
To cheer her up and show solidarity, he scared his own face, only to have her repulsed by his visage. He recited a second tale to Rachel Dawes about his wife getting cut up by loan sharks whom she owned money to. The Joker claimed that he witnessed his drunken father murder his mother before turning the knife on his frightened son. The Joker treated his history like a running gag, fabricating a new story of how he obtained his scars with each retelling. His only motive was to prove his nihilistic philosophy that everyone has darkness inside them once the veneer of civilised society was torn down. The Joker of The Dark Knight was an enigmatic criminal with a Glaswegian smile who arrived in Gotham City with the sole intent of sowing discord indiscriminately.


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