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The Joker is a minor character in the DC comic miniseries Mother Panic: Gotham A.D.. He was a clown-like supervillain and mass murderer from an alternate version of Prime Earth and was the archenemy of Batman. However, after Batman mysteriously disappeared, the Joker was left depressed and lonely. He was eventually captured by Jason Todd's Cult of the Bat and was killed by Joker II as part of the cult's plan to sow chaos in rebellion to the rule of the Collective, who had taken over Gotham City and placed it under an authoritarian dystopia.
Biography[]
Early life[]
In an alternate version of Prime Earth, the Joker was a mass murderer of vague origin, who has a twisted love/hate relationship with his archenemy Batman. During his lifetime, he was believed to have murdered the vigilante's sidekick Jason Todd, also known as Robin. At some point either prior to or during the Collective's takeover of Gotham City, Batman mysteriously disappeared, and the Joker tried locate his whereabouts or get his attention through various means, such as terrorizing innocent people (such as a bus full of children). He also tried to get Batman's location out of his son Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Tim Drake/Red Robin and the We Are Robin youth group, but when they deny knowing where he is, the Joker had them all murdered.
When these attempts failed, the Joker tried to look for a new rival in other heroes (such as Green Arrow) by subjecting them to his Joker toxin, but neither of them were able to live up to Batman's standards. the joker would then go on a heroic stint where he slaughters criminals and supervillains he targets, such as Mad Hatter and Two-Face. When that was unsuccessful as well, the Joker eventually gave up on trying, coming to the conclusion that Batman is dead, and he left his criminal life behind, becoming depressed and lonely for the rest of his life.
Present[]
While singing a melancholic song on a bench at an abandoned carnival at Gotham harbor, he encounters the anti-hero Violet Page/Mother Panic, whom he recognized as the White Witch of Gotham. She demands the joker on the location of her mother Rebecca Page, as her neighbor Otis Flannegan believed that he has information on her whereabouts. The Joker reveals that Rebecca is in Arkham Asylum, but due to tight security at the facility, he instructs Violet to go to Robinson Park to get help from Catwoman, as because she knows the ins and outs of Arkham, she knew how to get in without getting caught. Having gotten the information she needed, Violet leaves to go to Catwoman as the Joker goes to back to singing.
Later, while looking at his collection of balloon weapons he had made, he was met by a group of uniformed men, and though Joker attempts to intimidate the authorities with a bunch of balloon SMG guns he remember that they are just balloons, and he was immediately kidnapped. Taken to a construction site, he encounters a group of teenage rebels who appear to be under the leadership of an insane teenager, who is dressed up as the Joker. The Joker copycat surprises the Joker by saying the latter's signature joke punchline, something that Batman already heard off. Before the Joker could deduce on who knew his joke, the teenager beats him death with a crowbar. It turns out, the Joker's death was part of a plan enacted by Jason Todd, who turns out to be alive and who has become the leader of a pseudo-religious group called the Cult of the Bat, who seeks to sow violence and chaos to destroy the Collective.
Trivia[]
- While the Joker was created by the later Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger, and Bob Kane, the character's Gotham A.D. incarnation was created by Jody Houser and Ibrahim Moustafa.