The Joker's real name in the film is Jack Napier. In the original comic books, the Joker's real name is always a carefully guarded secret, accomplished by narrative tricks such as having characters in his pre-Joker flashback scenes address him only with "Hey you!", or having him about to say his name but be interrupted, or having him sign a form which remains tantalizingly out of the reader's vision or "off panel". Other characters often try to learn the Joker's real name, but always just barely miss finding out. "Jack Napier" was used for the Joker in at least one comic book after this, but it was determined within the story that this name was just another alias, as was Johnny Japes in another story. Sometimes he facetiously says his name is Joe Kerr, a homonym for Joker. His origin stories, while presented with some degree of consistency, have many deliberate Rashomon (1950)-like contradictions to reinforce the idea that the character is an enigma.

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