Archetypes In The Joker

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The Joker was once a criminal named Jack Napier, who turned to a life of crime after a failed heist. During his escape from Batman, he fell into a vat of chemicals, which altered his physical appearance and mental state completely. The Joker emerged from the vat with a freakish smile permanently imprinted on his face, and an obsession with chaos and destruction. He became a symbol of anarchy, a force of pure evil that would stop at nothing to achieve his twisted goals. In the movie The Joker, Joker displays how he perfectly fits into the villain archetype by showing his drive to create chaos all over Gotham, by all the evil crimes he has done to achieve his title now. In D.C’s Batman universe an example of the greatest supervillain of all time