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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) is Hirohiko Araki's manga serialized since 1987 in nine parts, from Phantom Blood to The JOJOLands, built around Stand abilities and adapted into anime through Steel Ball Run.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) (OVA)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA) is A.P.P.P.'s 13-episode adaptation of Part 3, Stardust Crusaders: six episodes 1993–1994 (Egypt arc) and a seven-episode prequel 2000–2002, distinct from the 2014 48-episode TV anime.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) (TV series)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, known in Japanese as JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken, is a David Production anime adapting Hirohiko Araki's manga season by season since October 2012.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure season 1

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure season 1 (2012, David Production) adapts manga Parts 1 and 2, Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, in 26 episodes aired October 2012 to April 2013.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ダイヤモンドは砕けない 第一章)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ダイヤモンドは砕けない 第一章) is Takashi Miike's 2017 live-action film adapting Part 4 of Araki's manga, starring Kento Yamazaki as Josuke, filmed in Sitges, Spain, and unrewarded with sequels after a weak Japanese box office.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 黄金の風, Vento Aureo) is the fourth TV anime season adapting Part 5 of Hirohiko Araki's manga: Giorno Giovanna, DIO's son, joins the Italian gang Passione; 39 episodes by David Production aired 2018-2019.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders

Stardust Crusaders (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 スターダストクルセイダース) is the 48-episode David Production TV anime (2014–2015) adapting part 3 of Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Jotaro Kujo's 1987 journey to Egypt to defeat DIO, with Stands replacing Hamon.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ストーンオーシャン) is the fifth JoJo anime season by David Production, adapting manga Part 6: Jolyne Cujoh, the first female JoJo, imprisoned in Florida's Green Dolphin Street Prison; 38 episodes on Netflix, ending in a universe reset.

JoJolion (ジョジョリオン)

JoJolion (ジョジョリオン) is part 8 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, serialized in Ultra Jump 2011–2021 in 27 volumes; an amnesiac Josuke searches Morioh after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, winning the 2013 Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize.

Joju George (ജോജു ജോർജ്ജ്)

Joju George (ജോജു ജോർജ്ജ്), born Joseph George, 1977, is a Malayalam cinema actor, producer and director. Junior artist from 1995, breakthrough lead in Joseph (2018), National Film Award Special Mention, three Kerala State awards, banner Appu Pathu Pappu.

Joke

Joke: a short two-part verbal humor form, setup plus punchline, the prototypical canned joke in humor research. Distinguished from conversational wit; explained by superiority, relief, incongruity, and benign violation theories; now also generated and judged by AI models.

Joker

The Joker is a DC Comics villain created in 1940 who sees himself as an agent of chaos, shifting unpredictably between prankster and mass murderer across comics, films, and games.

Joker (2012 film)

Joker is a 2012 Hindi science fiction comedy film directed by Shirish Kunder and starring Akshay Kumar as a scientist who stages a fake alien invasion to aid his neglected village.

Joker (2016 film)

Joker is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language political satire directed by Raju Murugan, starring Guru Somasundaram as a villager who declares himself President of India and protests social injustice.

Joker (2019 film)

Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller directed by Todd Phillips, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a failed comedian becoming the Joker in 1980s Gotham City.

Joker (character)

The Joker (Curingón; Guasón) is DC Comics' supervillain arch-enemy of Batman, created by Finger, Kane, and Robinson, debuting in Batman #1 (April 25, 1940), with the Red Hood chemical-vat origin, the multiple-choice past of The Killing Joke, and screen portrayals by Romero, Nicholson, Ledger, Leto, and Phoenix.

Joker (Jack Napier)

Jack Napier is the civilian name the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman gave the Joker, played by Jack Nicholson as a gangster under Carl Grissom who falls into chemicals; the name spread to animation and comics as an alias.

Joker (The Dark Knight)

Joker (The Dark Knight) is Heath Ledger's 2008 portrayal of Batman's archenemy for Christopher Nolan, written with no origin story as an agent of pure anarchy. It won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009, the first Oscar for a comic-book role.

Joker in other media

Joker in other media covers screen and game adaptations of DC's Joker, Batman's arch-nemesis debuting in Batman #1 (1940), from Cesar Romero's 1966 TV villain through Nicholson, Ledger, Leto, and Phoenix to Arkham games and the first DC Studios anime.

Joker: Folie à Deux

Joker: Folie à Deux is a 2024 American musical crime drama directed by Todd Phillips, the sequel to his 2019 film Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.

Joking Bad

Joking Bad is a 13-minute Breaking Bad parody short from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, in which Fallon sells high-purity jokes before moving to The Tonight Show, with pencil POV shots, Colin Quinn, and the Roots Vehicle RV.

Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams

Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams is a 2024 seven-episode Indonesian sci-fi supernatural anthology on Netflix, Anwar's first Netflix collaboration, premiering 14 June 2024 with 65 actors and interconnected stories set 1985-2024.

Jolene (film)

Jolene (2010) is Dan Ireland's drama, Dennis Yares's adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's story "Jolene: A Life," starring Jessica Chastain in her debut as a fifteen-year-old orphan on a decade-long cross-country journey; not the Dolly Parton NBC film, the Dutch documentary, or Benny & Jolene.

Jolene Blalock

Jolene Blalock (born 1975, San Diego) is an American actress and former model who played Vulcan Sub-Commander T'Pol in all 98 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), won a 2002 Saturn Award, later produced Nimrods, and voiced T'Pol in Lower Decks as "Jolene."

Jolie Gabor

Jolie Gabor (Janka Tilleman), Hungarian-born jewelry designer and socialite (died 1997), mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor; ran the Jolie Gabor jewelry stores in New York and Palm Springs.

Jolie Jenkins

Jolie Jenkins (born 1974), American actress; Jennifer Cooper on Alexa & Katie, Rita Loud on The Really Loud House, FBI Agent Leyla Harrison on The X-Files; began on Broadway in The Who's Tommy.

Jolly LLB (जॉली एलएलबी)

Jolly LLB (जॉली एलएलबी) is a 2013 Hindi courtroom comedy-drama directed by Subhash Kapoor, starring Arshad Warsi as a Meerut lawyer who files a PIL in a hit-and-run case against Boman Irani's advocate; it won Saurabh Shukla a National Film Award and spawned a franchise.

Jolly LLB 2

Jolly LLB 2 (जॉली एलएलबी २), also released as The State vs. Jolly LL.B 2, is a 2017 Hindi courtroom comedy-drama by Subhash Kapoor starring Akshay Kumar as lawyer Jagdishwar Mishra, with Huma Qureshi, Saurabh Shukla, and Annu Kapoor; a Fox Star Studios hit that faced a Bombay High Court contempt petition.

Jolly LLB 3

Jolly LLB 3 (2025) is a Hindi courtroom comedy-drama directed by Subhash Kapoor, starring Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi as rival lawyers Jagdishwar Mishra and Jagdish Tyagi; released 19 September 2025, it earned ₹166.06 crore worldwide.

Jolly O Gymkhana (film)

Jolly O Gymkhana (ஜாலி ஓ கிமகான), 2024 Tamil black comedy by Sakthi Chidambaram; Prabhu Deva plays a corpse, with Madonna Sebastian; released 22 Nov 2024, streamed on Aha from 30 Dec 2024.