10 Times The Joker Basically Defeated Himself

everyone knows the joker's greatest enemy is batman or is it perhaps on closer inspection the joker's greatest enemy might well be himself given all the times he's foiled his own schemes over the years with that in mind i'm wilf thwart culture and here are 10 times the joker basically defeated himself 10. he stabs himself batman number one in batman number one in 1940 batman came face to face with the joker for the first time after the clown prince has slayed several prominent figures in the city batman and commissioner gordon agreed to lure the joker out to capture him when batman and robin locate the cackling criminal they engage in battle which concludes with the joker attempting to plunge a dagger into the superhero's heart as batman dodges the blade the purple clad gangster stabs himself in the heart instead seemingly killing himself in the final panel of the issue it's revealed he is still alive but that was a choice on the writer's part to make him a recurring enemy of batman rather than killing him off for good if nothing else this proves the clown prince of crime has been defeating himself ever since the very beginning 9. he realizes he can't live without batman emperor joker in the emperor joker storyline the titular villain became a godlike entity after stealing the powers of the 5th dimensional imp mr mixie spidlik after reshaping the world in his image the joker declared himself the emperor of the universe using his newfound godhood he turned harley quinn into a constellation devoured the entire nation of china and trapped batman in a time loop where he was tortured and killed over and over with the dark knight unavailable superman was the only one capable of stopping the almighty clown still emperor joker's power dwarfed that of the man of steel and ultimately joker decides to just end all of reality for good realizing there is no way on earth he can beat the deranged jester by force superman panders to his ego telling him that he won't be able to toy with batman ever again if he unmade the universe as the joker becomes consumed with self-doubt he momentarily makes himself vulnerable allowing superman to defeat him and return him to normal well normal by the joker's standards anyway 8. he gets distracted while talking about movies detective comics 826 here's the tale of how tim drake ran away from a gang of armed thugs and accidentally got into a car driven by the joker after gassing batman's sidekick and tying him up the jolly jester takes him for a joyride killing anyone who gets in his way realizing that the joker will murder him as soon as he gets bored robin keeps the kidnapper entertained by quoting the comedian shiko marx since the joker adores the marx brothers he keeps drake alive a little longer to have a bit of banter with him but when robin deliberately mixes up the details of the marx brothers films the joker flies into a rage accusing his hostage of not being a real fan as the joker then goes on to recount the details of the comedic troops movies he's left distracted enough for drake to sock him in the jaw knocking him right out of the car it's funny how the joker could have killed robin any time if he wanted but let himself get vulnerable when someone insulted one of his favorite comedians 7. batman claims he knows the joker's identity batman 17. in the famous death of the family story arc the joker returns to gotham after a year-long hiatus for his latest scheme joker tells batman that his family has made him soft and so they must be killed in order to make the superhero a more efficient crime fighter after the joker kidnaps batman alfred nightwing red hood red robin robin and batgirl he infects them with the joker venom after bats breaks free from his restraints he chases the heckling horror through the catacombs of the bat cave as the joker reaches a cliffside he realizes he is cornered so the clown attempts to taunt batman but the superhero turns the tables by claiming he knows joker's true identity the joker goes mental stating that changing their dynamic would ruin the relationship between the two of them as batman leans in to say the joker's real name the clown shoves him away causing himself to fall off the cliff 6. he confesses murder to batman in disguise batman 294 when the joker supposedly kills batman reish al ghul rounds up the supervillains of gotham and has them determine the green-haired maniac's testimony in a court case while on trial the ace of naves told the da turned supervillain two-face how he slaughtered the caped crusader the other night while robbing a fur company the joker then shows pictures of the dead vigilante unmasked validating his claim however little does the joker know that the person he murdered was jerry randall a bookstore owner who liked to dress up as the dark knight and re-enact his most famous cases the joker didn't realize that the two-face at the trial was actually bruce wayne hiding in plain sight using the joker's own testimony against him batman has his arch-nemesis arrested for the murder of jerry randle the joker doesn't realise how batman managed to dupe him until he arrives at arkham asylum and sees the real two-face incarcerated there proving that two-face was never at the trial in the first place five he refuses to admit he's been fooled detective comics 180 after the crime lord king barlow dies his men are baffled to learn he bequeathed his fortune to his greatest enemy the joker the cackling clown gladly accepts the money and retires from super villainy to live a life of luxury but when he has to pay the inheritance tax for his wealth he learns most of barlow's money is fake instead of admitting that he fell for the scam the joker continues to embrace his outlandish lifestyle even after the irs come knocking at his door to avoid being found out the joker has no choice but to return to crime although he always has been a fan of making a spectacle of his schemes the colourful psychopath plays these schemes very low profile however the secrecy eventually gets to the joker and he spills the beans to a crook named duke gorman however the joker doesn't realize that gorman is actually batman in disguise allowing him to use a recording of their conversation to put him behind bars ironically the joker could easily have evaded jail if he simply admitted he'd been tricked by barlow four he pushes jason todd too far three jokers number one in geoff johns and jason fabbox series batman 3 jokers batman's family learns that there are well three jokers not only that there have been three jokers for many years masquerading as the same person in this saga the clown trio have made themselves publicly known for the first time in order to execute their lacis plan to ruin batman's life after jason todd and batgirl in prison one of these doppelgangers who's referred to as clown joker it only takes a few seconds for the villain to get in their heads clown joker reveals he is the one who battered jason with a crowbar leaving him for dead in the famous story batman death in the family as the colourful criminal continues to taunt jason the former robin threatens to kill him even though batman ordered his family to never take a life jason can only be pushed so far and as readers will know he has a track record for killing people anyway nevertheless clown joker continues to ridicule jason telling batgirl that his last words were i'll be your robin if he let him live unable to hear a word more jason puts a bullet in the clown prince's head killing him once and for all 3. the joker loses his mind after learning batman's identity batman 74 in this story the joker pretends to be crazy so he can be sent to an insane asylum why the joker needs to convince anyone he's crazy is anyone's guess but anyway batman tells robin that he believes the joker was deliberately sent to the facility so he could steal a fortune from one of the inmates after bruce wayne infiltrates the institution by pretending to be an inmate he tries to encourage the joker to confess his scheme however the sinister clown deduces that batman is the inmate and has him locked in one of the padded cells in a further twist when the joker returns to the cell the caped crusader has unmasked himself revealing he is bruce wayne as the joker tries to process this revelation an inmate who believes himself to be batman appears behind him this confuses the joker so much he can't tell what's real or not he even questions whether he is the joker with his perception of reality totally shattered the joker stops fighting allowing batman to have him arrested and transported to the state prison two he won't let harley kill batman mad love in mad love which was later adapted into an episode of the new batman adventures we see how the joker manipulated his psychiatrist harleen quinzel turning her into his crazed partner in crime harley quinn as the joker is defeated by batman once again the hot-headed lunatic takes his frustration out on harley trying to please her puddin harley successfully kidnaps batman and ties him above a piranha infested aquarium when bats points out that the joker will never believe she defeated him harley calls mr j so he can watch his nemesis bite the dust the joker is so terrified harley will steal his thunder he actually saves batman from his sidekick's trap solely because he wants to kill bats himself batman points out that harley came closer to defeating him than the joker ever had and he could have killed him if it wasn't for his ego after teasing the joker by calling him puddin the mad clown goes into a frenzy and leaps at batman only to fall into a smokestack 1. he stops batman from saving him batman arkham city in the climax of batman arkham asylum the joker injects himself with a drug called titan turning himself into a monstrous brute although he is inevitably defeated by gotham's protector the joker is far from finished in the sequel arkham city the joker learns the titan has mutated his blood infecting him with a fatal disease refusing to go down without a fight the joker injects batman with his tainted blood forcing the dark knight to find a cure otherwise he'll die too in the end batman tracks down an antidote and drinks a sample of it returning his health to normal assuming bats won't share the rest of the cure the joker leaps onto batman and stabs him trying to grab the vial in the struggle batman accidentally drops the antidote causing it to smash onto the ground ending any chance the joker had at saving his own life batman then tells his oldest rival that he really was going to help him even after all the evil he had committed over the years acknowledging the irony of the situation the joker lets out one final cackle before dying and there you have it folks 10 times the joker basically defeated himself feel free to drop this video a like if you enjoyed it and drop me a follow on twitter at youslide.org you i'm will for culture 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Published: Tue May 25 2021