reunion" of Batman and Robin and Mystery Inc. in the first issue. The Joker and Penguin are downplayed in the series, in order to focus on Batman's other villains, although they do have cameos in issue two.
References
- ↑ The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair, season 1, episode 2.
- ↑ The Caped Crusader Caper, season 1, episode 15.
- ↑ BTB&tB: Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!, season 2, episode 25.
External links
- Joker at SuperFriends Wikia. The Super Friends series and The New Scooby-Doo Movies were both produced by Hanna-Barbera. Their connection beyond sharing the same studio, if any, is unknown.