History ComicBook / JokersLastLaugh

* WeaksauceWeakness: Killer Frost closes Power Girl in with ice to try and make the latter panic due to her clautrophobia, which Phobia teases her over. Power Girl reveals she's had therapy about it, and can [[SubvertedTrope handle her fear now]], busting out and flooring her opponents.

* SlaveToPR: Nightwing points out to Oracle that, as much as they hate the Joker, they aren't cops or soldiers. Society would stop tolerating superheroes and masked vigilantes if they started using lethal force. Pp

** The Joker is disgusted when some of his gang vandalise one of the Moai on Easter Island, even asking them if they know how long it took the natives to carve them.

* BlessedWithSuck: A Slab inmate whose power is to resurrect when killed and come back with a new power every time. The Joker and his group murder him over and over until they get what they want. [[spoiler: Shilo gives him some more freedoms in the epilogue as thanks for his help in getting the Slab back in the right dimension.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Joker's response to the Aryan group in the Slab's mess hall, saying they're "just ''mean''."

* BechdelTest: Passes. There's a scene where five villainesses, Harley, Spoiler, and Cassandra Cain interact. All dialogue is about how the villains plan to kill the other three and Spoiler and Batgirl are in over their heads.

* SlaveToPR: Nightwing points out to Oracle that, as much as they hate the Joker, they aren't cops or soldiers. Society would stop tolerating superheroes and masked vigilantes if they started using lethal force.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but in the story proper, he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker. That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: After the Joker unleashed a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday killed Superman]][[/note]] on Superman, he almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of synthetic kryptonite alongside Doomsday (ComicBook/BlackLightning, then Luthor's Secretary of Education, revived him), and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the ComicBook/{{New God|s}}'s help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but in the story proper, he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker.
** That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: After the Joker unleashed a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday killed Superman]][[/note]] on Superman, he almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of synthetic kryptonite alongside Doomsday (ComicBook/BlackLightning, then Luthor's Secretary of Education, revived him), and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the ComicBook/{{New God|s}}'s help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.

* ShoutOut: A few times to DC Comics events and movies.
** While on Easter Island, the Joker gets annoyed that the weather is too nice. "Where are the [[RedSkiesCrossover Red Skies]]? Every other [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] gets funky mood lighting!"
** Joker quips at one point that soon he'll be "deader than ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''."
** The Joker's To Do List includes [[ComicBook/KingdomCome "Kill that nosy Lois Lane. Supes will freak!"]]
** The Joker sets his final showdown with the Bat-Family at [[Film/{{Batman}} Gotham Cathedral.]]

** Joker quips at one point that soon he'll be "[[HilariousInHindsight deader than]] ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''."

** That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: After the Joker unleashed a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday killed Superman]][[/note]] on Superman, he almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of synthetic kryptonite alongside Doomsday (ComicBook/BlackLightning, then Luthor's Secretary of Education, revived him), and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the ComicBook/New God|s}}'s help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.

* FourLinesAllWaiting: While the plot moves rather quickly, we do have to content with The Joker's plot, the Batfamily's plot, The Slab plot, and the reactions of the world to the other three.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but in the stroy proper, he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker. That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: After the Joker unleashed a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday killed Superman]][[/note]] on Superman, he almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of syntethic kryptonite alongside Doomsday (ComicBook/BlackLightning, then Luthor's Secretary of Education, revived him), and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the ComicBok/New God|s}}'s help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.

* SlaveToPR: Nightwing points out to Oracle that, as much as they hate the Joker, they aren't cops or soldiers. Society would stop tolerating superheroes and masked vigilantes if they started using lethal force.

* TheBadGuyWins: Nightwing declares this when he loses control and tries to beat the Joker to death. The Joker got what he wanted, a member of the Batfamily nearly killed him in a fit of rage as his last laugh, his last triumph.
** Averted in that the Joker is stopped and captured, and Shilo puts him in a cell that monitors his biology for security but doesn't give him a camera, and thus no audience.

* BatmanGambit: Played by the Joker. He got a riot going and removed all the shock collars so the guards would have to use the nerve-gas, which he turned into a PsychoSerum that jokerizes all the other villains and puts them under his control.
** He also has the Arkham Rogues go after Robin to kill him, trying to drive Batman or at least a member of the Batfamily kill him as his ''real'' last laugh. Nightwing beats him nearly to death, and only emergency resuscitation (implied to have been from Batman himself) saves Nightwing from being a killer. Nightwing says the Joker won anyway.

* GodzillaThreshold: Oracle justifies bringing Huntress on board despite Batman's dislike of her because they need ''everyone'' right now.

* PowerLevels: Discussed when Harley Quinn is attacked by some of the jokerized supervillains. The only heroines close enough for Oracle to send right away are [[BadassNormal Spoiler and Batgirl]]. Oracle is reluctant and warns the girls to be careful, and the villainesses are "out of their weight class". Sure enough the girls stay on the ropes until PowerGirl shows up.
** It's implied that the Joker himself is considered above-level for the younger members of the Batfamily.
* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but in the stroy proper, he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker. That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: After the Joker unleashed a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday killed Superman]][[/note]] on Superman, he almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of syntethic kryptonite alongside Doomsday (ComicBook/BlackLightning, then Luthor's Secretary of Education, revived him), and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the god's help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.
* PsychoSerum: whatever the Joker doused the Slab inmates with. It makes them look like him and drives them mad like typical Joker venom does, but also puts them under his control somehow. He later does the same to various civilian populations with "crazy rain" and then to Arkham Asylum.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but in the stroy proper, he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker. That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: After the Joker unleashed a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday killed Superman]][[/note]] on Superman, almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of syntethic kryptonite alongside Doomsday, and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the god's help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.

** While on Easter Island, the Joker gets annoyed that the weather is too nice. "Where are the [[RedSkiesCrossover Red Skies]]? Every other [[CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] gets funky mood lighting!"
** The Joker's To Do List includes [[KingdomCome "Kill that nosy Lois Lane. Supes will freak!"]]
** The Joker sets his final showdown with the Bat-Family at [[Film/Batman Gotham Cathedral.]]

* MilestoneCelebration: The tie-in issue to the second issue of the second volume of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' was #175, one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doosmday killed Superman]]. Naturally, the issue features a Jokerizied Doomsday and states it takes place on the anniversary of Superman's death.
* MyGreatestFailure: Oracle, who feels this was because she let herself have one night to not compulsively watch the Joker at prison, leading to a substandard first response the clown took advantage of.

* PsychoSerum: whatever the Joker doused the Slab inmates with. It makes them look like him and drives them mad like typical Joker venom does, but also puts them under his control somehow. He later does the same to various civilian populations with "crazy rain" and then to Arkham Asylum.

* MilestoneCelebration: The tie-in issue to the second issue of the second volume of ''ComicBook/Superman'' was #175, one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doosmday killed Superman]]. Neaturally, the issue features a Jokerizied Doomsday and states it takes place on the anniversary of Superman's death.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Black Canary isn't in her more well known leotard and fishnets, but instead some kind of jumpsuit. If she hadn;t been quickly identified as Black Canary people might have gotten a bit confused about who she was.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but in the stroy proper, he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker. That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: Contrived to unleash a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday killed Superman]].[[/note]] on Superman, almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of syntethic kryptonite alongside Doomsday, and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the god's help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but in the stroy proper, he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker. That said, in one of the tie-ins issues, ''Superman'' (volume 2) #175, Luthor did a few more President Evil hijinks: Contrived to unleash a jokerized Doomsday[[note]]fitting considering this was one hundred issues after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman]].[[/note]] on Superman, almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of syntethic kryptonite alongside Doomsday, and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the god's help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was president, but he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker.
** Luthor also did a few more President Evil hijinks: Contrived to unleash a jokerized Doomsday on Superman, almost killed Superman when he locked him in a box full of syntethic kryptonite alongside Doomsday, and then SOLD that monster to Darkseid as the price of the god's help against Imperiex. He also got jokerized and then proceeded to start his re-election campaign early, and almost brought nuclear megadeath to everyone if not for Superman restraining him.
* PsychoSerum: whatever the Joker doused the Slab inmates with. It makes them look like him and drives them mad like typical Joekr venom does, but also puts them under his control somehow. He later does the same to various civilian populations with "crazy rain" and then to Arkham Asylum.

** Averted in that the Joker is stopped, captured, and Shilo puts him in a cell that monitors his biology for security but doesn't give him a camera, and thus no audience.

* BatmanGambit: Played by the Joker. He got a riot going and removed all the shock collars so the guards would have to use the nerve-gas. Which he turned into a PsychoSerum that jokerizes all the other villains and puts them under his control.

* BechdelTest: Passes. There's a scene where five villainesses, Harley, Spoiler, and Cassandra Cain interact. All dialogue is about how the villains plan to kill the other three and Spoiler and Batgirl are in over their heads.

* GodzillaThreshold: Oracle justifies bringing Huntress onboard despite Batman's dislike of her becuase they need ''everyone'' right now.

* OhCrap: Pretty much everyone reaction to hearing the Joker's been told he's dying.
* PowerLevels: Discussed when Harley Quinn is attacked by some of the jokerized supervillains. the only heroines close enough for Oracle to send right away are [[BadassNormal Spoiler and Batgirl]]. Oracle is reluctant and warns the girls to be careful, and the villainesses are "out of their weight class". Sure enough the girls stay on the ropes until PowerGirl shows up.

In the story, TheJoker is told he is dying of an inoperable brain tumor shortly after arriving at the villain prison known as The Slab. He quickly decides to go out with a bang and infects all the other inmates with an insanity virus that also puts them under his control to stage a mass breakout, tossing the prison into another dimension as he does. While the Batfamily and Justice League scramble to contain his malice, the survivors at The Slab work to return it to earth and world governments panic in fear of the clown's wrath.

But could this [[JokerImmunity really be it for the clown prince of crime?]]

** Averted in that the Joker is stoped, captured, and Shilo puts him in a cell that moniters his biology for security but doesn't give him a camera, and thus no audience.

--> '''Black Canary''': You don't understand...[[TheJoker he's]] dying...inoperable tumor...

* PowerLevels: Discussed when Harley Quinn is attacked by some of the jokerized supervillains. the only heroines close enough for Oracle to send right away are [[BadassNormal Spoiler and Batgirl]]. Oracle is reluctant and warns the girls to be careful, and the vilainesses are "out of their weight class". Sure enough the girls stay on the ropes until PowerGirl shows up.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when LexLuthor was president, but he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker.
* PsychoSerum: whatever the Joker doused the Slab inmates with. It makes them look like him and drives them mad like typical Joekr venom does, but also puts them under his contorl somehow. He later does the same to various civilian populations with "crazy rain" and then to Arkham Asylum.

* ILied: [[spoiler: The doctor who told The Joker about the tumor was playing a mean joke on Joker to see if it might make him feel remorse.]] Black Canary notes this lie might have doomed them all.
* JokerImmunity: The Joker reacts to seemingly losing his by making sure he'll leave his mark. [[spoiler: It's still intact, the doctor lied.]]

--> '''The Joker''': This one'll ''really'' kill you!

* BatfamilyCrossover: While villain-wise it's a Crisis, with the Joker getting dozens brainwahsed, the most influential heroes in the plot are all from Gotham. The Joker even intentionally stages the final confrontation in his hometown.

* PresidentEvil: Subverted. This took place when LexLuthor was president, but he has no effect on the plot beyond authorizing a shoot to kill order for any troops who see the Joker.