Was his body incinerated? Did he drown? Did he escape? He never again appears in the superman series and batman the animated series had already been completed (I don't really count "The Batman" as part of this timeline) Any info?
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The Joker survives and goes onto some really good episodes on Batman and Justice League.
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He definately survived. I mean, how else would he be in Justice League and "Return of the Joker"?
You know, I also notice that in nearly every film adaptation to the animated series, I notice the Joker seems to "die", and his character design changes.
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Dudes, "The Batman Superman Movie" did not have any connection to "Batman: The Animated Series" or "Justice League". It was just a stand alone animated movie featuring two of the greatest heroes.
Could you be anymore wrong? Worlds Finest was 3 episodes STAS and is part of the DCAU continuity. As is Mask of Phantasm, SubZero etc.
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The Batman/Superman Movie is certainly part of the DCAU. It was broadcast as three episodes of The New Batman/Superman Adventures on Kids' WB!. The only DC-related DTVs produced before the "DC Universe" animated movies that were not part of the DCAU were: 1) Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo; 2) Superman: Brainiac Attacks!; and 3) The Batman Vs. Dracula.
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Chest, not neck.
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Its almost NEVER explained how the Joker survives these type of scenarios, be it in the comics or the animated series. He just does. The rule generally is, if you don't find the Joker's body, he's not dead.
shareIts almost NEVER explained how the Joker survives these type of scenarios, be it in the comics or the animated series. He just does. The rule generally is, if you don't find the Joker's body, he's not dead.
Exactly. He always finds a way out of any potentially fatal predicament he's in. Good thing, too, since the Joker needs to be always part of the Batman universe.
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Well in Batman Beyond Return of the Joker, it was explained that Joker continued to live on after his body died by planting a microchip on Tim Drake that carried over his Gene sequences and I guess his memory somehow as well.
I remember in the crappy edited version of that awesome movie, they added a line about how he got Jarvis Tetch aka the Mad Hatter to design the microchip system for the Joker. I think Joker could have used this multiple times, hence when he appeared to be eaten by a shark in the Laughing Fish episode, when he died in Superman/Batman, and when he fell to his death in "The Killing Joke", he might have really died all those times and just had another host body lined up.
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The Joker always escapes. He survived the end of Mask of the Phantasm. He survived when he fell into the ocean with the shark in The Laughing Fish. They loved to give him ambiguous exits in this series. You always knew he survived somehow.
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"Did Joker ever die in anything (comics, movies, cartoons, etc.)?"
1. The Joker suicides, framing Batman for his murder in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.
2. Jack Nicholson's Joker in Batman (1989).
3. The Joker is killed by Tim Drake in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. Granted, his consciousness is transferred to a new host.
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Oh yeah, I forgot #2. Thanks. :)
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A recent Joker dead was in Batman: Arkham City (video-game) and I guess his dead for good (at least in that universe) because his dead body is carried by Batman.
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It's pretty obvious that Joker is a clone, with numerous other clones. Every time he dies, a new clone is activated. This entire plot-line is explained in the series and is touched upon even in the future with the "Batman: Return of the Joker" movie.
Also, Paul Dini and Alan Burnett go into greater detail in this interview, on the wishes of Bob Kane, regarding Joker clones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dI6mPDCqEo
Also, in the new Batman comics, Joker gets his face cut off, but the new clones of him have their faces totally fine, in the later issues. I think its used as a vehicle to allow Batman to "not kill" the Joker. It's pretty lame.
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