10 Most Messed Up Moments In DC Comics
4. The Killing Joke
The Killing Joke is maybe the single most infamous messed up moment in comics. Everything - from the awful assault of Barbara Gordon, to the nightmarish fun-house ride her father goes on - is drenched in horror of the highest degree.
The format for creating this type of messed up comic plot would be repeated again and again over time – the most famous of these being the events surrounding Sue Dibny in the equally messed up Identity Crisis storyline.
However, none of these quite have the impact of The Killing Joke, as there’s something about the untamed wildness of the events that make it so much worse intense than any similar storyline.