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Batman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 DC Comics one-shot graphic novel featuring the characters Batman and the Joker written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland. The Killing Joke provides another origin story for the supervillain the Joker, loosely adapted from the 1951 story "The Man Behind the Red Hood!", which was written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger.
Batman: The Killing Joke is a 2016 American adult animated superhero film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Featuring the DC Comics character Batman , the film is the 27th of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies , based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland .
Harley objects to killing a child and finds Batman, who arrives as the warehouse is engulfed in flames due to hydrogen tanks. A wounded Jason begs for Batman to kill the Joker, but Batman instead tries to save him; Jason attempts to stop Batman but knocks over more hydrogen tanks, causing the explosion and his apparent death. [71]
The Killing Joke author Alan Moore in 2008. The novel has been described as the greatest Joker story ever told. [55] [56] [57] Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) built on the Joker's 1951 origin story, portraying him as a failed comedian who participates in a robbery as the Red Hood to support his pregnant wife. Batman arrives to stop the robbery ...
The Joker shoots Barbara Gordon in Batman: The Killing Joke. The injury results in the character's paralysis. Art by Brian Bolland and John Higgins. DC officially retired the hero in the one-shot comic Batgirl Special #1 (July 1988), written by Barbara Kesel. [24] Later that year, Barbara Gordon appeared in Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke.
Batman: Death in the Family (or DC Showcase: Batman: Death in the Family) is a 2020 American adult animated interactive superhero film that explores alternate outcomes of the 1988 comics storyline "A Death in the Family", in which Jason Todd, the second character to bear the mantle of Batman's sidekick Robin, was murdered by the Joker.
Affleck says he started drinking significantly more when his marriage fell apart.
Joker announces via television broadcast that he plans to give out $20 million at Gotham City's 200th anniversary parade, and challenges Batman to meet him there. Joker keeps his promise of giving away the money, before releasing an airborne toxic version of Smylex onto the crowd via parade floats, killing dozens of people.