List of villains in The Batman
Similarities to Brainiac • The idea of a creature who has ambitions of learning all knowledge there is to know and then destroy existence is similar to Brainiac's DCAU profile. • The Joining leader's face resembled Brainiac and the creatures voice resembled Corey Burton. • The Joining's appearance distinctly resembles Brainiac's black ship in Smallville, a TV show based around the Superman mythos. • When the Joining give Hugo Strange the knowledge of the universe, they extend tentacles into his head similarly to when Brainiac accesses someone's brain in Smallville.
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The Joining, Part One The Joining, Part Two Lost Heroes, Part One Lost Heroes, Part Two
The Joker • Voice Actor: Kevin Michael Richardson (English), Naoki Tatsuta (Japanese)
Biography Real name: Unknown The arch nemesis of Batman, the Joker is a maniacal harlequin whose bizarre appearance and unnerving instinct for the absurd have earned him a reputation as the most dangerous criminal in the annals of crime. The Joker treats each crime he commits as an elaborate joke in which he tries to leave his victims literally dying with laughter. More than any other enemy, the Joker becomes inextricably linked to The Batman, as the crazed killer's plots begin to take increasingly more personal tolls on the crime fighter. While the Joker, he was once able to beat Batman in hand to hand combat without cheating. Like in previous series, the Joker considers Batman his favorite opponent or 'sparring partner'. He is also only referred to as "Joker" and not "The Joker" by Batman and everyone else. The Joker's weapons include: a set of razor-sharp playing cards; Joker venom, a toxin that infects his victims with a ghastly grin similar to his along with uncontrollable spasms of laughter; and an exploding jack-in-the-box. He is highly agile, extremely intelligent and inhumanly cruel, looking at every single instance of human suffering as a joke. Before their arrest, the Joker was often accompanied by his two goons who never spoke, Punch and Judy who where two large men in purple and green clown outfits, but later found a new partner in the maniacally happy Harley Quinn. The origin of the Joker in this series appears to be the same as The Killing Joke, (the Joker was even wearing red clothes in the flashback possibly referencing the Red Hood) although it is unknown whether or not Batman was present. In Rumors, it was revealed that the Joker was the one responsible for an accident that crippled businessman Paul Karon during the fight with Batman causing Paul's bodyguard to become Rumor and exact revenge. In The Joining Pt. 2, the Joker helps the Gotham Police Force fight the Joining alongside some of the other villains and later commented on how insane the city had gone after Commissioner Gordon allowed the escapees of Arkham Asylum to fight The Joining for the occasion. In The Metal Face of Comedy, an accident with the Joker's hacking helmet at the bank resulted in the creation of Joker 2.0. While the Joker was at the hospital, Joker 2.0 had the Joker's latest henchman Marty hack him into Wayne
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