![]() ![]() ![]() After a shoot-out with the Gotham City police on site, his partners in crime die. Jeannie dies in an electrical accident, but the show must go on, and The Joker - increasingly unhinged -continues with his plans to rob Ace Chemicals. 1 #168, he wears the Red Hood outfit to disguise himself when tragedy suddenly strikes. In need of fast cash to support his family, the Joker makes a deal with local criminals to break into his old job to rob them. In this version of the villain's backstory, he has a wife named Jeannie with a baby on the way. In Batman: The Killing Joke, the Joker quits his job at Ace Chemicals to try his hand at stand-up comedy but bombs. Moreover, like Ledger’s iteration’s conflicting stories in the Nolanverse, his origin story isn’t exactly consistent in the comics either. ![]() However, his daring escape permanently altered his skin, hair and lips unbeknownst to him. To conceal his identity, he donned a costume, took on the moniker of the “Red Hood” and equipped an oxygen tube to his hood so that he could sneak out of their facility through a pool of chemical waste and survive. 1 #168, “The Man Behind the Red Hood,” the Joker's rebirth as Batman’s arch-nemesis apparently started when he was a lab worker turned thief who stole a million dollars from the Monarch Playing Card Company. Before the theatrical release of The Dark Knight, controversy emerged about the face paint and how Joker’s new appearance possibly meant that his origin deviated from the source material. ![]()
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