10 Insanely Dark Batman Moments The Movies Won't Show You

With Batman's rogues' gallery containing all the most gross and grotty villains, as well as some of the most genuinely unhinged, you have all the necessary ingredients for some well and truly dark moments in the character's comics.

While the Joker alone could provide an entire menu of depraved and disgusting storylines, he's often overplayed as the sole producer of messed up events.

There's a good chance that his popularity means that many of his worst moments would see the big screen anyways, as we've seen with the animated version of The Killing Joke. But there are still many other various vagabonds who can be held responsible for a whole chocolate assortment of disgust. Everything from the torture of children to Batman himself being made into a fleshy human door features in the weird and wonderful pages of DC's most brooding hero, and it all manages to happen while still feeling feasible within the sordid streets of Gotham. (Well, unless you count All-Star Batman and Robin, of course.)

While the Dark Knight isn't always DC's darkest hero, he certainly has cornered the market on having endless content that would never make it to the big screen...

Warren White is a Batman villain who is criminally underused, as his backstory with Arkham Asylum: Living Hell is one of the most interesting villain origins of DC's entire collective roster.

Despite this, the Great White Shark's beginnings are sure to never feature on the big screen even if the character does, as Warren's fall to villainy is anything but family-friendly.

White is sent to Arkham after pretending to be mentally disturbed to avoid a longer jail sentence, with the grifter totally unaware of the hellscape he has just trapped himself in. The asylum and its various occupants mistreat the man in every way possible, culminating in Jane Doe stealing his identity and leaving him in a freezer to die.

While Warren doesn't actually die, the harsh temperatures freeze off his various extremities, leaving White both physically and mentally traumatised. It's a brutal chain of events that really justifies why the Great White Shark is the way he is, which makes it a real shame that its gross-out factor means that those who haven't seen the comic may never know the sordid tale of the supervillain's past.