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So consider this thought true believers...
The suicide squad trailer shows joker in a scene involving him with a tied up Harleen quinzel. We know that she is Dr. Quinzel at this moment because of the doctor getup. You can't deny that this is showing Harley's transformation into Harley Quinn by the jokers hand.
If this is indeed Jason Todd, then that means In this universe, Robin is responsible for creating Harley Quinn. Not only that but he's seen interacting with her in other scenes.
Are you guys really comfortable with that ?
Your rebuttals please?
Like I mentioned before, I can see Leto playing two Jokers if need be. The true Joker we all know and love, and Dick Grayson/Jason Todd Joker possibility.
True Joker turned Harley, "killed" Dick/Jason, which I personally believe takes place prior to Robin's death, considering Harley has already been arrested/captured by Batman by time of SS creation.
And while you're not the one who mentioned it, I am going to respond to how stupid and incomparable the idea of Lex/Clayface is.
Most you got is Clayface pretending to be the lead villain of a story(video game: Arkham City). Other than that you got nothing.
However, I've posted enough times how many times past Robins have become villains, sometimes Joker specifically.
- One example is from an Elseworlds comic where Batman's suits are literally straightly adapted from.
- Leto Joker also has a Robin tattoo; true it could be a reminder/advertisement of his "killing" Dick/Jason, but it can also be a repressed psychotic memory of his past life as the Boy Wonder.
- The Robin suit being used is also clearly inspired by Robin of the Arkham games, but for some reason uses the shorts, and Dick and Jason are the only male Robins to have rocked the shorts look.
- I'm not sold on the bullet scars/scratches theory, so I'm not going to defend them.
- As for it being a "hokey twist." Sure, it might be for some comic fans, but to the general audience, it will be entirely new; as for how they'd receive it if it happens we won't know til they see it.
- Also, as Rodrigo keeps bringing up, is Batman's dialogue in the trailer: "Twenty years in Gotham... how many good guys are left?"
"How many stay that way?"
Cut to Joker's graffiti, that happen to be on Robin's costume.
It could be the trailer editing or it can mean more, that's where the speculation of the fans kick in, like we're doing now.
- As for why Dick/Jason would take on the Joker persona, it'd be based more on a psychotic break; Jason Todd took the Red Hood moniker after being 'reborn', Tim Drake took on the moniker after being tortured by Joker, Dick Grayson took the moniker while criminally insane and experimented on. If you've ever watched The United States of Tara it can also be explained as a DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder.
And like I've said countless times, I won't be bothered if this Joker is pure Joker, or if he's a past Robin as Joker, but to try and say the theory has no merit whatsoever, or that reaching/creating for something as dumb as Clayface Lex is the same is honestly outright stupid and ignorant.