10 Terrible Mistakes That Nearly Ruined The Joker For Everyone

7. Making Him An Iranian Diplomat

Most Batman fans remember "A Death in the Family," the story where the Joker beat the second Robin, Jason Todd, to death with a crowbar. The readers were invited to vote on whether Todd should live or die, and Todd, an irritating replacement for Dick Grayson, got the thumbs down. But that was far from the craziest part of the story: the Ayatollah Khomeni also recruited the Joker as an ambassador, meaning Superman had to hold Batman back from beating up the Joker because of diplomatic immunity. This over-the-top attempt at political satire diminished everyone involved with it - the creators, Superman, Batman, the Joker, even Khomeni. What Fixed It: DC later revised the Joker's ambassadorship so that it was for the fictional nation of "Qurac," which was later destroyed, but has yet to publish a Khomeni-less version of this tale.