10 Joker Fates Worse Than Death

10. Multiple Choice Memories

The Joker once said, “If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it be multiple choice.” He was joking, but the fact is that Joker’s psyche is so fractured that he honestly can’t recall his own past. He doesn’t know who he is and where he is from. He may not even know his own name.

In one memory, he was the master criminal called the Red Hood who fell into a vat of chemicals at the Ace Chemical Plant while running from Batman. That accident changed his skin to a chalk-white, his hair green, and his lips red. In another, he was a former engineer and failed comedian who was forced to wear the Red Hood. He was then driven mad by his wife's death accompanied by his dramatic physical changes.

In a third, he was a criminal named Jack who injured a paramour of Batman’s and was then scarred by a Batarang. Batman informed the mobsters of the escaped Jack’s information and they tortured him in a chemical plant. He killed several of them but the fell into a chemical plant while trying to escape. In another, his wife and child live in Witness Protection. Joker is unsure which, if any, of these are true.