The Joker (Cesar Romero)

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The Joker
Real name:	Unidentified
Aliases:	W.C. Whiteface, owner of Penthouse Publishers Clavier Ankh
Portrayed by:	Cesar Romero
Appearances:	Batman (1960s series) Batman (1966 Movie)

The Joker was an arch-nemesis of Batman. The Joker is the Dynamic Duo's most frequent and most exuberant enemy. His abilities as a master conjuror allow him to effortlessly escape from prison, making him even more of a threat. Luckily, his crime waves often follow some pattern or theme that sometimes allows Batman and Robin to predict his next move. Joker is well-known for his skill with electronics, and was a hypnotist when he was younger.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Weapons and Equipment 3 Associates 4 Behind the Scenes 5 Gallery 6 See

[edit] Biography

The Joker was the clown of crime and one of his first goals was to unmask Batman.

Some time later, Joker teamed up with Penguin, Catwoman, and Riddler to form The United Underworld, to disband the United Nations. His role in the Combination Trap (devised by the Riddler) was the Jack in the Box to send Batman flying toward the Penguin's exploding octopus, however one of the unnamed thugs fell onto the jack in the box and was killed by the exploding octopus. The four super criminals managed to dehydrate the nine members of the United World Security Council and take them to the submarine, however Batman and Robin draw it to the surface, where the Dynamic Duo fight the United Underworld. Near the end, Robin fights the Joker and defeats him by punching him over the edge, into the water. He is captured along with the other criminals when Batman and Robin chain them to the side of the submarine and Batman calls the coast guard.

[edit] Weapons and Equipment

• Two-way spy device: allows him to eavesdrop on conversations. It is equipped with a remote control-activated self-destruct.
• Joker's jumping beans: kept in a briefcase. When he opens it, the beans jump out and cause an enormous distraction, aiding his getaway.
• Liquid cement: when thrown on the floor, this will keep anyone who walks on it stuck in place.
• Joker jelly: concentrated strawberry gelatin that can change a large amount of water to jelly. When put in the Gotham City Reservoir, it was powerful enough to affect the entire city's water supply.
• Satellites: allow Joker to follow people by planting a tracking device on them.
• Roving Robot Recorder: lets Joker see and hear through his robots' eyes and ears.
• Jokermobile: a specialized modified roadster.
• Portable Robot Receiver: homes in on a robot's signal.
• Gas grenades: used for quick escapes.
• Tiny cuff link radio circuit: for listening in on conversations.
• Robot Super: strength Last Ounce of Energy Switch- increases the robots' power when needed.
• Magic box: the first version of this device helped Joker hypnotize people, it provided a visual device for to distract them while he was confounding their mind with his mental skills.
• Rebuilt Magic box: the second box had a switch that could be used to turn time backwards or forwards, also controlling its speed.
• Human key duplicator: can skeletonize a person's body into the shape of a large key.
• Wax spray chamber: coats the victim with layer upon layer of wax. Has three speed settings.
• Mobile: a rotating machine with many spinning pallet knives arranged on its rotating arms. The victim is strapped to a platform as the knives descend toward him.
• Two-way Hotdog Transmitter: disguised radios for when secrecy is paramount.
• Paralyzing gas pellets: explode when activated by the hotdog transmitter.
• Surfing Experience & Ability Transferometer: drains all surfing know-how from one person and puts it into another. Contains a Vigor Reverser that does the same with youthful energy.
• Sea Urchin Spines: filled with deadly poison
• Lethal Joker buzzer: hidden in palm of the hand, causes the victim to lose his five senses one by one, just before their lungs collapse.
• Little green time bomb: hidden in the Batmobile, this little number destroyed almost the entire Batcave.
• Flying saucer: was designed with the help of Joker's cellmate, a mad scientist. It could travel to the sun, and had an interplanetary microphone for making pronouncements.

[edit] Associates

List of The Joker's associates and henchwenches as seen in the 1960's TV Series:

• Cheerleader Suzy: Captain of the Woodrow Roosevelt High School Cheerleader Squad, and secret member of Joker's gang. Once Joker has no further use for her, he gives her a bottle of poison in the guise of Canadian perfume. Batman and Robin save her life and she reveals Joker's plans. She is sent to The Wayne Foundation for Delinquent Girls.

• Nick: Member of Joker's gang who was with Suzy when Dick Grayson tried to infiltrate the Joker's gang. Nick saw through Grayson's bad-boy image because Dick couldn't smoke a cigarette without choking.

• Venus: an unrelenting assistant to Joker during his Zodiac Crimewave. She wanted to do good, but was easily distracted by expensive gifts of perfume and champagne. But whenever she helped Joker, she almost immediately felt bad about it. After talking with Batman a few times, she was won over by his charm and betrayed Joker, but it wasn't that easy. She was thrown into a pool with a giant man-eating clam, but Batman rescued her. It is not known what ultimately became of her, though Commissioner Gordon did say that the courts would take her change of heart into consideration.

• Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter: henchmen

• Josie Miller: a girl with big dreams, she was happy to get engaged to Bruce Wayne as part of Joker's scheme. Unfortunately for her, the engagement was soon annulled.

• Mr. Glee, Mr. Yock, Mr. Boff: robots that Joker controlled by remote voice commands. Joker learned to build them as his manual training project the last time he was in prison. Mr. Glee was destroyed when Batman twisted his nose after discovering that he had no sense of humor.

• Cornelia: very vain, always looking into a mirror or other reflective surface. Enjoys fur coats very much. Says when there are no mirrors around, she gets thirsty.

• Latch and Bolt: henchmen, also good friends of Joker. They feel they owe their lives to him, after he broke them out of prison, threw their parole officer in Gotham River, kidnapped the entire jury at their trial, and held the judge's wife hostage.

• Baby Jane Towser: heiress to the paper clip fortune. She was impressed by Joker's skill in the Art Competition, and couldn't refuse to help him when he told her that she was his muse. After he robbed her family's wing of the Gotham Art Museum, she realized he was no artistic genius.

• Riptide and Wipe Out: surfer henchmen. Their special skill is making surfboards.

• Undine: a cute beach bunny who worked part-time in the Surf Shop at Gotham Point.

• Catwoman: she recruited him to help her find a hidden hoard of gunpowder. She was even nice enough to pick him up at prison when he was paroled.

• Mrs. Green: as a part of Joker's Martian invasion hoax, she went to the police claiming to have seen a three foot tall alien in Gotham Park.

• Professor Greenleaf: also tried to stir up invasion anxiety, he tried to convince Barbara Gordon and her father that Gotham would soon be filled with organisms from outer space. He too was on Joker's payroll.

• Emerald: another of Joker's not-so-helpful female assistants.

• Shamrock, Chartreuse: henchmen.

• Verdigris: disguised himself as a Martian in a green business suit and ran around Gotham frightening citizens. He also helped fly Joker's flying saucer.

• Queenie: when she was captured by Batman, she tried to get out of it by coming on to him. Batman would have none of it.

• Oliver, Stanley, Ernie, W.C. Fields: simple henchmen who bore no resemblance to the originals.

[edit] Behind the Scenes

In an interview about his role, Cesar said " Why Dozier wanted I'll never know because I asked his wife, Ann Rutherford, " Why did Bill think of me for this part ? She said I don't know. He said he saw you in something, and he said, "He's the one I want to play the Joker." I haven't the slightest idea what it was that he saw me in, because I had never done anything like it before."

[edit] Gallery

[edit] See

• The Joker
• The Joker (Jack Nicholson)
• The Joker (Heath Ledger)
• The Joker (Roger Stoneburner)
• The Joker (BTAS)
• The Joker (The Batman)