10 Things The DCEU Wishes It Could've Done Differently

7. Made Joker The Villain In Suicide Squad

Jared Leto Joker Suicide Squad
Warner Bros.

Suicide Squad was hyped up as the DCEU's version of Guardians Of The Galaxy, but the final product was a bit of a mess. Its editing and pacing were all over the place, its story was unsatisfying, and certain characters were grossly underused. The film had a lot of problems, but arguably its biggest was primary villain Enchantress.

Not only did it make zero sense to put a team consisting of mostly normal humans against a deadly sorceress, but the actual execution of Cara Delevingne's magical baddie was downright awful. Dancing around in a mess of blue lights and smoke, the CGI work here was amateurish, and looked too cartoony when compared to the rest of the film's grittier style.

How different things could have been, then, if Jared Leto's Joker had been the main antagonist instead. This would've pitted the Squad against a villain who actually matched their abilities, given Leto a more interesting role to work with, kept the film feeling more street-level (something different from the world-destroying bad guys seen in the Justice League movies), and given the Joker a story more closely related to the main plot, instead of the random sideshow he was lumped with in the current version.

Even the film's director thinks Joker should have been the villain, which tells you all you need to know.

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