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saspa
09/30/2025
02:20 PM
#1
The joker is some kinda... joker virus that you can infect another person with, and they'll turn crazy and become the joker? Even batman beyond return of said joker handled this concept somewhat better little bit.

So joker is not the result of a dude having some couple of bad days and going crazy? It's a virus that can infect anyone, like how the carnage symbiote can infect anyone and turn them into a venom?
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Dungeater
09/30/2025
02:21 PM
#2
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AceMos
09/30/2025
02:22 PM
#3
saspa posted...


So joker is not the result of a dude having some couple of bad days and going crazy?

yeah fun fact the "one bad day" is a lie even the original comic makes it clear the joker is just making excuses for his awful actions

joker was just always a asshole then decided to be a bigger asshole
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Smiffwilm
09/30/2025
02:25 PM
#5
In fact, there's only one person infected who comes close to a perfect match: Batman.
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UnfairRepresent
09/30/2025
02:26 PM
#7
It doesn't really make sense but the logic is that it is because of the Titan he took in Aslyum.

Now people infected with his titan blood develop a disease like Creutzfeldt-Jakob on steroids that affects their brain and makes them into Joker Jrs

I think the fanon explaination is Titan + Whatever fucked up chemicals Joker has inside him combined to make his blood super duper extra fucked up.

Otherwise Joker should be acting like Bane Jr >_>
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A_Good_Boy
09/30/2025
02:26 PM
#8
You're expecting rationality from a series where a billionaire dresses up like a bat and fights crime in the middle of the night with his cadre of child soldiers.
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UnfairRepresent
09/30/2025
02:28 PM
#9
A_Good_Boy posted...
You're expecting rationality from a series where a billionaire dresses up like a bat and fights crime in the middle of the night with his cadre of child soldiers.
In the Arkham series it's just 1 child soldier.

Tim Drake.

Not that it makes it much better

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lorddrakath1522
09/30/2025
02:35 PM
#10
You misinterpreted, it's not that Joker is a virus, is that his blood in the state he was at the time is making people have some traces of his personality.
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ReturnOfDevsman
09/30/2025
02:38 PM
#11
Weird how this comes up for the very first time immediately after Batman gets hit with Scarecrow's gas that makes people believe their worst fears are reality .
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JaiCSC
09/30/2025
02:44 PM
#12
Kind of more than it being a Joker virus. In fact, given the plot, what they do in the game is incredibly dumb.

Dialogue in the game calls it a form of CJD. An infectious disease in the spongiform encephalopathy group. They are incurable and fatal if you contract it. You are done for.

And if I remember, they didn't create a cure in the game.
And the way it was presented in the ending Batman essentially cures himself through willpower.

Creative licenses and embellishments is fine and I get the feeling no else cares apart from me, but what they did with this is full on, All Hail The Bat God! It took me out of it badly.
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BlueBoy675
09/30/2025
02:46 PM
#13
UnfairRepresent posted...
In the Arkham series it's just 1 child soldier.

Tim Drake.

Not that it makes it much better
Arkham Tim is a grown man himself too. At the end he and Babs get married. Never liked that pairing btw >_>
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A_Good_Boy
09/30/2025
02:47 PM
#14
BlueBoy675 posted...
Arkham Tim is a grown man himself too. At the end he and Babs get married. Never liked that pairing btw >_>
Better than the other person they pair her with sometimes.
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BakonBitz
09/30/2025
02:48 PM
#15
I completely didn't pick up on this apparently, I just thought Batman was seeing Joker (both from nothing and from others) because of Scarecrow's fear toxins. I didn't realize the Titan/Joker blood was affecting people's personalities to become Joker-like as well.

Then again it's been years since I last played any of the Arkham games so maybe I'm just forgetting some of the plot details.
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UnfairRepresent
09/30/2025
02:50 PM
#16
BakonBitz posted...
I completely didn't pick up on this apparently, I just thought Batman was seeing Joker (both from nothing and from others) because of Scarecrow's fear toxins. I didn't realize the Titan/Joker blood was affecting people's personalities to become Joker-like as well.

Then again it's been years since I last played any of the Arkham games so maybe I'm just forgetting some of the plot details.

It's both.

Joker's blood is affecting Batman and the Joker Jrs

but being hit by Scarecrow's toxin makes Batman absolutely loose his marbles and halluncinate Joker everywhere.
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ReturnOfDevsman
09/30/2025
02:52 PM
#17
JaiCSC posted...
Kind of more than it being a Joker virus. In fact, given the plot, what they do in the game is incredibly dumb.

Dialogue in the game calls it a form of CJD. An infectious disease in the spongiform encephalopathy group. They are incurable and fatal if you contract it. You are done for.

And if I remember, they didn't create a cure in the game.
And the way it was presented in the ending Batman essentially cures himself through willpower.

Creative licenses and embellishments is fine and I get the feeling no else cares apart from me, but what they did with this is full on, All Hail The Bat God! It took me out of it badly.
Yeah, it makes about as much sense as my dreams do, lol.

...

Huh.
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ChrisTaka
09/30/2025
02:55 PM
#18
saspa posted...
So joker is not the result of a dude having some couple of bad days and going crazy? It's a virus that can infect anyone, like how the carnage symbiote can infect anyone and turn them into a venom?

I think you're misunderstanding it, The Joker himself is not crazy because of the virus

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pegusus123456
09/30/2025
03:18 PM
#19
Brykner posted...
His blood made people just become a chaotic version of who they already were. Closest one to the Joker was Johnny Charisma because he was a showman, but the others outside of the fact that they had the pale skin and appearance of Joker acted nothing like him.
Yeah, this is the best explanation.

Batman just knows so much about the Joker that he could actually emulate the guy.
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UnfairRepresent
09/30/2025
03:23 PM
#20
I always interrupted it as they all were aspects of the Joker

Albert King was his sadism and lust for violence.
Christina Bell was his psychosexual obsession with Batman.
Johnny Charisma was his showmanship.
And Henry Adams was his intricate planning and genius.
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SAlYAN
09/30/2025
03:29 PM
#21
Wait until you hear about the Batman Who Laughs...
Doesn't take a lot of brains to be a good fighter.
pegusus123456
09/30/2025
03:46 PM
#22
UnfairRepresent posted...
I always interrupted it as they all were aspects of the Joker
I think that is the actual canon explanation.

But it is stupid, so I prefer the one Brykner laid out.
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