Name: How Joker’s Ending Could Tie Together the DC Cinematic Universe? (Nerdist News w/ Amy Vorpahl)
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After much hype, Joker is finally out in theaters and it's

really shaping up to be a huge blockbuster for Warner Bros.

And while the movie has been touted as a standalone flick

set in an eighties Gotham City, not tied into the greater DC

Cinematic Universe, as we just said it's shaping up to be a

If it does well enough, we bet that the temptation to

revisit this Joker again in order to make more money would

be somewhere between pretty damn likely and

Well, luckily, the ending gave us plenty to chew on, so

there is definitely room to continue the story, and even

tie it into the DC Cinematic Universe as well.

Now, before we get into the main story, we want to give you

We will be talking at length about Joker in this piece, and

will be spoiling the hell out of the movie.

Seriously, if you haven't seen it yet, go away!

We're just going to spend the next few hours working on our

A guy walks into a bar and pulls out a tiny piano, and a

So, then I said, "Joker, I hardly know her."!

So, how could Joker fit into the continuity of the

It stands on its own perfectly well and it doesn't

necessarily tie into it specifically, right?

Well, the option is there, so let's break down the evidence.

The first clue is that DC Cinematic U's timeline is

currently in flux, and is in the process of retconning

itself, like how Wonder Woman 1984 is changing her

backstory set up in Batman V Superman that said she had

Even Gal Gadot admitted this during a presser for Justice

League back in 2017, saying, "sometimes in a creative

process, you establish something that is not necessarily the

right decision, but then you can always correct it and

So, if Warner Bros. and DC really decided that they wanted

to change the timeline a bit to bring Joaquin Phoenix's

Joker into continuity, they definitely could.

While we saw Bruce Wayne's parents killed in a different way

in Batman V Superman: Damn of Justice, it was through the

lens of a dream sequence, which, come on, dreams are super

Speaking of unreliable narrators, let's talk Joker.

In it, the audience learns that some of the film they just

However, while his relationship with Sophie was a

fabrication, he did murder Murray Franklin on live TV, and

ultimately he did inspire the people of Gotham into

And it's this that ties into our next point.

Joker could be brought into DC film continuity by tying it

into the three Jokers concept currently in DC comics.

If you've missed out, currently in DC comics there are three

different Jokers from three different eras currently

The first Joker established back in 1940, the post-crisis

Joker essentially inspired by Alan Moore's The Killing Joke,

While this storyline has yet to be explained and will most

likely pay off in the upcoming Three Jokers black label

comic, one theory about how it will work together could

With the different takes and characteristics of the Joker

in the comics over the years, this could also apply to the

different takes of the Joker in the films as well.

Because if there's one thing DC isn't short on, it's

If Joaquin Phoenix's Joker in Joker is the sort of original

Joker a la the 1940s Joker from the comics, it wouldn't be

a stretch to believe that he could inspire others to later

take on the mantle of green hair and white face paint kind

of like he does in the movie, and we could see Jared Leto's

Joker years later as one of those inspired by him.

And honestly, this would be much better than having

Phoenix's Joker be the only Joker in Gotham City, which

would eventually see him as an old man being punched in the

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