Joker 2 finally settles a debate that completely changes the original ending after 5 years

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Joker: Folie À Deux!Joker: Folie à Deux featured many choices that put the original Joker in a brand new light, but one of the DC movie’s most subtle reveals is what completely changes the ending to the 2019 film. Instead of the massive success that was the original Jokerwhat Held the title of highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time for around five years, Joker: Folie à Deux bombed. The movie had an abysmal opening weekend, which will make it difficult to even turn a profit, let alone get anywhere near the numbers of the original. Joker.

There are many factors that have affected Joker: Folie à Deuxs performance, with the movie is not landing well with critics and audiences. The Joker Sequel now holds the worst cinemascore Rating among all superhero movie adaptations with a D, showing how moviegoers responded negatively to the film. Joker: Folie à Deux Decided to go on a different path compared to the first movie, Making crucial changes to Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck. While Joker: Folie à DeuxThe ending of the movie was the biggest surprise, an earlier reveal is what settles the debate about the ending of the original Joker.

Joker (2019) hinted at Arthur’s 7th victim

The DC movie never confirmed Joker’s possible final kill

Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck killed a lot of people in 2019 Joker. While Arthur did not initially decide to do this, as the character slowly transformed into the Joker in the first film in the franchise, his violent impulses became increasingly difficult to control. The Joker used different methods to killWent from shooting Wall Street people after they threw him to the ground and kicking him to smother his mother with a pillow to shooting Murray Franklin in the head on live TV and more. After killing six people, Joker’s ending teased a final victim.

While the Joker directly killed six people throughout the 2019 movie, with his actions serving as inspiration for other deaths, as Bruce Wayne’s parents were shot, Arthur Fleck was never shown killing what could have been his final victim. JokerThe ending focuses on Arthur back at Arkham State Hospital, talking to a psychiatrist after being imprisoned for the murders he committed. The movie never showed the fate of the psychiatrist after talking to ArthurBut as Phoenix’s character left the encounter with the shoe soles bloody and tried to escape, it looked like he killed the psychiatrist.

Joker: Folie à Deux confirms Arthur did not kill the psychiatrist

The Joker also does not kill anyone in the sequel

JokerThe ending, with Arthur possibly killing the psychiatrist or not, is intentionally left ambiguous to preserve the debate as to whether the murder happened, much like many of the events during the film. However, with a sequel that finally came out five years later, the answer to the fate of the psychiatrist was finally revealed. While Joker: Folie à Deux Never going back to the moment of the original movie’s ending, The film focuses mainly on the trial of Arthur Fleck. This setup allowed the sequel to subtly reveal that Arthur did not kill the psychiatrist.

The lawsuit makes it very clear that the Joker killed six people in the 2019 movie. As if the Arkham psychiatrist was Fleck’s seventh victim, the DC movie confirmed that the Joker never killed the character. Instead, the scene with Arthur’s shoes leaving bloody footprints as he runs around Arkham may have simply been a fantasy in the character’s mind. Both 2019 Joker And Joker: Folie à Deux Spend a lot of time establishing that Arthur often gets lost in his imagination, pretending that certain events happened when they never did. In the end, Joker never killed the psychiatrist.

So was Joker’s final scene a fantasy all along?

Arthur Fleck’s opinion cannot be trusted

The only plausible explanation for JokerThe ending, now that it is revealed that Arthur Fleck did not kill the psychiatrist, is that the scene took place in the character’s imagination. There would be no other way for the Joker to have gone from talking to the psychiatrist to getting his boots bloody without taking her life. Added to this, Arthur’s last words to the Arkham psychiatrist were, “You wouldn’t get it“ Which could also be director Todd Phillips’ way of subtly addressing the audience’s doubts about what went down in the end.

Both Joker And Joker: Folie à Deux featured several scenes where Arthur Fleck imagined that he did something that he actually did not do. Well, killing the psychiatrist and then dancing around Arkham was apparently part of the Joker’s fantasy. like Joker: Folie à Deux Given how disillusioned Arthur became after being arrested, this could have been his way of pretending to himself that he was still the same Joker who drew thousands with his actions, not poor old Arthur Fleck.

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