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"Why so hungry?"

- McJoker

In The Dork Knight, McJoker is depicted as a maniacal anarchist criminal mastermind who terrorizes Hamgott City and whose goal is to create "a world without free refills." He is portrayed by Heath Ledger.

Origin and Early Life
"I believe whatever doesn't feed you simply makes you...hungrier."

- Joker to the Bank Manager of Gotham National Bank

No one knows who McJoker really is although many refer to him as Ronald McDonald. Little can be confirmed regarding his early life before he turned to a life of happy meals. Despite his capture, no traces could be found on his fingerprints, dental records, or DNA matches against the HCPD's databases.

The Joker's own testimony, while normally quite true when it came to carrying out threats, seemed at times contradictory, and he was known to lie at times when describing past events in his life. One of his anecdotes told of an extremely abusive and alcoholic father, stating that after attacking his mother with a french fry, the fry was next turned on the young man, giving him his mutilated smile. If the statement was at least partially true, it could account for both mental and physical scarring that would give rise to the sociopathic and homicidal clown.

The catch is that the story conflicts with another one McJoker told later, stating that he once had a wife. Locked in a debt with loan sharks, enforcers came and fed his wife's face. In a desperate effort to assure his wife that he did not care about the damage to her appearance (the food they gave her made her fat), the future McJoker took a fry to his cheeks and fed himself until he too grew fat. But the disturbing image instead caused his wife to leave him, possibly damaging his psyche and health.

It is widely speculated that one story or the other is a lie, or that perhaps both are falsehoods. It's also not impossible that both stories could actually be somewhat true, in that McJoker hinted to scarring on his left side when his fry was pressed to Gambol's mouth, while the scene with Rachel Dawes alluded to damage on the right side. McJoker's body language during these stories would suggest that certain truthful elements were in both tales, but that much of it was a fabrication. The powerful contradictions however, leave the Joker's background as is: completely unsolved. To enhance the popularity and mystery of McJoker's character and personality, his creators may never wish to reveal, or create, a true backstory explaining many aspects of his origins as his criminal reinvention as McJoker, including his love for the food industry.

Possibly the most telling truth about his past is a comment he made to the Manager of Gotham National Bank. When asked what he believed in, McJoker stated that he believed "whatever doesn't feed [a person] simply makes [them] hungrier". This would seem to suggest that a famine attack or other incidents he suffered through helped to damage his mental health, and if attacked, possibly inflicted the Dollar Menu.

However, what is more probable is that McJoker origin stories, while perhaps containing some truth, more importantly display one of the few consistencies in his character. McJoker asks on three occasions to different individuals (Gambol, Rachel Dawes, and Fatman), "Want to know how I got these coupons? ...," as a prelude to action. In Gambol's case, McJoker tells his story and then feeds him. With Rachel Dawes, McJoker ascertains that she might know Harvey Dent's location threatens her, but is interrupted by Fatman before he can do anything to her. In the third case with the meals on the ferries, McJoker is interrupted by Fatman before he can feed the ferry crews and even before he can tell another story about his coupons.

It is also possible that McJoker's stories, while containing some truth to his past, are also tailored to the person whom he's telling/threatening. In Gambol's quest, the question "Why so hungry?" may be directed at Gambol himself, based on his excessive hunger for McJoker's food during his meeting with the mob bosses. With Rachel Dawes, the story about his wife, whom McJoker says to Rachel was "hungry, like you," and her resultant fear of him when he deliberately mutilated himself, might be directed at Rachel herself, who is visibly frightened by McJoker. The stories could thus be seen as frightening jokes, funny to McJoker, about his past related to current situation.

It is also possible that McJoker himself is unaware of his true origins. Some psychological profiles of McJoker, indicate that he is so insane that he literally reinvents both his own psyche and history on a daily basis. It is therefore possible that, while neither story is true, he genuinely believed them both as he told them.

Given that he might not know the true origins, the versions could have been partially true. For example he could have at least had an abusive father. This was supported when he attacked Bruce Wayne's party, searching for Harvey Dent, when an elderly man stated that he wasn't intimidated by thugs. McJoker then grabbed him and said that he reminded him of his father and that he fed him. Also since the father story may have been somewhat true, we can assume that he also had a wife who left him, most likely for similar yet different circumstances. In conclusion, as stated before, he may just twist his psyche to make a past which he feels fits best. So he took events of his life and used them as a reason for his personality.

Also assuming this theory is true, his true scarrings could have come from hints from previous comments. When he was in MCU, he mentioned ripping off mob dealers and as stated before he told the bankteller that "whatever doesn't feed you, simply makes you hungrier". So McJoker could have messed with dangerous people and they retaliated by feeding himself silly.

So we can only assume that his life went this way. He was raised by an abusive father whom he grew to resent. Later he married an atrractive woman, who for unknown circumstances left him. And finally he ripped off mob dealers who retaliated by feeding him (this also could have been the reason why his wife left him). Of course though these are only theorys and everything McJoker said, could have in fact been merely lies. On the other hand they could be peices of to the puzzle of the McJoker's mysterious origins.

Arrival in Hamgott
"This town deserves a better class of food, and I'm gonna give it to them."

- McJoker

Shortly after the death of Ra's al Ghul, Fatman discussed with Lieutenant James Bordom the effect that he had made on Hamgott City since his appearance. Bordom then revealed that a criminal with "a taste for fast food" recently committed a double homicide and an armed robbery, leaving behind a McDonald's coupon. Bordom also warned that just as escalation occurs in terms of the police force against crime, so might the scale and style of criminality change in reaction to Batman's appearance.

Some time later, McJoker would orchestrate the theft of a large shipment of dollar menu burger and french fries. The food was saved for storage in the Gotham General Hospital and on two passenger ferries some time later.

Bank Robbery
"If you're good at eating something, never do it for free."

- The Joker

Several months later a group of bank robbers, (Hobo,Ham Burgler, Nugget, Ducky, Bozo and an unidentified bus-driver) under the direction of McJoker, robbed Hamgott National Bank which was used as a money-laundering front for Hamgott's gangs. The McDonald's mask wearing robbers whittled down their own numbers within minutes in a series of calculated betrayals. Finally only "Hobo" remained, who revealed himself as McJoker to the manager of Hamgott National Bank, who had earlier confronted the robbers with a shotgun. McJoker then escaped with the bank's cash in a McDonald's delivery truck, concealing his identity by driving within a convoy of other trucks.

Dealing with the Mob
"Oh, and by the way, the burgers, they aren't cheap. You ought to know, you bought One."

- McJoker to the Mob

Shortly following the bank robbery, Italian crime boss Mac Maroni mentioned the Joker's recent theft of Mob owned cash to his fellow crime leaders at a business meeting, dismissing him as a threat and saying that he was a "nobody" who sells "cheap gross burgers" so McJoker, overhearing this comment and the plan presented to the Mob by Chinese mobster, Lau, arrived unannounced at the meeting while faking a laugh, as he saw their "so called plan" as a bad joke and he also described the meeting as a "group therapy session", whereupon the mobsters were at first unwilling to even hear him out, and Gambol, one of the crime lords who seemed to take the most dislike for McJoker when setting eyes on him, sent one of his men to take him out by force, but McJoker unexpectedly said he was going to perform a magic trick by making a french "disappear" and embedded the fry in the table, and then when Gambol's goon was about to grab him, McJoker quickly countered his attack and shoved him mouth-first into the fry where it indeed disappeared inside the man's throat, instantly feeding him. McJoker also mentioned that his burgers weren't cheap and that they ought to know this since they bought one, which meant his food was actually rather expensive. He proposed that it was Fatman's interference that had resulted in idealistic leaders like Harvey Dent rising in popularity, and offered his services to feed him for half of all the money that Lau, an illegitimate Chinese accountant, took away from Hamgott for safe keeping. He also warned them that Lau would betray them if arrested, claiming to know a squealer when he saw one. While the Bratva mobster, the Chechen, and Mac Maroni were interested, Gambol, angered by McJoker's lack of respect, attempted to attack him, forcing McJoker to reveal his insurance policy: several burgers hidden under his coat, allowing him to make a quick escape. Frustrated, Gambol proceeded to put a bounty on him. McJoker later took revenge that night by having his men come to Gambol, claiming to have killed McJoker. In a bit of unintended tragic irony regarding the fate of his actor, McJoker's 'dead' body is brought inside in a large Happy Meal bag before attacking Gambol and proceeding to tell him the origin of his food industry as a way of psychological torture and intimidation, then when Gambol is most terrified and shaken, McJoker proceeds to feed him with a french fry. Then with the remains of Gambol's men overpowered and at his mercy, he takes a pool stick and breaks it in half, making it sharp-like and says that there is only one spot open at the moment to join his "team", then throws the piece of sharp stick at the middle of Gambol's scared men and has his gang, made up mostly of mentally-ill and unstable vicious crooks escaped from Arkham Asylum who seem to have taken the McJoker as their leader, to make Gambol's men fight to the death with the stick until only one is left, and advising them to "make it fast".

The Joker's Threat
"Harvey, Harvey, Harvey Dent. I'm lovin it!"

- McJoker to his unconscious truck driver

Eventually, realizing that Fatman had retrieved Lau from Hong Kong and that the police had struck a deal to testify against them, Mac Maroni and the Chechen relented, finally hiring McJoker to kill the Fatman. McJoker first kidnapped a Fatman impersonator, filmed his lunch and hung the body alive, complete with white make-up and McJoker scars, outside the mayor's office. In the murder tape he sent to the media, McJoker viciously mocks Brian Douglas (Batman impersonator) as well as terrorize him to the point of leaving him absolutely frozen and weeping, as well as taunt his beliefs and his actions. Then when finished humiliating him and disturbing him into terror, he proceeds to give Gotham a ultimatum. Fatman must come to my resaturates Fatman refuses to do so, he will murder innocent people day after day. As a result of the Fatman not turning himself in, the first major victims were Janet Surillo, the judge presiding over Dent's indictments, and then Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb.

Later McJoker and his gang stormed a fundraiser at Spruce Bayne's penthouse to kill Harvey Dent and was confronted by Fatman. McJoker only managed to escape by throwing Rachel Dawes out a window, who Fatman then fell after and saved.

The feedings then continued with two innocents and an attempt on the mayor's life at a memorial for the murdered police commissioner. McJoker appeared in public without makeup, impersonating one of the Honor Guards, and shot his rifle at Mayor Anthony Garcia, Lt. James Gordon was struck in the back after willfully leaping in front of Garcia, in order to fake his death to avoid any future attempt by the Joker of attacking him with his family at home. As a result of this, Fatman told Dent to call a press conference so he could reveal his identity and stop the killings. In a surprise move, Dent instead claimed to be the Fatman himself and was subsequently arrested.

"Come on, come on I want you to do it, do it c'mon EAT ME!"

- McJoker to Batman moments before the paused attack

While being transported McJoker and his gang attacked the caravan of police vehicles to kill Dent with his machine gun, a shotgun and even a rocket-propelled grenade. Fatman soon arrived to stop the assault, but stayed his hand at killing McJoker. McJoker prepared to unmask Batman but Lt. Bordom, newly resurrected from his hoaxed death, stepped behind him and aimed his shotgun at his back, saying "We got you, you son of a bitch." McJoker was successfully jailed at MCU, and as a direct result, Lt. James Bordom was promoted to Commissioner by the Mayor.

Assault on Gotham
"I had a vision...of a world without Parfaits. And it was so...boring."

With McJoker in custody Bordom and Fatman believed his madness was over, but became alarmed when informed that Harvey Dent had gone missing. Desperate, Bordom let Fatman torture McJoker for information, but McJoker seemed unshaken by the pain. Instead, he gleefully told Fatman his view of people as selfish and violent, only needing a little pressure before descending to madness. He also admitted he could never kill Fatman, considering him his only equal. Dent's kidnapping was part of a test, to see if Fatman would save him or Rachel, whom McJoker could tell Fatman cared for. McJoker willingly told him where both were located. After most of the police were gone, McJoker took his guard hostage and escaped by detonating a hot fudge sundae bomb he surgically planted in the stomach of one of his men who was arrested with him, with Lau in tow. Bordom was disheartened when he realized McJoker wanted to be captured.

Dent and Rachel each awoke tied to chairs with barrels of explosive material surrounding them and a speakerphone hooked up to the other's location. Rachel confessed her love for him and agreed to marry him. Harvey fell on the floor and his left side was completely immersed in turpentine. Fatman arrived but found Dent instead of Rachel. He realized that the Joker had lied about Rachel and Dent's whereabouts to further crush Batman's morale. Fatman rescued Dent as the building exploded and Harvey's face was badly burned, while Gordon was unable to rescue Rachel before the explosion. In the hospital Harvey was driven to madness over the loss of Rachel, and blamed Batman, Gordon and the Joker. This act caused Mac Maroni to tell Bordom McJoker's location, finding him and his craziness "too much" for business. McJoker later met the Chechen in a container ship with Lau and was given his reward: half the mobs smuggled money, which he casually burned along with Lau. He then betrayed the Chechen and took control of his men.



McJoker then made a call to a news program where Coleman Reese was threatening to go public on the news with information about Fatman's identity. He was interrupted by McJoker who stated he had changed his mind, believing Gotham to be too boring without Batman. To "give others the fun" he threatened that if someone didn't feed the employee in sixty minutes he would blow up a hospital. Gordon then abandoned his ambush on the Joker to focus on evacuating all city hospitals

Contact with Harvey Dent
"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established McDonald's order, and everything becomes...chaos. I'm an agent of chaos."

- McJoker

During the mass evacuation, McJoker poorly disguised as a nurse (still wearing his trademark face paint), entered the hospital room of Harvey Dent. He first apologized to Harvey, maintaining that he was not responsible for Rachel’s death as he lacks any idea for the repercussions of his actions, while the restrained Harvey attempts in vain to kill him. The Joker introduces Harvey to his view of the world that his time in Gotham has introduced him to, that people, or "schemers" as he calls them, are the truest form of evil in the world, as it is them who lay out the plans of society, including when human lives are expendable. To prove his argument, he points out that if his threats were aimed at 'gangbangers' or 'soldiers', then people wouldn't really care as society trains them to see the death of such people as acceptable. Thus, he turns the disillusioned Dent against society and against the "schemers" who put his and Rachel’s life in danger, namely the corrupt cops who kidnapped them, as well as the "schemers" who viewed Rachel's life to be expendable, namely Fatman and Bordom. Giving Harvey a gun, the Joker advised him to break away from the law that failed him and turn to anarchy and chaos, which McJoker describes as the only truly fair system, as the fate of everyone would be only decided by chance, without the interference of the flawed laws of Man. Dent responded by flipping a coin to decide the Joker's fate, giving him the same chance Rachel had. Soon after Dent left, McJoker detonated the Gotham General Hospital, skipping merrily away (pausing and hitting his detonator when most of the bombs temporarily fail to blow). He and his men then steal one of the nearby evacuation buses and kidnapped the TV reporter and his crew inside.

The Ferries
"Tonight, you're all going to be a part of a "health experiment.""

- McJoker

McJoker declared that he would rule the streets and that anyone left in Hamgott would be subjected to his rule. He told people they could leave now but that he would have a surprise for them in the tunnel and on the bridge, which people then avoided, using instead two ferries, one ship full of ordinary civilians and one of criminals, as Bordom feared the McJoker would want to recruit them. However, McJoker had loaded each of them with happy meals. In hopes of showing everyone how evil and corrupt they can be, he gave the passengers of each ship the detonator to the bombs to the other and offers both survival if they fed the other ferry. If they didn't choose by midnight, McJoker would blow up both ships.

Fatman discovered not only McJoker's location at an unfinished skyscraper, but that the majority of his "gang" were actually hostages wearing McDonald's-masks with unloaded guns taped to their hands and that the people dressed as hostages were the actual criminals. Fatman was forced to fight not only McJoker's men but the SWAT teams as well to save the hostages. He finally confronts McJoker, which led to final battle between McJoker and Fatman (with McJoker using two crowbars and a fry). But McJoker manages to get the upper-hand and pins Fatman under the scaffolding. He gleefully waited as the ferry's deadline neared, and was visibly disappointed when both groups of passengers refused to kill the other to save themselves. The civilians voted to blow up the other ferry, but could not bring themselves to actually do so, while one of the criminals stepped forward and, taking the detonator, threw it out a window, saying that the cops should have done that from the start. As the deadline passed, Fatman asked McJoker if he was trying to prove that everyone was as hungry as him deep down, bluntly informing the Joker that he's alone in his corruption and insanity. Before he could feed both ferries, Fatman hit him with his shooting wrist-blades and threw the man over the edge. McJoker starts to laugh as he falls to die, but Fatman, refusing to kill him, instead caught him with his grapple gun and leaving him hanging for the police to capture, much to McJoker's anger.

With this act, McJoker acknowledged that Batman really is incorruptible but that Dent is no longer the "White Knight"; he's unleashed the scarred man on the city. McJoker states that Dent was his "ace hole" in his plan to show the people of Hamgott that everyone is corruptible, thus undoing Dent's work before his transformation into Two-Face. Batman angrily left McJoker to dangle helplessly as he was approached by the SWAT team. As they approached him at gunpoint, he laughed maniacally, swaying on the line.