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mooreandrew58 posted...

Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

Haven't heard of that one. I tend to favor the red hood origin version anyway.
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you mean his origin from the killing joke? and yeah this was some weird shit I think going on in the new 52 along with there being apparently 3 jokers.

Its his original origin from the comics, and has been referenced in several series I believe.

The details vary (such as whether he was a smart criminal, or someone who just got forced into wearing the hood), but it basically goes like this:
The Red Hood is someone with a "Red Hood" that is more like a helmet then a hood. The hood fully hides his face, but allows him to see out of it using 1-way mirrors or some such. During some criminal activity where Batman is attempting to thrwart him, he falls into a vat of chemicals. He swims out through a pipe, due to his helmet also serving as a makeshift short-term diving helmet. But he still breaths in fumes from the chemicals and such. He gets home, looks in the mirror, and snaps.

Details vary from version to version. In one of the series, I recall the "joker" of an alternate world where the heroes are villains and vice versa still wearing his hood.
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