5 Times The Joker Has Saved Batman's Life

My favorite portrayal of their “relationship” is where the Joker actually doesn’t want to kill Batman, but actually wants to push Batman to the point where he’ll break his code and kill him. This is my favorite because it’s just so interesting to think about how the Joker considers being murdered by Batman is winning.

"Without Batman crime has no punchline." - Depressed Joker

I remember a comic where Joker tells Batman that he never wants either of them to win (aka die/give up) because then the game is over. In most Batman/Joker versions, the Joker thrives off Batman. Without Batman, he feels he is nothing. Even in The Dark Knight movie, Ledger’s Joker tells Batman, “Kill you? I don’t want to kill you! No, you complete me.” And in the animated series, Sid the Squid kills Batman by accident, which Batman uses to his advantage, and the Joker is both sad and pissed that Sid killed Batman and tries to kill Sid but Batman saves Sid. “it’s complicated” is a good description of their relationship for sure. I love their dynamic and how they are polar opposites. They are probably best hero/villain pair ever IMO

Telltale batman deserves so much more love than it has. It's incredible

I really like the fact that Joker loves Batman. As you said not in a sexual way but as he put it in the Dark Knight "you complete me" and just wants the game to go on forever

Honestly Batman and joker rivalry is classic And in the Arkham knight game joker is afraid of being forgotten and than there was the time Batman went into a coma and joker went temporarily sane

In the War of Jokes and Riddles story , the Joker never laughed or smiled for a long time and The Riddler wanted to know how to make The Joker laugh again , so he decided to start a war with the Joker , and Batman is desperate to stop this war , and he had no choice but to join Riddler's side , and when Batman finds out why this war exists , he was nearly going to kill Riddler with a knife , but The Joker puts his hand in the way to prevent Batman from killing Riddler

The time where joker saved Batman in Batman who laughs was pretty cool too, love these choices tho

Honestly the best part of that Brave and the Bold episode to me is even Joker does seem to lament the fact that he betrays Batman, even outright admitting that in another life they could have easily been friends

Without batman, there can be no joker, and Without joker, what can't there be?

my theory and head canon is that Joker has slight regenerative abilities and that's why he always seems to survive even though he should be killed. Like getting eaten by sharks, falling into a smoke stack, having his airship explode etc.

I remember seeing crisis on two earths and really liked the good guy joker, who's name is "the jester" it was really cool, I wish we got to see more of him.

The goat himself is back🙏

My favorite times that the Joker save Batman was when he saved him from breaking his one rule to never kill

The best one in my oppinion is the one from Batman TAS Mad Love. I love how Batman actually tells the Joker that he had no other options than to make Harley call the Joker and that the Joker's ego wouldn't allow anybody else to be responsible for Batman's death, so he knew that the Joker would come and save him.

Actually, In the tie-in comics for DC Universe Online, it reveals that Joker did In fact believed he killed Batman. And as you'd expect it, he doesn't feel accomplished, he doesn't feel anything, he even laments to a dead Harley Quinn that the little life he'll have now thanks to Brainiac's invasion won't be near as fun without Batman and her.

4:19 So your going to ignore the best scene in that episode where Batman laughed, you must be just as crazy as the joker.

There is another time where in tell tale Batman Batman was fighting bane and Batman was not going so well but then joker shows up and teams up with Batman to take down bane and beat the crap out of bane and it was an amazing scene and I really recommend watching it

In my headcanon, Joker knows Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same person. . . but, he also knows that Bruce is the mask.

4:13 There is only Two words Plot armor