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The Joker commits crimes ranging from whimsical to brutal, for reasons that, in Batman's words, "make sense to him alone". [42] Detective Comics #168 (1951) introduced the Joker's first origin story as the former Red Hood: a masked criminal who, during his final heist, vanished after leaping into a vat of chemicals to escape Batman.
— Titan (submersible) (18 June 2023), last message sent before all communications were lost, shortly after an implosion of the submersible, killing all five occupants aboard. The submarine was headed to the wreck of the Titanic. "Thank you." [247] [248] — Tony Bennett, American singer (21 July 2023), to his son Danny Bennett
Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck a.k.a. Joker and directed by Todd Phillips, the two films draw inspiration from DC Comics characters, rather than provide a canonical (or extended ...
While locked up in the Slab penitentiary, the Joker finds out that he is suffering from a terminal brain tumor. Determined to go out with a bang, he causes a riot in the Slab, and in the ensuing chaos, modifies the chemicals used by the prison to suppress its metahuman inmates into his Joker venom, and manages to "jokerize" the other inmates, making them insane and changing their appearance ...
The result only loosely fits with Batman lore — less well than Vera Drew’s deeply personal “The People’s Joker,” I would argue, and we saw what the studio did when she made that movie ...
The Joker is a character portrayed by Heath Ledger and the main antagonist in Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight.Based on the DC Comics supervillain of the same name, he is depicted as a psychopathic criminal mastermind with a warped, sadistic sense of humor who defines himself by his conflict with the vigilante Batman.
Between 1966 and 1968, Romero played the Joker on 22 episodes of the supremely campy and rather brilliant Batman television series, starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader. Romero has the esteem ...