Joker

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Joker may refer to:

Common meanings

• Joker (playing card)
• Jester, a person employed to tell jokes and provide entertainment

Fictional characters

In print

• Joker (comics), DC comics villain who is Batman's archenemy
  • Joker (comic book), a comic book featuring the character that ran from 1975-1976
  • Joker (graphic novel), featuring the character
• Joker (comic strip), featured in the British anthology comics Knockout, Whizzer and Chips and Buster
• Joker, a person with a harmful mutation in the Wild Cards shared science fiction universe
• Joe Carpenter or "Mr. Joker", in the Japanese novel series Read or Die
• Jokers, a race of super-beings in Terry Pratchett's novel The Dark Side of the Sun
• Joker, in the novel The Short-Timers, the basis for Full Metal Jacket

In film and television

• The Joker (The Dark Knight), in the film The Dark Knight, played by Heath Ledger
• Joker (Flame of Recca), from the manga series Flame of Recca
• Kamen Rider Chalice or Joker, from the TV series Kamen Rider Blade
• Kamen Rider Joker, a rider form of Shotaro, from the TV series Kamen Rider W
• Joker, from J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
• Joker, in the film Full Metal Jacket

In video games

• Joker (Suikoden III), from the video game Suikoden III
• Joker, from the video game series Monster Rancher
• The Joker, from the video game Fighters Destiny
• Joker, from Mass Effect
• The Joker, from SaGa Frontier
• Joker, from Joker no Kuni no Alice by Quin Rose

Film and television

• The Jokers, a 1967 comedy starring Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed
• Joker (2000 film), an Indian Malayalam film directed by A. K. Lohithadas
• Joker (2012 film), an Indian Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar
• Joker, a wild card for players of the TV quiz show The Joker's Wild
• Joker, a pricing game on the game show The Price Is Right

Music

• Joker (musician), an English dubstep artist
• Jokers (musical), a 1986 stage musical directed by Martin Charnin
• The Joker (album), an album by The Steve Miller Band
  • "The Joker" (song), a song from the album
• "The Joker (That's What They Call Me)", a 1957 song
• "The Joker" (musical song), a song from The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, also the opening theme of Kath & Kim
• "The Joker", a song by Quiet Riot from their album Quiet Riot
• "The Joker", a song by Zona B
• "Joker" (Anna Rossinelli song)
• "Joker", a song by X Japan from Jealousy

Publications

• Joker (magazine), a Slovenian magazine
• Joker, an American men's digest published by Humorama

Transportation

• Honda Joker, a scooter made from 1996 to 1999
• Joker, an edition of the Volkswagen Golf Mk3
• Joker, an edition of the Volkswagen Westfalia Camper Van
• Peña Joker, a French amateur-built aircraft design

People

• Joker (nickname)
• Joker (wrestler) (born 1983), American professional wrestler
• Jonas Berggren (born 1967), Swedish musician
• Jess Liaudin (born 1973), French mixed martial artist
• Yong Jun-hyung (born 1989), South Korean pop singer

Other uses

• Joker, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• The Joker (roller coaster), a spinning roller coaster at Six Flags Mexico
• Byblia, a genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly known as the Jokers
• Byblia ilithyia, a brush-footed butterfly commonly known as the Joker or Spotted Joker
• Jokers, nickname of VF-20, a World War II US Navy squadron
• Joker, a domain name registrar cited by ICANN for noncompliance
• Helsingin Jokerit, a Finnish hockey team called jokers

See also

• "Jokester", a story by Isaac Asimov
• Joke (disambiguation)
• Dzhokhar (disambiguation)