This morning, in Italy, FBI authorities arrested Joaquin Phoenix after he was found guilty of the murder of Maximus Decimus Meridius in the Roman Colosseum. The actor had managed to evade justice for 1840 years, which seems totally like a long time ago but it isn’t.
20 years ago, it was reported that the death of General Máximo Tenth Meridio in 180 AD had been a murder. Since then, the FBI and INTERPOL initiated an investigation to find the criminal who stabbed him in the back.
Thanks to the immaculate academy award-winning interpretation from Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, thousands of fans began to recognize the similarities between Commodus and Arthur Fleck. This obviously prompted the feds to resurface historical files that they inferred connected him to the incident which left a soldier without a family.
Using high level, sophisticated NASA approved facial recognition technology, the FBI was able to determine that Commodus and Joaquin Phoenix were, in fact, the same person. The actor had grown his beard to avoid the authorities and get away with it for a significant amount of time.
After an exhaustive trial that began in March 2020, Joaquin Phoenix was found guilty of the murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Academy informed the media, the actor will be immediately stripped of the Oscar he won for best actor in Joker.
Witnesses who were at the scene captured video with their phones, the exact moment when Commodus learned that Maximus was alive. These were the last words that the Roman general said in public while at the same time refusing consent to have the footage uploaded on TikTok:
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. ”
