The start existent await at Jared Leto's Joker in Zack Snyder'southward Justice League shows him without his signature "damaged" tattoo. One of the biggest questions surrounding Snyder'south version of Justice League, of which there are many, is why Leto's Joker is returning. He wasn't in the theatrical version and wasn't planned to be added in pick-up shoots that Snyder had wanted before his get out, yet he's go a major talking betoken. A huge part of that is because of Leto himself.

Joker is i of the near iconic characters in all of entertainment, and each version of the graphic symbol is different from the ones that have come before; Leto'due south Joker is no unlike, but perchance he took things a bit as well far. Everything from the make-upwardly and tattoos to the overall delineation of the character made Leto'southward Joker in Suicide Squad controversial. Leto and writer-director David Ayer accept always stated there'southward more than to Joker than was shown in the theatrical version of Suicide Squad, but seeing those boosted scenes may never happen. In the meantime, Snyder's Justice League can human action as a form of redemption.

While Snyder initially teased Leto's Joker with a blurred-out image reminiscent of Joaquin Phoenix'due south Joker, the official get-go wait reveals him with longer hair (and without neon colors), no tattoos, and seemingly wearing makeup. Almost all of that is different from the version seen in Suicide Team, but then again, this is Snyder'due south version - and in this version, Joker doesn't have his tattoos anymore. In that location are three possible reasons for that: something happened to Joker in-universe, response to backlash over Joker'due south tattoos, and Snyder wanted a different look.

Given this is Snyder's Justice League, the picture show is very much a continuation of Batman Five Superman: Dawn of Justice, especially the Ultimate Edition, which means there will be an extended Knightmare sequence that sees Batman and Superman in a dystopian future; Joker will be in that location as well. A lot can modify over the years, so Joker may have found ways to become rid of or encompass upwardly his tattoos (like with makeup, as other Jokers have used before). This hasn't been confirmed, but it's been unsaid past Snyder, who told Vanity Fair, "I don't know if he's wearing makeup, I don't know what's happening. It's hard to say exactly." To Snyder, the reason itself isn't as important as showing this version of Joker that he wanted to tell.

Another reason that may be lingering in the back of Snyder and other people's minds is the fact Joker's tattoos were despised when they were first revealed years ago. It showed a Joker starkly different from versions moviegoers and comic book readers have come to know. If the tattoos meant something more, something beyond only existing, then they could've been accepted on some level, but that didn't happen - at to the lowest degree not in Suicide Squad'southward theatrical cut. And so Joker's "damaged" tattoo being gone, along with the residue of his tattoos, in Snyder's Justice League is a slap-up footstep forward for the character, even if it is his concluding footstep.

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