I think it's more him actually tasting his own medicine and facing his own rhetoric head on. The Joker always said that people are just one push away from being as crazy as he is, and with Charlie, I think he was mortified to see just how right he was. He pushed the poor soul to the edge and is now facing down not only a tyrannical monster of his own making, but a sort of shadow of his own madness.
Sukato Kjølen But the thing is Joker isn't right. The Killing Joke storyline proves that Joker's philosophy is garbage, and what he says is just a projection from his and Bruce's experiences. And even without TKJ, the existence of Batman disproves Joker's outlook anyways because while Bruce became Batman because of "One Bad Day" he stayed true to his convictions and rejected Joker's idea of what it means to fall to your shortcomings. Bruce's resistance to Joker's grotesque vision of how society and life operates is a testament to how there is worth to not letting what happens to you determine the course of your self transformation.
@@gin9561 Animations count in DC continuity, Superman headed with Batman, And Hit joker a good bit as well. One hit. You would have some good fractures more than just in a specific area.
Ace never sent Joker into insanity, she drove his mind deep into sanity. She temporarily cured his control issues and trauma he possessed that made him who he was. She calmed his mind. Never hurt it.
I really hoped the Punisher would be included on this list when they met during a crossover. He terrified the Joker because up until that point in time, he'd never met a "hero" so willing to kill anybody who got in his way. What scared him even more was he was defenceless against him. Every superhero, villain, or person joker ever faced had something to lose, which joker used as leverage. But Frank has nothing and nobody. There's no joke, no punchline he can deliver because there was no way he could change Frank. He's just as broken as joker is. He's heard all of the "Jokes" life gave Joker which turned him crazy but the difference was he didn't laugh.
Cody Bromley People always forget Victor Zsasz too. He's more insane than The Joker but can actually overwhelm Batman 2 or 3 times out of 10 if he has a knife.
@@kshtjmlk Even then it doesn't mean they broke the Joker. Joker became mad at Catwoman for taking away his Batman, but that's not really the definition of breaking somebody.
"defeated" WTF is that what u think happened!?!?!?? the part where she won is when she beats him in a dark humor dance off and the price is bats... and the joker knows it (im only referring catwoman tho)
I kind of have to roll my eyes at that, the one case I am aware of of a supervillain having that sort of hostility to Skull that I thought worked was Magneto, due to his background in the Holocaust.
He forgot Jason Todd in Under The Red Hood when he tells the Joker that hes not as crazy as he pretends to be and is only pretending to get away with more things. He manages to turn that grinn into a a look of defeat
You forgot the ultimate one The New Adventures of Batman season 2 episode 10 When the Joker accidently creates the mad superhero "Beware the Creeper " and eventually has to beg Batman to save him from his own creation declaring "I'm insane, but that guy...He's Crazy!"
How about the time Joker held a family hostage and had the husband do errands for him the man broke and held a bomb to the joker. The joker then starts screaming for batman to help him.
@@samuraijackoff5354 Joker"s Favor. The first appearance of the character on Batman: TAS. Charlie, you're just upset! All this excitement... All this running around with BAT-MAAAN!! Great episode!
It's from "Joker" by Brian Azzarello (writer) and Lee Bermejo (artist), the woman in question is Harley Quinn. Given the more "true crime" and less "super-villain" styling of the story -- a fusion of the Burtonverse with the Nolanverse incarnations -- this version of the Joker is less "Clown Prince of Crime" and more disfigured sociopathic gangster who only puts smiles on people's faces with a knife! The Harley Quinn of this retelling is, to put it very bluntly, WHATEVER the Joker wanted her to be. Bonnie to his Clyde, Clarice Starling to his Hannibal Lector, wet nurse to his inner child (hence the crying), M to his S (and maybe even S to his M, if he was ever so inclined); essentially, a mirror to his Narcissus, the binarian zero to his one. Unlike the original invented by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, THIS one is not deluded about her "place" by the Joker's side. That's why throughout the entire story (which I reread just now) she never talks. Not one word. The binary's zero to his one. She does whatever the Joker wants; not what the Joker wants HER TO DO, just what he wants.
I find the last one very interesting. Maybe the thought of a regular citizen, knowing well that he/she is outmatched, still fighting against them terrifies super villains the most? They gained strength, power or any other kind of special ability to counter the super hero, but still, a normal person decides to stand in their was, reminding them of their own origin/mortality.
Wasn't there a storyline in one of the comics where Joker gets revived in a Lazarus Pit as a sane man and then gets broken as he thinks about everything he's done?
And yet in the end Charlie didn't break. He launched a carefully planned attack on Joker's bloated ego and did what he had to do to get completely clear of the Joker. Charlie's bad day gave him the ability to overcome his limits and beat a master of psychological warfare at his own game
@Count Cobalt .... you're joking, right? Cause if not, then stop blending your brain. Cause you can't tell someone that they're misogynistic for making fun of some people's ssx lives and then call someone a pervert in your next sentence. And it's also not misogyny.
@Count Cobalt and also, that's only degrading towards men. Saying that women are so important that the only way you can be cool is to have sex with a women isn't degrading, unless you really want it to be.
Charlie Collins just proved that indeed, it only took one bad day to make someone go crazy- and the irony of it all is that he went crazy on the Joker, a point no doubt lost on the Clown Prince of Crime...
Batman: the Brave and the Bold. Batman drives Joker mad when Joker used Batmite's powers to enter his mind and realized that if Batman never existed he'd be normal
It may be brief but I have always loved the moment in under the red hood where Jason just tears apart the joker psychological by revealing how his madness is a farce just an excuse to justify his heinous crimes
I'd also like to point the fact that Marvel has crossed over with Transformers (not the Bay films, Im partially talking about the old 80s cartoon) Spider-Man had an appearance in Issue 3 of the Original 1984 Transformers comics (which interestingly enough is technically a part of the Marvel Multiverse), while in the 2005 IDW comics, The Avengers met the Autobots to stop Megatron using Spider-Man's blood to super power the Decepticons Neither company acknowledges either one though, but both are canon
I was expecting to see The Batman Who Laughs. I mean this was the first character I have ever seen who was *Too Fucked Up for the Joker* Still a good list though. I loved Justice League and Batman the animated series.
Except the Batman Who Laughs didn't really break the Joker, though. The Joker understood exactly what was going on there and the threat represented. Why else would it have taken sufficient Joker toxin to almost turn regular Batman into The Other Batman Who Laughs in order to beat The Batman Who Laughs?
@@vsgfilmgroup fair enough. I guess making Joker experience fear and actually have a sense of urgency isn't the same *breaking* him but making the Joker openly freaked out is one hell of a feat.
#6: Says a lot about Jim Gordon in the comic version of The Killing Joke that after all that was done to him he 'still' wanted Batman to get The Joker 'by the book'.
In the pages of The Spectre, the Joker wrested control of the Spectre force away from the soul of Jim Corrigan and began murdering people using his near omnipotent new powers. Corrigan managed to break Joker in a unique way -- by fixing him. He granted Joker access to a conscience and, quite possibly for the first time, the Clown Prince of Crime understood the depths of every wicked thing he had ever done over a lifetime of villainy and became too horrified to maintain his hold on the Spectre force.
There’s an episode of Batman: the brave and the bold, where Batman beats the joker by making him sane for a couple minutes. It’s as funny as it sounds.
You should've included the Emperor Joker episode from Batman: The Brave and The Bold. Joker gained Bat-Mite's powers and changed reality to his own twisted vision. Batman was able to convince Joker to enter his mind and bring him to a world where Batman never existed. At first, Joker likes it but Batman reminds him that without Batman he never became who he is now and is a perfectly average sane nobody. Joker is so horrified that he willing gives up his God-tier abilities so he can be him again, and returns into a weakened daze.
James, I recently discovered this second RU-vid channel to your Motorcoach World. Seeing you unload the luggage at the O'Hara brought back many memories. I started my bus driving career in 1974, driving school bus in a suburb of Minneapolis, then transit bus in St Cloud MN. Then I spent years in Southern California driving locally and cross-country on tours. My favorite of those was a yearly 6-week circuit of the USA with high school kids on a summer grand adventure camp on wheels. Finally in 2004 I got tired of people and luggage, I switched to driving big truck. Keep up the good work on this blog, and one hint: NO McCafe iced coffee! Starbucks is my first choice, but even truck stop coffee is better.....lol
I have an idea for a Joker video I'd love to see you do. "____ times Joker has regretted his actions." The problem is I'm not sure how many times it's happened. I know of 2 for sure. 1 is in the Emperor Joker story when he turns Harley into a constellation. The 2nd is an episode of Fox Kids Batman The Animated Series. The episode is titled "The Man Who Killed Batman".
@@yaboioddchip5548 Naw there was a Batman/Punisher crossover before. He's referring to the moment in that crossver when Punisher was about to kill the Joker and the Joker was terrified
If we're talking about characters who've gotten the Joker to stop laughing and look all serious, Jason Todd as the Red Hood did it in "Under the Hood" when he told Joker that he knew he was crazy, but he wasn't completely insane like everyone thought.
The one were Harley captures batman to win joker over, in the cartoon version he literally shoves her out a window. She continues to blame herself for it, and batman has to help her feel better about it and herself. All around heartbreaking honestly.
Number 1 reminds me of when Joker was scared that the Punisher was going to kill him. The realisation of having a enemy that was willing to kill you actually scared him. It was great
There's one I'd like to add to this list. The Creeper. Reporter Jack Ryder became the Creeper and was one of the few characters that could consistently scare the life out of the Joker.
The Punisher nearly killed him in a crossover. There was the Joker, on his knees with a gun pressed against his head, begging for his life, when Batman arrived, decked Castle, and told Joker to run for his life.
During the Batman vs Punisher crossover storyline, Frank had the Joker practically begging for his life. "You know I am sick right? I need help, I can get better", words to that effect as the Joker begged for his life. But from the Punisher there is no mercy, but Batman stepped in and stopped Frank from shooting him. A non canon storyline, but a goody.
Man, Mark Hamill’s delivery of “YOU’RE. NOT. BATMAN!” Still gives me goosebumps. Those moments when the Joker really loses his temper have the same potency as the rare times when Batman really laughs.
Hamill is, hands down, the one and only Joker. All others are pretenders to the throne. The one that gave me goosebumps was when Ace sent him rocketing into the abyss in JL's 'Wild Cards'. That shriek......
xaenon I definitely respect the performance of John DiMaggio in Batman: Under the Red Hood, but I agree. No one captures that “jovial one second, creepy the next” attitude, or his psychotic cackle like Mark Hamill.
