Joker in other media City villains the Penguin, the Riddler and Catwoman. Jack Nicholson played the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 film "Batman". The "Newsweek" review of the film stated that the best scenes are due to the surreal black comedy portrayed in the Joker. In 2003, American Film Institute ranked Nicholson's performance #45 on their list of 50 greatest film villains. Hugo Blick and David U. Hodges play younger versions of the character in flashbacks in "Batman" and "Batman Forever", respectively. In the film, Jack Napier is the right-hand man of mob boss Carl Grissom prior to his transformation into the Joker. During
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is that the show's recurring character Maxine "Max" Gibson is inexplicably absent from the film. The design of the Joker in the film was the second revamp of physical appearance, after his redesign in "The New Batman Adventures". This design was later used in the episodes "Injustice for All", "Only a Dream, Part 1" and "Wild Cards" of "Justice League" and in the episode "The Big Leagues" of "Static Shock". According to the DVD commentary, Joker's new design was based on an illustration of Hannibal Lecter from the novel "The Silence of the Lambs". The design of the character of