Joker

The Joker is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe created by Bob Kane. He is the arch-nemesis of Batman, the main character and antagonist of The Joker Blogs, and near-universally recognized throughout modern popular culture as the archetypal "Monster Clown" villain. In all episodes of The Joker Blogs, he has been portrayed by series creator Scott McClure.

Possible Pasts
During the events of The Dark Knight, the Joker shares two stories, and nearly shares a third, that supposedly reveal the reasons he acquired the scars on his face. Given their unprovability, direct contradictions of each other, and penchant for playing upon the specific fears and discomforts of each person he told, both stories and have been discarded as lies.

The following are the stories the Joker tells in the film:

Parental Abuse
To Gambol, who had shown himself easily angered by allusions to a potentially poverty-stricken upbringing, the Joker told the first story, while placing a razor blade against the side of Gambol's mouth.

"My father was ... a drinker; and a fiend. And one night, he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not ... one ... bit. So, with me watching, he takes the knife to her ... laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says ... 'Why ... so ... serious? ' He comes at me with the knife ...  'Why so serious?!' ... he sticks the blade in my mouth ... 'Let's put a smile on that face!' ... and ... why so serious?"

The Joker then kills Gambol immediately off-camera, likely by breaking his neck given the visible lack of blood, before offering a single job opening to Gamble's surviving lieutenants, with the caveat that the position will go to whichever of them can stab the rest to death using Gamble's broken pool cue.

Love/Divorce
According to the Joker, his wife was cut up and they couldn't get the surgery done because of their lack of money. This leads him to cutting his face into a smile, showing her that he did not care about the scars, he just wanted to see her smile again. According to the Joker, she could not stand the sight of him and left.

Untold Third
The final story that the Joker tells is unknown because he is captured by Batman. However, of all the stories given, there is a significant chance that it would have been the "real" one, due to the special status he is regularly demonstrated as ascribing to Batman.

Arrival in Gotham
Shortly after the death of Ra's Al Ghul, Batman discussed with Lieutenant James Gordon the effect that he had made on Gotham City since his appearance. Gordon then revealed that a criminal with "a taste for theatrics" recently committed a double homicide and an armed robbery, leaving behind a Joker playing card as a "calling card". Gordon also warned that just as escalation occurs in terms of the police force against crime, so might the scale and style of criminality change in reaction to Batman's appearance.

Sometime later, the Joker would orchestrate the theft of a large shipment of ammonium nitrate from the Gotham Docks. The explosive chemical was saved for storage in the Gotham General Hospital and on two passenger ferries sometime later.

Bank Robbery
"I believe that whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you ... stranger."

- The Joker to the bank manager. Several months later a group of bank robbers, (Grumpy, Happy, Dopey, Chuckles, Bozo and an unidentified-bus driver) under the direction of the Joker, robbed Gotham National Bank which was used as a money-laundering front for Gotham's gangs. The masked robbers whittled down their own numbers within minutes in a series of calculated betrayals. Finally only "Bozo" remained, who revealed himself as the Joker to the manager of the bank, who had earlier confronted the robbers with a shotgun. The Joker then escaped with the bank's cash in a yellow school bus, concealing his identity by driving within a convoy of other buses.

Dealing with the Mob
"Oh, and by the way, this suit? Wasn't cheap. You oughta know, you bought it..."

- The Joker to the Mob The Joker just after his "magic trick". Shortly following the bank robbery, Italian crime boss Sal Maroni mentioned the Joker's recent theft of Mob owned cash to his fellow crime leaders at a business meeting, dismissing him as a threat and saying that he was a "nobody" wearing a "cheap purple suit and make-up". The Joker, overhearing this comment and the plan presented to the Mob by Chinese mobster, Lau, arrived unannounced at the meeting while faking a laugh, as he saw their "so-called plan" as a bad joke. He also described the meeting as a "group therapy session". The mobsters were at first unwilling to even hear him out, and Gambol, one of the crime lords who seemed to take the most dislike for the Joker when setting eyes on him, sent one of his men to take him out by force, but the Joker unexpectedly said he was going to perform a magic trick by making a pencil "disappear" and embedded the pencil in the table, and then when Gambols's goon was about to grab him, the Joker quickly countered his attack and shoved him head-first into the pencil where it indeed disappeared inside the man's head via eye socket, instantly killing him. The Joker also mentioned that his suit wasn't cheap and that they ought to know this since they bought it, which meant that he used the money he stole at the start of the film to buy his suit. He proposed that it was Batman's interference that had resulted in idealistic leaders like Harvey Dent rising in popularity, and offered his services to kill him for half of all the money that Lau, an illegitimate Chinese accountant, took away from Gotham for safekeeping. He also warned them that Lau would betray them if arrested, claiming to know a squealer when he saw one. While the Bratva mobster, the Chechen, and Maroni were interested, Gambol, angered by the Joker's lack of respect, attempted to attack him, forcing the Joker to reveal his insurance policy: several grenades hidden under his coat, allowing him to make a quick escape. Frustrated, Gambol proceeded to put a bounty on him. The Joker later took revenge that night by having his men come to Gambol, claiming to have killed the Joker. In a bit of unintended tragic irony regarding the fate of his actor, the Joker's "dead" body is brought inside in a garbage bag before attacking Gambol and proceeding to tell him the origin of his mouth scars as a way of psychological torture and intimidation, then when Gambol is most terrified and shaken, the Joker proceeds to kill him with the knife. Then with the remains of Gambol's men overpowered and at his mercy, he takes a pool stick and breaks it in half, making it sharp-like and says that there is only one spot open at the moment to join his "team", then throws the piece of the sharpened pool stick at the middle of Gambol's scared men and has his gang, made up mostly of mentally-ill and unstable vicious crooks escaped from Arkham Asylum who seem to have taken the Joker as their leader, make Gambol's men fight to death with the stick until only one is left, and advises them to "make it fast".

The Joker's Threat

 * "Harvey, Harvey, Harvey Dent. Oh, 'scuse me. I wanna drive!"
 * ―Joker to his unconscious truck driver

Realizing that Batman had retrieved Lau from Hong Kong and that the police had struck a deal to testify against them, Sal Maroni and the Chechen relented, finally hiring the Joker to kill the Batman. The Joker first kidnapped a Batman impersonator named Brian Douglas, filmed his murder and hung the body, complete with white make-up and a Joker scars, outside the mayor's office. In the murder tape he sent to the media, the Joker viciously mocks Brian and terrorizes him to the point of leaving him absolutely frozen and weeping. The Joker also taunts his beliefs towards Gotham's criminals and his actions. Afterward, Joker proceeds to give Gotham an ultimatum. Batman must take off his mask and turn himself into the authorities and every day the Batman refuses to do so, he will murder innocent people. As a result of the Batman not turning himself in, the first major victims were Janet Surillo, the judge presiding over Dent's indictments, and then Commissioner Gillian Loeb.

Later, the Joker and his gang stormed a fundraiser at Bruce Wayne's penthouse to kill Harvey Dent and was confronted by Batman. The Joker only managed to escape by throwing Rachel Dawes out a window, who Batman then lept after and saved.

The killings then continued with two incidents and an attempt on the mayor's life at a memorial for the murdered police commissioner. The Joker appeared in public without makeup, impersonating one of the Honor Guards, and shot his rifle at Mayor Anthony Garcia, but Gordon was struck in the back after willfully leaping in front of Garcia, in order to fake his death to avoid any future attempt by the Joker of attacking him with his family at home. As a result of this, Batman told Dent to call a press conference so he could reveal his identity and stop the killings. In a surprise move, Dent instead claimed to be the Batman himself and was subsequently arrested.

While being transported, the Joker and his gang attacked the caravan of police vehicles to eliminate Dent. Batman soon arrived to stop the assault but stayed his hand at killing the Joker. The Joker prepared to unmask Batman but Gordon, disguised as a SWAT soldier, stepped behind him and aimed his shotgun at his back. The Joker was successfully jailed at MCU, and as a direct result, Gordon was promoted to Commissioner by Mayor Garcia.

Assault on Gotham
"I had a vision ... of a world without Batman. And it was so...boring."

- The Joker on television.

With the Joker in custody, Gordon and Batman believed his madness was over but became alarmed when he informed them that Harvey Dent had gone missing. Desperate, Gordon let Batman torture the Joker for information, but the Joker seemed unshaken by the pain. Instead, he gleefully told Batman his view of people as selfish and violent, only needing a little pressure before descending to madness. He also admitted he could never kill Batman, considering him his only equal. Dent's kidnapping was part of a test, to see if Batman would save him or Rachel, whom the Joker could tell Batman cared for. The Joker willingly told him where both were located. After most of the police were gone, the Joker took his guard hostage and escaped by detonating a phone-activated bomb he surgically planted in the stomach of one of his men who was arrested with him, with Lau in tow. Gordon was disheartened when he realized the Joker wanted to be captured.

Dent and Rachel each awoke tied to chairs with barrels of explosive material surrounding them and a speakerphone hooked up to the other's location. Rachel confessed her love for him and agreed to marry him. Harvey fell on the floor and his left side was completely immersed in turpentine. Batman arrived but found Dent instead of Rachel. He realized that the Joker had lied about Rachel and Dent's whereabouts to further crush Batman's morale. Batman rescued Dent as the building exploded and Harvey's face was badly burned, while Gordon was unable to rescue Rachel before the explosion. In the hospital, Harvey was driven to madness over the loss of Rachel and blamed Batman, Gordon, and the Joker. This act caused Sal Maroni to tell Gordon the Joker's location, finding him and his craziness "too much" for business. The Joker later met the Chechen in a container ship with Lau and was given his reward: half the mobs smuggled money, which he casually burned along with Lau. He then betrayed the Chechen and took control of his men.

The Joker then made a call to a news program where Coleman Reese was threatening to go public on the news with information about Batman's identity. He was interrupted by the Joker who stated he had changed his mind, believing Gotham to be too boring without Batman. To "give others the fun", he threatened that if someone didn't kill Reese in sixty minutes he would blow up a hospital. Gordon then abandoned his ambush on the Joker to focus on evacuating all city hospitals.

Contact with Harvey Dent

 * "Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes...chaos. I'm an agent of chaos."
 * ―The Joker to Dent.

After the Joker threatened Gotham once again, he traveled to Gotham General Hospital disguised as a nurse to talk to Harvey Dent about joining him in bringing chaos to Gotham, but Dent was reluctant to do so, and the Joker gave Dent a chance to kill him by giving him a cocked and loaded pistol. Dent then decided to leave his fate to chance by flipping his signature coin, but the coin landed on "heads". Dent let Joker live, and the two escaped from the hospital before it was blown up by Joker.

The Ferries

 * "Tonight, you're all going to be a part of a "social experiment.""
 * ―The Joker

The Joker declared that he would rule the streets and that anyone left in Gotham would be subjected to his domain. He told people they could leave now but that he would have a surprise for them in the tunnel and on the bridge, which people then avoided, using instead two ferries, one ship full of ordinary civilians and one of the criminals, as Gordon feared the Joker would want to recruit them. However, the Joker had loaded each of the ferries with explosives. In hopes of showing everyone how evil and corrupt they can be, he gave the passengers of each ship the detonator to the explosives of the each others' ferries and offered both survival if they detonate the other ferry. If they didn't choose by midnight, the Joker would blow up both ships.

Batman discovered not only the Joker's location at an unfinished skyscraper but that the majority of his "gang" were actually hostages wearing clown-masks with unloaded guns taped to their hands and that the people dressed as hostages were the actual criminals. Batman was forced to fight not only the Joker's men but the SWAT teams as well to save the hostages. He finally confronts the Joker, which led to a fistfight between the two. Joker manages to get the upper-hand however and pins batman under the scaffolding. He gleefully waited as the ferry's deadline neared, and was visibly disappointed when both groups of passengers refused to kill the other to save themselves. The civilians voted to blow up the other ferry but could not bring themselves to actually do so, while one of the criminals stepped forward, took the detonator, and threw it out a porthole saying that the cops should have done that from the start. Before Joker could detonate both ferries, Batman shot his wrist-blades at him and threw Joker over the edge. But Batman caught him with his grapple gun and left him hanging for the police to capture.

"You truely are...incorruptible aren't you?"

- The Joker to Batman.

With this act, the Joker acknowledged that Batman really is incorruptible and revealed that Dent is no longer the "White Knight" of Gotham. Joker has unleashed Dent on the city, wreaking chaos and terror into Gordon's associates. Joker then stated that Dent was the "ace in the hole" in his ultimate plan to show the people of Gotham that everyone is corruptible, thus undoing Dent's work before his transformation. Batman left the Joker to dangle helplessly as he was approached by the SWAT team. As they approached him, he laughed maniacally, swaying on the line.

The Joker Blogs
Joker is played by Scott McClure, and is the protagonist-villain of The Joker Blogs.

Time in Arkham
At the start of "Therapy Begins", Joker is already imprisoned in Arkham Asylum after his arrest at the end of The Dark Knight. His doctor, Harleen Quinzel, who is responsible for his rehabilitation, starts her first therapy session with him in a videotaped interview, where the camera is pointed onto Joker while she herself remains seated across from him off-camera. Joker reveals that he likes being in Arkham and doesn't want to leave, although Harleen tries to get to the bottom of his problems. Harleen insists she can help him starting with him accepting the reason he is in the asylum in the first place, though Joker believes he simply got caught between enemy lines and taken out of the battlefield but that it's his duty to escape. Joker's interest is piqued when Harleen asks whether there is a method behind his madness, so he entertains her further line of questioning by giving his take on society's view of himself, in that they believe he did socially unacceptable things. Harleen then asks if he has a serious answer for why he is in the asylum, and Joker gives a knowing, penetrating stare into the camera and leans into the lenses as he states, "Because...I want to be here."

Therapy continues in "Arkham Bound", where Joker is trying on Harleen's glasses before returning them to her when she asks for them. For record purposes, Harleen states off-camera that Joker (as the patient) has agreed to continue the sessions and that his medication has been switched (to Depakote and Seroquel). Joker comments into the camera that had he known it would've been this easy to get free drugs, he would've gotten into the asylum a long time ago. He tells Harleen he has a friend (revealed to be another patient, Mac Rodello, also known as The Bookworm, as revealed in the episode "Staff Verification") who is going to put their videotape sessions on Youtube, but she doesn't take his claim seriously. Joker compliments her on her eyes being so beautiful he would love to pop them out and carry them around on a keychain. Harleen uncomfortably shifts the conversation to discussing how his one-month experience in Arkham has been so far. Joker provides details of his weekly activities, like exercising on Mondays, therapy with her on Tuesdays, pizza on Wednesdays, and his hangouts with Carmine Falcone on Thursdays. He does not like Fridays as those days he is bothered by Mr. Vernon Fields, who is the prosecutor attempting to prove he is faking insanity in order to get him sent away to Blackgate Prison. Joker stubbornly denies he is faking insanity, however, he has the belief insane people usually believe they are getting saner while it's the opposite for sane people. Harleen considers a sane person wouldn't do some of the things he did and the District Attorney's office thinks of him as the same as any criminal, as he stole money, lied to people, destroyed property, and murdered people. Joker counterargues he only burnt money, told little white lies, destroyed a hospital which he felt wasn't a necessity to society anyway, and that he's different from other criminals who murder because he kills for amusement rather than for revenge or professional reasons. When Harleen expresses skepticism that Fields and the other D.A.s will be persuaded, Joker asks if she has ever seen a dead body, particularly the kind where the spark of light in the person dies and all that is left is an inanimate object. As he pops one of his pills and crunches down on it, he jokes that if she sticks around him long enough, she'll see one eventually.

In "Meet Steve", Joker escapes his cell with the help of a security guard called Steve, and starts raiding the offices, while also videotaping himself as he sneaks into Doctor Harleen's empty office. He ends up in Doctor Jeremiah Arkham's office (the owner of Arkham Asylum) instead and realizes he is in the wrong office. Nonetheless, as seen in the Further Evidence video "He Can't Because He is Dead", he sticks around the office and accesses Jeremiah's computer, and looks up information on the internet which is where he finds information about Dr. Hugo Strange and discovers Metropolis businessman Lex Luthor is looking for property to own. Using Jeremiah's cellphone, Joker sends a text message to Mr. Fields, who is also a legal aid for Lex, under the pretense Jeremiah has reconsidered Lex's proposal and has a counteroffer to make. Steve arrives to return him to his cell just as Mr. Fields replies via text that he is on his way, to which Joker kills Steve with his own flashlight. On his way to meeting Mr. Fields, Joker drags Steve's body with him and leaves a voice message at Lex's headquarters to strike a deal with him, hoping to remain in the asylum if Lex is in control. These events are then followed by the continuation of events seen in "Meet Steve", where Joker dumps Steve’s corpse on Harleen’s office desk and leaves him as a gift for her.

At the next therapy session in "A Dream Come True", Joker is restrained in a straitjacket as a guard, Lyle Bolton, stands watch behind him. Harleen questions him on his reckless behavior last night when he killed Steve and expresses concerns that this will only further persuade Mr. Fields that he should be sent to Blackgate rather than stay at Arkham. She wants to know why he didn't try to escape the asylum after getting out of his cell, however, Joker only agrees to tell her if Lyle, who has been manhandling him for the duration of the session, leaves the room. After Lyle is gone, Joker proclaims he didn't leave because he wanted to help her. Harleen brushes him off, but Joker questions her motives for still attempting to "help" him; that perhaps she is partially intrigued while also wanting the fame and respect of her colleagues if she is able to cure him. He instead suggests because she let things get this far, that she too is responsible for Steve's death. Joker goes on to tell her about a dream he had about killing a bear at a zoo and, upon realizing the animal is actually a human in a bear costume, he skinned the person to use it as a rug. As Harleen furiously confronts him over his proclivity for playing games as both of their futures are now at stake, Lyle bursts in to report Mr. Fields' skinned body was found and Joker must be questioned as he is believed to be the culprit. Joker innocently remarks he was with Harleen the whole time, though he then uses his left hand to point at her, revealing he has been free from his straitjacket for some time now. He casually admits he sleepwalks but doesn't snore, a hint that he did indeed kill Mr. Fields, and bursts into a hysterical bout of laughter as Lyle and another guard haul him out of the room.

In "A Funny Valentine", Joker is seen doodling on paper with colored crayons before Jeremiah rushes in and confronts him about leaving him a wrapped Valentine's chocolate box in his office with an ominous note on it ("Have a Happy St. Valentine's Day Massacre"). Despite confirming with the Gotham City Police that there is nothing dangerous in the gift, Jeremiah asks him to stop breaking into his office and to return the photo of his wife. Joker agrees to find the photo for him, but then Harleen enters to berate Jeremiah for questioning Joker without her authorization. As Jeremiah explains to Harleen that he felt physically threatened by her patient, Joker listens to the doctors' squabbling and takes a bite of a crayon before opening the box. The doctors stop arguing to watch in fear of what is in the box, but Joker simply eats a chocolate and asks Harleen if she would be his Valentine. Harleen is unable to answer but is forced to step out after Jeremiah requests that they speak privately outside.

By the following episode titled "Hypnotized", Harleen has been removed as Joker's doctor, though Joker is not yet aware of this fact by the start of the videotape session. He notices the camera is too far away from him unlike how Harleen usually likes it and begins complaining about this when his new doctor, Hugo Strange, comes in to begin a hypnosis session with him to get to the bottom of his madness. This doesn't work, as Joker manipulates Hudo into beating him up after he makes goading (but false) remarks under the supposed hypnosis about being in Strange's home, where he had sexual relations with Strange's wife on their water bed.

Following this, Harleen has been reinstated as Joker's doctor by the start of "An Apple A Day", with the therapy session now taking place in the asylum cafeteria. Joker is seen wearing a WTJJ (What Would Jesus Do) t-shirt (which was altered so the word "Joker" is spelled out) and seated at a table with a tray of food. Jeremiah gives him a form to sign that states he won't take further action against Dr. Strange or the asylum. Harleen talks to Joker about the reason for the sudden leniency in their session, as it was all Jeremiah's idea to bend the rules to get on Joker's good side. Joker reveals he was hosed down and forced out of his makeup when he arrived in Arkham, but he found ways to obtain white and black paint before biting a guard's finger off to use as red paint, which is when he was allowed to keep makeup of his own. Harleen doesn't think it’s right, believing that patients will have difficulty giving up their obsessions in their own time if they are continually allowed access to them, as they will eventually hinder their basic human functions. Joker is repulsed upon seeing Scarecrow, the former Dr. Crane, sit down next to him. Harleen mocks Crane's terrible etiquette whenever he used to ask her out on dates, and Crane sneers at Harleen's current choice of a med student boyfriend. After Joker makes Crane leave, he learns from her that her boyfriend, who she is engaged to, is named Guy. He asks if she loves him, and when she hesitates in answering, he suggests that if she sees something she wants then she should take it by force. Joker then purposely drops his apple so while Harleen is busy picking it up, he does a magic trick with a fork by making it disappear into thin air.

In "Artistic Merit", Joker is working a painting of Harleen when she comes in. She sits for the portrait as they talk about art and the masks people wear to hide their true selves. Harleen announces she took his advice about taking what she wants, in that she and Guy have set up their wedding date. Joker seems upset at the news before playfully asking if he is invited and when is she going on her honeymoon. Harleen becomes uncomfortable with where the conversation is going and tries to end the discussion, though she tells him she won't always be his doctor as she and Guy have plans to move to Metropolis. Joker finishes his painting and prepares to show it to Harleen, but Harleen is called away when she is informed by one of the asylum nurses, Pearl, that Guy is waiting for her in her office. After she is gone, Joker unhappily snaps his paintbrush in half and uses his hands to smear the portrait.

Escaped
At the end of "BRB", Joker escapes Arkham Asylum with the help of Mark Rodello, who, up until this point, has been uploading Joker's therapy sessions to YouTube, though he shoots him dead on camera before leaving. During "Car Trouble", Joker has a camera set up in Jeremiah's car which captures Jeremiah's surprise when he notices the camera shortly before Joker pops up from the back seat to point a gun at him. He forces Jeremiah to deactivate his prisoner anklet tracker and makes him leave the car park against his will without signaling any guards who are searching for Joker in the asylum. As Jeremiah drives, Joker compares his car to an oyster that has a pearl inside. Banging is heard from the trunk which Joker silences by telling Pearl to shut up, to which a shocked Jeremiah realizes he has kidnapped and locked up his nurse, Pearl. Afterward in "Let Sleeping Dogs Lyle", Joker (with Jeremiah against his will) kidnaps Lyle from his home, who Joker hits with a bat. Subsequently in " Trick or Treat", Joker then takes Jeremiah back to his home to surprise Mrs. Arkham. In "Dinner with the Arkhams", he binds and gags Jeremiah alongside his wife with duct tape, before psychologically tormenting them on camera in order to persuade Jeremiah to do whatever he says to ensure his wife's safety. He then leaves a bomb with the wife which is set to go off at midnight, before taking Jeremiah away with him.

During "Road Trip", Joker forces Pearl to drive to the Narrows, and they take Lyle to a sewer where Joker locks him in (presumably with Killer Croc) and leaves him there. They then go to an apartment complex, and Joker handcuffs Jeremiah and Pearl to the car while he goes into the building with some supplies. In the next video, "Killing Kopski", Joker enters into an apartment before realizing he is in the wrong one. He uses the computer to type and print out a suicide note, and when the apartment's occupant returns, he surprises the man by knocking him out into the bathtub. The man is revealed to be Garrett Kopski, Guy's brother, who Joker ties up and forces into signing the note, all to ensure Joker himself can come to the wedding as Guy's Best Man. Joker then throws a camera (while still plugged into a socket) into the bathtub, electrocuting and killing Kopski.

In "Get Me To The Church On Time", Joker leaves the apartment and notices a homeless man watching nearby. Joker, after making Jeremiah accompany him in order to continue with the videotaping, menaces the man with his knife and asks if he wants to die. The man, Theodore, surprises Joker with the assertion he does and gives a brief explanation for the downward spiral his life has taken that has led to his suicidal ideations. Joker offers him a job to be his cameraman and videotape him during the night, which Theodore agrees to. Joker gets Pearl to drive them to a church where Harleen and Guy are getting married.

Although the camera is left with Theodore in the car, the footage of Joker inside the church is captured in "Shotgun Wedding" by Jack Ryder, who was in the midst of filming the wedding guests as well as the wedding ceremony when Joker arrives to shoot Guy in the stomach, killing him. The guests flee (except Harleen who is still in shock and Jack who continues videoing). While Joker approaches Harleen, the lights go out and Batman appears at the church. Joker and Jack flee into the basement, but the Batman kicks the basement door in and throws Joker up against a wall. Joker shows amusement at the turn of events, even going as far as to taunt Batman about how they belong together and should walk down the aisle, which Batman responds to by choking him and proposing that it was a mistake to let him live. Undeterred, Joker growls that he should kill him if he believes it will help but the only difference between the two of them is one bad day. Before Batman can react, he is shot unconscious, with the assailant revealed to be Harleen. Joker becomes angry at her for taking a shot at his arch-nemesis before shoving the barrel of the gun into his own mouth, daring her to fire it again. When Harleen does not, Joker openly suggests to her that she doesn't have anyone else besides him to hold onto and accuses her of not wanting to go through with the wedding or she wouldn't have gotten so close to him. He further insinuates she is to blame too, as she still went through with it even after he broke out of Arkham and that she might as well have shot Guy herself. Harleen shoots Joker in the arm in retaliation, and after stoically taking a seat next to him, she asks if he knows what they say about payback, and whispers at him, "It's a bitch, puddin'", before smacking him with the gun and leaving. Sometime during this, Batman disappears, and Joker steals the camera from Jack (it's unknown what he does with him as he is just seen about to attack Ryder before the camera stops recording).

In "Three Minutes to Midnight", the camera in Theodore's possession captures Joker as he flees the church with a bleeding arm and gets back into the car. Pearl, once again forced to drive, takes him and the still captive Jeremiah to a car park where she dissolves into sobbing hysterics. Joker attempts to quiet her by making up a horrifying story about bullies causing his cheek scars and then prepares to disfigure her, but suddenly, car lights from the Gotham City Police Department appear. Jeremiah escapes by running away, and Joker and Theodore escape from the police by firing at them. They steal a police car and drive around the city, and Joker captures Jeremiah again, whom they find running across a road. The police are all over Gotham, and Joker takes Jeremiah back to his street, where it is only mere minutes until the bomb he left with Jeremiah's wife is to explode. Joker handcuffs Jeremiah to a police car and forces him to sign the asylum over to Lex Luthor. However, Joker goes against his word and makes Jeremiah witness his house blow up with his wife still inside. An enraged Jeremiah attempts to attack Joker, who gets knocked out. Joker gives Theodore an envelope and the tape with the night's footage on it to post on the internet and lets him leave alive. Joker then sits next to an unconscious Jeremiah, and phones the police to tell them to come bring him home, before laughing maniacally to himself as he watches the fireworks caused by the explosion.

Arrested Again
As seen in the footage from "Two Cops, A Clown & A Police Department", Joker now in the custody of the Gotham City Police Department after making the phone call to get himself arrested. He is seated in the interrogation room as Detective Jim Corrigan tries to calm down an irate Harvey Bullock, who is angry at Joker for killing his partner. Although the two officers are not supposed to be visiting Joker, Corrigan presses him to tell them what he did when he escaped from the asylum. Joker innocently states he isn't allowed to say anything until his attorney arrives, but Corrigan scoffs at the idea anyone would represent him after he skinned Mr. Fields. They continue to question him about his crime spree, with Joker again refusing to tell them. Instead he purposely draws their attention in by comparing people in the world to three types; the kind who see the glass as half full, half empty, or they are paranoid about people drinking out of their glass. Corrigan asks what type he is, and Joker says he is the type to knock over the glass. Joker then tips over a cup of water, causing the officers to jump back, as he laughs in amusement and eats Bullock's donut before insisting that if they want to know what he did, they have to watch the videos.

After being sent back to Arkham, Joker is in a holding cell during "Home Sweet Home" when he is approached by Lex who is now the owner of Arkham Asylum. Joker reminds him that he helped him get the place and asks Lex if he is going to keep his end of the bargain. Lex replies yes, and a happy Joker shakes hands with Lex, stating, "Pleasure doing business with you, Lex".

Further Evidence
Joker appeared in the first segment of the Further Evidence series, "He Can't Because He is Dead", which expanded upon the events that occurred before "Meet Steve". This revealed how he murdered the security guard Steve before dumping him in Harleen's office, and also how he first got in contact with Lex Corp and made the deal with Lex Luthor by offering him Arkham Asylum.

In the last Further Evidence titled "Therapy Ends", Dr. Quinzel, now having taken the name Dr. Kopski, confronts the Joker for the first time in six months after the wedding incident in "Shotgun Wedding". He is badly bruised and the therapy sessions (which Harleen had not been attending) have become a time for the security guards to physically assault the Joker by beating him. Harleen finally states that there is no fixing the Joker, that she'll give the guards a raise for what they've done and he will be in maximum security for the rest of his life until he dies. The episode ends as the Joker tells the guards a "joke" about a rich man and a poor man (Lex Luthor and Jeremiah Arkham) and how no one listens to the poor man until he comes in with a gun. The guards don't find the joke very funny, to which Joker deadpans that not all jokes are. They commence with beating him, and the more pain they inflict on him, the harder Joker laughs because, unbeknownst to the guards, the "joke" is exactly what is about to happen at the asylum.

Trivia

 * Scott McClure also played the role of Thomas Elliot.
 * Joker appears to be based on other incarnations of the Jokers, not just Heath Ledger's, such as the animated series Joker.
 * Joker's inmate number at Arkham Asylum is 4479, which is a behind-the-scenes tribute to Heath Ledger's birthday (April 4, 1979).

Series 1

 * "Therapy Begins"
 * "Arkham Bound"
 * "Meet Steve"
 * "A Dream Come True"
 * "My Funny Valentine"
 * "Hypnotized"
 * "An Apple a Day"
 * "The Easter Charade"
 * "Artistic Merit"
 * "Died on the 4th of July"
 * "BRB"
 * "Two Cops, a Clown, & a Police Department"
 * "Car Trouble"
 * "Let Sleeping Dogs Lyle"
 * "Dinner with the Arkhams"
 * "Road Trip"
 * "Killing Kopski"
 * "Get Me to the Church on Time"
 * "Three Minutes to Midnight"
 * "Shotgun Wedding"
 * "Staff Verification"
 * "Home Sweet Home"

Further Evidence

 * "He Can't Because He's Dead"
 * "Therapy Ends"

Series 2

 * "Fall of the House of Arkham"
 * "Board Games"
 * "Near Death Experience"
 * "Technical Difficulties"
 * "Axes & Allies"