The Clown Prince's scars have been used up to a greater degree in later interpretations. Barry Keoghan plays the role of the Joker in The Batman and he has scars that are more than just his smile. Fans got a glimpse of that earlier in the week when WB released a deleted scene offering a glimpse at Keoghan's Klown where he has missing hair, a twisted smile, and blood on his nails.
In an interview with Variety, the director of the movie, Matt Reeves, gave some insight on what distinguishes his movie from the rest. Unlike the character's typical origin story where he fell into a vat of chemicals, or Dark Knight's open-ended humble beginnings, this Joker's origin is much more straightforward and similar to the recent take on him by Joaquin Phoenix. The villain's nihilistic outlook is due to how people treated him as a child. As a child, people looked at him with horror, and his response was to say, "Okay, so a joke was played on me."
There are multiple references to IGN for this new design, from Phantom of the Opera to David Lynch's The Elephant Man. The clown is based on Conrad Veidt from the silent film The Man Who Laughs. The original reference point for the villain was there when Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson created him back in 1940, but the character has moved away from that in the decades since. Sometimes, it has been successful, like we saw with the Dark Knight. Sometimes, you get interesting experiments like The Batman cartoon, or the martial arts movie "Suicide Squad".
There is a new universe where the clown exists, but that doesn't mean he will be in The Batman 2. The character of Batman is only there to give the idea that he has dealt with more than just criminals in the two years he has been around. It sounds like he has some ideas for where the character could go, but it will be some time before we have to worry about it again.
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