![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out The Comedian staged the entire Three Jokers gang by turning regular people into his co-Jokers, with an ultimate plan to make Joe Chill - the robber that gunned down Thomas and Martha Wayne - into "The New Joker. In Batman: Three Jokers #3, The Comedian ends up clearing the playing field by killing The Criminal (Red Hood killed The Clown in issue #1) and establishing himself as the only Joker. The purpose of that undertaking was always unclear - at least until the end of the story. In Joker's eyes, Jason truly is Joker's Robin, and always has been since becoming the Red Hood. The mystery of Three Jokers saw Batman, Batgirl, and Red Hood investigating the Three Jokers, who were abducting average citizens and transforming them into 'New Jokers' using a horrific chemical bath. Red Hood, a name Joker once used, shoots and kills people (which breaks Batman's biggest rule), and is constantly making Batman's life miserable. When his wife died in a fire using cheap heating products, Joker's heist (and fall into a chemical bath) proved pointless - creating the "joke" that broke The Comedian's brain, creating the hurricane of pain and madness that is Joker. ![]() One of them asks him why he puts on the Red Hood. Todd spends a chunk of this issue held hostage by the two surviving Jokers. That includes the origin story of Joker being a failed comedian, who got into crime with the Red Hood Gang, to get money to support his pregnant wife. But Batman: Three Jokers 2 features a moment of potential growth for the former Robin, as Batgirl helps him see that hes not alone. In establishing this version of Joker is the official one, Geoff Johns has tapped stories like Alan Moore's The Killing Joke as the definitive version of Joker in the current DC Universe canon. ![]()
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