3. "Killing" Batman And Dumping His Body In A River (Going Sane)
The Going Sane arc looked in to what would happen if the Joker thought that he actually killed Batman - and the results were rather amazing. After a fight between the pair, Batman's body is thrown from a house that was rigged with explosives and the Joker - believing that he had finally done the impossible and killed his arch-foe - crudely dumped his body in a river. A terrible deed, we're sure. However, no longing needing to be the Joker, he began to turn sane. He got plastic surgery to look normal, got a job and fell in love. Of course, it was all in vain, as Batman washed up alive on the riverside and was nursed back to health by locals in a quiet town, but the fact Joker would so nonchalantly dispose of someone so obviously important to him - albeit it in an extremely twisted way - was pretty damn shocking.
