10 Times The Joker Went Too Far! His Darkest Moments Will Break You!

he's the clown prince of crime the harlequin of hate the jester of genocide you know him you fear him it's the joker the dark knight detectives arch arch arch enemy possibly one of the most famous villains and characters western comics has ever produced the joker is an enduring and terrifying glimpse into true unadulterated evil joker's depravity and moral rot have been his defining features since his introduction and each time he appears to terrorize gotham city he seems intent on one upping his last horrifying scheme as a result we have literally years worth of appalling content to sift through as we do our best to count down the 10 worst things the joker has ever done and a quick warning before we begin some of the items on this list include depictions of murders kidnappings and torture sometimes involving persons underage you've been warned number 10 carmine's family dentist dear viewer we have a difficult task ahead of us counting down the joker's worst deeds is like counting down the top 10 times water was wet just note that however terrible the first few items on the list are they pale in comparison to what we have in store at the bottom so to kick off our little festival of fright let's look at the war of jokes and riddles from tom taylor and michael jannan it's a bright summer day in gotham and the joker is holding open auditions for comedians the clown has lost his laugh and he searches for the perfect comedian to bring a smile to his face of course every comic that fails joker mercilessly slaughters and dumps into a pile at the foot of the stage this is the joker of the war of jokes and riddles merciless palace and lacking any semblance of restraint this joker is young hungry and desperate he searches for anything that can make him chuckle once more which makes him even more unpredictable than the joker on a regular day during this period joker reaches out to infamous gotham crime boss carmine falcone he gives falcone an ultimatum god mine this is the joker i need you to kill the riddler you have one hour thank you carmine panics knowing what the joker is capable of falcone sends hitman out to dispatch a riddler but they approach him during an inopportune time the riddler is meeting with poison ivy trying to swear her to join his side in his war against the joker while walking falcone's men attack the riddler but ivy easily overpowers them killing them all when carbine falcone returns to his office he finds the joker waiting for him the joker very calmly lays out a set of teeth across the crime boss's desk the joker says it's been an hour he's not dead so here are your mother's teeth when falcone acts confused the crown prince of crime elaborates i said these are her teeth i took your mother's teeth from a mouth and i made a smile on your desk the joker then casually guns down the rest of falcone's entourage a personal assistant to falcone one oswald couple pot is the only one to see the whole truth amidst the madness the future penguin realizes in that moment that falcon's mother lives three hours away from gotham joker only gave falcone one hour in which to kill the riddler which means that joker removed falcone's mother's teeth well before he even asked the crime boss to kill the riddler at all like i said this is a joker who is merciless and unpredictable which puts him at his most dangerous and most detestable number 9 christmas in gotham when chile gotham december joker decided the city had enjoyed a little too much peace and quiet this time joker made a rare calculation taking up a number of sniper positions across gotham city in the lead up to christmas day joker began picking off target seemingly at random at first it was unclear to the police exactly who was responsible for the high profile shooting but after killing the mayor the superintendent shooting up a police crime scene as well as destroying the bat signal it becomes crystal clear via a clue left of the scene that the culprit is none other than the joker himself next the mass murderer sets up a live stream counting down to his next kill including camera angles from all over the city of possible locations for the murder this sends the cops on a frenzied search to find all of these sniper locations joker has set up across gotham as well as sending the city into lockdown these locations turn out to be a ruse however to keep the cops busy the joker's true plan becomes clear when he kidnaps a newscaster and live streams her suspended a gagged body in an unknown warehouse along with another countdown the joker then calmly walks up to the gcpd and turns himself in utterly baffled the police announced to a terrified city that they had the joker in custody and sent off to save his final victim but joker as usual is three steps ahead by allowing himself to be taken in knowing that news of his arrest would cause gotham to reopen in a cacophony of christmas shopping he all but guarantees that the bomb will claim other victims as well the gcpd with the help of batman realizes the bomb has likely been placed alongside a shopping center to ensure causing maximum carnage the detectives rush to find and defuse the device as fast as possible ultimately they are unsuccessful although batman is able to save the kidnap reporter the bomb does detonate just as joker planned this story arc from the pages of gotham central is considered one of the most nuanced and best depictions of the joker in modern comics it shows a joker always ahead of the game a joker that uses an unwitting police force to enact his atrocities as much as he uses bombs or bullets while this enactment of the joker doesn't have any grand plans for city-wide control or annihilation the obvious joy he takes from causing such widespread fear and despair puts into stark clarity exactly why this character is so horrific but before we get into any more of the joker's worst moments be sure to subscribe to the channel when notifications on to never miss an upload and smash that like button for some polymer today okay now on to our next entry number eight the gotham reservoir our eighth place finish comes from batman's first canonical showdown against a joker the man who laughs by ed brubaker and doug manky documents a still young cape crusader as he joker unleashes his very first terrifying wave of violence over gotham city the story features one of joker's most insidious ingenious and infamous evil schemes of all time that has earned its place as a staple in the history of the batman and the joker batman and commissioner gordon knew they were facing a new echelon of criminal when they came up against the clown prince of crime for the very first time never before had gotham city seen horrific visit of a corpse killed with joker toxin until a basement full of rotting victims are uncovered and never had a killer so easily been able to stir up terror in the hearts of the citizens causing mass panic and evacuation the joker commandeered local news stations and began predicting his next victims live on the air hours before they happened daring both the cops and the batman to stop him but these terroristic games were only joker's opening act a clever and compelling ruse to keep the police worried about the specifics of joker's next target in reality the joker's real target was gotham itself while batman is helping commissioner gordon protect joker's singled out victims joker fills the gotham reservoir with enough of his trademark toxin to infect the entire city when batman finally arrives joker has already completed his plan holding the switch that would unleash death itself into gotham's water supply the joker warns the approaching vigilante i'd stay right there if i were you batsy if i flip this lever the floodgates will open into the viaduct and then gotham dies when batman detonates his own explosive cutting off the reservoir from the city's water supply a craze and angry joker lashes out at him and the two do battle with batman eventually prevailing in the first fight additionally it is important to note that even on this the first occasion of their meeting batman considers the benefit of simply pushing him into the vat of his own acid killing the clown outright the sheer fact that batman considers breaking his own rule during their very first encounter speaks volumes to the danger batman understood joker posed even then number 7 family dinner next we'll look at one of the joker's most earnest attempts to rip apart the bat family at the scene for those keeping track at home this tale comes to us from the pages of death of the family by scott snyder and greg capullo don't be fooled by a seventh place finish death of the family might be one of the scariest and best joker stories told in recent years for one thing throughout the entire death of the family arc joker wears the skin of his face strapped across his own flayed scalp the story actually begins with joker breaking into the gotham city police department and stealing the skin of his face from the evidence locker making sure to murder a few police officers in cold blood while he's at it but this time joker's plans aren't for police commissioner jim gordon we'll get to those later but the bat family itself with all the robins batgirls and various other partners cropping up around batman joker believes that his once formidable opponent has been hiding behind a shield of sidekicks bringing batman from his attachments joker believes will return the bat to his former strength saving batman from himself and reinforcing his need for the joker but joker has failed time and time again to vanquish batman what makes him so confident this time will be different well this joker says i know who you are as skeptical as batman is at this prospect joker certainly proves his point when he brutally abducts alfred pennyworth leaving a tape recording of him torturing alfred for bruce to find when he arrives home over the next few days joker would individually capture and torture each other member of the bat family he has targeted and during every kidnapping joker seems to delight in torturing each and every hero joker kidnaps batgirl's mom cuts off her wedding ring finger and actually proposes to barbara gordon with it before knocking her out joker digs up the dead bodies of nightwing's childhood circus troupe and hangs him all around a big top to traumatize him all the other members of nightwing's old circus troop joker poisons and commands to brutally beat nightwing to unconsciousness when damien wayne the current robin strikes off in his own to save alfred joker lures him to the gotham zoo and sets hordes of rabid animals on the boy joker then forces robin to fight a terrifying jokerized version of the batman to the death eventually damien passes out from a combination of exhaustion and joker gas red hood and red robin are captured together locked in a cell together and presented with both of their fathers as a threat joker then demands that the two fight each other to death for his amusement the brothers do battle but only as a ruse to stall the joker from killing their fathers when red hood guns down joker it is revealed that the body was a fake and gas fills a chamber incapacitating both former robins once joker has the entire bat family in his clutches things get even darker still luring batman himself to arkham asylum joker shows brucey video of each of his sidekicks being beaten and threatens their lives as batman himself does not submit batman sits dutifully on an electrified throne and joker flips a switch defeating the dark knight without throwing a single punch joker gathers the bat siblings and their father to a dinner hosted by a joker toxin alfred to ensure they all stay for dinner joker douses a table and all of the sidekicks in gasoline trigger to a light if batman attempts to escape from the bindings that hold him in a seat a poisoned alfred brings in the first chorus a platter containing the frozen skin of each of batman's sidekick's faces though these turned out to be fakes joker has not actually carved off all of the bat family's faces phew when batman finally breaks from the chains to chase down the joker himself joker gases the room with his trademark talks in the panicked and terrified sidekicks were supposed to kill one another for sport as batman chase joker through a labyrinth of caves but joker miscalculated while drugged alfred displays immense willpower while watching his adopted children try to kill each other alfred is the first to regain control over himself and puts himself in between the poison children each of whom slowly begin to come back to themselves as well when batman finally catches the joker the clown prince throws himself down a chasm rather than be taken in seemingly for now perishing in the fall death of the family presents joker in a near perfect context he is unquestionably horrific during this story arc he pushes the bat family to the brink and does some of the most heinous things imaginable to break them individually but they prove once and for all their love and devotion to one another is something stronger than the joker ever imagined rather than just base depravity for the sake of depravity which we'll see later down the road believe me death of the family has a point to make about batman and his family and uses the joker's unbelievable evil to make that point beautifully number 6 merry christmas commissioner starting to think we'll run out of horror stories not even close we'd now like to direct the jury to exhibit b the detective comics number 741 where we'll see another example of the joker at its worst during the no man's land event gotham city was on the precipice of collapse this was ideal for joker who took advantage of the lack of police presence to set up one of his most harrowing plots yet this issue opens with a beaten and bloodied huntress brutally battered after defending a public christmas feast from the joker and harley quinn alone her efforts were not in vain however as she stalled the two long enough for batman and nightwing to arrive on the scene as joker and harley make their escape huntress warns nightwing that joker was explicitly after the infants at the feast before she passes out despite hunters preventing joker from accessing the christmas feast batman soon realizes that joker has been behind kidnappings of babies across the city batman informs commissioner gordon his daughter barbara and his wife sarah of the situation and all three leap into action to locate the missing kids while meeting with the rest of his team to plan the search joker arrives on the scene he taunts batman and the rest saying as christmas day near and the sun did rise either bats found the kids or the kids well they dies as batman runs down the joker the bat family spreads far and wide across the city to save the missing babies however most of the locations where the teams checked were booby-trapped when batman finally manages to chase down the fleeing clown harley quinn is revealed as having disguised herself as a joker leading bats on a wild goose chase to waste precious time harley admits that while the bat-bam and the police search far and wide joker has holed up with the kidnapped infants right under their noses in the police station commissioner gordon freezes in terror at the news sarah essin the commissioner's wife stands alone at the station where the joker is hiding she sees joker coddling a crying baby as she quietly makes her way down the stairs when she lifts her gun and yells freeze joker threatens to drop or even shoot the baby during the standoff joker throws a child at sarah forcing her to drop her handgun and catch a falling infant even as sarah reaches out to catch a child the joker's gun points towards her head in one deafening bang joker leaves a dead sarah essen in a pile on the ground surrounded by infants truly one of the most despicable moments in joker's history and yet not even the worst thing he has done to jim gordon number five joker versus superman one of the joker's most infamous modern misdeeds comes to us from an alternate universe and make no mistake it involves an act so heinous and unforgivable that it derailed the course of world history forever i am of course talking about the fifth inclusion in our countdown the saga of injustice this is a unique entry to our list not only because it happens in an altered dimension but because of the object of joker's aggression batman is not joker's enemy of choice this time around but superman and not just any superman this is a superman who has just learned that his beloved lois lane is pregnant that very night lois and jimmy olsen travel to the metropolis docks to meet a corrupt city councilman however there is no city council member to meet patiently waiting for them is a joker himself the joker kills jimmy olsen outright and kidnaps lois for unknown purposes terrified that his supervision can't locate the woman he loves superman goes to batman for help considering batman's long history with the joker he figures only bruce could track down the madman responsible batman calls in the rest of the justice league to help them track down lois but instead the flash discovers the dead corpse of the scarecrow in metropolis meanwhile wonder woman finds a lead at the local shipyard with one dock worker informing her and superman that the joker has hijacked a nuclear submarine superman quickly tracks down the sub and lifts it to shore the man of steel rips his way inside and finds his sub filled with some sort of toxin before superman is taken to his knees by the gas he sees the joker and harley quinn disguise and gas mass performing some sort of surgery on lois as superman stands he sees doomsday his most terrifying and powerful foe standing above him superman leaps into action carrying doomsday far into the sky on the ground the justice league capture a fleeing joker and harley quinn and batman confirms the submarine is leaking copious amounts of fear toxin joker admits who surgically attaching a trigger to lois's heart designed specifically to detonate the warhead should her heart stop beating it's at this moment batman sees the bigger picture but before anyone can act scarecrow's kryptonite lace fear gas wears off superman floats into orbit desperately trying to keep doomsday away from his family until doomsday's hulking visage shimmers away and he realizes that it is lois's pregnant body he is launched into space when her and the unborn child's heartbeat sees the nuclear warhead joker left behind in metropolis explodes destroying superman's family and his city at one horrifying moment this is a plot joker concocted simply to throw his villainous weight around after years of losing again and again to batman this time he just felt like securing a relatively easy win which is terrifying considering this is the man of steel we're talking about all of joker's crimes are so crushingly unjustifiable and horrible that we pretty much expect this level of gravity from the character at this point but joker's actions here are so atrocious so abominable that they more than deserve the spot at number five and personally it makes me worried about what might be coming next number 4 citywide infection batman endgame closely following the events of death of the family represents joker's farewell tour his final hoorah joker's lastest attempt to destroy gotham and the bat once and for all to accomplish this he turns to the classics after ambushing commissioner gordon in his apartment and posing as an arkham asylum orderly in order to successfully study batman joker releases a variance of his famous toxin in gotham city except this time he slightly changed the formula when batman finally comes out of his anesthetized state the entire city has been overrun with a fast-moving airborne joker toxin the poison spreads across a city like wildfire as it forces its victims to laugh spreading the aerosolized virus to new hosts soon enough all of gotham saved a precious few are infected by joker's horrific poison the city becomes a madhouse with each and every individual driven to violence and madness by the choker toxin but the worst part this joker toxin unlike others has no cure when batman awakes with city in shambles he turns to alfred and julia pennyworth asking i've created nearly a hundred cures for joker toxins over the years anti-toxins antibodies steroids how many have you tested so far they respond we've tested all of them this event has to make our list of joker's most horrifying moments of all time because of the finality with which he executes his plan joker is usually interested in playing a game with the big bad bat he's looking to be entertained to outwit and be outwitted the thing joker cares about more than anything is he's continuing to take with batman no matter how many innocents he needs to kill to keep garnering batman's attention the joker has never seemed all that interested in permanently and finally putting a stop to his continued relationship with batman endgame presents a whole new context for the joker this is a joker who says openly see bats this time no more games no more jokes i'm just here to close up shop the finality the joker brings to his endgame the uninterest in his game going on any further is what gives him the leeway to enact such a terrible and incurable disease on gotham when joker no longer cares what comes next there is nothing to stop him from unleashing death on a colossal even global scale number three a day at the fair frank miller's the dark knight returns aligns joker against batman one final time in the very last days of the myth itself though joker is old now and no longer the sprightly young super ability once was he is nonetheless able to commit atrocities that rival and even outdo his younger self the dark knight once more acquaints us with a joker who has nothing to lose and again the hell that is unleashed is unimaginable many of you are likely familiar with the most famous joker scene in this story due to its inclusion in the big screen joker film this is of course when the joker appears for a television interview in front of a live studio audience in the dark knight returns the joker appears with his psychologist to be interviewed live on the air during the panel joker releases his toxin onto the crowd and kills the entire studio in one massive homicide this alone shows the joker at his most insidious but even this act pales in comparison to what joker would later do during this story that really earns its number three slot after cruelly beating and subduing selena kyle the joker leaves a clue in her apartment for batman to find a single stick of cotton candy this leads batman and robin then carry kelly to the gotham county fair where joker is and brace herself offering free poisoned cotton candy to children at the fair when batman flies over the bodies of the children that litter the pavement around the demonic cotton candy stand he swears silently it ends tonight joker 16 cub scouts dead and dozens more horrifically wounded by explosions the climactic conclusion to this decade's old rivalry is one we highly suggest you read for yourself as there could truly be no better end for the relationship of these two comic book icons number two jason todd spider-man has gwen stacy the x-men have gene grey and batman has jason todd clocking in at the number two spot today is joker's actions during a death in the family which features a moment that will live on in batman's history forevermore as one of his darkest moments while searching for robbins then jason todd's mother bruce wayne and jason find themselves in an ethiopian refugee camp to interview dr sheila haywood heywood bruce and jason believe is their last candidate who could be jason's birth mother at first sight sheila recognizes young jason and the two embrace as long lost mother and son shortly thereafter though when jason reveals to his mother that he is actually the boy wonder his own mother sells him out to the clown prince of crime when joker appears from behind a crate jason turns to see his mother pulling a gun on him trapping him completely it turns out sheila had been working with joker all along embezzling money for the medical funds herself in front of sheila's eyes joker begins ruthlessly beating jason with the butt of his pistol after robbing as a drop on joker the clown angrily picks up a nearby crowbar and begins truly pummeling robin within an inch of his life sheila stares until she can no longer bear to watch afterwards joker double crosses sheila tying her to a post and leaves a bomb next to the unconscious robin when robin struggles awake instead of defusing the bomb he unties his mother and asks her to run she refuses helping jason to the door of the warehouse just in time to find the door locked as batman arrives on the scene the entire building explodes in a fiery ball of carnage both sheila and the young robin perish at the scene finding robin's limp and lifeless body amongst a rubble marks one of the most powerful moments in bruce wayne's entire life including the death of his parents and additionally mark's one of the joker's cruelest deeds of all time successfully killing batman's surrogate son the boy wonder number one the killing joke well we've made it gang the top of the list the worst of the worst the bassist most wicked vile the brave thing the joker has ever done with a character like this one eventually gets hard to determine which diabolical deed should go where how do you decide which action is worse than two mass homicides but in any list of the joker's worst deeds the killing joke undebatedly has to take the top spot the killing joke is the story of joker trying to drive someone insane the joker decides to show the world and batman that anyone can lose their marbles and put through enough hell in a sick twisted way perhaps joker is also trying to convince himself that he is not alone that anyone could become just like him given the wrong circumstance and so joker sets out to create those circumstances to put someone through enough suffering that they lose their minds but for his unwilling victim he chooses not just anyone but our old friend police commissioner jim gordon joker starts by invading gordon's home he shows up out of the blue dressed in the now infamous hawaiian shirt and wide brim purple hat jim is enjoying an otherwise idyllic afternoon with his daughter barbara who of course is also secretly batgirl when joker arrives barbara anses the door and immediately joker fires a bullet through her spine permanently crippling her when jim lunges at the maniac joker's goons hold him back and beat him into unconsciousness meanwhile joker begins preparing to take photos of barbara as she bleeds out on the floor when barbara weekly manages to ask why are you doing this the joker responds to prove a point here's the crime when barbara wakes up the hospital to batman at her bedside her terrified expression says it all she tells bruce he's taking it to the limit this time and she couldn't be more correct at that very moment commissioner gordon awakes in a horrifying circus joker's terrifying goon stripped jim down and begins hazing him mercilessly leading him to joker's throne atop a mountain of plastic baby dolls joker forces jim through a twisted carnival ride that compels him to stare at images of his own daughter barbara undressed and defiled writhing in pain on the floor as she suffers from the gunshot wound in her stomach and the broken glass on the ground when gordon exits the ride he is quiet and despondent joker soon grows bored of him and has him thrown back in this cage thankfully before joker is able to torture jim any further batman arrives and puts an end to his gruesome charade but even still the killing joke remains the most evil heinous plot the joker ever devised proof eternal that the joker is the cruelest most heinous and ghastly villain in batman's real gallery and perhaps ever devised but that's our list what do you think if you have any other joker moments you think should make the list let us know in the comments down below i've been slice of otaku platinum comics thank you all so much for watching and have an awesome day i love you

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Length: 25min 47sec (1547 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 22 2022