Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill voices the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series, the laugh inside Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s black-sky Gotham. Art-deco noir, jazz menace, villains as tragic theater — kids’ television that adults claimed without irony. Kevin Conroy’s growl is the other half of the duet. Harley Quinn walks out of this show into the wider DC canon. Hamill is why the clown still sounds like a threat and a joke in the same breath. Still the gold-standard cartoon Batman weather.

Batman: The Animated Series kept The Joker on the air on Fox Kids from 1992–1995. s01e01 is the start the living room actually used. The Cat and the Claw: art-deco Gotham, Conroy's growl already the adult claim on a Fox Kids timeslot. Hamill is already working. Hamill on Batman: The Animated Series remains catalog craft on Fox Kids from 1992–1995.

The Joker is the occupancy Batman: The Animated Series actually sold — not a mascot and not a guest. Skip ahead to s01e03 and the turn is still there. Heart of Ice: villain as tragic theater — the hour that proved kids' TV could freeze without going cute. s01e07 is the later check. Joker's Favor: Hamill's clown as jazz menace, the partnership that still defines Western superhero animation. Batman: The Animated Series does not sand The Joker off.

Animation as adult myth that never asked permission. The Joker photographs as a grin and plays as the series’ id. On TV Flash Hamill is 1990s catalog lightning: the voice who made a kids’ hour feel dangerous, then left the jazz and the black sky doing the branding while the laugh did the damage.