The Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) trailer has finally dropped, and it promises to put Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn character front and center of an all-female lineup of heroes and villains from DC Comics, including Huntress, Renee Montoya, and Black Canary. One character missing from the trailer, in spite of being mentioned more than once, is Harley’s boyfriend, played by Jared Leto and arguably the most famous supervillain in all of comics: The Joker. And there might be a good reason for his absence.
Consider the fact that there is right now a Joker movie playing in theaters, not featuring Leto but an entirely different take on the character. Comic-savvy viewers might be able to distinguish between the two wildly different iterations of the same character at one time, but regular audiences would only be confused. The Joker movie needs all the eyeballs it can get to battle the controversies surrounding the film, and it makes sense to hold off on any appearances by other versions of the Clown Prince of Crime while the film is in theaters.
There is also the fact that Birds of Prey is about Harley and her female cohorts, with the Joker appearing in a cameo at best. The last time a Joker cameo role was endlessly hyped for Suicide Squad in the trailer, it gave audiences the wrong impression that he was a central character in the film, leading to disappointment when the actual movie came out.
Warner Bros. clearly wants to avoid a repeat of that mistake. In all probability, if at all the Joker shows up in Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), the appearance will be kept under wraps until the audiences discover the cameo for themselves while sitting in the theater watching the movie. Whether the character will be played by Leto is a whole other area for speculation.
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