The Batman: 9 Things That Are Impossible If Ben Affleck Returns

1. A New Joker

The best thing that can be said about recasting Batman for the stand-alone movies and rebooting (even if you keep Affleck's Batman in the Justice League movies) is that you get a clean slate of everything else we've had to deal with recently in the Batverse.

There might be a sequel coming (and possibly two spin-offs if both Gotham City Sirens and the Joker/Harley projects go ahead), but it would be a great day if the Suicide Squad franchise was killed in its tracks and rebooted too. It would give us back some villains to be used better elsewhere (Harley, Deadshot, Killer Croc) and best of all, it would allow someone else to have a go at playing the Joker.

Fair play to Jared Leto, he tried something different with his take on the character. It's just that it went horribly wrong and we ended up with a joke of a character let down further by uncharitable editing and a weird decision to change his sub-plot entirely.

We need a new Joker, but if you keep Affleck, you keep Leto's Mr J. It's just that simple, sadly.

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