10 Movie Heroes Completely Outmatched By The Villain

10. Batman Vs. The Joker - The Dark Knight

Out of Batman's impressive and unparalleled rogues gallery, the Joker is his greatest rival. A relationship unlike any other in comic-book history, pitting Batsy against the Joker on the big screen just makes sense, no matter which actor is behind the cowl.

When Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne took on Heath Ledger’s Joker in 2008, the fight was an uneven one in the physical sense. He could throw around the Joker all day long, and the Joker knew it.

The real fight between these two was a psychological one, and quite simply one that Batman could never win. It took Bruce an entire third movie just to clean up the mess caused in this one!

The Joker set up the game by his own rules, trying to goad the Dark Knight into breaking his rules. He may have found a loophole when he ‘didn’t save’ Ra’s al Ghul in Batman Begins, but he would never kill the Joker, at least in this reality. And in a sense, this meant that Batman was doomed to lose.

He could win the punchy-punchy bits certainly, but his conscience and morality prevented him from taking that extra step he needed to truly end the Joker's reign of terror.