10 Life Lessons You Should Learn From The Joker

The Joker is hands-down the greatest comic book villain there has ever been: a homicidal clown with no superpowers but a fiendishly brilliant mind that has made him Batman€™s greatest foe, challenging him again and again for over half a decade. Created in 1940 by Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the Joker has had a career as rich and varied as the Dark Knight himself. Introduced as a psychopath with a warped, sadistic sense of humor, the character became a goofy prankster in the late 1950s due to regulation by the Comics Code Authority, before returning to his darker roots during the early 1970s. He's more or less been the sadistic clown fans know and love ever since. While no sane person would ever condone the actions of the Joker in any of his various forms, that doesn't mean that there isn't a thing or two all who read his comics couldn't learn from the character. For instance, the man is a model team leader who can take a gang of criminals from negligence to omnipotence in no time. That can't be an easy task. This year the Joker turns 64, thus he has been around long enough to have imparted his fair share of wisdom to comic book fans over the years, and with that in mind it's worthwhile retreading the most important and enlightening lessons from the Clown Prince of Crime, the Harlequin of Hate, the Jester of Genocide himself, the Joker...