Post by The Joker on May 8, 2011 19:36:00 GMT -5
Character General Info
Name: N/A
Gender: Male
Birth Date: N/A
Age: 28 years old
Age Looks: 28-ish
Hair: Green and curly.
Eyes: Green
Appearance: The Joker is a 6 feet tall, 160 lbs (around 73 kg), lean, almost lanky man. His hair is more or less short with a dark green hue, his eyes the same colour. Joker’s skin is chalk white and his face almost always smiling, his lips a blood red colour. His chin is very sharp and nearly pointy, his whole body looks like that of a man who get’s moderate, but regular exercise.
The Joker nearly always wears his trademark purple tuxedo, orange west and orange shirt. Most of the time the Joker will wear a pair of white gloves and a flower in his breast pocket. He also owns a cane, which of course is rigged with lot’s of joyous “toys”. Joker is always able to change into nearly any disguise he wishes, which he often does
Personality: The Joker's insanity appears to most as a strange mixture of violently aggressive psychopathy, nihilism, and fixated narcissism. He has frequently proven to have no regard for human life, and treats the pain and suffering of others as personal sport.
While frequent attempts have been made to pin down or classify the Joker's 'insanity', none have been consistently proven successful.
And every attempt to cure him has proven likewise completely fruitless, as the Joker actively and energetically resists separation from his madness. He spends the majority of his time in Arkham Asylum, a somewhat inadequate facility that he and other inmates have come to view as sort of a home.
The Joker appears to be able to escape from almost at will, and does so very frequently. He treats the Asylum like a resting place, to go in between his criminal exploits. It has been hypothesized by Arkham psychologists, that the Joker actually exists in a state of almost "super-sanity". That he actually redefines his own personality every day, which explains why sometimes he appears as a horribly sadistic lunatic, and others as a simple mischievous clown.
As earlier explained, The Joker doesn’t feel anything really positive for anyone, not even his own Hench-girl Harley Quinn, even though he will act like it, playing with her emotions like a used violin.
Family: The Joker was rumoured to have had a daughter and wife at some point, both deceased.
Background: Though many have been related, a definitive history of the Joker has never been established and his true name has never been confirmed. The most widely cited back-story depicts him as originally being an engineer at a chemical plant who quit his job to pursue his dream of being a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably. Desperate to support his pregnant wife, Jeannie, the man agrees to help two criminals break into the plant where he was formerly employed. In this version of his story, the Red Hood persona is given to the inside man of every job (thus it is never the same man twice); this makes the inside man appear to be the leader, allowing the two ring-leaders to escape. During the planning, police contact him and inform him that his wife and unborn child have died in a household accident involving a machine to warm nursing bottles.
Stricken with grief, he attempts to back out of the plan, but the criminals strong-arm him into keeping his promise. As soon as they enter the plant, however, they are immediately caught by security and a fatal shoot-out ensues, in which the two criminals are killed. As he tries to escape, Batman who is investigating the disturbance confronts him.
Terrified, the engineer leaps over a rail and plummets into a vat of chemicals. When he surfaces in the nearby reservoir, he removes the hood and sees his reflection: bleached chalk-white skin, ruby-red lips, and green hair. These events, coupled with his other misfortunes that day, drive the engineer through the massive personality shift that results in the birth of the Joker.
Another version of his story supports part of the version of the Joker's origin story first mentioned. In it, a witness (who coincidentally turns out to be Edward Nigma, a.k.a. The Riddler) recounts that the Joker's wife was kidnapped and murdered by the criminals in order to force the engineer into performing the crime. In this version, the Joker was called Jack.
Yet another version tells the story of the Joker as a gifted criminal and abandons the Red Hood identity, also called Jack, who is nearly suicidal due to boredom with his "job".
He talks to a waitress, who convinces him to find something to live for. Jack becomes obsessed with Batman after he breaks up one of his jobs, leading Jack to attract Batman's attention at a ball. Jack injures Lorna Shore (whom Bruce Wayne is dating), leading Batman to disfigure his face with a batarang. Jack escapes and Batman gives Jack's information to mobsters, who torture Jack in a chemical plant. Jack kills several of his assailants after escaping, but falls into an empty vat as wild gunfire punctures the chemical tanks above him, and the resultant flood of antidepressant chemicals alters his appearance to that of a clown, completing his transformation into the Joker.
No recounting of the Joker's origin has been definitive, however, as he is known been as lying so often about his former life that he himself is confused as to what actually happened. As he said to Batman once "Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!"
Character Info
Code Name: N/A
Enemy Code Name: The Joker, The Clown Prince of Crime, The Thin White Duke of Death, The Harlequin of Hate, The Ace of Knaves, and The Mirthful Menace.
Powers/abilities:
The Joker possesses no known superhuman powers.
Though some state he has adapted certain beyond average endurances due to his original chemical submergence. The following are such noted enhancements:
• Pain Resistance: It is speculated that the Joker's exposure to chemicals may have heightened his resistance to pain. It is also implied that he is masochistic in nature, and thus enjoys any pain received, making it an ineffective way of dealing with him.
• Tainted Blood: Joker's blood is tainted. It has been said, "Being an avid consumer of his products, Joker's immunity to poisons has been built up over years of dedicated abuse." When a mosquito sucks the Joker's blood, it "writhes and whines, choking on tainted blood"
• Joker Venom Immunity: The Joker is immune to his venom.
• Enhanced Intellect: Due to his chemical submergence the Joker is quite a bit more intelligent than the average human, yet his insanity still conquers all.
• Cheating Death: The Joker has cheated death numerous times, even in seemingly inescapable and lethal situations. He has been, among other things, caught in explosions, electrocuted, shot repeatedly (including point-blank in the face by a corrupt police officer masquerading as Batman), and dropped from great heights, but he always returns to once again wreak havoc.
• "Fourth wall awareness": The Joker has, at times, shown to be fully aware of being a fictional character, even directly addressing the reader. However, most people ignore this, due to the fact that he is criminally insane.
Equipment:
Joker uses many different deadly devices in his criminal exploits.
• Joker Venom: a deadly poison that infects his victims with a ghoulish rictus grin as they die while laughing uncontrollably. This venom comes in many forms, from gas to darts to liquid poison, and has been his primary calling card from his first appearance.
Weapons:
Razor-sharp playing cards, acid flower, Joker Venom - a compound consisting of strychnine and household chemicals the Joker can re-create at will, various guns and other weaponry. The Joker is unpredictable in that he will use any kind of weapon afforded him.
Joker's joy buzzer:
The Joker often used a modified novelty joy buzzer strapped to the palm of his hand. The buzzer administered a lethal dose of electricity into anyone who came into contact with it.
Strengths:
• Inventive Skill: The Joker commits crimes with countless "comedic" weapons (such as razor-sharp playing cards, acid-spewing flowers, cyanide pies, and lethally electric joy buzzers) and Joker venom.
• Genius-level Intellect: The Joker is also very skilled in the fields of chemistry, genetics, and nuclear engineering. He also seems capable of mastering whatever he puts his twisted mind to when he wants to.
• Skilled Combatant: Although he pales in comparison to any real fighter like those of the Batman Family, the Joker has frequently proven himself to be an excellent hand-to-hand combatant. While apparently of frail body, his ability to withstand seemingly any amount of pain, combined with his sometimes almost athletic abilities and the agility granted him by his insanity and willpower makes him a fearsome physical foe. He fights nearly completely unpredictably, and always has tricks up his sleeves for if he's losing. However, Batman and his allies often seem to be able to put him down with a single punch... but it is unclear whether or not he is simply allowing this to happen, as there are times where he is shown as being able to hold his own in hand-to-hand combat even against the Batman Family (including Batman himself).
Strength level:
Joker possess the strength level of an average human male who engages in regular moderate exercise though has at times due to adrenaline surges surpassed his normal levels.
Weaknesses: Same as any mortal man.
Affiliation: Rouges gallery
Other Info
Anything else you'd like to add: The Joker is in possession of Bud and Lou, who are the pet spotted hyenas of The Joker. Oh, and this is the Mark Hamill Joker, voice-wise that is.
Will you be active?: Indeed
Do you Agree should you become Inactive you will have your Character Removed from the Roleplay?: Yes
Sample RP:
A twisted, mad cackle echoed through the abandoned warehouse. Soon after, a twin chorus of similar laughs, yet more bestial in nature joined the sinister sound. The bound, terrified man looked around, desperately trying to locate the sources of the hellish sounds. He soon spotted the two, huge, canines slowly prowling towards him, their bestial giggles anything but comical. The terrified man tried to move, but found that he was bound.
"I'm sorry, but you we couldn't have you running away, now could we, my little piñata?" The voice now speaking was one the scared, bound man recognised. And he was right, a moment later and the Joker appeared, grinning as he patted his two pets. “You see, I need you to tell me where the money you stole from me..” A dark chuckle escaped the Joker as he looked at the bound and terrified man in front of him. “..Wasn’t really your brightest idea, was it Jimmy boy?” The Joker couldn’t help himself then, and another dark, insane laughter escaped him.
Jimmy was trembling, he knew he was going to die, no doubt, after all, who survives stealing from the Joker? He was about to speak when something kicked him hard in the back of the head, sending his face straight into the concrete floor.
“aaw Puddin’..is this the bad man who stole from ya?” Said a sugarcoated singsong voice, filled with love and concern. Jimmy looked upwards once again, his breath ragged. He had felt his nose break on the impact with the floor, but there was little he could do. When his vision finally settled, Jimmy saw the Jokers “girlfriend” and hench-girl, Harley Quinn stand before him, kissing her “pudding” on his cheek before glaring down at Jimmy. Jimmy then looked at the Joker who was humming a happy tune for himself as he started pulling out sharp knifes and other nasty looking equipment from his pockets.
“P..Please!..T..The money is buried near the church!.. There, I told you! Please let me go!” Jimmy was sounding terrified at this point, the Joker simply grinned and knelt. “Well..thanks for telling me Jimmy boy. Now that business is out of the way, I can really enjoy this!” And as Jokers laugh rang out through the empty warehouse, Jimmy screamed.
Name: N/A
Gender: Male
Birth Date: N/A
Age: 28 years old
Age Looks: 28-ish
Hair: Green and curly.
Eyes: Green
Appearance: The Joker is a 6 feet tall, 160 lbs (around 73 kg), lean, almost lanky man. His hair is more or less short with a dark green hue, his eyes the same colour. Joker’s skin is chalk white and his face almost always smiling, his lips a blood red colour. His chin is very sharp and nearly pointy, his whole body looks like that of a man who get’s moderate, but regular exercise.
The Joker nearly always wears his trademark purple tuxedo, orange west and orange shirt. Most of the time the Joker will wear a pair of white gloves and a flower in his breast pocket. He also owns a cane, which of course is rigged with lot’s of joyous “toys”. Joker is always able to change into nearly any disguise he wishes, which he often does
Personality: The Joker's insanity appears to most as a strange mixture of violently aggressive psychopathy, nihilism, and fixated narcissism. He has frequently proven to have no regard for human life, and treats the pain and suffering of others as personal sport.
While frequent attempts have been made to pin down or classify the Joker's 'insanity', none have been consistently proven successful.
And every attempt to cure him has proven likewise completely fruitless, as the Joker actively and energetically resists separation from his madness. He spends the majority of his time in Arkham Asylum, a somewhat inadequate facility that he and other inmates have come to view as sort of a home.
The Joker appears to be able to escape from almost at will, and does so very frequently. He treats the Asylum like a resting place, to go in between his criminal exploits. It has been hypothesized by Arkham psychologists, that the Joker actually exists in a state of almost "super-sanity". That he actually redefines his own personality every day, which explains why sometimes he appears as a horribly sadistic lunatic, and others as a simple mischievous clown.
As earlier explained, The Joker doesn’t feel anything really positive for anyone, not even his own Hench-girl Harley Quinn, even though he will act like it, playing with her emotions like a used violin.
Family: The Joker was rumoured to have had a daughter and wife at some point, both deceased.
Background: Though many have been related, a definitive history of the Joker has never been established and his true name has never been confirmed. The most widely cited back-story depicts him as originally being an engineer at a chemical plant who quit his job to pursue his dream of being a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably. Desperate to support his pregnant wife, Jeannie, the man agrees to help two criminals break into the plant where he was formerly employed. In this version of his story, the Red Hood persona is given to the inside man of every job (thus it is never the same man twice); this makes the inside man appear to be the leader, allowing the two ring-leaders to escape. During the planning, police contact him and inform him that his wife and unborn child have died in a household accident involving a machine to warm nursing bottles.
Stricken with grief, he attempts to back out of the plan, but the criminals strong-arm him into keeping his promise. As soon as they enter the plant, however, they are immediately caught by security and a fatal shoot-out ensues, in which the two criminals are killed. As he tries to escape, Batman who is investigating the disturbance confronts him.
Terrified, the engineer leaps over a rail and plummets into a vat of chemicals. When he surfaces in the nearby reservoir, he removes the hood and sees his reflection: bleached chalk-white skin, ruby-red lips, and green hair. These events, coupled with his other misfortunes that day, drive the engineer through the massive personality shift that results in the birth of the Joker.
Another version of his story supports part of the version of the Joker's origin story first mentioned. In it, a witness (who coincidentally turns out to be Edward Nigma, a.k.a. The Riddler) recounts that the Joker's wife was kidnapped and murdered by the criminals in order to force the engineer into performing the crime. In this version, the Joker was called Jack.
Yet another version tells the story of the Joker as a gifted criminal and abandons the Red Hood identity, also called Jack, who is nearly suicidal due to boredom with his "job".
He talks to a waitress, who convinces him to find something to live for. Jack becomes obsessed with Batman after he breaks up one of his jobs, leading Jack to attract Batman's attention at a ball. Jack injures Lorna Shore (whom Bruce Wayne is dating), leading Batman to disfigure his face with a batarang. Jack escapes and Batman gives Jack's information to mobsters, who torture Jack in a chemical plant. Jack kills several of his assailants after escaping, but falls into an empty vat as wild gunfire punctures the chemical tanks above him, and the resultant flood of antidepressant chemicals alters his appearance to that of a clown, completing his transformation into the Joker.
No recounting of the Joker's origin has been definitive, however, as he is known been as lying so often about his former life that he himself is confused as to what actually happened. As he said to Batman once "Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!"
Character Info
Code Name: N/A
Enemy Code Name: The Joker, The Clown Prince of Crime, The Thin White Duke of Death, The Harlequin of Hate, The Ace of Knaves, and The Mirthful Menace.
Powers/abilities:
The Joker possesses no known superhuman powers.
Though some state he has adapted certain beyond average endurances due to his original chemical submergence. The following are such noted enhancements:
• Pain Resistance: It is speculated that the Joker's exposure to chemicals may have heightened his resistance to pain. It is also implied that he is masochistic in nature, and thus enjoys any pain received, making it an ineffective way of dealing with him.
• Tainted Blood: Joker's blood is tainted. It has been said, "Being an avid consumer of his products, Joker's immunity to poisons has been built up over years of dedicated abuse." When a mosquito sucks the Joker's blood, it "writhes and whines, choking on tainted blood"
• Joker Venom Immunity: The Joker is immune to his venom.
• Enhanced Intellect: Due to his chemical submergence the Joker is quite a bit more intelligent than the average human, yet his insanity still conquers all.
• Cheating Death: The Joker has cheated death numerous times, even in seemingly inescapable and lethal situations. He has been, among other things, caught in explosions, electrocuted, shot repeatedly (including point-blank in the face by a corrupt police officer masquerading as Batman), and dropped from great heights, but he always returns to once again wreak havoc.
• "Fourth wall awareness": The Joker has, at times, shown to be fully aware of being a fictional character, even directly addressing the reader. However, most people ignore this, due to the fact that he is criminally insane.
Equipment:
Joker uses many different deadly devices in his criminal exploits.
• Joker Venom: a deadly poison that infects his victims with a ghoulish rictus grin as they die while laughing uncontrollably. This venom comes in many forms, from gas to darts to liquid poison, and has been his primary calling card from his first appearance.
Weapons:
Razor-sharp playing cards, acid flower, Joker Venom - a compound consisting of strychnine and household chemicals the Joker can re-create at will, various guns and other weaponry. The Joker is unpredictable in that he will use any kind of weapon afforded him.
Joker's joy buzzer:
The Joker often used a modified novelty joy buzzer strapped to the palm of his hand. The buzzer administered a lethal dose of electricity into anyone who came into contact with it.
Strengths:
• Inventive Skill: The Joker commits crimes with countless "comedic" weapons (such as razor-sharp playing cards, acid-spewing flowers, cyanide pies, and lethally electric joy buzzers) and Joker venom.
• Genius-level Intellect: The Joker is also very skilled in the fields of chemistry, genetics, and nuclear engineering. He also seems capable of mastering whatever he puts his twisted mind to when he wants to.
• Skilled Combatant: Although he pales in comparison to any real fighter like those of the Batman Family, the Joker has frequently proven himself to be an excellent hand-to-hand combatant. While apparently of frail body, his ability to withstand seemingly any amount of pain, combined with his sometimes almost athletic abilities and the agility granted him by his insanity and willpower makes him a fearsome physical foe. He fights nearly completely unpredictably, and always has tricks up his sleeves for if he's losing. However, Batman and his allies often seem to be able to put him down with a single punch... but it is unclear whether or not he is simply allowing this to happen, as there are times where he is shown as being able to hold his own in hand-to-hand combat even against the Batman Family (including Batman himself).
Strength level:
Joker possess the strength level of an average human male who engages in regular moderate exercise though has at times due to adrenaline surges surpassed his normal levels.
Weaknesses: Same as any mortal man.
Affiliation: Rouges gallery
Other Info
Anything else you'd like to add: The Joker is in possession of Bud and Lou, who are the pet spotted hyenas of The Joker. Oh, and this is the Mark Hamill Joker, voice-wise that is.
Will you be active?: Indeed
Do you Agree should you become Inactive you will have your Character Removed from the Roleplay?: Yes
Sample RP:
A twisted, mad cackle echoed through the abandoned warehouse. Soon after, a twin chorus of similar laughs, yet more bestial in nature joined the sinister sound. The bound, terrified man looked around, desperately trying to locate the sources of the hellish sounds. He soon spotted the two, huge, canines slowly prowling towards him, their bestial giggles anything but comical. The terrified man tried to move, but found that he was bound.
"I'm sorry, but you we couldn't have you running away, now could we, my little piñata?" The voice now speaking was one the scared, bound man recognised. And he was right, a moment later and the Joker appeared, grinning as he patted his two pets. “You see, I need you to tell me where the money you stole from me..” A dark chuckle escaped the Joker as he looked at the bound and terrified man in front of him. “..Wasn’t really your brightest idea, was it Jimmy boy?” The Joker couldn’t help himself then, and another dark, insane laughter escaped him.
Jimmy was trembling, he knew he was going to die, no doubt, after all, who survives stealing from the Joker? He was about to speak when something kicked him hard in the back of the head, sending his face straight into the concrete floor.
“aaw Puddin’..is this the bad man who stole from ya?” Said a sugarcoated singsong voice, filled with love and concern. Jimmy looked upwards once again, his breath ragged. He had felt his nose break on the impact with the floor, but there was little he could do. When his vision finally settled, Jimmy saw the Jokers “girlfriend” and hench-girl, Harley Quinn stand before him, kissing her “pudding” on his cheek before glaring down at Jimmy. Jimmy then looked at the Joker who was humming a happy tune for himself as he started pulling out sharp knifes and other nasty looking equipment from his pockets.
“P..Please!..T..The money is buried near the church!.. There, I told you! Please let me go!” Jimmy was sounding terrified at this point, the Joker simply grinned and knelt. “Well..thanks for telling me Jimmy boy. Now that business is out of the way, I can really enjoy this!” And as Jokers laugh rang out through the empty warehouse, Jimmy screamed.
