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Joker
Biography
Name	Joker
Age	?
Gender	Male
Nationality	?
Occupation	Phantom Thief
Affiliation	Silver Heart
Partner	Hachi
Voice Actor	Ayumu Murase
English Voice Actor	Mitchel Wallace Muriel Hofmann (young)
Physical Status
Weapon of Choice	Playing Cards
Transportation	Road Joker (car) Sky Joker (blimp)
Abilities	High Intelligence Photographic Memory Master of Trickery
First Appearances
Manga	Volume 1, Chapter 1
Anime	1. The Miracle Maker Appears

Kaitou Joker (怪盗 ジョーカー Kaitō Jōkā), also known as Jack Jones, is the protagonist of Mysterious Joker. He has icy blue-white hair, blue eyes, and an indigo-colored scar across his left eye. Joker usually wears a dark blue hat with a blue and white checkered strip, a blue shirt, a yellow tie, and a red suit with a golden J badge on his chest. He also dons a purple cape, dark blue shoes, white gloves, and a light purple eye mask.

Personality

Joker is childish most of the time, but he can also be mature when a situation gets serious. He is very smart and uses it to confuse and trick his enemies. He loves to eat (his favorites being curry or hamburg steak), and loves Hachi's cooking to the point where he describes it as "best in Japan". He has a pretty high sense of loyalty towards his "profession" and he sometimes exaggerates it to lure his enemies into his traps and doesn't hesitate to feign throwing his pride away and act desperate even though he knows he's already won. With a sadistic streak, not only does he like to fool his enemies with tricks, but he also takes glee in the occasional mind game (which, while can get quite mean, has limits in cruelty). He is shown to be lazy and disorganized in daily life, unable to cook for himself and unmotivated to clean.

Despite shown selfishness, Joker has significant compassion towards helping others, not easily able to accept criminals or rivals threatening innocent people for their plans (even when he may complain about how phantom thieves "don't help people"). He isn't completely averse to pairing up with others for the greater good.

History

Before Series

Joker in his phantom thief outfit.

Formerly known as Jack Jones, he lived with his mother and father in their manor. Life was happy for him at this time with his family and everything he needed.

His parents died in a plane accident after he received the code to find the key he wanted from his father. Not believing the news at first, he was clever enough to use a remote to activate a few traps and hide. But as he fled through the vent, a cat chased Jones, after which he opened the safe and traded the treasure for Jack. But once Clover has the treasure, he has Doubt attack the two. The fight ends with Clover and Doubt pinned to the treasure, and he flew away on his plane. He looked back and said "Take care, young man," and hoped he would be okay all alone in this mansion, but a voice from behind him said, "It's Jack!". In the end)

He and Diamond Queen decided to steal a treasure while Silver Heart was away. Their treasure was the Frozen Sabertooth Tiger Mummy, on a ship. There, they met King (Spade) and Dump (President D). Many mysterious men boarded the ship and started stealing many valuables, kidnapping Dump and Queen while they were at it, Jack and King narrowly escaped them. Jack and King blow up the leader of the men's helicopter and rescue Dump and Queen and ran. However, Dump struggled to keep up and ran away with Jack and Queen. The trio was surrounded and had to climb up a ladder to reach the smokestack. The men shot the freezing gas canister that Jack was holding onto and the freezing gas floated up with the smokestack, making it hail and knocking out the men. After successfully stealing the treasure, King admired Jack for his miracle and decided to be a phantom thief as well, training under Silver Heart along with the duo.

One day, Silver Heart had to leave for something, leaving Jack, Queen and King alone at home. They decided to go fishing, but Jack and King immediately get bored and fight. Queen, however, caught something unusual, a dog. When he awoke, he eats Jack's corn and Queen insisted on keeping him. The dog talks, making the trio scream in shock. The dog thanked him for the corn and introduced himself as Number 101, and they decided to rename him Roko, as Number 101 as a name sounded sad. Suddenly, the heard something from the harbor and Roko runs away, the trio following close behind. As they reached the harbor, they were greeted by a huge monitor lizard that looks like a monster, and a purple cat (Doubt). Roko immediately recognizes them as Number 99 and Number 12. Number 12 sees the quartet, and they immediately hide behind a crate. They quickly discuss a plan of how to stop Number 99. King and Queen distract 99 when Jack uses Straight Flash but accidentally hits himself instead. While Jack rolls on the ground in pain, Roko tries to reason with 99, but he ended up getting knocked into the ocean with Jack.

As they wake up on a shore, Roko explains everything to Jack, and he swears that he would save Queen, almost forgetting about King too. Suddenly, a coconut falls on Jack's head, and they soak the coconut juice in their clothes and hair. They find 99 in a cave, preparing to eat King and Queen. Jack fires a card at 99's eye, making him step back in pain. Jack leads 99 away as Roko frees King and Queen. Roko tries to reason with 99 again, but it attacks them by spitting out the digestive fluid. Roko uses his supersonic waves to loosen a rock in the ceiling, but 99 melts them with its digestive fluid. However, Roko and Jack survive with Jack calling it a miracle and he uses his card to dislodge the rock that Roko had hit, making it land on 99's tail, his weak point. 99 shrinks into a tiny monitor lizard as Jack and Roko immediately fall asleep on the spot. King grumpily carries Jack while Queen carries Roko home. Upon Silver Heart's return, Roko introduces himself and explains that he wants to be a phantom thief, making Silver Heart shocked at his ability to talk and he breaks his back, making Jack, Queen and King have to help him.

One day, Jack decided to prank Silver Heart by tying his hair to his bed while he was still asleep. Silver Heart then wakes up, immediately knowing that Jack was behind this. He chases him around his house saying that Jack would have half portions of dinner later. Later that same day, Jack sneaks out of Silver Heart's house, calling his escape plan a success, though he's starving. He then wanders aimlessly through a nearby forest, away from home. The next day, he was nearly hit by two children's horses and he climbs up a tree, instantly picking a fight with the boy. However, the branch Jack was on broke, and he was sent tumbling down with his playing cards. The girl then makes Jack float in mid-air, much to his surprise. The boy scolds her, but she seemed unaffected. They then let Jack ride their carriage to a nearby lake. The two introduce themselves as Cyan and Rose, and the trio chats for a while.

Rose suggesting "Joker" for Jack's phantom thief name

Later, on the way back to the village, Jack talks about his dream of being a phantom thief and about his partners in training, how horrible they can be, and how he felt about them. Just as he was about to say more, he receives a phone call from King and Queen, panicking and informing him that Silver Heart had noticed his disappearance, and is coming to get him. Jack starts panicking too, but he looks at Cyan mischievously, hinting that he had a plan, and it wouldn't turn out well for Cyan.

The picture that Rose took

Jack then uses a blue-white and a cyan colored hairsprays to color Cyan and his hair. They switched clothes as well. Rose then takes out a camera and snaps a photo of the three of them, embarrassing Cyan. Suddenly, Silver Heart appears, takes Cyan away and runs off, mistaking him for Jack. Despite Cyan's desperate attempts to say that he isn't Jack, Silver Heart turns a deaf ear to his words. Rose gets worried about him, but Jack insists on Cyan being fine and that he'll return in the evening.

They arrive at the village, only to see it in flames. The elders were captured by mysterious men, and they're objective was to find Rose and capture her. Jack and Rose run, only to end up surrounded on a bridge. One of the men grabbed Rose, but when Jack tried to help her, another man shot him, giving him a scar across his left eye. At that moment, Cyan arrives, also desperately attempting to save Rose. However, one of the men shoots him twice across his left eye and once across his body, and he falls into the lake. Rose, enraged at what they did to her brother, uses up all of her power to blow up the bridge, to Jack's surprise. After that incident, Jack loses consciousness and falls into the lake as well. He was later discovered by Silver Heart and taken back to his house for treatment of his injuries. When Jack wakes up, Silver Heart explains to him about what had happened, and about the disappearance of Cyan and Rose. Jack sheds tears at the news, believing that the siblings were dead.

Jack without his Joker costume

After his intense training with Silver Heart, he entered the Phantom Thief Academy, along with Queen, Spade, and Roko from which they all graduated before becoming professionals (vols 18 & 19).

After Series:

Joker, Queen, and their baby girl in space.

Hideyasu Takahashi's series, Kaitou Shounen Jokers, is set 20 years after the last events of Kaitou Joker. In those twenty years, Joker made Hachi a full-fledged Phantom Thief and Joker is now married to Queen. He also has two children, a young boy named J and an unnamed baby girl. J is training to be a Phantom Thief under Hachi's guidance while Joker, Queen, and their daughter are in Phoenix's spaceship searching for treasures in space.

Equipment

Joker Vision

Joker Vision is a visor that is seemingly built in his purple eye mask. As shown in Episode 1 of the series, it has the ability to look for traps or possible dangers when stealing.

Image Gum

Example of Joker using Image Gum

Image gum is a pink, ordinary looking gum, that was created by Silver Heart and is one of Joker's tools-of-the-trade. It has the overall ability to transform him and anything else by matching the shape, rigidity, for five minutes, and the appearance of anything the user has seen the object or person at least once. It should be noted that in the manga, Joker uses it in a similar way to Balloon Gum.

Balloon Gum

Balloon Gum is an anime exclusive tool that looks identical to image gum other than its green color. It was also another tool-of-the-trade created by Silver Heart. Balloon Gum is used to either float in the air for escaping and pursuing foes like Phoenix.

Speed Balloon Gum

• Speed Balloon Gum is an addition to balloon gum that was introduced in season four. It seems to work similarly to regular balloon gum, only it's faster.

Playing Cards

Joker's cards are another of Silver Heart's tools-of-the-trade. They are his primary arsenal of choice in battle and along with various uses from Joker's cunningness. They are fire proof , and extremely durable, due to being able to cut through metal and a number of other things. Joker uses his cards in a number of ways depending on the situation at hand:

Joker fighting Shadow in hand-to-hand combat

• He holds one card in each hand in close-combat fights, although Joker usually prefers to use tricks and brains against his opponents.
• He uses his cards to create smoke screens for escapes and occasionally tricks such as tricking Buffalo Kid off the side of a building (Chapter 13).
• He uses his cards as bombs, which he calls "Bomb Cards". They are Joker cards but instead the joker's hat, eyes, and the J of "joker" is red. These bombs can blow up on impact or can be timer bombs.
• He can also use cards to take pictures in order to fool security cameras. They are called Image Cards.
• In the manga, Image Cards were a prototype before Image Gum, made by Silver Heart, as seen in Chapter 36. The user can use Image Cards to show any image on the card. It is unknown if the anime counterpart has these abilities.

  

  Royal Straight Flash

• Straight Flash: Joker's primary signature move when he makes a straight flash hand which creates a great flash to temporarily blind foes.
• Royal Straight Flash: An upgraded alternative of the above while also pulling off other moves like Emblem Fire or Flying Explosion. Introduced in Season 4.
• Emblem Fire: is a technique where fire wraps around on of Joker's cards. Whether the card automatically does it or Joker does is unknown. Along with Royal Straight Flash, he can use Emblem Fire to pull off Flying Explosion.

  

  Flying Explosion

• Flying Explosion: was newly introduced in season 4 when Joker combined Royal Straight Flash and Emblem Fire. A ring of fire circles around Joker as he floats in the air. Then a flurry of flaming cards rain down scorching and denting several robots.
• Shooting Star is a technique where magic wraps around a card that Joker throws. Again it is unknown whether the card emits it or Joker applies it to the card. This ability is rarely used.
  • Final Shooting Star: A stronger version to the above.
• Shuffle Shoot is a technique where Joker shoots a flurry of cards at an opponent.

Mini Joker

A small robotic doll that looks like Kaitou Joker. Joker can make the doll move by remote-control, it's body movements can be almost similar to an actual person. The doll has hidden cameras in its eyes that allows Joker to spy on people, a speaker Joker can talk through, small yellow propeller on its back that allows it to fly, it can pick up things with its hands while it can also kick people with its feet, and it has a small deck of playing cards in its mouth that it can pull out to use Joker's special move "Straight Flash".

Wristwatch

Joker using his wristwatch to summon Sky Joker

Joker's wristwatch has a variety of functions:

• Used to summon Sky Joker and Road Joker. He usually calls their respective name into his watch and the vehicle of choice appears.
• He uses it for attaching thread on objects.
• Has a flashlight function.
• He also uses it as a timer and of course, as a normal watch as well.
• It also has a magnet function.
• It also can be used as a communicator.

Sky Joker

Sky Joker

Joker's massive airship and personal headquarters. It is also Joker's personal residence followed by Hachi and Hosshi after. Joker stores all of his treasures in a hidden, large room. Hachi also has a room with a garden in the Sky Joker as well. It is stocked with a kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, and many other rooms. Joker can also summon it via his wrist watch. Joker's airship is more blimp-like in the manga.

Road Joker

Road Joker

Joker's personal automobile for ground and sea transportation. The steering wheel has a wheel-panel of numbers, each carrying a different function. The main one shown is the button that makes the car launch up in the air. He first used this ability in the first episode of season one.

Motorcycle

Joker's Motorcycle

Joker uses a motorcycle in the manga when heading to the Moonlight Castle for the "King's Sword". It appears in the manga only.

Joker Vision

Joker using Joker Vision

Joker's high-spec goggles with x-ray vision, heat-seeking, night vision and other scanning capabilities.

J Pin

Joker using his pin to create a smokescreen

An emergency pin to create a smoke screen as means for quick escape. In the manga, he also hides a piece of image gum in it as a last resort.

Abilities

Intelligence + Quick Thinking

Joker is incredibly intelligent; he can solve complex problems and think of useful tactics to get out of pinches, frequently while under stress and significant time limitations. He is also an inventor (though his inventions frequently have significant faults).

Super Human Endurance and Agility

Joker is extremely quick on his feet and with his hands. He can swiftly switch things like Spade's tranquilizer gun and trade it with a fake without Spade even realizing it. Joker can also jump impossibly high and climb up cliffs without tiring. This may have been because of Silver Heart's training. Joker has also been shown to handle receiving various wounds and still be able to stand and move, such as Joker being cut with dry ice multiple times and was able to walk it off.

Eidetic/Photographic Memory

Joker can remember anything just by looking at it once. He memorized a map after seeing it for a brief moment, and was able to remember the exact locations of his cards while running from an army of robots down a series of long and similar hallways. This also helps him create his image gum disguises.

Pyrokinesis

Joker may have the ability to control fire. His moves "Emblem Fire" and "Flying Explosion" show that he may have at least some control over fire, however this is not confirmed.

Survival Skills

Joker has shown that he has knowledge in surviving in the wilderness. When lost in the desert, Joker was able to give Hachi water by transferring his urine into distilled water. He is even shown to able to handle medical care when he saved Silver Heart after he was attacked by Queen or, in the manga, Joker saved Silver Heart after he was shot multiple times protecting Queen from police gunfire.

Magic

Joker is able to perform magic real or otherwise. He can do things from hiding things in his hat to cleverly using a screen to make it look like he vanished into a movie. His moves like "Shooting Star" and "Emblem Fire" may be him performing actual magic but this is unconfirmed.

Sword Skills

Joker (disguised as Captain Blue) fighting Pheonix with a sword.

Joker is seen to have some amount of swordsmanship, he is able to use Queen's sword when he saved her from the pharaoh and he also was seen using Captain Blue's sword to fight Phoenix and the White Devil.

Piloting Skills

Joker has shown to have excellent flying skills. He can pilot Sky Joker with ease, and was able to pilot a rocket ship after quickly reading the instructions. He was also able to fly Phoenix's ship, successfully dodging missiles while shooting the missiles at the same time.

Shooting

In episode 52, Joker can shoot all missiles while operating the spaceship. This has been recognized and this skill helped him with shooting his cards.

Acting

Joker has superb acting skills and often plays dead to deceive the enemy's eyes.

Reasoning

Joker has the qualities of a detective and can bring murderers to justice in the comics. In the manga, he worked with Hayami Kyotaro to solve the truth.

Trivia

• His favorite line is, "Welcome to the shining night!"
• Joker owns a white Koala he stole in volume 2. No one knows what happened to said Koala in the later volumes, though.
• Volume 2 also reveals he has a deep fear of cats (ailurphobia). While it isn't explained in the manga, Doubt turning into a cat (which happened solely in the anime) and chasing him in episode 5 of the anime could be the origin of that phobia.
• Although the author refused to give his actual age (because he has no idea, either), he said in an omake that he is somewhere between the end of middle school and high school (11-14 ~ 15-16 yo)
• According to the manga, Joker's age is about 3 to 5 years older than the reader.
• in the manga is revealed that Joker knows a bit on how to bake bread
• In episode 4 of the anime, it is revealed by Hachi that Joker has a cavity on his back tooth.
• His favorite food is curry, though he also enjoys other kinds of food and isn't that picky.
• In the second season, it was revealed that he keeps spare Image Gum in one of his back teeth.
• In the manga, it is revealed that Joker's favorite foreign show is MacGyver (available on channel 701, AXN), an American show about an agent that uses science and brains to thwart his enemies instead of a gun.
• In the manga Joker was temporarily turned into a vampire. After turning back into a human, he began to like and drink tomato juice.
• Instead of 怪盗 ジョーカー (Kaitō Jōkā), there is also another word for Phantom Thief Joker, and that is ファントム泥棒ジョーカー (Fantomu dorobō jōkā), however it is either too long or the company did not want to use it (since it is written in katakana form).
• In episode two of season one, it is revealed that Joker isn't a very good artist. Although this can just be the style of art Joker likes the most, since he was able to paint a painting that tricked the police into thinking it was the actual “Recollection of Napoleon”. Also in the manga he was also able to replicate and enlarge a treasure map on a stamp after only seeing it for a second.
• Joker is able to cook Eggs
• Along with cats, Joker cannot stand carrots.
• As revealed in Season 4 Episode 1, Joker hates being ignored.
• According to the official artbook, Joker's birthday is December 11th, and his blood type is O and Joker is Sagittarius.
• Joker isn't good at playing musical instruments as shown in manga
• According to Season 3 of the anime, it is revealed Joker can only make cup ramen.
• Joker can get confused between curry and "karei" (flounder fish), especially on the episode Crash! The Evil Ninja's Seal.
• In the manga Kaitou Boy Jokers, Queen and Joker got married and had two kids, a son named (J) and a baby girl.