The Joker is known as the absolute embodiment of chaos, but DC once made his biological son a Green Lantern, a paragon of order. This was a fascinating contrast between the two, even if it wasn't ever touched upon in their relationship.

Lonnie Machin was a vigilante known as Anarky, he got his own miniseries in Anarky (1999) by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle where he got up to all kinds of adventures in his attempt to rid the world of politicians. One of the stranger issues Anarky had to deal with was fighting the Aberration, a strange creature that warped reality around it. If this sounds like a bigger threat than a teenage boy who ascribes to anarchist beliefs can handle, that's because it was. Thankfully, Anarky was able to find a discarded power ring, which granted him the full capabilities of a Green Lantern, at least until Kyle Rayner came and took it back from him.

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The Joker represents absolute anarchy and chaos, but the Green Lanterns try their best to bring order and protection to the universe. In turn, seeing Joker's son become the actual embodiment of everything he stands against would've been an amazing direction to take the story. Unfortunately, the Green Lantern ring was returned to Kyle Rayner long before Anarky ever met his father or even found out who it was in issue #8 of Anarky (1999). Readers are only given a brief view of Joker's reaction to having a son, which was mostly to immediately try and use Anarky to escape Arkham.

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What Could Have Happened If Joker Really Got to Know His Son?

If Joker had actually gotten the chance to see Anarky using his Green Lantern powers to be a hero, it would've provided an amazing conflict between the two. It's important to note, however, that Anarky means well, he does, but he isn't above corruption and his philosophy of anarchism. Still, Joker's entire deal is chaos and the removal of order. So, if the two had interacted, Joker could've tried to corrupt Anarky and Anarky could've tried to use the ring to impose order and fix the damage caused by Joker's crimes.

DC giving Joker's son, Anarky, the role of a Green Lantern may still lead to a grand story between the two. And, while their connection has never been fully followed up on, it isn't completely forgotten. In Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs Anarky by Tim Seeley, Hugo Petrus, Javier Fernandez, and Otto Schmidt, Anarky talks about how his mother used to tell him Joker was his father to scare him, and how when he got older he'd write letters to him in prison, which he never answered. This shows that while the events of Anarky's solo are rarely referenced, they still carry weight. So, if DC ever wants to give Anarky or The Joker a new story incorporating the detail that Joker's son was once a Green Lantern, would be a powerful idea.