10 Times Batman Was The WORST Superhero

1. Sharing A Laugh With The Joker

Seriously Batman, what the f**k? For those of you unfamiliar with it, The Killing Joke is one of the most disturbing Batman stories of all-time and features The Clown Prince of Crime shooting and crippling Barbara Gordon, only to then strip her naked and take photos of her which he uses to try and mentally break her father Jim Gordon.

That makes the fact that Batman shares a laugh with The Joker at the end of the story all sorts of messed up and is just wrong. Yes, there are a plethora of fascinating theories as to why the hero and villain end this story laughing, but the fact is that instead of giving his arch-nemesis a well deserved beating, Batman stands in the rain laughing wildly at one of his jokes.

While his decision to offer The Joker help is pretty heroic, enough has happened between these two by this point that that shouldn't even be an option; it's just a very, very odd decision. Regardless, the fact that he spent these final moments before the police arrived laughing instead of using his fists on the unremorseful Joker really doesn't put Batman in a particularly good light as a so-called hero!

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