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A New Clown Prince Rises in the First Teaser for Joker

#Joker #WarnerBros #ArthurFleck #Villian #DCUniverse #JoaquinPhoenix Get ready to say hello to an all-new incarnation of Batman’s most infamous foe. Warner Bros. just dropped our first look at Todd Philips’ Joker, an origin story re-imagining how a normal man, named Arthur Fleck, descends into darkness to be reborn as the titular villain—this time played by Joaquin Phoenix, and not Jared Leto, who’s Joker has an at-best mildly confusing future in the DC Universe with the arrival of this movie. This is, really, outside of a few pictures, our first tangible look at just what Joker is going for...and even then, we still don’t know much, like how the film’s take on the Wayne family will factor into Arthur’s downfall, although we do get some brief glimpses, as well as a very fleeting look at Zazie Beetz’s mysterious character. But this trailer is more about establishing a tone for Joker than it is really delving into plot—about how an increasingly degrading Gotham city w...

With dramatic home run – and epic bat flip – Bryce Harper officially becomes the villain in Washington

 #BryceHarper  #Baseball #MLB #Villian  #PhiladelphiaPhillies #BatFlip WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper’s return to the only baseball home he’d known began and ended in the same fashion. He entered Nationals Park quietly, around 2 p.m., making a mostly solitary journey to the unfamiliar visitor’s clubhouse, where a security guard known locally as Cowboy dapped him up as he entered. Ten hours later, still clad in his Philadelphia Phillies uniform, he exited the clubhouse for a postgame press conference, Cowboy wishing him a good game, and another security guard imploring him, “Say hi to your Mom and Dad for me.” “I will,” Harper promised. It was the time in between those exchanges that informed the next 13 years of Harper’s baseball life here. The stadium staff, the front office members who ordered up a pregame video tribute, even some former Washington Nationals teammates – they may forever remain his allies. Yet the majority of Nationals fans who adored him fo...