5 Times The Joker Has Saved Batman's Life

batman's ultimate nemesis is of course the joker and though the two of them hate each other they also kind of co-depended on each other and even though the joker's tried on many occasions to actually kill batman and has really wanted to end his life on those occasions still the joker has saved batman's life on several other occasions basically their relationship is complicated in some continuities this is because the joker needs batman to fight with after all batman is the ultimate opponent and if the joker gets rid of him well who is the joker going to fight then i mean seriously who is as good an opponent as batman and even in the continuities where the joker does genuinely want batman dead batman still has to die in a way that the joker wants him to die as the joker feels that only he is allowed to kill the batman and only in the way that he chooses so like i say their relationships complicated but the joker has saved batman on several occasions and this video is going to go over the five best times that he has saved him dc universe online in the cinematic trailer to this video game the justice league are fighting a group of super villains and they are sadly losing the green lantern has a broken arm and black adam is basically beating the hell out of him and even cools down the magic lightning which seemingly kills green lantern and the flash wonder woman gets hit by a mystic lightning spell and then is choked to death by being suffocated with kryptonite shoved down her throat and then superman is stabbed by lex luffa with a kryptonite spear all in all it's a pretty bad day for the justice league and as for batman he is tied up by deathstroke in wonder woman's lasso of truth and deathstroke is preparing to kill him that is until the joker sees what is happening and fires a rocket launcher a deathstroke to stop him from killing batman of course batman loses an arm in the process and gets his face and body severely burnt thanks to the explosion but it did save his life and the joker did this because as he puts it nobody kills them of course it could be argued that the joker didn't so much mean to save batman but was instead trying to kill batman the clown's logic being that if batman is about to die then joker is the one who's going to be delivering the final blow and to be honest that is very likely what did happen but considering how intimately the joker knows the dark knight's armour's strength and his ability to survive well the joker most likely knew that batman could survive the blast and even if the clown didn't know this it still doesn't change the fact that the joker's intervention did save batman's life batman the animated series in this classic episode of the classic batman show the joker casts harley quinn aside and she decides to prove her worth to him by catching batman and killing him as a gift for the joker and because she believes that once batman is out of the way she and the joker can be together properly and it actually goes really well harley quinn is able to catch batman and ties him up over a pit of jokerised fish that are going to eat him alive and she is about to kill him when batman points out that the joker needs to see his death or how else can harley prove that she's actually the one who finished batman off which is actually a fair point because the joker would never believe that harley can succeed where he has failed so many times and of course batman knows that the joker's ego will never let anyone else kill batman but him so the joker turns up nearly kills harley quinn in a fit of jealous rage as she came close to killing batman than the joker ever has and the joker then releases batman and then realizes that now he's there he might as well try to kill himself and so a fight and chase ensues where the joker actually falls to his death or at least he should have died but somehow the joker manages to survive to return another day this actually happened quite a lot in the old show where the joker would fall from a great height but somehow be fine in the next episode and i do have to say that this episode of the series is actually amazing as we not only get to see this whole story of batman getting caught by harley and then the joker turning up but we actually get to see harley quinn's origin for the very first time as harley quinn was actually created in this series and we also see just how effective harley quinn is without the joker holding her back the batman in this series just titled the batman there is an episode that shows bruce wayne and dick grayson having a couple of rich friends two brothers whom they hang out with a lot but what they don't know is that both of these brothers are super villains and batman and robin are constantly fighting with them at the same time that bruce wayne and dick grayson are hanging out with them of course with batman being batman he does work this out and they are able to bring down the villains but unfortunately before they did that the two villains worked out that batman and robin were actually bruce wayne and dick grayson because much like batman they just put two and two together and they are going to tell the whole world their real identities and ruin their lives and since batman refuses to kill them or lock them up in some secret prison away from the world i mean he is a hero after all and doing that would not be very heroic to be fair but because of this there is no way of stopping them from telling the world who batman and robin really are but as the two villains are being driven away it's revealed that the joker has hijacked the van and he intends to jokerize the two villains so they become essentially brain dead he's doing it because he doesn't want to know who batman is and he doesn't want the world to know who batman is either as he wants batman to keep on being able to fight crime so they can keep up their rivalry and this one actually shows us that saving batman's life isn't just about making sure he doesn't die it's also about protecting him and his secrets because if batman's identity ever actually comes out batman does effectively die and instead he just becomes bruce wayne in a batsuit and the joker of course would never allow that harley quinn the animated series in the pilot episode of the harley quinn series poison ivy is desperately trying to convince harley that the joker doesn't care about her unfortunately harley is fixated on the joker and refuses to accept the obvious no matter how much the joker abandons her or hurts her because all the joker cares about is himself and is feud with batman but harley's psychosis stops her from being able to see this but this all comes to a head of course when the riddler captures both harley quinn and batman and forces the joker to choose which one of them lives and which one dies now of course harley expects the joker to save her because she believes that he loves her but no the joker saves batman from death because the joker wants to keep batman around so they can keep fighting one another and in truth he loves batman not in a shipping they want to have a relationship kind of way this is more of a very confusing feud bromance aggressive nemesis type love it's complicated but they really do care for one another in a very codependent and terrible way of course it is later revealed that the vat of acid the riddle was going to drop them in was actually just a harmless soda and that this whole scenario was orchestrated by poison ivy in order to convince harley quinn that the joker just doesn't care about her and to set her free from his abusive grasp but still the joker didn't know that and he genuinely thought the batman would die unless he stepped in and he did step in to stop it so once again he did save batman's life yes technically he didn't but he thought he was so i think it still counts batman the brave and the bold in a two-part story an evil version of batman called owlman comes over to batman's dimension as a scout for an invading army now batman of course defeats elman and then steals his clothes and goes to his dimension in order to defeat the evil injustice league and stop the invasion plan and he does all of this with the help of this universe's version of the joker who is of course a good guy because it's a reverse universe but after this batman returns home to find out that weeks have passed as there is a time difference between their dimensions and in all the time the batman has gone our man has dressed up as batman and gone out on a crime wave and made batman public enemy number one in gotham city and so batman is being hunted by the justice league and they almost managed to catch him till he is saved by the joker who of course has worked out that the evil batman is an imposter since he knows batman better than anyone so he knows a fake batman when he sees it now reluctantly the dark knight teams up with the joker and the clown prince of crime not only helps him to be our man but he actually saves his life batman is about to be run over by the batmobile but the joker swoops in and manages to pull him to safety just at the last minute because once again only the joker is allowed to kill the dark knight no one else's now ultimately our man forms an alliance with all the villains of the world and captures the justice league holding them hostage so batman has to give him the trans-dimensional device back so our man can go home and bring his army back to conquer the world which obviously batman's never going to agree to so batman attacks him with the joker but of course the joker betrays batman at this point and tries to kill him by coating him in wax but of course the dark knight expected this and manages to escape and go to an alternate dimension and get an army of alternate dimension batman and uses them to defeat owlman although the only important part of this for this video is weirded the joker managed to save him for being run over and killed but i thought i'd give you the full story and i do love how the joker both saves batman's life and then tries to kill him in a death trap in the very same day it's very joker and it really emphasizes once again just how messed up and complicated their relationship really is and that is the five best times that the joker has saved batman personally i think the best one of these is the batman the brave and the bold one as it's a full story and adventure that really explores the different aspects of their relationship especially when he goes to the alternate dimension and the red hood who is the good version of the joker teams up with batman to take down the injustice league so you get to see both sides of the joker if he was a good guy and if he's a bad guy it's just quite interesting to see both sides of this but which one of these is your favorite and are there any other times that the joker has saved batman's life that you think should have been on this list be sure to let us know in the comments and 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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 19 2021