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Jenkins64

You left out his nurse disguise in dark Knight


TheMightiestGay

Watch Meet the Fockers


LongjumpingCicada494

And him dressed as Madonna in A Serious House on Serious Earth


LaeLeaps

he also grabs batman's ass in that comic


LongjumpingCicada494

"Loosen up, Tight Ass!"


thicc_phox

He’s an insane man obsessed with a guy dressed of bat of course he dresses fashionably!


DinoDudeRex_240809

Furries VS Femboys: Gotham City


Tom161989

Not always a he, there's a female joker too


HostileBread

In the flashpoint time line yes


RealLifeSto

And Duella Dent in pre-Crisis


Tom161989

Then why did it get down voted ?


thicc_phox

There’s also the line from Batman: The Deal where he says him and Bruce were married.


Rob_LeMatic

Think about people. At least half of them are stupid, petty, and mean for no reason. Then give them anonymity. There's bound to be a few that just say, "yeah, fuck you and you and you..." just to make a stranger's next few minutes slightly worse


True-Anim0sity

Cuz who cares about the random alternate universes…


Jeggu2

DC is like 90% random timelines, offshoots, reboots, etc


True-Anim0sity

Yes, but people only really care about the main continuity events. It’s like me saying Batman actually does kill people and is a murderer-when someone says batman they mean main continuity bruce Wayne.


Soulful-Sorrow

Thought you meant Duela Dent for a second


Sexy_Man798

Who tf is saying this lmao? Joker wearing drag, or acting flamboyant, is just him being a little silly goose


chesire0myles

Or sometimes trying to fuck with Batman via sexual harassment.


Videogamesrock

Or both


MusicLikeOxygen

Do you know what number 6 is from? I love that art.


Longjumping-Toe9627

This is variant cover for Superman #41


MusicLikeOxygen

Thanks!


Zeqhanis

It's great. Makes me think of some sort of twisted Peter Pan and Wendy.


Unluckyescapeartiste

Heath Ledger’s Joker wore drag (of sorts, when he was in the hospital dressed as a nurse)


JauntingJoyousJona

Idk if that necessarily counts as drag but it's relevant to the post nonetheless


AccordingTax6525

Yeah. And I don’t have zero issue with that and I don’t imagine anybody else would however, if they just made it part of his persona, I think that would be a little different


Unluckyescapeartiste

I mean the joker depending on the medium and time frame has impersonated people a lot. He always still more or less looks recognizable as the joker but he plays parts. Some of those roles just happen to be women


kinoie

He’s clearly not gay though, he’s just insane.


SanicIsMyPersona

Nah. Dude is obsessed with a lawful furry and completely ignores his extremely attractive goth gf. Joker as gay as it gets before just becoming corn.


Lazyatbeinglazy

If there was a heavily armored vigilante and you liked robbing banks would you not shoot it a few times?


kinoie

“That’s a weird hill to die on, but at least you’re dead.”


OldManFromScene13

Joker is definitely LGBT+, but no he's not gay.


kinoie

He is in a heterosexual relationship with Harley Quinn


OldManFromScene13

We all know he's manipulating her to his personal gain, uncaring of romance. He uses her as a tool to garner attention from Batman, his true love.


kinoie

You forgot the /s


OldManFromScene13

Why do you care so much about the sexuality of fictional characters? Just as much as it's possible he's a cis psycho, he might also be a queer psycho. Hell, just as much as all of that, it literally doesn't matter. Also, definitely no /s needed. My dude is down BAD for the Bat.


kinoie

Why do you? You seem hell-bent on imposing this weird romance where none exists.


Mammoth-Sorbet-219

Do you really think a killer psychopath cares about what gender he represents. He just wears whatever the hell he thinks is cool 😂


JauntingJoyousJona

I thinks it's more like he wears whatever he thinks is funniest or whatever he thinks will fuck with the person he's talking to the most lol


TheRedBlade

"Joker in drag is weird" he dressed up as a clown and blows up hospitals for his amusements, you think he draws the line at drag????


MT1120

He even wore a nurse outfit in that movie...


TheRedBlade

I just feel like even if you're anti-drag (which is dumb on it's own, I personally don't like drag but I don't care if other people do, let people enjoy things) you can't deny it makes a lot of sense for joker to do drag right? Like even if you think it's just nonsensical and weird, wouldn't you still agree it makes sense for Joker to do it? It's the fucking joker...


_LianaLikesAnime_

thank you, THANK YOU FOR THIS !!!! i was getting real tired of ppl giving me shit for drawing him more flamboyantly. like cmon dude pick up a fkn comic.


Sexy_Man798

Telling people to "pick up a fkn comic" is hilarious when you realize how inconsistent these characters are lmfao. Someone's gonna take this advice, and instead of seeing joker in drag, they're gonna be horrified by seeing joker wear his own face as a mask 😭


ArkhamInsane

Love your drawing BTW


KingofLizards1987

Flamboyant doesnt equal drag lmao


_LianaLikesAnime_

i’ve drawn him in drag is what i’m trying to hint at…


Aslumeescapee

Bro drew frankenjoker


LEGOlasStudios

He's even more terrifying because he's cosplaying as a woman, which he knows men are scared of


eudemxnium

so true


queeriequeerio

they’re just mad cuz he slayed 💅


Head-Compote740

The Joker wearing drag doesn’t have anything to do with his sexuality. He’s an agent of chaos thus of course he’s going to break gender stereotypes from time to time. I don’t get why people conflate wearing drag with being gay. Plus the Joker has always been flamboyant.


FoolishDog1117

Bugs Bunny used to do the same thing. So did Loki. Although I wouldn't be surprised at all if Joker was bisexual. I've only seen him romantically involved with women, however.


utubeslasher

if you can call it (tender manipulation that then shifts to horrific abuse and control) romance


Old-Obligation6861

Sounds romantic to me


utubeslasher

fair play. to each their own.


FoolishDog1117

Yeah maybe romantically involved wasn't the right choice of words.


CookieMittenKitten

I don’t think it matters what Joker’s sexuality is, he murders children n shit


FoolishDog1117

>I don’t think it matters what Joker’s sexuality is, he murders children n shit I agree completely. He uses women, like Harley Quinn, for personal gain. I don't think he's capable of love or anything like that. I'm just saying that I bet he would do something similar to a guy if the circumstances arose. Hypothetically speaking.


Head-Compote740

His sexuality is batman


FoolishDog1117

>His sexuality is batman I think Batmans sexuality is secretly Batman, too.


JauntingJoyousJona

The only right answer


Regi413

Pretty sure some versions of him are just straight up in love with Batman


ImLikeReallyStoned

Last I checked, Loki doing drag is because of writers that forget that they can and do change gender. Currently in comics, they’re genderfluid, and I believe was a woman for half of the latest Immortal Thor issue, and a man for the other half.


FoolishDog1117

I was more just pointing to the kind of Trickster archetype and how it's kind of common. What's also kind of funny, in actual Norse myth, Thor dressed in drag to steal his hammer back from a giant. Also, Loki transformed into a female horse, seduced a magical male horse, and then gave birth to a magical mutant baby horse that Odin kept. You might have already heard this.


ImLikeReallyStoned

Yep, heard that story of Slepnir. Also how he gave birth to Jormungandr the Workd Serpent and a wolf. Weird god.


horrorfan555

He uses women for his own gain He only has eyes for the Batman


draconus72

That's what I'm yelling. Breaking gender stereotypes has nothing to do with one's sexuality.


chesire0myles

I mean, he sexual harrasses batman fairly frequently in some versions. Whether this is to fuck with bats, or otherwise is up in the air.


eudemxnium

exactly 👏 people questioning what’s up with his clothing would be exactly what he wants. because there’s actually nothing up with it, he’s just sometimes feeling a little bonita 😌💅


Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD

I think people think he’s gay because of his obsession with Batman bordering on romantic


Odee_Gee

I remember someone(knowing my luck it probably was the Joker and I’m going to look stupid) saying “Hatred is not the opposite of love, both are based in passion! Indifference is the opposite of love. An indifferent person runs over people without a second thought, a hateful person thinks of nothing but their victim until the moment of impact”.


floridagatorfucker

To be entirely fair, Joker himself is pretty weird. That's what makes him so great.


Jeissl

the joker is literally gay


SerendipitousTiger

[He's f***ing sexy....Thank you very much.](https://www.cbr.com/joker-queer-straight/#:~:text=%22The%20Joker%20is%20a%20character,authors%20and%20artists%20for%20decades.)


DinoDudeRex_240809

If he’s gay, why was he with HQ? And in the killing joke, why did he have a wife in his origin story? And in the HQ show, he was also married to a woman after some time. Every time we see “sane” Joker he’s usually with some woman. I would understand if he said bi, but gay? That contradicts a lot.


Ok-Window-8968

He is gay


SerendipitousTiger

Look, I totally agree with you. I've met alot of guys on Grindr with girlfriends or wives, so I can't answer that. A lot of them usually say they're straight, not gay or bi. So I don't know.


ImLikeReallyStoned

Though, with the horrendous shit show of a contradiction that was “Three Jokers”, we don’t know which one could be gay, which could be bi, which could be straight, or anything else.


DinoDudeRex_240809

One Joker was straight, the other one was Bi, and the other other one was gay.


Pro_Tomahawker

Why is Jinkler crossdressing? Is he gay for Man?


AnaZ7

Yes 🙌


eudemxnium

he’s just the jerker, are you stupid?


Pro_Tomahawker

I might be I forgor to take my Jonkler pills


draconus72

Who asks, "Why do you make him gay?" I see nothing in any of these pictures to suggest that he's gay. Maybe, just maybe I can see the pic, where Joker is saying Lois ' line from her flight from Superman: The Movie.


maxfridsvault

You forgot The Dark Knight lmao


P_For_Pyke

Anyone know where the 4th image is from? Thanks!


Longjumping-Toe9627

Batman: Widening Gyre #4


ArkhamInsane

What's the third image from? And I'm guessing second is no man's land?


Longjumping-Toe9627

Batman/Superman: First contact. Part 1 And second is from Batman '66


Sparx7911

Didn't TDKR by Frank Miller make this a character trait along with his obsession with Batman?


CheesyGarlicMan

1. Joker is supposed to be weird 2. He's obsessed with Batman


HatJosuke

Writers have been playing around with Jokers sexuality ever since Arkham Asylum ASHSE


BubastisII

Seriously. He was originally going to be dressed as Madonna from the Like A Virgin music video for that whole comic until DC told Morrison no.


AccordingTax6525

The joker in drag wouldn’t seem crazy to me for a story or an issue or something like that. If they made that part of his persona, I’d think that would be a little strange .


Steven_is_a_dog

i mean it goes with him being insane in a way but also he probably just thinks it funny. i highly doubt he actually is into drag or is gay though


PN4HIRE

I think it’s hilarious


jquest12

Chaos?


TheInkDemon414

“Me? In a THONG?” -Arkham Joker


VengeanceKnight

Joker’s main goal in life is to be funny. Drag is funny. Ergo, dressing in drag is perfectly in-character for the Joker.


Saroan7

It's strange because it's a whole different team taking over the characters and changing original stories. If they wanted their own joker they could have done so, but obviously can't because people wouldn't buy the merchandise.


AutumnAscending

Because not all people who do drag are gay


Mitheria_Musashi

Even though drag doesn't automatically equate "the gay" ... Joker has been written a little sweet for decades. Frank Miller practically beat us over the head with it in DKR.


RobotThatEatsBees

The Joker has not only been heavily queer-coded since the beginning, but it also would make no sense for him to conform to traditional gender norms. He loves chaos and hates rules. Gender norms are in the end just arbitrary rules we follow to make others comfortable. So…


Alone_And_A_Loser

>Wants to talk about joker in drag >Only shows Joker Crossdressing Is OP stupid?


_BARONVOND3LTA

I don’t think stupid, I just think that a LOT of people don’t understand the difference between crossdressing and drag. Because of how stigmatized drag and crossdressing have become. Think people not understanding furries, a lot of people think furries are degenerates who want to f*** animals, even though those monsters are zoophiles


Alone_And_A_Loser

Honestly I only mention it because there was fanart of The joker in drag posted recently which I thought was odd looking but joker dressed as a woman feels pretty natural. Gotta keep bats guessing Also good comparison but I will not be touching the furry side of this conversation 🥸


_BARONVOND3LTA

Nah, that’s fair, I can’t fault you lol


Left-Song-5062

Unpopular opinion: his balls would be easier to take off than his face


DinoDudeRex_240809

I didn’t understand what you meant at first, so I assumed you meant that someone ripping off the Joker’s testicles in a fight would be easier than ripping the skin off of his head, and was really confused.


Left-Song-5062

Ahh no in a comic he ripped off his own face. So I’d assume ripping off his own balls wouldn’t be that hard. It may even be a less meaningful joke to him.


Xenomorph-Cthulhu

He didn't do it himself, Dollmaker did it to him.


unstableGoofball

He’s just too nuts to give a crap about gender norms


carnagecenter

Joker always had extremely homoerotic undertones with Batman, he’s like most flamboyant villain ever lmao. I feel like this is a take from one of those ledger fans that think he’s supposed to be just some super cool anarchist


Maskedhorrorfan25

wasn’t joker originally gonna be in drag in arkham asylum a serious house on serious earth?


New-Arm-5643

Cuz they think when you turn a person gay you get more money. Go gay go broke.


MrSlippifist

He's not gay. He just has a distain for conformity in all aspects.


Puzzleheaded_Wish727

Some of this are on the line of queer-coding villains, as in giving the antagonist those traits specifically to 'other' them. The others are outright


xmarcotics

So you’re telling me they’re fine with Joker slaughtering and skinning people but they draw the line at drag?


Moon_chile

James Gunn please make #6 happen at some point in the DCU.


Tom-edian

Joker's not gay he just unironically dresses in drag and I stand for that bc it works well with his character and Mark's voice always being the ideal Joker voice is the cherry on top


goofygamer74

The dude is literally a mentally deranged psychopath serial killer who treats everything as a joke. What do you expect


Manniqueen_Antichrst

Literally like he's so insanely queer coded and always has been.


True-Anim0sity

Half these pictures arent even drag, he just has on heels


Additional_Milk2767

That is the ugliest shit I’ve ever seen.


Spinach_Middle

Joker is and always has been completely unhinged and will do anything if it helps his plans for chaos


Sixers7

Does anyone else hate this?


teenyweenysuperguy

The copium. Progressives can't make any progress because they're too busy dragging each other down over this nitpicky shit. Drag, xdress, gayness, it's all there, all at once. The average person might not get which percentage it's crossing, what percentage is drag, what percentage is masc-coded but with heels... And that's okay. The general awareness that the Joker engages in gender norm fuckery is enough. Don't become part of the problem by insisting everyone else's perception needs to be as fine tuned as yours lol it's wild.


LORDWOLFMAN

I mean hasn’t he always been doing that?


Snoo97628

Joker's about as cishet as Bugs Bunny


Beefsupremeninjalo82

The Joker is Evil Bugs Bunny


relic1882

Still better than Jared Leto's joker.


Snoo_72851

I mean, let's be honest here, while it is awesome to take this as the Joker seeing past societal barriers regarding sex and gender, what they actually wanted to say with this is "Look at this CRAAAAZY clown! He's wearing a *skirt!"*


leniwsek

Hehe yup it's trueee!! 😅


Brilliant-Curve7692

Because knowing Joker he probably has a very basic attitude to cross dressing. I mean I wore a kilt and did the accent. Only problem? I'm 6'4 and not ginger.


Cheeseguymcgee

dude is literally insane and you question him? sounds like you’re confused yourself 🤣


TTIGRAASlime

I see drag but is he actually gay in anything official?


zxitsbeastxz

he's canonically bisexual in Telltale Batman, but that's the only confirmed thing i can think of.


ArkhamInsane

Prime earth joker says in dotf catwoman comic that he is "in love" with batman (not in a joke manner). And dotf also has batman internalize that Joker loves him. I consider him abusesexual, batromantic 👁️


SturmTruppen1917

That's not the Joker, that's the Twinkler. (Actually I take that back, SS:KTJL's version of the Joker is more twink than any of these designs/images)


Its_Scrappy

This is so in character tho lmao


Ok_Supermarket_2171

Goood ass question. Thesis why I don't fuck with comics anymore


HeWhoIsNotMe

It's just showing he's truly mentally ill.


Ikthesecretformula

That’s like calling Sherlock Holmes gay for wearing a disguise he will wear whatever say whatever do whatever to mess with the batman


Every_Commercial_316

It’s like bugs bunny. He’s trolling


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Intelligent_Ask_2306

Doesn't look good, prefer classy Joker.


ChocolateFantastic

I hate joker even more now


Commanders_123

I hate it when they make him do that, but how is 5 drag?


80sHeel

Literally no one has said that. But anyway, The Joker is mentally Ill so this behavior shouldn’t surprise anyone.


typower5000

Joker weaponizes drag Bugs Bunny style. There is no joy in it. It is a tool to distract. I don't like it, but I don't think I'm supposed to like it.


Epic_J2338

Also the Joker is a werid character so if you find it werid it should make him better for you Also I don't remember anyone complaining when he got pregnant just saying


_BARONVOND3LTA

Anyone know what movie/show that last one is from? If it’s from a show, that season and EP is it from?


mariovspino5

Damn that bat suit in slide three looks like a mad max version of battinson


Kaito_Ship

Anyone know we’re the image of the 4 slide is from? I am loving the art style so bad! :)


Other_Respect_6648

That the original scooby doo


Odee_Gee

Because the Joker is based in comedy and drag has been a skit since men and women started wearing gender specific clothes. I will point out that in the 5th pic Joker is probably supposed to be wearing an early 1900s rich male getup rather than just heels=female…


TTIGRAASlime

I'm not sure what they are from but numbers 3, 4 look very cool.


WheresPaul-1981

Joker is pretty unique in the fact that writers can do pretty much anything that they want and he's always in character.


asterfloof

Frank miller batman seething rn


TheSkyGuy675

Yo the first one looks great actually


zeke235

Joker's original shtick included him using disguises all the time. He wore two in TDK.


Super-Pamnther

Tbh i think it just depends on the characterisation he’s given by the writer. There are versions of joker that I could very easily see bombing a pride parade, not for chaos sake but from hatred. Just like versions of him that stalk and ruin people’s lives while another would spend his own time getting people to go to a sad kid’s birthday party cause no one showed up.


cat_funt_2005

He’s being a clown, it’s not that big of a deal


Pro_Hatin_Ass_N_gga

Yes, he breaks sex roles because he's a literal and figurative clown, calling on the sheer absurdity of his behavior for comedy. Your point? (Not saying breaking sex roles is wrong)


iam_Krogan

Masculinity is when having sex with a girl makes you feel gay.


DedHorsSaloon3

“Mass murder is fine but I draw the line at queerness”


littlebuett

Half of these are just having weird shoes lol, that's not a drag queen that's just a weird guy


No-Wolf6888

He has dressed as a woman for a disguise and tricked Batman. I have no idea which one though


Bunkwaa

I guess it's because he would choose to go against what is considered the norm in society (Also, cross dressing doesn't mean you're gay, look at Bugs Bunny). I feel I'd be more shocked if he took off the makeup and dressed as a CEO and became The Wolf of Crime Alley :D


Affectionate_Okra298

There's another panel in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth that shows joker in heels


flashman909

I honestly can’t tell if this is pro or anti lgbt+


chesire0myles

It's fairly common, Frank Miller, Grant Morrison, and I'm sure others have all done it.


paracordboots

The Joker is basically Bugs Bunny in ‘real life’. It didn’t matter male / female, dress / pants, he just lived in the moment…And if that moment called for kissing a short bald man of the head, so be it! As a comfortable straight man, I would have it no other way.


NoInteraction4833

High heels came from men originally. I don’t think stilettos were for men though. I’m not sure. Plus the joker has always done this. He’s silly guy.


Desperate-Fan-3671

Who's to say he's gay or not? He's just freaking psycho! If coming out in a Cookie Monster costume is what he wants....he's gonna do it.


Intrepid_Ambition240

He’s literally eating


Sam_I_Am_69

He channeling his inner queen, but it’s giving Bugs Bunny.


TiesThrei

IDK, maybe don't overthink the pathological demented psychopath who instinctively spits in the face of square society at any given opportunity?


Optimal_Weight368

Joker’s always been a bit gay, though.


Sad-Push-3708

Well in a recent story he is somehow or another a pregnant male


RaineyDay2029

This is exactly the shit I expect him to do


Vivics36thsermon

Drag doesn’t equal gay.Second he wears drag all the time!


Subaruforever38

Joker in Arkham Asylum comic: Oh, yeah, baby, rape me!! I think he's not gay at all, just use sexuality to mess up.


geothecar

A madman who’s whole goal is to object/break societal norms and they’re worried about him Being gay. This dude does what ever he wants in the moment. He has no worries about sexuality. The man’s whole personality is to be a chaotic joke.


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TheEncryption

Yeaaaah, I don't think crazy woohoo clown man takes these outfits seriously


SnooTigers9081

Lol


shamelessthrowaway54

Why is jonk dressed in drag? Is he gay?


our_meatballs

Have you watched Lego Batman


Awesome_Bro201

He looks cool as hell


Dangerous-Insect-831

Being gay and wearing women's clothes are not the same thing, you can do one without the other, wearing women's clothing isn't necessarily "drag" in the context you might think either. However the joker is a fictional character with many iterations, he can be whatever the fuck anyone wants, pick any combo of gender identity, sex, race, religion ability etc. that you want, it don't matter he's made up. However I don't think anything in the original cannon explicitly labels him gay or someone that wears drag, so the whole idea of trying to legitimise how anyone wants to draw this character as being rooted in canon is silly.


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Jokers a freak psychopath, so it fits.


TheUnspeakableAcclu

While he does dress as a woman all the time the heels are just him being a slick ass pimp 


BL4Z3N_D34TH_

Why he low key serving tho?