10 Comics Villains Humiliated By The Joker

10. Maxie Zeus

Taking on the Joker as another villain is an arduous task. If you're used to taking on someone from the Batman Family, who fights with logic and reason (despite being dressed in spandex), you're going to have a hell of a time wrapping your head around how to slug it out with Joker.

Maxie Zeus should have heeded this lesson.

At a time when the two villains were fighting for leadership of the criminal underground in Gotham, an attempt by Zeus to talk Joker into surrendering goes horribly off the rails.

Zeus, who is selling a drug that is a combination of Joker Venom and ecstasy, tells Joker if he doesn't give up their quarrel and let him take over, he'll 'crush him like a bug.'

In return, the Joker, who not only doesn't appreciate the threat but is upset that Maxie has co-opted his Joker Venom to make his own designer drug, attacks not Maxie, but his nephew.

By blowing up the kid and his entire school.

Killing kids is nothing new for the Joker (see Jason Todd) but even for him this seems a bit of overkill. It did, however, force Maxie to surrender, which is all Joker wanted in the first place.