10 Movie Villains With Insanely Ironic Deaths

10. The Joker - Batman (1989)

Tim Burton’s Batman climaxes on top of the Old Gotham Cathedral in the Bell Tower where Jack Nicholson’s version of The Joker met his match after an epic fight with Michael Keaton’s Batman.

After being knocked off the balcony he reaches up and pulls Batman and Vicki Vale down, who then hold on to the ledge for dear life.

He taunts them and pretends to reach out a hand to Vicki to pull her up, which then detaches itself in the classic ‘lend you a hand’ prank. Finding himself hilarious, he utters the iconic farewell line "Sometimes I just kill myself!"

At this point his rescue helicopter arrives and he grabs on to the rope ladder to make his escape just as Batman anchors him to a gargoyle with his harpoon gun, eventually forcing him to let go and plunge to his death due to the weight of the statue, ironically actually ‘killing himself’.