Joker: Every Easter Egg & Reference We Spotted

11. Anonymous

Joker V For Vendetta
Warner Bros.

One of Joker's major subplots involves Arthur murdering three Wall Street bankers, which results in the mass media providing sensationalist coverage of a murderous clown in NYC, after which Thomas Wayne denounces the "lowest" in society as "clowns."

The disenfranchised respond en masse by donning clown masks and starting a movement which, by film's end, has turned chaotically violent.

Though obviously heightened and exaggerated for cinematic purposes, it immediately brings to mind the political adoption of the iconic V for Vendetta mask by activist group Anonymous, as has since become a symbol for protest worldwide.

With Joker's obvious real-world parallels speaking for themselves, could the clown mask become the next Anonymous mask? We'll have to wait and see.

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