Ask Uncle J

harleyquinnandthejoker:

“The Joker

My greatest enemy began as a petty thief known as the Red Hood. The first time we fought, he fell into a vat of waste chemicals in a playing card factory in Gotham City. The chemicals altered the thief’s features, exaggerating his face, turning his skin white, his lips red, his hair green.

Believing that this accident was an omen, he embraced his new appearance and the irony of its happening in a playing card factory. The Red Hood became the Joker.

He has adopted a number of ‘jokes’ as lethal weapons- including hand-buzzers that electrocute, lapel flowers that squirt acid, and far more.

I’m convinced that while everything about the Joker- his murderous instincts, his maniacal laughter, his maddening behaviour- points to him being insane, he is the farthest thing from it. The Jokers greatest prank has been to pull the wool over society’s eyes all these years, masquerading as a madman so as to be thrown into an asylum and treated with kid gloves when apprehended, to be ‘rehabilitated’ rather than punished in a penitentiary. It’s a strategy worthy of a high-stakes player, so it’s apt that he’d be named for a playing card.”