What is the story behind the character THE JOKER?!
Question: why does he look like that? what's wrong with his mouth? does he have scars? what happened to him to make him look like that?
Answers: why does he look like that? what's wrong with his mouth? does he have scars? what happened to him to make him look like that?
I'm sure as long as Batman and all his villains have been around, there's something on the Internet that can answer your question. There's a different explanation for everytime I'd looked into it, but the one in the original movie was that he fell into toxic chemicals that made his hair green, his skin bleached white, and his lips red. The smile came from a bullet going straight through his cheeks (imagine that, it happened to miss all his teeth, too) and he went to a bad surgeon who tried to stitch the holes shut, but wound up stitching his mouth into a smile. All that combined, it made him twice as whacked out as he was before.
Of course, in that movie, he was played by Jack Nicholson.
He fell into a vat of chemicals that made his skin bleached, hair turn green, and lips turn bright red. I think going crazy was by himself maybe it was a side effect.
that's a good question...
In comics lore, as revealed in Detective Comics #168 (1951), the man who would become the Joker first masqueraded as a criminal known as the Red Hood. During a botched robbery at a Gotham chemical plant, the Hood jumped into a vat of hazardous chemicals in order to escape from Batman. Upon emerging from a drainage pipe, he discovered that his skin had been bleached white. His hair had turned green, and his mouth was permanently distorted into a large grin with bright red lips. The chemicals caused him to go insane, thus transforming him into the Joker.
Although this origin is considered canon in DC Comics continuity, the Joker's earlier life is up for debate. So are the circumstances surrounding why he wore the Red Hood guise. The most accepted origin is found in Alan Moore's "Batman: The Killing Joke." Moore presents the pre-toxed Joker as a chemical engineer who quits his job to become a stand-up comedian. Failing miserably as a comic and desperate to provide for his pregnant wife, the man accepts a job to guide two thieves to the Monarch Playing Card Factory through the neighboring chemical plant where he worked. During the planning stages of the heist, police inform the man that his wife has been killed in a household accident. It's possible she was killed by corrupt police involved in the heist. Although he's hesitant to continue the caper, the man is strong-armed into donning a red helmet and leading the two thugs through the plant.
While "The Killing Joke" is the most accepted comic-book origin of the Joker, the desperate engineer is not the only version of the villain's beginnings. In another retelling, the young Joker collects the bones of animals he tortures. He also takes pleasure in his mother's abuse at the hands of his father. This version reveals that the Joker's first murder was committed on a neighborhood boy who discovered his "pet cemetery" and that the young Joker later murdered his father.