History Characters / BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker

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* VillainousLegacy: Despite [[spoiler:his demise in ''City'', his actions are a huge influence on the plot of ''Knight''. Those infected with Joker's Titan-infected blood are mutating into [[CloneByConversion Clones by Conversion]], Batman is haunted by a hallucination of him throughout the game that continually tries to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover hijack his body]] and very nearly succeeds, Scarecrow uses the resulting EvilPowerVacuum to perform a VillainTeamUp with the rest of Batman's RoguesGallery, and the Arkham Knight, aka Jason Todd, was [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil twisted into what he is now]] thanks to the Joker [[ColdBloodedTorture brutally torturing him for a year]].]]
* VillainsWantMercy: Joker [[spoiler:spends the majority of ''Knight'' taunting Batman over his various failures and gloating about how he'll soon pull off a GrandTheftMe on the Dark Knight. During their BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, when Bats gets the upper hand and locks him in a prison box within his subconscious, Joker loses his shit and desperately ''begs'' Batman not to leave him there]].

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* SympathyForTheDevil: Despite all that the Joker has done to Batman, including having just killed his LoveInterest, The Batman still pities the Joker in the latter's final moments, even saying that he would have saved the Joker had he not attacked Batman, which led to the cure being destroyed, sealing the Joker's death.

* AlasPoorVillain: {{Downplayed}} in that both instances of his demise doesn't make him any less of an irredeemable and unsympathetic monster than The Joker already is, but they are still view with ''some'' pathos (even if he did have it coming):

* AlasPoorVillain: {{Downplayed}} in that both instances of his demise doesn't make him any less of an irredeemable and unsympathetic monster than The Joker already is, but they still view with ''some'' pathos (even if he did have it coming):

* AlasPoorVillain: {{Downplayed}} in that both instances of his demise doesn't make him any less of an irredeemable and unsympathetic monster than The Joker already is, but they still view with ''some'' pathos (even if he did have it coming).

* SympathyForTheDevil:
** [[spoiler:At the end of ''Arkham City'', despite his veritable laundry list of terrible crimes, his death is treated as a somber affair as Batman carries his lifeless body out of the theater.]]
** [[spoiler: ''In Arkham Knight,'' the credits scene features him trapped in an IronicHell in Batman's subconscious, and as his sad singing and sobbing tells that his final defeat, along with the knowledge that he'll be forgotten, has utterly ''broken'' him.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: While usually overlapping with BlackComedy, several of his jokes have him casually snarking at every opportunity possible, mainly towards Batman of course.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: What ultimately kills Joker is his own nature. Injecting himself with his own serum was just the start, and ultimately, Joker's obsession with torturing Batman results in the cure he needed being destroyed. Batman even lets him in on the irony that had the Joker not stabbed him, he would've followed through with curing him.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: What ultimately kills Joker is his own nature. Injecting himself with his own formula was just the start, and ultimately, Joker's obsession with torturing Batman results in the cure he needed being destroyed. Batman even lets him in on the irony that had the Joker not stabbed him, he would've followed through with curing him.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: What ultimately kills Joker is his own nature. The Joker's obsession with torturing Batman results in the cure he needed being destroyed. Batman even lets him in on the irony that had the Joker not stabbed him, he would've followed through with curing him.]]

-->'''ComicBook/TheJoker:''' While you were fighting, I've had everyone you love BRUTALLY MURDERED! [[EvilLaugh hehehe...]] Only joking.

* ObsessionSong: A sort of passive/aggressive mix and a disturbing one at that (though considering that the song is from the perspective of ComicBook/TheJoker, it's understandable), in Music/CoheedAndCambria's "Deranged" off the Arkham City album.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Uses this against [[spoiler:Talia al Ghul]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim by simply shooting]] 'em InTheBack instead of trying to fight someone he at that point couldn't possibly take in a fair fight. For added {{irony}}, Joker's victim tried to do something similar to him with earlier.
** Joker also suffers a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome himself when [[spoiler:it turns out that poisoning oneself with multiple poisons over the years [[AvertedTrope doesn't]] [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity work out]] [[JokerImmunity the way you'd like]], especially if one injects themselves with a PsychoSerum, in this case, Titan. Joker dies of poisoning at the end of VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity]].

For The iteration of The Joker featured in the spinoff VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague, see the page for [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesArgus ARGUS and Task Force X]]

** In ''Knight'', [[spoiler:after realizing that he's doomed to eventually fade into obscurity and be completely forgotten by the city that once feared and despised him, he completely breaks down and outright ''begs'' Batman not to forget him.]]

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* FameThroughInfamy: In ''Arkham Knight'', it's revealed that the Joker's entire motive is be remembered as the greatest supervillain in Gotham [[spoiler:and his greatest fear is being forgotten. When a Jokerized-Batman is dosed by fear toxin, his Joker hallucination is subjected to seeing his grave abandoned and rotting, his funeral only attended by Harley, and the press forgetting his name and giving the status of Batman's ArchEnemy to [[TheRival the Penguin]] instead. All of this is enough for the Clown Prince of Crime to lose control of Batman's mind.]]

** Averted in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Cold, Cold Heart]]'', which is the only story campaign in the series where he doesn't show up at all.

* MultipleChoicePast: Just like how he is depicted in the comics, the Joker is implied to have told multiple renditions of his childhood, one of which involved {{Retirony}} in regards to his father's cop status. During a session with Hugo Strange, he tells a story that sounds remarkably similar to that which was shown in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', leading one to assume that ''some'' of it might be true. Hugo doesn't believe him, however, and accuses Joker of using this as an excuse to never face up to the truth of what happened to him and what he's become. Joker doesn't seem too bothered by the accusation and he doesn't seem too sure whether his story is true or not. In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', [[MythologyGag he even quotes the comics]], saying [[Creator/AlanMoore someone]] once told him to go for the multiple choice option.