Suicide Squad: 8 Reasons Jared Leto's Joker Is The Worst Part Of The Film

8. The Movie Doesn't Justify The Design

Leto's Joker was courting controversy amongst comic book fans right from the off, thanks in no small part to the design. That widely shared first look to celebrate the 75th anniversary was not met kindly (admittedly I was one of the worst), with the tattoos, grill and only passing realisation of essential character traits feeling like needless grunge additions.

When praising the deft marketing for the film, I said this worked really well in getting detractors accustomed to the new look, but that was under the rather erroneous assumption that we'd get to learn a bit more about the design's in-universe in the movie, or at least see it put to good use. As it is, he only really uses the mouth tattoo on the back of his hand, and that's for no clear purpose; in terms of effectiveness, you could have had Leto in any Joker variation and it wouldn't have made no difference.

As it is, the most interesting visual aspect was when he drew a black line around his mouth, and that was only because it made absolutely no sense.