DeadlyWest
HOPE incarnate (he/him/his)
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I think with Joker 2019 that is sort of the apex of sympathetic Joker imo, taking that element first introduced in The Killing Joke. So, it would be best to get away from that. You could argue that the complete evil out of nowhere has been done already with Ledger, but that version is more grounded in reality than comic book Joker and more grungy etc and really very much a standalone take. There's still room for mysterious evil Joker, especially if they go for a more comic accurate look, but those creepy gothic and expressionist horror aesthetics Joker's had sometimes.
Not really. Ledger's, if anything, was the most comic accurate by just giving him no actual backstory. Like Shauner, I'd rather they did the same here and have Joker not have a backstory. But I think the idea of his backstory being that he has no tragic backstory, was perfectly normal and just became this psychopath completely out of the blue with no rhyme or reason to it could be really interesting for making him even more mysterious and scary