The Joker's backstory regarding his father varies significantly across different interpretations, as a core element of the character is his deliberately unreliable and constantly changing origin story.
After being sent away at the gates of Wayne Manor, Arthur Fleck finally meets Thomas Wayne, the man he believes to be his father. JOKER is available now on Digital: https://bit.
Arthur was brought up by a foster mother and did not have a father figure. The foster mother herself describes him growing up as a fun and kind boy, but later he was abused and beaten by his adoptive parents and even had a severe head injury.
History. According to the Joker, his father was "a drinker and a fiend". Joker claimed that his father gave him his cheek scars due to his being terrified when his father brutally stabbed his mother sadistically with a kitchen knife when she attempted to use to defend herself.
While she cares about her son, she has shown to lie to him multiple occasions which leads to her death. Despite seemingly being kind to Arthur, it later transpires that she gossiped behind his back and scoffed at his idea of being a comedian and his notion that he was in the world to bring joy and laughter.
JOKER'S LAUGHING DISEASE...
Arthur Fleck clearly had a diagnosis of pseudobulbar affect—uncontrollable episodes of crying and laughing, made worse by any emotional content. In the US alone, 1.5-2 million people suffer from this condition. During his laughter, there was always a deep sorrow and agony underneath.
From the comics to the cartoons to the movies with Margot Robbie, we see scores of examples of the Joker physically, mentally, and emotionally abusing Harley Quinn. We can infer he sexually abuses her too, though it's only implied. Harley's story illustrates the nature of abuse as well as offering hope. She got out.
No, Batman and Joker are not related.
Official confirmation will be required before we can consider Todd Phillips' Joker to be the brother of the much younger Bruce Wayne. Until then, they aren't officially related.
The Joker's mental condition is described as a form of "super sanity" in which he re-invents himself every day to suit his circumstances; he may be a harmless prankster one moment and a homicidal maniac the next. Joker is portrayed with a somewhat homosexual element, described as being indirectly "in love" with Batman.
Since the film's release, many different interpretations of the character of the Joker have featured Jack Napier as his real name.
In the first Joker movie, Arthur was abandoned by his father. Then he was brutally abused by his mother's boyfriend, the only man from whom he could learn a version of masculinity.
The Joker commits a crime and, cornered by the Batman at the Monarch Playing Card Company, throws himself into a vat of chemical waste. He survives, but becomes horribly disfigured in the process. This is the first and earliest attempt at providing a background for the Joker, written in 1951.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that happen between birth and the age of 17. ACEs can cause childhood trauma that lingers long after the event occurred. ACEs can take a toll on your body and mind.
Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska. Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska are characters and antagonists in the Fox crime drama television series Gotham and associated media. They are identical twin brothers portrayed by Cameron Monaghan. Each twin adapts different characteristics of the DC Comics supervillain the Joker.
Alfred Pennyworth, the faithful butler to the Wayne family, awoke after barely surviving a bomb intended for his boss. He woke up to see Bruce Wayne sitting beside his hospital bed, and a small smile came to his face. After all, Alfred had raised Bruce like a son after his parents' death.
She is the adoptive mother of Arthur Fleck, a mentally unstable failed comedian whose lack of success and respect triggers his transformation into the Joker.
Despite both characters being hyped up as super crazy, neither is usually portrayed as all that crazy. They're both pretty aware of the world around them and their own actions. That being said The Joker is usually calculating and willfully malevolent, where Harley acts out of a genuinely twisted understanding of love.
Emperor Joker was a form The Joker took after tricking Mister Mxyzptlk into donating 99.99% of his reality powers to him. As a direct result, he became near-omnipotent and created a hellish world in his own image.
The story implies that the Joker is immortal—having existed for centuries in Gotham as a cause of tragedy after exposure to a substance the Joker terms "dionesium"—and is able to regenerate from mortal injuries. "Endgame" restores the Joker's face, and also reveals that he knows Batman's secret identity.
Joker Jr. was born after The Joker, who had manipulated Harley Quinn into re-entering a life of crime, impregnated her without her knowing. Harley out of shame refused to accept the child and gave him up. He grew up being transferred from various orphanages and foster homes to people who never loved him.
In comic books the Joker's father looms semi-large in the super-villain's loose backstory, but in Joker—the new origin story in theaters Friday—it's his mother who takes center stage. Penny Fleck (played by Frances Conroy) is a meek, sickly woman who relies on her son, Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix), to take care of her.
In the prequel series Pennyworth, Bruce is revealed to have had an older sister, Samantha, who disappeared long before he was born.
Nightwing wakes up and finds he has been tied to a bed. Harley shows him a pile of rejection letters and that her criminal past prevents her from getting rehired as a psychiatrist. Eventually, the two sleep together.
Personality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life. People with Histrionic Personality Disorder are “pervasive and excessive emotionally and display attention-seeking behavior” (Bornstein 1998).
Sadly, one side of her beautiful blonde and blue-eyed facial features were scarred after the Joker had thrown acid at her in order to turn her into a 'living work of art', prompting her to conceal her face for the rest of her short life behind a porcelain mask.