Character Description

The Joker is a very sinister character, as anyone who has seen The Dark Knight would know. He has greenish-yellow hair color, almost as if you were to mix them into one color. His hair is always greasy; it looks almost as if the grease were about be dripping on the floor. It is safe to say that the Joker has not taken a shower in quite some time. He always wears make-up, very white make-up, that he has all over his face. He has black make-up around each eye, with black eye-liner. The Joker is probably most known for his painted on red smile. It is an obvious exaggeration of where his mouth actually is. The lipstick smile always provides the idea that he is grinning literally from ear to ear. He has a smile painted on to cover up his scars. He reveals how he got these scars in The Dark Knight saying, "My father was... A drinker, and a fiend. And one night, he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that, not... One.... Bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'Why so serious?!' He comes at me with the knife, 'Why so serious?!' He sticks the blade in my mouth, 'Lets put a smile on that face!'" He was then left with scars 'extending' his mouth. He wears all purple; a purple suit, a purple tie, purple shoes, and even purple gloves. Instead of passing out a business card he simply gives people a joker card from a typical 52 card deck. The Joker is always the most lit thing in the scene, but is never actually well lit, giving him a dark and sinister look from the viewer's eyes. His number one goal in life is to stop Batman, to do everything in his power to get Batman's attention and lure him into a trap. He recruits major mobsters and crime lords to do his dirty work. The will be the bait, then once he can get Batman in a cornered situation, he will try in take him out. No matter what the Joker seems to do throughout the Batman series, he always ends up on the short end of things.