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unusual facts about The Joker



Glasgow smile

The Glasgow smile has been inflicted on characters in multiple films and television programs, including Green Street, House of Tolerance, The Krays, Sons of Anarchy, Pan's Labyrinth, and 2008's The Dark Knight, in which Heath Ledger as the Joker both has the scar and carves it on numerous victims.

Marc Summers

Summers was a young page at CBS when The Price Is Right premiered with The Joker's Wild and Gambit in 1972, and he often asked advice of Barker, Jack Barry and Wink Martindale—the shows' respective hosts—about a hosting career.

Springdale, Ohio

In the episode Joker's Favor of Batman: The Animated Series, Charlie Collins moves to Springdale as part of the witness relocation program in an attempt to flee from The Joker.


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Ace the Bat-Hound

His enemies include the Joker's hyenas Bud and Lou, the Penguin's trained birds (Artie the Puffin, Griff the Vulture, and Waddles the Penguin), and Catwoman's pet cat Isis (who flirts with Ace much like Catwoman flirts with Batman).

Alternative versions of Joker

In JLA: The Nail, the Joker is provided with Kryptonian gauntlets and launches an attack on Arkham Asylum, forcing most of the inmates to fight each other before brutally murdering Batgirl and Robin while forcing Batman to watch.

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown

The voice cast includes: Kevin Conroy (Batman), Mark Hamill (The Joker), Tara Strong (Harley Quinn), Fred Tatasciore (Solomon Grundy, Mr. Hammer), Troy Baker (Two-Face, Robin), Corey Burton (Hugo Strange), Larry Grimm (Deathstroke), Amy Carle (Poison Ivy) instead of Tasia Valenza.

Batman: The Man Who Laughs

While Bruce is researching in the Batcave, the Joker appears on television again to make a similar threat, this time on Jay W. Wilde.

Bobby Russell

Another song that Bobby Russell penned was "The Joker Went Wild", a hit on Billboard Top 40 for Brian Hyland in 1966.

Christmas With the Joker

The Joker reveals three kidnapped people that he has named the fictitious "Awful Lawful Family": Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock, and Summer Gleeson.

When Batman and Robin arrive, the Joker starts up a record of Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and sends multiple, over-sized, toy soldiers, which are soon defeated.

Christmas With the Joker is the thirty-eighth episode of the first season of the American animated television series Batman: The Animated Series, first aired on November 13, 1992, written by Eddie Gorodetsky, and directed by Kent Butterworth.

Elsewhere, Robin attempts to convince Batman to take the night off from patrolling the city, yet Batman learns of the Joker's escape.

Figure with Meat

The painting is featured in Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman, in a scene where the Joker and his henchmen destroy several works of art at the Gotham City Museum.

Graffiti in Russia

An example of this is the Russian Red Army soldiers on a monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, which has been turned into popular superheroes and cartoon characters (including Superman, Santa Claus, Ronald McDonald, and the Joker) by an anonymous graffiti artist.

Hollywood Babble-On

Garman's voicing of the main characters included the "voices" of Adam West as Batman, Ed Wynn as the Joker (initially, this was Garman's impression of Cesar Romero's Joker, but Smith suggested using Wynn's voice instead), Sean Connery as Commissioner Gordon, and Al Pacino as Maxie Zeus.

Jerry Robinson

Though Kane claimed he and writer Bill Finger came up with the idea for the Joker, most comic historians credit Robinson for the iconic villain, modeled after Conrad Veidt in the 1928 movie, The Man Who Laughs.

Joker's Favor

The note the Joker has that says Charlie has changed his name to Don Wallace lists his address as 12 Marigold Lane, Springdale, Ohio a city near Cincinnati; however his area code is listed as 614, which is the Columbus, Ohio area code.

Two years later, Charlie (who has changed his name to Don Wallace and moved to Springdale, Ohio with his wife and son) receives a phone call from the Joker, who wants Charlie to make good on his promise, saying his men are watching the house.

Fortunately, Charlie had set off a makeshift Bat-Signal prior to this attack and Batman arrives just in time to get rid of the bomb, which destroys the Joker's getaway van.

Jokers in Solitaire

When played in a game of Forty Thieves, the Joker is placed on the foundations while the natural card is unavailable.

Leslie Thompkins

In Marco Palmieri's short story "Best of All," featured in the non-canonical anthology The Further Adventures of The Joker, the Joker tells Batman that Leslie is his mother.

Lord Woodbine

He played a tenor pan as part of the first professional steel band in England, the All Caribbean Steel Band, which was formed by Gerry Gobin in 1955, and played regularly at the Joker's Club and then the Jacaranda Club in Liverpool, owned by Allan Williams.

The Joker of Seville

The Joker of Seville is an epithet for Don Juan.