batman: return of the joker

Bruce has a look of pure terror on his face when he sees the returned Joker make his public debut at the Wayne Enterprises reception. He even comes out of the shadows for it. Greg Orlando reviewed the PlayStation version of the game for Next Generation, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Ubi laid an egg..."[13]. When making fun of Batman's tragic backstory, he says "Behind all the sturm and batarangs..." this is a reference to the German Romantic art movement from the 18th century, called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Desire). where Joker got the technology to perform a digital. The Joker establishes his when he shoots Bonk. This leads to Terry having to chase down leads he thought up on his own, and it's only when Bruce recovers and talks with him does Terry manage to have an epiphany and deduce the Joker's true identity. “Joker” ended with the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne, suggesting a “Joker” sequel could factor in more Bruce Wayne and potentially Batman… After Terry revealed that Barbara told him the whole story, Bruce says that's the reason why he didn't want Terry to face the Joker, even if he's an imposter. Mark Hamill [Show Non-English Actors] [Hide Non-English Actors] Takeshi Aono. The main difference is that in this version, Robin lives, while the Joker doesn't. This happens to The Joker in the censored version. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000 Movie) New Joker . His fight with the Jokerz shows that he's skilled enough to toy with them but also inexperienced enough to let the Dee-Dees get the drop on him because they played possum. After helping Joker kidnap and torture Tim, and falling down a pit, Harley disappears. Daniel Lefourcade. many years after the Joker's "biological death," Terry destroyed the microchip that was planted in Tim Drake's neck that allow the Joker to return to life with, killed by Tim Drake using his own spear gun in the uncut version. Mark Hamill [Show Non-English Actors] [Hide Non-English Actors] Takeshi Aono. Whichever direction Terry went, the satellite's crosshairs are right in his heels. Never. After The Joker incapacitates Bruce, Terry is forced to rely on his own detective work for the last 3rd of the movie. As Barbara tells it, Bruce blamed himself for what happened to Tim and forbade him from wearing the suit. It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic. In the censored version, the Joker goes into a rage when his attempt to corrupt Tim fails. Harley Quinn. This could be played straight, depending on your point of view. Bruce didn't do it. Tim suffers and breaks under it, as well as Joker drugging him with serums. One of Terry's wild guesses on how the Joker survived is that he was, The poster, seen as the page image above, features a giant green Joker head, closely mimicking one of the posters for, The Joker's transformation is a shout-out to at least one film version of. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is a 2000 feature-length tie-in of Batman Beyond, the DC Animated Universe installment that focuses on Terry McGinnis, the Batman of a future Gotham and his mentor (an aged Bruce Wayne). Terry makes the common mistake of dismissing the idea that a man dressed as a clown can be dangerous. The Joker tries to get Tim to to kill the Batman and prove Tim is like him. Batman saves him—and turns over evidence of the betrayal, as well as Pryce himself, to the police. Each suit has its own abilities. Dana is hospitalized, Ace is injured, and Bruce is poisoned by Joker toxin and almost killed. Standard: Even mixture of offensive strength and shielding. Now I'll have to start all over again. Subverted with Dana. Bruce, upon hearing how Tim was haunted by voices telling him "he's as bad as Joker", is visibly shaken, Terry kills the Joker a second time by frying the microchip that is changing Tim into Mr. J. Overlaps with. Cue the Joker dying again, and Terry rousing a semiconscious Tim, Tim Drake is tortured/mutated/brainwashed into becoming a "Joker Junior". I know every trick the original Batman and Robin knew at their peak. In the original version of the flashback sequence, Batgirl questions her informants from the, Oh, if only Joker had not been so thorough in, Especially in the censored version, where Joker, The Joker points out that, for all the fear he invokes being, Invoked by Terry during his battle against The Joker. The Joker doesn't take Terry's lack of respect well. He admits it's because he didn't want. Puzzling both Terry and Bruce is that The Joker seems not to have aged at all in the time since he supposedly died. ", "I must admit, it's sadly anti-climactic. When Bruce is comparing audio files to determine if the Joker that appeared at the party is the same as the one he fought, the first sample he examines is from a threat video Joker made back in the episode “Holiday Knights”. Originally, Robin shot the Joker with his gag gun; the. Commissioner Jim Gordon, Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Leslie Thompkins are mentioned, but they are. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Joker Venom (referred to in the game as "Happy Gas" by the Joker, "Smilex" by the canisters and "Joker Toxin" by others) appears as an obstacle in many areas in the game.In parts of the Asylum, Joker fills rooms with the Joker toxin, which requires Batman to vent them before proceeding. The Joker. "Nothing against your old partners, but I'm a completely different Batman. The Offense Suit allows the player to punch open gray crates, which grants access to extra items and a few extra areas. Tim was kidnapped and then completely mentally. In both the uncut and censored version, either Terry or Tim makes Joker pay for it. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. It's revealed that, technically, Terry was right on the very first guess. I was never a Robin, I never—", When Bruce advises Terry to ignore the Joker's taunts and not respond, Terry realizes, Or rather "Backshadowing." Offense: Capable of stronger attacks, but is more fragile than the other suits of the game. What actually happened was much worse - the Joker abducted then tortured Tim Drake for three weeks on end, culminating in the erstwhile Robin snapping then killing the Joker. attacking Joker and knocking him into a vat of water, which then leads to Joker electrocuting himself to death when he accidentally pulls down on a lever. When The Joker decides to tie up loose ends, The Jokerz try to kill Pryce. Bruce prefers not to involve Terry with the Joker, so he has to ask the latter to reture as Batman. This is even worse if you go by the events of "Epilogue". Ruben Leon. Batgirl tries to save Harley from falling down a deep chasm at Arkham, but fails. subtle interference from the Joker's mind control chip embedded in Tim's head, influencing the former Robin's mind. The game is fairly simple along those lines. Terry throws Joker's insults right back at him by pointing out that Joker himself is also this trope: his fixation with the original Batman was childishly pathetic and, once you take away the makeup and the props, Joker was nothing more than a stupid, overgrown man-child trying to make people laugh at a joke that was not even funny to begin with. They announce their intention to start a family and the mood is quite goofy. Terry at first assumes this when Bruce says that he's pretty sure the Joker is dead. Because the camera cuts away as he's dying, all we hear is his scream. "Well, if it isn't old Mr Wayne. This is subverted when he shakes it off, refuses to hurt Batman, and turns on the Joker instead. Joker has taken over Tim's body via a microchip, and has a ring-sized buzzer strong enough to incapacitate Ace, This was exactly what Terry wanted because the Joker left himself vulnerable and thought he won; he reveals he was wearing the joy buzzer and presses it to Joker's ear, where the microchip is. Joker himself too, since he tortured Tim Drake into becoming a mini-joker, and prior to that, he taunted Bruce over the death of his parents, making his death at the hands of Drake completely well-deserved. Terry wondering how the Joker is still alive and kicking until Bruce told him to cut it out. De Joker is een fictieve superschurk uit de strips van DC Comics, en een vaste vijand van Batman.Hij wordt gezien als Batmans grootste tegenstander. Joker's "That's also how we did it in my day" and one half of Dee Dee, Another part of "backshadowing": The background music that plays. The double jump ability allows the player to access some extra items, but the glide ability seems to have only one function in the game. Harley Quinn, at some point after the Joker's death she became a normal, decent law-abiding person (likely due to the Joker not being alive to abuse her or tempt her into evil). Harvey Bullock, Charlie Collins, Sid the Squid, Carl Francis, Thomas Jackson, Batgirl's own father Commissioner Gordon, etc... want to grow up, have families, much more of life than playing an infinite, the explosions in this film look gorgeous. Unfortunately this leaves the mansion and Bruce himself open for a personal visit by the Joker. Terry getting the Dee-Dees to hit each other. The Joker captures Tim Drake (who was the current Robin) and gives him a "personality makeover" that’s based in Joker's own image. Terry knocks them out on more than one occasion and they aren't the worse for wear. After Terry hands over Price to the police, with evidence that he conspired with the Jokerz to kill Bruce, he turns away - just missing one of the cops saluting him. Joker, destroys Terry's home, the hospital where Dana is recovering, and Wayne Manor. after Terry figured out the Joker's identity and what his agenda is (as well as the, in which a Russian stereotype dog, in his ". The real reason you kept coming back was you never got a laugh out of the old man. Dee-Dee meeting Bruce Wayne. Terry is Bruce's biological son via the machinations of Amanda Waller using nanotechnology. "You're out of your league, McGinnis. The movie had the unfortunate timing of being produced right after the Columbine shooting, so several scenes were changed mid-production to lessen the violence. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, known as Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker in Europe, is a scrolling beat 'em up video game, released by Ubisoft for Game Boy Color, PlayStation and Nintendo 64. The flashback storyline as a whole is essentially the DCAU's spin on "A Death In The Family". Joker Toxin is an obstacle for several areas in the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum.. The Standard Suit comes equipped with three weapons: Dark Knight Discus, which are thrown as projectiles and require ammunition; Dark Knight Staff, which attacks in a circular area, and Magnetic Nunchuku, which can be charged and attacks in a short straight line. Too bad her grandchildren ended up becoming Jokerz. He then claims "I on the other hand" seemingly referring to his own enjoyment of murder, and pulls a knife while Batman keeps an. When Joker's satellite starts chasing the Batmobile throughout the city. The interaction between #Batman and Joker in Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the single greatest live action scene between Batman and Joker we have EVER gotten. 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In the flashback sequence, Batman busts in on Joker and Harley at Arkham as they are acting out what appears to be a cheesy 1950s sitcom. The Joker slips on the water and accidentally pulls an electrical switch, and the wires electrocute him to death. Then this is subverted when it's implied that, years later, Tim turned evil again and became the new Joker, probably as a result of the original torturing/brainwashing. Whilst this is going on, Joker makes a personal house call to Wayne Manor. Also Bonk via the same weapon. Harley Quinn falls into a deep pit at the end of her fight with Batgirl. And it is used by Terry to destroy the chip that allowed him to control Tim Drake. The Joker is actually inhabiting the body of Tim Drake. Joker wasn't kidding; he reveals later he implanted a microchip on Tim to make him into another Joker in the case that the Batman encounter went wrong. Terry destroys the microchip with the Joker's own joy buzzer, killing him once and for all. shoots Joker with his own gun to kill him. It's the Joker taking over Tim's body, who proceeds to incapacitate Terry and transform, before explaining he implanted a microchip on Tim. When The Joker breaks into the Batcave, he attacks Ace. He wouldn't know a good joke if it bit him in the cape...not that you ever had a good joke. Bruce feared The Joker torturing his biological son. This is also the reason Bruce is reluctant to let Terry find the Joker, and tells him he shouldn't have forced the burden of Batman on him, since he fears it will cause Terry to suffer Tim's fate as well. Terry's laugh when confronting the Joker mirrors Batman's own, then slices Batman across his chest and stabs him in the patella, blade stuck-tight, The Joker is killed off fairly early in the story. So dapper. Since she has twin granddaughters, she clearly. At first Tim understandably seems bitter that Bruce retired him, and how his hero career ended with torture, brainwashing and murder. Similar to games like Final Fight, Batman Beyond plays as a beat 'em up-type game where the player, as Batman, wanders through levels that are essentially side-scrolling, but have some depth to allow for three dimensional movement. One such skill: How to make a batch of anti-venom for Joker's personal poison. So debonair. It's a piece of easy to miss foreshadowing. Bruce shows up at the hospital Tim and Barbara are staying in so he can make amends with them and relieve himself of his decades-long guilt. She then adopts a civilian life and starts a family, while trying to keep her granddaughters from repeating her mistakes. The DNA/Microchip package The Joker implanted in Tim Drake during the weeks he was holding him captive. The Joker "dies" shortly after learning Batman's identity. 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