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    Character » Joker appears in 4198 issues.

    The Joker, Clown Prince of Crime, is Batman's arch-nemesis. An agent of chaos known for his malicious plots, wacky gadgets and insidious smile, he has caused Batman more suffering than any other villain he has ever faced. His origin, name, and true motivations remain a mystery.

    Should Joker have a movie of origins and beginnings?

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    #1  Edited By Jerry Seinfeld

    Should Joker have a movie with himself apart from Batman about his origin story and growing up or would this rob the character of his awesome mysteriousness? If so it should be like a R rated slasher but with a comic theme and character.

     
     
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    #2  Edited By danhimself

    no

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    #3  Edited By Waffle Fries

    no
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    #4  Edited By Jerry Seinfeld

    I'd be cool but I say no because I'd rob what makes Joker so cool being mysterious. Is that your reason too.
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    #5  Edited By Bio Guyver

    I'd like to see a game of The Joker instead.
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    #6  Edited By ThisIsGonnaHurt

    If it's a movie adaptation of The Killing Joke, then I can see it going PG-13...not rated R slasher. A few people get shot, a few borderline-nude photos are shown; simple stuff.

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    #7  Edited By Jerry Seinfeld

    The Killing Joke sounds like a perfect Joker movie it's a possible R rated film or at least a directors cut version thats R and original version being PG 13.
     
     
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    #8  Edited By blade hunter

    we could'nt have a origin story because there is'nt one for the joker we only know how he became the joker and that he had a pregnent girlfriend and thats it, we dont know where he came from, whats his name and i would rather see his origin in a comic book first. 
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    #9  Edited By Jerry Seinfeld

    Your right I couldn't take it on screen first as seriously and wouldn't believe it to be real. The Killing Joke movie seems the best way to go then.
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    #10  Edited By likalaruku
    Only if it was a pshychological thriller with different & conflicting stories that mess with the viewers' heads, like that one episode of Aeon Flux where she kept waking up in parallel lives.
     
    Many Joker fans I've talked to agree that while Barbra Gordon's origins as Oracle stems from The Killing Joke, the Joker's origins in that story are not canon. The Joker that was the Red Hood was from a parallel universe that was destroyed, just like Jason Todd really did die, but this Jason Todd isn't from this universe (damn, I'm trying to make sence out of the Crisis Clusterfuck). Batman Confidential trumps The Killing Joke & the Ledgends of the Dark Knight series.
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    #11  Edited By DH69

    does he even have a comic book origin? i dont read dc stuff so i dont know

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    #12  Edited By NightFang3

    I say yes but it would have to end the same way "The Killing Joke" did.

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    #13  Edited By The Dave

     It'd be a Batman Movie still, but any Batman story with the Joker in it is a Joker story anyway.. lol
     Origin movie would remove a little of what made him imo, He said himself if he was going to have an origin, he'd rather it be multiple choice. (Kinda like Dark Knights joker "You wanna know how I got these scars?" being different each time)
     
    ps: The Killing Joke would def make a wicked movie though.

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    #14  Edited By Phorqe

    No, Joker is fine as he is.  I don't think any "origin" prequel to any comic based movie is going to be decent any time soon.
    I haven't read the Killing Joke, it may very well be a great flick, but I think comic book movies need to come in at a much lower budget in general. The dollar sign ($) is just a symbol for a soul with a slash in it.

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    #15  Edited By ~The Wanderer~

    No.

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    #16  Edited By Dr. ? man

    No, the Joker is overexposed as it is. The Joker's past whereabouts should remain mysterious because it plays into that "wild card" status quo.

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    #17  Edited By Omega Ray Jay
    @Dr. ? man said:
    " No, the Joker is overexposed as it is. The Joker's past whereabouts should remain mysterious because it plays into that "wild card" status quo. "
    God no, ^ I do agree dude.
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    #18  Edited By inferiorego  Staff

    No, some things are best left unsaid.
     
    What makes the Joker a great villain is because his origin is so mysterious. It's been told numerous times, sure, but none of those are his actual origin, just speculation.

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    #19  Edited By Witness99

    I think the Joker needs an origin story. It would tamper with his mysteriousness, yes, but it would also give him more dimension. We might not need a Joker past but the Joker defiantly does. He needs something to tie him down to Earth, and not just some maniacal need of destruction. There is a preserving force that keeps the Joker alive, I think that that force is a desire to return to another time before his transformation.  So why can't we have the whole story? To some people, he is more than just Batman's nemesis. I want more for the Joker than just a tool created to keep Batman running.  

    The Joker can't tell the story, obviously, because he is a very secretive character. There has to be someone out there in the DC universe that can. I'm thinking...past lover maybe?

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    #20  Edited By Mutant X

    No no no no.... and no.

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    #21  Edited By Jerry Seinfeld

      Joker is fine the way he is but when I'm old and gray it would be neat to hear of his origin.
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    #22  Edited By Sidney

    Not Joker's orgins. Just do it like the original Halloween movie. Have Joker locked up in an asylum were he escapes. And he wrecks havoc in a fictional city outside Gotham. And only a sharp, cunning police detective can bring Joker down. No ones knows if Joker is even from Gotham City, so him being in another city be fine. And it would not be an orgins movie, but rather a horror film in itself. Since Magneto is getting a movie and he is X-Mens top super villian, no reason why Joker cannot have a movie to himself.
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    #23  Edited By bringdeath

    It 'd be awesome butt no bcause Everyone dat I know,including myself loves his mysterious hiatis,so dat would kinda ruin dat so nooo but maybe a R rated cartoon or game would be cool tho.
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    #24  Edited By Nort

    If they want money they will.

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    #25  Edited By DedmanWalkin

    Something like Arkham Asylum: Serious House on Serious Earth would be okay but the Joker exists because Batman exists. The two cannot be separated. Also, we don't know anything about Joker the man pre-Batman. All those stories are just stories, probably lies he decided to tell Batman. I think Lovers and Madmen is that best.

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    #26  Edited By G'bandit

    No because no one really knows his real origin or his real name. 
     
    Some are even claiming that is Alfred.
     
    Besides Hollywood would just mess it up

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    #27  Edited By TazzMission
    @G'bandit said:
    "No because no one really knows his real origin or his real name.   Some are even claiming that is Alfred.  Besides Hollywood would just mess it up "

    id vote yes only if nolan directed and wrote and if heath ledger didnt die.
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    #28  Edited By Nort
    @G'bandit said:
    " No because no one really knows his real origin or his real name.   Some are even claiming that is Alfred.  Besides Hollywood would just mess it up "
    I thought his name was John or Joe
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    #29  Edited By G'bandit
    @Nort said:
    " @G'bandit said:
    " No because no one really knows his real origin or his real name.   Some are even claiming that is Alfred.  Besides Hollywood would just mess it up "
    I thought his name was John or Joe "
    Some even say is Jack, but the truth is that it has never been revealed. 
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    #30  Edited By darth_brendroid

    No.
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    #31  Edited By omgsamcopsey

    as much as i like the mysterious aspect of the joker if they made an origin story for the 2008 movie joker id have to watch it coz to be honest i hate the mystery about the joker i love it but I MUST KNOW. Although if they do make it the movie better be good. I think they could do it as long its not just violent stupidity and puns id like to think that he was like some sort of anti hero himself until he became disturbed and thats what i want to see that whole process. as well as how he got "those scars" wanna know how i got these scars could be the tagline. Anyway yh make the movie but make it fckin good or else

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    #32  Edited By Supreme Marvel
    @danhimself said:

    " no "


     

    @Waffle Fries

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    " no "


     

    @~The Wanderer~

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    " No. "


     

    @Omega Ray Jay

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    " @Dr. ? man said:

    " No, the Joker is overexposed as it is. The Joker's past whereabouts should remain mysterious because it plays into that "wild card" status quo. "

    God no, ^ I do agree dude. "

     

    @inferiorego

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    " No, some things are best left unsaid.  What makes the Joker a great villain is because his origin is so mysterious. It's been told numerous times, sure, but none of those are his actual origin, just speculation. "


     

    @Mutant X

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    " No no no no.... and no. "


      @darth_brendroid said:

    " No. "

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    #33  Edited By Son_of_Magnus

    How can a character without an origin have a movie based on his origin? It is a paradox!

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    #34  Edited By Dracade102

    I'd Like to See The Penguin getting a Little More Limelight... Heath Ledger made Joker overrated as it is...
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    #35  Edited By Son_of_Magnus
    @Dracade102 said:
    " I'd Like to See The Penguin getting a Little More Limelight... Heath Ledger made Joker overrated as it is... "
    Here here
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    #36  Edited By The WeatherMan

    They could do like an origin story based on the Killing Joke, or just something original and turn it into a TV series. It could be about before he was the Joker, like a struggling comedian and a small time crook trying to bring up a family, then slowly evolve him to that point where he just snaps and turns into the Joker. Man I should pitch that idea to WB, lol.
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    #37  Edited By the_fallen11

    nope.

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    #38  Edited By Caligula

    no

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    #39  Edited By The_Jokes_On_You

    I'd love to see him get his own movie or have a movie or serious entirely from his perspective? Could you imagine being inside Jay's head for 30 minutes or even an hour? That would be crazy. As much as I would love to know where he came from and what made him go bonkers....it might actually ruin the character. But then again if we had an excellent writer it might be able to get pulled off and leave him still as he was.

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    #40  Edited By The_Martian

    Why would he have a movie about his origins when there isn't a comic about them?

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    Yes and later we have a movie aboyur Harley Quin, late a movie about The Riddler and later one about Dick grayson .(Sarcasm) 
    No the Joker should not have a origin and he dont need a movie, look at Catwoman.

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    #42  Edited By gambit987

    the johers past should remain secret that is just a cool thing from the joker

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    #43  Edited By Calvin
    @danhimself said:
    " no "
    @Waffle Fries said:
    " no "
    @Mutant X said:
    " No no no no.... and no. "
    And I say no! 
    I mean one of the main most charismatic characteristic of the character and you want to take it away....
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    #44  Edited By oiHooliganismoi

    i always liked tim burtons approach to the joker's  origin.... "have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight"

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    #45  Edited By KenTheProfile

    It should be Joker told with diffrent animation showing all the possiblities like Gotham Knights but not a feature film
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    #46  Edited By Larkin1388

    No

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    #47  Edited By enterthejoker

    yes but only if it has a IS THIS THE REAL STORY? feel too it like the killing joke when joker sys he cant remember if that's his real past.

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    look now we have it in 2019

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    #49  Edited By ArkhamWrath

    Just come from that movie !

    And what to say, nothing I already don't know. And everything I honestly expected... and yea just what I expected at end of movie...

    Joker Is AGFMOTAMW ! Pity.

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