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The story of the Joker from the 2019 and 2024 films.

Biography[]

Past[]

Arthur was born in Gotham City. The identity of his biological parents are unknown but they abandoned him for unknown reasons, and Arthur was left an orphan at a young age. He was eventually adopted by Penny Fleck, the housekeeper of the Wayne family. As the film's script specified, he was in his 30's during the film's events which took place in 1981 meaning he was born between 1942 and 1951.

While being raised, Arthur was abused by his adoptive-mother and her boyfriend. Penny, who was a delusional narcissist, was obsessed with her master, Thomas Wayne and neglectfully allowed her boyfriend to physically, emotionally, and sexually abuse Arthur, which further contributed to the latter's mental health and instability. This eventually caused him to develop a condition called the Pseudobulbar affect; a neurological disorder that causes him to have fits of uncontrollable laughter in unsuitable moments. This most often occurs when he suffers from trauma. While growing up, Arthur sought to become a popular comedian so he could bring laughter and joy, which his mother raised him to believe in and even kept his true family lines a secret.

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By 1981, Arthur has learned how to somewhat control his laughter with the help of a therapist and social worker by obtaining medications from Arkham State Hospital to handle his other problems; it is even hinted that he is a released inmate. To achieve his dream, Arthur took a job at Ha-Ha's as a clown-for-hire called "Carnival", working in various roles so he can use the future salary to help his mother and himself.

Despite this, when he is holding the agency's sign in front of a store, a group of teenager boys steal the sign, causing him to chase them into an alley where they break the sign over him and beat him cruelly. His fragile sanity problems increase when his boss informs him that the destroyed sign will be coming out of his paycheck. His co-worker Randall decides to give Arthur a gun for protection.

While Arthur does his best to take care of his mother in their shared, small rotten apartment in Gotham, they, like many other residents in Gotham and the US, are big fans of the Murray Franklin Show, a late-night talk show led by Franklin himself. Arthur fantasizes about attending the show in the audience and being warmly called out by Franklin himself who tells him that he wished he had a son like him.

Arthur would develop an obsession with cynical banker and single mother Sophie Dumond after he meets her in an elevator. This led him to imagine being in a romantic relationship with her and he even invites her to his comedy routine. While entertaining at a children's hospital, the gun Randall gave him falls out of his pocket. Though Arthur tries to explain that he got it from Randall, the latter, to prevent himself from getting into trouble and losing his job, denies giving Arthur the gun, and Arthur is subsequently fired as a result.

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Arthur prepares to shoot and kill the Wall Street Three.

Following his termination, Authur rides the subway home still in his costume. After watching as a young woman being harassed by three young and wealthy but drunk Wall Street stockbrokers from Wayne Enterprises, Arthur bursts out in uncontrollable laughter to save the woman which draws the trio's attention, and they began ruthlessly harassing and beating him until he uses his gun to kill two of the three businessmen out of self-defense before chasing the third one, killing him as well. He then escapes the place terrified. At the end of the day, however, he dances for himself in a public bathroom to calm down and concludes that he indeed loved killing them.

The triple murder kick-starts the rise of a social anarchistic movement known as The Clowns who cause riots against the rich and the powerful population even during Thomas Wayne's speech of becoming Gotham's mayor only for his plans to get rid of the poor and destroy their homes. Arthur was left without treatment and his medication after social services was shut down, due to budget cuts. At a comedy club, where Arthur is doing his routine, which Sophie attends, his performance flopped, due to his bad jokes and disorder.

While reading through his mother's letters to Thomas Wayne, he finds that its contents claim that Arthur is Thomas's illegitimate son. Before getting a stroke, Penny told Arthur of his true parentage, as well as her early life with Thomas Wayne, causing Arthur to scold her for hiding the truth from him. Taking his parentage to Wayne Manor, Arthur later meets his apparent estranged brother, Bruce, and meets Alfred Pennyworth before getting rudely dismissed by him. This led to a brief scuffle before Arthur stops himself, after noticing a horrified Bruce watching and he is forced to flee. Upon returning home, Arthur finds his mother being rushed to a hospital, as she had suffered from a stroke. In the hospital, Arthur expressed concern over losing his mother. He is then met by GCPD detectives Garrity and Thomas Burke, who interrogates him on the murders committed in the subway, and Arthur denies anything he did before going to take care of Penny.

While watching the Murray Franklin Show, he was horrified to see a humiliating video of himself performing stand-up comedy and uncontrollably laughing, which Franklin uses to humiliate Arthur in living and even mocks him as a "Joker", much to his anger and humiliation. Arthur soon sneaks into a private screening of Modern Times in order to confront Thomas Wayne who rudely denies that he is his father, stating Penny Fleck had adopted Arthur and that she is insane and had obsessed with him. Refusing to accept the truth, Arthur goes into a mental breakdown while triggering his pathological laughter. In response to his laughter, Thomas punches him in the nose and warns him to not touch Bruce again or he will kill him.

Confused and upset, the very next day, Arthur visits Arkham State Hospital to find his mother's file and meets a clerk in charge of storing files of patients there. The clerk quickly takes notice of Arthur's unstable demeanor and pauses in horror when looking into the file. When he refused to release it to Arthur, the latter steals it anyway and is saddened and distraught to find out that Penny isn't his real mother and what Thomas Wayne said was true; she is a delusional narcissist, who adopted Arthur during her servitude as the Wayne family's housekeeper and had imagined being in a relationship with Thomas, with Arthur being their biological son. Arthur even learned of his twisted childhood.

Still distraught over this discovery, he visits Sophie Dumont by trespassing into her apartment. This frightens her into asking him to leave once she found him, stating that their supposed "relationship" is all just a part of his imagination. Depressed, he leaves her apartment. Arthur then goes to visit his mother at the hospital. When Penny Fleck woke up the next day, he doesn't call her mum or mother, but Penny Fleck as he now knows that they were never true family and tells her previously that he thought his life was a tragedy but he realized, it is a comedy. He smothers his lying adoptive-mother to death with a pillow, thus getting revenge for all the years of lies and abuse. Returning home, he appears to go to sleep in the refrigerator.

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Arthur after killing Randall for making him lose his job by lying while talking to Gary before sparing him.

The next morning, Arthur wakes up in bed to the sound of a ringing telephone. Upon answering it, he was invited to appear on Murray Franklin's show, as the footage of his failed performance had become popular, leaving him stunned. He began creating a clown persona for himself, in which he dyed his hair green and began putting on clown makeup, until he was visited by two of his former co-workers, Randall and Gary, who came to visit to give condolences about his mother's death. In addition, Randall also came to question Arthur on the subway murders and of what he said to the detectives. Having not forgotten nor forgave Randall for making him lose his job, Arthur brutally murders him using a pair of scissors and by bashing his head several times against a wall, much to Gary's horror. Arthur, however, allowed Gary to leave unharmed for treating him well in the past. Stained in blood, Arthur later announced that he is no longer what he was, unleashing the Joker alias he created, completely.

Reborn

Arthur becomes Joker.

Having put on a clown motif and donning a luxury clown-like suit and a pair of shoes he had kept in secret, he leaves home to dance on the stairways. Detectives Garrity and Burke see him dancing on the stairways until he noticed them causing Arthur to stop and flee. Despite briefly getting hit by a taxi during the chase, he manages to slip onto the subway where he steals a clown mask which insights a brawl. When Detective Burke shoots a passenger in the struggle, the angry mob brutally beat the detectives; leaving them alive but in critical condition as Arthur calmly strolls from the subway station. Afterwards, Arthur arrives at the studio where the Murray Franklin show is located. Whilst he prepares for his performance in the show, he contemplates committing suicide but, after receiving so much love from the Clowns, he abandons it and his purpose of bringing laughter and joy to the world, aiming himself toward the Clowns' ongoing mutiny.

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Arthur kills Murray Franklin on live TV.

On Franklin's show, Joker dances before chatting with his beloved TV idol on himself; immediately telling morbid jokes before eventually admitting to murdering the three Wall Street boys at the subway. Despite being quite understandably shocked, Franklin decides to continue on with the show instead of shutting it down in hopes to improve the ratings through reasoning with the scarred Arthur. Even with his genuine efforts to try to understand his fan's pain and upbringing however, it comes to light that Arthur had become too insane to reason with. The two end up having an argument where Murray tries to calm Joker down to no avail and was forced to order the producer to call the police whilst Joker gradually gets more and more worked up until he fatally shoots Murray in the head, unleashing chaos in the studio. With his transformation as the feared Joker complete, Arthur dances over the camera over to give the public a chillingly good night as news of Franklin's death spread across the media.

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Arthur smiles evilly as he accepts who has become as well as becoming Joker.

Soon after bidding a good night, he was immediately pounced on by security. As he is being driven to the police station, Joker sees an extremely destructive series of riots of the Clowns all over the town. Suddenly, a pair of Clowns ram a stolen ambulance into the police car that Joker is in, which knocked him out while the officers in the car were killed.

During the massive clown riots, one of the protesters kills Thomas and Martha Wayne and takes Martha's pearl necklace while Bruce helplessly looks on. This makes Joker indirectly responsible for the death of the Wayne couple and the rise of Batman. Upon succeeding in everything he had ever wanted to achieve despite failing to bring laughter and joy, Joker smiles evilly, now completely accepting what he has become and becomes the popular leader of the Clowns, achieving his goal of making Gotham smile through anarchy. At that point Arthur Fleck was no more, there was only Joker.

He is apparently apprehended by the National Guard or the SWAT team who took him to Arkham's jail division where he is interviewed by an FBI shrink, aka. Mindhunter, as he laughs at the thought of Bruce Wayne ending up as an orphan like him and of what is yet to come between the two, much to the shrink's curiosity, who was possibly killed by Arthur afterwards, as he then leaves the room with his shoes drenched in blood, celebrating his glorious victory and dancing before being pursued down the halls by an Arkham orderly.

It is implied that Joker eventually escapes from Arkham and, due to his actions in Gotham City, he becomes known worldwide as an infamous and controversial figure whose impact on society will be long-lasting, finally acquiring the fame and recognition he had always desired albeit in a very different and twisted way.

Joker: Folie à Deux[]

Two years later, following his public murder of Murray Franklin on live television, Arthur has been interred in Arkham State Hospital. While the anarchist movement he inspired still persisted, it had seemingly reduced its activities to theft and vandalism. The guards of Arkham routinely taunt Arthur, especially by head guard Jackie Sullivan, who degraded him every day by asking for a joke so as to sadistically taunt Arthur's original dream of being a comedian; although, Sullivan does act pleasant at times, such as giving Arthur cigarettes in exchange for jokes, sometimes without cost. Despite Sullivan's pleasant demeanour, most things he said to Arthur are thinly veiled insults, and should Arthur or any patient resist, he retaliates with disproportionate violence.

While being taken by Jackie and several other abusive Arkham guards to see his lawyer, he passes by a group of patients rehearsing during a musical therapy program and he caught the attention of patient Harleen Quinzel, who mimes Murray Franklin's murder to imply approval from Arthur. Maryanne Stewart, Arthur's lawyer, was disgusted over how the guards cruelly treated Arthur, as they never bother to give him an umbrella while being escorted out in the rain, only for Jackie to make up an excuse that it is in accordance with Arkham's rules.

While having a private talk with Arthur, she reveals to him that they'll be meeting with his former social worker Dr. Debra Kane, who will videotape him to ensure that he is competent enough to stand trial. She expressed a sincere hope that in the upcoming trial for the five murders he had committed (the Gotham Three, Randall, and Murray Franklin), everyone will see that Arthur Fleck and Joker are two separate entities, and thus Arthur shouldn't have to suffer the consequences from the actions of a persona that was born from his childhood trauma. Arthur was then brought to Debra, who then begins videotaping him.

The next day, due to desiring an excuse to leave Arkham, Sullivan enrolls Arthur in a musical therapy program, surpassing the ban on violent inmates by the fact of Arthur being a model patient as he had two years of imprisonment being without incident (thus, he never killed the psychiatrist at the end of the first film). Sullivan then escorts Arthur to a TV room and reveals to him that he is found competent enough to stand for trial. Meanwhile, on live news, the prosecution, led by Harvey Dent, are seeking to dismiss Arthur's claims of insanity, publicly stating that they will prove that Arthur wasn't mentally ill, and had knowingly committed the crimes, with Dent branding him as a monster who knew what he is doing and that the State is seeking the death penalty. This caused a distressed Arthur to have a mental breakdown and he broke out into uncontrollable laughter while being kept out in the rain.

During a musical therapy session, Lee expressed her admiration of Arthur for his crime spree two years prior, while also claiming to have suffered similar abuse by her parents in their home in Arthur's neighbourhood. Lee said that she loved the TV movie that was made about Arthur, which he asked about due to being forbidden from watching it. Lee claims that her abusive father died in a plane crash, and tired of her mother, she set their home on fire, although it failed to kill her mother, much to her disappointment; since it wasn't publicly revealed, Arthur confessed to her that he murdered his own mother, which seemed to delight Lee.

At Arkham, during film screening, while the patients are contently watching The Band Wagon, Arthur sat beside Lee, who expressed boredom of the film, but he shushes her as a musical segment he liked is coming up. Annoyed, Lee goes to the back of the room, where she sets the area on fire. As Lee returned to her seat, the fire slowly grew until it engulfed the back of the room, triggering alarms and enacting a fire escape. Arthur and Lee fled together and by the time they got outside, the fire had already spread to half of the building. They dance a waltz together before attempting to escape by ascending Arkham's gate, but were restrained by the guards.

Due to a perceived attempt to escape, Arthur was locked in solitary confinement as punishment. Lee managed to sneak into the cell, claiming she bribed the guard to let her in. She claimed that she is being released because the staff believe Arthur to be a bad influence on her. They kiss and then have sex, although due to being a virgin, Arthur needed Lee's help to initiate it.

Prior to a TV interview, Maryanne encouraged Arthur to remain calm, and allow the people to see that he wasn't the monster everyone thought he was two years ago. Arthur tried to kiss her, but she confusedly pushed him back. TV personality Paddy Meyers begins interviewing Arthur with some passive aggression, before becoming accusatory, which provoked Arthur into accusing him of being unsympathetic and obsessed with a version of Arthur that no longer existed. Upon being asked what had changed, to which Arthur explained that he wasn't alone anymore. Paddy responded by revealing a newspaper with Lee on the front page and asks Arthur if she is the one he is referring to, which the latter happily confirmed. It turns out, Lee's relationship with Arthur had made it through the headlines and Arthur reaffirms his love through song, which was seen on the televisions in a store window that Lee passed; inspired and her love for Arthur deepening, she smashed the window and stole one of the televisions.

When the day of his trial came, Arthur was escorted by police as he brought to court. Upon his arrival, he was met by crowds of Clowns and wild supporters, who sought to have him freed. During the trial, Arthur was disinterested with the occurring event as he was looking for Lee and only paid attention when she had arrived. During the trial, Harvey Dent called in a psychiatrist who had analysed Arthur, in an attempt to undermine the defendant's claims of insanity; the psychiatrist noted that Arthur was mentally ill, with a few disorders such as narcissistic personality disorder and sociopathy, however, he was mentally sound enough to willingly commit the murders and understand the consequences of his actions. Maryanne Stewart crossed examined the psychiatrist, getting him to admit that he only spent 80 minutes with Arthur, which she argued was insufficient time to confidently determine Arthur's state of mind. She also listed the intense abuse that Arthur suffered as a child from his mother and the latter's boyfriend, creating a sympathetic background that could imply that he was indeed broken enough by the trauma to create an alternate protective personality. Hearing these details made Arthur deeply uncomfortable and distraught.

During a break, Maryanne advised that Arthur should stop interacting with Lee, which he refused due to his love for her. Maryanne, however, then revealed that Lee had lied to him, as she actually grew up in a wealthy part of Gotham and that her father, who works as a doctor, is still alive. In addition, Maryanne further reveals that Lee never committed arson and that she voluntarily surrendered to Arkham, and checking out whenever she wanted. A final truth was that Lee was a psychiatry student, which led Maryanne to believe Lee was manipulating Arthur just to get attention for herself.

Back in Arkham, Arthur was visited by Lee, whom he confronts over her lies, which she confirmed but with a vague qualifier about how everyone lied to everyone else. Although he insisted on the truth about her background, Lee admitted that she made it all up, but only so Arthur would like her. This caused Arthur to wonder on why she wasn't honest, to which Lee made an excuse by noting that she was a nobody trying to talk to a star before claiming to be pregnant. Despite the uncertainties, Arthur forgave her and they sing together.

On the second day of the trial, Arthur's neighbor, Sophie Dumont, whom he formerly imagined having a relationship with, is brought to the stand, where she was questioned about why she had previously refused to answer subpoenas, which she revealed was due to harassment that she received from Arthur's more deranged followers, who would stalk and threatened her and her daughter. Maryanne asked her if the Arthur she knew and the one that broke into her apartment seemed like the same person, Sophie responded by saying she didn't know him well enough to know and that she mostly interacted with his mother, Penny. Sophie was then questioned about the contents of the conversations, which were often merely pleasant small talk, but other times Penny would talk about her son; she would deride Arthur's dream of being a comedian due to believing he wasn't funny, and Penny would also mock him behind his back about believing her line about his purpose - he was put on Earth to make people happy, hence the nickname "Happy." However, she further degraded him as a fool, since she said that was an off-hand comment she said when he was a child, and thus she couldn't believe he still believed such an infantile fantasy. With no more questions asked, Sophie left the courtroom.

During a subsequent debate, a weary Arthur disrupted proceedings by admitting that he couldn't take it anymore and fires Maryanne, declaring that he would represent himself henceforth. Maryanne tries to make Arthur change his mind only for him to reply, "You better believe it's real!" and literally kisses her goodbye before being taken out of the court room. Due to a loophole about attorneys being allowed to dress themselves as they desire, Arthur attended court in his Joker make-up and attire. Gary Puddles, Arthur's former co-worker, who was severely traumatized by Arthur's brutal killing of Randall, was brought forth as a final witness. Harvey Dent questioned Gary about the murder he witnessed, to which Gary detailed with great misery. Joker, acting like Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, repeatedly questioned Gary about his name, as Joker found the name "Puddles" so absurd that it had to be a joke. After being ordered to focus on a point, Joker asks Gary on Randall's murder and made the excuse that Randall acted like a bully to him, to which Gary protested that he doesn't deserved to die.

Joker then asks if he had seen his murder of Murray Franklin, to which Gary denies, causing the former to remind him of his oath only for Gary to reveal that he has been locked up in the police station and had been interviewed by the authorities, who believed Joker will come and kill him, which was why Gary was kept at the station all night. While giving out a speech on Randall's death, he asks him if he sees him as a different person and that he is crazy, but Gary pleads with him that he is not who he was. This caused Joker to resentfully rant that no one knows that he exists and asks Gary a final time on who they see him as, to which the latter correctly responds that they see Arthur as Joker. The latter then tells him that he is not one of the people who underestimated him, hatefully mentioning examples such as Murray Franklin and the guards of Arkham, whom he mocks as 'fat and stupid' in a derogative manner, claiming that they had treated him like trash. He then declares that he won't allow anyone to keep him down and that he is free. This earns Joker the applause of his supporters in the court room before they were immediately silenced.

Gary confronts Arthur on why he is doing this to him, causing Joker to protest that he likes him that he wouldn't hurt him but Gary reveals to him that because of his trauma, he is unable to go back to work, mournfully describing that he was never able to sleep well and that he was terrified all the time. He used to not be scared but he is now, right in front of him and everyone else in the court. Gary further describes that he was unable to do anything on the day Randall was murdered and that it was the first time he actually felt small, as it reminds him of how powerless he felt. He then lamented on how Arthur was his friend and the only one who had treated him with kindness, but he lost that with Joker.

After Gary was excused, Harvey Dent states that they have completed their case, as does Joker, to the befuddlement of the judge, who had already been irritated by Joker's antics. In a hateful speech, Joker ranted about how nobody cared about him before, but now he is inundated with attention; he also noted that he past despair was so bad that he wished to bring everything down, but is aiming to change that. He concluded by mentioning the Arkham guards in a negative and derogative manner, mocking them as "fat and sadistic".

While being escorted back into Arkham, the other inmates cheered for Joker, but Jackie Sullivan and a few fellow guards were furious, as they had watched Joker mock them on live TV. Because they have been humiliated, they retaliated by violently dragging Joker into the showers room; Joker admitted that he had expected some pushback, and though he attempted to placate them with a joke, it does nothing as Sullivan and the guards ferociously beat and even forcefully undress him while Jackie washed the clown makeup of his face. At the same time, Arthur continuously mock them until he was left crying and groaning in pain after Jackie viciously bangs him on a urinal. After Arthur was thrown onto the floor, the guards are implied to have sexually assaulted him.

When they returned a now-catatonic and half-undressed Arthur to his cell, Ricky, a fellow Arkham inmate and friend of Arthur, confronts the angry guards and began singing to show his support for Arthur. Sullivan angrily ordered him to stop, but Ricky defiantly kept singing; in retaliation, Sullivan opened the cell and ruthlessly strangled Ricky to death in a fit of rage, to the shock of even the other guards. This caused Arthur to reminisce the aftermath of his first kills while as Joker.

Before his final day in court, Lee arrived donning her own chaotic clown persona and entered to watch the end of the trial. During closing statements, a devastated Arthur - who had put back on his Joker makeup, sans the attire - sorrowfully renounces his Joker persona, admitting that it was all just a fantasy and a lie to protect himself from further suffering, and that "Joker" was never real. He then confessed that he knowingly committed the murders, as well as revealing the previous publicly unknown murder of his mother Penny. Arthur also confessed that he deeply regrets committing the murders, though he knows it is too late for that. As he continued confessing, he stopped to watch as Lee and other people who supported him as they stormed out of the courtroom in anger and disappointment over his renouncing of his Joker persona.

After Arthur finished his confession, he tries to call Lee, who didn't answer, as she was upset that he is no longer Joker but she did listen to him relaying a message to her as he sang. Back in the courtroom, he looks at the door to see if Lee would return but she didn't arrive. Because Arthur had confessed, the jury ultimately found him guilty on all accounts and as the foreperson reads the verdict, she was interrupted when chaos broke out, as Arthur had a mental breakdown once again, causing a weary man to assault him until the guards broke them up while the judge ordered for Arthur to be taken out. As the latter continued laughing uncontrollably, an explosion ripped into the courtroom, killing and injuring many attendees (notably, Harvey Dent was left with several scars on the left half of his face). Arthur was briefly knocked unconscious, but stumbled to his feet, cautiously exiting through the damage left by the explosion; a man dressed as Joker noticed him and drags him to a taxi waiting for them, which was driven by another Joker supporter wearing a plastic clown mask. As they hide Arthur in the back seat, they excitedly exclaim how their attempt was a success; on the radio, it was noted a car bomb was the source of the courthouse destruction.

Because the two men had misinterpreted Arthur's rant about tearing down everything as a code to execute an escape, the Joker copycat asks Arthur on the next stage of the plan but due to lacking any plans, he doesn't reply, so the man thinks he is still just briefly deafened from to the explosion. When the taxi stopped in gridlock, Arthur left the vehicle. When the men followed him, asking where he is going Arthur began to sprint away, with the duo following him until they are apprehended by arriving cops in police cars; as they are being arrested, they exclaim that they still love "Joker."

As night falls, Arthur arrives at the staircase where he used to dance on as Joker and was delighted to find Lee waiting for him and he requested that she run away with him to anywhere that is great when they are in love. Lee rejects this claim, as she said that all they have was the fantasy and that he killed it when he renounced his Joker persona, as the fantasy was the only place where they could truly be together. Arthur begs her to elope with him that he is the same man who killed Murray Franklin, which she rejects, reminding him that he had earlier admitted that there is no Joker. He tearfully tries to get her stay with him as he couldn't move on without her and attempted to engage her by the fact of her pregnancy and future child, however, she revealed it to be another lie and bids him goodbye, leaving him alone on the stairs. Before Arthur could process this shock, a group of police cars had clogged the bottom of the stairs and the authorities were quickly moving in to arrest him. Arthur offered no resistance and he was recaptured and sent back to Arkham.

In the facility's TV room, Arthur sat completely defeated and depressed when he was alerted to a visitor. On the way to visitation, when he was alone in a corridor, a fellow Arkham inmate approached him, asking if he could tell him a joke that he had made up. Arthur agreed when it was promised to be brief, and appeared mildly pleased to hear something funny. Through the joke, the inmate revealed his admiration for Joker, but then became disillusioned for failing to live up to his expectations. He then delivers the punchline in an echo of Murray Franklin's death - "you get what you f*cking deserve," - before rapidly shivving Arthur in the belly several times.

Death of Arthur Fleck

Arthur meets his end.

Rapidly losing his strength, Arthur immediately becomes faint as he fantasizes himself as having been shot by Lee with his own gun. Back in reality, while he imagines himself singing one last song to her, he tries to hold onto a corridor wall before collapsing while the young inmate broke out into psychotic laughter. Arthur slowly died from his wound as the inmate continued laughing before he carved a Glasgow smile into the sides of his own face.

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