Batman The Killing Joke Cbr 87
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As messed up as it was to use a baby to kill someone (and it was), it was who he killed that makes the death so horrible. The Joker killing Gordon's wife threw the commissioner into a rage that made him shoot the clown in the leg. It wasn't even close to making up for the pain the Joker caused, but he had a good laugh.
As Gordon frantically tried to restore the lights and find the Joker, the madman went through the station telling jokes while snapping necks. By the time the lights came back on, Gordon huddled in the police station alone, surrounded by 19 dead bodies. The deaths of the police officers were just the beginning of the Joker's reign of terror, and he had much worse in store for Batman and his team. But these murders stood out. He took on the protectors of Gotham and showed how none of them could stop him.
The deaths of so many children would rank high on many lists, but not with the Joker. Much like some of the other murders in this list, it's the casual way the Joker killed that made it so horrible. He really blew up the school as the end of a joke. For the Joker, death is the best punchline of them all.
As we've seen before, the Joker doesn't shy away from killing anyone, and that includes children. Let's go back to Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" for another moment, where the Joker had executed his final plan of convincing the world he was sane enough to show up on a late-night talk show, only to poison everyone in the room and make his escape. From there, the Joker set up a booth at the county fair to hand out free (but poisoned) cotton candy to 16 Cub Scouts, killing them all.
Killing hundreds of people in a TV studio was a terrible thing to do, and should have been really high on the list, but somehow the poisoning of children (Cub Scouts, no less) was much more horrifying. Imagining the joy on the kids' faces, quickly turning to agony and horror is enough to turn your stomach. Batman stopped the Joker from killing more with a batarang to the eye, but not in time to save all the kids of Gotham.
That's right, the Joker ate the entire population of China, which is home to over a billion people. The worst part is that he just did it so he could make a joke about Chinese food. As far as body count, it's hard to top that one. The only thing that keeps it from being number one is the fact that everything Emperor Joker did was reversed, so it never actually happened. But the memory of mountains of skulls still lingers for many fans, as does the fact that we all know the horrors of which Joker is capable, given enough power.
The endpapers (which include credits and publishing information) are close ups of the raindrops from the first and last panel of the story. Story tells a comprehensive origin of the Joker based on the story "The Man Behind the Red Hood" from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #168. This story is still considered controversial over two decades after its publication, mostly due to the crippling of Barbara Gordon (which was not revealed to be permanent until subsequent issues of Suicide Squad where she first appeared as the wheelchair bound Oracle), but there is a clear indication that creators Moore and Bolland originally intended this to be a non-continuity "final" Batman vs. Joker story when Bolland strongly insinuates in the afterward printed in Batman: The Killing Joke Special Edition (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] that Batman kills the Joker "off camera" in the last three panels of the story.The "joke" is a gag that can be traced back in the comics of DC at least as far as Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #6 (Fall, 1942) in which Mutt suggests that Jeff climb up a spotlight beam. Jeff refuses, worried that the spotlight will be turned off and he'll fall. Possibly not the first or only time the joke's been told.Bob Kane's signature appears in the photograph from page 10.
The reality of the murder, and his reason for the crusade on crime, then spins for Batman like a broken compass. Batman learns that Chill had been trying to express his guilt and regret for killing the Waynes for years. And Batman, as Bruce Wayne, is there to comfort Chill when Chill, an old sick man filled with remorse, finally passes away.
Hammer's technicians have found a way to control the armor. Things come to a head when Iron Man makes an appearance with an official from Carnellia, a country that Stark has just closed a contract with. Hammer forces Iron Man's armor to blast a hole through the Carnellian official's chest, killing him.
Before things get too serious, we see the beginning of a running joke, where Tony Stark keeps causing trouble for the same woman. We'll see her again much later, in issue #137, where we'll learn she's Mrs. Arbogast's sister.
Super speed for Reverse Flash Eobard Thawne may be his only superpower, but Zoom has not let that slow him down. Obsession drove him quickly to developing a plot to "become" and replace Barry Allen. He was so committed to taking over Allen's duties as Flash, he decided to play house with Allen's wife, Iris. When she didn't take to it, Zoom did what any man in his situation would have done: Vibrate his hand into her head, killing her.
Scientists had the bright idea of giving Rossovich retractable carbonadium (a more malleable form of adamantium) tentacles instead of his less useful arms. Although quite practical for killing and probably not shaking hands, the carbonadium ended up being poisonous and he had to drain the life out of people just to survive. Besides that great quality which surely makes making new friends a breeze, Omega Red's body can also produce pheromones called Death Spores, which kill normal humans in seconds. He has superhuman everything normal that you have like strength and speed and reflexes and etc. and his body tissue is also harder than yours.
Also known as Cletus Kasady, Carnage was born killing. As a child he pushed his grandmother down the stairs, tortured his dog and burnt down his orphanage. After getting put in prison for being oh, a serial killer, his cellmate ends up being a one Eddie Brock (Venom). Brock's Venom symbiote has a baby, since they can produce asexually and all, and bonds with Kasady through a cut. Kasady becomes Carnage, Carnage escapes and then the real fun begins.
Carnage is so powerful that Spider-Man has to make a truce with his arch nemesis Venom just to fight him. Even when Venom re-absorbs his child's symbiote, Kasady just can't stop killing. He paints himself red and goes to town as a regular human murderer. Carnage even has a psychological streak, believing that everybody wants to kill, he just has the guts to do it. He doesn't want money or power, he just likes killing. First introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #344 Carnage was modeled after The Joker to be a darker version of Venom.
After believing Spider-Man was a clone, he turned his interests over to Daredevil. Like Spider-Man, Mysterio's goal was to turn him insane. He almost got him to kill a baby he falsely believed was the Antichrist, convinced Matt Murdock's secretary/love interest Karen Page that she had contracted HIV from her time as a porn star and manipulated Murdoch's law partner Foggy Nelson into having an affair, and then frames him for killing the girl. Like any good magician though, he doesn't like to be called a copycat. After Daredevil exposed Mysterio and told him Kingpin had already done all that stuff, he shot himself. There were two other Mysterios but they aren't all that interesting. A stunt man and guru of special effects, he was on the fast track to becoming a major player in Hollywood but saw it as a dead end career. Through his magic and hypnotism past and with the help of a general knowledge of chemistry and robotics, on top of the combat techniques he learned as a stuntman, these abilities together make the otherwise regular human Quentin Beck a qualified opponent of Spider-Man. He created a gas that could cancel out his spider-sense and his suit had that well-known helmet with a holographic projector and gloves armed with hallucinogenic gas. You can call him Fish Bowl Head Guy, though.
Dr. Light started out as a lark - a joke of a villain - but thanks to Identity Crisis, he earned his day of infamy and caused a ripple effect throughout the core of DC heroes. He forced their hand to do something they had never done before, to protect the greater good, and to protect their identities from being exposed, by wiping Dr. Light's memory - and thus leading the good doctor to have such a not-so-good career as a villain.
Prometheus (real name unknown) was the son of a pair of hippie criminals - Bonnie and Clyde types - who went on a robbery and killing spree before being gunned down by the police. His hair turned white from the shock of the event. It was then and there that he vowed to destroy all forces of justice.
Speaking of taking over bodies, Kevin once took over his father's just so he could kill him. After Proteus came into contact with Colossus in a battle, due to his weakness to metal, his energy was dispersed all over the world thusly killing him. Years later a mutant by the name of Piecemeal tried to absorb all of Proteus' dispersed energy. Piecemeal was so unhappy in this state that he decided to commit suicide.
In Kingdom Come, Magog's rise as a postmodern "hero" is contrasted with Superman's fall. He kills the Joker (who is in custody for the killing of Lois Lane), and is subsequently acquitted. Unable to deal, Supes goes into hiding. It's then that Magog becomes the leader of a new group of more ruthless heroes called the Justice Battalion.
The original, re-emergent, and ultimate incarnation, is a failed actor named Basil Karlo. He was the star of a classic horror film that was scheduled for a remake. While remakes of horror movies are rarely good news, Karlo took it especially hard. He donned the mask of Clayface, the villain he played in the movie, and began killing the new cast and crew. Before long, he was apprehended by the dynamic duo and left to rot in Arkham Asylum. 2b1af7f3a8