‘Gotham’ Season 3 Spoilers: Joker Becomes ‘More Psychotic,’ To Go Head-To-Head With Bruce Wayne

“Gotham” has big plans in bringing back to life the character of Jerome Valeska, better known as the Joker (Cameron Monaghan), this Season 3.

Executive producer John Stephens even told Screener TV that the Joker will be going head-to-head with young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) this time around. “[Bruce] really gets pulled into the Jerome story full-tilt. We really see a big step that he takes, another chink in the Batman philosophy, another brick in that wall gets built, in episode 14 - and it gets built via Jerome. And Jerome will really be standing in for the person we know probably is out there,” he said. “To us it's very significant that that guy ends up informing this part of the Batman mythology.”

Stephens also teased that the Joker will return a changed man. He wasn’t exactly Mr. Nice Guy when he was still alive, but he’s going to be much worse this time around. “He's not as nice as he was before,” Stephens says. “He's definitely changed. The way we talked to Cameron about it is that somebody who's basically gone through death and come back to life has a different point of view, a much grander point of view... [He] wants to see himself on a much larger stage.”

All in all, Stephens said the Joker is “more psychotic than he was before,” if that’s even possible.

It remains to be seen how the Joker will be brought back to life. Monaghan earlier shared a teaser photo featuring Dr. Leslie “Lee” Thompkins (Morena Baccarin) uncovering Jerome’s dead body.

The actor is eager to make fans excited for the return of “Gotham” this year as he also shared another photo featuring a mysterious figure being hit by a car.

“Gotham” airs every Monday at 8 p.m. EST on Fox.