arthur fleck

Arthur Fleck, later known as the Joker, is a failed comedian who, following his great lack of success and respect, loses his mental stability until he becomes a nihilistic, sociopathic killer calling himself Joker, aiming himself to make Gotham smile in his way. The man who would later be known as the Joker was born to unknown parents before being allegedly adopted in Gotham City by Penny Fleck and an unknown father. When he was raised by his adopted mother and her boyfriend, they were abusing him physically and mentally, until the trauma to his brain caused him to develop Pseudobulbar affect, a condition characterized by sudden moments of uncontrollable laughter or crying. In Arthur's case, his PBA would cause him to laugh uncontrollably during moments of intense stress and sadness.

As he became an adult, in 1981, he frequently visited a therapist to obtain medications to try and help himself handle the problem and later his depression and psychoticism. Despite being on seven different medications, Arthur at one point requests that his medication be increased because they were not making him feel better.

Ever since he was younger, Arthur sought to become a popular comedian worldwide so he can bring laughter and joy to the world, which his mother raised him to believe in and even kept his true family lines as secrets for him.

To achieve his life goal, Arthur had taken the job of an advertising clown for a talent agency, so he can use the future salary he would get to help his mother to heal from her illnesses and to help himself.

Arthur Fleck is a middle-aged man with silk-long-black brown-hair, he is also pale and skinny man with no muscles nor fat. He was often wearing a casual brown jacket, brown pants and even a grey buttoned shirt.

As Joker, he would put on clown-like luxury red, orange, yellow and brown bright suit and shoes, and, dyed his hair in bright green with painting his face with clown makeup, drawing tear-like blue eyelashes around his eyes, while his mouth was drawn in bright red like a big evil or sad smile.

Ever since he was born, Arthur Fleck always wanted to bring laughter and joy to the world, aiming to do so by becoming a famous comedian. However, he was often physically and mentally abused by his adoptive mother and her boyfriend.

As a result of being abused, Arthur dives deeply into nihilism, depression and even psychosis, until he develops pathological laughter created by the abuse.

Despite his mental health, Arthur would have never thought of giving up on his goal to be a popular comedian, and, when he goes to achieve this goal, he takes the job of a clown for a talent agency.

• Very High Intelligence: Arthur was endowed with exceptional intelligence, so wise and sophisticated that even though he did not know how to handle the Clowns anarchy around him, he used his intelligence to outsmart the detectives investigating him and mastered his skill of carrying out anarchistic actions.

• Skilled Marksman: He was also capable using a gun, shown when he killed those three guys on the train who were harassing him, one of whom was a considerable distance from Arthur.