The Joker Believes He's Already Killed Batman (And Has A Point)
DC's Batman and Joker are seemingly locked in a neverending loop of fights, arrests, and prison escapes, but the Clown Prince of Crime revealed that he's already killed his nemesis...perhaps even multiple times. The Joker is mentally insane, and one would hardly believe such an assertion, especially considering that both characters have survived «death» countless times. But in Robin #85, the Joker outlines his completely flawless (at least to him) logic.
The Joker is an enigma in terms of his past as well as his mental state; thus, he's constantly undergoing psychiatric evaluation as soon as he's behind bars in Arkham Asylum or Blackgate Prison. In this instance, the Joker sits in a solitary cell, reminiscing about his childhood; his cruel father had shot his prized horse, a truly traumatizing moment. Of course the story is hardly believable, because according to the interviewer, this is "...the twentiethmotivating childhood trauma you've described to us." The Joker decides to tell another story about childhood trauma — about Robin, and the day he died.
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To hurt Batman in the most devastating fashion, Joker kidnapped Robin, beat him half to death with a crowbar, and then used explosives to finally kill him (this event is chronicled in Batman: Death in the Family, in which Jason Todd's fate was infamously decided by a narrow fan vote). Much to Joker's surprise, he saw Robin soon after, seemingly no worse for wear. «There's more than one Robin,» the Joker finally realizes. «I either killed the others or they retired. And if that was true...maybe there was more than one Batman, maybe I didsucceed in killing him all those times.»
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