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the darkest most disturbing moments from
the history of DC Comics
don’t let the bright colors fool you
life in the DC Universe can be pretty
rough number 10 the Joker wears his own
severed face you don’t get to be the
Clown Prince of Crime by being stable
and well-adjusted but this shocking new
look is extreme even for mr. J after
being captured by Batman and sent to
Arkham for the millionth time the Joker
had a villain known as the dollmaker
remove his face after escaping and
vanishing for a year the arch villain
re-emerged stealing his preserved face
from the Gotham police department and
cruelly reattaching it giving him a
horrifying and grisly new look to
reflect his new more aggressive and
bloodthirsty style and trust us when we
say that the Joker deciding he’s been
too soft is almost scarier than his new
look number 9
Superman and big Barda almost make a
porno with a few exceptions the denizens
of apocalypse are a nasty bunch and too
aptly named sleaze is bad even by their
standards reveling in depravity he
eventually got to be too disturbing even
for Darkseid who exiled him to earth
there he managed to trap and brainwash
Superman in big Barda and nearly
succeeded in forcing them to make a sex
tape he could sell on the black market
thankfully big barda’s husband mr.
miracle intervened and stopped sleaze
before it was all too late
putting aside the extremely clumsy way
the story handles sexual assault and
other topics this is one dark and
messed-up Story number 8 Hal Jordan and
IRISA Hal Jordan one of Earth’s many
Green Lantern’s is known for being a bit
of a playboy and one relationship in
particular is rather infamous initially
appearing as House teenage sidekick the
young alien named arisia developed a
crush on the older hero as they shared
adventure and excitement as members of
the Green Lantern Corps
but when IRISA revealed her feelings how
turned her down because of her age
Arista then subconsciously used her
power ring to cause her body to age
eventually leading to her and how
becoming a couple
in spite of the fact that she was still
underage come on DC that’s just weird
number seven
Nightwing is sexually assaulted the
subject of male a sexual assault is one
that very very few pieces of media have
tried to address in any way and those
attempts that have been made haven’t
tackled the issue very well take for
example the time that Nightwing the
former Robin was sexually assaulted by
the vigilante tarantula after Nightwing
suffered a nervous breakdown and entered
a near catatonic state tarantula forced
herself on him the details are left to
the imagination thankfully in theory
this scene could have been used to
address the issue but instead the scene
is mostly played for shock value and has
rarely been brought up since number 6
Rorschach murders the child killer
Allen more seminal graphic novel isn’t
short on dark and disturbing moments
like the infamous scene where so-called
superhero the comedian sexually assaults
the original Silk Spectre but even more
graphic is the flashback scene in which
the vigilante Rorschach recounts his
brutal murder of a child killer an event
which ultimately turned him into a more
merciless vigilante while investigating
the young girl’s disappearance Rorschach
discovers that the man had fed her to
his dogs Rorschach proceeds to kill the
dogs and burn the house down but not
before chaining the man to a stove and
leaving a hacksaw for him to sever his
own hand off to free himself number 5
the death of aqua baby most of the time
the death of infants and young children
is off limits being considered too
shocking and taboo for all but the
darkest storylines but that didn’t stop
DC writers from giving Aquaman’s infant
son Arthur jr. the ax in a story that
forever changed the aquatic hero after
being kidnapped by Aquaman’s archenemy
Black Manta
or baby Arthur was killed by his fixie
ation drowning on dry land where his
Atlantean biology left him vulnerable
this tragic event destroyed the marriage
of Aquaman and his wife Mara and set the
hero down a darker path even today few
stories have dared to go this dark again
when it comes to children number 4 the
assault of Tsui Divini the identity
crisis storyline a DC miniseries written
by political thriller novelist Brad
Meltzer saw the Justice League face one
of their darkest periods ever when it
was revealed that several members had
secretly used magic to erase the
memories of several
one of these was the villain dr. light
following an incident in which he
sexually assaulted sue Divini the wife
of Justice League member the elongated
man
it’s a notoriously dark storyline full
of twists and turns that shaped the DC
Universe four years after sending the
once shining and optimistic heroes of
the DC Universe into new and often
depressing territory number three Jason
Todd’s death still one of the darkest
chapters in Batman’s history this tragic
storyline is made even darker when you
learn the story behind it after being
brutally beaten by the Joker and left to
die the fate of Jason Todd the second
Robin was left up to readers to decide
with the Boy Wonder perish or live to
fight another day fans could vote via a
telephone hotline and the votes to end
Todd’s life narrowly won out this
massive loss would become one of the
cornerstones of Batman saga even when
Todd inevitably rose from the grave
years later
this one’s on you comic book readers
number 2 The Killing Joke
and speaking of heinous acts committed
by the Joker who could forget his
infamous acts in The Killing Joke the
landmark story in which the sadistic
villain shot paralyzed and assaulted
Barbara Gordon appearing seemingly out
of nowhere at her home
Joker shot Batgirl in an act that would
leave her paralyzed he then proceeded to
strip her naked and photograph her Alda
proved to her father that anyone can be
driven mad by one bad day the storylines
use of sexual assault has been rightly
criticized in the decades that followed
and it remains an infamous storyline
among not just the Batman mythos but the
DC universe at large number one the
fridging of Alexandra DeWitt being the
significant other of a superhero tends
to be pretty hazardous as this list
itself has demonstrated but it wasn’t
until this incident that the phenomenon
of female characters and comics getting
killed off took on a new name after
Green Lantern Kyle Rayner his girlfriend
Alexandra was killed dismembered and
stuffed in a fridge writer Gail Simone
began a running list of female
characters who met similar fates these
women who were killed not as a logical
conclusion to their own story but as a
component of their male counterparts
story became known as women in fridges a
trope that unfortunately continues to
this very day
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fun
welcome to watchmojo.com to down our
picks for the top 10 most disturbing
moments in DC Comics before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at
the darkest most disturbing moments from
the history of DC Comics
don’t let the bright colors fool you
life in the DC Universe can be pretty
rough number 10 the Joker wears his own
severed face you don’t get to be the
Clown Prince of Crime by being stable
and well-adjusted but this shocking new
look is extreme even for mr. J after
being captured by Batman and sent to
Arkham for the millionth time the Joker
had a villain known as the dollmaker
remove his face after escaping and
vanishing for a year the arch villain
re-emerged stealing his preserved face
from the Gotham police department and
cruelly reattaching it giving him a
horrifying and grisly new look to
reflect his new more aggressive and
bloodthirsty style and trust us when we
say that the Joker deciding he’s been
too soft is almost scarier than his new
look number 9
Superman and big Barda almost make a
porno with a few exceptions the denizens
of apocalypse are a nasty bunch and too
aptly named sleaze is bad even by their
standards reveling in depravity he
eventually got to be too disturbing even
for Darkseid who exiled him to earth
there he managed to trap and brainwash
Superman in big Barda and nearly
succeeded in forcing them to make a sex
tape he could sell on the black market
thankfully big barda’s husband mr.
miracle intervened and stopped sleaze
before it was all too late
putting aside the extremely clumsy way
the story handles sexual assault and
other topics this is one dark and
messed-up Story number 8 Hal Jordan and
IRISA Hal Jordan one of Earth’s many
Green Lantern’s is known for being a bit
of a playboy and one relationship in
particular is rather infamous initially
appearing as House teenage sidekick the
young alien named arisia developed a
crush on the older hero as they shared
adventure and excitement as members of
the Green Lantern Corps
but when IRISA revealed her feelings how
turned her down because of her age
Arista then subconsciously used her
power ring to cause her body to age
eventually leading to her and how
becoming a couple
in spite of the fact that she was still
underage come on DC that’s just weird
number seven
Nightwing is sexually assaulted the
subject of male a sexual assault is one
that very very few pieces of media have
tried to address in any way and those
attempts that have been made haven’t
tackled the issue very well take for
example the time that Nightwing the
former Robin was sexually assaulted by
the vigilante tarantula after Nightwing
suffered a nervous breakdown and entered
a near catatonic state tarantula forced
herself on him the details are left to
the imagination thankfully in theory
this scene could have been used to
address the issue but instead the scene
is mostly played for shock value and has
rarely been brought up since number 6
Rorschach murders the child killer
Allen more seminal graphic novel isn’t
short on dark and disturbing moments
like the infamous scene where so-called
superhero the comedian sexually assaults
the original Silk Spectre but even more
graphic is the flashback scene in which
the vigilante Rorschach recounts his
brutal murder of a child killer an event
which ultimately turned him into a more
merciless vigilante while investigating
the young girl’s disappearance Rorschach
discovers that the man had fed her to
his dogs Rorschach proceeds to kill the
dogs and burn the house down but not
before chaining the man to a stove and
leaving a hacksaw for him to sever his
own hand off to free himself number 5
the death of aqua baby most of the time
the death of infants and young children
is off limits being considered too
shocking and taboo for all but the
darkest storylines but that didn’t stop
DC writers from giving Aquaman’s infant
son Arthur jr. the ax in a story that
forever changed the aquatic hero after
being kidnapped by Aquaman’s archenemy
Black Manta
or baby Arthur was killed by his fixie
ation drowning on dry land where his
Atlantean biology left him vulnerable
this tragic event destroyed the marriage
of Aquaman and his wife Mara and set the
hero down a darker path even today few
stories have dared to go this dark again
when it comes to children number 4 the
assault of Tsui Divini the identity
crisis storyline a DC miniseries written
by political thriller novelist Brad
Meltzer saw the Justice League face one
of their darkest periods ever when it
was revealed that several members had
secretly used magic to erase the
memories of several
one of these was the villain dr. light
following an incident in which he
sexually assaulted sue Divini the wife
of Justice League member the elongated
man
it’s a notoriously dark storyline full
of twists and turns that shaped the DC
Universe four years after sending the
once shining and optimistic heroes of
the DC Universe into new and often
depressing territory number three Jason
Todd’s death still one of the darkest
chapters in Batman’s history this tragic
storyline is made even darker when you
learn the story behind it after being
brutally beaten by the Joker and left to
die the fate of Jason Todd the second
Robin was left up to readers to decide
with the Boy Wonder perish or live to
fight another day fans could vote via a
telephone hotline and the votes to end
Todd’s life narrowly won out this
massive loss would become one of the
cornerstones of Batman saga even when
Todd inevitably rose from the grave
years later
this one’s on you comic book readers
number 2 The Killing Joke
and speaking of heinous acts committed
by the Joker who could forget his
infamous acts in The Killing Joke the
landmark story in which the sadistic
villain shot paralyzed and assaulted
Barbara Gordon appearing seemingly out
of nowhere at her home
Joker shot Batgirl in an act that would
leave her paralyzed he then proceeded to
strip her naked and photograph her Alda
proved to her father that anyone can be
driven mad by one bad day the storylines
use of sexual assault has been rightly
criticized in the decades that followed
and it remains an infamous storyline
among not just the Batman mythos but the
DC universe at large number one the
fridging of Alexandra DeWitt being the
significant other of a superhero tends
to be pretty hazardous as this list
itself has demonstrated but it wasn’t
until this incident that the phenomenon
of female characters and comics getting
killed off took on a new name after
Green Lantern Kyle Rayner his girlfriend
Alexandra was killed dismembered and
stuffed in a fridge writer Gail Simone
began a running list of female
characters who met similar fates these
women who were killed not as a logical
conclusion to their own story but as a
component of their male counterparts
story became known as women in fridges a
trope that unfortunately continues to
this very day
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to be notified about our latest videos
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