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Joker (Jack Napier)
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Joker (Jack Napier)
Jack Napier, also known as the Joker, is a character and the main antagonist of Tim Burton's 1989 superhero film Batman, in which he is primarily portrayed by Jack Nicholson. Based on the DC Comics supervillain the Joker, this version is notable for being one of the first adaptations of the character to have a distinct alter ego and past. His name is a play on the word Jackanapes, as well as a reference to the names Jack Nicholson and Alan Napier, the latter having portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in the 1960s Batman TV series and died a year prior to the film's release. Jack Napier is introduced as a psychopathic gangster and the right-hand man of Gotham City crime boss Carl Grissom. During a confrontation with the vigilante Batman, Napier falls into a vat of chemicals that bleaches his skin white, turns his hair green and lips red, and leaves him with a rictus grin; the resulting disfigurement drives him insane. Napier takes the name "Joker", kills Grissom, and begins terrorizing Gotham with...
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