While his tattoos and metal teeth have upset some fans, there’s really no reason to suspect that Leto won’t deliver the definitive Joker when Suicide Squad is released this time next year.
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Although Leto has been revealing spoilers for the film ever since the news became official. These analyses usually leads to very interesting fan theories – ones that usually make it to the movie.
According to HitFix, the original Robin goes insane after subjecting himself to gene therapy, and so he takes on the appearance of the Joker. So, could it be possible that the original Joker seduced or mentally broke Robin into becoming a villain, figuratively “killing” him instead of literally?
The first trailer for Suicide Squad may have debuted more than a month ago, but the footage is still blowing fans’ minds as they forensically inch through it frame-by-frame.
According to Cinema Blend, it is highly likely that Jared Leto’s portrayal of The Joker in the “Suicide Squad” plot is actually a flashback from the “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” era.
The fan theory was based on a scene in the “Batman v Superman” movie trailer wherein Robin’s costume was ruined and vandalized with the words “HAHAH, Joke’s on you Batman”, and a still or image of a shirtless Joker.
The “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice” trailer also shows Bruce saying “20 years in Gotham, how many good guys are left?”
The fact that “Hahahaha joke’s on you Batman” is scrawled on the suit shows that the Joker and Robin are connected, either by being the same person, or that the former killed the latter (which would fit in with the storyline of the second Robin, Jason Todd, who was beaten to death by the eccentric villain). “How many stayed that way?”
Jason being tortured by the first Joker and then donning his mantle after the original Clown Prince of Crime perished would also explain why the Joker looks so young in “Suicide Squad“.
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For those whose DC Comics knowledge is restricted to the cinematic universe here’s why this might not be such a bad theory.
