After mulling it over, if explaining the Joker to someone who isn't already initiated into the DC universe, I think Ledger's Joker is the best introduction to Joker to someone who doesn't know anything. The subtle hints they put in the whole film about who Joker is is a great gateway into understanding Joker's unreliability and insanity, but that there's some form of underlying method to his madness. It is one of the best Joker summaries out there by far.
After that, I think you turn to any of the other Jokers albeit "Hamill's Joker" is from so many different types of media that it would probably be hard to "introduce" someone to that specific Joker due to the wide body of work and hours of media you'd have to churn through to see it. I'd explain most of those other Jokers are just different Jokers at different times, but still part of the same Joker.... but I'd leave out two Jokers.
Phoenix's Joker IMO is more important than first realized. But this Joker is for diehard fans only who want everything including the boring back story.
Leto's Joker... I'd just tell people I watched that for Margot Robbie more than Leto.
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