2. • The Joker is a fictional character portrayed by
Heath Ledger and the main antagonist of the film
The Dark Knight, the second film in Christopher
Nolan's Batman trilogy. He is Nolan and
screenwriter David S. Goyer's interpretation of
the comic book character created by Jerry
Robinson, Bill Finger and Bob Kane in 1940 as the
archenemy of the superhero Batman. This is the
third time the character has been adapted to a
live-action film
3. • The Joker's existence is hinted at the end of the
2005 film Batman Begins, where Lieutenant
James Gordon (Gary Oldman) tells Batman
(Christian Bale) of an armed robber who leaves
Joker playing cards at scenes of his crimes. He
later appears in the 2008 sequel, The Dark Knight,
portrayed by Heath Ledger, who told Sarah Lyall
of The New York Times that he viewed that film's
version of the character as a "psychopathic, mass
murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero
empathy."
4. "You won't kill me out of some misplaced
sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you,
because you're just too much fun. I think you
and I are destined to do this forever."
―The Joker to Batman