According to a new report by the outlet, the Clown Prince of Crime will be supposedly called Arthur Fleck in the movie, and potentially also featuring in the role of a single mother who catches Arthur's eye before he becomes the Joker. His face had completely grown back with a few alterations due to the healing properties of the chemical Dionesium. Plagued by plotholes stifling game play. Interestingly, the first possible origin for the Joker was given just a year before Batman was released, with Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's Batman: The Killing Joke, which suggested a possible origin for the Joker was that he was a failed stand-up comedian who agreed to play the role of a costumed villain, the Red Hood, for a score that went horribly wrong. The length of his nose and chin are less exaggerated then they were before and his iconic grin, while still very wide, is not as long as it use to be. This further reiterates the message that the suffering of others is the only thing that makes him happy.
Strategy There are so many strategies employed by the Joker that there can often be no discernible pattern to his attacks. There's sly evidence against Arthur Fleck being the one true Joker. So why can't you see the funny side? That guy is an unreliable narrator, too. What we can say with some certainty is that Joker's final scene, with Arthur in Arkham and questioned by a psychiatrist, is happening. Fleck soon discovers in his mother's medical file, which he steals from the Arkham hospital, that he was adopted. He taunts the Nerd, dressed as Batman, when the controls on the older games prove a frustrating challenge for Rolfe, who notably does not have Batman's self-control. These later games are based off The New Batman Adventures.
But it even being a discussable possibility only highlights the distance and depth of Joker's fall. I mean, what is it with you? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else. In this version of the story, the Red Hood persona is given to the inside man of every job thus, it is never the same man twice ; this makes the man appear to be the ringleader, allowing the two criminals to escape. This was made as an excuse by the criminals to say that they wished to protect his identity. There is no sanity clause.
What do we see when we look at the narrative arcs in Joker? Joker takes the camera in his hands, speaking directly to America. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat? Related: Joker's Final Scene Explained: What Is Arthur's Final Joke? The Joker will often claim he never has a plan, but this menace often has a plot drawn out long before he meets the protagonists. As a performer and a public figure, Phoenix is and. Set after the events of Joker if Arthur didn't end up in Arkham. Each level had a sub-boss.
We got to the same place - the top of the food chain - just on different paths. He has outsmarted Batman on numerous occasions, and superhumans like Superman have fallen into his traps many times. Joker is a literal-minded movie about a character who resists interpretation by design. Are you having any negative thoughts? She never saw his standup, went on a date, helped him care for his mother: to her, he's just the weird guy down the hall. Or just a Wayne family cover-up? After his mind snaps, however, Arthur apparently adopts a new outlook on his miserable life, eventually coming to see some humor in it. What remains is pain, rage, a twisted sense of justice, and a desire to be more than insignificant. They decide they're going to escape! Repeatedly, she tells Arthur that Wayne would help the two of them if she could just get a letter to him.
Ultimately, Joker's subtly ambiguous ending underpins everything else being discussed. The next day, when she went into her office, she found a rose on her desk from the Joker. She treated him over the next weeks, during which he told her that he was abandoned by his mother and abused by his alcoholic father. I've been saying this all along. What was real and what was just in Arthur Fleck's head? Red Hood One tried to escape via helicopter but Batman yanked him off it, causing them both to fall through the damaged roof and be left dangling over a chemical vat.
While his murder of the three men on the subway in this film is almost portrayed as an act of self-defense, that might just be the story he wants to tell this time. Even then, there are big questions unanswered: was the gun to the head exhaustion, something that plays into Joker's later assassination, real or just playing into Arthur's desires; and what did he do to the clearly nervous Sophie after leaving her apartment? You have to keep pretending that life makes sense, that there's some point to all the struggling! That's how far the world is from where I am. Emperor Joker Emperor Joker In a special mini-series that ran through several issues of Superman, the Joker tricked the reality-warping imp known as into giving him his powers. Oddly enough, he's played by child actor Dante Pereira-Olso, who also played the younger version of Phoenix's hitman character Joe in You Were Never Really Here. I'll tell you what you get. Or the Wall Street Bros who harass a woman on a train before physically confronting Arthur.
The Joker as the Red Hood. He has been directly responsible for numerous tragedies in Batman's life, including the death of Robin , formerly the 2nd Robin, currently The Red Hood and the paralyzing of Barbara Gordon formerly the Oracle, currently Batgirl. The whole Occupy-esque protest subplot that simmers under the movie and when they raise up Arthur as some sort of messiah, the community becomes one. Or What if Sophie and Arthur were in a relationship, but because of his hallucinations, Arthur thinks they were never together. In Joker, Arthur Fleck Joaquin Phoenix is the central character rather than a villain going toe-to-toe with an equally large opposing presence; he needs to be grounded in a little clarity. You can lock them away… forever. Desperate for money and with his wife Jeannie heavily pregnant, the engineer turned to two criminals to help him out.
Why does Joker kill Murray Franklin? The point isn't direct, as Joker has intentionally confused politics. At the same time, Phillips also sprinkles some populist political imagery onto the finale, portraying a city under siege by mask-wearing protesters revolting against the whims of the rich. Was the reaction to Murray's murder truly so destructive? J Puddin' Jack Napier Joker Venom Insanity Advanced knowledge of firearms Marksmanship Genius-level intellect Chemistry skills Manipulation Strategy Hand-to-hand combat skills Razor-sharp playing cards Acid-spewing flower Cyanide Pies Electric buzzer Fourth wall awareness occasionally Unpredictability Regeneration formerly Durability Make Batman embrace his own inner madness. He also punches Fleck in the face; Phoenix spends a lot of time getting beaten up in this movie. Repulsive little brutes, like children I suppose. There's no flash-forward or post-credits teaser. The Clown Prince of Crime was supposed to be the main villain in the show, but instead, Sweet Tooth, portrayed by Jeff Blim, replaced him.
The confrontation between Joker and Murray Franklin, who initially invites Fleck onto his show to mock him, might be worth looking at more closely to figure out what exactly Phillips is up to. Joker either works for or is manipulated by. Related: Joker Created Batman - And That's What He Remembers Of The Riot Although Joker is very much a standalone origin story for the Clown Prince of Crime, it's still intrinsically tied to the universe. During the planning, police contact ed him and inform ed him that his wife and unborn child have had died in a household accident. Both hero and villain rely a lot more on weapons than combat, ala Contra.