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Since the Joker is simply "the Joker", he believes that Batman is "Batman" (with or without the costume) and has no interest in what is behind Batman's mask, ignoring opportunities to learn Batman's secret identity. [74] [131] Given the opportunity to kill Batman, the villain demurs; he believes that without their game, winning is pointless. [119]
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, he moved to the United States in 1998 to further develop his film career.
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.
From Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” to Joaquin Phoenix, we rank the best Joker actors and performances of all time.
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 ...
In Batman: Knightfall, Stirk works with the Joker in an attempt to kidnap Commissioner Jim Gordon. However, Stirk tries to kill Gordon rather than kidnap him, during which Gordon hallucinates him as Batman. [2] In the Madmen Across the Water storyline, Stirk is imprisoned in Blackgate Penitentiary after Arkham is destroyed. [3]
Lunkhead is a large, imposing, somewhat deformed bruiser of a man. He is killed by demons tricked by the Ventriloquist as revenge for destroying his dummy, Scarface. Lynx: Chuck Dixon Tom Lyle: Robin (vol. 4) #1 (January 1991) Ling is a beautiful martial artist and a member of the Parisian branch of the Ghost Dragons, a Chinese youth gang that ...
The Batman series would be rebooted in 2005 by director Christopher Nolan with Batman Begins. The sequel to the film, The Dark Knight, featured the Joker portrayed by actor Heath Ledger. Ledger died before the film's release, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor posthumously.