# What's up with the Joker? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000 "2016-01-23T18:36:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000/1 "2016-01-23T18:36:03Z")
Got his face cut off; still current, fixed or rebooted? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000/2 "2016-01-23T19:20:18Z")
He’ll next appear in a movie, played by Jared Leto. > **[Suicide Squad (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Squad_(film))** > > Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics supervillain/anti-hero team of the same name. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, DC Films, and Atlas Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the third installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), it was written and directed by David Ayer and stars an ensemble cast led by Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewal... [http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2015/media/193707/\_original/1429965790/1035x1546-Screen-Shot-2015-04-25-at-8.00.41-AM.png](http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2015/media/193707/_original/1429965790/1035x1546-Screen-Shot-2015-04-25-at-8.00.41-AM.png) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000/3 "2016-01-23T22:21:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > He’ll next appear in a movie, played by Jared Leto. > > [Suicide squad - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Squad_(film)) > [http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2015/media/193707/\_original/1429965790/1035x1546-Screen-Shot-2015-04-25-at-8.00.41-AM.png](http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2015/media/193707/_original/1429965790/1035x1546-Screen-Shot-2015-04-25-at-8.00.41-AM.png) Looks like fetid garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000/4 "2016-01-23T22:57:40Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Got his face cut off; still current, fixed or rebooted? As best I recall, it grew back because his body was tainted with the same stuff that brought either Damian or Bruce Wayne back to life. Boy, if there’s a comic that would benefit from fewer sci-fi elements, this is it! ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000/5 "2016-01-23T22:58:01Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Looks like fetid garbage. It would have to go a long way to be worse than the “The Batman” version of the Joker. But anyway, back to DC Comics continuity? ETA: Thanks **H.H.** ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000/6 "2016-01-23T23:58:50Z")
I do t really follow DC, but [this Kotaku](http://kotaku.com/bruce-wayne-doesn-t-want-to-be-batman-again-1754513831) article about the next issue of Batman gives a quick synopsis of what’s been going on lately, and includes spoilers about the Joker’s current situation. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-joker/744000/7 "2016-01-24T00:45:06Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > It would have to go a long way to be worse than the “The Batman” version of the Joker. Can we just agree they’re both awful?