Joker in other media

Live-action

• The Joker appears in Batman (1966), portrayed by Cesar Romero, whose moustache remained visible underneath his facial makeup as he refused to shave it for the role.^[6] This version is based on his comic book appearances in the 1960s as an elaborate prankster with a Vaudeville-esque sense of humor who wields harmless weapons.^[7]
• The Joker appears in the Batman OnStar commercial "Joker Face", portrayed by Curtis Armstrong.^[8]
• The Joker appears in Birds of Prey, portrayed by Roger Stoneburner and voiced by Mark Hamill.^[9]
• The Joker's mythology is explored in Gotham through twin brothers Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska, both portrayed by Cameron Monaghan.^[10][11][12] Believing that the Joker should not precede Batman, showrunner Bruno Heller initially did not want to use the character,^[13] but later decided to "scratch the surface" of his origin because "this is America — nobody wants to wait."^[14] Jerome is introduced in the first season as the mentally unhinged son of a nymphomaniac circus performer. Despite being killed at the start of the second season, he becomes a martyr for various Gothamites.^[15] While Monaghan was not comfortable drawing from the previous live-action actors who had played the Joker, he took influence from Mark Hamill in his performance as well as various comic books featuring the character.^[16] In the fourth and fifth seasons, Jeremiah was introduced, with the intention that he would represent different characteristics of the Joker. While it was never confirmed whether he would go on to become the Joker following the series finale,^[17] the DC FanDome documentary Joker: Put on a Happy Face included Jeremiah among the various iterations of the character adapted for film and television across his 80-year history.^[18]
• The Joker makes a cameo appearance in the Powerless episode "Wayne or Lose".^[19]
• The Joker makes cameo appearances in Titans, portrayed by Mustafa Bulut.^[20]
• The Joker appears in flashbacks depicted in the third season of Batwoman, portrayed by Nathan Dashwood.^[21] Similarly to Jack Nicholson's portrayal, this version's real name is "Jack Napier".^[22] Additionally, he was indirectly responsible for separating Kate Kane from her sister and mother, Beth and Gabrielle Kane, before Batman killed the Joker years prior. Before then, the latter exposed Marquis Jet (portrayed by Nick Creegan) to his joy buzzer, rendering him insane and leading to him attempting to continue the Joker's legacy in the present before he is defeated and has his sanity restored by Batwoman.
• The Joker appears in the Snickers commercial.^[23]
• The Joker appears in the State Farm commercial, including an extended cut released later.^[24]

Animation

• The Joker appears in The Adventures of Batman, voiced by Larry Storch.^[25]
• The Joker appears in The New Adventures of Batman, voiced by Lennie Weinrib.^[26]
• The Joker appears in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, voiced again by Larry Storch.
• The Joker appears in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians episode "The Wild Cards", voiced by Frank Welker.^[27][28] Disguising himself as "Ace", he manipulates the Royal Flush Gang into helping him construct a portal to Apokolips before they are foiled and captured by Batman and Wonder Woman.
• The Joker appears in The Batman (2004), voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.^[29] This version sports a pronounced pointed-jaw, green dreadlocks, red eyes, and black fingerless gloves along with a purple and yellow straitjacket in his initial appearances. Additionally, he is more reliant on physical combat than his comical gadgets, using his feet as dexterously as his hands to increase his mobility.
• The Joker, based on his Silver Age design as drawn by Dick Sprang, appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Jeff Bennett.^[29] This version is a member of the Legion of Doom and the Jokers of All Nations who was inspired to pursue supervillainy by the Weeper. Additionally, a heroic alternate universe variant of the Joker who utilized the Red Hood identity appears as well.^[30]
• The Joker appears in Young Justice, voiced by Brent Spiner.^[31][29] This version is a member of the Injustice League.
• The Joker appears in Robot Chicken, voiced by Mark Hamill in the episodes "But Not in That Way", "Catch Me If You Kangaroo Jack" and "Bugs Keith in: I Can't Call Heaven, Doug"; Aaron Paul in the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special via a deleted scene; and Giovanni Ribisi in Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise and Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom.
• The Joker appears in Teen Titans Go!, voiced by Jason Spisak.
• The Joker appears in Justice League Action, voiced again by Mark Hamill.^[32][29]
• The Joker appears in the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "What a Night, For a Dark Knight!", voiced again by Mark Hamill.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Harley Quinn, voiced by Alan Tudyk.^[33][29] This version is a member of the Legion of Doom. Throughout the series, he seeks revenge on Harley Quinn for leaving him to become an independent supervillain and join the Legion. However, his efforts culminate in him being exposed to acid that renders him "normal". While recuperating, he falls in love with a nurse named Bethany, who he pursues a relationship with despite eventually being turned back into the Joker. He is later be elected mayor of Gotham City and attemps to reform, only to return to supervillainy with support from his step-family.
• The Joker appears in DC Super Hero Girls (2019), voiced by Jeremiah Watkins. This version is a teenager and inmate of the Arkham Reform School.
• The Joker appears in Batwheels, voiced by Mick Wingert.^[34][29] This version sports white makeup instead of bleached skin and is accompanied by his Jokermobile Prank (voiced by Griffin Burns).
• The Joker appears in Suicide Squad Isekai, voiced by Yūichirō Umehara in the Japanese version^[35] and Scott Gibbs in the English version.
• The Joker makes a cameo appearance in the Batman: Caped Crusader episode "Savage Night", voiced by an Cedric Yarbrough.
• The Joker makes cameo appearances in Kite Man: Hell Yeah!.
• The Merry Little Batman incarnation of Joker (see below) appears in Bat-Fam, voiced again by David Hornsby.^[36][29]
• The Joker appears in the DC Nation Shorts episode "DC's World's Funnest", voiced by Jake Burgess Rollo.^[37]
• The Joker makes cameo appearances in The Simpsons.^[38]
• The Joker makes cameo appearances in South Park, in the three episodes from the Imaginationland story arc, based on Heath Ledger's portrayal.^[39]
• The Joker appears in the Zellers commercial.^[40]

Live-action

• The Batman (1966) incarnation of the Joker appears in the film of the same name, portrayed again by Cesar Romero.
• The Joker appears in Batman (1989), portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the present and Hugo Blick in flashbacks.^[43] This version, previously known as Jack Napier, is a self-described "fully functional homicidal artist" who previously served as mob boss Carl Grissom's right hand and killed Bruce Wayne's parents Thomas and Martha Wayne years prior. While fighting Bruce as Batman in the present, Napier suffers a facial scar from a ricocheting bullet before falling into a vat of Axis Chemicals chemical waste, which turns his skin white, hair green, and lips red. Following a botched plastic surgery operation, Napier is left with a permanent rictus grin. Driven insane by his reflection, he becomes the Joker, kills Grissom, takes over his syndicate, and goes on a crime spree to "outdo" Batman, who he feels is getting too much press, in addition to seeking revenge on him for his disfigurement.^[44] Eventually, Bruce recognizes the Joker as his parents' killer and sends him falling to his death. The Newsweek review of the film stated that the best scenes are due to the surreal black comedy portrayed by the Joker.^[45] In 2003, American Film Institute ranked Nicholson's performance #45 on their list of 50 greatest film villains.^[46]
• A young Joker appears in flashbacks depicted in Batman Forever, portrayed by David U. Hodges.
• The Joker was meant to appear in Batman Unchained, with Jack Nicholson reprising the role,^[47][48] as part of a Scarecrow-induced hallucination. Additionally, Harley Quinn was to appear as his daughter who seeks revenge on Batman for killing him.^[49] Due to the critical and commercial failure of Batman & Robin, however, Batman Unchained was cancelled.
• The Joker appears in The Dark Knight, portrayed by Heath Ledger. This version is described as a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy" influenced by his depictions in Batman: The Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. Additionally, he sports smudged clown makeup that covers a Glasgow smile and embodies themes of chaos, anarchy, and obsession. As such, he expresses a desire to upset social order through crime and defines himself by his conflict with Batman. For his portrayal, Ledger drew on his past performances, such as in The Brothers Grimm, and referenced paintings by artist Francis Bacon, Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange, and various punk rock musicians. Ledger's portrayal of the Joker is considered to be his finest performance, with Ledger himself regarding it as his most enjoyable. When the film was released in July 2008, six months after the actor had died from an accidental prescription drug overdose, the performance caused a sensation and received universal acclaim. Additionally, Ledger was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[50][51]
• The Joker appears in films set in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), portrayed by Jared Leto.^[52]
  • He was originally set to appear in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but was ultimately cut.^[53][54]
  • The Joker first appears in Suicide Squad.^[55] While most of his scenes were cut and omitted from the theatrical release, most of them were later included in the extended cut.^[56][57] Mark Hamill, the voice of the Joker in various DC projects, said that he "loved" Leto's take on the character.^[58][59]
  • The Joker makes a non-speaking appearance in Birds of Prey via a prologue, in which his history with and separation from Harley Quinn is detailed; a flashback derived from archive footage; and Johnny Goth, who makes an uncredited appearance from behind in a separate flashback.^[60]
  • The Joker appears in Zack Snyder's Justice League via a post-apocalyptic premonition.^[61][62]
  • In 2018, a film featuring the Joker entered development, with Leto attached as an executive producer in addition to reprising his role as the title character and hiring the production crew.^[63] By February 2019, the film had been canceled and a separate Joker film unrelated to the DCEU (see below) was released later that year.^[64]
• The Joker appears in a self-titled film,^[65] portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix. This version is Arthur Fleck, a party clown and aspiring stand-up comedian who suffers from mental disorders and pseudobulbar affect that causes pathological laughter, idolizes late-night talk show host Murray Franklin, and lives with his delusional and abusive mother Penny in a recession-ridden Gotham City. After losing his job for bringing a gun to a children's hospital, Arthur kills three Wayne Enterprises employees in self-defense, sparking city-wide protests, and gradually descends into insanity. He later kills Penny and the colleague who gave him the gun before renaming himself Joker and appearing on Franklin's show, during which he rants about being disregarded by society and murders Franklin on live television. He is promptly arrested, but is rescued by protesters in clown masks and celebrated by them as a symbol.^[66][67] Prior to its release, in 2016, Todd Phillips began work on a standalone Joker film with the intent of launching a line of films unconnected to the DCEU called "DC Black".^[68][69][70] Development began in August 2017, with Philips attached to direct and cowrite with Scott Silver while Martin Scorsese was set to produce.^[71] For his performance Phoenix was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor.
  • The Joker appears in Joker: Folie à Deux, portrayed again by Phoenix.^[72][73] Two years after the first film, Arthur is incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital while awaiting trial. During this time, he meets and falls in love with another patient named Harleen "Lee" Quinzel. However, various circumstances lead to him renouncing his Joker identity and confessing to his crimes before Lee leaves him and an unnamed inmate (portrayed by Connor Storrie) kills him and carves a Glasgow smile onto his own face.
• The Joker, based on Jack Nicholson's portrayal (see above), makes a cameo appearance in Space Jam: A New Legacy.^[74][75]
• The Joker makes a cameo appearance in The Batman (2022), portrayed by Barry Keoghan.^[76][77] This version is a patient at Arkham State Hospital^[78][77] who displays a permanent twisted smile, peeling skin, and a burned scalp with patches of hair. Director Matt Reeves described this iteration of the Joker as deformed from an early age like Joseph Merrick, the Phantom of the Opera, and Gwynplaine from The Man Who Laughs (1928) and adept at using other people's horror to his advantage. Makeup artist Mike Marino contributed to the characterization.

Animation

• The DCAU incarnation of the Joker appears in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm,^[79] voiced again by Mark Hamill.^[29] In flashbacks, it is revealed he previously worked as an enforcer for the Valestra mob before becoming a supervillain.
• The DCAU incarnation of the Joker appears in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), voiced again by Mark Hamill. For this portrayal, his design resembles a combination of his appearances in Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures. In flashbacks, he and Harley Quinn kidnapped and tortured Robin for three weeks. All throughout, they rendered him insane, secretly implanted stolen Project Cadmus technology into him that contained the Joker's consciousness and DNA, turned him into a miniature version of the Joker, and learned Batman's secret identity. Batman and Batgirl eventually rescued Robin, who killed the Joker during the ensuing struggle. Forty years later, the Cadmus technology is activated, allowing the Joker to possess Robin's body and resurface to terrorize Neo-Gotham. However, he is defeated by Batman II, who fries the technology with the Joker's joy buzzer and frees Robin.
• The Batman (2004) incarnation of the Joker appears in The Batman vs. Dracula (2005), voiced again by Kevin Michael Richardson.^[29] After accidentally awakening Dracula, he is converted into a vampire. Despite retaining his original personality and free will, his bloodthirst leads to him raiding a blood bank until he is captured, eventually cured, and sent to Arkham Asylum by Batman.
• A heroic, alternate reality variant of the Joker called the Jester appears in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, voiced by James Patrick Stuart.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), voiced by John DiMaggio.^[29]
• The Joker appears in DC Super Friends: The Joker's Playhouse (2010), voiced by John Kassir.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2012–2013), voiced by Michael Emerson.^[80][29]
• The Joker appears in Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite (2013), voiced by Christopher Corey Smith.
• The Flashpoint incarnation of Martha Wayne makes a cameo appearance in a flashback in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, voiced by Grey DeLisle.
• The Joker makes a cameo appearance in Son of Batman (2014), voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
• The Joker appears in Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014), voiced by Troy Baker.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered (2014), voiced again by John DiMaggio.^[29]
• The Joker appears in the Batman Unlimited films Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem (2015) and Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants (2016), voiced again by Troy Baker.^[29]
• The Joker appears in DC Super Friends (2015), voiced by Lloyd Floyd.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Attack of the Legion of Doom (2015), voiced again by John DiMaggio.^[29] This version is an aspiring member of the Legion of Doom.
• The Joker appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Gotham City Breakout (2016), voiced by Jason Spisak.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Batman: The Killing Joke, voiced again by Mark Hamill.^[81][29]
• In 2016, comic book writer and Batman: The Killing Joke's screenwriter Brian Azzarello expressed interest in adapting his graphic novel Joker into an animated film.^[82]
• The Batman (1966) incarnation of the Joker appears in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) and Batman vs. Two-Face (2017), voiced by Jeff Bergman.^[83][29]
• The Joker appears in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), voiced by Zach Galifianakis.^[84][29]
• The Joker appears in DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon (2017), voiced by Ken Yasuda.^[85]
• The Joker appears in Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018), voiced again by Jeff Bennett.^[29]
• The Joker makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018).
• The Joker appears Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (2018), voiced again by Jason Spisak.^[29]
• A Feudal Japan-inspired incarnation of the Joker appears in Batman Ninja (2018), voiced by Wataru Takagi in Japanese and Tony Hale in English.^[86][87][29]
• The Joker appears in Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019), voiced again by Troy Baker.^[88][29]
• The Joker appears in Batman: Hush (2019), voiced again by Jason Spisak.^[89][29]
• The Joker appears in Batman: Death in the Family (2020), voiced again by John DiMaggio.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Batman: The Long Halloween (2021), voiced again by Troy Baker.^[90][29]
• The Joker appears in Injustice (2021), voiced by Kevin Pollak.^[91][29]
• The Joker appears in Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! (2023), voiced by Nolan North.^[92][93][29]
• The Joker appears in Merry Little Batman (2023), voiced by David Hornsby.^[94][29]
• The Joker appears in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two (2024), voiced again by Troy Baker.^[95]
• An alternate universe version of the Joker appears in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Three (2024), voiced again by Mark Hamill.^[96]
• The Joker appears in Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (2025), voiced again by Wataru Takagi in Japanese and Scott Gibbs in English.^[97]
• A 16th-century Mesoamerican version of the Joker appears in Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2025), voiced in Spanish by Omar Chaparro.^[98]

Animation

• The Joker appears in DC Kids official YouTube channel.^[99]
• The Joker appears in Imaginext official YouTube channel.^[100]
• The Joker appears in the Batman Black and White Motion Comic released on iTunes, voiced by Michael Dobson. It was produced in a motion comic format.^[101]
• The Joker appears in the short brickfilm Batman: New Times (2005), voiced again by Mark Hamill.^[102]

Lego Batman

• The Joker appears as a playable character in Lego Batman: The Videogame (2008), voiced by Steve Blum.^[121]
• The Joker appears as an optional boss and unlockable playable character in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (2012), voiced by Christopher Corey Smith.^[29]
• The Joker appears in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (2014), voiced again by Christopher Corey Smith. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom.
• The Joker appears as a playable character in Lego Dimensions (2015), voiced again by Christopher Corey Smith. This version is a member of Lord Vortech's army. Additionally, The Lego Batman Movie incarnation appears in the associated DLC, voiced by Dave Wittenberg.
• The Joker appears as a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains (2018), voiced again by Mark Hamill.^{[122][123][29]} This version is a member of the Legion of Doom. Additionally, the DCAU incarnation of the Joker appears as a playable character via and the final boss of the Batman: The Animated Series DLC pack.

Batman: Arkham

Mark Hamill reprises his role as the Joker in the main trilogy of the Batman: Arkham franchise while Troy Baker voices a younger version in the prequels Arkham Origins, Origins Blackgate, and Arkham Shadow.^{[125][126][127][29]} This depiction of the Joker has received widespread acclaim as critics have lauded the voice acting and the exploration of his rivalry with Batman.^{[128][129][130][131]} In 2011, the Joker won the Spike Video Game Awards' "Character of the Year" award for his role in Arkham City.^[132]

• First appearing as the final boss of Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009), the Joker takes over Arkham Island to work on the "Titan formula", a more potent version of Bane's Venom drug, to create an army of genetically-enhanced henchmen before using it on himself, only to be defeated by Batman. Additionally, the Joker appears as a playable character via the Challenge Maps.^[133][134]
• In Batman: Arkham City (2011), the Joker is transferred to the eponymous city prison, where he becomes embroiled in a gang war with Two-Face and the Penguin. After discovering he is slowly dying due to the Titan formula, he infects Batman and several Gotham City citizens with his infected blood to force him to help find a cure. Despite Batman's best efforts, the Joker ultimately succumbs to the disease.
• A young Joker appears in Batman: Arkham Origins (2013), in which he kidnaps and poses as Black Mask to hire eight assassins to kill Batman and later has his first encounter with the latter in addition to Dr. Harleen Quinzel. Additionally, the Joker appears as a playable character via the game's multiplayer mode.
  • The Joker appears in Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (2013).
• In Batman: Arkham Knight (2015), the Joker manifests as a split personality within Batman and four civilians, Henry Adams, Johnny Charisma, Christina Bell, and Albert King, due to residual traces of the Joker's blood within their bodily systems, with Batman additionally seeing hallucinations of the Joker due to exposure to the Scarecrow's new fear toxin while the civilians all take on aspects of the Joker's personality and appearance. Upon realizing Batman will become the best host for the Joker's return, Adams kills the other infected and himself. Eventually, Batman overcomes the Joker personality and locks him within his mind.
• The Joker makes a cameo appearance in Batman: Arkham VR (2016) via a nightmare sequence.
• An alternate reality variant of the Joker appears as a downloadable playable character in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, voiced by J. P. Karliak.^[135][136] This version is a former member of his universe's Suicide Squad, who were killed by Brainiac, and sports a prosthetic leg and rocket-powered umbrella.
• The Joker makes a vocal cameo appearance in Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024). Six months after the events of Origins, the Joker has been placed in solitary confinement in Blackgate Penitentiary before eventually escaping with Harleen Quinzel's help.