Wayne survives due to a metal tray hidden under his jacket, and recognizes Napier as his parents' killer. Believing Wayne to be harmless, Joker taunts him with his signature line and shoots him. Joker also becomes obsessed with photographer Vicki Vale ( Kim Basinger), and attacks her while she meets with her boyfriend, billionaire Bruce Wayne - Batman's alter ego. He also turns Alicia into one of his "masterpieces" by disfiguring her face and drugging her into submission she eventually commits suicide. Aided by his right-hand man Bob ( Tracey Walter), Joker begins poisoning cosmetic products with "Smylex", a chemical agent that causes its victims to laugh hysterically as they die, leaving their corpses with a permanent smile. Styling himself as "The World’s First Fully-Functioning Homicidal Artist", Joker seeks revenge on Batman for his disfigurement and becomes obsessed with "outdoing" the Dark Knight, who he believes is stealing the spotlight from him. Driven insane by his reflection, Napier - now calling himself "Joker" - kills Grissom and takes over his criminal empire.
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He survives, but the chemicals turn his skin chalk-white, his lips red, and his hair green, while a botched attempt at plastic surgery leaves him with a permanent rictus grin. In pain, Napier stumbles and topples over a railing Batman tries unsuccessfully to pull him up, and he falls into a vat of chemicals. Napier kills Eckhardt and shoots at Batman, who deflects the bullet with one of his gauntlets so that it strikes a gauge, projecting glass shards into Napier's face. Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon ( Pat Hingle) and the masked vigilante Batman ( Michael Keaton) intervene separately, disrupting the theft.
The killing is to occur at Axis Chemicals, one of the mob's front companies, where Grissom sends Napier under the pretense of stealing incriminating documents. Max Eckhardt ( William Hootkins), a Gotham City Police Department cop on his payroll. Grissom finds out about the affair and sets him up to be killed by Lt. Napier privately dislikes Grissom, dismissing him as a "tired old man", and carries on an affair with his boss' moll, Alicia Hunt ( Jerry Hall). He carries a deck of playing cards pierced from front to back by an earlier gunshot, and often performs sleight-of-hand with them or tosses them into his hat during idle moments. Years later, Napier moves up in the ranks of the Gotham City mafia, eventually becoming the right-hand-man of crime boss Carl Grissom ( Jack Palance). Chill entreats him to run before the police arrive, however, so Napier spares Bruce and leaves, saying in passing, "See ya around, kid." Becoming the Joker Napier prepares to kill Bruce as well, saying to the boy, "Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moon light?" - his favorite thing to say right before killing someone. Napier was charged with assault with a deadly weapon at age 15.Īs a young man, Napier and his accomplice Joe Chill rob and murder Thomas and Martha Wayne in the alleyway behind the Monarch Theatre, leaving their young son Bruce as the only survivor. 4.2 Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?įictional character biography Early life Įven as a child, Jack Napier was psychologically unstable, but extremely intelligent, showing an advanced knowledge of chemistry, art and science he was also in and out of juvenile detention facilities for crimes such as arson, assault, and grand theft auto.This interpretation of the character is also responsible for the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne, the parents of Batman's alter-ego Bruce Wayne in Batman.
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This iteration of the Joker is a psychopathic mobster who serves as the right-hand man of Gotham City crime boss Carl Grissom, until the latter attempts to have Napier killed.Įver since Nicholson's portrayal in the film, the name Jack Napier has been used by various adaptations of the character, including Batman: The Animated Series and Batwoman, in which he is respectively voiced and portrayed by Mark Hamill and Nathan Dashwood, and the Murphyverse. This depiction is notable for being one of the first adaptations of the character to have a distinct first and last name, as well as one of the few instances which show his origins.
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His name is a play on the word Jackanapes, also a reference to the names Jack Nicholson and Alan Napier (who portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in the 1960s Batman TV series). Primarily portrayed by Jack Nicholson, the character was based on the iconic supervillain the Joker.
Jack Napier, also known as the Joker, is a fictional character introduced in the 1989 superhero film Batman, directed by Tim Burton. Mark Hamill ( Batman: The Animated Series)
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