The Joker's Head.
By likalaruku 6 Comments
Open Question
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What diagnoses or personality disorder would the Joker have?
by Allaiyah W
Actually, pretty much all humans have minor mental or emotional disorders, the Joker & others deemed insane tend to have multiple &/or major disorders.
The Joker is a sociopath. He's the only person who has ALL the symptoms, which is suspicious. He was at least assumed to be so by pre-scarecrow Jhonathan Crane. http://www.comicvine.com/myvine/likalaruku/joker-the-very-definition-of-a-sociopath/87-38841/
He Is a compulsive liar, which attributes to his acting skills. He's also believe to be completely sane by Batman & an Arkham psychologist, but to be so moraly corrupt & emotionaly blank as not to care.
The Joker only semiantisocial in the sence that he does not work well with others. He does crave attention & praise, another child-like complex. Truth be told, if you put him in solitary confinement, he wouldn't be happy; he needs someone to pester. He had little patience for Harley Quinn & would often fly off the handle & try to kill her. Recently, he's become a lone wolf after killing off all his henchmen. The same can be said for Batman who's faux personality; Bruce Wayne, is forced to socialize to prevent association, but all his friends think he's a total jerk.
He has a disassociative disorder in which he belives that the world is a dream & only he & Batman are real. This of course contradicts his "super sanity." This is common in children & people usualy grow out of it & become exposed to the concept of empathy.
He's a genuine sadomasochist who derives pleasure equal to sex through inflicting & being inflicted with pain.
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Joker expert on The Comic Vine who has several minor mental & emotional disorders but isn't crazy enough to be locked away.
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BATMAN: why did the Joker kill Harley Quinn?
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BATMAN: why did the Joker kill Harley Quinn?
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He didn't succeed, he's tried & failed several times. If you want to know why he tried at all, it's because she is simply the Joker's cheerleader/henchwoman, hired partly for her loyalty, partly for her ego boosting, partly for her acrobatics, & partly as a secondary play toy, you know, like little kids who rip heads off of dolls & stick them on robot bodies, only he prefers messing with her head.
Anyway, she has a tenancy to get too emotional & too close & he's just not down with that. She way have been smart enough to get a degree, but she's too dumb for him & offers no thrills like Batman. Sure she's fun to hit, but she doesn't hit back, & he'd probably respect her more if she did.
The Joker is like a child; he likes praise & attention, doesn't like to share his toys, lies at every given opportunity, & gets mad at stupid things, & thinks that he & Batman are the only things living in a dream world. In other words, he has absolutely no empathy or sympathy for Harley's feelings & no patience when she forces them on him. He especially hates it when she botches up plans for his preferred toy: Batman, the action figure who has better response to his manipulation.
Usually, whenever he's about to kill her, it's because of his short temper. Then he remembers she's not completely useless & relinquishes. Other times she's douses his temper by making him laugh.
Batman & the Joker are opposite reflections in a mirror & both have had dramatic personality/mental/physical changes in the past two years. Batman is a lone wolf & to compensate, the Joker no longer needs henchmen. He no longer needs Harley. & from what Harley told the former Riddler, she no longer needs him.
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