Batman arkham city Joker Tapes

[@GT-wj3gl]

Imagine going to medical school for 8 years only to get killed by the Joker

[@donutsdulce]

Though times to be a psychiatrist in Gotham... Better to be working in the funeral home, with the Joker around, you're sure to have a lot of job...

[@EvilPhoenix007]

@@donutsdulce In Gotham I'm pretty sure the funeral homes pay handsomely due to the amount of bodies Joker has killed

[@MrFuggleGuggle]

See, Joker would see that as funny - though. Someone working hard, sacrificing their youth and paying a ton of money for their education, trying to help or make a difference...only to be killed randomly by some maniac for no good reason. To him, that's hilarious.

[@TheEmpiresStrongest]

You know what’s funny how Hugo Strange interviews these criminals with the exception of Catwoman and Bruce Wayne better than the psychiatrists at Arkham Asylum did.

[@TheSupergg124]

worth

[@buffalobill4892]

Luke Skywalker and Count Dooku having a nice little chat. My life is complete.

[@billyjoyce6849]

buffalobill4892 lmao

[@player2-lightwater914]

@@billyjoyce6849 its true. Corey Burton voiced Count Dooku in the Clone Wars cartoon (2003 & 2008) and Hugo Strange in this game

[@billyjoyce6849]

Player 2-LightWater Yes I know 😎

[@ryuuotaku35]

buffalobill4892 I didn’t realize it.

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Holy shits thats Dookus va voicing strange? Never noticed

[@14mespider9]

Joker: "Have you ever tried to walk with an enormous fishbowl on your head?" Mysterio: "I--" Joker: "Don't answer that." Mysterio: :'(

[@Zapinato1912]

Mysterio: "Well, have YOU ever hypnotized one superhero into slaying each and every one of his teammates, leaving him a broken, traumatized mess who never dared fight the good fight again?" Joker: "Prrrrrobably? I've done so much, I can barely keep track of my various atrocities."

[@kyleshea384]

Joker: "I did once trick Superman into killing his pregnant wife causing his city to blow up, though. Causing him to become a dictator who took over the Earth where he proceeds to kill anyone that opposes him. Does that count?"

[@jw7122]

Chilliwack Hi

[@square_kirby7852]

@@kyleshea384 I laughed harder at that than i should have.

[@TerminatorGundam300]

​​​​@@kyleshea384 Joker: "And then there was the time I killed a family in an alley as Batman watched, which got him to kill me, then my corpse infected him turning him into me. And as me he killed all his sidekicks, his super buddies, and everyone else in world while wearing my smile and laughing. Does that also count?"

[@Kinos141]

Loved how Joker broke Strange, how he was able to not reveal a damn thing about himself and got what he wanted. That is the truest of maniacs

[@raultorres836]

Kinos141 when heard that was like “waht! Cant belive it the clown finally say’s truth omg”

[@CoolNinja925]

Wasn't it the other way around? Strange broke Joker into revealing his actual origin story. This is all true in Arkham Origins and The Killing Joke.

[@etanb1]

@@CoolNinja925 But was it really the truth?

[@Samuel152]

@@CoolNinja925 Strange said that the Joker fabricates the truth, which means he most likely didn't believe that the Joker was telling the truth.

[@supersaiyangodvegtio9590]

@@CoolNinja925 nah we as fans wants the killing joke to b his orgin story Buh we all k his story is a mystery. If he had an actual origin story it wouldn b how it is now a mystery basically, sum things r best tucked away💯🃏

[@jonnanwest329]

It just amazes me how well Mark Hamill does the Joker. Despite all the other good actors that have done that character his is the definitive voice for me.

[@rcldragon]

I think both Richard Epcar (MK vs DC Universe, Injustice: Gods Among Us) and Troy Baker (Arkham Origins) did admirable voices for the role of the Joker. Mark Hamill has done an excellent job for the Joker's voice but he has retired that role. Besides, having other voice actors may not be so bad once you get used to it.

[@MrPjw5]

rcldragon Interesting, considering that both the actors you cited were essentially ripping off Mark Hamill's voice...

[@jonnanwest329]

Well, to be fair, Mark Hamill's owes quite a bit to Caesar Romero's 1960's Joker. Just a *tad* harder psychotic edge to the 'Happy Crazy' there, and you get the 'Oh sh-t - he's f---'n *nuts* Mark Hamill voice. Or so it seems to me.

[@TheHalloweenSpirit]

Still the best Joker voice actor 🃏

[@johnstjohn1987]

"That was the third doctor you killed" "Keep on sending them, I'm trying to break my record." Lmao Joker is such a boss.

[@that-genz.gentleman]

Well that’s how the Fourth doctor came in to doctor who.

[@darthraver]

@@that-genz.gentleman and now 14

[@georgelumsden4484]

Its so dark that hugo is literally sending people to die in order to be fed a story he already knows is not real. I love this game so much

[@nassapa]

@@georgelumsden4484 At what point do the doctors say catch onto what's happening and say "you want me to treat who? Yeah no fuck that"?

[@lostinthestorywithjeremymi9385]

What's wrong with you?

[@taliawtf6944]

Anyone else notice how when Strange interviews all the other inmates he is in control of the conversation and the situation until he speaks with the Joker and it all flips. The Joker dictates the tone, the direction and flow of the conversation like he is the one with all the power in the room. That's a nice touch to show the Joker was no normal lunatic killer and some thing much more worthy of fear.

[@pcmld2267]

^^^ This. The only other example of Strange being dictated by a main villain is the Riddler, but he eventually conceded control. Joker’s leverage only strengthened.

[@Tywil714]

Say what you want about strange , but you gotta admit he was an effective psychiatrist. He gotten more progress than any of the cters in arkham asylum could ever do. Arkham ayslum needed more doctors like him. What made Strange effective in treating dangerous patients like the ones in Batmans Rouges Gallery is because he wasn't afraid to use coercion. He made it clear to them that he was in control. That he wasnt afraid to kill or hurt them or someone they cared about if they threatened him. Tryng to take control. Compared to arkham ayslum docters. Who were all a bunch of fresh out of grad school novices who never dealt with the level of insanity that batman rouges had. In arkham asylum dialogue recordings, you can tell the doctors were scared or let the patient gain control, and the session didn't get anywhere. Because those people are used to threatening people and being in control. But strange was different he knows how to deal with people like that. Makes you wonder if bruce tried to at least talk to one of them, sonce, they all have a personal vendetta against him they wouldnt be who they are

[@jerdnastark1399]

I will never get bored of that. Somebody seemingly always being in control until the Joker comes in and it all flips. I don't think we see a lot of that outside of comics. Like, the only case that comes to mind is Heath Ledger.

[@simon-peterwilliamson2412]

Everybody else was being threatened and outwitted by Hugo while the joker just trolls him

[@evasmiljanic3529]

This. He's the only one that doesn't lose to him and can handle him. You can't lose a game if you burn the rulebook and play it your own way.

[@Tywil714]

@Eva Smiljanić the funiest thing is that Hugo isnt even mad. He finds mildly amusing

[@antman1001000]

Funny thing i believe that Joker was for once was telling the truth and that was the ultimate joke. He was giving Hugo the truth he desired and knew that Strange wouldn't believe it that the one thing he was obsessed with about Joker was right there in front of him yet willfully ignored it making it all the more hilarious.

[@LeftytheGansterGremlin]

Dude, nice catch. But I like to think of Joker's backstory to be unknown, personally.

[@EmporerAaron]

Well that story about the ace chemicals plant has been at the center of Joker for as long as I remember.

[@jaredgarcia8638]

@@LeftytheGansterGremlin with the exception of The Killing Joke. Which these recordings are. Retellings of The Killing Joke

[@LeftytheGansterGremlin]

@@jaredgarcia8638 And you know what? That's fair. Joker is a character that stands the test of time. We all desperately want to know what made him what he is, but to him, that's the joke. We're all so obsessed with his backstory, that it really doesn't matter in the present.

[@jaredgarcia8638]

@@LeftytheGansterGremlin exactly.

[@JokerFlickan]

Im just happy to hear mark hamill tell the story that was in the killing joke..

[@jaredgarcia8638]

I think we can take this over the movie, right?

[@georgelumsden4484]

@@jaredgarcia8638 absolutly

[@jaredgarcia8638]

@@georgelumsden4484 oh good. Glad we're on the same page.

[@Jedi-ge6lr]

The same, but different. From what I can tell, every time the version of Jokers backstory from The Killing Joke is told, there are things different about it.

[@MegaFafnir]

"And you are?" "Two-Face... Catwoman... heheheheheeeeeeeehBATMAN!"

[@clan_boyd]

We can play these games as long as you like.

[@asafakiva1619]

Great! I love games

[@mightyz4439]

Asaf Akiva Not in my facility you won’t!

[@xanderm6090]

@@mightyz4439 I am offering you this opportunity to make a deal. I am fully aware of your... condition. The last thing you have is time.

[@jarodM6]

And in return I'd be giving you?

[@evilmerv4645]

"It was your fault." "COME AGAIN?!" hilarious

[@batch_2731]

Me: Comes again. Joker: Blends in with my face a little doesn't it? 😂

[@paperchasindude6578]

😂😂

[@greaterhalo0659]

Typical narcissist banter

[@Babamarcus2632]

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@halohowlett8382]

Brilliant, brilliant voice acting. Some people's misconceptions about Mark Hamill's Joker is that he doesn't quite delve into the darker side of the character, leaning more towards his comedic side. But this is a beautiful representation of the perfect Joker, he's incredibly funny at times, and then with a flip of a switch he'll say something absolutely dark and maniacal. It makes it even colder that you can only depend on the actor's voices to paint a picture. Incredible writing and execution by Hamill, this team absolutely gets the character.

[@paperchasindude6578]

FACTS

[@OneFromEasternFinland]

Ah, the Mark Hamill's Joker... There's something you just can't imitate...

[@FC-ts6fx]

COME AGAIN?😂😂

[@Redfly214]

mark Hamill can't even imitate his own laughs... every chuckle is different from the next

[@jestercrowgames3636]

@@Redfly214 That's what makes it so interesting

[@DragonBallzMoviesHD]

Daniel j. Milburn troy baker is shit compare to prime mark hamill. Mark Hamill got the sadistic laugh out of all

[@GhoulOfTheSouth]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHWUkquZnKhmhpo Exactly

[@ethanmathoo2117]

I think the best interpretation of the Joker was the Arkhamverse Joker. It has Mark Hamil as voice, he's completely evil (unlike the animated series Joker) He's hilarious, and he is exactly what the Joker should look like.

[@JockyCGE]

Minus the titan disease look.

[@athifarif9724]

@MrWesdotcom arkhamverse joker tortured jason Todd for 1 year

[@athifarif9724]

@MrWesdotcom arkham joker tortured someone for a year

[@athifarif9724]

@MrWesdotcom yeah, I know that's evil, but arkham games joker physically and mentally tortured him, physically with the crowbar and branding iron and mentally with telling him batman's not going to save him and showing him the picture of the new Robin

[@athifarif9724]

@MrWesdotcom oh, okay but I like arkham joker better

[@adventurekitty1016]

I can actually picture Hugo and Joker in a room together. Hugo just blankly starring at Joker as Joker is all animated and waving his arms around as he told his story. That's how good the voice acting is.

[@LearnManGo]

I like how Joker was the only person that Strange interviewed that got the upper hand on him. Riddler came close, but Joker won

[@jonathanbarr9764]

I kind of wonder what it would have been like if there had been a conversation between him and Scarecrow. Two geniuses in their respective fields going head to head unwilling to admit that they both lost it a long time ago. And for an added plot twist imagine if during the final interview Hugo mentions knowing Batman's true identity and Scarecrow just goes "who Bruce Wayne, all due respect professor I'm not trying to break Bruce Wayne I'm trying to break Batman". I stole that last bit from something I read on a tumblr post a couple of years ago.

[@JamesDaffyBenderDonald]

I bet even Velma Dinkley couldn't solve the mystery that is Joker.

[@Xehanort10]

+Antonio Huerta "Jinkies."

[@drunkenrampage1588]

Antonio Huerta Joker would probably steal her glasses.

[@jokerzx28]

DrunkenRampage or maybe make her swallow them.

[@deadshot145]

@@drunkenrampage1588 and replace them with.....something. (Its 2 chartering teeth stuck together.)

[@theleonpasta7336]

​@@drunkenrampage1588lmao, I love the idea that the Joker would turn into a normal prank-pulling clown when around the Mystery Gang instead of being the cold blooded murder he usually is

[@MrAwesomeMatty]

I love how out of all the bad guys in this game, the one Huge Strange could not and will not conquer is the Joker.

[@Xavier28200]

@bruhmanofyear2 Scarecrow wasn't in the game

[@Bryan-dr5qy]

All these tapes make me appreciate the rouges gallery and how each of them is unique.

[@kylanwelch5121]

"You promised me another doctor, strange. Doctor strange, subtle XD

[@TheIanverse]

In your 100th like

[@RustySpoonsfeelGood]

I love how the Joker is actually genuinely funny.

[@monkeyman767]

I like that they used one of the many origins of the Joker here. I actually think he might have been telling the truth just to fuck with Strange

[@williammcghie3443]

The scariest part of this is the fact he was telling the truth specifically because he knew Strange had already been researching him for quite some time. Joker knew Strange wouldn't believe him after hearing 12 different origin stories, so he took advantage of that to REALLY tell someone how he became who he was, before he succumbs to his illness. Joker's intelligence is unparalleled. I also really like how Joker was truly offended by Strange saying it was his fault, until he understood he was referring to how he thinks he's lying, not how his wife's death or his own disfigurement is a result of his actions.

[@sebastianleyva8925]

Exactly, cause this is literally The Killing Joke origin story of himself that he’s telling. And people who read comic books is going to know joker is telling the truth the entire time.

[@jaynatrall]

thats pretty awesome he references the killing joke story

[@raginggamer5504]

"I have good days and bad days, but I do try to start each one with a smile"

[@leroyjenkins2830]

Hugo really went through a hospital’s worth of doctors just to hear joker tell lies

[@Samuel152]

Eight doctors, and one of them was an intern. Though, some of them were the medical team in Arkham City.

[@MegaFafnir]

"Have you ever tried to walk with an enormous FISHBOWL on your head? Don't answer that." I can picture him saying that to Mysterio from Marvel Comics XD

[@AAC1990]

"Why'd you do it?" "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly" LMAO

[@MrMisterman1]

I think this time he was telling the truth about his origin, to me the killing joke origin story was the real one, it made sense

[@Autobotmatt428]

MrMisterman1 We sometimes he remembers it one way some times another way. If he’s going to have a past it might as well be multiple choice

[@anthonytilleman3576]

@@Autobotmatt428 Joker the best Gaslighter ever

[@SydifyUrself]

I love how in Arkham Asylum, Dr. Young didn't buy a word of his bull crap yet Hugo Strange falls for it.

[@TheAwesome45]

Young was clinical and wanted to help. Hugo Strange is neither in his approach.

[@mat7083]

Besides the story, she did believe that she was making progress treating the clown

[@ihateflys783]

But he didn't in the last tape he says what joker is saying is bullcrap

[@slippingmaggots]

Fr as soon as he started a story she said "I don't believe you", knowing Joker is most likely lying to her for fun

[@welchdisney9453]

Fun Fact:The plant he worked in was Ace Chemicals.

[@belethkain6258]

+Welch Disney94 Kind of commom knowledge to Batman fans

[@TheAwesome45]

Yeah to a Batman fan that’s like saying Tim Drake is the Third Robin.

[@shadow-wolfgaming1737]

What else is new?

[@nightfly016]

Mark Hamill, ladies and gentlemen. So good. Whenever I read one of the comics, my brain uses Hamill as the Joker... and Kevin Conroy as Batman. Definitive work. The game developers did a great job getting voice actors who came up to their level.

[@austinboylan5476]

The ultimate irony that Batman is indirectly responsible for the creation of his greatest enemy....

[@Xehanort10]

Some versions of Joker were evil even before he fell into the chemicals that gave him his white skin and green hair and in most of the origins him falling into the chemicals is an accident anyway so it's not Batman's fault.

[@roiking2740]

Xehanort10 i think the joker origin was never sposed to be explained. tough if he had a origin i would personliy keeped it away from batman. the joker could have been made much more complax if the the reason he keep tring to kill batman gone beyond hating him

[@khetanisultan94]

There is only one way Batman can end his greatest enemy of all time: kill him!!

[@SkywalkerBatPrime]

+khetanisultan94 The problem with that: Escalation. Batman kills Joker, desperate villains band together in a power vacuum. Assemble wealth, finance a mercenary army. Invade Gotham. Arkham Knight. Not an alternate reality, a stable time loop. Armageddon.

[@EmporerAaron]

Yeah, even accidentally it would be the greatest irony in the Batman series to me. It would make both him and Terry responsible for their greatest foe, their arch nemesis, a opponent that was the opposite of everything they were.Batman is predictable, hes good, he will never kill and has a reason for anything he does. Joker is evil, unpredictable in nature, would just do something like murder just for a laugh or just because he felt like it. Its a good story.

[@KingDiamondHead]

I always felt like The Joker was from another world or something. He's just so inhuman.

[@geovanyerazo2501]

I think that's another version of Joker

[@hawksfan8870]

2:28 “Well, I guess you could say I once had a very bad day.” Killing Joke reference

[@kyletev111]

Technically, the Joker has no confirmed origin, but that is the one that is the most believed.

[@tareklegrand7747]

Maybe the Red hood story happened but it wasn't his maybe the man under the red hood was just a random guy that died that day falling to the chemicals and joker found about that story in the newspaper and made it his. Maybe Joker doesn't have any origin story or maybe he has but it's so anti climatic he prefers to keep it a mystery

[@PsychicWars]

Amazing how Hamill can tell the story so well here and whiff so hard when he actually voices The Killing Joke.

[@CBright7831]

The Joker is the only one who one upped ol' Hugo! Nice! God, I want Hamill for an animated adaption of The Killing Joke. C'mon, Mark! One more time!

[@cayden12]

Mark Hamill has said he probably won't return as joker since Kevin Conroy died. What absolute legends.

[@rcldragon]

To me, the Joker's origin is of no importance. Whoever the Joker was died the moment he became the Joker. The man's mind is now chaos and evil incarnate, a curious mix of humor, cunning, randomness and murder. One of his few cohesive goals is to cause as much suffering, insanity and death as possible to prove that happiness and life are all a pointless façade - a joke if you will. Another goal is to test his wits against and defeat the only constant in his otherwise directionless life - Batman.

[@KalebKing88]

You're right about the Joker. However, Batman would never cross the line to where he would kill someone, especially The Joker, because he believes that it will consume him, and he'll become the very thing he fights against. A criminal with a gun.

[@slendermurph]

Kaleb King he has killed the joker most of the time not on purpose

[@KalebKing88]

slendermurph He did kill the Joker in the Tim Burton Batman film, the Vampire Batman storyline, and he killed one of the three Jokers in the New 52 storyline.

[@slendermurph]

Kaleb King thats not really the comic book batman Thats tim burton ruining a charecter

[@KalebKing88]

slendermurph Movies and comic books are separate genres. I forgot that Batman in the comics has killed criminals since his first debut in 1939, but not maliciously.

[@FabledHeroes3351]

The scariest thing about Joker 🃏 right here was that he was actually telling the truth (which makes a lot of sense given that he was about to die anyway so why hold on to a farce)

[@sevenn1ghts]

Facts

[@tareklegrand7747]

Maybe his true origin story is so embarrassing and anti climatic he prefers telling this one. He didn't want to be remembered as a joke before dying.

[@Khjaden97]

I can only imagine how much fun Mark Hamill had recording these

[@wyoboy01]

I've always wondered. Was Joker's reference to having a piece of someone's face in his pocket a nod to Mask of the Phantasm when he pulls off that piece of the robot's face and puts it in his pocket?

[@alliasstar7289]

Damn! Joker really got him at the end. It's no wonder the steel-meel was his first target on protocol 10. It's because besides Batman, Joker is the only one whose ever outsmarted him. Imagine how much that vexes an narcissist like Strange.

[@based_misogynist1424]

when did batman outsmart him?

[@tomastapia5241]

So this officially makes The Killing Joke the cannon origin for the Arkhamverse Joker?

[@derekpayneszubliminals7723]

Canon and confirmed.

[@bobREALOG]

Sorta, during city this is just another joker tall tale but in origins it was cannonised

[@DRAG0Nl]

Her infectious smile as I told her bad joke after bad joke, how even after living with the pathetic wretch I was, she still wanted my child... The feels...

[@mellovesthebiebs5874]

“20 minutes and a can opener” killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PoeDameron15]

"And then they arrived. Hah! Reality's way of yanking me another wedgie." XD

[@slycat128]

"You promised me another Doctor, Strange" Well, another one's on the way

[@TheJoker-gw3ex]

Hugo! You promised not to put these on the internet!

[@daraghmolloy3638]

Huge fan of your work J

[@jaydolphus6444]

I’ve played the Arkham games for years and I’m just now listening to the tapes 4:20 shows me just how dark the Arkham universe really is and that the entire arkham series could easily be rated m

[@ShadowDemon_4]

You really have no idea. I haven't played the games in years and yet I'm still finding out about secrets and Easter eggs in all the Batman Arkham series of games. Some are just cool little details, but others are dark and disturbing and most likely the only reason the games weren't given harder ratings was because no one had actually found them before sending it out.

[@BonBon-od9zm]

I feel bad for all doctors who were sent to The Joker.

[@aderose]

Man Even Hugo has no Patience with The Joker...

[@vincentvorse]

I love how in all the other videos Hugo Strange has a clear upper hand on the other villains and he eventually wraps them around his finger in the end. But the Joker is the one turns the tables on him. Hugo want so desperately to study him that he actually gives into the Joker's demands and keeps sending him doctors knowing full well he's just going to kill them

[@unscripted3575]

I thought Joker's past was so cluttered, he couldn't remember it.

[@MinePurpose]

Maybe that's the case, maybe not. But that's intentional vagueness.

[@unscripted3575]

Derek Steiner lol

[@m3tr0id86]

***** That reference about the multiple pasts was from "Killing Joke" "Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another. If I'm going to have a past I prefer it to be multiple choice. Hahahahaha!"

[@unscripted3575]

m3tr0id86 yeah, I realized that at the last message. he said he has multiple pasts to keep it interesting. But isn't that weird? That Joker doesn't even remember Joker's past? I never read "The Killing Joke" but I have heard parts of it before. Wish I actually had it though...

[@m3tr0id86]

***** Yeah, I know what you mean and actually Batman Arkham Origins has quite a few "Killing Joke" references like at the hotel part to when Harley does the psyche eval on Joker.

[@stsars13]

It was all from the Killing Joke comic. Awesome little put in from Rocksteady.

[@thedudepresents3225]

Mark Hamill is just so good as Joker

[@MrRae7231]

I can’t imagine anyone else as the joker but Mark Hammill

[@chuggaaconroyII]

you know...the more you think about...the more you feel sorry for him

[@timrob12]

Mark Hamill is awesome.

[@christianchappell4193]

Joker is one of mt my favorite batman villians and he has very good social skills

[@TheOrangex88]

Just watched Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, here just to get me some more Joker

[@SyBabyProductions]

I love Mark Hamill's Joker. His performance captures the character so perfectly that it really makes me happy to know that someone as evil as Joker doesn't exist in real-life.

[@AROBASPARK]

Joker had so many friendly doctors.

[@oreotink3979]

I like how in every single interview with Hugo Strange, he is in charge, in control but with Joker he is the one in control because he doesn't care about anything and is the one holding the cards whilst Hugo Strange has got nothing. Joker knows that Hugo will keep sending doctors and will use that to tell fake stories

[@TotalTech2.]

Everyone praises Mark Hamil for his performance as Joker, but Hugo's actor deserves just as much credit. Look at 9:35. Hugo is proud about destroying Sharp in the same way Joker is proud about killing the doctors. Hugo is just like the Joker, they are both complete sociopaths who enjoy hurting people. The only difference is the Joker uses a knife whereas Hugo uses words.. In fact in some ways he's even worse than the Joker because with the Joker you pretty much know what you are getting but with Hugo he seems so normal. Respectable even. It isn't until you really study him that you realize what a monster he truly is

[@hawksfan8870]

Joker’s personality is so funny and cool man! Especially when he’s talking to normal people.

[@christianvaldes1427]

I like how they put movie references throughout the WHOLE game. The church bell tower blowing up was from the 1989 Batman. Joker takes vicki vale up there and disenegrates the bolts of it and messes up the staircase. In the same movie batman stops This guy name jack that works at the axis chemicals (the name the movie gave it) He fell in the chemical turning into the Joker. I really love how they put a lot of references in the game.

[@illuminatidad]

The joker lied so many times about his origin, that when he finally does say the truth strange doesn't believe him.

[@dylanreynolds7343]

Here's what I think happened. The Joker was always a psychopath, he just kept it very well hidden. Now I believe as a child he had an abusive father. And I believe he had a wife and she was having a child. After dealing with his past so long she kept asking and asking him about it. Finally he told her. After revealing it he felt a relief. Something he had never felt ever. He started to smile. He looked at his wife, she had her back turned. He opened the fridge and seen a bottle of whiskey. He took a drink and liked the way it felt. Suddenly he reached into the knife drawer. He pulled out a giant knife, the biggest one he could find. He walked up behind his wife and hugged her. He walked to the counter, grabbed his knife walked up behind her again but this time he slit her throat. He then buried the body. Batman hearing about the crime went to the scene found a body and traced the man back to the chemical plant. He found a man with a red hood and a cloak on. He asked why'd he do it

[@dylanreynolds7343]

The man said he didn't know the fight started. Batman punched the man and he fell off the walkway. Suddenly he felt like he was drowning. He smiled he had felt at peace. He then fell asleep. Batman had drained the vat. People showed up. Batman had to vanish. They grabbed the man and took him to the hospital. He regained consciousness. He started laughing. The nurse walked up and said that his skin was white. He laughed some more. The nurse turned her back. He grabbed a scapel and slit her throat. He then left through the window. He returned to his home. The police tape was gone. He proceeded to his clothes basket. He found an odd suit and ended up loving it. He put it on. He looked in his mirror. He applied his wife's lipstick. He started laughing then wrote The Joker on the mirror.

[@square_kirby7852]

@@dylanreynolds7343 Very clever (clap clap)

[@slycat128]

@@dylanreynolds7343 the Killing Joke was Joker's origin.

[@JokerMan-rp2kf]

1:16 is my favorite part.

[@based_misogynist1424]

wassup Jack white

[@royalmetamorph]

Joker is Crazy but Never Stupid.

[@blackwingzero]

The worse part about this is he is telling the truth

[@Lost20048]

DaJon Ellis XD glad you think so

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Arkham Origins pretty much confirms it

[@slycat128]

@@AxisChurchDevotee well, in this, he said he slipped. In Origins, Batman threw him.

[@austinboylan5476]

Xehanort10 Hugo Strange made a good point in this game though that Batman's presence in Gotham caused criminals to "evolve" and the Joker is an example of that. So I think Batman had a hand in Joker becoming Joker one way or another.

[@devonmiles4706]

The killing joke references are sooooooo good :)

[@jasonx1509]

joker quotes him self ... like a boss.

[@sabyrzhannurgali6464]

And this IS the backstory/origin story of Joker! What a game! Truly brilliant!

[@LateNightHalo]

no that is the jokers origins, yet hugo doesnt believe it

[@MrOrcshaman]

The joker is, and always will be, the greatest enigma of all comic book characters. You can give a past to any fictional comic book character, even ones who have had theres held secret for years, but the joker, we're never know the truth, because its always going to be one big joke to him.

[@mischievousone9999]

What I took from Killing Joke was that whatever happened to the man that became the joker was so horrific that his own subconscious refused to acknowledge the memory of who he was. Either because the Joker couldn't stand what he had suffered, or because the person he was couldn't stand who he became. Joker doesn't want to know or acknowledge his own past, and I think the flash backs in Killing Joke were simply delusional daydreams inspired by objects or triggers in his environment. I think Batman's inclusions in his concocted origins are due to a perverse sense of kinship with the caped crusader. He doesn't want to be alone without that entity in the concept of his own existence. What makes the two such perfect enemies is their shared conviction. Batman's drive and focus to see life protected is equaled only by the Joker's determination to see lives ruined. Maybe Joker feels that their shared conviction comes from a shared sense of loss. I sometimes get the sense that the Joker is all five stages of the Kubler Ross grief cycle happening all at once, hence his erraticism.

[@Carbono_Tungstênio]

Nice work of Mr. Hammil and Corey Burton as well.

[@elflacoyanquic.n.def.9059]

Count dooku as hugo strange

[@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475]

One of the most interesting things that I love about these Interview Tapes and Arkham City Joker is he doesn't doesn't hide his true self to Strange and is absolutely open, (apart from his usually quirky self,) showing his vast intelligence and how well spoken he is. It's amazing to see the smart man underneath all the jokes and theatrics. Even when he was with Batman "It was all a lie. There's nothing wrong with you." "Nice of you to say but you of all people should know, there's plenty wrong with me." He truly is Batman's equal.

[@AdamPsencik]

The thing to understand about this story is that it likely isn't his real origin, but parts of it might be, as the Joker himself puts it in the Killing Joke: Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another. If I'm going to have a past, it might as well be multiple choice!

[@psychee1]

"A bad day" :) Beautiful

[@kelcilowery2725]

Quincy Sharp is warden of the asylum who is basically a puppet for Strange

[@tristonperry5747]

Joker looks horrifying in this game

[@Courageous91]

Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another. If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!

[@Artisan1979]

Soooo missing a Joker laugh.

[@TPDManiacXC626]

I just love the way Mark Hamill says 'fire' it's so classy, zany and unique!

[@B8V88]

Origins confirmed this... Joker was screwing with him, and telling the truth.

[@irvingramirez2335]

gotta love the killin joke

[@viciousclan9929]

I would've loved to have seen Nolan portray The Joker in an R rated version, instead of a PG-13 version. The things the Joker has done to people are sick, twisted and inhumane. Good thing I've read the Graphic Novels and didn't depend on Hollywood to tell me a story from THEIR point of view.

[@Wotanson56]

Damn Joker's past is fucked up..

[@Shalashaska-x5x]

I can’t believe he actually told strange what really happened, and he told it well too.

[@tard1s4er]

So, for one time, the Joker is actually telling the truth! Joker was actually the Red Hood, according to many comics.

[@Robintheboywonder4]

The only person who took on Hugo Strange and won, no wonder Strange wanted him dead

[@joehumpston7937]

I like how the Arkham series uses the Joker backstory of the Killing Joke!

[@LukasHale]

I can't handle the Killing Joke references.....I love it!