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From the Joker's first appearance in Batman #1, he has been willing (and eager) to wreak as much havoc as possible upon innocent people in order to claim the mantle of Gotham City's greatest criminal mastermind. Throughout his decades-long war with Batman, he has committed crimes both whimsical and inhumanly brutal, all with a logic and reasoning that, in Batman's words, "make sense to him alone."The Joker emerges from chemical-ridden water and goes insane, in The Killing Joke. In The Killing Joke, the Joker appears at Commissioner Jim Gordon's home one night and shoots Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl) in the stomach at close range, paralyzing her. He then kidnaps the Commissioner. The Joker strips Barbara naked and takes photographs of her injured body, which he later shows Gordon in an attempt to drive him insane; Joker seeks to prove that any man can have "one really bad day" and become just like him. Batman rescues Gordon before pursuing the Joker, eventually cornering him on the rooftop. Batman tries one final time to reach his old foe, offering to rehabilitate him. The Joker refuses, but shows his appreciation by sharing a joke with Batman. The two begin to laugh before Joker allows himself to be taken back to Arkham.
One of the Joker's biggest impacts on Batman's life was the murder of Jason Todd, the second Robin, in the story "A Death in the Family." In the search for his birth mother, Jason Todd discovers that she is working in an African refuge camp and is being blackmailed by the Joker to help him steal medical supplies. She ends up betraying her son to keep from having her crime exposed, leading to Jason's brutal beating by the Joker with a crowbar. The Joker locks Jason and his mother in the warehouse where the assault took place and blows it up just as Batman arrives.
A psychiatrist eventually begins to ponder that perhaps the Joker is in fact perfectly sane, and faking insanity so as to avoid the death penalty. This psychiatrist is Harleen Quinzel, the future Harley Quinn. As she trys to treat the Joker, he recounts a tale of an abusive father and runaway mother to gain her sympathy. It works all too well; she falls hopelessly in love with him and allows him to escape Arkham several times before she is eventually caught. Driven over the edge with obsession, she becomes a criminal and the Joker's on-and-off girlfriend.
During the events of the No Man's Land storyline, the Joker murders Sarah Essen Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's second wife, by shooting her in the head as she tried to protect the infants that he had kidnapped. He surrenders to Batman, but continues to taunt James Gordon, provoking the commissioner to shoot him in the kneecap.
In Emperor Joker, a multipart story throughout the Superman titles, the Joker steals Mister Mxyzptlk's reality altering power, albeit temporarily. In this form, the Joker tortures and kills Batman, only to bring him back to life and do it over and over again. Batman is left so broken that Superman has to steal his memories so that he can go on.
During the return of new villain Hush to Gotham City, the Riddler hires the Joker to save him, offering the Joker the name of the crooked cop who killed his wife all those years ago. However, the Joker's attempted revenge is cut short when Hush attacks with Prometheus, forcing the Joker to retreat. After Jason Todd returns to life and takes over his killer's old Red Hood identity during the lead-up to Infinite Crisis, Jason asserts that the Joker was not quite as crazy as he leads people to believe. Jason attempts to force Batman to shoot the Joker, angered at Batman's refusal to kill the Joker despite what he'd done. Batman refused, however, driving Jason away with a well-aimed batarang instead. At the conclusion of Infinite Crisis the Joker kills Alexander Luthor, hero of the original Crisis on Infinite Earths and villain of Infinite Crisis.
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