Joker’s Perfect Death Is a Mockery of Robin (But Not the One He Killed)
Warning: contains spoilers for The Joker #13!
The Joker finds all death amusing, especially his own, but it turns out his dream way to die is a dark homage to Damian Wayne's Robin. This is revealed in The Joker #13. The issue comes from James Tynion IV and Giuseppe Camuncoli.
This series has the Joker on the run while being chased by commissioner Gordon and the Batman villain Bane. Eventually, the Joker finds himself in Texas — the prisoner of a family of Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style cannibals who plan to eat him. Thankfully for the Clown Prince of Crime, the family's meal is interrupted as Bane's clone-daughter Vengeance storms their compound. She's looking for Joker, eager to fulfill her desire to kill him — one implanted in her by her creators.
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With the family largely defeated, Vengeance and Joker meet, and she instantly threatens to kill the clown. Of course, Joker laughs in her face, taunting her to kill him. The Joker's mocking gets pretty specific, too, when he brings up the fact that Vengeance was grown in a test tube and is only a year old. Joker finds this fact hilarious because after everything he's done and all the times he came close to death, he's about to be killed by someone who doesn't have any real reason to want him dead, and who is technically only one year old. «See, that's how I hope they remember it,» he exclaims. «Did you know that Joker got killed by a giant baby?»
While this meaningless death would be fitting for the nihilistic villain, it's also eerily similar to how Damian Wayne died. Though he's since been resurrected, Batman's son was originally killed by the Heretic, who was a clone of Damian. What's even stranger is
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