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TheJokerearned his reputation due to the absurd and ridiculous crimes he commits every time he appears.
His crimes can vary from a simple prank to the near genocide of the entire planet.
Most criminals have a goal that they’re working towards.
Despitethe Joker’s origin being shrouded in mystery, his first encounter with Batman is pretty easy to find.
This story features the Joker’s first appearance in Gotham, where he was completely uninterested in Batman himself.
Instead, the Joker was fixated on taking revenge on Gotham City for reasons that are never made clear.
This moment forever changed the direction of both the Joker and Barbara Gordon’s characters.
But just shooting Babs is clearly not sadistic enough for the Clown Prince of Crime.
It was an absurd story, but it left an undeniable mark on Batman’s history.
After Jason finally found his mother, he was horrified to learn that she was working for the Joker.
But of course, the Joker didn’t stop at just child murder.
Unfortunately, she proved to be no match for the Clown Prince of Crime.
During their confrontation, the Joker tossed one of the babies at Sarah.
Batman is forced to fight off the Justice League in a brutal battle in the streets of Gotham.
As far as crime goes, poisoning the Earth’s greatest defenders is hard to beat.
This venom very nearly caused Gotham to tear itself apart.
Because of the Joker, Gotham City was essentially turned into something out of a zombie apocalypse movie.
The streets were filled with roaming maniacs looking for the next person to attack.
He loves it, even.
But he took things a bit too far whenhe murdered the billion people living in China.
Using god-like power, he simply ate every single person living there as if they were Chinese food.
Even with god-like power, theJoker never lost his sadistic sense of humor.
When the Joker possessed Mr. Mxyzptlk’s reality-warping powers, he used them to erase everyone in existence.
There really isn’t any greater crime in the Joker’s history.
The Joker has killed thousands of people.
He’s murdered men, women, and children.
He has poisoned people.
He has turned friends into enemies.
He’s caused the genocide of entire countries.
But there’s simply no crime that reaches the level of erasing all life in the entire universe.
Only theJokercould come up with such an absurd crime.
The Joker is a psychopathic criminal mastermind with a warped sense of humor.
