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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2431804" data-attributes="member: 22622">The Joker4 Joker--- He brutally beat to death his arch enemies partner.   He violently shot a woman, stripped her and snapped shots of her to humiliate her father.  He's killed many and his reasoning is different than any other villian.  He does it because he wants a laugh.  HE does it for the Joke.Excerpt is from <a href="http://the-joker.biography.ms/" target="_blank">http://the-joker.biography.ms/</a>"The Joker, also referred to as The Clown Prince of Crime and The Harlequin of Hate, is a fictional comic book supervillain, modeled after the lead character played by Conrad Veidt from the 1928 film, The Man Who Laughs . The Joker is an insane criminal with a clown-like appearance, the greatest adversary of Batman, created by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson .Throughout the evolution of the Batman universe, interpretations and incarnations of the Joker have taken two forms. The original and currently dominant image is of a sadistic psychopath with a warped sense of humor, deriving pleasure from inflicting grotesque, morbid death and terror upon innocent people. In this interpretation, he is a textbook example of antisocial personality disorder. In a sense he is Charles Manson cursed with a clown's grinning face and a grotesque sense of showmanship . The other interpretation of the Joker, popular in the late 1940s through 1960s comic books as well as the 1960s television series, portrays the Joker as an eccentric but harmless prankster and thief. The 1990s cartoon Batman: The Animated Series is notable for blending these two aspects, but most interpretations tend to embrace one characterization or the other.Originsin the comicsThe Joker's trademarks are his countless "comedic" weapons (like razor sharp playing cards, acid-spewing flowers, and lethally electric joy buzzers) and Joker venom, a deadly poison that infects his victims with a ghoulish rictus grin as they die while uncontrollably laughing hysterically (although some versions cause immediate death, without the painful laugh spasms beforehand). This venom comes in many forms, from gas to darts to liquid poison, and has been his primary calling card from 1940 till the present. In the 1989 movie, it was dubbed Smylex, but its symptoms are the same.  "</blockquote>

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