First Glimpse Of Jared Leto's Joker In Action In Suicide Squad

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We’ve seen Will Smith decked out in Deadshot gear walking the streets.

We’ve seen a bat-swinging Margot Robbie painted up as Harley Quinn mugging for the cameras.

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Now we have our first images of Jared Leto in action as the Joker on the Toronto set of Suicide Squad.

Shaky fan footage of an intense encounter between Robbie and Leto’s characters first surfaced over the weekend on YouTube. While those clips have since been taken down at the request of Warner Bros., the studio behind the team-up movie featuring a crew of DC Comics’ most lethal villains, some of the video has been preserved on Instagram.

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The scene begins with Robbie’s character out of costume, presumably as her pre-Harley Quinn alter ego of Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a shrink who winds up going bananas for her sickest patient, the Joker.

Here, Quinn/Quinzel stands  in front of the Joker’s ride, ID’d by fans as a purple Vaydor sports car with the vanity plate “HAHAHA.”

She demands he “get out of the car.”

And then comes our first glimpse of Leto in Joker mode — a twitchy, slinky psychopath who oozes instability. Soon, a ratchet-wielding good Samaritan approaches to break things up, only to wind up on the wrong end of a Joker punchline.

The scene concludes in shocking fashion, with the Joker slapping Harley to the ground, a sign of their mutually abusive romance to come.

After all, more stills from the sequence show Quinn/Quinzel pointing a very large gun at Joker.

This all appears to be prelude to the action of the film, which, if it follows a recent plot in the Suicide Squad comics, will have Quinn, Deadshot, and company working for the government on a high-risk mission while Quinn’s beloved Mr. J. remains locked up under threat of harm to keep her in line.

Based on feedback here at Yahoo Movies and general social media consensus, there is huge fan anticipation for the David Ayer-helmed film, with a few caveats. While reaction has been positive to the early photos of Robbie and Smith in their supervillain guises, some aren’t sold on the appearance of Killer Croc (“More like ‘Chiller Frog,’” a commenter on CinemaBlend cracked after the below image of the character popped up Saturday) or on Leto’s Clown Prince of Crime.

Leto’s pimp-chic aesthetic, complete with tattoos, a gold grill, and that purple Vaydor, is a dramatic departure from cinematic Jokers past, notably Jack Nicholson’s or Heath Ledger’s, and has been polarizing fans since Ayer revealed the new-look lunatic last month.

There’s a healthy debate raging on IGN about whether Leto “looks creepy as hell” or is a twisted cross between a Maybelline model and a glam-rocking Lou Reed.

We’re guessing the fans will keep arguing the pros and cons of Leto’s Joker until well after the movie’s August 5, 2016 release.