Press space to see the next slide of this villain's backstory (as I imagine it, this is; there are tons of variations of his origins). Also, to fully understand this, please read the Credits section. All. Of. It. Warning: PG-14 rating. Guns, knives, fights, facial mutilation, domestic violence, crime, and ugly makeup. REPORT TYPOS AND GRAMMATICAL MISTAKES PLZ.
This version of The Joker's story is a weird merge of comic books and movies. The childhood part was taken from the 2008 Nolan film. The adulthood part was taken from comic books (both from the 1930s and the 1990s) and the Tim Burton movie. The bullying part is a nod to Joker's and Two-Face's villain rivalry. I've got a weird reinterpretation of the Batman universe going on in my head since I saw the Dark Night Trilogy. It's set in the 1930s-1940s, and Gotham is the capital of New England in a fictional timeline (or AU, maybe?) in which New England is a super-big state the size of Texas and Alabama together, and New York is split in two cities during the colonization of America: Gotham and Metropolis (Superman's city! Whoohoo! References!). Some changes are made to the characters: everyone is bisexual (everyone, yes, so that I can ship them the way I like!), Harvey Dent is the illegitimate kid of a judge (also, his mother is black, so he's mixed! Nod to Billy Dee Williams!), Selina Kyle was a black secretary until she went amnesiac due to an airplane accident and became a crazy cat lady/cat burglar, Harleen Quintzel is a feminist icon of the 1930s because she's the only female doctor in Arkham, Bruce Wayne suffers from numbers of mental illnesses, is addicted to antidepressants, and has emotional breakdowns all the time (even as Batman!) and is secretly in love with Joker, The Riddler suffers from OCD and has a bromance with Harvey/Two-Face... etc. It's weeeeeeird. Yes I'm weird.
