While plenty of fans are on board with seeing Tom Hiddleston jump ship and join the DC Universe as the Joker, such as @_mr_nightowl_, who commented, “Yay [sic] 🔥 And honestly I think that scars, like Heath Ledger’s Joker, would make it even better,” given how tied together Hiddleston and Loki are with one another, others need a lot of convincing.
Redditor u/Fictional_Apologist, while believing that Hiddleston could pull off a good performance, can see him getting lost in the pantheon of other actors who have played the part. “Personally I think that character needs a break,” they stated. “Also, I feel like it would be lazy casting to get Loki to be a big DCU villain.”
Others don’t take issue with Hiddleston playing a DC villain but feel he better embodies a different Batman baddie. As Redditor u/Gudako_the_beast simply stated, “This man is a well[-]put[-]together [R]iddler.” Redditor u/bugmultiverse agreed, reasoning, “Tom’s just got a bad boy trickster look not a psycho look, but I could see him being [R]iddler.” Evidently, viewers think that Hiddleston’s natural charisma would help his Riddler stand out from Paul Dano’s gritty take in Robert Pattinson’s “The Batman.”
Whatever the case, the consensus is that Hiddleston has what it takes to relive his villainous glory days, whether that’s as Loki, the Joker, the Riddler, or even someone else.
