FEATURE: Analysing THE JOKER's New Look; Has SUICIDE SQUAD Got It Right?

@Maniac WHAT'S A GOON TO A GOBLIN?!

Concerning the glove - is it just me, or does it look like a disposable plastic glove? Also considering that it's on one hand, it looks a bit like the ones tattoo artists wear.

I love it. Can understand the hate, but he looks insane to me. Most of those tattoos throw it off, but all in all it's pretty wicked.

@MrCBM I dig it, but yeah some of the tattoos are unneeded/too on the nose.

I think the tattoos are a bit uneccessary. It's like the Joker gave into the conventions of prison life and is reminiscent of some prison gangster...not indicative of hia character to do so i think. Like expressing his character traits through tattos. I get maybe he's expressing himself in a crazy kind of way, maybe jokingly joining in on the commonalities of prison but.. idk about it. I like how the teeth prob a replacement for joker losing teeth to Batman. It's all a bit Marilyn Manson, Machine gun kelly lol. Kind of looks like a methhead. Maybe it's him inhaling his joker gas for upteen years haha. I feel like Leto had a lot of input. He seems to be into that kind of bohemian, hip kind of psuedo against the norm thing. He iis, according to what I've seen, a hipster kind of guy haha. But, hopefully he does well. Imo, Ledger's amazing performcae, one of the best villian performances in cin email history, can't be touched. Kids certainly can't enjoy this joker lol. They aint selling no Halloween costumes for kids lol.SS prob gonna be rated R.

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Is it true that the tattoos are just for the 75th anniversary??? anyone know

Anyone else a little skeptical that they revealed this image (that's causing so many people to freak out) on April 24th when the Joker's birthday is actually today on the 25th? Is the joke on us?

@Maniac ok. Thanks for the clarification man

Looks better then Kid Goblin from TASM2 which a particular member loved.

@Maniac yup because i am saying that because I am fanboy not because the damaged tattoo is photoshop.

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I hope some of you realize that Joker in Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth was suppose to look like Madonna wearing a dress and high heels. Grant even drew the pages for it.

In the final print, McKean had a trench coat for Joker but he still wore high heels.

Point is, different interpretations. Many people defend Ultron saying "I can't throw up" saying we don't know the context of it. Same thing with the Joker photo.

I wish they did go Arkham Asylum Joker.

We already had Killing Joke with Heath in terms of how he was written.

Give me Arkham Asylum Joker you tight asses.

I didn't criticize Marvel. I criticized a film by a shitty film studios.

I'm unaware Marvel fanboys consider TASM2 to be a Marvel film and are hurt by people insulting that POS.

I see the Sh*t storm this has created and it tells me that us, as comic book fans have trouble reading between the lines. firstly, I want to comment on what people seem to believe is a “faithful” adaptation of the fictional character known as the Joker. Sans his white face, green hair and purple , he has never been depicted in one definitive way. We have had a Noir style Joker(pre crisis, TAS, Nicholson), the actual comedian turned murdering psycho(The Killing Joke, Long Halloween), The resurrected, shakespearean Joker(The Dark Knight Return) and his younger self which was a physical roadmap of chaos with his tattoos and scars(all star batman). In recent times, we have a joker that has carved his own face off(as a joke mind you) and now sports a fade lol. I mean hell, He was dressed like Hunter S. Thompson in arguably one of his most iconic comic scenes(The Crippling of Barbara).

So please, please tell me what the definitive Joker is.

Now I would like to elaborate on Leto’s unveiling. His frame certainly is consistent with that of TDK’s and All Star Joker. But look at the Hair. I feel that if his hair was longer, it would peek through the fingers. Therefore, I believe his hair may be a nod to Scott Snyder’s recent(and enjoyable, for me at least) run of Batman. The mouth, more specifically, his teeth, make sense. In this universe the Joker is apparently the only person who has spent significant time with batman. He has had to take blows from a 6’4/6’5 – 250 pound man for possibly twenty years. This deranged, sadistic man has irked and possibly ruined Batman’s life over the past twenty years or so, especially if the rumors about a Robin being dead is true. Think about that for a moment. This Joker is wiry and athletic. And do we really need to presume that he is a criminal mastermind? if the unconfirmed leak of him having a conversation with Waller while doing standing push-ups are true, then we should know what kind of conniving psycho we are dealing with here. Everything the Joker does is for a reason – EVERYTHING.

That being said, on to the tattoos. I will offer two theories for this. The first one, as many of the other readers have theorized, this could just be an anniversary homage accomplished through some tongue in cheek photoshopping. Now for a theory that will make us think a bit more about this eventual suicide squad film and maybe the solo batman outings.

- If the Joker is the only villain to have met significant time fighting batman, then that means there were no other criminals like the Joker before hand. Batman, in how ever long his service has been for, has most likely dealt with the mob, killers in the mold of a Victor Zsas or perhaps even a deadshot. So perhaps Gotham, with it’s inexperience with people like the Joker(who is really like him mentally?) sent him to a prison first, ala Blackgate. So lets say he goes to blackgate and gets his tattoos there(Maybe from El Diablo, Maybe from Jim Parricks character if he is not death stroke, maybe just from a cast extra), then murders his tattoo artist and several officers in the violence that comes out of it, causing Blackgate to deem him insane and send him to (Hugo Strange’s?) Arkham Asylum, where he meets a Harleen Quinzel say, five or ten years before the events of Batman Vs Superman. Amanda Waller, Knowing that Batman has a symbiotic relationship of sorts with The Joker, needs him to get Batman. So she goes to Arkham , talks to Hugo Strange, then Joker himself and lets him know that the Bat is back and that he will be moved to Bella reeve(In a HANNIBAL LECTER STYLE, as Ayer and co have referenced) , where Suicide Squad supposedly takes place at. Imagine this tattooed Joker, serious faced and tattooed doing pushups while waller is talking and then she just says something like “Batman is Back” – The Joker stops his pushups, sits down indian style and in complete, campy humor(and again, Lecter style) says “My oh My, The Dark Knight Returns with a big, glorious grin.

The reason I can't really dig this is because it looks like something that a Joker-cosplayer would choose to put on their body...not what the Joker himself would do. The subtlety is non-existent (though I do agree with Josh that the "damaged" tattoo is the Joker being 100% sarcastic and ironic...it's not supposed to be telling people that he's actually damaged. That's just silly), and it just gives off the vibe of trying WAY too hard.

Even if he does cover up in the rest of his appearances in the DCCU and we never see the tattoos again, using this picture as our very first exposure to the redesigned character is a pretty good indication of the mindset that Ayer (and Snyder, I'd assume) are at with Leto's Joker. We obviously still need to see the actual personality of the character and what he looks like in motion and all that...but this doesn't inspire much confidence in me, that's for sure.