OOC Info
Character Name: The Joker
Series: Batman (Chistopher Nolan movieverse)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown; looks and is presumed to be in his late twenties, early thirties.
Species: Human
Sexuality: Uninterested
Appearance: Eyes: The Joker has dark brown eyes that, at first glance, are almost mistaken for black. They widen with surprise, narrow with rage and glint with mirth just like any other pair of eyes, but what separates these ones from most are their complete lack of warmth and sanity.
Hair: He has natural brown hair, as dark a shade as his eyes are, that he dyes a dirty but vivid shade of green. It's short, reaching down a little past his ears, but is also unkempt and wildly tangled.
Face: The Joker's face is masked with makeup that some typically describe as war paint; with white face paint, black around the eyes and lips smeared with red, he resembles a dingy if not macabre clown. The paint is not very resilient, though, and has a tendency to crack and wear away very easily, becoming grimy and lending his face an even more ominous visage. Other than his face paint, his other prominent facial features are the scars stretching from the corners of his lips, greatly resembling the marks of a Glasgow smile. The scar on the left corner of his lip is puckered and contrasts the right side, which stretches upwards almost to his nose, resembling a deliberate grin.
The Joker only sheds his paint when the situation absolutely calls for it (such as when he is forced to disguise himself), but his "true" face may strike some as a man who might have been conventionally handsome once. The prominent circles under the eyes coupled with the ever present scars that, try as you might, can never be hidden are enough to vanquish whatever semblance of normalcy a face like his might have, though.
Build: The Joker is about 6'1 and weighs 163lbs. He isn't exactly physically imposing, but he has a light muscle tone prominent in his arms and legs.
Attire: The Joker's two favorite colors are green and purple, and his clothing consists of articles chiefly of these two colors in very dark shades. He wears a teal dress shirt with a blue hexagonal pattern underneath a green vest and a tie flecked with various tones of green. Overtop all of this, he wears a violet dress coat with a bright orange trim befitting of some sort of elaborate suit. His pants are the same hue of dark lavender, and his shoes are plain, scuffed brown dress shoes. He also wears purple gloves and, upon closer inspection, one might notice something resembling a tarnished watch fob hanging on the inside of his coat.
Personality: The Joker is a self-proclaimed agent of chaos who believes the most sensible way to live in the world is without rules. He thrives on anarchy and discord to the highest extreme, completely callous to the suffering of those who fall victim to the destruction in his wake. He reckless disregard for human life (unless he finds a person who is of use to him and, as such, fun until their batteries wear out or they outlive their use); even his own grandiose sense of self-worth boarders on self-destructive, as once an idea formulates in his mind, he will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve it even at the cost of his own personal safety.
He claims to detest planning or scheming, committing crimes and atrocities on a whim for his own amusement, though this is very hypocritical in many respects because everything, absolutely every one of his actions, is scrutinized and pre-formulated in great advance to ensure perfection. In that respect, while he enjoys and even welcomes the unexpected, he gives the impression that he doesn't leave much to chance. Whether he acknowledges or is even aware of that contradiction is unknown.
On the surface, the Joker is mockingly gleeful and darkly sardonic with a very superficial charming front. He does not take threats, pain or pleas seriously; everything is, essentially, one big joke. He is deeply aggressive and feral at his worse, but it's hard to tell when exactly that is thanks to his unpredictable and untrustworthy nature. He occasionally displays behavior and logic that is anything but human and often animalistic such as a deep rooted streak of sadism that goes hand-in-hand with his tendency to cruelly belittle and taunt others, sensing fear and unease as if he's drawn to it. That wouldn't be an inaccurate assumption, though.
He is, essentially, a textbook example of a psychopath. A pathological liar with a sense of self entitlement, lack of personal insight and impulse control problems, the Joker is both savagely intelligent and utterly insane, and the lines between the two blur quite often. At his core, all of his goals revolve around his very base desire to have others play his games for the sheer entertainment of it all.
Abilities: The Joker possesses no superhuman powers or abilities, and he's not very physically strong. He is very agile, however, and employs his tenacious speed to catch his opponents off guard and overwhelm them. He also has remarkable endurance due to his insanity; he can take a beating and retaliate back much easier and swifter than most people.
His cunning intelligence is his greatest strength. He's theatrical, but not below wielding whatever he can get his hands on as a weapon or using his surroundings to his advantage, and he's quick to cheat to tip the scales in his favor. He is adept with guns and most firearms, though only tends to use them when up against multiple enemies or if he wants to dispatch someone quickly and messily. Mostly, his preferred weapons are of the edged variety; he loves knives and uses them every chance he gets in one-on-one confrontations, as he relishes the emotions that come from the personal, slow pain he can inflict. He's also a skilled demolitionist, capable of building and wiring bombs.
Manipulation is another one of his strong points. He is able to and enjoys finding one's flaws and insecurities, seeing how far he can pick a person apart and bend their weaknesses to the breaking point. He believes that all it takes to induce madness is one little push, and if it can work to his advantage, then he'll push with all his might.
Weaknesses: His madness and lack of empathy make it extremely difficult if not impossible for the Joker to develop any sort of long lasting, true relationships with others where he doesn't view them as expendable. He holds zero regard for the lives of those he perceives as allies, willing to backstab or eliminate them in a heartbeat for his own ends or even amusement. His inability to truly understand and sympathize with human emotion tends to end in him underestimating his opponents and instead overestimating himself. He's also difficult to trust in every sense of the word.
As stated before, he's not physically strong, and as such, he only fights when he has to and if he's armed. He's human and is susceptible to all the injuries and ailments of his race; fatal attacks can kill him, endurance or not.
History: Very little is known of the Joker's early history, who or what drove him to madness or even how he received his facial scars. What little info he gives of his past cannot be trusted, as each account differs and contradicts the other.
When he first appeared in Gotham City shortly following the events involving Dr. Jonathan Crane and Ra's al Ghul's plot to destroy the city through the circulation of hallucinogenic chemicals, it was as an enigmatic if not bizarre criminal who would leave Joker playing cards as his trademark at his crime scenes. The natures of said crimes were brutal and cunning in nature; carefully plotted armed robbery with the systematic elimination of his own accomplices through simple wordplay, using their own greed and paranoia against them, as to ensure never having to share the money he stole.
Drawing the ire of Gotham's mafia underground, he found a new target in the masked vigilante known as Batman and would offer his services to eliminate the hero in return for half of the mob's money they had stolen from Wayne Enterprises and smuggled to China. Playing off their uncertainty and growing desire to return to the top after the heroic efforts of district attorney Harvey Dent and GCPD Lieutenant James Gordon left their businesses crippled, the mob agreed to the Joker's proposal, setting off a deadly chain of reactions that would prove catastrophic for the city.
The Joker began by abducting, subsequently torturing and killing a public supporter of Batman to draw the public's attention and, in effect, the caped crusader's by claiming he'd kill innocents for every day Batman remained masked. As a man of his word, he followed through with his threats by murdering public officials such as GCPD Commissioner Loeb and police Judge Sorrillo, even going so far as to target Dent and wound Gordon. Before a torn Batman could give into his demands and turn himself in, Dent made a public statement that he was Batman in an effort to draw the Joker out of hiding. The Joker responded by pursuing the district attorney as he was being transported to jail, though was quickly subdued and arrested by Batman and Gordon.
While in custody at the police department, he was interrogated by an enraged Batman and revealed that Dent and Rachel Dawes (Dent and Bruce Wayne's shared love interest) had been captured, taken to opposite ends of the town and placed in buildings rigged to explode. Though Batman resolved to go after Rachel and leave Dent to Gordon, the Joker purposely gives them the wrong locations and, unknowingly, Batman found himself rescuing Dent, barely arriving in time. However, Gordon failed to reach Rachel and she was killed in the explosion. Dent managed to survive, though the left portion of his face was severely and horrifically burned in the process.
During all of this, the Joker was able to escape by goading an officer into attacking him, using the man as a hostage as he activated a phone bomb he pre-planted in the stomach of a criminal being held in a cell nearby. He had deliberately allowed himself to be arrested as to ensure the abduction of Dent and Rachel.
He continued his war against Batman, but employed a different approach by creating a trump card in Harvey Dent, who was maddened with grief over the loss of Rachel. He convinced Dent to take his rage out on Gotham's mafia, Gordon and Batman, who the district attorney promptly set his sights on as soon as the Joker assisted him in escaping the hospital where he was being held. Soon after, he collected his share of money from the mob only to burn it. Declaring it wasn't about the money from the very start, he announced his "rule" over Gotham and publicly announced that anyone left in the city by nightfall would be at his mercy. Shortly after, he began a "social experiment" with the citizens who attempted to escape the city via ferry by planting explosives on two boats---one filled with ordinary civilians and the other with convicts and prisoners---and gave each boat a detonator wired to destroy the opposite ship. Whichever ship was the first to destroy the opposing one would survive, but if neither made a decision before midnight, both would be destroyed.
In the end, neither boat was able to destroy the other as the passengers of each would've rather accepted their fates instead of murdering one another. Before the Joker had a chance to detonate the bombs, Batman was able to track and find him at the half-completed, abandoned skyscraper where he was hiding. The two engaged in a lengthy fight with the clown at an apparent advantage.
At least until Batman threw him off the side of the building.
The Joker laughed wildly as he plummeted before blacking out, awaking shortly after in a city that was not Gotham.
Series: Batman (Chistopher Nolan movieverse)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown; looks and is presumed to be in his late twenties, early thirties.
Species: Human
Sexuality: Uninterested
Appearance: Eyes: The Joker has dark brown eyes that, at first glance, are almost mistaken for black. They widen with surprise, narrow with rage and glint with mirth just like any other pair of eyes, but what separates these ones from most are their complete lack of warmth and sanity.
Hair: He has natural brown hair, as dark a shade as his eyes are, that he dyes a dirty but vivid shade of green. It's short, reaching down a little past his ears, but is also unkempt and wildly tangled.
Face: The Joker's face is masked with makeup that some typically describe as war paint; with white face paint, black around the eyes and lips smeared with red, he resembles a dingy if not macabre clown. The paint is not very resilient, though, and has a tendency to crack and wear away very easily, becoming grimy and lending his face an even more ominous visage. Other than his face paint, his other prominent facial features are the scars stretching from the corners of his lips, greatly resembling the marks of a Glasgow smile. The scar on the left corner of his lip is puckered and contrasts the right side, which stretches upwards almost to his nose, resembling a deliberate grin.
The Joker only sheds his paint when the situation absolutely calls for it (such as when he is forced to disguise himself), but his "true" face may strike some as a man who might have been conventionally handsome once. The prominent circles under the eyes coupled with the ever present scars that, try as you might, can never be hidden are enough to vanquish whatever semblance of normalcy a face like his might have, though.
Build: The Joker is about 6'1 and weighs 163lbs. He isn't exactly physically imposing, but he has a light muscle tone prominent in his arms and legs.
Attire: The Joker's two favorite colors are green and purple, and his clothing consists of articles chiefly of these two colors in very dark shades. He wears a teal dress shirt with a blue hexagonal pattern underneath a green vest and a tie flecked with various tones of green. Overtop all of this, he wears a violet dress coat with a bright orange trim befitting of some sort of elaborate suit. His pants are the same hue of dark lavender, and his shoes are plain, scuffed brown dress shoes. He also wears purple gloves and, upon closer inspection, one might notice something resembling a tarnished watch fob hanging on the inside of his coat.
Personality: The Joker is a self-proclaimed agent of chaos who believes the most sensible way to live in the world is without rules. He thrives on anarchy and discord to the highest extreme, completely callous to the suffering of those who fall victim to the destruction in his wake. He reckless disregard for human life (unless he finds a person who is of use to him and, as such, fun until their batteries wear out or they outlive their use); even his own grandiose sense of self-worth boarders on self-destructive, as once an idea formulates in his mind, he will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve it even at the cost of his own personal safety.
He claims to detest planning or scheming, committing crimes and atrocities on a whim for his own amusement, though this is very hypocritical in many respects because everything, absolutely every one of his actions, is scrutinized and pre-formulated in great advance to ensure perfection. In that respect, while he enjoys and even welcomes the unexpected, he gives the impression that he doesn't leave much to chance. Whether he acknowledges or is even aware of that contradiction is unknown.
On the surface, the Joker is mockingly gleeful and darkly sardonic with a very superficial charming front. He does not take threats, pain or pleas seriously; everything is, essentially, one big joke. He is deeply aggressive and feral at his worse, but it's hard to tell when exactly that is thanks to his unpredictable and untrustworthy nature. He occasionally displays behavior and logic that is anything but human and often animalistic such as a deep rooted streak of sadism that goes hand-in-hand with his tendency to cruelly belittle and taunt others, sensing fear and unease as if he's drawn to it. That wouldn't be an inaccurate assumption, though.
He is, essentially, a textbook example of a psychopath. A pathological liar with a sense of self entitlement, lack of personal insight and impulse control problems, the Joker is both savagely intelligent and utterly insane, and the lines between the two blur quite often. At his core, all of his goals revolve around his very base desire to have others play his games for the sheer entertainment of it all.
Abilities: The Joker possesses no superhuman powers or abilities, and he's not very physically strong. He is very agile, however, and employs his tenacious speed to catch his opponents off guard and overwhelm them. He also has remarkable endurance due to his insanity; he can take a beating and retaliate back much easier and swifter than most people.
His cunning intelligence is his greatest strength. He's theatrical, but not below wielding whatever he can get his hands on as a weapon or using his surroundings to his advantage, and he's quick to cheat to tip the scales in his favor. He is adept with guns and most firearms, though only tends to use them when up against multiple enemies or if he wants to dispatch someone quickly and messily. Mostly, his preferred weapons are of the edged variety; he loves knives and uses them every chance he gets in one-on-one confrontations, as he relishes the emotions that come from the personal, slow pain he can inflict. He's also a skilled demolitionist, capable of building and wiring bombs.
Manipulation is another one of his strong points. He is able to and enjoys finding one's flaws and insecurities, seeing how far he can pick a person apart and bend their weaknesses to the breaking point. He believes that all it takes to induce madness is one little push, and if it can work to his advantage, then he'll push with all his might.
Weaknesses: His madness and lack of empathy make it extremely difficult if not impossible for the Joker to develop any sort of long lasting, true relationships with others where he doesn't view them as expendable. He holds zero regard for the lives of those he perceives as allies, willing to backstab or eliminate them in a heartbeat for his own ends or even amusement. His inability to truly understand and sympathize with human emotion tends to end in him underestimating his opponents and instead overestimating himself. He's also difficult to trust in every sense of the word.
As stated before, he's not physically strong, and as such, he only fights when he has to and if he's armed. He's human and is susceptible to all the injuries and ailments of his race; fatal attacks can kill him, endurance or not.
History: Very little is known of the Joker's early history, who or what drove him to madness or even how he received his facial scars. What little info he gives of his past cannot be trusted, as each account differs and contradicts the other.
When he first appeared in Gotham City shortly following the events involving Dr. Jonathan Crane and Ra's al Ghul's plot to destroy the city through the circulation of hallucinogenic chemicals, it was as an enigmatic if not bizarre criminal who would leave Joker playing cards as his trademark at his crime scenes. The natures of said crimes were brutal and cunning in nature; carefully plotted armed robbery with the systematic elimination of his own accomplices through simple wordplay, using their own greed and paranoia against them, as to ensure never having to share the money he stole.
Drawing the ire of Gotham's mafia underground, he found a new target in the masked vigilante known as Batman and would offer his services to eliminate the hero in return for half of the mob's money they had stolen from Wayne Enterprises and smuggled to China. Playing off their uncertainty and growing desire to return to the top after the heroic efforts of district attorney Harvey Dent and GCPD Lieutenant James Gordon left their businesses crippled, the mob agreed to the Joker's proposal, setting off a deadly chain of reactions that would prove catastrophic for the city.
The Joker began by abducting, subsequently torturing and killing a public supporter of Batman to draw the public's attention and, in effect, the caped crusader's by claiming he'd kill innocents for every day Batman remained masked. As a man of his word, he followed through with his threats by murdering public officials such as GCPD Commissioner Loeb and police Judge Sorrillo, even going so far as to target Dent and wound Gordon. Before a torn Batman could give into his demands and turn himself in, Dent made a public statement that he was Batman in an effort to draw the Joker out of hiding. The Joker responded by pursuing the district attorney as he was being transported to jail, though was quickly subdued and arrested by Batman and Gordon.
While in custody at the police department, he was interrogated by an enraged Batman and revealed that Dent and Rachel Dawes (Dent and Bruce Wayne's shared love interest) had been captured, taken to opposite ends of the town and placed in buildings rigged to explode. Though Batman resolved to go after Rachel and leave Dent to Gordon, the Joker purposely gives them the wrong locations and, unknowingly, Batman found himself rescuing Dent, barely arriving in time. However, Gordon failed to reach Rachel and she was killed in the explosion. Dent managed to survive, though the left portion of his face was severely and horrifically burned in the process.
During all of this, the Joker was able to escape by goading an officer into attacking him, using the man as a hostage as he activated a phone bomb he pre-planted in the stomach of a criminal being held in a cell nearby. He had deliberately allowed himself to be arrested as to ensure the abduction of Dent and Rachel.
He continued his war against Batman, but employed a different approach by creating a trump card in Harvey Dent, who was maddened with grief over the loss of Rachel. He convinced Dent to take his rage out on Gotham's mafia, Gordon and Batman, who the district attorney promptly set his sights on as soon as the Joker assisted him in escaping the hospital where he was being held. Soon after, he collected his share of money from the mob only to burn it. Declaring it wasn't about the money from the very start, he announced his "rule" over Gotham and publicly announced that anyone left in the city by nightfall would be at his mercy. Shortly after, he began a "social experiment" with the citizens who attempted to escape the city via ferry by planting explosives on two boats---one filled with ordinary civilians and the other with convicts and prisoners---and gave each boat a detonator wired to destroy the opposite ship. Whichever ship was the first to destroy the opposing one would survive, but if neither made a decision before midnight, both would be destroyed.
In the end, neither boat was able to destroy the other as the passengers of each would've rather accepted their fates instead of murdering one another. Before the Joker had a chance to detonate the bombs, Batman was able to track and find him at the half-completed, abandoned skyscraper where he was hiding. The two engaged in a lengthy fight with the clown at an apparent advantage.
At least until Batman threw him off the side of the building.
The Joker laughed wildly as he plummeted before blacking out, awaking shortly after in a city that was not Gotham.