No one needs Jared Leto's new Joker movie. No one.

Some things in the world seem to obvious that it feels pointless to say them out loud. The sky is blue. The ocean is deep. Michael B. Jordan is everyone’s free pass. These are facts of the known universe and on June 5th, a new universal fact joined them in the library of absolute truth.

We don’t need a standalone Joker movie starring Jared Leto.

We super duper, extra special with sprinkles on top do not need a standalone Joker movie starring Jared Leto, and the fact that Warner Bros. reportedly is in the early stages of planning one fills me with a confusion so profound I can barely wrap my head around it. To examine the evidence, Jared Leto played a terrible-looking and horribly interpreted Joker in a too-dark and alarmingly misguided movie that literally no one liked. The only good thing about Suicide Squad was Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, and the lowest points of her storyline included every moment she shared on screen with Jared Leto’s Joker. There is no point in this described process where the next logical step for a movie studio to make would be to cherry-pick specifically Jared Leto and give him his own movie. It’s like encountering a bowl of decade-old trail mix and a) deciding to eat some of it before b) going for the single, squishy brazil nut hiding at the bottom.

Jared Leto’s Joker was bad because the creators of Suicide Squad fell into a trap of their own design — they wanted a fresher, cooler, edgier Joker than the Oscar-winning perfection of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight Rises, or Jack Nicholson’s turn as the Clown Prince of Crime in the Batman movie that redefined the character for a new generation, or the several decades of character work gifted to the world by Mark Hamill in everything else that isn’t a live-action Batman property. Do you see the trap? The Joker has been done before and so well that he’s impossible to improve, and any attempt to gild the water-squirting lily is an exercise in hubris. Even if there was a way to substantially add to the canon of the Joker on film, reimagining him as a walking migraine with a purple Lamborghini was not the way to go about it.

There’s also another issue, one that hurts me more the longer I think about it: There is already a standalone Joker movie in the works, with Martin Scorsese attached to produce and direct. If the Joker absolutely requires a standalone movie, it’s much less painful to stick to the one that Martin fucking Scorsese is doing and give Leto a break until after Suicide Squad 2 bankrupts Warner Bros. Sure, the Scorsese Joker movie isn’t related to the current DCEU, but considering that’s the franchise that turned Batman vs. Superman into a weeping slap-fest between two extraordinary orphans it’s probably for the best.

If this Joker movie moves forward in the DCEU pipeline, the tenuous thread of reality will snap and nothing will make sense anymore. If it takes precedent over the Birds of Prey movie with Harley Quinn, the Great Dreamer Cthulhu will rise from the depths of the sea and deliver onto Earth the devastation it deserves. Up is down, Left is right. Jared Leto’s Joker is getting a standalone movie.