Do you think The Joker from Batman (the comics not the movies) is gay?

Question

Because I certainly do, there are so many hidden signs that he is

Answer 1

According to 'The Killing Joke', the Joker worked as a lab assistant at a chemical factory, but wanted to be a stand up comedian. He quit and tried to be a stand up comedian. He was pretty much unsuccessful. In that story, he was married and trying to get odd jobs while looking for a place to do his act. He was nervous on stage, often messed the jokes up, and in the end just didn't seem funny.

Because of this he didn't get many jobs doing his act, and when he did it didn't turn out well. He didn't really know how to present his jokes, and either came up with ones where the punch line was hard to get or not really there. He lacked the confidence and outgoing personality this job required. He was concerned with taking care of his wife who was expecting their first baby, paying bills, putting food on the table, maybe moving up to a bigger and better apartment.

For one they were living in a bad part of Gotham, and the apartment was small. With the new baby on the way he needed money. He seemed like a good, generally nice person who became very lost in his troubles and responsibilities that he had no escape, no help, and no place to turn to. In his desperation he took a job for the Red Hood gang. It seemed like a simple job, and he didn't really have to do anything but wear the red hood. Plus the money was pretty good.

The night before he goes out to do it, his wife and baby die. It was caused by a freak accident with a baby bottle heater. Everything just seems awful, he's in a real shock, but there wasn't anything he could do about it. She was gone, and so was his baby, and any reason he needed that money for. So he tries to back out of the robbery, only they won't let him. So he's forced to go through with it, he can hardly think straight. It's like life just took a plunge into Hell for him, there's not even really a reason to live.

But he doesn't have time to think about that: he has to go through with the robbery. So they go to the Monarch Playing Card company, only Batman shows up and thinks that he (pre-Joker, Joker) is the leader of the gang because he has the red hood on and goes after him. He's confused and scared, he doesn't know what to do and the rest of the gang has left him, in utter fear and without any other escape he jumps into a vat on chemical waste trying to escape.

From there he swims through the drain pipe, and comes out at the river bank behind the place. His skin is burning and itching, he's dripping in chemical waste. He falls to his knees by the water, and rips the hood off. His reflection looks back at him from the shallow puddle of water by the river, and as he seems himself, the chalk white skin, blood red lips, green hair. He starts laughing, and laughing, everything from that bad day has built up, until, just seeing himself, and he snaps.

He becomes the Joker.

So, to answer your question, he has only been depicted as hetero, so far.

Answer 2

no definately not.

In fact it was the love for his wife that put him in the predicament that was caused by batman that made him the joker.

He was an innocent failed stand up comic with a wife and a baby on the way who was forced to be a criminal even after his wife and unborn baby were killed because the other hoods would have killed him. Batman used excessive force and overreacted thus creating the joker.

Now joker is too crazy or mad to think about sex at all, if anything killing makes him splooge not sex.

He also got off on taking naked pictures of bat-girl (barbera gordon) right after he shot her through the spine- it can also be inferred that he raped her then too. To him I think any sexual thoughts are tied in with violence and they are inseperable.

Answer 3

He may have tried out the gay life for a while.... if you read The Killing Joke, he had a wife and child before they died in a fire and he had to go through with a crime anyhow because he got involved with criminals; in the course of the crime he was disfigured and became the Joker. He probably was convinced that no normal woman could ever care for him as he was.

And he probably took on the gay behavior patterns to keep on convincing himself and to protect himself from being hurt again.

I doubt that he ever took on lovers or cruised the bars, depite the traits you notice-- the lavender color scheme, the lace at the wrists, the scents, the lipstick... Joker has more effective ways of subverting and dominating any given individual than by lowering himself to have any variety of sex with them.

In recent years, Harley Quinn has thrown herself at the Joker and not been rebuffed (killed). It may be that Joker recognizes a kindred spirit, or that it has been so long he wants it again, or that her illness (going the extra mile beyond just aiding and abetting him in his crimes) has convinced him that she is 'worthy' of him.

Long ago, there was a character who claimed to be the Joker's daughter, so maybe they are gearing up to re-use that concept.

Joker may not realize how lucky he is. Aside from the obvious distateful craziness, Harleen Quinzel is one of the hottest females in comics. I don't have a link handy, but search for the scene where she sings happy birthday to the Joker while wearing nothing but vanilla pudding.

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Answer 4

In Kingdom Come, there is a character that is The Joker's daughter, so probably not.

Answer 5

I don't think he cares about having girlfriends or boyfriends but the writers might make a storyline based on the idea that he is gay

Answer 6

I'm doubting it. The only gay person in the comics is Batgirl.

Answer 7

I think the Joker is too insane to think much about sex.

Answer 8

In Arkham Asylum, he's depicted as a transvestite.

Answer 9

Not as gay as Robin.

Answer 10

I think he's bi.