The Joker is the premier villain he's had so many iconic
Representations throughout the years as well as a few that are you know less than iconic?
But some versions that the Joker are far more messed up than others
Let's take a look at the 7 most twisted Joker moments in all of comic-book history, and that was 8
But we're only doing 7
Sorry.
That was a twisted moment in itself number 7 Joker cuts off his own face and wears
It as a mask. The Joker has done a lot of heinous things to other people
But rarely has he messed with the man in the mirror historically
It's been much easier to get his jollies off by torturing someone else whether it be Batman or Harley Quinn nor any henchmen dumb enough
To not know that working for the Joker is essentially a terminal illness
Someone at DC might have noticed this aspect of the character because right when the rebooted new 52 universe
Kicked off the Joker cut off his own face and pinned it to a wall. After that
Joker wasn't seen for a while when he emerged from his self-imposed leave of absence Joker was wearing his own
Decomposing face as a mask with all the sinewy facial tissue clearly visible
Underneath this fleshy garment and did the Joker have a dastardly new plan to go along with his new
Cosmetic surgery well I mean yes
But the particulars kind of don't matter when you can't stop staring at the flies buzzing around this rotting flesh mask
The nightmarish new look begs the question. Why would anyone ever do that to themselves?
That's the exact question Joker wants you to ask if he's willing to mutilate himself just for fun, imagine the horrors
He could inflict on someone
He doesn't actively like
the most prominently featured in Scott Snyder and Greg Capulet epic run on Batman the most unsettling Joker moment came from
Tomasi and Gleason's Batman and Robin yep, that's the Joker turning his frown
Upside down by flipping his maggot-infested face skin around a hundred and degrees
It's best to just cut off your eyelids now because you're not gonna see anything else when you try to sleep tonight
number six the Joker is even more twisted as
Martha Wayne if there's anything that comics love more than time travel its
Alternate universes that are caused by time travel such was the case for
Flashpoint a huge DC event that eventually gave way to the new 52 this alternate universe
Imagines a world where Flash's mother never died and the butterfly effect has caused many massive ripples throughout the time stream in the flashpoint reality
Aquaman is at war with Wonder Woman, Superman's baby pod landed in Metropolis
Not Smallville and everyone continues to not care about cyborg one of the most notable changes came during that fateful night in Crime Alley
Thomas and Martha Wayne weren't killed in a mugging gone wrong
But instead there was another casualty little Bruce Wayne
This left a vengeful Thomas Wayne to become an older grizzled Batman
But Thomas took it pretty well compared to Martha distraught over the loss of her son
Martha Wayne goes insane
Slashes her face and becomes the Joker
Even though the Thomas Wayne version of Batman is much more likely to murder his enemies with guns
He still has a hard time coming to grips with the idea of killing his former wife no matter how insane
She may be this new Joker knows this and uses her power to get away with some pretty sick stuff
She tricked Commissioner Gordon into killing Harvey Dent's daughter
And then slit Gordon's throat
Much has been said about how we should never know the Joker's true origin by taking away some of that mystery
We make him less frightening, but with Martha it works
we know that she's lashing out at the world for taking her son and
Tormenting her husband for his failure during the course of the flashpoint miniseries
Which you can also catch as a DTV animated movie Batman learns that he could restore the past and save Bruce's life
That sounds like a great idea to Martha until she learns the details
It's touching to see a moment of sanity between Batman and the Joker
Even in this warped context, but it goes from heart-wrenching to downright creepy when they embrace
To be clear, Batman and the Joker are always about six inches from a hardcore makeout, but it's never happened until now
On the one hand it's nice to see the archenemies finally consummated their relationships on the other hand you know that his tongue
Probably went through her face holes at some point
number five the Joker destroys Superman and Lois Lane
Batman and Superman have teamed up more times than McDonald's and self-loathing
But that about does it for interactions between Gotham City and Metropolis. The rare crossovers that do occur tend to be pretty
Special as was the case when Joker decimated Superman without ever even touching him compared to his nocturnal
Counterpart Superman is kind of an easy target for the Joker
He's less corruptible
But the purity and the spirit also means he's more malleable and naive
Joker took advantage of that vulnerability when he poisoned Lois Lane with a lethal toxin that appeared to be killing her with haste
when confronted by Superman Joker gave him a classic ultimatum
It's an impossible decision for a man who does everything in his power to be a force for good, the classic lose-lose scenario
ensures that Superman has to either A.
Let his loved one die or B. kill in cold blood soil in his soul and his cause forever
Thankfully Batman is there to nudge Superman along the right path that is the path Batman chooses
Wracked with guilt Superman decides to let Lois Lane perish rather than kill the Joker
but then
Something funny happens just as she flatlines Lois gasps back to life apparently the whole thing is one big
Gag by the Joker the toxin was designed to make it look like Lois was dying
And then bring her back from the brink
Superman was put through the wringer
Basically for no reason that is because the Joker
Felt like it, the Man of Steel will have to live the rest of his life knowing that he would have sacrificed the one he
Loves most in order to protect the world's most ruthless serial killer
And then Lois wakes up and figures out what happened now Lois knows that Superman cares more about
Holding up his moral code than saving her life
imagine that you were engaged to somebody who was given the opportunity to either shoot Charles Manson in the head or
Pull your plug and they picked letting him live
That'd kind of suck right
little bit? probably not coincidentally Louis broke off her engagement with Superman in the very next issue
What seemed like the most ironclad
couple in comics torn apart
By the antics of an evil clown. number four an all-powerful Joker spends eternity
Torturing Batman when it comes down to it the Joker is just a man sure he's pretty wiry and deceptively quick
But it's not like he has any special
Powers or anything and that's a good thing too because you don't want to imagine what he would do with any kind of
Supernatural ability rather you don't have to imagine
Because we got to see it in the Emperor Joker storyline, the arc kicks off when the inhibited Mr.
Mxyzptlk is tricked into giving the Joker almost all of his phenomenal cosmic powers
With his immense capabilities the newly christened prankster God makes quick work of the universe bending everything to his whim
Joker kills everyone in China just to make a Chinese food joke though to be fair
He does stop short of complaining that'll be hungry again in half an hour with this unlimited power
Joker should have no problem killing his arch-nemesis, and he does
Over and over and over again Batman suffers at the hands of his tormentor
Repeatedly dying and coming back to life every day only to be subjected to some new and terrible horror
It's a tragic fate straight out of Greek mythology except in this case the Joker is Zeus
And he's turned to the rest of the gods into delicious euros
Even worse Superman watches it all happened helpless to do anything while his friend is eaten alive by a wake of vultures
That's one of the tamer torture methods depicted in the story, when Supes originally found Batman
He was being dragged into a grave by zombie clowns only to emerge from the ground and being pulled down to the dirt yet again
This kind of living hell is more than any man can endure even the Dark Knight
So broken was the bat after all was said and done the Superman had to take Batman's memories unto himself to save his friend
It's an incredible thing to do for someone and Superman won't ever tell anyone. I guess Batman really doesn't know everything
number three joker puts Commissioner Gordon to the test in no-man's land a classic arc: Batman
No-man's land is centered on a cataclysmic earthquake that shook Gotham City to its core
Declared a lost cause and officially cut off from the United States
Gotham quickly descended into a crap festive crime straight out of Escape from New York or The Dark Knight Rises
I mean as you might imagine
This kind of worst-case scenario is basically what Joker masturbates to in the corner of his Arkham cell so he wasted no time in
Kidnapping a hospital's worth of infants Sarah Essen second wife to Commissioner Gordon found the Joker and dared to confront him alone
But Joker knew that any good persons gonna put down their gun if you throw a baby at them
Could she have let the baby fall and shot Joker ending his reign of terror and presumably saving thousands of lives in the future
Yes, but Joker knew that you catch a goddamn, baby if someone throws it at you
And he took that opportunity to shoot poor Sarah right then and there
leaving the gaggle of babies to wallow in her blood the Joker is caught and the babies are saved because duh and
Commissioner Gordon has an intense confrontation with the man who killed his wife
Not to mention the same guy who crippled his daughter
No one could blame this dude for blowing the Joker away if anyone decided to do it at this point
They'd be doing the world a favor, but Gordon takes the high road and settles for a good kneecapping
That's just the thing though if Gordon had shot an unarmed Joker
He would have forsaken all of his principles and sunk into the level of that scum, Joker wins
But since Gordon didn't go for the kill Joker is essentially punished with an extended
But certainly temporary stay at Casa de Arkham and will almost certainly go on to kill more innocents.
Joker wins again
No matter what happens the Joker always has the upper hand he enjoys putting people through hell because there's no way that he cannot win
That's what's so funny to him number two the constant unending
abuse of Harley Quinn the Joker and Harley Quinn are one of the most revered couples in comics
But the screwed-up part is that they're not really a couple at all
Relationships are usually founded on mutual
adoration and respect while Harley is infatuated to the point of obsession her puddin has never felt the same way any
affection the Joker does show Harley is merely an of
Manipulating her even in the kindest interpretation of the relationship joker still unable or unwilling to care about harley his true
love is Batman and every time she demonstrates an inability to understand that he
Punishes her over the years their relationship is only worsened
It wasn't ever healthy, but it's gotten to the point where now Joker never does anything that isn't just mean or cruel to Harley
It's not just verbal abuse either on several occasions Joker has taken out his rage on Harley in a physical manner in one case he
Even shot her and left her for dead
It got even more messed up when the Joker went through his aforementioned face mask phase
the idea being in the rebooted new 52 comic verse
They wanted a nastier meaner Joker and that means he got to punch Harley in the face whenever he felt like it
It's not really fun anymore. It's not Harley trying to get the Joker to rev her up and getting pushed over a table
It's just kind of terrible, it already
Resembled a real-life abuse of a relationship to a startling degree and since then Joker has taken it up a notch
It wasn't long after her face punch that Joker shackled up Harley in a pit filled with human skeletons
There are means of which he claimed all belong to previous Harley's he told her that this is where all of his would-be
Sidekicks end up that she's in no way special and has always been expendable
Joker was probably just messing with Harley here
But that makes it worse he went through all the trouble of gathering these dead bodies or making some of  them himself
Going to jo-ann fabrics and picking out the exact right shade of Harley's clothes
Dressing up the skeletons and laying them about and preparing a torture chamber to look aged
All to screw with this most loyal minion for no other reason other than it be a good laugh
Harley's feelings for the Joker have wavered now and again and there have been even a few times that she's left him
But she always seems to find her way back to Mr. J, One time Joker
Got sick of a sidekick and locked her in a rocket and lit the fuse, after escaping Harley confronted Joker
He simply apologized and all was forgiven. the Joker has killed thousands of people across hundreds of stories
But the fact that he lets Harley Quinn keep living such a miserable existence
Counts among his very worst deeds
Finally number one the Joker
Finally gets Batman to kill him Batman can't ever kill the Joker
Mainly because it would mean the end of one of the most celebrated rivalries in all of comics
But the in-universe reasoning is pretty simple if Batman kills the Joker
He erases the line between them he becomes a vigilante who executes street justice instead of someone who just you know
Paralyzes bad people. That's not to say that Batman has never wanted to kill the Joker
He probably thinks about it all the time and has a secret Pinterest board dedicated to the dozens of ways
He'd  eviscerate his worst foe
All I've ever wanted to do is kill him a day doesn't go by when I don't think about
Subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then end him. But no matter what happens
There's this vibrating void between the two of them that prevents Batman from ending it
They're like two magnets that are repelling each other. Maybe they want to kiss
They're not gonna kiss
maybe they will part of the fun of comics is that you could pretty quickly and easily tell a story that happens outside the
Established canonical world and there we can explore
What would happen if Batman actually did kill the Joker the comic JLA the Nhil imagines
What a Justice League might be without Superman, lacking a moral compass the league descends into chaos and when Batgirl and Robin are murdered
Batman loses control and kills the Joker, as it so happens
He doesn't write in front of the media which is Batman and the league's
Worst nightmare. When everyone sees that Batman is a murderer
He loses all credibility as a symbol for justice, some Batmans don't see it this way
I'm sorry but the plural is Batsman, Earth two Batman straight up shoots the Joker the first time he gets a chance
Earth to Batman is also Thomas Wayne
But still a little bit different than flashpoint Batman, in this case both Bruce and Thomas survived the initial attack and Martha died
Bruce lived on to become Batman
but died
Saving the world and so Thomas took on his son's place to avenge his kid earth two Batman wipes out the Joker but in doing
So becomes a different hero altogether more in line with the Punisher than his own son
in some of these alternate universe stories killing the Joker makes a little more sense
Wouldn't pirate Batman just straight-up stab the Joker like the scurvy dog he is
Yeah
He would. Vampire Batman is also a little bit different infected with vampirism after a battle with Dracula
Batman has left to stalk the Gotham streets as a nocturnal bloodsucker for a while
He resists his urges instead feeding on rats as an unsoiled vampire that is yet to consume human blood
He was immune to things like crosses in holy water
But eventually vampire Batman gave in to his temptation and murdered Joker by sucking him dry
Staking him just to make sure the bastard stayed down
You'll notice in a lot of these kill shots that Joker is smiling even during his last breath
even as he's impaled through the heart Joker knows that he's
Corrupted Batman, the foul blood of his enemy now courses through Batman's veins giving him an insatiable hunger
Since he's killed Joker. There's nothing stopping him from killing anyone else who crosses in the wrong way
That's more
Or less what happens for any Batman then kills
Often giving in to that dark desire and ending the Joker just means giving him what he wants, something that has grave consequences
Like the time that Batman killed the Joker in the injustice comic, okay, okay, okay?
That's technically just a dream sequence. In the real story
Superman is the one that kills Joker, pushed to the brink when Joker tricked him into killing a pregnant Lois Lane, Superman
eviscerated Joker and started down a dark fascist path that gives the injustice game its dystopian setting
It's a horrible universe to live in and one that the Joker
Would have loved when he killed the Joker you could still hear him laughing in hell
