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The Joker's two main designs from "The Batman" Cartoon.

Now...this is just a theory I have but....I actually believe they never intended to use the design with the purple suit. What makes me say that? Well..we all know that...a lot of people weren't exactly happy with the torn straightjacket design. If you look online, you'll see a lot of people complaining about it. While I prefer a more classic Joker look with a purple suit, I never minded the straightjacket look.

Anyway, back to point. I believe they changed him into wearing that purple suit as a sort of response to the complaints. If you look at season 1....The Joker appeared in the first episode of the series and he had the straightjacket design. He next appears in the episode "Topsy Turvy". Now for most of that episode we see him wear the straightjacket design, but later on in the same episode, he begins to wear the purple suit design. Now, this could be in order to sort of show the transition between these two designs....but...the real piece of evidence is in the episodes "Rubber face of comedy" And "Clayface of tragedy". In rubber face we see joker wearing the purple suit. But...in one scene in the episode we have a close up to his face and he says the line "You don't know what this stuff does to humans" Now...there is nothing special here in this scene. But...in the very NEXT episode...Clayface of tragedy...Ellen Yin has a short flashback to that particular scene where Joker says "You don't know what this stuff does to humans....and guess what? if you look closely...you can see him use the straightjacket and not the suit.

Honestly, it would make sense. People really complained about the straightjacket design, so they changing it to the more iconic purple suit...yeah. Afterwards, Joker only wore the purple suit except for one last episode "Meltdown" Where he wore the straightjacket design again, but in this episode he ended up covering it up by wearing another jacket on top of it.

I like both designs, but with the complaints the straightjacket one got, I can see that they changed it to the purple suit. Then again, this is all a theory and I could be wrong. Who knows?

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