I don't know what it was that bent your life out of shape, but who knows? Maybe I've been there too. I don't want either of us to end up killing the other It doesn't have to end like that. In fact, in alternate timelines the Joker and Batman are still together, once as opposite personas (The villain Owlman and the hero the Jokester) and in Flashpoint, as a married couple (Thomas Wayne becomes Batman and Martha Wayne becomes the Joker when Bruce is killed in the alleyway instead). The two men are canonically obsessed with each other, a fact criticized by the other people in both men’s lives and explored in numerous series. Their relationship often includes the Joker engaging in illegal mischief to varying degrees of villainy, Batman stopping him through detective work and physical fights, and then returning him to Arkham Asylum, where he inevitably escapes and the cycle continues.ĭespite the damage the Joker causes, Batman has never failed to save his life or prevent him from receiving capital punishment (See below: examples in Death of the Family, Batman: White Knight, etc.). Throughout their 80 years of history together, the relationship between Batman and the Joker has been present in a vast amount of Batman content. I do terrible, crazy things, and then you act all grim and gritty and stop me.
1.2.1 Harley Quinn (DC Animated Television Show: 2019-).
