Uncanny Web-Slinger
Super Freak
Gonna go with No. He's had 2/3 of the games about him, I'd like to see another villains take the main slot
Batman thinking he could change Joker after so many years was a little unbelievable, to say the least.
Just like in BAC and Orangins
I'm not convinced he's not the Arkham Knight.
He's the reason Arkham Asylum exists in this universe so for him to die and be reborn the Arkham Knight, a polar opposite vigalante that still looks alot like Batman, makes alot of sense to me. He gets to show Batman that if he did die, plenty of other villains will still fight for control and other vigilantes can have an impact as well. I can see you not actually fighting him, but along side him unaware until the end that it's in fact The Joker, or some twist like that. He did team up with Bats in New 52 didn't he? And the same guys writing this game... so yea. I mean it's the last one in the series, I can totally see them ending with the Joker's return and idea Batman will just keep doing this or the like rather than something definitive so as not to alienate fans who would still play prequels from WB. It also doesn't seem like the sort of thing Rocksteady would do, create a new character when theres still plenty to use, we haven't gotten any Man-Bat etc.
And of course they can't admit to it, or even hint at it with a maybe or maybe sounding noise. It would make it obvious and ruin it.
I really hope the joker doesn't turn up in this. And I don't really think he will. I do think it'd be good to show what kind of psychological effect killing the joker has had on batman, but I don't want him to turn up as suddenly being alive after all, I think it'd undermine the end of the last game. As for him being the Arkham Knight, I really don't think that'll be the case. I was certainly surprised to hear they'd make a new villain for the game considering the huge rogues gallery batman already has, but as I stated before, the Arkham Knight character does sound kind of like the wrath so I wonder if this is basically some kind of new iteration of that character, adjusted to fit the games story.
And as for the joker twist in Origins, that left me really conflicted, as I agree with most that it was great getting a different villain take centre stage so I was really excited about having black mask. But I think the twist was so well done and the story was so good that I forgave it and felt that it was worth it. That's really it though, joker shouldn't show up again and I'm really hoping we really get scarecrow as the main villain this time. Of course I'm biased as he's one of my favourites of the rogues gallery though.
I imagine if he did come back it would be a small but important cameo, where he has a recording of himself taunting Batman to try and foil his last great evil plan