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[Draugoth]

WB’s multi-franchise fighting game, MultiVersus, returns later this month and it’s adding Batman’s archnemesis, The Joker, to the game’s large roster of characters. And the iconic character is once again being voiced by Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill.


In 2022, dataminers found audio files inside the original MultiVersus beta—which ended in 2023—that seemed to hint that DC’s famous clown prince of crime, The Joker, was going to be added to the game in a future update. More excitingly, the villain was seemingly voiced by Hamill, who famously voiced the clown prince of crime in Batman: The Animated Series and the Arkham games, among other places. WB Games confirmed in a press release that Hamill is voicing The Joker.

 

[Power Pro]

Can poke an eye out with that chin

 

[ManaByte]

Interesting since Hamill has retired from voicing the joker, he says doing the voice hurts his throat.

 

[Larxia]

Interesting since Hamill has retired from voicing the joker, he says doing the voice hurts his throat.

It's a multiplayer game with no story, so it's probably just a few lines, might be why he's doing it.

 

[AJUMP23]

Thought this would be about him showing up at the White House.

 

[ManaByte]

It's a multiplayer game with no story, so it's probably just a few lines, might be why he's doing it.

Conroy is Batman in it too.

 

[kiphalfton]

Can poke an eye out with that chin

That's the way Harley Quinn likes it.

 

[Danjin44]

I really, REALY don’t like this game’s artstyle, it looks even worse than Fortnite.

 

[SHA]

The Joker > Suicide Squad.

 

[Silver Wattle]

Isn't this the game that died as f2p?

 

[Lord Malachite]

Batman: Arkhan Interesting since Hamill has retired from voicing the joker, he says doing the voice hurts his throat.

He has continued to perform the role in spite of the damage. This is why The Joker was made to be so sickly in Batman: Arkham City and only in Bruce's head in Batman: Arkham Knight and Batman: Arkham VR.

He retired from the role completely after Kevin Conroy's death, emphasizing that they were a team and it felt wrong to do it without Kevin.

Given that Kevin Conroy voiced Batman in this game, it tracks that Mark would elect to appear as well.

Personally, I prefer Troy Baker over modern Mark.

Classic Mark > Troy Baker > Modern Mark (post-dam
age)

 

[radewagon]

Multiversus? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.

 

[docchicken]

Thought this would be about him showing up at the White House.

That was one of the most cringe-inducing things to happen ever in history.