10 Sickest "Jokes" The Joker Ever Pulled

10. Zombified Alfred - Joker War

Perhaps his most ambitious plot so far, this - in James Tynion IV's Joker War (recently wrapped up in Batman #100) - the Joker not only steals all of Bruce Wayne's billions but then uses it to reanimate the dead. Using his latest chemical concoction to control corpses from afar - like ghastly stinking meat puppets - Joker sends an army of the dead after a beaten, fatigued Batman.

With trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth now among Gotham's dead (thanks Bane), Joker takes much glee in using Alfred's reanimated corpse off to torment his enemy. Naturally, Batman rises to the occasion and beats the ever-laughing paste out of the Clown Prince of Crime, leaving him to die (!) in an explosion and re-burying poor Pennyworth.

But the damage is done - neither Batman nor the book's readers are likely to forget Zombie Alfred in a hurry, taunting his one-time Master Bruce through a broken neck and mind control.