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Mar 28, 2024 · Leto's Joker had a criminal gangster vibe, using the Ace Chemicals origin and creating Harley Quinn. Few performances across the DCEU were more widely reviled than Jared Leto's Joker, but his controversial take on the Clown Prince of Crime wasn't without its redeeming qualities.
- Reasons Jared Leto’s Joker Is The Best Version - Screen Rant
1. He’s a modern reimagining and the closest Joker we’ve...
- Why Jared Leto's Joker Is Zack Snyder's Perfect Character
Why Jared Leto's Joker Is Zack Snyder's Perfect Character....
- Reasons Jared Leto’s Joker Is The Best Version - Screen Rant
Jun 3, 2021 · The story of Jared Leto's performance as the Joker is a complex one, beset with rumors, passionate fandom, and a whole lot of behind-the-scenes mystery. This is the untold truth of Jared...
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- 7 Cameron Monaghan
- 6 Jared Leto
- 5 Barry Keoghan
- 4 Joaquin Phoenix
- 3 Jack Nicholson
- 2 Mark Hamill
- 1 Heath Ledger
The original Batman series
A matinée idol and quintessential “Latin lover” character actor with decades of film and television credits to his name, Cesar Romero may not be everyone’s favorite Joker, but he was thefirst to play the role on screen. A major recurring villain in the original Batman series from 1966 to 1969, Romero famously refused to shave his mustache for the role, and it can still be seen, slathered with white makeup. Future Jokers would bring new layers to the role, but if you watch carefully, you can s...
Gotham
Gotham began as a fairly gritty procedural series following incorruptible cop Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and his grizzled partner Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) as they navigate the increasingly insane streets of a pre-Batman Gotham City. The show mutated into something very different over time, going gleefully off the rails. Presenting its own origin stories for classic Batman characters like Catwoman, The Riddler, Poison Ivy, the Penguin, and Bane, Gotham also introduced multiple potential Jok...
Suicide Squad
There are plenty of fans who likely want to forget about Jared Leto’s performance in David Ayer’s much-maligned 2016 Suicide Squad altogether. Heath Ledger’s brilliant performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight was eight years old by then, yet remained burned into the minds of just about everyone. Leto’s Joker veered so far from Ledger’s take on the characterthat it left some audiences seething. Still, despite Ayers’ heavy-handed and tonally inconsistent approach to the Bat-verse established...
The Batman
Right now, Keoghan's version of the Clown Prince is more promise than it is product. We've seen little more of the Irish actor's turn in the role than a brief scene shared between him and Paul Dano's Riddler in the closing moments of Matt Reeves'swirling, epic take on the Dark Knight. However, in those quick moments (and a deleted scene), Keoghan still offers something rather tantalizing — a Joker that is smart, snide, psychologically manipulative, and perhaps a bit less titanically unhinged...
Joker
Director Todd Phillips' Joker film proved to be divisive and surprising, delivering an Elseworlds-style alternate-universe take on the character. Like Gotham, Joker exists in a pre-Batman Gotham City. Like the Joker of Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck is a failed comedian who becomes a criminal. This is where Joker leaves the comic book source material behind, becoming a dark psychological thriller in the mold of its two main inspirations, Martin Scor...
Batman
If there was no Christopher Nolan or The Dark Knight, Jack Nicholson’s performance as the Joker in director Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman could top this list. As the first live-action Joker since Cesar Romero cackled his way through the '60s Batman series, Nicholson gave us the charismatic gangster version of the iconic villain. This smug and sneering Joker’s origin story — dropped into a vat of chemicals by Batman — is a direct nod to the 1951 origin of the character, as written by the great Bill...
Batman: The Animated Series
The animated DC universe is a whole other realm, and the Joker has been played by many, many voice actors over the years. Notable among them are Zack Galifinakis’ obsessive, family-friendly Joker in The Lego Batman Movie, Alan Tudyk’s spot-on narcissist in HBO Max's hilarious Harley Quinn series, and Troy Baker’s turn in the prequel game Batman: Arkham Origins. Still, let’s face it: there is but one greatest animated Joker, and it’s Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill. The classic Batman: The...
The Dark Knight
Coming off of the debacle of 1997's Batman & Robin, few expected what Christopher Nolan pulled off with 2005’s Batman Begins: a grounded Batman movie that wasn’t realistic, but feels like it is. This rationale extends into Nolan’s 2008 follow-up The Dark Knight, a near-perfect superhero movie that comes as close as anything to transcending its genre. This is due in very large part to Heath Ledger’s shocking and terrifying portrayal of the Joker, for which he earned a posthumous Oscar for Best...
Mar 23, 2021 · His Joker is obnoxious, braggadocious, superficially mean, and completely unconcerned with any level of nuance or subtext. He’s “damaged tattooed on a face” rather than actually damaged. It is a...
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Oct 11, 2019 · Jared Leto, of course, was the actor to portray Joker ahead of Joaquin Phoenix, through a supporting role in Suicide Squad. The role had its fair share of controversies for several reasons, though...
