The Clown Prince of Crime surely has a lot of admirers out there in Gotham City, and
across the DC globe.
While many of those admirers are probably extremists or just individuals tantalized
by the idea of an eccentric serial killer, it’s hard to deny that the Joker carries
some major sex appeal for those who don’t mind his whole criminally insane schtick and
tendency to murder.
That’s what every girl wants, right?
Right.
So today, we’re counting down all of the people in the comics who the Joker has hooked
up with over the years, with our list of the top 10 people that hooked up with the joker.
Also, heads up, we do mention some spoilers for the recent Joker film starring Joaquin
Phoenix.
10 Thomas Wayne What if Batman and the Joker were in a relationship?
That’s the reality that was presented to us in the Flashpoint time, the Flashpoint
paradox, in which Bruce Wayne is the one gunned down in the famous alley scene instead of
his parents.
The tragic event causes Martha Wayne to go insane, becoming the Joker.
Thomas Wayne goes down the opposite extreme path; he becomes Batman in search of revenge.
The two become archenemies, with Thomas Wayne using much more violent tactics than Bruce
ever did in the prime Earth continuity.
He uses guns, develops a drinking habit, and it’s all very toxic.
9 Hayley Fitzpatrick - Earth 37 Here we have a hook up that occurred on Earth
37, otherwise known as the Thrillkiller universe!
Thrill Killer is a one shot comic book that was published in 1997, and takes place in
the year of 1961 during the transitional period between the dawn of the sexual revolution
and the Vietnam war.
This alternate universe gives us a female version of the Joker named Bianca Steeplechase,
who is the nemesis of Batgirl and Robin, the two protagonists in the story.
She poisons Robin, pretends to be the mayor’s wife, kidnaps and tortures Bruce Wayne, all
of the fun evil things!
And in addition to that, she’s got a girlfriend, the Earth 37 alternate of Harley Quinn who
goes by the name of Hayley Fitzpatrick, although she would use Harley Quinn as her alias name.
Because of the whole being married to Gotham’s mayor, it’s believed that these two defy
regular relationship norms, and that they share an open relationship.
8 Batman Okay, so yes, this isn’t canon.
But the Joker hasn’t been romantically involved with a lot of characters, and we got ten numbers
on this list people!
Despite never being romantic together (with the exception of our Thomas and Martha number
earlier on this list), the Joker, over the years, has been depicted as being in love
with the caped crusader.
While that love has never been canonically reciprocated, the Joker has always been very
open about it.
For example, in Catwoman issue 14, during the new 52 Death of the Family arc, the Joker
flat out admits to Selena Kyle that he’s in love with Batman, responding to her question
of whether or not he’s in love with him by saying “of course.
It’s that obvious?”
The whole arc seems to imply this dynamic, with Batman even later stating he saw love
in the Joker’s eyes when the villain looked at him.
In the Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller would later state that the whole Batman Joker mythos
was a homophobic nightmare, and he intentionally wrote the Joker as a gay character.
7 Harleen ‘Harleen’ is one of the latest miniseries
set to come out as part of DC’s Black Label, an imprint geared towards more mature readers.
In Harleen, we’ll be witnessing a different kind of origin story for Harley Quinn, which
reimagines her descent into villainy and her relationship with the Joker.
It’s been described as a Greek tragedy in three acts, with Harleen being a brilliant
young psychologist who takes drastic measures to heal the mentally ill; she has discovered
a revolutionary cure for madness after studying criminals and sociopaths in Arkham Asylum
and with the GCPD.
But then she comes into contact with the Joker, and everything changes.
It’s a more intimate portrayal of their relationship, with Harleen being a woman who
is foremost a psychiatrist in this iteration, trapped in her own mind, comprehending her
own psychosis and understanding the severity of her actions yet constantly trying to justify
them because she’s in a defective relationship with the Joker.
6 Three Face (Earth 3) We’re venturing into Earth 3 for this number,
an alternate universe 3in which strength is valued above all else, and it’s believed
that the weak deserve annihilation.
It is home to the Crime Syndicate; an alternate of the justice league where all of the heroes
are villains instead.
On this earth, the Joker’s alternate, known as the Jokester, is a hero, the arch nemesis
of Batman’s alternate, Owlman.
He began as a struggling standup comedian at a place called the Last Laugh, and one
night, he witnesses the club’s owner being murdered by Owlman.
So he begins to redirect all of his jokes at Owlman, which doesn’t go over so well.
Owlman slices his mouth open giving him his grin, and murdered his manager Harley Quinn,
beginning the Jokester’s search for vengeance.
Anywho, he’s with a woman named Evelyn Dent, who he loses when her split personalities
develop, and she becomes Three-Face (an alternate of Two Face, of course).
The two have a daughter together, Duela Dent, who has made appearances in other related
works.
5 Terry (Batman: Secrets) Aside from the main female love interests
that come to mind when you think of the Joker, there have been a few obscure individuals
who have been mentioned or have made very brief cameos as a love interest of his in
alternate universes.
Terry from Batman Secrets is very much that.
For starters, Batman Secrets was a five part series that came out in 2006, and depicts
the Joker and Batman going at it.
In it, the Joker commits a heinous act that depicts how heroes are treated by the media
and the public’s perception of them.
But back to Terry.
She’s a woman he has a short fling with, a very sadomasochistic fling in which the
Joker tricks her into thinking he’s a sweet, sensitive man with a big heart, but really,
when it comes to getting physical, the two end up beating each other until both are badly
injured.
Our next number has those spoilers for the 2019 Joker film, so heads up, you might wanna
skip this number if you haven’t seen it.
4 Sophie Dumond In Todd Phillips’ recent Joker film, starring
Joaquin Phoenix, Arthur Fleck aka the Joker develops a bit of a crush on his neighbor
in his apartment complex named Sophie Dumond, played by Zazie Beetz.
She’s a single mother and has a young daughter.
And gradually, throughout the film, we see that she becomes a product of Arthur’s dillusions,
with him fantastizing about the two spending time together and her being highly supportive
of all of the things he does.
They share a kiss as well.
But it’s hardly sexual, more so, he’s possessive over her, using her as a dependent
to prop him up.
Man y critics have drawn similarities between the way Arthur sees Sophie in his mind and
the way in which the character in the comics sees Harley Quinn.
It all comes to an end though when Arthur breaks into her apartment while her daughter
is asleep, creeping the hell out of her, and her ultimately kicking him out.
And, for those of you who have seen the film and were wondering, he doesn’t kill her.
There was a scene deleted from the movie in which that was confirmed, according to Phillips.
Back into spoiler free zone!
3 Alicia Hunt In the 1989 Batman film, Joker had a love
interest named Alicia Hunt.
Alicia, a model, was the trophy mistress of a former boss of the clown prince of crime’s,
a man named Carl Grissom, back when he was known as Jack Napier (according to the film’s
lore).
She would cheat on her husband with him prior to his disfigurement and full transformation
into the Joker.
Grissom is actually responsible for Jack becoming the Joker, having found out about the affair
and sending one of his goons to have him killed off, which resulted in him being knocked into
a vat of chemicals.
He clearly survived, and killed Grissom himself, taking over his criminal empire in the process.
Alicia wasn’t the most supportive of this transformation though.
When she first saw him, she fainted.
And then later, when she reappears, she has been badly scarred thanks to the Joker having
used sulfuric acid, and dons a creepy little porcelain mask.
She has a terrible fate though, eventually having a mental breakdown, causing her to
jump out of a window and kill herself, although it’s implied that perhaps the Joker threw
her out of the window, since he attempts to make moves of Vicki Vale shortly afterwards.
Besides, the Joker’s reaction to this tragedy?
He finds it highly amusing, saying you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.
2 The Unnamed Wife The Unnamed Wife is the woman who appears
in The Killing Joke.
Or, that’s what she’s referred to as, since a few iterations of the Joker have hinted
to a family life he had prior to becoming a criminal.
In the Killing Joke, her name is Jeannie, and the two of them were having rotten luck
financially.
Being in dire straits, the Joker (before he became the Joker) pursued a life of crime
in order to keep them afloat.
On the day of his first major heist, he would learn of her death, which came about in a
freak accident.
It was one of the variables that pushed him further over the edge.
Another unnamed wife is mentioned in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, in which Heath
Ledger’s Joker mentions that he had a wife who gambled their life savings away and had
her face cut up by loan sharks, so he gave himself his permanent smile in order to show
her how much he loved her.
Instead, it freaked her out and she left him.
That being said, many of his stories in that film about how he got his scars are questionable,
as he is an unreliable source due to his madness and tendencies to lie.
1 Harley Quinn Duh.
Arguably, Harley Quinn is the only relationship of the Joker’s that we’ve truly seen played
out in the panels that was canon.
She was first introduced to us in Batman The Animated Series as a jester-esque female sidekick
for the clown prince of crime, but later was integrated into the comics.
I’m sure the majority of you know the story; before she was Harley Quinn, she was doctor
Harleen Frances Quinzel, a psychologist at Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum.
According to Gotham City Sirens, the reason why she chose to pursue psychology as a career
was to understand her own broken and dysfunctional family.
But those plans came to a halt when she met the Joker, and fell under his manipulative
spell.
Their relationship has been both adored by fans but also highly criticized for being
toxic, with the Joker often abusing Harley or showing little concern for her well-being.
He’s kicked her into a vat of acid in the past.
He’s locked her in a prison filled with the corpses of other women dressed up as Harley.
In one iteration, she has a daughter who she’s kept hidden from the Joker in fear that he’d
murder her.
He’s offered her up as a volcanic sacrifice.
He’s threatened to cut her face off, with her doing it to prove her loyalty to him.
It’s all very, very messed up.
Harley is the person who knows him the most intimately, or at least next to Batman, that
is, and to think that this is how he treats the people he loves, well, that speaks volumes
about just how insane he really is.
There we have it friends!
Who do you think the Joker should be with?
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