Sort of, Joker’s backstory is kind of all over the place, half because different artists wanted to tell different stories, and half because Joker himself doesn’t quite remember it clearly. The general gist is that he was a failed stand-up, and he wanted to rob some sort of factory where chemicals were used, so he became the Red Hood with a group of guys, ultimately Batman shows up and somewhere in the struggle/getaway, Joker is bathed in the chemicals, which bleaches his skin and gives him the green hair (and sometimes the red lips too). But like I said, it’s very open, and Joker himself has said he likes his past to be “multiple choice” lol
I was thinking about a Batman (1989) type situation
They did the same thing in the Jared Leto version
Was that his canonical origin in the DC comics?
Sort of, Joker’s backstory is kind of all over the place, half because different artists wanted to tell different stories, and half because Joker himself doesn’t quite remember it clearly. The general gist is that he was a failed stand-up, and he wanted to rob some sort of factory where chemicals were used, so he became the Red Hood with a group of guys, ultimately Batman shows up and somewhere in the struggle/getaway, Joker is bathed in the chemicals, which bleaches his skin and gives him the green hair (and sometimes the red lips too). But like I said, it’s very open, and Joker himself has said he likes his past to be “multiple choice” lol
I remember reading something about batman achieving some form of omnipotence, looking into who the joker was and found there were 3 different ones?
Yeah, something about Red Hood/Mask accidentally making two copies of himself in the chemical bath, I don’t remember exactly.