Joker Is About to Reclaim His Long-Lost Son - DC Theory Explained
Warning: Spoilers for Flashpoint Beyond #0
DC Comics has done a crafty job of concealing the identity of Batman's enemy, The Joker so much so that it's possible he has a long lost son who's still alive.To their credit, they have maintained the mystery surrounding the origins of someone created 82 years ago and continue to maintain that mystery 82 years later. The closest that audiences get to a true origin story isThe Killing Joke, where The Joker is portrayed as someone who was a loving husband and father-to-be before embarking on a life of crime. Even then, that origin is constantly disputed as it was made complicated by The Joker being an unreliable narrator.
That same origin is further complicated by Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, and Brad Anderson's Batman: Three Jokers, in which Batman stumbles onto the conspiracy that the agent of Gotham's chaos has always been orchestrated by not one, not two, but three versions of The Joker all at once. Things are especially complicated for Batman and co. considering that even if they find the original, none of them can identify him by his name. At least that's the impression that Batman gives. Three Jokers ends on the surprising note that Batman has known Joker's real name since the week after they first met. However, he refuses to ever disclose it because, prior to his life of crime, Joker was abusive to his pregnant wife. She escaped with their child into a witness protection program, leaving Joker to believe she died in an accident. Batman knows that revealing Joker's identity puts a spotlight on her, putting him back on his wife's trail.
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