Did The Batman's Joker Cut His Own Face Off?

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Barry Keoghan's terrifying new Joker has finally been fully revealed by The Batman's deleted scene, but it's prompted one over-riding question: did Joker cut his own face off? That suggestion comes courtesy of The Batman's deleted Arkham scene, showing Robert Pattinson's Dark Knight interrogating Keoghan's villain about the Riddler's plan. Unlike the Arkham coda at the end of The Batman that initially revealed the character's existence, the deleted scene offers the first look at Barry Keoghan's Joker, scars and all.

While Paul Dano's Riddler was the focal point of The Batman as the primary villain, Matt Reeves' reboot perfectly set the stage for a Gotham City already populated by multiple Batman Rogues Gallery characters. On top of Colin Farrell's Penguin, John Turturro's Carmine Falcone, the Riddler, and the proto-Joker, The Batman hid hints to Hush, Red Hood, and even Bane. Regardless of that depth, without a new Joker, Pattinson's Bat would have been incomplete: Joker is the Dark Knight's antithesis, and Barry Keoghan's almost cartoonish version already looks like a great antidote to The Batman's grimdark aesthetic. As he seeks to reinstate order in The Batman 2, who better to destabilize things than Gotham's favorite agent of chaos?

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Interestingly, like Pattinson's Batman, Keoghan's Joker has no on-screen origin, already locked up in Arkham and clearly already defeated once by his nemesis. According to Matt Reeves, The Batman's «Joker» is not actually the Joker yet — he refers to him as the pre-Joker — but unlike Heath Ledger's version, one thing that is not mysterious is how Barry Keoghan's Joker got his scars. Reeves has at least