Joker (2019)

Plotzle Original · O102 · June 12, 2026 · Crime / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for Joker (2019). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A professional card player in Atlantic City manipulates a gambling ring's hierarchy by planting false evidence that turns three rival bosses against each other with deadly results.
2. Two estranged brothers inherit their father's rural bail bonds business but the older one uses client information to run an extortion operation that eventually implicates both of them.
3. During the 1970s in Detroit, a charismatic factory foreman exploits labor tensions and orchestrates a violent strike that destroys both the company and his coworkers' livelihoods.
4. A burned undercover narcotics officer in Miami fabricates informant reports to justify revenge killings against the cartel members who exposed his identity and murdered his handler.
5. During the 1980s in Gotham City, a failing stand-up comedian descends into madness and embraces crime and chaos while transforming into an infamous psychopathic criminal figure who inspires citywide unrest.
6. An emotionally distant woman discovers her teenage son has been anonymously blackmailing their suburban neighbors and she becomes complicit in his schemes to avoid losing custody of him.