10 Best Joker Movie Moments

7. Hospital (The Dark Knight)

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If there's one job that the Joker should not apply for, it's that of a doctor. Saving lives isn't his forte - he's more about ruining them. This in mind, the hospital scene from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight possesses a coating of beautiful irony.

The Joker, ginger wig and all, manages to infiltrate the hospital room housing District Attorney Harvey Dent - now Two-Face. After messing with Harvey's mind and setting him on that murderous rampage, the Joker gleefully whips out a detonator, like a child on Christmas morning, and proceeds to blow the hospital to ash.

This is a scene that, like the rooftop rescue in Suicide Squad, manages to do a lot with a single costume. The Joker is making a mockery of law, order and safety - everything that the people who usually wear this clothing stand for. He is a true agent of chaos.

The scene is capped off brilliantly with Ledger frantically pressing buttons on the detonator, in a supposedly unscripted moment when the explosions failed to go off. It's comedy gold, and he's literally killing poeple.

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