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* A Multiple Choice Past is almost canon for the [[Trope Namer|Joker]], as evidenced by his quote at the top of the page. A number of writers have given him a different origin in the past fifty or sixty years, and all of them are half-canon, because [[The Joker]] [http://dccomics.com/dcu/heroes_and_villains/?hv=origin_stories/joker&p=1 isn't sure himself.] {{broken link}}
{{quote|'''Joker:''' Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another. If I'm going to have a past, [[Trope Namer| I prefer it to be multiple-choice]].}}
*:* This is played with in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', as [[The Joker]] gives two wildly different tragic origins for his scars.
*:* Also played with in one issue of ''Robin'', which starts off with a flashback about a green-haired, white-skinned boy in a purple shirt with a pony. "Or was it a bike?" the narration muses. "No, a pony." The little boy did something bad, and then his daddy shot the pony in front of him. Cut to the Joker, narrating, and he's actually weeping real tears. He's in a cell at Arkham, and a speaker on the wall asks him if the story is true, because it's the ''seventh'' [[Freudian Excuse]] story he's told them.
{{quote|'''Harley Quinn:''' Joker told me things, secret things he never told anyone...
'''Batman:''' What did he tell you, Harley? Was it the line about the abusive father, or the one about the alcoholic mom? Of course, the runaway orphan story is particularly moving, too. He's gained a lot of sympathy with that one. What was it he told that one parole officer? Oh, yes... 'There was only one time I ever saw dad really happy. He took me to the ice show when I was seven...'
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