10 Times Joker Was Actually The Real Hero

10. A Pillar Of The Community – Superman: Distant Fires

The ‘90s was a strange decade for Superman. While this period of the Man of Steel’s history is famously remembered for the high-quality mullet that Kal-El adorned throughout much of the decade – well, and the small matter of his death and subsequent resurrection – one Super-story that many may have forgotten about is 1998’s Distant Fires.

Now, this may well have been a Superman tale, but one person featured predominantly in the arc is The Joker. After a nuclear war renders many superheroes either dead or powerless, one other side effect of all of this is that The Joker regains his sanity.

As the majority of survivors make their way to a city called Champion, it’s there that we see the Clown Prince of Crime turn over a new leaf and start to create plans on how to maintain and protect the city from a bunch of mutants and, eventually, a deranged Billy Batson.

Joker, pillar of the community; who’d have ever believed it? And to think, all it took to achieve this was literal Armageddon.