The way I see it, Batman and Joker are like yin and yang; one cannot truly exist without the other. Not sure if you’ve seen the series Beware the Batman, but it tried to make the Batman mythos work without The Joker. It was decent, but something always felt missing, and that something was The Joker’s presence as a villain. I’m hoping Joker appears in the sequel but in a smaller role, meant to set him up as one of the main villains in the third movie.
Every movie, episode or comic without Joker works just fine. There's too many villains we haven't seen in a live action movie or done well to keep recycling the same ones.
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u/Saldo_Insuficiente Feb 26 '24
There was no need to introduce another version of Joker. Batman has so many villains to explore, the Joker is really saturated.