10 Insanely Dark Batman Moments The Movies Won't Show You
3. Batman: A Long Slow Death
Anyone who started the Batman storyline titled 'A Long, Slow Death' and didn't expect stuff to get really dark, really fast, maybe deserves the awful surprise they have in store for them, because the events that take place within it are even worse than you'd expect.
The comic details Walt, a man Batman encounters trying to kill himself, and goes into exactly what led him to this point - namely, the fact he seems to be the single most unfortunate person in existence. While playing with his son, he accidentally drops him, paralysing the boy for life - an action that gains him the hate of the rest of his family. At work, he's attacked by crooks, because of course he is, and then kissed by his young colleague - which his wife also finds out about, leading to even more stress in this already busy schedule of absolute misery.
Just when it seems that things are about to go his way - as his son begins to regain the ability to speak, and Walt fixes his relationship with his wife - there is an earthquake, which sends all of his family bar him tumbling to their doom.
And that's... the end of the comic. Fingers crossed nobody got this one for their birthday.