#Joker DC

[bloodymary83]

Joker canonically refuses to fight Batman until he’s finished his makeup

Even if he’s de*d or doesn’t have a face.

[do-you-ship-this-comic-ship]

propaganda:

There have been essays written on the homoeroticism of the Batman/Joker relationship. They are two sides of the same coin. They NEED each other. Bruce is just as obsessed with the Joker as the Joker is with him. They are destined to fight until neither of them can fight anymore. What could be more romantic???

[mrsegbert]

It would be a universe-ending scenario, but they would be such besties <3

[bitter-hibiscus]

people keep talking about Dick killing Joker as something he did for Jason (not true) when the much more interesting conversation we could be having is that Bruce revived Joker so Dick wouldn't have to live with the weight of taking someone else's life, therefore not only taking away all of Dick's autonomy in the situation but also making him have to live with the knowledge that his anger is capable of driving him to such lengths while also being aware that his anger won't fix a goddamn thing, which in turn makes him repress his negative emotions even more

[lleafcup]

girl talk

[humanoidluv]

we as a collective (dick grayson fans) don't talk enough about how perfectly dick was able to mimic the joker when appearing as him. we also don't talk about how this is the 2nd? time? that dick was put in arkham by bruce for a mission. and bruce left him in there an extra day this time. what the fuck.

[were-wolverine]

i think it’d be very funny and also very angsty if in my Reverse Robins au, dick still kills the joker

like, it’s a year after jason was killed, and the joker kidnaps Rumor/Tim. Robin arrives, the joker convinces him Rumor is dead, and then he taunts Robin about Batboy/Jason’s death

atp bruce is gone, presumed dead (lost in time), jason died a year ago, and dick is still recovering from his parents deaths. he can’t handle losing anyone else. so he just… stops holding back. he does the quadruple flip, slamming into the joker at 80mph, and breaks the bastard’s neck. no one revives him. dick doesn’t regret it one bit.

and the joker is forever known for being defeated by a fucking 12 year old with anger issues

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

You know how in the ghost king aus they usually say "Danny inherited the throne by Right of Conquest" despite never killing, dethroning, or even actually defeating Pariah Dark?

Yeah, I'm combining the Right of Conquest with the Danny kills the Joker au

Danny is now the Clown Prince of Crime without actually being a clown

[razzbatty]

Collab with @bepoucorp and their beautiful Batman and Joker designs!

[inoghmia]

Sketches

[notalop]

Let’s go to Tahiti together, Batman!

[bloodymary83]

Joker is a “Pretty Pretty Princess”

I thought what they had was special.

but, apparently everyone carries Joker “bridal style”.

I guess some criminals resist arrest but, the Joker is a “Drama Queen” who demands to be carried to jail.

[forgotten-daydreamer]

and by the way, major kudos to the authors of WFA for not treating Jason like he's incompetent. the family could've just met up without him knowing to discuss the course of action, instead they included him and didn't treat him like he's broken. yes, it backfired, but also at least Jason knows that his family doesn't consider his PTSD as a liability, or as something that makes him entirely useless or triggered at the slightest mention of the Joker. because he did look for Duke, after all, and he did show up at Tim's to discuss what to do since Bruce's shutting them all out. the fact that he got triggered anyway doesn't make him any less competent or any less capable and his family knows and won't hesitate to be there for him through it all.

I don't have a fast pass so no spoilers, please!!

[brucewaynehater101]

Hear me out. The Joker is undying (not immortal). I’ve seen this concept before in a couple of fanfics and I was thinking…

Tim is kidnapped by Harley while doing some birdwatching. He is joker junior’ed as Timothy Drake. Everything stays the same and he still shoots the Joker, but Bruce takes him to the cave, still not knowing who JJ is. Tim leaves the cave and all is ok for a bit.

But then Joker comes back to life. Bruce, Babs, Harley, and Tim are all shocked because the man was literally shot though the heart, but they all eventually move on, assuming that the Joker is immortal. All of them except Tim.

Tim becomes obsessed with finding the logistics of Joker’s supposed “immortality.” He begins consistently breaking into Arkam or Joker’s hideouts to try and (indirectly) kill the Joker in different ways

Eventually, he comes to the conclusion that the Joker’s corpse sucks in the life force of whoever’s closest to him to bring it back to life. Depending on the severity of the injury, his victim could drop dead in an hour or a few months.

Of course, being Joker Junior, Tim assumes that his body will do the same if he ever dies. That is the reason why he avoids death better than anyone he knows.

Fast forward to years later and he is stuck in a room with the Joker, trying to convince Jason to not kill the clown.

Absolutely fantastic idea! One, I love undying Joker hcs as long as he is still somehow killable. You can add a layer where Tim has cut off some of Joker's limbs or something to prevent him from respawning/commiting crime. As long as Joker dies again, he gets fully healed. Tim finds this aspect to be annoying as fuck.

The more people around when Joker revives, the more to share the life force drain.

I also want to acknowledge that the Joker Junior addition to this AU is amazing. So much to explore there as well.

Here's how I imagine the dialog to go for Jason and Tim:

Tim: "You can't kill him."

Jason: "Of course you'd say that, Pretender. You Bats may not kill, but I do."

Tim: "No. You literally can't kill him."

Jason: "Do you not see this gun I'm waving around?"

Tim: "If you kill him, it will kill you."

Jason: "If that's the price it costs."

Tim: "Please don't. Bruce couldn't handle it if you died again."

And basically them going back and forth because Tim can't get to the fucking point and Jason is too emotional to properly navigate the conversation

[lighttheghost]

Lego joker??????!!!!?? Why do you have a crowbar????? Wait- STOP GOING NEAR ROBIN WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!

[mzminola]

Want an AU where Dick beats the Joker to death and when Bruce tries to resuscitate him (to save Dick from the burden of having taken a life), it doesn’t work. Just like, he tries! It doesn’t take! The Joker is dead as a doornail at Nightwing’s hands and now the Gotham vigilante community has to deal with that!

Do they cover it up? Because ostensibly in-universe the Bats no-kill rule is part of how they’re able to operate in Gotham without their unmasking being a high priority for law enforcement. It also, I assume, makes them a lower priority for mafias to deal with than rival criminal orgs are. If word gets out that one of the Bats deliberately killed someone, that changes the entire board.

Does Dick try to turn himself in like he later does with the Blockbuster incident? How would that shake out? Yeah it’s a game changer, but also, out of everyone he could have killed, it was the Joker. No one wants to arrest him. No one wants to run that trial. Prosecuting the guy to finally kill the Joker would be a public relations nightmare for the Gotham city government.

Plus there’s bound to be some complicated feelings for Tim about this. Dick beats the Joker to death because he thinks the fucker murdered Tim! The kid who became Robin to prevent Bruce from beating people to death! Tim isn’t going to grieve the Joker any more than any other Gothamite, but the particular circumstance is a clusterfuck.

I’m not entirely sure where in the timeline this incident is relative to Jason’s journey. I know it’s after his resurrection, but is it before or after Talia heals him further with the Lazarus Pit? Because there’s a difference between being on a path of revenge and suddenly having to reassess all your decisions, and straight up coming back to yourself and immediately finding out your murderer is dead at your brother’s hands.

There are just so many complications here and I want to explore them.