Joker: Folie à Deux’s Twist Ending Is a Lot Like Lightyear, If You Think About It Film Analysis Februari 9, 2026 The banality of evil: A shift in the supervillain narrative. Todd Phillips’s Joker didn’t have all that much to say besides “don’t be mean to socially awkward men, you never know what they’re going through and you might just push them to the point of turning into some kind of a Joker.” "The most interesting thing about it was how it got to the banality of evil by suggesting that our biggest boogeymen aren’t agents of some incredible genius and ambition." More often, they are dumb, and losers. And it’s not just scary, but also sad. It was a new kind of supervillain origin story that stripped away the grandeur and replaced it with a stark, uncomfortable reality. The Deconstruction of a Myth If we look closely at the twist in Folie à Deux , it...