Ever since ancient times , poisons have been used for many purposes across the extent of human existence. Throughout its history , poisons/venoms were first used by ancient tribes & civilizations as a hunting tool to ensure a quick death of their prey. As the years progress , venoms were commonly used in fictional films , initially starting out in the United States. Venoms are poisonous substances that come from venomous creatures such as snakes & spiders. Most of the times, when venoms/poisons are used in movies , it is categorized as Sci - Fi. The reason being is because usually the toxins being used are fictional and whom the toxin used by , the toxin turns them (character) into a supernatural character with supernatural abilities. If this is not the case , then the toxin does what it’s suppose to do , which is to poison the victim and kills he/she.
Jokers Venom is one of the well-known venoms portrayed in Batman’s comics/films.
Since 1940, Jokers Venom has been a part of Joker’s arsenal making it’s first appearance in Batman #1. When someone is to breathe the Joker Venom or gas , it kills its victim quite rapidly ,finalizing with a sardonic, vicious smile on his/her face. On one of the episodes of an animated series of Batman , The Laughing Fish , the venom was injected into the fish along into cats to attack the target and conduct the venom. In Jeph Loeb’s and Tim Sale’s Catwoman: When In Rome , Joker’s Venoms is duplicated by The Riddler to blame Catwoman of a murder of a Sicilian Mafia. Joker Venom is presented in many different terms throughout its series, being expressed as Smilex , Laughing Gas, Joker Gas , Joker Juice, Smylex, Laugh - A - Loads , Perma - Smile & Grinning Death. Not only has Joker venom has been use...
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... this day and most of society believes that it is a fictional toxin. Although it might be possible to produce a toxin similar, it is still not proven yet. Here is an example of how Joker Venom can possibly be made , scientifically speaking ----->
Very complex formula and procedure, but may be possible. Our culture today does not really pay much attention to stuff like this. It is irrelevant and unimportant to most people but not for Batman lovers. There is such fandoms for Batman fans , known as Bat-heads , Batties and/or Batmaniacs. Though there isn’t fandoms for the Joker , being called one of those names falls into the category of the Joker because Batman & Joker are rivals , meaning that you could be called any fandoms from Batman comics/films. Coming to a conclusion , Joker Venom is very lethal toxin that can poison anyone whether it is fictional or not.
Finally, methanol poisonous wood alcohol that has blinded and killed thousands of converts after ingestion of formaldehyde and formic acid (the main component of the venom of the sting of fire ants). Formaldehyde, a deadly neurotoxin that is stored in adipose tissue, particularly in the hips and thighs, is used to embalm corpses and violent is a carcinogen.
An insane, criminal mastermind with a white face, red lips, green hair, and a permanent smile. The Jokers back story is usually along the lines of him falling into a vat of chemical waste, causing him to take on his iconic appearance; but, Christopher Nolan's version purposefully has no back story. Ashley Cocksworth, a tutor in systematic theology at The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, discusses and attempts to explain and define the evil of the Joker in his article “The Dark Knight and the Evilness of Evil.” In his piece, he writes that “[Nolan] refused to satisfy the fanboy’s call for description because without an explanation, the Joker appears ever more irrational and menacing” (Cocksworth 452). Nolan's choice to not give the Joker a back story was to make him seem even crazier, as the audience has nothing with which to base his madness off of. Without any knowledge of his past or why he is who he is, the audience is kept guessing as to what he is going to do next. Just because it is nearly impossible to tell what the Joker is going to do next, does not mean that he is insane. In fact, the Joker himself even says that he is not, when he is accused of being crazy by one of the underlings in the mob meeting scene. Not being crazy does not necessarily mean that you are fine though, and this incarnation of the Joker, like all the others, is most certainly not fine. No, instead of being insane
Ricin assassination was a notorious strategy used in killing people during the Cold War. It is a poisonous substance which contains two elements. The two toxic elements act by killing body cells. When introduced into the human body, the first element enters the body cells. It creates a passage for the second toxic element which affects cells by hindering them from producing proteins. The inhibition of proteins causes the death of cells. Unlike other poisons, ricin reacts very slowly. People die several days after being exposed to the substance. Georgi Markov was one of the rebels in Bulgaria during the Cold War, and he became of victim of ricin poisoning.
The Dark Knight borrowed elements from Batman: The Killing Joke, a 1988 DC Comics graphic novel, which provides an origin story for the Joker. The connection between the two leads to a similar origin story of the creation of the Joker through the influence of Batman. Batman's interference in The Killing Joke causes the Joker to leap into a chemical vat, which severely disfigures him. In The Dark Knight, the Joker himself also has multiple testimonies on how he came to be. He sometimes blames his abusive and alcoholic father for creating his mutilated smile while in a drunken rage one night. The Joker also claims that after his wife’s face was mutilated, he pulled a razor on his own to comfort her by showing that her damaged appearance didn’t bother him. After carving his own cheeks, he says that, “she couldn’t stand the sight of (him).” This disturbing attempt to make her feel better makes causes worse, resulting in his wife leaving him, furthering his mental instability. Although the scars are present on The Dark Knight version of the Joker, the rest of his appearance is cosmetic in contrast to the physiological image of the Joker from the 1989 Batman film. The Joker in The Dark Knight applies chalk white makeup to his face and dark products to blacken the spaces around his eyes. He also dyes his greasy hair green rather than having the chemically bleached green hair follicles of the 1989 Joker who fell into the bubbling green substance. Their personalities differ mainly by the 1989 Joker being more comical while The Dark Knight Joker being more psychotic. The Joker from The Dark Knight calls himself an “agent of chaos” and wishes to drag everyone down to his level of insanity and corruption rather than just kill them
The Joker in Nolan’s Batman movies is, above all, one thing: a master tempter. He has an eerie charisma that seems to attract as much as it repels. Most important, though is the fact that he is constantly trying to corrupt people, especially Batman. He attempts to get a ferry-load of innocents to sink a boat laden with criminals to save their own lives. He seems to say that chaos is the only truth in life, and destruction the universe 's only reality. The Joker’s game is lies and chaos, and time and time again he comes up with all four aces. His silver-tongued, tempting whisper of chaos is the nemesis to Batman’s single-minded quest to make the world an orderly, safe
Throughout his 50 year run as a character he has never killed one of his enemies. We see him struggle with the decision to kill his defeated foes issue after issue, always considering the fact that killing the Joker might save hundreds of lives. We see him shake with rage and scream his desire to end his most hated antagonist's life, but we never see him act on it.
However, the Joker mainly threatens the lives of Gotham City citizens to make the film’s protagonists, Batman and Harvey Dent, embrace the chaos like him. Batman and Dent represented order to the city of Gotham, and if they both turned to chaos, the city would be defeated. By orchestrating numerous killings and threats, the Joker evoked an unparalleled fear from the citizens of Gotham, and with that fear came chaos. The same citizens who embraced Batman as the hero of their city quickly turned against him when people were killed, and by doing so, slowly converted on their path away from order and into chaos. The Joker also brought the battle into the political world. At the time, all of Gotham’s largest crime organizations were about to be thrown in jail, but due to the murders of the judge and police commissioner heading the case, there was no way to safely finish the trial. By doing this, the Joker overwhelmed Harvey Dent, the district attorney, and prevented all of the criminals he fought to imprison from going to jail. In the end, the Joker was not able to transform Batman, but he did succeed with Harvey Dent. Dent succumbed to the chaos and took the lives of a half dozen people in the process. To prevent the Joker from turning the entire city into chaos, Batman was forced to take responsibility for Dent’s actions. Though Batman had fallen in the eyes of the city, Dent was still viewed
For a more in-depth understanding, lets name the clowns. The clown in the opening scene who shot off the cable in the scene just discussed is Aaron and his partner’s name is Blake. Shortly in the movie were drawn to the scene of the Joker standing at a corner. Viewers unknowingly take a first glimpse at the Joker. Viewers assume that it's just another henchman, but you should think the opposite. When watching this scene, you can see a ten-second slow focus on the mask in his left hand. This should have provided a clue for viewers to pay closer attention to that particular mask. We see that the posture of the man is slightly hunched over. This is how Ledger
In Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare, poison is often used as a metaphor. Poison is seen throughout the play in many different ways. Characters throughout may not even be physically affected by poison, but in some way or another it's almost as they have been poisoned in the mind. The best way to describe it is, it's like a chain reaction all the way through the play. Beginning with Claudius, who not only murders Hamlet's father but at the same time he basically murders Hamlet as just more in a mental state. Then from there it's like the poison seeps through and moves on to affect Polonius and Gertrude. Polonius again is just another victim of the poison in the mind, but Gertrude is affected physically when she drank the poison all because she thought she should, since she is royalty. Finally, Ophelia is the final poisoned victim. This one poison really seems to do a lot of damage all the way through the play, and it shows because once the King was murdered, everyone begins to die from there. The poison, metaphoric or not, both ways it is a brutal killer in the play.
Before she was known as the infamous Harley Quinn, the jester themed accomplice of the Joker, she was Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a psychiatrist interning at Arkham Asylum. Her origin story, first featured in “The Batman Adventures: Mad Love” (Dini & Timm, 1994), states that her original intention upon joining that particular field of applied psychology was her desire to learn what drove her father to become a con man, who used his charm to ruin the lives of others and her family. It is no surprise that these traits eventually drew her to the Joker in whom she found a supposed “kindred spirit” and a lover. Their relationship was one founded on lies, manipulation, and abuse. However, much to chagrin of the audience, Harley Quinn will continuously return back to the Joker despite his
The chitosan nanoparticles used widely as a drug delivery systems last few years. In the present study the Echis carinataus snake venom loaded chitosan nanoparticles were prepared based on ionic gelation of tripolyphosphate and chitosan.. The nanoparticles physicochemical characteristics , stability and biological activity of encapsulated venom were studied . The particles were spherical in shape and the tripolyphosphoric groups of TPP were linked to the ammonium groups of chitosan. Optimum particle size of chitosan and venom loaded nanoparticles were 89 and 116 nm, respectively. Optimum loading capacity and loading efficiency obtained by 500 µg/ml concentration of venom . The biological activity of venom remained intact during nanparticulation and showed no considerable reduction in stability analysis. Our results suggested that Chitosan nanoparticles, which prepared in this work possibly, could be used as an alternative for traditional adjuvants.
In Romeo and Juliet, poison very often represents death. One example of where images of poison represent death occurs after Juliet receives a potion from Friar Lawrence that is supposed to put her to sleep for forty-two hours. Before she takes it, she expresses a portentous doubt about her trust in the cunning Friar's plan. She worries about the possibility of this potion actually being a pernicious poison, which could lead to her untimely death. She shows her misgivings when she states, "What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath minist'red to have me dead" (4.4. 24-25). Another illustration of imagery where poison symbolizes death is when Romeo goes to the Apothecary. After hearing news of Juliet's "death," Romeo talks of procuring poison to wreak death upon himself. He says, "A dram of poison... That the life-weary taker may fall dead" (5.2. 60-62). Finally, images of poison are used to represent death when Romeo is found dead by Juliet. When Juliet awakes from her sleep and realizes Romeo has died, she discerns that poison has been the cause. This is evident as she states, "Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end" (5.3. 162). In this passage, images of poison represent a weapon for death. Images of poison that represent death play a major role in Shakespeare's play.
Chemical weapons have been used for thousands of years in the form of poison-tipped spears and arrows, but evidence has been found to suggest the existence of more advanced chemical weapons in ancient and classical times.An example of ancient chemical warfare was during the Stone Age within hunter-gatherer societies in southern Africa. A people known as the San applied poisons obtained from their natural environment to the tip of their arrows. These poisons were in the front of scorpion or snake venom, but it is believed that some plants were also utilized. The arrow was fired into the target of choice, the hunter then tracking the poisoned animal until the toxin caused its death.
Could there actually be someone who truly just does not care about dying or killing innocent people? The world may never know. But as Alfred said “The Joker is a man who isn’t looking for anything logical like money, nor can he be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. He simply wants to watch the world burn” (tyree, 2009). Alfred is right with his small diagnosis of The Jokers behavior. There is something deeper though, it is hard for me to just think that The Joker has some mental issue without a past of some sort, or a traumatization. The scars. Where did they come from? Well, he tells two different stories in the movie. The first story is of him and his father. He says, “So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me and says, ‘Why so serious?’ Comes at me with the knife. ‘WHY SO SERIOUS?’ He sticks the blade in my mouth”’ (Batman: The Dark Knight, 2014). Now knowing this vital information about his past, a conclusion can be drawn that there are psychological issues that may cause his behavior. Psychologist Sea and Knon stated that, “this can lead to coping strategies of secrecy and social withdrawal” (Sea and Knon, 2013). The Joker withdrawals from society because of his indifferences, mainly with his appearance. The secrecy is behind The Joker, is The Joker. He never gives away his plans