The Joker is commonly used as a bug.

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The word pompatus (), also spelled pompitous, is a neologism used in the lyrics of Steve Miller's 1973 rock song " The Joker ".

Often a nemesis is a superhero's doppelganger or foil ( e. g., Sabretooth embraces his savage instincts while Wolverine tries to control his ; Batman is dark, taciturn, and grim, while the Joker is colorful, loquacious, and flamboyant ).

Chaplin's half-brother Sydney Chaplin directed and starred in a 1921 film called King, Queen, Joker in which, like Charlie, he played the dual role of a barber and ruler of a country who is about to be overthrown.

The Joker convinces his psychiatrist, Dr. Bartholomew Wolper, that he is sane and feels remorse for his crimes.

Wolper is convinced that the Joker and Two-Face are both really victims of Batman's crusade – claiming that Batman drives them to become criminals by assuming an ideological image that they feel compelled to counter.

His attempts to treat Two-Face meet with failure, however, and he ends up murdered by the Joker along with the entire audience of a late night talk show when he is manipulated into bringing the Joker out in public as an example of Batman's ' victims '.

A captain in the Gotham City Police Department, she starts off as Batman's fiercest critic, but doubts herself after the Joker debacle ( part 3, see plot above ) and comes to terms with his involvement, realizing that he is ' too big ' for her to judge.

In the popular comic by DC Comics, as well as three Batman movies ( 1966, 1989 and The Dark Knight ) and the TV series, The Joker is the supervillain nemesis of Batman and is often portrayed as having a rather " Dark and Twisted " jester-like sense of humor whose theme of practical jokes almost always holds death as the punchline during his " performances ".

Joker evades Batman, Cap, Bucky, and Robin and delivers it to the Skull, but is horrified when he learns that the Skull is a Nazi ( saying " I may be a criminal lunatic but I'm an American criminal lunatic !").

This is compensated by declaring the extra player as ' Joker ', who gets to bat for both the teams.

Joker is a special type of playing card found in most modern decks, or else a type of tile in some Mahjong game sets.

It is believed that the term " Joker " comes from Jucker, the original German spelling of Euchre.

An alternate theory is that the Joker was originally developed for the game Poker as a wild card ; however, this is largely discredited in favor of the Euchre theory.

The Joker is usually depicted as a court jester.

In Australian games of 500, the Joker is often referred to colloquially as ' The Bird '.

In Portugal, Litografia Maia has printed French decks where the Joker figure is substituted by a donkey head.

Batman and Dick manage to extract from Jocko-Boy the name of the person who hired him: the Joker.

Having been sent to the prison planet after his Injustice League was defeated, Lex quickly assumes control of the amassed villains, receiving competition only from Joker and Gorilla Grodd, who convince half of the villains to join them.

He does fight the Joker until the battle was interrupted by an attack by Desaad's Parademons.

" " The Letter " contained the nonsense lyric, " the ' puppetutes ' of love ," which was later picked up by the Steve Miller Band as " the pompatus of love " and used in their song " The Joker ".

It only appeared once, in Chuck Menville's " The Practical Joker ", and was known as the " Rec Room ".

" I was never a giant comic book fan, but I've always loved the image of Batman and the Joker.

Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.

Later, a Batman and Joker Gift Set was released including both characters with new paint schemes to reflect earlier points in the story, as well as a 48-page prestige format reprint of The Dark Knight Returns # 1.

The day after his guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory, it was announced that Spiner would guest-star in the Young Justice episode " Revelation ", providing the voice of the Joker.

The new character made regular appearances in Batman related comic books until 1988, when the character was murdered by the Joker in A Death in the Family ( 1989 ).

Readers voted " yes " by a small margin ( 5, 343 to 5, 271 ) and Todd was subsequently murdered by the Joker in the storyline, A Death in the Family, in which the psychopath beat the youngster severely with a crowbar, and left him in a warehouse rigged with a bomb.

Jason Todd later returned as the new Red Hood ( the original alias of the Joker ) when he was brought back to life due to reality being altered.

It was followed up by another series Robin II: Joker's Wild which pitted Tim against his predecessor's murderer the Joker.

* University of Kentucky football head coach Joker Phillips was born and raised in Franklin.

He was briefly considered for the role of The Joker by director Tim Burton and screenwriter Sam Hamm for the 1989 film Batman.

The first episode featuring a holodeck was " The Practical Joker ", an animated episode in which it was called a " recreation room ".

In 1973, The Joker marked the start of the second phase of Miller's career: this work was less hard-rock oriented and simpler in composition.

Before that, he was briefly considered for the role of the Joker by Tim Burton and Sam Hamm for 1989's Batman.

Yet another version was introduced during the " Emperor Joker " storyline in Action Comics # 769 – 770 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), Adventures of Superman # 582 – 583 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), Superman # 160 – 161 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), Superman: The Man of Steel # 104 – 105 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), and Superman: Emperor Joker # 1 ( Oct. 2000 ).

She was a psychiatrist in Arkham Asylum who fell in love with the Joker and became his accomplice.

Batman later encounters Harley in the Sionis Steel Mill where she was with the Joker.

When the Joker dies from his illness following Batman's fight with Clayface ( who was masquerading as a healthier Joker ), Quinn was with the Joker's henchmen when Batman brought his dead body out of the theater.