the Joker

The Joker is the insane arch-nemesis of Batman, who he became obsessed with after they met at Blackgate Penitentiary. Their rivalry culminated in the Joker leading a mass take-over of Arkham Asylum with the help of a formula called TITAN, which allowed the Joker to turn men into nine-foot tall monsters. Batman defeated all of the Joker’s minions and allies, leaving the clown with no choice but to take the serum and fight Batman himself. While it briefly enhanced his strength, the formula caused a severe withdrawal that put Joker on death’s door almost as soon he was moved to the asylum’s replacement, Arkham City. While his gang quickly took over a third of Arkham City’s territory, the Joker’s TITAN withdrawal made him so desperate that he risked a scheme that would end his rivalry with Batman forever.

Gadgets & Equipment

• Wears a dainty flower on his lapel that can shoot out acid or poisonous gas. (source) (City)
• Melts a waitress’s face with acid, seeming to kill her. (source) (Unhinged #8)
• Fires a long stream of acid that melts through steel. (source) (Assault)
• Shoots a cloud of gas that can silently kill an Arkham guard. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Melts through a man’s eye and sends him tumbling over a railing in pain. (source) (Unhinged #20)
• Has a handful of marble-sized bombs in his jacket strong enough to tear apart some metal appliances. (source) (Assault)
• Hides two knives in his sleeves sharp enough to pierce Deadshot’s body armor. (source) (Assault)
• Has a pair of remote-controlled wind-up dentures that can explode with enough force to kill prison guards and collapse weak walls far away from the Joker. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Has a pair of spectacles that let him see people through walls using X-rays. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Has a high-voltage joybuzzer capable of knocking out prison guards with one shock. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Has a dart-gun capable of piercing Batman’s chest armor. (source)
• Uses the dart-gun to administer the TITAN serum and transform a target within seconds. (source) (Asylum)
• Uses a toy gun loaded with a flag and five rounds. (source) (Knight)
• Uses his pistol as a blunt weapon. (source) (Origins)

Strength

• Incapacitates Black Mask in three punches. (source) (Origins)
• Kicks Electrocutioner’s swivel chair hard enough to break through a window. (source) (Origins)
• Knocks out two of Jason’s teeth and breaks his ankle with two swings of a crowbar. (source) (Knight)
• Bends metal plates without exerting himself. (source) (Assault)
• Snaps a prison guard’s neck. (source) (Assault)
• Uses a hooked chain to throw a leaping Deadshot through a sheet of glass. (source) (Assault)
• Launches Deadshot several feet into the air with a single punch. (source) (Assault)
• Chokes a guard to death in a few seconds. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Knocks a prison guard out with a single kick to the butt. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Knocks a prison guard onto his knees with a headbutt. (source) (Asylum)
• Chokes a prison guard to death in a few seconds. (source) (Asylum)
• Knocks out a doctor with a kick to the chest. (source) (Asylum)
• Restrains a prison guard before tossing him into some electrified water. (source) (Asylum)
• Kicks Batman onto his back. (source) (Asylum)
• Kicks a wheelchair with a 210-pound man strapped to it flying through a window. (source) (City)
• Drives a knife through Batman’s armor while terminally ill. (source) (City)

Durability

• Jumps right back into a fight after being tackled through a glass table. (source) (Origins)
• Remains conscious after getting slammed into and thrown across a table. (source) (Origins)
• Laughs off getting blasted off a roof by a missile. (source) (Origins)
• Gets right back up after falling through pane of glass, banging into giant Christmas ornaments, and finally landing hard onto the ground several stories down. (source) (Origins)
• Remains fully conscious after getting punched in the face by Batman. (source) (Origins)
• Gets up after getting kicked across a chapel. (source) (Origins)
• Gets back up after being thrown across a chapel into a stained glass window. (source) (Origins)
• Laughs off a brutal 60-punch beatdown from Batman. (source) (Origins)
• Batman can knock out a thug in full body armor with a 23-punch beatdown. (source) (Scaling, Origins)
• Gets punched and slammed into the ground by Batman and begs for more. (source) (Origins)
• Instantly aims and fires at Deadshot after suffering a series of blows ending with him being lifted over Deadshot’s head and slammed into a metal floor. (source) (Assault)
• Stays on his feet after a flying punch from Batman. (source) (Assault)
• A few moments after being thrown right through the cockpit window of a crashing helicopter, does a flying drop-kick and lands on his feet. (source) (Assault)
• Keeps fighting without a sign of disorientation after being repeatedly punched in the face and slammed into the ground by Deadshot. (source) (Assault)
• Still gets up after being tackled into a pillar, punched in the nose three times, and thrown across a large room into a hard metal wall. (source) (Assault)
• Survives being inside an exploding helicopter crash. (source) (Assault)
• Shakes off a punch to the face from Batman and goes right back to making jokes. (source) (Asylum)
• Digs out a prisoner’s eye with nothing but a spoon. (source) (City)
• Gets back up after being thrown by an explosion. (source) (City #2)
• Overpowers Jason Todd moments after getting pummeled by him. (source) (Genesis #6)

Speed

• Raises his gun faster than Batman can land a punch. (source) (Origins)
• Disarms and restrains Officer Gordon while knocking aside a prison warden before either can react. (source) (Origins)
• Lands a punch on Batman. (source) (Origins)
• Dodges Batgirl’s fist and kicks her in the stomach. (source) (Gameplay, Knight DLC)
• Dodges Robin’s staff and kicks him in the stomach. (source) (Gameplay, Knight DLC)
• Dodges a batarang. (source) (Assault)
• Manages to evade Deadshot’s wrist-mounted cannons at close-range. (source) (Assault)

Marksmanship

• Shoots Black Mask’s body double before he can react. (source) (Origins)
• Uses Black Mask’s hands to shoot a woman writhing a couple feet off the ground. (source) (Origins)
• Kills two of his minions with body-shots before they or Batman can retaliate. (source) (Origins)
• Simultaneously fires two darts from his mouth into the necks of two prison guards, killing them instantly. (source) (Blackgate)
• Rapidly turns around and shoots Jason Todd in a way that looks fatal, though the shots were only flesh wounds. (source) (Genesis #3)
• This moment is depicted in a video recording. (source) (VR)
• This moment is depicted in a hallucination. (source) (Knight)
• Hits a cable car terminal from hundreds of feet away with an RPG. (source) (Knight DLC)
• Shoots Barbara Gordon in the spine as she runs away. (source) (Knight)
• Batman’s hallucination of the Joker claims he was really aiming for Barbara’s head. (source) (Knight)
• Shoots a batarang out of the air. (source) (Assault)
• Nails a free-falling Batman in the hip and shoulder at night-time. (source) (Assault)
• Fatally shoots Talia al-Ghul from across a movie theater. (source) (City)

Stealth

• Sneaks up on a guard alerted to someone’s presence and snaps his neck before he can scream. (source) (Assault)
• Pulls the pin on a prison guard’s tear gas canister without him noticing. (source) (Assault)
• Sneaks aboard a small helicopter and behind Deadshot without being noticed. (source) (Assault)
• Gets the jump on Deadshot. (source) (Assault)
• Remains unnoticed by Talia al-Ghul before shooting her. (source) (City)
• Sneaks up behind Batman and stabs him in the back. (source) (City)

Other

• Modifies riot gas to brainwash or kill those subjected to it. (source) (Blackgate)
• Notices Deadshot sneaking around above him without being noticed himself. (source) (Assault)

TITAN Strength

• Lifts Batman with one hand without exerting himself and tosses him off a roof. (source) (Asylum)
• Kicks Batman in the head hard enough to send him sliding back a couple of feet. (source) (Asylum)
• Tosses Batman across a rooftop like a ragdoll. (source) (Asylum)
• Leaps twice his height into the air and onto a higher platform. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Throws gift-wrapped bombs so far into the air that it takes five to six seconds for them to fall back down. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)

TITAN Durability

• Gets up after getting pulled off a roof and slamming into a floor about ten feet below him. (source) (Gameplay, Asylum)
• Falls a dozen or so feet from a roof into a ramshackle floor and gets electrocuted for several seconds without incapacitating him. (source) (Asylum)
• After a long battle, is only knocked unconscious by having explosive gel detonated right in front of his face. (source) (Asylum)
• Explosive gel is able to destroy thick stone floors stable enough to support the weight of Killer Croc. (source) (Scaling, Asylum)