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The Joker is one of Batman and Robin's greatest foes in Gotham City. He frequently pairs up with the Penguin.

Physical appearance[]

The Joker is an adult male who has bleached white skin, red lips and green hair, to resemble a clown (due to him having fallen into a vat of chemicals). In his first appearance, he wears a purple pinstripe suit with a red bowtie, a red vest, gray gloves, purple pants and black shoes.

Personality[]

The Joker is known for being a prankster who often pulls pranks at the expense of others, in addition to having a wicked sense of humor. Of course, it didn't stop him from committing crimes or plot schemes that comes at the expense of Batman and Robin.

In Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, he is revealed to have a greedy streak, as he tries to steal Batman's money. He is also easily flattered when Daphne talks about his lipstick knowledge, and their shared love of a particular discontinued red lipstick in the Miller & Frank Department Store.

Skills and abilities[]

Since being driven insane and his chemical bath, Joker has shown considerable strength and immunity to pain. He is as brilliant as he is insane, using a wide variety of instruments to exact his crimes.

History[]

The New Scooby-Doo Movies[]

Season one[]

Joker and Penguin are the living skeletons

Joker and Penguin (right) unmasked in their haunted house.

The Joker and Penguin are involved in a counterfeiting operation, and they use the haunted house at the Gotham City Amusement Park as their hideout. When Batman and Robin explore the haunted house in order to search for them, the criminal duo use numerous spooky tricks and mechanisms to attempt to scare them away, which proved fruitless. However, they capture Batman and Robin by luring them into a trap room, which they can't escape from because the walls are too smooth for their Bat-lines to hook onto anything. When the heroes fail to return, the gang gets worried and decides to investigate the haunted house themselves. When they do, they too are subject to the Joker's and Penguin's tricks and traps. However, despite their best efforts, they fail to scare the gang away.

Joker is the Dryad

Joker without his Dryad mask.

In a final attempt to get rid of them, they disguise themselves as skeletons and tried to chase them off. The disguise backfire; Scooby-Doo mistook them for "delicious-looking bones" and start chasing them. They end up falling into their own trap, the very same one they used to capture Batman and Robin. After their capture, the two villains reveal that while they do pass the counterfeit money, they do not print it; the actual mastermind behind the operation is someone else whose identity they don't even know.[4]

The Joker and Penguin later attempt to steal a flying suit from a spoonerism-prone inventor. They disguise themselves as a dryad and a troll respectively, hoping to scare the gang off their trail.[5]

Batman: The Brave and the Bold[]

He and Penguin attempt to find the fortune of Bulldog Benson.[1]

Scooby-Doo! Team-Up[]

Joker in Scooby's dream

Joker in Scooby's dream.

At the beginning of his visit to the Mystery Analysts of Gotham City headquarters, Scooby-Doo dozes off and dreams that he is Batman's sidekick (wearing Robin's clothes), helping him take out the Joker.[6]

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Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold[]

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Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?[]

Man-Bat unmasked as the Joker

The Joker unmasked as the Man-Bat.

Season one[]

In order to rob the bank account of billionaire Bruce Wayne, the Joker disguised himself as Man-Bat and kidnapped his butler, Alfred Pennyworth, from his mansion. Bringing Pennyworth to the abandoned Miller & Frank Department Store, the Joker attempted to torture him into revealing the passwords, but the mall was searched by Mystery Inc. So, the Joker used the Man-Bat disguise to attempt to deter Mystery Inc. away from his site of operations. The Joker first attacked Mystery Inc. as the Man-Bat after Velma discovered his incriminating laptop. However, he was captured with the help of Batman and exposed for his crimes.[7]

The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries[]

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TB&SDM (2022)[]

Joker unmasked (Gotham's got Talent)

Joker unmasked.

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Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too![]

Joker (Krypto)

Joker destroying Metropolis.

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Appearances[]

Television[]

Direct to video[]

Comics[]

In other languages[]

Actor Language Notes
Mieczysław Morański (TNSD ep. 2)

Aleksander Mikołajczak (TNSD ep. 15)

Mirosław Guzowski (B:T&tB)

Przemysław Glapiński (SD&B:T&tB)

Jarosław Domin (SGDW)

Polski

Notes/Trivia[]

  • His first Scooby-Doo! Team Up appearance is based on his attire in the Silver/Bronze Age of DC Comics, while his second appearance and personality is based on the incarnation seen in Batman: The Animated Series (wherein he is voiced by Mark Hamill).

Appearances in other media[]

  • The Joker is widely regarded as Batman's greatest adversary. He was originally conceived as a comic-book character by artists, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson, and writer, Bill Finger, for DC Comics, first appearing in Batman #1 (April 25, 1940).
  • In his early appearances in Batman comics, the Joker was portrayed as a homicidal maniac who murders people for pleasure and thrill, though that was subsequently toned down into being more of a prankster by the mid-1940s.
    • Consequently, the Joker's trait as a prankster was carried over into early adaptations, notably in the 1966 Batman TV series starring Adam West and the animated adaptations produced by Filmation and subsequently Hanna-Barbera.
  • Joker's first animated appearance was in the The Adventures of Batman segments of the Filmation-produced, The Batman/Superman Hour, which were later repackaged as Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder. He was voiced by Larry Storch, who would reprise the role for The New Scooby-Doo Movies. He also appeared in Hanna-Barbera's The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, voiced by Frank Welker.
  • The incarnation of Joker in the film Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, originally appeared in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold TV series on Cartoon Network. He was voiced by Jeff Bennett in both.
  • Interestingly enough, at the time the Joker made his two appearances in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, he was in the middle of a four-year absence in Batman comics, which ended in 1973 when he reappeared.
    • Following his reappearance in Batman comics, the Joker returned to his homicidal roots who matches wits with Batman with an increased emphasis on his insanity, which subsequently carried forward into later and more-recent adaptations, such as Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League.
    • As such, with the exception of the Scooby segment of The Brave and the Bold's Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!, the gang has never encountered the more mainstream murderous and insane version of the Clown Prince of Crime.

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