Batman Nemesis
What is the Joker’s real name?
anyone know the real name of batman’s arch nemesis?
ok not the actor, but the character…like catwoman is selena kyle, riddler is edward nygma, joker is ???
Just to clarify a previous question — the story in which the Joker’s “secret origin” is supposedly given is called “The Killing Joke” (1988), a one-shot story by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. In it, we see flashbacks to a time when a young, struggling comedian was forced into committing a robbery on the same night he learned his pregnant wife was killed in a household accident. When Batman shows up at the robbery and the man accidentally falls into a chemical vat, the effect it has on his skin and hair is enough to push him over the edge into insanity.
It was a fun read, but DC has since made it clear the story is just one possible origin — they realize he’s more effective as a villain when he doesn’t have a tragic past that readers might be able to sympathize with. So nothing is known of the Joker’s past until the night he fell into the vat.
“Jack Napier” (a play on the word “jackanapes”, or a mischief-maker) is one of the aliases he’s used over the years, along with “Harlen Quinn” (harlequin) and a few others I forget right now, but so far — no real name. At this point, it’s not likely even he knows what it is.
(Source: Who’s Who, The Killing Joke, The DC Encyclopedia)
Hope this helps,
M.
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