Several critics have viewed this Joker as a perfect example of the trickster archetype, one of the many archetypes devised by psychoanalyst Carl Jung. In literature, these are characters who show ...

the Joker gained the reality-warping powers of Mister Mxyzptlk, a trickster character who has expressed cosmic awareness several times. Since he comes from the Fifth Dimension, Mxyzptlk knows ...

As a classic queer-coded villain, a trickster and shapeshifter, there's always something inherently ambiguous about the Joker ...