Manta then turned on the Joker, but the Clown Prince of Crime knocked Manta's vehicle off of a cliff by deploying an oversized whoopee cushion. Although the three supervillains succeeded in pushing the Batmobile off of a cliff, Batman simply converted the Batmobile into jet form, escaping any injury. For the race, the Joker drove his trademark Jokermobile, and gave commentary on the other racers' progress as he competed alongside them.ĭuring the race, the Joker and his fellow racers, Black Manta and Gentleman Ghost, ganged up on the Batmobile, trying to force the Caped Crusader out of the race. The Joker was one of the racers selected by Mongul to participate in his "Death Race" competition, along with Batman, Green Arrow, Huntress, Plastic Man and Woozy Winks, Guy Gardner, Catwoman, Black Manta, Gentleman Ghost and Steppenwolf. Looking to impress each other, Batman and Green Arrow punctured the balloon as quickly as they could, leaving the defeated Joker to the police. The timely intervention of Green Arrow foiled this strategy and forced the Joker to convert the Jokermobile into hot-air balloon mode in a last-ditch escape attempt. On one occasion, the Joker attempted to escape Batman by having his Jokermobile deploy enormous pieces of popcorn as a barricade. A battle royale ensued, which ultimately ended in the defeat of the Joker, Owlman, and all of the other supervillains. Batman, however, had anticipated this betrayal, and used the phase oscillator to travel back in time and bring several different (heroic) incarnations of himself into the present. The Joker cheerfully accepted, using the deathtrap to encase Batman in boiling wax.
With Batman at his mercy, Owlman offered the Joker a chance to betray Batman, and kill him via a custom-made deathtrap. Though Batman and the Joker fought well, they were eventually overcome by Owlman and his allies. After a long and hazardous chase, Batman and the Joker finally cornered Owlman in his own headquarters, only to find that Owlman had recruited several other villains ( Black Manta, the Brain, Gorilla Grodd, Doctor Polaris, Gentleman Ghost and Clock King) to his cause. Owlman demanded that Batman give him the phase oscillator (a device that enables travel between parallel universes and timelines) in exchange for the lives of the heroes, to which Batman and the Joker refused. Batman, remembering the heroic actions of the Joker's alternate-universe counterpart, reluctantly accepted on the condition that the Joker was not to hurt any innocents.Īfter a brief visit to the Batcave, the mismatched duo tracked down Owlman, who by then had captured every other hero in the city. After tracking down the real Batman (now on the run from the superhero community), the Joker offered his arch-nemesis a proposal the two of them would team up to defeat Owlman, since Batman's mind alone would be too evenly matched against Owlman's. When Batman was impersonated by his alternate-universe counterpart Owlman, the Joker alone believed that the new, criminally-minded Batman was an imposter. Every one of the Joker's capers, however, would eventually end in defeat, and the Clown Prince of Crime would inevitably be returned to the confines of Arkham Asylum. The Joker led a long, persistent criminal career and came with a hair's breadth of killing Batman countless times, to the point where Batman eventually devoted an entire wing in the Batcave's trophy room to his deathtraps. He was often aided in his crimes by other supervillains, henchmen, and his girlfriend Harley Quinn.Īccording to the Joker himself, one of his chief inspirations for becoming a supervillain was Mortimer Gloom, AKA the Weeper.
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