Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Joker: Folie à Deux.
Put on a happy face, Joker: Folie à Deux is finally out in theaters. The long-awaited sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga as Joker and Harley Quinn is finally here, and boy does it pack a punch. Picking up after Arthur Fleck’s very public assassination of Murray Franklin, Joker 2 finds him in Arkham State Hospit🔯al awaiting 🐽trial. There, he meets an enigmatic inmate called Lee who brings him out of his shell and encourages him to embrace the Joker moniker.
The sequel ends up as something be✃tween a drama and a musical with break-out dance sequences and songs from its leads. Packed in here are loads of Hollywood references, as well as plenty of wider comic book and pop culture nods too. We’ve compiled a complete guide of these below, rounding up all of the Joker: Folie à Deux Easter eggs we could find. Check out the references below.
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Cartoons
Cartoons play a key role in Joker: Folie à Deux right from the very beginning, which starts with a Looney Tunes-style recreation of Arthur’s assassination of Murray. The references don’t stop there with TVs constantly playing Looney Tunes in the background of most of the film, including several episodes of Pepé Le Pew, whose constant search for love and romance feels like an on-the-nose reference for Arthur. In the court scenꦗe later in the movie, Arthur even quotes the Looney Tunes iconic sign-off (frequently uttered by Porky Pig), telling the room, "That’s all, folks!"
Classic Hollywood
Several of the dance and singing sequences feel pulled straight out of Old Hollywood movies, and Joker: Folie à Deux has pl🦄enty of references throughout. In the short animation at the beginning, some classics are seen on posters including My Pal Joey, Sweet Charit☂y, and a Charlie Chaplin film. Later on in the movie, Arthur, Lee and the Arkham inmates watch The Band Wagon in the prison screening room. Lee sings ‘That's Entertainment!’ from the musical, as well in a pivotal scene on the Joker steps.
Umbrellas
One of the cleare😼st moments of Arthur’s delusion comes when he’s walking through Arkham State Hospital to meet with his lawyer. From one shot face-on, it’s clear all of the umbrellas are black, but when he looks up, they’re multi-colored. This shot is ♔a reference to the 1964 French musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Wayne Towers
When Arthur is being driven to the Gotham Courthouse, the Wayne building can be seen on the Gotham skyline. Thomas Wayne appeared in the first Joker film wi🐎th Arthur’s mother Penny Fleck working for him for many years as a housekeeper. For a while Arthur believed Thomas was his father, even approaching Wayne Manor and speaking to a young Bruc🎀e Wayne before he realized his mother was lying to him.
.A Bucket of Blood
The film A Bucket of Blood is playing at the Roxie movie theater when Arthur is running through Gotham at the end. It’s a comedy horror🎀 about someone who wants to make human sculptures out of dead bodies.
Arthur's death
The person who stabs him tells him that it’s “what you fucking deserve” echoing the words Arthur said to Murray when he killed him. Just before he shoots him, Arthur goes on a rant about how society treats people who are different before he shouts, 🍌“You get wh💫at you fucking deserve”. The cycle continues. Fittingly, the first song we hear in the movie from the class on Ward B is the hymn 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken?'
New Joker
The inmate who stabs Arthur becomes a more classic Joker as we know him from the comics. While it’s blurred in the ba𒁃ckground, we see him carving his face up with the knife he used to stab Arthur before he lets out a deep laugh.
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