Joker

Appearance

The Joker is very pale, with sheet-white skin, and dark, shiny green hair slicked back over the top of his head, with the rest fading into a lighter green on his temple and the back of his head. He has bright red lips that resemble lipstick, yellow teeth, black eyebrows, and deep purple fingernails. The Joker is often seen wearing a purple suit, with a collared green shirt and purple tie. Lastly, he constantly wears a small yellow flower with a red dot in the center which can spray out incredibly lethal acid, which he used against Scarecrow and to try to kill Harley Quinn both in "The Final Joke".

In "Devil's Snare" and the very beginning of "The Final Joke", he is seen wearing a parody of his own outfit which has elements of a military general added in, such as a matching purple hat, sunglasses, and medals of various sorts. At the end of "The Final Joke", he is "normalized" by the acid he intended to have Harley jump into, his skin turning to that of a regular Caucasian man and his fingernails reverting to the same color.

Personality

❝ Do you take me for a basic b***h? ❞
— The Joker

As with other iterations of the Joker, the Joker in Harley Quinn talks about the horrible things he does with a blasé demeanor, treats violence as a joke, manipulates Harley, is incredibly prideful, treats his own minions like they're disposable (if he doesn't outright kill them himself for petty reasons), is unpredictably violent, bullies his own colleagues, and shows no remorse for anything he does. In "The Final Joke", both Batman and Harley describe him as a "sociopathic narcissist" with a chemical imbalance in his parasympathetic nervous system. His pride frequently leads him to try to sabotage Harley Quinn, unable to accept her agency or independence and leads him to ruthlessly betray her after deceiving her into thinking that she had regained his affections.



Despite all this, Joker admitted that he actually did love Harley but due to his belief that love was a weakness, he wanted to get rid of her. Realizing that killing her would make her a painful memory that would hurt him for the rest of his life, he settled for trying to make Harley forget who she was instead. After having his own memory erased, Joker's view on love changed dramatically when he fell in love with Bethany. Spending six months as a "loser stepdad" softened him and even once he regained his memory, he decided that his relationship with Bethany could be a great thing. However, he also told Harley that he still intended to be a serial killer, except now his motivation to continue killing was that he was in love. He had also seemingly changed his view on Harley, no longer feeling the need to dispose of her and even encouraging her to seek out her own love with Poison Ivy.