Fan Notices Hilarious Connection Between Joaquin Phoenix's Joker and 'Superbad' Character McLovin

There seems to be exactly one funny thing about Todd Phillips' latest film, Joker.

As reported by Geek.com, someone on Twitter by the name of @minalopezavina brilliantly pointed out that Arthur Fleck from Joker and McLovin from Superbad are pretty much in the same costume.

They look so similar that McLovin might have to whip out his Hawaiian fake ID to prove it's really him!

This meme is a nice moment of comic relief from an otherwise very serious movie. In fact, Joker is so dark that the US Army had issued warnings about possible shootings at theaters playing the film. According to the New York Post, the army sent out an email to all service members planning on seeing Joker, reminding them to "run, hide or fight" in the event of a shooter and to "identify two escape routes" when entering the theater.

The warning coincides with the popular audience consensus that the film might be too violent, with fears that the villain-led storyline would result in copycat events in real life. Both Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have weighed in on the controversy, with the director explaining to The Wrap, "It wasn’t, ‘We want to glorify this behavior.’ It was literally like ‘Let’s make a real movie with a real budget and we’ll call it f**king Joker’. That’s what it was.”

All we can say is the amount of chatter behind Joker certainly led to both packed theaters, and endless memes online.

This article also appears on Mental Floss.