so who was the "original" joker in the end?
So who was the "original" joker in the end?
The Criminal. And there was criminally little of him in the book.
Jared Leto
The real jokers are the absolute dum dums who think cereal hack was ever good
the joker, the other ones weren't the joker.
EL RISAS
Stan Lee
It's intentionally ambiguous, and doesn't matter
TKJ Joker, obviously
It's left without a definitive answer. Either Criminal or Comedian. Although it won't be relevant unless someone reveals criminal actually survived that headshot.
so what was the point?
The ending doesn't even make sense. So Joker made the other two Jokers then betrayed them because he thought the plan to make more Jokers was stupid? What the fuck.
$$$
killing joke joker
the friends that we made along the way
Comedian was the original and real Joker. Bruce confirms it when he admits that he knew the Joker's name one week after they first met and the Killing Joke flashbacks just back it up. Everyone saying the Criminal just wants him to be it.
Maybe the real joker was the friends we made along the way.
I mean, Batman and Joker are best buddies, soo
source?
alfred
Geoff Johns
none of this mattered in the end....
Batman: The Adventures Continue
That Superman was right. Joker is not special, he's not an embodiment of chaos or the supreme antagonist of everything that is pure. He's just a mentally ill idiot that would die if he was part of the rogue gallery of anyone who wasn't batman.
El Bromas
That scene just means he knew who the only Joker around by that point was. I don't think it means much regarding the others one way or another since they aren't even mentioned in that scene and are dead by that point.
Note that previously the other Jokers had even called Comedian "a failed comedian", so it's not like they were claiming/believing they had his backstory.
Batman outright says the Criminal is the one he encountered fist. The other Jokers came later.
Thats an easter egg... each Joker is taking from a particular Batman run:
The original in the 30’s.
The Killing Joke
Snyder’s run.
The ending states Killing Joke is legitimately the origin of the Joker.
The wife is alive and so is the kid.
Batman figured who the Joker was a week after he appeared.
This is literally the ending.
The real original joker was the friends we made along the way
Oh fuck I forgot about that shit. Spot on user.