Gotham‘s Gearing Up for a Totally Batshit Version of a Batman/Joker Showdown

On Gotham , we ’ve nonplus a young Bruce Wayne who is n’t Batman yet . And it ’s unclear as to whether mega - maniacal Jerome Valeska will become the Joker doom to become the Dark Knight ’s arch - enemy . But the Fox superhero show is going to have them fight back anyway , because there ai n’t no rules inits uncanny little pocket universe .

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A fresh annoyer for next week ’s episode of Gotham depict the titular metropolis erupting into topsy-turvyness as a memory loss coincide with Jerome ’s income tax return to the criminal netherworld . What ’s more , it reckon like this episode is squeezing in a ton of referential nods to big - time Joker - centric moments from cartoon strip and movies . A viral plague that release average citizens into wannabe Orcinus orca goof has been an component in a few Joker stories , most lately the Endgame electric discharge . We also see Jerome ’s fount being cut off and worn by others before being re - attach , which echoes the character ’s look in the Death of the Family storyline . Valeska talks about position a grinning on faces , too , like the Jack Nicholson Joker from the 1989 Batman movie , and the carnival / hall of mirrors scenes are belike intentional nod at The Killing Joke . If Jerome go down into a pit of Dionesium at the remnant of this installment , we ’ll know for sure that we ’ll be see him over and over …