Ranking Every Joker Origin Worst To Best

7. The House Of Hush

The House of Hush actually features a somewhat overlooked origin of the Joker's - or at least a story from his past. That sort of makes sense, given how Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs' series was and still is today one of the more underrated comics of DC's recent past, but that's all the more reason to highlight its brief foray into the Clown Prince's genesis.

As the title may already suggest, House of Hush is all about Batman's history with Hush, aka Thomas Elliot. The final and third arc in the Streets of Gotham series delves deep into the past and extracts all sorts of dark and disturbing moments, but by far the most revealing pertains to a young boy named Sonny, who is hospitalised at Dr. Leslie Thompkins' clinic.

The story goes that the child, named Sonny, is infected with a virus by ruthless property developers determined to use the low-income area as a plot for their own businesses. The mobster responsible was named Sallie Guzzo, and - years later - the Joker kills Guzzo after repeating the words he told Sonny when they infected him with the virus all those years ago.

While it's unlikely said virus resulted in the creation of the Joker, this origin feels more genuine than others. Dini himself claims that Sonny was the Joker, and who are we to question him?