You are selected to write a 6-9 issue long Batman story which culiminates in the Joker dying for at least ten years IRL...

So, exactly what they already did with Simon Hurt?

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This, idk if I'd do the whole start off with it like these guys, but the joker should die in such a way, truly defeated in a sense after batman foils his plan.

>It goes to court, jury still votes innocent
This could lead to an interesting storyline about killing heinous supervillains becoming 'legal' due to nullification by jury

I>t's set in the 1980's, and it's a direct continuation of the Joaquin Phoenix movie. Joker busts out of Arkham or whatever mental institution he was in at the end of the movie.
>He clears up some loose ends, like killing his cocktease neighbour, and then gathers up a posse of goons made up of people who were rioting at the end of the movie but managed to avoid getting caught by the cops
>He then tries to lead a "siege" on Wayne Manor, with the intent to end the Wayne legacy by killing Bruce.
>He and his goons are held off by Alfred on his lonesome while he waits for the GCPD to arrive
>Joker is the first casualty of the siege, getting unceremoniously shot through the forehead by Alfred before he can even finish riling up his goons
>Both Alfred and Bruce survive the siege, and Bruce fucks off for the next 10 or so years in-universe to train to become Batman
>Joker stays dead for like 10 years IRL like OP said
>When they finally bring him back, it's in a modern retelling of his very first story.

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Joker is in the midst of some standard criminal plot that has just been foiled by Batman. Joker briefly escapes and a manhunt begins. Jokers dead body is found dumped in an alley after being shot. Batman begins and autistically thorough investigation, trying to find out who in his gang, or what rival criminal might want him dead(pretty much everyone) Batman becomes so preoccupied it starts getting in the way of everything else and other super heroes tell him to not even bother because good riddance. Batman eventually gives up. The last few pages are an internal monologue of some random dude that joker passed while escaping, he reflects on how the joker has effected his life and how much better everyone is with him dead, he passes by a pier and chucks a gun in the water. He walks into a big of people on their way to work becoming just another face and the last word of his monologue are “no one will ever know”

this but he chuckles at the end.

It would be something that finally breaks Batman mentally -- his whole goal for Joker is to save/rehabilitate him and getting that torn away is perfect. Bruce gets increasingly more violent as Batman over time; Wayne becomes a recluse and avoids the public eye after several outbursts and altercations with the media.

Even better if it turns into a massive joke twist with Joker paying off all the right people to fake his death and disappear while watching Bats lose his shit (effectively reforming himself for years in order to get the payoff). Eventually, Batman is bought down and put in Arkham -- could be done by anyone --- and the chaos comes to an end. Mr. J. returns to Gotham and visits an old friend, this time on the other side of the padded cell door.
"Why? Why come back?"
"It just wasn't funny any more."

Even better

It has to be a nice laugh though. You could have some symbolism where every instance of laughing is represented as a little bit creepy or over the top throughout the run but that last chuckle is more like pic related.

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as others have already said it probably would be best if it's just a random civilian shooting Joker, though if it has to be a named character who does it then I'd say Commissioner Gordon, Alfred, or maybe Harley Quinn would be the best choices

Literally the laziest, most boring thing you could possible do. And it's very telling how it is often said by people who just hate the Joker now and days and want it out of spite rather any actual enjoyment for the character and wanting a good ending for them.
personally I would want it be something like Injustice where he was terminal and wanted to go out on a high note, building up this huge monumental disaster, with the actual end twist being nothing more then a whoopi-cushion or a pie to the face, something super clowny and not at all what was being built out through the entire story, just a last joke to fuck with the heroes and villains of earth thinking shit is going down big time.

The Joker is found sane to stand trial and sentenced to death. Batman realizes he has no right to interfere with a legal execution.

Ya. The thing is he has affected so many people in a terrible way in the city. So it could be like any one of a million people who just got sick of it and opportunistically shot him. Joker would almost want to go out that way. Batman just looking all over the damn place using his autism gear but the guy is hard to find the same reason careful serial killers are hard to find.

What’s the implication? That he might be the next joker?

So you just want the Joker to rick roll the world?

Literally the only clever part of "a rando kills him because he does!"

nice

Why are you pretending, with the availability of guns and joker being just a regular human, that someone would just do that given the chance?

Yes, exactly, but have it built up through the story as if he's going to nuke the entire planet or something, have it so it starts off as a Crisis event only to end with a literal wetfart and a recording of Joker laughing, because he would also turn out to have died from his cancer or diseases before he could see the ending.

Not the guy who posted it but I’d see it as “the joker corrupts everyone he touches”

By killing him the dude brought himself down to his level and enjoyed doing it. Maybe he never kills again and goes on normal. Maybe he becomes a new joker. Either way the joker corrupted him the way he constantly tries to do so with Batman

More that I just find it the most boring overused "joker death" plot imaginable, and again, tends to be used by people who don't even like the character anymore and want him dead for the sake of being dead.

>Joker kills an incredibly popular person (DC's president, the Pope a celebrity whoever) and gets massive amounts of federal heat on Gotham
>Someone places an insane bounty on the Clown's head
>All the villains, civilians, cops and criminals say fuck it the Clown needs to die
>NOW
>Due to shenanigans Batman has to escort Joker back to the Batcave from the other side of Gotham with no Batmobile, no Bat family support and an entire City out for their blood
>Ends with some shmuck getting off a lucky shot right through Joker's head

Because he stole the fucking franchise and people are sick of him

Joker has a heart attack after eating one to many Joker Fish Filets

That's significantly more boring. The later issues Batman would have to face resulting from the Joker's death early on are way more interesting than a woopie cushion. However that would be a batman story and Joker's death should probably not be a batman story. Your suggestion is more the spineless easy way imo.

>Joker gets stage 4 cancer
>It's already metastasized everywhere
>Twelve issue long Maxi series that's just Joker lying in a hospital bead reminiscing about all his shenanigans while Harley and the rest of the villains visit him
>Ends with Batman finally tracking him down and they have one last conversation before Joker croaks
Give me my Eisner

The story begins with the Joker digging a grave. Pan out, you see he’s burying another Joker, who he supposedly just killed.
The Batman Who Laughs event is canon and will be referenced, though the actual Batman Who Laughs character won’t appear. Basically for those who didn’t read it, Batman can’t kill Joker because the Joker has a dead man’s switch that automatically turns whoever kills him into the next Joker. Batkek comes from a parallel universe where Batman kills Joker, becomes Batkek, then takes over the entire world.
Throughout the run you’d see flashbacks to times the Joker has “died,” only for his corpse to infect someone else.
The story ends with Jason locking Joker in a warehouse full of dynamite and blowing him up.

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This is way better than a world-level whoopie cushion at least.

The joker finds out he has a terminal illness so he goes full endgame in trying to get Batman to kill him before it’s too late.

Ending actually has Batman cure him despite the crazy shit, but a random kid shoots him in the back, killing him. He laughs and says “you... what a joke...” as he coughs up blood

The kid was the son of the doctor who diagnosed him, he killed him and his wife in rage and his son saw it happen. Then saw joker laugh about it to him

Cue Batman talking down the crying kid with a gun who saw his parents die and killed because of it

Gordon helps Batman cover up the jokers death and get rid of his body to save the boy from having to go through the courts or further trauma. Joker dies anonymously, just like how nobody knows where he came from. One day be just disappeared as far as Gotham knows.

Maybe Bruce adopts new kid to try and raise him right. Hell, Dick Grayson could adopt him, he’s old enough.

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I don't hate the Joker, pure evil clownman is fun. I'd use the story to explore Batman and how he deals with a truly impossible situation. The direct plot is Batman doing proper detectiving by himself, breaking into places, putting clues together, building the case. The character arc is him coming to terms with his code of justice hitting a wall. The climax is that he has to decide between letting something go unpunished or taking the law into his own hands. Since he can't do either of these things one of them has to break.

>Joker becomes Batman now
>Bruce breaks out of Arkham and becomes the Joker
>The game begins again

>brought himself down to his level
Let's be real. Shoot 1 guy =/= Ultra Evil Chaos Clown Of Madness

Yeah but in comicbook terms killing on guy = Hitler

See Injustice

Just make the Killing Joke canon.

Everyone thinks Joker died but it was actually just a hyper realistic dummy that accidentally left out and Joker was just at the grocery store

How dare I try to stay true to his character rather then pointlessly killing him off in the most predictable way possible (literally half the posts itt are the same shitty idea over and over) and then focusing on everyone but the fucking dude actually dying off in the story about how the Joker died.
The idea that Batman would do so much after Joker dies from a rando is so fucking stupid too. Why would he do anything like that? Random deaths happen all the time in Gotham and he fucking HATES Joker.
It just doesn't make sense to me and seems fundamentally insulting to the character itself, which I don't find in itself funny so don't bother pulling that shit either.

the entire joaquin movie was an elaborate story he told to his shrink because he lies a bunch

I think people just hate the overuse of him, like said, he's so common in Batman stories today, it's like if Moriarty existed in every... actually it's exactly like what happened to Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes. He's always there now, the hyperbolic use of what should be a momentous character cheapens them into trash.
The joker only should show up every irl 10 years, or once or twice in each batman run, he should be a big event that takes centerstage and drastically alters the series from that point onward.

Joker dies off screen. The rest of the series is about Batman trying to figure out who did it.

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>Titled "Hootenanny"
>Bruce Wayne is kidnapped from the top of Wayne Tower by the Joker's thugs, and carted away in an airship made to look like a titanic balloon animal
>High on modified Joker Venom, Bruce is reduced to a cackling wreck that gladly uses his funds, at Joker's demands, to pay all of Gotham's greatest villains to help lock down the city's greatest theatre, to use as... the location to host Joker's birthday party!
>All of Gotham's villains, crooks, and costumed fiends attend the most happeningist hootenanny what ever graced the old town, for a night of merriment, laughs, and fun games, culminating in the what Joker's calling the greatest joke ever played.
>The plot follows the Batfamily as they infiltrate the event - Damian and Tim posing as caterers and getting up to shenanigans; Dick arriving as a masked acrobat as part of the entertainment; Jason getting in with Penguin's muscle; and Steph and Cass passing as socialites on the arm of a gangster.
>Each would have a subplot with an attending villain and how they'd keep their cover, gathering clues to Bruce's hidden location.
>But the party goes wild quickly, as Joker's madness compels him to send things off the rails, encouraging violence and chaos among his party guests, culminating in both Harley Quinn and Catwoman arriving to kill Joker - for revenge and to save Bruce, respectively.
>All hell breaks loose into a wild melee, ending with Dick and Joker racing to Bruce's holding cell - only to find he's broken himself free, and in his madness attacks Joker.
>After being brutalized, Joker realizes at the last moment he's had his arch-nemesis in his clutches this whole time, and cackles madly as Bruce snaps his neck.
>Terrified, remembering the story of the Batman Who Laughs, Dick tries to get Bruce away from the corpse - only for a jet of gas to hit them both.
>Diluted and in lesser quantities, the two are changed less drastically, not into a pair of Jokers... but the True Dynamic Duo!
r8 I guess

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What are the best examples of sensible DC heroes that kill when necessary but otherwise avoid loss of life? (And this is portrayed as a good thing.)

Joker dies in an explosion trying to kill Batman. Batman is determined it’s a trick and investigates for months and the batfamily is scared he’s become unhinged.

Finally relents when he goes too far beating one of the villains sure he’s somehow involved and it’s clear he knows nothing. Joker really did die

Ending shows Joker just decided to stop being joker. Lives in metropolis as a normal man, reads a newspaper with a Batman article written by Clark Kent

Has a chuckle, waitress asks what’s so funny he says “ever notice how they only put bad news in newspapers?” Then goes back to his coffee, stroking the dog he now owns

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A series of Supervillain OSHA videos showcasing proper workplace safety with Joker being the example of what not to do and dying in various ways from accidentally blowing himself up to being eaten by sharks due to not feeding them enough

Ehhhh, Wonder Woman kind of

She killed Max Lord when he made it 100% clear he would never stop mind controlling superman to kill people and the only way to stop him was killing him. Pretty justified IMO

But writers really made Batman and superman hate her for it. They kicked her out of the justice league if I recall

>But writers really made Batman and superman hate her for it. They kicked her out of the justice league if I recall
This is just the wrong message entirely to send out in the world. It's not your mom not letting you take the family car on a road trip, it's a dude mind controlling superman for nefarious purposes. Bats and Supes need to take a class on the pitfalls of deontology. Or read Watchman I guess kek.

Batman actually just fucking kills him out of the blue. The story is about Batman having a nervous breakdown and finally, at long last, getting therapy

>Similar premise to Three Jokers: Joker has decided he wants to create a successor.
>His top candidate is a kidnapped Red Hood.
>At the end of the big battle, Jason nearly succeeds in killing him only for him to get away
>But as he runs out of the back door of Ace Chemicals into the alleyway, he just happens to run into a nobody beat cop
>They surprise each other and the cop guns Joker down.
>Bruce spends weeks convinced that it's too inglorious a death to be real, Joker faked it and is still alive somehow, the story is more about him figuring out how to accept it
>side bonus, one of Joker's early "create another me" tests was Jack Ryder, it's a Creeper origin.

Ya I kinda just like Batman killing him and using the "just wasn't funny anymore" line.

This is a great idea.