He was sedated by Batman before they arrived at Arkham. It should be noted that there were very small traces of human toned pigmentation on Joker's face, which possibly indicated (along with the newspaper articles of Red Hood in the Batcave) that Red Hood's encounter with Batman and his transformation into the Joker had only recently happened, and that slowly, the rest of his skin started to turn white. Joker's primary weapon was his Ace of Spades: itdealt a large amount of damage which couldkill two Elites at the same time and could ricochet through corners allowing to kill an Elite taking cover. Joker's recognition of Deadshot and having worked with him in the past was most likely a reference to his hiring of the assassin in Batman: Arkham Origins. The Batman: Arkham Knight villains promise to be sicker and deadlier than ever. The day after, a posthumous message that was left by Joker was broadcasted to all of Gotham, including Batman. Despite the city's best efforts he would go on to continually escape, committing crimes and causing chaos until Batman would stop him in what seemed to be a twisted running gag at Gotham's expense. The Arkham Origins flashback showed him with red lips immediately after his transformation, albeit it's unclear whether they actually were red, given the unrealistic style of the flashback. Important! After this Joker switched tactics, suggesting that perhaps Jason should become his sidekick. And wait.Joker tells Batman vaguely about his ruse. At the very beginning of the game, Batman is awoken in an already exploding ACE Chemicals by the Joker illusion. Note: Joker's involvement in Catwoman's escape attempt and the following depended on which boss Batman defeated last. While skeptical that even Batman could live through the explosion the Joker still sent in a handful of his men to sweep the building. thus, Can you free roam in Arkham Knight Black Mask chose the latter and the Joker dragged the struggling crime lord out with him. He often belittled others over their shortcomings, such as toying with Aaron Cash, during his incarceration back into Arkham Asylum over his fear of Killer Croc and, after being rescued, announces to give Cash "a hand", following with "he could use one". He also took hostages and planted bombs around the oil rig which Batgirl and Robin had to find and disarm respectively. However, Katie was diagnosed with an incurable disease, which left Burke devastated. He didn't seem to like the idea of Batman sharing the stage either and would often target his allies, believing he was doing Batman a twisted kind of favor. He hired Deadshot again to act as an enforcer, unaware that the sniper was secretly tripling his earnings by cutting the same deal with his two rivals. Stop in each room where there's a cutscene to watch or Joker's commentary to hear. As Talia revealed that she had stolen the cure from Harley Quinn before she could deliver it to Joker, Batman looked at his hated enemy, believed that his death was an unnecessary casualty, and told Talia that there was always an alternative tactic to defeating an enemy. Murdering dozens of guards and releasingjustasmanyinmates "Black Mask" took Commissioner Loeb hostage, announcing that there would be a "clean slate" and some big changes for Gotham that night. However, Henry revealed his hand and, after he cruelly took Harley hostage, murdered the rest of the Jokers with a gun, and believed them to be shams of the original Joker. The picture in question showed them after Robin arrived to help Batman after being ganged up on by the League of Assassin ninjas, and before Batman went to search for Ra's al Ghul. Gotham Knights is not related to the Arkham series. However, Batman, still wielded Talia's sword, was able to cut through Clayface's forces, and threw Freeze Blasts into his body, which froze him once again. However, just as Harley Quinn was about to reach Joker with the completed cure, Talia al Ghul, also in Arkham City to aid in her father's operations, intercepted her, tied her up, and stole the cure. Joker was also one of the many villains to die like Electrocutioner, Hugo Strange, Talia al Ghul, Clayface (presumably), Ra's al Ghul, and Poison Ivy. He then used his handcuffs to strangle the guard, which forced the doctor to unhook the Joker to save the guard. The night was almost over and "BatDeaths"were"coming in far below projections". Start pressing the attack key/button to try to strangle the Joker. This may have been a calculated ploy to manipulate Harley's emotions, taking advantage of her developing harsher persona in order to shape her into the brutal field agent the Joker would need for the gang war, or, given his twisted sense of humor, for the hell of it. As Cash was not spilling any information, Joker left him to mercy of his thugs. The Joker in his early activities was also shown to be significantly emotionally unstable, often times changing from goofy to serious at the drop of a hat and at random times, as well as frequently shouting at both his minions and, late in Arkham Origins, at Batman himself in a sudden manner. They ignored his orders to stop, so Batman opened fire. Batman refused, and used the only antidote injection on himself, which Titan-Joker found hysterical. Batman put Harley in one of the quarantine cells as Joker continued to taunt him with his impending loss of free will and sanity. Coincidentally, Mark Hamill's last three letters of his first name and the first three letters of his last name spell out Arkham (mARK HAMill). After rescuing Barbara Gordon, Jim Gordon is kidnapped by Arkham Knight who is revealed to be Jason Todd, once a Robin to Batman, and his adopted son, who was tortured and seemingly murdered by Joker. The game's Batman, Batgirl, Penguin, and many other characters are modeled after those in the Batman, Batgirl, Penguin, and many other Arkhamverse worlds, so they cannot be borrowed or replicated. Interestingly, in both instances, the Joker was singing love songs, apparently to his adversary. His past was unknown; conflicting, unconfirmed reports stated that he was a failed comedian, a petty thief, and a broken family man. Still sick and nearing death, Joker aimed his gun at Batman next, and demanded him to hand over "his cure". As the multiplier increases, you will be able to activate the Joker takedown. Perhaps the most defining and deranged of Joker's obsessions was his relationship with Batman. It's unfortunate I was not on staff at the time to witness his seduction of her firsthand. Arkham Origins showed a much younger Joker in the prime of his youth, with a full head of hair and a younger looking appearance overall, along with a thicker and messier painted smile on his face. While wearing Black Mask's outfit, sans mask, Joker bears a strong resemblance to his incarnation from Frank Miller's, In New Game Plus, the opening sequence where the Joker was cremated ended. At some point while incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, Joker was visited in his cell in the dead of night by Arkham Asylum Warden Quincy Sharp, carrying a knife. During his time there, after a sarcastic suggestion by Batman, Joker began to write a book that contained the names of all the people that he had ever killed. Some form of disease is spreading over the Joker, ravaging his face and body. The Joker came to strapped to a gurney and being wheeled back to his cell. After feeling the effects of the TITAN poisoning from Arkham Asylum, he frantically searched for a cure so he would not die, even having Harley Quinn kidnap doctors across Gotham then brutally tortured and killed anyone who could not cure his disease. Not long after his death, Joker's corpse was immediately taken to the hospital for an autopsy. Humiliated, beaten, and mentally broken, Scarecrow was taken to the GCPD Lockup, where he would remain locked up for the rest of his life along with his fellow criminals. If you take Cash and Gordon out of the equation, then it makes more sense. The picture was likely simply a recycled prop, as Jason was already free during the events of. He was voiced by . As far as records go, it's as if he stepped out of thin air. As the Joker was moved into the lobby area of the Holding Cells, he was unstrapped and escorted by a guard and a medical assistant while Batman and Commissioner Gordon looked on. Soon you will face the first of a series of consciousness disorders. When Batman confronted Joker in the penthouse of the Gotham Royal Hotel, TV sets behind him were playing the, During his therapy session with Harley Quinn, the background music of the Comedy Club brawl was from. I've been working on that.The Joker, Renaissance Man. With Harley and the rest of Joker's followers ensuring that his legacy would be upheld, Joker's back up schemes would rock Gotham to its very core and continue to plague Batman. By the time he died, Joker's face was now completely covered in a huge rash and thick veins, and his trademark white face was completely gone. What have they done to you?" Once Vale was in the perimeters of Arkham City in her news chopper, Joker took over her broadcast in order to taunt her and then fired a rocket at her chopper, which caused it to crash-land. Even though it would doom them both the Joker attempted to punch the vigilante. In the Joker's Carnival Challenge Map, the Joker could be seen watching the fight and joined in when the player reached a x100 hit combo. Hand. His criminal record makes clear that he is an unrepentant homicidal maniac. As Harley steered the boat to shore, missiles ripped the hull to pieces. Now THAT'S charisma.One Joker's thugs thinks about J's leadership. Batman: Arkham City Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure game developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Should Batman interfere in his plans, he instantly became the top priority. The Joker agreed with Batman, found the situation genuinely funny, laughed and coughed soundly in his final moments before spluttering and croaking, before giving one final grin and succumbing to his Titan poisoning, ending Gotham's most dangerous reign of terror. Ultimately,Scarecrow, who returned after two years of hiding and plotting afterKiller Croc's attack on him underneath Arkham Asylum, which left him horribly scarred and deformed, took over the criminal underworld and united all of Batman's enemies. Gordon handed Batman the flash drive that was found in Joker's body, which he would later analyzed at the Batcave. Young remained optimistic about her work until her next session with the Joker. Batman: Arkham Knight is a 2015 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios and released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Batman was forced to brave the toxin to repair the Batmobile, with Joker making him see the victims attacking each other as copies of him. In the storyboards for the scene where Harley was trying to shoot at the Joker included in the behind-the-scenes featurette, Joker said a slightly different line from the final version. Once recaptured, Joker was transferred to the newly re-opened Arkham Asylum. His true actions and inner motives are highly complex due to his own mysterious past and scattered background, adopting numerous backstories that were all different and intricate, which allowed him to operate as an enigma within the present without a discernible cause or reason for many of his violent actions or possibility to be negotiated or bargained with. The Joker then dispatched two Titan fueled security guards at Batman, who defeated them both. He was hosting the sinister soiree of the century - until a clumsy waitress spilled a drink on the Joker. On the other hand, despite his nihilism, the Joker seemed to have sense of self-preservation. Joker the ImmortalThe title on the Monarch Theater. His action to kidnap and torture Jason Todd (the second Robin) was not only a way to attack Batman on an emotional level but to warn him to leave his friends out of the "crazy little game of ours". Multiple Black Mask goons: Killed in various ways. The Arkham Knight was a mysterious military villain who emerged in Gotham City and was the antithetical version of Batman. Batman, knowing how little time he had left, fought Freeze for the cure. Memorize all nine of them. He had a far crueler joke to play on the Dark Knight than just that. Contents 1 History 2 Incident Reports He's a puncher, not a shooter. Despite being scrawny to the point of anorexia, when it came to fighting Batman, Joker could take almost twice the amount of physical pain of his thugs. A horrified Young realized that Joker had been her benefactor the entire time and was more than satisfied with the Titan Formula as it was. However, Batman knocked out the goon at the controls and knocked out the rest trying to find him. He may also have chosen Black Mask because of Sionis Steel's reputation for shady theme park construction appealing to his twisted sense of humor. Joker revealed he accepted the possibility of death within Arkham City and took precautions to ensure that he lived on through his poisoned blood. Even with falling debris knocking it loose, Batman's grapnel was able to slow their fall enough that they survived by crashing through the Hotel Lobby's glass dome. Kill all enemies met on your way - The Penguin, the Riddler with the hostage sergeant Hanrahan and Two-Face. With all the pieces in place, Joker was prepared to start the next phase of his plans and obtain the main objective of his schemes: find the Lazarus Pit, which was hidden somewhere under Arkham City, to obtain immortality and absolute power and assume control over the League of Assassins. Keeping in contact with his longtime enemy through phone calls, Joker eventually sent Batman to rescue Mr. There were multiple disparate elements to Batman: Arkham Origins' plot, but it succeeds in telling a comprehensive tale about Batman's first encounter with supervillainy.Joker - although arguably saturated as a villain in the Batman: Arkham series - was a natural choice to focus on, given his potential roots as a Gotham mobster prior to becoming the Clown Prince of Crime, and Troy Baker does . While it seemed that Talia had betrayed Batman, she truly intended to lure the Joker aside and kill him while Batman tracked her down by using one his trackers that Talia had equipped onto her person. Before things could escalate any further, Sharp seemed to freeze up with sudden terror. To that end, Joker made use of the construction equipment at the Steel Mill to build massive tunnels that connected to Gotham's sewers and subway system as a shelter for whatever Strange had planned to ensure that his army survived while the rest of his enemies were slaughtered. It's not right! With Talia at gunpoint, Joker demanded the cure from Batman, and confused the hero as he believed that Joker already had it and cured himself. The Joker's appearance was that of a very tall and very thin man with bright green eyes, a long sharp chin, a pointy nose and an unusually wide smile. Second, a significant amount of time had passed and Joker had not been forgotten - if anything, the series and film portrayed Joker's legacy lasting as long as Batman's own, with an entire gang-faction of criminals being founded in the Clown Prince's honor; "The Jokerz". Joker told her it was pretty and that he was willing to be her friend. Joker was the only playable character in the series who took fall damage if he fell from too great a height. Use the weapon to destroy part of the weakened wall and move on. To renew his game with Batman, Joker made an anonymous phone call to the Gotham Tonight Show to inform the staff there that Batman was in Arkham City in order to lure news reporter, Vicki Vale, to Arkham City. Though Deadshot claimed that Joker's gun had no more bullets, Joker claimed that he was wrong, but fired the gun anyway, and after he proved that he was right, Deadshot punched him in the face, but he and Harley escaped through the laundry chute. Tonight we're going to wipe the slate clean. There were however, rare times where Joker cares about her. Various Arkham Asylum's staff: In various ways such as laughing gas. Joker could also be rather macabre, as he found other peoples' death, the threat of death and his own quite amusing. Among the gang outside the theater was Harley Quinn, who gasped, fell to her knees, and sobbed uncontrollably as she saw the Joker's limp body being carried away by Batman. And Mugsy was skillful enough to make a dozen more copies, freeing the Joker to mutilate any puppet that failed to amuse him. However, he does not seem fettered by his psychopathic qualities or simply unaware of them but took no attempt to better himself. That's his thing. Climb in order to bypass a gate. Often hailed as the best superhero game, and certainly the best of the Arkham series, Batman Arkham Knight has no shortage of intense scenes. 02/26/2023 - 10:35 am . He took over the body of Tim Drake, and used his skills as an engineer to create a satellite weapon, before he was defeated by the new Batman, Terry McGinnis. Like Red X is to Dick Grayson in Teen Titans. These gruesome acts were also a cover for Joker's biggest contingency plan. Bane decided to leave. He had a goon waiting to drop victims into the abyss below if they spotted him. To that end, Joker began placing explosives all around the perimeter walls, which were ready to be detonated when the rest of his plans were in place. Taking the hint, the remaining assassins headed out into the night to find Batman, except for Bane who knew that he would be coming for the Joker. A hotline straight to my most favorite person in the world. Enraged that Batman would never allow him this final triumph, Joker shot himself with one of his Titan darts, and claimed he had little more to live for. With the League of Assassins under his complete control, the powers of immortality at his disposal, the most technologically advanced military grade weaponry known to man in his possession, and the sheer amount of numbers in his forces to command, Joker relished all of the death and destruction that he could bring to Gotham and the world for centuries with nothing in existence to stop or kill him. Accelerating the countdown the clown laughed at the prospect of "watching the fireworks early", forcing the vigilante to dive out of a window to evade the impending explosion. Arkham Knight is repackaged as a villain to Red Hood. Batman headed into the sewers to gain access to the office but was delayed by other situations. Joker soon took the opportunity to break free at Harley's signal. As Ivy continued to yell about Batman killing her plants, the Joker moaned over the intercom if she ever shut up about them. Batman believes in the sanctity of life so much he refuses to kill his villains, no matter how dangerous they are. Such humor was displayed when referring to someone as being crazy during his Audio Tapes with Harley Quinn and she asks if that he meant Batman, he instead responds with "Santa Claus" before correcting that he did indeed mean the Dark Knight in an angrier town of voice. Contacting his forces, Joker ordered the rest of his vast army to take shelter in the tunnel systems that they had constructed over the months to wait for Protocol 10 to end and the rest of their adversaries slaughtered before they emerged back onto the streets to start the final phase of his plans. So one day at lunch, the Joker took a spoon and dug out another inmate's eyes, knowing this would get him solitary confinement. WE BOTH EXIST BECAUSE OF THEM! In the first Catwoman Mission, a portrait could be found with the inscription: "Cain & Abel - The Duality of Man". In. !The Joker gets serious. I can't believe I didn't think of this before! He must be stopped. So how is he still infected now? No surprise when he he feels my blade whisper into his heart.Joker, thinking about his dream of killing Batman. 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