Batman: 8 Reasons Affleck Must Make Arkham Asylum (& 3 He Shouldn't)

3. It Pushes The Joker Logically

After he inevitably steals Suicide Squad (and isn't killed off, because OBVIOUSLY), Warner Bros are probably going to want to further cash in on the popularity of Jared Leto's Joker. It would take something serious for the villain not to be a big focal point in the stand-alone, given that his dynamic with Batman has already been seeded in two films already.

And crucially, Arkham Asylum offers a picture of the Joker that seems already to fit with the way Leto is portraying him. This is a Joker who kills an innocent guard to get Batman's attention, who stacks a game of hide and seek in his own favour so Batman has to fight, who taunts and haunts and creeps. In other words, he's exactly the kind of raw nerve enegry that we've seen ahead of Suicide Squad.

This would be the next logical step for Leto's Joker. Even if he ends up locked away at the end of Suicide Squad, having him seem to orchestrate the inmates taking over the Asylum, torturing a few innocents and looking to ruin Batman's day would be a nice progression to that arc.