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"Without me you lot're but a joke.. without a punchline"
―Jeremiah Valeska to Bruce Wayne

Jeremiah Valeska is a major antagonist in the idiot box series, Gotham. He is the twin brother of the terrorist cult leader, Jerome Valeska, also as existence the arch-nemesis of Bruce Wayne.

Jeremiah is the show's equivalent to The Joker, taking over from Jerome, although both of them never took on the Joker alias.

Contents

  • ane History
    • 1.1 Early Life
    • one.2 Reunited With Jerome
    • 1.three Driven insane
    • 1.iv No Human being's Land
    • 1.v ten Years Afterward
  • 2 Gallery
  • 3 Backside the Scenes
  • iv Trivia
  • 5 References
  • 6 Links
  • vii Appearances

History

Early Life

Jeremiah was built-in to Lila Valeska and Paul Cicero and is the twin brother of Jerome Valeska.

According to Jeremiah, Jerome would abuse and scare Jeremiah when he was a child. Jeremiah would later recount that he realized Jerome was dangerous and knew he needed to get away from him so he sneaked away one dark from Haley'south Circus and had his uncle Zachary place him at St. Ignatius. Shortly afterwards, Jeremiah took on the alias of "Xander Wilde." He himself would later explain that he did this since he wanted to brand information technology more than difficult for Jerome to track him downwards, simply Jerome, on the other hand, stated that he got adopted by rich people, therefore explaining his changed name.

He would then study at schoolhouse and become an engineer. Four years later on graduating, he started structure on his hideout, an cloak-and-dagger maze bunker in a forest on the outskirts of Gotham City. The building took 6 years to complete.

At an unknown betoken in time, he met a adult female named Ecco and hired her as his proxy and assistant.

Reunited With Jerome

Ten years afterwards Jeremiah's graduation, Jerome breaks out of Arkham Asylum and kills their uncle, Zachary at the diner he owns for the location of his brother.

Jeremiah is so confronted by the stunned Captain Jim Gordon and Detective Harvey Bullock. They enquire Jeremiah about him and Jerome, he tells them that once Jerome tried to kill him, and so he ran abroad and changed his name to Xander Wilde. They then detect out that he'south holding Jerome convict, so they immediately guild Jeremiah to allow him go but he refuses to do and so. After finding out that the Legion of Horribles is inside the building, and that they hypnotized Ecco, Jeremiah takes Jim and Harvey into the halls of his house, which were congenital like a maze that he's the merely i he can get out of. The iii notice Ecco there but, since she was hypnotized past Tetch, she gets into a fight with them, Ecco easily wins and takes Jeremiah to Jerome, but she'southward somewhen knocked out by Jim. Jeremiah so tries to escape but Jerome finds him. They have a verbal fight, in which Jerome tells he's disappointed past what Jeremiah told nigh him, since, in his point of view, all of the things he said were lies. Jeremiah did agree that certain things that he told were in fact exaggerations of the truth. Jerome also tells Jeremiah that he'southward going to bulldoze him crazy and and so kill him. Jim and Harvey eventually get to them, so Jerome runs away leaving Jeremiah backside. Jeremiah is after taken to the GCPD so that he tin be put into protective custody.

Jerome took the Mayor, his wife, and a constabulary officer hostage. He demanded that Jim bring him, Jeremiah and Bruce Wayne. Jeremiah is hesitant to go at first merely later agrees. Jerome straps Jeremiah and Bruce into a chair. Jerome tells the crowd the story of him and Jeremiah and and then cuts Jeremiah complimentary. Determined to prove Jeremiah is simply like him, Jerome hands Jeremiah the pocketknife and tells him to take his best shot. Jeremiah tries to stab Jerome, who knocks him out with a single dial. Later, Jeremiah approaches Jerome's body after he roughshod to his expiry. Equally Jeremiah walks away, Bruce asks him to let Wayne Enterprises fund his work. Jeremiah thanks Bruce and shakes his hand.

Driven insane

Later Jerome's death, Jeremiah discovered a souvenir in his secret office and opened information technology. The souvenir is revealed to be a jack in the box in the course of a disfigured clown head that sprays Jeremiah with a special mixture of the laughing venom created by Jerome. The gas and so eventually drives Jeremiah completely insane as Jerome's vocalization speaks to him in a recording coming out of the gift box, encouraging Jeremiah to exist Jerome'due south successor and his ultimate revenge. Fifty-fifty though Jeremiah tried to fight the venom, it ultimately turned him into a complete maniac with pale skin and red lips.

Jeremiah, still because Bruce every bit his friend despite existence driven insane, tries to make Bruce his ally. However, the latter consistently ignores him, which results to Bruce'due south "one bad 24-hour interval" with Jeremiah torturing Alfred and shooting Selina.

After on, Jeremiah successfully bombs down the bridges to turn Gotham into an island. It is revealed that the generators that Bruce funded are better equally explosive devices, and that Jeremiah's real program is to turn Gotham into a maze past "starting from blank".

No Man's Land

Subsequently Jeremiah successfully cuts off Gotham to the mainland by bombing the bridges downwards, he leads a cult of followers together with Ecco, at present dressed upwardly in a harlequin outfit. Jeremiah's followers are and so tasked to dig a tunnel under a river which leads to the mainland, specifically, Wayne Estate. Selina Kyle and then searches for Jeremiah and after finding him, she stabs him several times every bit a revenge for shooting her.

Faking his death, Jeremiah one time again meets Bruce Wayne. Plotting a scheme to recreate the night of the Wayne murder, Jeremiah asks Jervis Tetch to anesthetize James Gordon and Leslie Thompkins every bit the replacement for Thomas and Martha Wayne, as he tries to kill them and bulldoze Bruce mad again. All the same, he once more fails equally he falls into a vat of chemicals in Ace Chemicals after a face off with Bruce. He is afterward revealed to be comatose.

10 Years Later

X years after Bruce Wayne'southward departure from Gotham and the city's reunification with the mainland, Jeremiah is seen to be deformed equally a result of his autumn into the chemicals. He stayed in Arkham Asylum for a decade, known by his fellow inmates to even so exist under a coma. However, after the news of Bruce'due south return to Gotham, Jeremiah is broken out of Arkham by Ecco. It is revealed that Jeremiah was but pretending to exist comatose.

Jeremiah plots an explosion in the new Wayne Tower during its opening, although it fails and James Gordon discovers that Jeremiah is the one behind it. Jeremiah then decides to kidnap Gordon and Barbara Kean's daughter, Barbara Lee. At the aforementioned fourth dimension, Jeremiah shoots Ecco in the breast after the latter gets stabbed past Barbara Kean, with Jeremiah stating that "there are other fish in the sea." At Ace Chemicals, Jeremiah ties Barbara Lee above the vat of chemicals equally Gordon follows them. When Gordon asks him why he is doing this, and mentioning his name "Jeremiah", Jeremiah merely asks, "is there a Jeremiah here?" before stating several names starting with J. This explains that Jeremiah has completely lost his grip on sanity, and he has forgotten who he was. Before Jeremiah gets to kill both Barbara Lee and Gordon, he is suddenly striking with a batarang, knocking the knife out of his paw, earlier he asks whoever is there to reveal themselves. After Jeremiah takes a pause and recognizes Bruce Wayne every bit the Batman. Overjoyed that Bruce had finally arrived, Jeremiah simply laughs maniacally, but is knocked over by some other batarang.

Gallery

Behind the Scenes

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[1]WB will non allow the bear witness to use the name Joker for fear of diluting the brand.[2] The visual representation of the source fabric is also extremely limited. Purple hair was considered at one signal, before settling on night, vaguely greenish pilus.

Trivia

  • Jeremiah lists off several names beginning with "J" when being asked nearly his new identity, hinting that he volition later take on the Joker allonym in the testify's continuity. The names listed are likewise aliases the Joker has operated nether in other Batman media (John Doe, Jack Napier/Jack White, and Joseph Kerr).
  • Upon murdering his assistant, Ecco, Jeremiah declares that "there are other fish in the sea" (foreshadowing Harley Quinn).
  • Jeremiah Valeska is the third incarnation of Joker to have a fully established identity. For many years it was simply known that he operated as a caped supervillain called Cherry Hood that brutal into acid during an encounter with Batman and was permanently disfigured.
  • Jeremiah's transformation and breaking into laughter is similar to the Joker'southward breakdown inThe Killing Joke following his transformation. He also clutches his head in a very similar way to the iconic Brian Bolland panel.
  • Jeremiah's motive to drive Bruce Wayne insane, and his method of doing then, is similar to how Joker tried to drive Commissioner Gordon insane later on crippling his daughter.
  • Additionally, he shoots Selina Kyle in a similar manner to how the Joker shot Barbara Gordon.
  • Jeremiah is similar to Tim Drake fromBatman Beyond: Return of the Joker, who was tortured and brainwashed by the Joker as a boy. Secretly, the immature Robin had the original Joker's consciousness implanted via microchip at the base of the neck, which could take over and possess him, physically transforming him like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
  • This version of Joker is the 2d alive-action version to appear on a television serial in a recurring role: the first was in William Dozier'south campy 1960's tv series.
  • This was the youngest version of the Joker to date, beingness around 21-22 years old at the fourth dimension of his transformation. Also, this version comes before Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. Due to rights issues down to Warner Brothers wanting to reserve Joker for their major DC motion picture projects, limitations were assault the character of Jeremiah, such equally him non being able to use the name "Joker" or even have pure green pilus, which was started by player Cameron Monaghan. To date, only Jared Leto and Cesar Romero take had brilliant green shades of hair. Instead, Jeremiah has very dark, only vaguely light-green pilus and powdered pale skin.
  • Similar to how Joker'south standard voice actor Marker Hamill was also well-known every bit the actor for Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars franchise, Cameron Monaghan, who portrayed Jeremiah as well as his blood brother Jerome, would later portray the character Cal Ketsis from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Society.

References

  1. ↑ Gotham Producer Talks Joker Swap, No Human being'due south Land, And Eventually Ending The Prove With Batman-IGN.com
  2. ↑ Why Gotham Can't Phone call Jerome or Jeremiah 'The Joker'-ScreenRant.com

Links

  • Jeremiah Valeska at Gotham Wiki

Appearances

  • Gotham

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Source: https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Jeremiah_Valeska