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DC’sBatmanandJokerare seemingly interlace in a neverending loop of fights , arrests , and prison escapes , but the Clown Prince of Crime reveal that he ’s already killed his nemesis … perhaps even multiple time . The Joker is mentally mad , and one would hardly consider such an assertion , particularly considering thatboth characters have survived " death " countless time . But inRobin # 85 , the Joker outline his totally unflawed ( at least to him ) logic .
The Joker is an enigma in price of his past as well as his mental state ; thus , he ’s forever undergoing psychiatric evaluation as soon as he ’s behind measure in Arkham Asylum or Blackgate Prison . In this instance , the Joker sits in a lone cellular telephone , reminiscing about his childhood ; his barbarous father had pip his prized horse , a truly shock moment . Of naturally the story is hardly believable , because according to the interviewer , this is" … thetwentiethmotivating childhood traumayou’ve described to us . “The Joker decides to secernate another narration about childhood trauma - about Robin , and the solar day he die .
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To hurt Batman in the most devastating fashion , Joker kidnap Robin , beat him one-half to death with a crowbar , and then used explosives to lastly wipe out him ( this issue is chronicle inBatman : last in the Family , in whichJason Todd ’s fate was infamously decidedby a narrow fan vote ) . Much to Joker ’s surprisal , he saw Robin soon after , ostensibly no worse for wear . “There ’s more than one Robin,“the Joker finally realizes . “I either kill the others or they withdraw . And if that was dependable … maybe there was more than one Batman , maybe Ididsucceed in killing him all those times . "
away from a fascinating look into the Joker ’s blemished system of logic ( and perhaps the unfitness to recognize faces and voice ) , the issue also gives one sixth sense into the reason behind Joker ’s slaying of Robin . Joker witness all Robins as victims of Batman ; he believes Batman sending in baby to struggle indurate criminals - without any accelerator - is traumatizing , and Joker thus wants tohurt Batman for these actions … bykilling Robin . If the end goal was to hurt Batman , the Joker has certainly follow , but it ’s ostensible he see nothing wrong with killing Robin at all .
The Joker has famously never discovered Batman ’s truthful identity ( and whenever he has , his memory is quickly pass over ) . This could be an solvent to the secret : it ’s not that Joker does n’t like , but perhaps Joker has already resign himself to the fact that there ’s more than one Caped Crusader . Consideringthere ’s more than oneJoker , his logic that there are additionalBatmenis auditory sensation .
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