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Fool you once, shame on you, fool you twice, jokers trick … What made you what you are?
Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe?
Brother carved up by some mugger?
Something like that, I bet.
Something like that … Something like that happened to me, you know.
I … Im not exactly sure what it was.
Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another …
If Im going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!
So allow us to lay out the deck for you.
Because yeah,stufflikethisisnt disturbing atall.
Detective Comics #168,The Man Behind the Red Hood!
Among the series many cultural contributions is Cesar Romeros performance as a fun, over-the-top Joker.
into the plants chemical waste catch basin.
A pipe sweeps him outside, where he finds his appearance altered by the chemicals.
That transformation and the grief over his wifes death drive him to become the Joker.
altering his visage and driving him, well, batty.
Its all very Harry and Voldemort, entwining their two fates.
Those dark under-eye bags are all real, though.
I always wanted to join the circus, but my father wouldnt really let me.
Asked if hes lying, he says, Who knows?
Sonny-turned-Joker gets his revenge in adulthood, sicking hyenas on Guzzo to eat him alive.
Then again, this arc never explicitly ties Red Hood One to the Joker.
So what tips this over the edge into Probably Joker Origin Story territory?
Hes revealed to be hiding in the shadows in old newspaper photographs, and the like.
(Hi, Harley Quinn!)
Now, he just wants his arch-rival to acknowledge that what the two of them share is special.
If Jerome represented the Jokers anarchic side, Jeremiah was a calculating schemer.
