During this transitional period in the character's history, Bill Finger devised his most frequently cited origin story. Published in 1951, Detective Comics #168 revealed that the Joker was once the Red Hood, a masked criminal who fell into a vat of acid while attempting to escape from Batman.
Detective Comics #168 (1951) introduced the Joker's first origin story as the former Red Hood: a masked criminal who, during his final heist, vanished after leaping into a vat of chemicals to escape Batman.
Joker. Born in Gotham City on November 21, 1946, Arthur had a difficult childhood, suffering bullying from his peers as well as enduring abuse when he was a child. He lived with his mother Penny Fleck who had possibly adopted him.
Joker leaves his job at Ace Chemical to be a stand-up comedian, but he's terrible at it, and that precipitates a terrible series of events that lead to the death of his wife, the end of Joker's sanity, and his transformation into the Clown Prince of Crime.
Martha reveals that she forced Psycho-Pirate, a villain with extensive knowledge of the entire DC Universe, to tell her the name of the Joker in the main DC Universe. It is then revealed that the Joker's real name is “Jack Oswald White.”
Batman finally discovers the Joker's real name
Thus, the Joker's real name is none other than Jack Oswald White; however, the story about the discovery of his identity has a storyline.
Image via Warner Bros. Key to Arthur's spiral is new information he learns from his mother Penny (Frances Conroy), with whom he lives. Arthur finds a letter Penny has written to Thomas Wayne, claiming that Wayne is Arthur's real father.
The psychopathology Arthur exhibits is unclear, preventing diagnosis of psychotic disorder or schizophrenia; the unusual combination of symptoms suggests a complex mix of features of certain personality traits, namely psychopathy and narcissism (he meets DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder).
There, Batman learns that the unstable properties of the Titan formula are mutating in Joker's blood, gradually killing him. Joker captures Batman and performs a blood transfusion on him, infecting him with the same fatal disease.
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.
The Joker (2019)
He has mental health issues. He can't get the medication to help with those issues because of state cutbacks. He is treated poorly by people around him because of these issues. He feels abandoned by a father he never knew, infatuated with the mother who stayed.
In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Harley Quinn reveals she gave birth to Joker's daughter, but gave her up for adoption rather than subject her to a life with Joker as a father.
Denying that the baby onesies were trophies after an infanticide spree on the part of the cackling psychopath, Ayer provided the following explanation for the scene instead. "No it's more innocent. Harley wanted a normal family with Joker hence the baby in her vision.
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.
Penelope "Penny" Fleck is the deuteragonist villain of the 2019 psychological thriller film Joker, the first installment of the DC Black film series. 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.
The Joker gives a few conflicting explanations for how he got his scars -- first he says he got them from his abusive father. In his second story, he says he gave himself the scars after his wife was disfigured by loan sharks.
Following several adventures with Catwoman and Ivy, Harley betrays them and breaks into Arkham Asylum, intending to kill the Joker for his years of abuse towards her.
Two years ago, I uncovered Joker's plan to unleash a genetically-enhanced army on Gotham. The drug he used to modify his henchmen was called Titan. Before I could stop him, Joker ingested a massive dose of the Titan formula and mutated into a gigantic abomination.
Missing Eye: Joker had his right eye shot out by Harley Quinn.
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).
His psychological disorder was found in some scenes at the movie such as Schizophrenia Disorder there are 9 scenes and 5 dialogues, Trauma Disorder found in 5 dialogues, and Dissociative Disorder found in 1 scene and 4 dialogues. So, it can be concluded Arthur fleck has a mental illness.
Joker and Batman are not brothers, even though the movie suggests that they are. It is later revealed that Arthur is, in fact, adopted, and his true origins are unknown.
As he confronted his mother, Harley's allies found her and informed her that they had found Joker's body. Joker Jr. then revealed himself to be Harley's son who she had abandoned as an infant.
Injustice: Gods Among Us Year 2
Harley reveals to Black Canary that she has a four-year-old daughter named Lucy who is being raised by her sister. After discovering she was pregnant, Harley left the Joker for almost a year to have their baby instead of abortion.
One of the mysteries in director Todd Phillips' Joker is whether Arthur Fleck really is the son of Thomas Wayne as his mother Penny Fleck claimed. Both Wayne himself and Arthur Pennyworth said it was untrue and that Penny was delusional, hence her eventual stay in Arkham Asylum.