7 Ways Jared Leto's Joker Will Be Different To Heath Ledger
3. He Might Not Actually Be The Joker At All
Ledger's Joker was, quite apart from anything else, very definitely the Joker. However, there's a school of thought which holds that Leto's Joker isn't the Joker, but a pseudo-Joker. Whichever way you look at it, that's a fairly hefty shift from the norm. Basically, the Joker we see in Suicide Squad is actually one of Batman's former companions, a young lad by the name of Jason Todd. He was the second man to take on Robins cape and who was killed in an explosion by the Joker (there was a phone vote to decide poor Jasons fate, which the Jason dies option won by a mere 72 votes out of 10,614). The theory is that the J under Letos eye either references the Batman: Arkham Knight video game, in which Jason is branded with a J in that spot by the Joker himself, or that the J stands for Jason rather than Joker, a constant reminder for Batman that he failed Jason whenever he looks at him. Add to that the display case which shows off Robins suit in a very lest-we-forget kind of way in the Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice trailer, and the taunting graffiti scribbled across it in the Jokers handwriting, and it starts to look semi-plausible.
