Everyone's favorite Batman villain; The Joker has had his share of moments as Gotham's greatest supplier of evil.
But what do we really know about this creepy character other than he wears makeup and that there's most likely real blood in that smile of his?
Let us turn the clock back to a ten year old lad by the name of Heath Napier.
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Heath was a disturbed child.
He would make friends at school and even have good grades, but there was always something off about him.
He would twitch in class, never being able to pay attention whenever the teacher spoke.
How he managed such good grades was rather miraculous since every teacher would yell out his name, telling him to pay attention.
What they didn't know about this child was that his father, Jack Napier was a gangster.
More specifically, he was a gangster who would bring his work home with him.
Almost every day, bullets would be flying through the windows, leaving shards of broken glass everywhere.
Heath would constantly live in fear, hiding out in his room as he'd hope he didn't die that day.
His mother, Alicia was his father's "past fling" who was roped into (briefly) marrying him as he told her he'd change his ways.
This never happened.
It was just bickering between the two as prescribed drugs never helped, but Alicia was not willing to give up the fight until she had her husband cured of his illness.
It was hereditary psychosis.
Jack would tell her how he was raised in a home where the only things he knew about his father were little facts his mother would tell him.