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Batman The Killing Joke Part One ( Widescreen)

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Uploaded by on Jun 1, 2010

Its been a while since I did one of these, so I decided to continue wit a Classic.
This is Part one of what will be a Two parter, I hope You enjoy It.

"Batman: The Killing Joke is an influential one-shot superhero graphic novel written by Alan Moore, drawn by Brian Bolland, and published by DC Comics in 1988. It has in its original form continuously been held in print since then. "

Plot summary

The plot revolves around a largely psychological battle between Batman and his longtime foe the Joker, who has escaped from Arkham Asylum. The Joker intends to drive Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon insane to prove that the most upstanding citizen can go mad after having "one bad day". Along the way, the Joker has flashbacks to his early life, gradually explaining his possible origin.


The Joker, before his accident, with his pregnant wife; by Brian Bolland.
The man who will become the Joker, an unnamed engineer, quits his job at a chemical company to become a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably. Desperate to support his pregnant wife, Jeannie, he agrees to guide two criminals through the plant so that they can rob the card company next door. During the planning, the police inform him that his wife has died in a household accident involving an electric baby-bottle heater. Grief-stricken, the engineer tries to withdraw from the plan, but the criminals strong-arm him into keeping his commitment to them.
At the plant, the criminals make him don a special mask to become the infamous Red Hood. Unknown to the engineer, the criminals plan to use this disguise to implicate any accomplice as the mastermind and to divert attention from themselves. Once inside, they almost immediately blunder into security personnel, and a violent shootout and chase ensue. The criminals are gunned down and the engineer finds himself confronted by Batman, who is investigating the disturbance.


The Joker, after emerging from the canal of chemical-waste.
Panicked, the engineer deliberately jumps into the chemical plant's waste pound lock to escape Batman and is swept through a pipe leading to the outside. Once outside, he discovers, to his horror, that the chemicals have permanently bleached his skin chalk white, stained his lips ruby red and dyed his hair bright green. This revelation, compounding the man's misfortunes of that one day, drives him completely insane and marks the birth of the Joker.
In the present day, the Joker kidnaps Gordon, shoots and paralyzes his daughter Barbara (a.k.a. Batgirl), and imprisons him in a run-down amusement park. His henchmen then strip Gordon naked and cage him in the park's freak show. He chains Gordon to one of the park's rides and cruelly forces him to view giant pictures of his wounded daughter in various states of undress. Once Gordon has run the maddening gauntlet, the Joker ridicules him as an example of "the average man", a naïve weakling doomed to insanity.
Batman arrives to save Gordon, and the Joker retreats into the funhouse. Gordon's sanity remains intact despite the ordeal, and he insists that Batman capture the Joker "by the book" in order to "show him that our way works." Batman enters the funhouse and faces the Joker's traps while the Joker desperately tries to persuade his old foe that the world is inherently insane and thus not worth fighting for. Batman responds to the Joker's arguments by pointing out that Gordon has survived everything Joker had to throw at him, suggesting that it was Joker himself who was flawed rather than him being an example of what every man would do in his situation, tracks down the Joker and subdues him. Batman then attempts to reach out to him to give up crime and put a stop to their years-long war; otherwise, the two will be eternally locked on a course that will one day result in a fight to the death between them.
The Joker declines, however, ruefully saying "It's too late for that...far too late." He then tells Batman a joke that was started earlier in the comic, to express his desires and fears in the form of a story about two criminals. When the joke is finished, Batman's stoic exterior breaks down as he approaches the Joker and the two laugh together. Their shadows converge as the police sirens approach.

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  • Song please.

    Thanks for uploading it

  • @bobkane27 Suite Sister Mary By Queensryche

  • Why did you do it so fast you cannot read the scenes. Such a waste of a otherwise good job.

  • @midas12354783 Youtube had a time limit of 9mins 40secs. if I was doing it now I would have given it a full 15mins for each part.

  • I've just bought the 20th annivarsery deluxe edition of the "Killing Joke"! One of the very best batman novels of all time. Ranked 4# on the list "25 greatest graphic batman novels ever. This is a really great video!:)

  • @zappascum PIS???

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  • pretty far from what i used to watch on tv... wow

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  • @zappascum The Killing Joke is ranked 3#, 4# is Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.

  • and this is how Joker was born in the chapter.

  • great work

  • @soraandven well hopefully i mean the next dc movie will be the dark knight returns

  • 1988 art> UDON art

  • @seanboy97 yeah they managed to do year one a death in the family and under the hood pretty well so i bet they can pull off the killing joke i would also want dc to try and do batman hush heart of hush and the long halloween

  • mark hamil said on twitter after arkham city came out that he wants dc to make a direct to dvd animation movie of the killing joke he said he wants to play joker of course and he wants kevin conroy to play  batman man i really hope so that would be awesome those two doing one more movie together but then again he did say arkham city would be his last but you never know

  • 4:28 What the hell? Dennis Rodman?

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