10. Rorschach Vs The Joker
This was a tough call between putting Rorschach up against the Joker or against Sin City's Marv (which would make for a really gritty, hard-fought encounter), but I've opted for the Joker. Both of them are awesome and absolutely terrifying and a conflict between the two would be epic. Rorschach is one of the heroic Watchmen who was legally fighting crime until masked crime fighters became outlawed. However, while many of the heroes retired, Rorschach continued to operate outside the law. He is a deadly combatant whose costume makes him even more frightening to his opponents. For his nightly vigilante endeavours, the expressionless anti-hero wears a mask that is completely blank except from on the front, where two viscous liquids one black and one white are placed between two layers of latex. The liquids continually shift in response to heat and pressure, forming symmetrical patterns like those of a Rorschach inkblot test, hence his name. He also wears a very cool trench coat, heavy duty boots, leather gloves and a trademark fedora hat. It's not your typical superhero outfit, but it's cool as hell and extremely intimidating for his opponents nonetheless and the fact that he is also completely human, ruthless, no-nonsense and extremely skilled just adds to his levels of awesome. Hand-to-hand he is great, but he will just as soon take a gun or a blade to his battles. Although he took a bit of a beating at the hands of Ozymandias, that doesn't take anything away from him because Ozymandias was something else when it came to fighting skills. The Joker is an incredibly dark and sinister character whose genius lies in manipulating and plotting. He leads an army of generic thugs and focuses more on causing mayhem than getting in to physical altercations with his enemies. That said, given his incredibly precise feat of impaling a man on a pencil and his ability to tank some of Batman's best shots without really flinching, it's fair to say he's a fairly skilled and very tough fighter in his own right. However, unless he was attempting to frustrate Rorschach from behind the scenes, he'd be of little threat to him in a fight.
Winner: Certainly in a straight-up fight anyway - Rorschach (though Joker could play him like the proverbial fiddle when it came to being a criminal mastermind).