How many times have we seen the Joker die?

[Lorendiac]

I'm not going to be fussy about whether it was a story that happened "in continuity." I'll take anything that was a "death scene" for the Joker. A story in which he actually died, instead of just last being seen in a helicopter which then exploded, leaving the "possibility" that he was dead. Or any other very ambiguous situation. I want a definite corpse, not just a "possibility," okay? :)

As long as he died in the story, I'll take "regular continuity" comic books, Elseworlds, movies, TV shows, whatever. How many times have we seen the Joker die?

I'll just start the ball rolling by mentioning two of the Most Obvious Times.

The Dark Knight Returns. About 20 years from now, in a story set in its own little alternate timeline, the Joker dies.

Batman (1989). In the movie with Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as the Joker, the Joker takes a nasty fall at the end and is indubitably dead after he hits the sidewalk.

What other times can you think of?

A suggestion - you might want to restrict yourself to only mentioning two Joker Death Scenes at a time, in order to leave other people a chance to give us their two cents' worth. I tried to set the example there, by only mentioning two of the several examples that I could remember. I don't want one comic book buff to steal the show and give all of us a master list in the first ten minutes of this thread's existence :)

[Nefarius]

I'm not going to be fussy about whether it was a story that happened "in continuity." I'll take anything that was a "death scene" for the Joker. A story in which he actually died, instead of just last being seen in a helicopter which then exploded, leaving the "possibility" that he was dead. Or any other very ambiguous situation. I want a definite corpse, not just a "possibility," okay? :)

As long as he died in the story, I'll take "regular continuity" comic books, Elseworlds, movies, TV shows, whatever. How many times have we seen the Joker die?

I'll just start the ball rolling by mentioning two of the Most Obvious Times.

The Dark Knight Returns. About 20 years from now, in a story set in its own little alternate timeline, the Joker dies.

Batman (1989). In the movie with Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as the Joker, the Joker takes a nasty fall at the end and is indubitably dead after he hits the sidewalk.

What other times can you think of?

A suggestion - you might want to restrict yourself to only mentioning two Joker Death Scenes at a time, in order to leave other people a chance to give us their two cents' worth. I tried to set the example there, by only mentioning two of the several examples that I could remember. I don't want one comic book buff to steal the show and give all of us a master list in the first ten minutes of this thread's existence :)
Joker has "died" many times.Helicopters explode,he falls in water from very high building,he even die in electric chair(but the writers change their minds and they bring him back without explanation).But as you said,only in Batman movie and the Dark Knight Returns we have an official death(i loved the second one in Frank Miller's book)

[xnef1025]

Vampire Batman sucked the Joker's blood, staked him, and beheaded him in the Elseworld book after Red Rain.

[olympichero62]

Vampire Batman sucked the Joker's blood, staked him, and beheaded him in the Elseworld book

Vampire...............Batman

[Guts/Batman]

I haven't read it but didn't Dick beat the Joker to death.

[1HELLBOY]

I've seen the Joker shot, stabbed, electrocuted, beaten, and many other things. But I've NEVER seen him die. He's damn near immortal. In the most basic sense of the word.

[Lorendiac]

I've seen the Joker shot, stabbed, electrocuted, beaten, and many other things. But I've NEVER seen him die. He's damn near immortal. In the most basic sense of the word.

You mean you haven't even read Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Returns"?

[1HELLBOY]

You mean you haven't even read Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Returns"?



Nope, couldn't get past the art. But I know he "dies" in it. I've never SEEN him die personally, but I know he did, in fact, DIE in DKR. Just never seen it. I should have been more specific.

[Aufbach]

**SPOILERS BELOW**



The Joker definitely dies in JLA: The Nail, which I believe is an Elseworld's story. Batman (perhaps accidentally, perhaps not) kills the Joker after the Joker tortures and kills Robin and Batgirl. Batman is tried and acquitted of murder, since killing the Joker was considered an "act of war" at the time. Batman is so filled with self-frustration at his lack of control that at the end of the comic he retires from the JLA (but not from crimefighting).

For what it's worth, the Joker's *ghost* does come back in the sequel story, JLA: Another Nail. But his ghost is then "killed" again, ultimately by the spirits of Robin and Batgirl. Yeah, this story is a little out there ... :)

[OverMaster]

The Joker died in John Byrne's Superman/Batman: Generations Part II, IIRC. ISTR it was, of all things, of old age.

Pirate Joker was also killed by Pirate Batman (run through with a sword, to be exact) in a Detective Comics Elseworlds annual.

[Viking Bastard]

Joker dies twice in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

First he's shot by Tim Drake. Then he returns from death and is defeated again.

[Sean Whitmore]

I haven't read it but didn't Dick beat the Joker to death.


Yeah, that was in that crappy Last Laugh mini (wait, WAS it a mini, or just crossovers? Ah, screw it). I think Dick beat the crap out of Joker and then strangled him, and Joker was legally dead for a few seconds before he was revived (by Dick, Tim, or Bruce, I don't remember).


SEAN

[CjP]

I forget the actual issue #s, but wasn't he hit by lightning while fighting Bats on a steel girder in the first Hugo Strange arc? I could pull out my handy-dandy Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told, but it's aaaalllll the way across the room... ;)

[The Joker]

Well in Detective Comics #64, "The Joker walks the last Mile". The Joker is sentenced to the electric chair by the authorities. Immediately following the execution, The Joker's henchman steal the corpse and inject it with a specially prepared serum, bringing him back to life soonafter.

A noteworthy death, but as 1HELLBOY mentioned above. "The Joker is damn near immortal. In every sense of the word."

I agree.

[1HELLBOY]

Well in Detective Comics #64, "The Joker walks the last Mile". The Joker is sentenced to the electric chair by the authorities. Immediately following the execution, The Joker's henchman steal the corpse and inject it with a specially prepared serum, bringing him back to life soonafter.

A noteworthy death, but as 1HELLBOY mentioned above. "The Joker is damn near immortal. In every sense of the word."

I agree.


See, that's what I mean. For being one of, if not THE, most evil f*ckers in the DCU, he has some UNBELIEVABLE luck. Or just a really good immune system. :rolleyes:

[yo go re]

He bit it in Kingdom Come, too - on-panel, no less...

[IamtheRock3]

batman beyond movie he was killed

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