|
Joker venom is a fictional toxin, a favourite murder weapon utilised by The Joker in the Batman franchise of movies, comics, and cartoons. Image File history File links Jokervenom. ...
Image File history File links Jokervenom. ...
Marvel OverPower card back OverPower is a collectible card game produced by Fleer Corporation originally featuring characters from Marvel Comics and later from DC Comics and Image Comics as well. ...
This is a list of toxins, poisons and chemical weapons from works of fiction (usually in fantasy and science fiction). ...
The Joker is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain widely considered to be Batmans archenemy. ...
Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...
Analysis
Joker venom can exist in liquid and gas states and has been used to great effect. The gas form is slightly denser than air and in some portrayals dissipates over time.
The DC Technical Manual: S.T.A.R. Labs 1993 Annual Report (a sourcebook for Mayfair's DC Heroes Roleplaying Game) stated that Joker Venom is "a hellish mixture of hydrogen cyanide and Strychnodide (a strychnine derivative), the toxin causes immediate cessation of heart and brain functions. As a side effect, the victim's muscles contract in such a way as to severely tighten and discolor the victim's skin, especially in the facial area. This leaves the victim's corpse permanently scarred with a clown-like grin in tribute to his killer. Since the Joker Venom is just as deadly if absorbed through the pores as it is if inhaled, the Joker occasionally releases it in gas form throughout the central heating/cooling vents of a building." Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the United States and United Kingdom. ...
DC Heroes is an out-of-print superhero role-playing game set in the DC Comics universe, published by Mayfair Games. ...
Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with chemical formula HCN. A solution of hydrogen cyanide in water is called hydrocyanic acid. ...
Strychnine (pronounced (British, U.S.), or (U.S.)) is a very toxic (LD50 = 10 mg approx. ...
The heart and lungs, from an older edition of Grays Anatomy. ...
Italic text // ahh addiing sum spiice iin hurr`` For other uses, see Brain (disambiguation). ...
A top-down view of skeletal muscle Muscle (from Latin musculus little mouse [1]) is contractile tissue of the body and is derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells. ...
In zootomy and dermatology, skin is the largest organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of epithelial tissues that guard underlying muscles and organs. ...
HVAC systems use ventilation air ducts installed throughout a building that supply conditioned air to a room through rectangular or round outlet vents, called diffusers; and ducts that remove air from return-air grills Fire-resistance rated mechanical shaft with HVAC sheet metal ducting and copper piping, as well as...
How exactly Joker knows how to make the venom varies by story. In the graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, it was revealed that the man who would become the Joker once worked in a chemical plant, and may have had some chemical education as a result. Cover to Batman: The Killing Joke. ...
In the 1989 movie, when Bruce Wayne reads through the police file on Jack Napier, he learns that Napier, despite his criminal ways, is extremely intelligent and especially gifted in chemistry. Napier, who became the Joker, was inspired to make the poison after reading testing reports on a nerve-affecting chemical that was (presumably) a component in the vat mixture caused his metamorphosis. Batman is an American Academy Award-winning superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. ...
Another version proposes that a cousin of the man who became the Joker, Melvin Reipan, a master chemist but an idiotic buffoon otherwise due to an idiot-savant condition, was persuaded to create the Joker Venom as a way to "make people laugh", in exchange for becoming "handsome". However, Reipan was in fact physically very attractive, only having been told by his abusive mother he was ugly. This story appeared in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #50 and not only revealed the origins of Joker Venom but also re-told the first meeting between Batman and the Joker. However, DC invalidated this story in 2004, taking it out of official continuity. The reason for the invalidation was not due to the quality or caliber of the tale, for it was quite successful and well-recieved, but probably because of the introduction of the Joker's cousin, which would have greatly lessened the Joker's mysterious history. Batman: The Man Who Laughs is commonly known as the story about the first meeting of the Joker and and Batman in official DCU continuity.
In a 1980s comic book, the Joker facilitates one of his many escapes from Arkham Asylum using the venom - by mixing together the common cleaning chemicals found in a janitor's closet.
Marvel Comics has an apparent equivalent to Joker venom in the form of Red Skull's "dust of death", a chemical which turns the head of its victim into a "red skull" resembling that of Red Skull. In a crossover, the Red Skull and the Joker face off against one another, the Joker angry he had unwittingly worked for a Nazi(I'm a lunatic, but I'm an American lunatic!), and employ their favourite toxins on each other-realizing they are useless, as they are immune to their own, and both toxins are strikingly similar at chemical level. Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ...
Red Skull is the name of three Marvel Comics supervillains who are enemies of Captain America, other superheroes, and the United States in general. ...
Effects Contact with Joker venom causes uncontrollable spasms of laughter and then causes a painful death. Some have speculated that the venom hyperstimulates the laughter functions of the brain and the victim is unable to breathe. A spasm is a sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ, or a similarly sudden contraction of an orifice. ...
A boy laughing hysterically as he is tickled Laughter is an expression or appearance of merriment or amusement. ...
This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Italic text // ahh addiing sum spiice iin hurr`` For other uses, see Brain (disambiguation). ...
Prolonged exposure to the non-fatal forms can cause permanent brain damage. Brain damage or brain injury is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. ...
The faces of victims are usually pulled into a huge grin. Artists often stylize the effects, adding yellowed teeth, bulging eyes, etc. similar to the features of the Joker himself.
Usage Joker venom has been a part of the Joker's arsenal since his first appearance in Batman #1 (1940). The venom is often deployed as an airborne agent, but can also be used in its liquid form (used both to poison victims through their unwitting consumption of it, or in special darts). In Batman: The Killing Joke, Joker was seen to use a spike worn in his palm (similar to a Joy Buzzer) to administer the drug in a handshake manner. In Jeph Lobe's and Tim Sale's Catwoman: When in Rome Joker venom is duplicted by the Riddler to blame Catwoman for the murder a mafia king pin in Sicily. It is refered to as Joker Juice by both Catwoman and The Riddler. A joy buzzer is a practical joke device that consists of a coiled spring inside a disc worn in the palm of the hand. ...
In the 1990s animated series, Joker venom was almost exclusively a non-lethal gas, or, as seen more often, infected individuals are almost always revived before death (the venom doesn't kill as quickly in the series). It was also used as part of a binary compound in an episode called "The Laughing Fish", in which selected targets were exposed to part of the compound and later gassed with the second part, thus the venom would only affect the intended party. That same episode also featured a diluted version of the toxin, which only affected fish to make them smile (though as Joker later revealed in "Mad Love", the toxin was ineffective on piranha), as part of Joker's plan to sell "Joker Fish" and earn money off product sales (Joker also indicated a possible plan to alter the toxin to affect cattle should the fish plan not work- a hint that Joker could alter the toxin to affect any specific species of life he wished). In later movies and episodes, the venom became lethal (it was used to kill, among others, Sal Valestra in Mask of the Phantasm, a security guard in "Holiday Knights" and a government agent in the Justice League episode "Wild Cards"), although Joker also used the non-lethal variant as well. Joker did not appear to be immune to it, as evidenced by his protective helmet in "The Last Laugh" (although this may have been an oversight - later episodes showed him breathing and even talking while the gas is in the air around him). However, in the episode Harley & Ivy, Poison Ivy did display immunity towards it due to her immune system's resistance to toxins. The animated Batman shoots his grappling gun from a rooftop in a scene from the episode, On Leather Wings. ...
A binary compound is a chemical compound consisting of only atoms of two different elements, e. ...
The Laughing Fish is the 33rd episode of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series. ...
For other uses of Poison ivy, see Poison ivy (disambiguation). ...
Dubbed Smilex (sometimes spelled Smylex) by the Joker, the venom originated as did nerve gas, an experimental bioweapon developed by the U.S. Army and discontinued in 1977, according to a file seen in the Joker's lair (the date may have been chosen to coincide with President Jimmy Carter's order for the cessation of U.S. biological weapon production that year). Smilex was distributed both as a gas and in liquid form, mixed as separate components in various beauty and hygiene products which only took effect when the victim used a number of them in tandem, thus making the toxin impossible to trace. The Joker shows no immunity to it, and can be seen donning a gas mask during the mass gassing during Gotham City's 200th anniversary parade scene. Batman was released in U.S. theaters on June 23, 1989 by Warner Bros. ...
Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ...
Both versions of the venom are used in the new cartoon. The non-lethal version is weaponized as a gas and seems to dissipate over time. The gas is called "laughing gas", and puts its victims into a coma. Batman provided an antidote to this laughing gas. However, Joker also has a lethal version which is a liquid. The effects of this venom are the same as the one used in the Joker's first appearance in the comics (a venom which takes 24 hours to kill.). In the meantime, the victim slowly has fits of laughter until they are unable to function and die with Joker's trademark grin. Batman was infected with the venom, and was able to make a cure for it as well before it was too late. The Batman is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. ...
Cures It has been stated that the Joker constantly alters the formula to the Venom (which he is immune to) so no antidote can be prepared for it. However, there have been some antidotes concocted. Gotham Police Commissioner Jim Gordon had been poisoned with the venom; and was successfully saved. It took days for the effects of the venom to get completely out of his systems. During that time, he found black humor funny; although normally, that would be out of character for him. There have been several notable figures, both real and fictional, named James Gordon. ...
Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with serious subjects – death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner. ...
Poison Ivy concocted a fast-acting antidote for Joker venom. In Harley Quinn #13, Harley asks Ivy why she did not save people under the venom's influence, to which Ivy replies, "I don't do that, Harley. I don't save people. I'm poison, remember?" For other uses of Poison ivy, see Poison ivy (disambiguation). ...
Harley Quinn (real name Dr. Harleen Quinzel) is a fictional character in the animated series Batman: The Animated Series, as well as the DC Comics Batman series and its spin-offs, and subsequently in various Batman-related comic books. ...
|
Feeds |
Contact