THE WORST JOKER 

The fact that Jared Leto got to play the Joker and Willem Dafoe hasn't is the true crime.

Imagine Jared Leto’s Joker and George Clooney’s Batman doing a movie together

I love how they put "damaged" on his head to be edgy, but it actually looks like a public safety warning that he has brain damage

They literally had to tattoo Joker on his torso to remind you who this character is supposed to be.

The fact that even Teen Titans Go mocked him says a lot.

Ironically, the first "Joker" that no one took seriously

I would have liked to have seen him as Joker in a Batman movie starring Ben Affleck. I think asking ben to actually punch him could have helped

"If he were a product he'd be sold at Spencers" this is perhaps the most accurate description of this joker.

I think all the actors brought something to the role and a specific look. Ceaser Romero brought out the clown and looked the part of the silver age. Jack Nicholson brought mob cool. Joaquin Phoenix was a man on the edge. And Heath Ledger, well he brought a game changer. Jared Leto? He made the Joker a tryhard and looked like a crackhead Justin Bieber.

Could you imagine Leto's Joker & Bale's Batman together? Those two voices going back & forth? I'd delete myself.

I think the big issue was the writing. There was no real story with him save his "relationship" with Harley Quinn. Leto is a solid enough actor that if he had better writing he might have made the character more interesting. It's also difficult standing in the shadows of Nicholson and Ledger.

The second I saw this film I lost all interest in everything Batman related in the DCEU. THIS is the Joker Batman has been having trouble with for the past couple of decades!!! Even Birds of Prey pretended that this version never happened and showcased a more comic rendition of the character. I don't hate his look you know remove the awful face tattoos and Chrome Teeth and we may have something that looks inspired by the Joker from The Dark Knight Returns. But his personality was not it and kind of turned me off the DCEU for a good while. Edit: Liked some of his outfits, mostly the suits those looks pretty good.

"You can't just put on some tattoos, and some fake teeth and convince people that you are a crazy person." *- Cyborg*

I think they wanted to go with a more realistic Joker and I feel like it would be a great idea make the Joker as an over the top gangster but executed it so awfully bad

I feel like the writers of this one took Heath Ledger's Joker at face balue and didn't realize that most of the time while he was talking, he was lying or misrepresenting himself. Even the agent of Chaos thing was more a conceptual framework of what he was causing than what he was. Heath Ledger's Joker was a plotter and a planner in spite of what he told Dent. this Joker just does stuff.

Didn’t you already make this video?

This is a great video and it should be one of the few times where even the studio should have humbled the actor, remind him of his role, brought him back down to earth, give him several comics about the character in question alongside animated media and say this is the character you are supposed to be. Also mandate that NO METHOD ACTING IS ALLOWED ON SET as even he took things too far with this one.

The line about grape soda and a bear akin rug was honestly pretty funny

I’ve always said “ Jared Leto is good if you get him in the right role. Problem is he isn’t usually in the right role “. Also jared leto’s joker to me always looked like one of jokers goons then the actual joker.

A personal head canon i had was that this was a Second Joker created by Harley. The original one died but her brain was so fried that she turned a poor chump in to another Joker based on her interpretations and overwrote her memories to make it seem like the original one never died from her perspective. Thats why in the first suicide squad movie the joker was continuously dead set on saving her while in the flashbacks he often abandoned her.

You kinda gotta look at Leto’s joker through the Batfleck era’s lens. He was the perfect thorn in the side of Batfleck. In a world where Bat uses brands on criminals, I certainly see Leto being the cocky pain in the ass with no seriousness in Batlfeck’s serious, brooding world. It would have been perfect for ZSJL sequels bc of how nuts his arc was when Clark went bad.

I was really excited to hear Jared Leto was going to play the Joker when it was announced, but when they showed the very first photo of him as the character, this was not what I or anyone had in mind. I was expecting him to look more similar to the comics with somewhat similarities to Heath Ledger’s Joker. This is just…What were they thinking?

I have this theory… after seeing all the films that HarleyQuinn is in, I I think I figured out why we got this version. And it also involves a certain video game. This Joker, this is what Harley sees and we are seeing what Harley sees. Suicide Squad is going on through her head with the bright colors and visuals. We get more less in Birds of Prey, and a small snippet during her javelin escape in The Suicide Squad. And also we got it in Injustice 2. In the first Injustice we see and Harley and a more traditional Joker side by side in the game. Once we get to Injustice 2 she is sprayed by Scarecrow and we see her hallucinating and she sees Joker but this one looks somewhat younger, more ripped, and has a similar coat to Suicide Squad joker. So this how she sees him, we are seeing him through her eyes.

I could’ve sworn I’ve seen this video before

Im pretty sure the director had an explaination for the grill, the story was batman knocked his front teeth out after he got his hands on him after he offed robin and it was suppose to be where you see batman fall from hero to the unhinged batman we see in BvS but the studio thought it was too dark and that was because BvS and its tone

Rick Ross mad dogging Joker was the funniest shit ever 😂. A cop mad dogging Joker 😂

It just feels like Leto looked at Marilyn Manson and for some reason saw the Joker.

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Can someone please create a live action sketch of JL's joker going into a shop and getting his tattoos and the tattoo artist is trying to talk him out of them because they're all awful?

I honestly don't think Joker _hates_ Batman at all. He thinks Batman is fun. He enjoys the game.

I still liked it...He was actually a more realistic Joker that is like a criminal night club boss...an asshole that could exist in real life

I think he was trying to be a younger version of Jack Nicholsons. He had so many of his mannerisms

I think what makes Heath Ledger's Joker so terrifying is when he interacts with or threatening other people you can't tell whether he will eventually hurt them or not. Unpredictable, in short. With Jared's Joker you get the sense like he WILL at least punch someone in the face.

Jared Lego’s Joker acts like a kid playing dress up.

I really do want to see WB to #ReleaseTheAyerCut so we can really see what’s all the hype is about :)

Apart from being generally appalled by Suicide Squad in general, I remember just switching off when I saw their Joker. And that laugh... I legit thought he was taking a crap, but was constipated and in pain. Like trying his best to force it out and the noise out of his mouth was his body's reaction to him contracting every muscle possible to force that number two out. Then there was that smile... You know, that sudden child-ish thing he does like watching a child with a mental disability suddenly being really happy about something. And that's not a mark against children with mental disabilities, just an indictment of Jarod Leto's "acting." I agree, man, this guy was an assault on all my senses.

This Joker is what Harry saw at the end of Requiem for a Dream, when he realized, that his arm was gone.

I think the grill should have been revealed to be false teeth because Batman knocked all of his out. At least that would have worked for me.

I really like this joker, it was a different take on him. I loved it

there was a sea of potential with this and they messed it up

All ima say is Jared Leto's Joker was a modern day take on the Golden Age Joker, who was a gangster and crime lord first and foremost. Not the twisted Silver age prankster like Romero or the homicidal Bronze age maniac obsessed with Batman like Heath Ledger. His design and actions makes sense as it shows his penchant for flashiness and need/desire for money. He rocks gold chains, replaced the teeth Batman knocked out with flashy grills, drives a purple sports car and has a massive arsenal as well as a loyal gang. The fact that people are still dunking on this version just shows how they dont fully understand the history of the character. And the cherry on top most of scenes were cut from the movie, despite him being one of the key marketing pieces for the film and many people were eager to see this Joker before the movie released with him not having much screen time and playing backseat to Enchantress as the main villain. It wasnt until after the movie did people shit on him. The over exposure of the Bronze Age Joker has caused people to see the other versions of him as not ideal and I believe Heath's death amplified this because lets be honest, when someone dies people tend to become dogmatic or teritorial over that persons accomplishments and wont let anyone compete or measure up to them. Ledger's Joker was phenominal but it was a honed in version of the homicidal maniac. Leto's Joker was fun take and i still love the design also he looked good in many shots that were ripped straight from the comics. But hey go ahead and get them easy views i guess.

Casting Jared Leto as the joker was the main problem.

The version he portrays is the later version of joker being more gangster in the future but he nailed it perfect for the version he played and I wish he would’ve got his spin-off

I will say Leto's joker, for all his faults, is the joker I would want to meet least. He seems the most sociopathic

This Marilyn Manson Joker could’ve been interesting if they revealed him to be Robin as a nod to Batman Beyond Return of the Joker … it makes sense because this feels like a childish edgy teen portrayal by a man who never grew up and let go of his demons. And perhaps he is responsible for the death of the Real Joker who turned him into this monstrosity. By killing the OG Joker he killed Robin. And just as the audience cringes when he appears, so too does Batman experience pain and remorse at the sight of this edgelord. Batman perhaps blames himself for the monstrosity he allowed Robin to become … then all the weird stylistic choices and mannerisms of Leto Joker could’ve been justified in a story sense. Still painful to watch, but we would realize the character is putting on an act as a tryhard version of a Joker he can never truly replicate. A grown child in clown makeup who refuses to let go of his past, and Batman lets him continue to live on out of pity. There Leto Joker fixed.

I didn’t dislike him and would of loved to see what they really could of done with his iteration of the joker if given the chance

I don’t know what they were thinking with this design.

I remember seeing a tiktok where a guy said this was his favorite take on the Joker and I couldn’t continue with the rest of his story

7 years later and he’s STILL getting shit on

Jared is a much better actor than he is person.. Him being the worst Joker ever isn't even much of an insult, just a stacked history of great performances. In his defense, the Movie that was released showed a completely different character than was initially planned..

His scene in the Snyder cut made me really like his interpretation of the character

This is honestly how the joker would look in real life… honestly lol

Not gonna judge this portrayal until Ayer's true version is released .. WB botched most of Snyder Era DCEU.. This Joker did redeem himself during ZSJL ...

The only Jared Leto role I appreciated was Fight Club. There was something satisfying about watching his face getting messed up

I didn’t “hate” this joker, I just didn’t “love” it either. He felt more like a punk crime kingpin than an agent of chaos. Like Benny Blanco from the Bronx…

Honestly, when I heard he was cast both me and my friend were excited because we saw films where he had a lot of positive opinions and he was also awarded for one of the movies. Once I saw the movie well… his performance was annoying which I put the blame to the actor, his lines and design is something I hold against the producers and designers. When he showed up in Snyder’s JL I still thought he was annoying but what redeems him was the dialogue with Batman, his design was meh but the lines given to Leto and Affleck were pretty good. I think that everything could’ve been different if there was an explanation of why the braces (Batman smashing his teeth) and his tattoos are meant to cover the scars of all the physical damage done by Batman when he snapped by killing Jason Todd (or Dick Grayson) and maybe some flashbacks of his original look approaching to the original source would’ve made the situation better. He had all the materials and with the right people, it would’ve been interesting. And I agree with you. With all the versions of the joker this one is the worst one. Not only because of his annoying way to perform but also painful to watch how DC accepted this even though they had all sorts of materials to create their own version but not as messed up as this

I hated on it at first, till I realized it was a Joker for the new age. A joker that saw what kids enjoyed (tatts, piercings, etc) and preyed on them with his look, as "cool" and would have some easy recruits. He still has the suits, rings, flair, etc, he just also has a grill due to his teeth being punched in by Bats, and his tatts are a mockery of today's society. Its not perfect, but its not terrible.

Imagine canon Joker waltzing into a tattoo parlor, then sitting in a chair for a few hours, patiently, THEN taking care of the new ink. 💀

Considering Leto's Joker was heavily cut, I'm not sure it's fair to make a complete assessment. I certainly wish I could have seen more of his Knightmare performance. That was great...

The Battle of The Worst: Jared Leto Joker Vs. Jared Leto Morbius.

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I hated this version of the joker I hated it I hated it I hated it every moment every minute everyday I hated it

It's like the stomach flu , try to forget it happened and move on.

He's a method actor so I suspect he was taking actual MDMA while playing this role...

My biggest insult I can give this Joker is that he is completely forgettable in the movies. Almost all the things I remember about him are from memes and clips. I don’t remember him actually being in the movie(s?). That’s sad

Little bit of advice I got from my father many years ago; “you’re either a tattoo man, or you’re not.” When asked to elaborate; “tattoos suit some people, other people they make look stupid”

I love it he is a modern version of the joker a new version I thought he was stupid at first but the more I thought about it and watched it the more I realized that he fit the area and would a gangster would look now in this area

I couldn't help but think about this Joker a lot when it came out. Simply because there's nothing really there's nothing to know about him. This is kind of what happens when you don't know how to write something and leave a bit of mystery, and instead end up writing an unsolvable riddle. What I thought was a waste of time, was not having the movie based in Gotham and not having a Harley Quinn Deadshot relationship. But Joker in this movie, I just remember having this idea of his first scene being a love song playing, as the camera zooms in on a random building in Gotham. Then through a rain window, the camera comes in on three girls tied to chairs, with Harley makeup and different Harley costumes. all of them bound and gagged and crying. I was thinking the song should be Show and Tell by Al Wilson. We don't see Joker until, the camera pans around the three girls showing each of their faces, so the audience feels uncomfortable and realizes the situation letting them feel what it's like to be on the receiving end of Joker's sadistic side for once. When we see Joker we see his obsession then with Harley when she's not here, inferring pretty heavily to their abusive sadomasochistic type relationship. But for Joker Kakihara like Ichi The Killer, she's the only two who gives him pleasure. This was the only way I could think of making this Joker immediately stand apart, I don't think he's heartbroken but maybe a little lovesick as Harley is the only one who calms him down, makes him feel better, and staves off his depression. Showing their very unhealthy relationship and that unable to find her Joker is essentially trying to but failing to find someone who makes him feel this way. More importantly, this would give the line "Would you live for me" so much more meeting. Has Harley been so broken by him and fallen so hard, she's willing to live and let him torture her, and this twisted love of her willing to receive to prove her love to him and his need to torture her to prove his for her is then made clear. Now we've got a terrible insight into their relationship and what these girls were going through until White then interrupts telling him they've found her. He then tells Joker we found her and for the first time Joker smiles and we see genuine excitement and joy. I don't know what's more frightening next Joker letting them go probably as then we have to imagine were they hookers, mob girlfriends, or just randoms he picked up. Showing the Joker's and Harley's mutual obsession and his need for her.

Add to that, in Snyderverse, Joker shouldn't even exist, because for one, this kind of maniac wouldn't be able to run the mob and for two, Batman would have killed him long time ago

I had someone talk this was best Joker in high school, this person also said these movies have the best Lex luther.

I loved this joker for some reason. He is not even close to the best but he is my favorite

I remember People complaining that Joker hadnt enough Screen Time in Suicide Squad and thats what ruined the Movie. The Irony on this is just.... I have no Words for it

The worst clown was David ayer directing this shit😂

Joker is a criminal mastermind first and a psychopathic murderer second. Until they figure that out their jokers will remain second rate.

My nephew refers to Jareds Joker as "The Cavity Joker" I since branded him as so too lol

Jack Nicholson: A menacing insane guy, who loves to cause pain, and as much as he looks "clean", he's still nightmarish. Mark Hamill: a creepy psycho with an unforgettable voice and a haunting laughter, who sometimes was child friendly, yet good, and sometimes pushing the limits of censorship. Ledger: a calculating psychopath, who takes pleasure in breaking people's spirits and is completely insane, yet he's still 2 steps ahead of everyone in the film the whole freaking time Jared Leto: an annoying teenage brained idiot that listened to too much gangstah rap, wants to be Lil' Wayne, and is dying to get attention from everyone.

love your videos. your outro is too loud tho!

I will say I liked Leto and Affleck's interaction in the Snyder Cut. I legitimately enjoyed their back and forth. For about 2 minutes. Not sure if that's long enough to gauge whether or not it would work in a feature length film.

Somone should have told the cast director that just because Leto is a groomer, a creep, had a cult and generally tried to be a cartooy villain, doesn't make him the right fit for the movie

Your roasts are classic.

I think that you summed up the problem with Jared Leto's portrayal the best when you said that we did not receive the Joker here. We received Harley Quinn's terrible ex-boyfriend. It was a deranged, inconsistent, wretched portrayal of a character that has been, admittedly? Done to death in the last 20 years. I love the Joker, but even I would say that the character has been over-interpreted of late in portrayal after portrayal, and in some ways Leto's portrayal showed us just how much the concept has been overdone, to the point where we received a creation that was memorable, truly, only for how not memorable it was. Even Brett's, while pretty damned awful (I blame the writing there, frankly.), still managed to encapsulate some of the concept of the character. The only thing truly similar to the original character is the fact that his hair was green and his skin was pasty pale, distantly matching several versions of the otherwise iconic character. This was less a new interpretation so much as it was a pair of men's attempt to completely re-invision a concept that has been done over and over again, and who has only ever truly seen a few novel interpretations that drastically alter the most basic nature of the character. Once we are past Cesar Romero's admittedly kind of goofy take on the clown prince of crime, into more modern interpretations, almost all of them take a heavy page from either Jack Nicholson or Mark Hammil in how they address the character. Since 1989/1992 we had two fundamental takes on the character that stood the test of time for approaching 20 years, and only Heath Ledger really ever altered the format... but much to the chagrin of that phenomenal performance, it caused people to try to duplicate what he had done, to envision new versions of his "raw chaos" as he portrayed them... and at the end of the day? Y'all ain't Heath. That Joker was his Joker, and it is best to accept that it was very much a singular, one-time adaptation of the character that will never be truly duplicated, and the tragedy of Heath's death means that we never saw the full climax that might have come in the third film with him as a headliner instead of Bane. That fire will not be captured again. New fire may one day be found, but it is fair to simply place that on its pedestal and not return to it. Mark's Joker was adaptable to others' portrayal and style. I'd argue he did it best, but he created a model that other artists could draw from and attempt to duplicate, shifting small pieces to match their own style. Jack's portrayal is harder to adapt (because his energy can be ... very difficult to truly embody on the screen, and few match it in the same frenetic, borderline manic way he does sometimes.), but it can still serve as a model for how the Joker can be both ruthless and maddeningly impossible to predict in his violent tendencies, not to mention his obsession with the Batman. They're models that are easier to embody. Something about Heath's interp has simply been impossible to truly encapsulate since then, and I think much of that is that unique combination of actor, director, screen writer, ambience, co-stars and plainly? Timing. The joke's been told. Retelling it falls flat. Jared Leto tried to do what Heath Ledger once did, and demonstrated unequivocably how impossible it can be to truly duplicate singular performances. Like Icarus, he tried to fly too high, and instead crashed to the earth. I have seen good jokers. I have seen bad. I have never seen a more memorably unmemorable joker than Jared Leto's failure.

Jared Leto’s Joker had potential. The whole DCEU did, but it was never reached or seen and honestly never would have been. Because The WB wanted everything yesterday, and Snyder, despite his version of JL being the better one, is a clueless hack when it comes to these characters. A Batman that outright tortures people and cares for only himself, a Superman who was already heroic without Lois but can’t function without her, a Lois that apparently cheats on her fiancé, and a Joker that just isn’t really the Joker. It’s just bad.

I 100% disagree with you about Leto in Snyder Cut, I thought he was even worse in that movie and I thought that was impossible after watching that POS SS movie. I don't just think he's the worst Joker but I honestly can't think of a worst villain

My sister says this is her favorite Joker. It makes me want us both to take dna tests.

Honestly, I think he looked fucking ridiculous. However, when he’s wearing the tux and you can’t see the “damaged” tattoo..I think he would have looked pretty cool. He’s just awful besides that though

Jared just didn't get it. Or it wasn't within his range. Either way it's the fault of casting, this was a TERRIBLE choice! 💩👎

This movie doesn’t do a good job of depicting the relationship between Harley and Joker. Joker is abusive in the Batman animated series and yet the movie doesn’t show it because it wants to play it safe. I hated that.

they put such a low effort and lack of creativity into these movies that there should've been a class action lawsuit against wb

The other jokers sold their damage through their performances and didn't need labels to get the message across to anyone. It was more like he was wearing a joker costume instead of being the joker himself. He came off as more of a joker groupy.

*He was actually amazing in the justice league deleted scene which tells me it wasnt his fault but the director of Suicide Squad*

I'm gonna leave this right here..... Heath Ledger was the worst attempt at playing the Joker. He was attempting to play Tylor Durden from Fight Club. He didn't pull that off either.

He is a terrible joker, but i feel if we got to see David Ayers original vision mixed with the set up of him killing robin and the knightmare stuff i think he couldve been great!

I don't remember my source, but I do remember hearing a reasoning for the grills and Damaged written on his forehead. The DCEU repeatedly hinting at the death of Jason Todd. Robin's suit in BVS with "HAHAHA" written on it, the Robin tattoo with an arrow in it on the Joker, and a quick moment in Birds of Prey where it said Harley assisted in the death of Robin. After killing Robin, Batman lost control and relentlessly best the Joker. Knocking out all of his teeth. Hence, the grills. The Damaged tattoo was not a reference to his mental state. But a permanent reminder and taunt to Batman for what he did to him. That the Joker won. Pushing Batman to lose control. The death of Jason also being the reason why Batman is more violent and have less regard for anyone he hurts in BVS. Which makes me wonder why this storyline happened off-screen? I would have loved to see this storyline either instead of or after BVS before we got Suicide Squad

This Joker was trying to replicate both Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson.

I think a major issue is how undercooked the character is. It's like the filmmakers said, "as long as we get another famous method actor and market the character around the promise of another genre-defining performance, writing and direction don't matter!" Yeah. It does. Because even though Heath Ledger turned in a legendary performance and deserves the legacy he has earned, the success of his Joker is due in equal measure to the strength of the material surrounding him. That is what enabled Heath to give us what he gave us. His Joker isn't just a great villain because of the actor behind the makeup. He's also a great villain because the story makes him a legitimate, terrifying threat.

Jared Leto's Joker design 🤝 George Clooney's batsuit nipples

He was trying to upstage Heath Ledger, he actually thought audiences would think this shit was cool. That’s the funniest part.

Y’know, David Ayer was on record as saying that with all the material left on the cutting room floor, Jared Leto’s Joker would’ve been right up there with Heath and Jack. Snyderverse fans got on that a little by either repeating it or saying the portrayal was “”redeemed”” in Zack Snyder’s Justice League… But no. No this version of the character was doomed to fail the second they showed his damaged little face in front of us. This version of Joker will forever remain my least favorite Joker, animated or live action, for the simple reason that it never came close to understanding who Joker is. It’s not bad enough that the design is the worst we had ever seen, but Jared Leto’s performance just completely destroys whatever hope it could’ve had. There’s no real energy behind it, no attempt to match either the comics or animated series let alone the past live action performances… it just sucked. Everyone involved in that portrayal of Joker just needs to accept that.

I totally forgot about this version of Joker. Literally buried it deep inside my mind.