Within the first few minutes of Joker, a movie where Joaquin Phoenix ... Not just any ol’ garbage-eating rats, but garbage-eating super rats, and the only way to take care of super rats is ...

Writer-director Todd Phillips’ “Joker” is a dark ... a sanitation workers strike — is described as a place where “super cats” may have to be used to stop a plague of “super rats.” ...

“Joker,” which the general population initially expected ... and the city now has a problem with “super rats”. Throughout the movie, graffiti and poor city management cake every possible surface ...

It takes only a few minutes for Joker to spell out the closest thing ... which in turn has brought out the "super rats." Among the city's human citizens, wanton violence is the order of the ...

“Joker,” though, is a calculatedly combustible ... Due to a strike, garbage has piled up on the sidewalks. Reports of “super rats” have hit the tabloids. While twirling a sign on the ...

Who among us can’t relate? “Joker”Warner Bros. Gotham is overrun with super rats, Trumpian billionaire Thomas Wayne is running for office and claiming that he’s the only one who can help ...

Joker': Families of Aurora shooting victims ... A garbage strike has trash everywhere and “super” rats running around, crime’s up and morale’s down, though wealthy folks like billionaire ...

The Joker’s seeming randomness ... you can practically smell them). Rats and super-rats are taking over. Tensions are running high. In the middle of this world lives Arthur Fleck (Phoenix ...

which confirms that Joker is also set during that year. Early on in the movie, we see a news report mentioning that Gotham City has been invaded by "super rats." Batman has never faced a gigantic ...

In the case of Joker, it’s the first film fully dedicated ... where poverty, lawlessness, and “super rats” run rampant while businessman Thomas Wayne (yes, that Wayne) serves as the film ...

“Joker,” the origin story of the Clown Prince ... where the rich live in gated estates and everyone else tries to dodge the “Super Rats” that have overrun the city during a garbage workers ...

Certainly, for “Joker,” Phoenix gave everything he had ... his mother in a decaying Gotham overrun by garbage and “super rats.” It’s possible that older academy members might connect ...