History
Bullied and abused for much of his life, Jackie found happiness with the beautiful, loving Evelyn Dent, only to lose her when her split personalities developed. He became a struggling comedian at the Last Laugh comedy club, but then witnessed the club's owner being murdered by the vicious Owlman.
Sick of being bullied, Jackie redesigned his act, focusing all his jokes on Owlman. Aided by manager Harley Quinn, he became a kind of hero to the frustrated Gotham populace for boldly ridiculing every aspect of the thuggish vigilante.
Owlman's retribution, however, was deadly. Harley was murdered and Jackie's mouth was sliced open, leaving him with an unusually wide grin. Whatever sanity he'd possessed vanished in that moment as he became the Jokester, dedicating his life to ruining and humiliating Owlman and his sidekick Talon.
The Jokester murdered by the Earth-isolating Monitor on Earth-8 in the stronghold of Lord Havok
After a long career of fighting and resisting the original Owlman and Talon (and later taking on the new Owlman), Jokester found his place with the Riddler family discovering his former wife Eve and daughter Duela Dent. Taking advantage of the arrival of the extra-dimensional travelers Donna Troy, Jason Todd and Kyle Rayner to directly attack the Crime Society, the Jokester left Earth-3 with them. The Jokester along with his allies were captured when they arrived on Earth-8 by Lord Havok and his Extremists. It was during their escape from Lord Havok that the murderous extra-dimensional purification Monitor, Solomon, arrives and proclaims that he will execute these so-called "Earth-hoppers" as he did Duela Dent on New Earth. Enraged by the news that his daughter was killed, Jokester decided to directly attack her killer himself. Not being superpowered, the Jokester was killed when he decided to engage in direct conflict with an obvious superhuman being like the renegade Monitor whose speed was so fast that particular Monitor was able to shoot the Jokester in the back before the Jokester was able to fully turn to fight the murderer of his daughter.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Jokester has a keen analytical and structured mind and is gifted at using distraction to implement direct attacks. While he has no specific superhuman abilities, he is known to hold his own in combat with superhuman adversaries long enough to escape.
Abilities
Despite being late middle aged, Jokester has remarkable speed, strength and agility for his age.
Weaknesses
Jokester has all the normal weaknesses of a human male, though is beyond most especially for his age
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Jokester has many classic trick devices of the Joker of classic Earth-Two such as an armored clown van and supersized cards. However as a noted costumed hero of Earth-3, Jokester has a lighted call signal device, parallel to the now defunct Bat-Signal.
Transportation
Various, though his most noted is his armored clown van
Weapons
Various.
Notes
- Jokester is a hero on Earth-3 who seeks to stop Owlman II. It is suggested that he killed the original Owlman for killing his longtime friends Mikey and talent manager, Harleen Quinzel.
- Unlike the mainstream Joker, Jokester's skin and hair was not disfigured, only his mouth was cut wide by Owlman, suggesting that he could change his skin coloring back to normal if he so chooses.
- Jackie's life in some ways parallels the life of the Bruce Wayne of New Earth (for instance, his murdered associates and loved ones and his vast fortune)
Trivia
- In other media versions of the Jokester exist such as the Red Hood of Batman: The Brave and the Bold and the Jester of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. However both receive the famous dip in chemicals that Joker received and Jokester didn't.
Related
- 8 Appearances of Jokester (Earth-3)
- 7 Images featuring Jokester (Earth-3)
- 2 Quotations by or about Jokester (Earth-3)
- Character Gallery: Jokester (Earth-3)
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