What Is A Joker
What Is A Joker
Joker, a person with a harmful mutation in Wild Cards Jokers, a race of super-beings in Terry Pratchett's novel The Dark Side of the Sun Joker, in the novel The Short-Timers, the basis for Full Metal Jacket. The most common meaning of joker is a wild card in poker. There are often two extra joker cards included in a deck of cards. These cards have no suit, and they traditionally feature a character dressed as a court jester or clown. When a player draws a wild card, they can designate it to stand for any card of their choice.
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Joker, The Joker or The Jokers may refer to:
- Jester, a person employed to tell jokes and provide entertainment
Fictional characters[edit]
Print[edit]
- Joker (character), a DC comics character
- Joker (Jack Napier), the character as he appears in the 1989 film Batman
- Joker (The Dark Knight), the character as he appears in the 2008 film The Dark Knight
- Joker (comic strip), a comic strip in the British anthology comics
- Joe Carpenter or 'Mr. Joker', in Read or Die
- Joker, a person with a harmful mutation in Wild Cards
- Jokers, a race of super-beings in Terry Pratchett's novel The Dark Side of the Sun
- Joker, in the novel The Short-Timers, the basis for Full Metal Jacket
- Joker from Black Butler: Book of Circus
- Joker, the underground alias of Donquixote Doflamingo, a pirate from One Piece
Film and television[edit]
- Kamen Rider Chalice or Joker, from Kamen Rider Blade
- Kamen Rider Joker, a rider form of Shotaro, from Kamen Rider W
- Joker, from J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
- Joker, in Full Metal Jacket
Video games[edit]
- Joker (Persona), from Persona 5
- Joker, from the Monster Rancher series
- The Joker, from Fighters Destiny
- Jeff 'Joker' Moreau, from Mass Effect
- The Joker, from SaGa Frontier
- Joker, from Joker no Kuni no Alice by Quin Rose
- Joker, a character from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Film[edit]
- The Joker (1928 film), a Danish-German silent drama film
- The Joker (1960 film), a French comedy by Philippe de Broca
- The Jokers, a 1967 British comedy starring Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed
- The Joker (1987 film) or Lethal Obsession, a German crime-thriller film
- Joker (1993 film), an Indian Telugu comedy film produced by P. Pattabhi Rama Rao
- Joker (2000 film), an Indian Malayalam film by A. K. Lohithadas
- Joker (2012 film), an Indian Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar
- The Joker (2014 film) or Poker Night, an American-Canadian crime thriller by Greg Francis
- Joker (2016 film), an Indian Tamil film by Raju Murugan
- Joker (2019 film), an American film starring Joaquin Phoenix
Literature[edit]
Music[edit]
Artists[edit]
- Joker (musician), English dubstep artist
- Jokeren or The Joker, Danish rapper
Albums[edit]
Define Joker
- The Joker (album), a 1973 album by the Steve Miller Band
- Joker, an album by Mirkelam
Songs[edit]
- 'The Joker (That's What They Call Me)', a 1957 song by Billy Myles
- 'The Joker' (Anthony Newley song), from the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1964)
- 'Joker' (Anna Rossinelli song) (2011)
- 'The Joker' (Steve Miller Band song) (1973)
- 'The Joker', a 1988 song by Quiet Riot from QR
- 'Joker', a 1991 song by X Japan from Jealousy
- 'The Joker', a 2010 song by Zona B
The Joker Movie Controversy
Roller coasters[edit]
- The Joker (Six Flags Mexico), a spinning roller coaster at Six Flags Mexico
- The Joker (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom), a roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
- The Joker (S&S Worldwide), a roller coaster at many Six Flags parks
Television[edit]
- Joker, a pricing game on the game show The Price Is Right
- Joker, a wild card for players of the TV quiz show The Joker's Wild
Transportation[edit]
- FreeX Joker, A German paraglider design
- Honda Joker, a scooter made from 1996 to 1999
- Peña Joker, a French amateur-built aircraft design
- Joker, an edition of the Volkswagen Golf Mk3
- Joker, an edition of the Volkswagen Westfalia Camper Van
Other uses[edit]
- Joker (store), a Norwegian convenience store chain
- Joker (wrestler) (born 1983), American professional wrestler
- Joker, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Joker butterfly or Byblia ilithyia
- Byblia or jokers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
- Team Joker, a Norwegian cycling team
- Jokers, nickname of VF-20, a World War II US Navy squadron
- Helsingin Jokerit or jokers, a Finnish hockey team
See also[edit]
What Is A Joker Lap
As one of the most famous characters in pop culture, the Joker is rarely known by any name other than that. But in Todd Phillips' upcoming origin story film, Joker, the super-villain will be given a complete backstory, a reason for his madness, and, most importantly, a full name.
Phillips' film reimagines the Joker as Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian struggling in New York City, who feels completely rejected by society. As portrayed by venerated method actor Joaquin Phoenix, Fleck is ostensibly a frail man (both physically and mentally) on the brink of madness — a state of being Phoenix achieved by losing an astonishing amount of weight, creating a super-unique and terrifying laugh, and crafting a downtrodden character trying to figure out where he belongs. In doing so, Phoenix created a Joker that will undoubtedly be totally distinct from the late Heath Ledger's Academy Award-winning turn in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight – and, as the reviews for the film claim, a version different from any other Joker that came before him.
Diehard fans of the Joker's original comics might be asking why Phillips is going with 'Arthur Fleck' when the Joker already has a real name. Though it's not frequently referenced, the Joker has had an official name for decades — and that name is Jack Napier.
Joker's real name hasn't been noted in the DC comics very often or for very long. In 2017, Sean Gordon Murphy, artist and author of the DC comic Batman: White Knight, announced on Twitter that his Joker would be named Jack Napier — marking the first use of that full name in any comic. (Previously, in 2004, writer A.J Lieberman revealed Joker's name as Jack, but didn't provide a surname.) Though this was huge news for comic book readers at the time, fans who followed the Joker throughout his film depictions had certainly heard this name before.
Jack Napier was the name of the man who eventually broke bad and became the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation of Batman – which was considered the defining iteration of Batman films prior to the release of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Aside from the White Knight comic and Burton's film, the name Jack Napier was also used in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, though the show adopting that moniker as the Joker's title could be considered more an alias rather than an official name.
Speaking of aliases, Joker has gone by a couple since his print debut — including The Red Hood, Dr. J. Reko and Dr. Laffo, Melvin Reipan (in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight by Dennis O'Neil and Bret Blevins), Jack White, and more.
Throughout Joker's numerous appearances in pop culture, his penchant for aliases and his obvious love for his made-up moniker has given him an even more terrifying, mysterious presence — and without a concrete backstory, he's felt almost inhuman. It makes sense that his official name has sort of flew under the radar, and why it was so easy for Phillips to pick a totally new one for Joker.
Phillips is bucking Joker convention with his upcoming film not only with the Arthur Fleck name but also by giving the villain a full origin and clear motivations. Positioned as a sort of original 'incel,' Phillips' Joker could end up being a cautionary tale for our modern times — and Phoenix is contributing to that as well. The actor wanted to mold a Joker that has never been seen on screen before, and he spent time studying books about murderers and political assassins to help give his Joker a realistic backstory. Clearly, giving the Joker a new name was just one part of Phillips' and Phoenix's goal to present a new take on this storied character, who has been portrayed in pretty similar ways since his inception in the very first issue of Batman in 1940.
Names and origin stories aside, fans already know one thing for sure about Joker: audiences lucky enough to have seen the film are going almost as crazy as Arthur Fleck himself. At Joker's premiere during the Venice Film Festival on August 31, Vulture reported that both screenings were so packed, people were actually turned away. For those who did manage to make it in, they cheered especially hard when the movie concluded roughly two hours later.
Nearly of the early reviews for Joker have been complete raves, with critics saying that Phillips and Phoenix have reinvented not just the Joker, but also superhero movies in general — an accolade once bestowed on Nolan upon The Dark Knight's release. Oscar buzz for Phoenix is already building as well — so it seems safe to say that even if fans disagree with the way the two creative minds have reimagined the Joker, the film itself will be basically beyond reproach.
The highly anticipated Joker film might be receiving great reviews ahead of its release, but aside from its Italian outing, general audiences will still have to wait a while to see if it lives up to the hype. Joker is set to hit theaters worldwide on October 4.
What Is A Joker