Talk: Joker (New Earth)

Real Name

Sorry folks,

As far as we know today, Jack Napier is not confirmed to be the Joker's real name. (Please see the notes)

If anyone could provide a source, that we be awesome!!!

--Jamie 12:30, 24 August 2006 (Eastern Daylight Time)

hey, I did a couple of days ago. Check it out :)

Uhhh .. what is "Jack dennis Sr." from?

23:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Out-of-universe

Most of this article reads as "out of universe", shouldn't it be rewritten to pretend he's real?
Roygbiv666 04:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I've taken care of most of it, and at least it's now all original content. Writing the insanity part is like impossible though, I keep on writing drafts of that but none of them are ever satisfying, so I'm updating that one as I go along. The "outofuniverse" stuff is tricky though, as the Joker himself has been known to express awareness that he's in a comic book. It's weird how that kind of thing comes up, I had to remove a stub complaining about the Ambush Bug article being out-of-universe, awhile back.

- Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 00:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

References needed

While most of this article is properly referenced. The Personality section in particular needs some more. When did Joker gain the Philosophers stone? When did J'onn and Spectre enter his mind? ArkhamAsylumWasTooAwesomeForMyXbox 19:11, November 8, 2009 (UTC)

Well,that was fast. Thanks, Mrblonde267. ArkhamAsylumWasTooAwesomeForMyXbox 20:24, November 8, 2009 (UTC)

No problem at all. Always happy to help. Unfortunately, I couldn't find reference for the Stone bit... but I even have visual reference for the mind bit. That was a good story.

- Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 03:40, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

Oberon Sexton

Since Joker IS Oberon Sexton, the two articles should be merged. Anyone agree?--Mustacheman 21:10, May 6, 2010 (UTC)

Seconded! CaptainKobold 18:49, May 8, 2010 (UTC)

The only issue I could see come up, which I don't think it will, is if the real Oberon Sexton is ever referenced or seen in a flashback of some kind. Or if, like many secondary characters, they want to use him again and decide he's not dead. Like I said, I doubt it, but just throwing this out thereJMockShepard 12:29, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Brave and the Bold Red Hood

Since the The Brave and the Bold version of the Red Hood is just a heroic Joker, Should he be included in this Article? Ztyran 03:00, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Why? He's not the New Earth Joker.

Alternatively, if you meant to ask "should he be added to the Joker disambiguation page?", then I'd say yes. -- Tupka²¹⁷ 14:01, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Serial Killer

OK, a nit-pick. Technically, he's more of a mass murderer or a spree killer than a serial killer. Maybe he escapes a "real world" classification?

02:57, January 17, 2011 (UTC)

Theme

Why does he have the Batman theme? He's a clown not a bat. He maybe Batman's archenemy but I don't see Lex Luthor with the Superman theme. SeanWheeler 19:22, April 17, 2012 (UTC)

Lex Luthor doesn't have a theme at all - which is quite alright. If he DID have a theme, it would be the superman theme. That said, themes are optional, decorative elements of pages, simply meant to make higher trafficked pages more visually appealing to readers. Needless to say, a purple/yellow/green theme would not be visually appealing (or legible) for most readers, and as such, either the batman theme or no theme at all would be best for the Joker. The themes are not tailored for EACH character, they are tailored for those ASSOCIATED with a specific character. - Hatebunny 19:28, April 17, 2012 (UTC)

I wouldn't be opposed to a Joker theme, that actually sounds like a cool idea. But until then, the themes go by families of characters... and Joker is definitely part of the Batman family of characters. It's the same convention for everyone and their villains, we just don't always bother adding themes.

- Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 19:30, April 17, 2012 (UTC)