The Deleted Scene Offers The First Look

 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?

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 partly answered the question already, suggesting he has a congenital condition that means he constantly smiles, but the reveal of Joker's deleted scene offers the first full look at his scars and inspires one question above all: did the Joker cut his own face off like the DC Comics' Death of the Family storyline. The answer may be complex, but it seems the Joker did not remove his own face, no matter how perfect it would have been.

Did The Joker Cut His Own Face Off In The Batman?

The Batman's first Joker scene suggested that he was covered in scars in a way that suggested that he could have removed his face in honor of Death of the Family, in which the Clown Prince of Crime peels off his face to prove that he is still the Joker without his "mask". But The Batman's Arkham deleted scene reveals more of his facial scars, seemingly confirming that Reeves' choice to give Joker a congenital condition is behind his look alone. While Joker seemingly has not removed his face, the concept of masks would have fit with Riddler's ideas about wearing masks in Gotham City to become who he - and Batman - needed to be for the greater good. Ultimately, it looks like that concept will not reappear in The Batman 2, no matter how interesting.

How Matt Reeves Explained The Joker's Scars & Inspiration

Heath Ledger's Joker was partly defined by the mystery of his origin, but The Batman's Joker is a completely different creature: he has no origin, or at least not yet, and what is seen inside Arkham is only an early version of Batman's arch-nemesis. As with the other movie Jokers, Barry Keoghan's version will eventually be defined by his interactions with Batman, finding his place as "the Joker" thanks to the Dark Knight. In fact, he could fulfill Catwoman's warning in The Batman's ending that the power vacuum created by Carmine Falcone's death would inspire villains to step in and Gotham would end up worse. He may not take over in the same way Penguin might in the run-up to The Batman 2, but Joker could be inspired by Batman's rise to prominence and Gotham's chaotic state. There is still a Joker origin story to tell for Matt Reeves but in the wake of The Batman's release, the director explained his scars and where the inspiration for his take on the character came from:

“He's got this congenital disease. He can never stop smiling. And it made Mike and I think about — I was talking about The Elephant Man because I love David Lynch. And I was like, ‘Well, maybe there's something here where it's not something where he fell in a vat of chemicals or it's not the Nolan thing where he has these scars and we don't know where they came from. What if this is something that he's been touched by from birth and that he has a congenital disease that refuses to let him stop smiling? And he's had this very dark reaction to it, and he's had to spend a life of people looking at him in a certain way and he knows how to get into your head.’"

Reeves also explained that Joker sees his life as having been a cruel joke pulled on him, so he will eventually declare himself a clown. That flips the entire concept of "one bad day" that The Killing Joke introduced (and which Joaquin Phoenix's Joker expanded upon to such success). If Matt Reeves is primarily looking for difference in his new Joker, he's going about it the right way, though it's interesting that Reeves returned to the very first inspiration for the Joker to underpin Keoghan's version:

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Why The Joker Cut His Face Off In The Comics

While The Batman's new Joker didn't cut his own face off, the Death of the Family DC comics arc saw Mr J have his face removed by Dollmaker inside Arkham's walls. His entire plan up to that point in the New 52's Detective Comics #1 was geared towards being locked in that cell with his fellow villain and willingly giving his face up. In terms of motive, Joker's face-off moment was two-fold: first it was an expression of how far his deranged mind had gone, and a perverse expression on his boredom with the Bat-family dynamic, but it was also a means of dark self-expression. In removing his face, Joker made a statement about his difference to Batman, saying his power was only mask-deep and Joker's could live on even after the removal of his face. It's an interesting concept, but it's arguably one that even The Batman's universe would see as too dark. Plus, Joker's face is pretty much his calling card in movie terms, so it's perhaps best it didn't happen.