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* After Superman [[spoiler:is nearly killed by the Soviet nuke, his body deteriorates and rots in midair with his mouth forming a scream of anguish]].
* How about [[spoiler:the Joker killing a talk show host, his other guests, and the entire audience. The image of their corpses and how Miller did the already-creepy Joker Toxin effects will probably give somebody nightmares]].
** The guy who [[spoiler:scratches his fingernails off trying to get out of the room... and fails]].
* There's that scene, and then there's the sight of [[spoiler:the Joker and his henchman handing out cotton candy to Cub Scouts at a fair]]. Later, as Batman and Robin are Bat-glidering into the fair, we see from their perspective [[spoiler:the same Scouts, all dead from the poison in the candy and sprawled around like an image out of Jonestown. The Joker's lines under AxCrazy on the main page are taken from this scene, for added horror]].
* The fight between Abner and Robin ends with Abner [[spoiler:choking Robin from a roller coaster car in motion. However, he isn't paying attention to his surroundings and is decapitated by a low overhang. The book makes it clear Robin is clearly traumatized by the experience.]] The movie [[spoiler:is even worse in which Robin is more directly responsible, knocking Abner into the coaster's gears where his shirt gets caught and his head is crushed. The GoryDiscretionShot is nullified by the horrific sounds of grinding and splatter as he dies]].
* Joker's [[spoiler:face as he dies]].
* Joker [[spoiler: KEEPS this face even as a smouldering skeleton]].
-->'''Batman (inner monologue):''' ''Stop laughing''.
* The flying robot kid things. "Eeugh yourself, bitch."
* Gordon invokes this in his internal commentary about [[spoiler:seeing the Mutant leader kill the mayor]].
-->I hear a nervous giggle and an animal growl. I hear handcuff links snap. I see something I'll take to my ''grave''.
* The film goes more into depth around the Joker's rampage in the Tunnel of Love, following him as he shoots ''everyone'' he comes across, playfully exclaiming "Excuse me! Pardon me! Sorry about that! My bad" and the like. The casual glee he gets in just shooting as many people as possible (especially in the wake of the Aurora shooting and the Sandy Hook massacre) is very, ''very'' disturbing.
* Joker's television massacre was nasty enough in the comic but the movie goes great detail of the audience panicking and nastier joker-smiles. Plus Joker kills his doctor not with one of the dolls snapping his neck but by slitting his throat with a broken mug.

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* After Superman [[spoiler:is nearly killed by the Soviet nuke, his body deteriorates and rots in midair with his mouth forming a scream of anguish]].
* How about [[spoiler:the Joker killing a talk show host, his other guests, and the entire audience. The image of their corpses and how Miller did the already-creepy Joker Toxin effects will probably give somebody nightmares]].
** The guy who [[spoiler:scratches his fingernails off trying to get out of the room... and fails]].
* There's that scene, and then there's the sight of [[spoiler:the Joker and his henchman handing out cotton candy to Cub Scouts at a fair]]. Later, as Batman and Robin are Bat-glidering into the fair, we see from their perspective [[spoiler:the same Scouts, all dead from the poison in the candy and sprawled around like an image out of Jonestown. The Joker's lines under AxCrazy on the main page are taken from this scene, for added horror]].
* The fight between Abner and Robin ends with Abner [[spoiler:choking Robin from a roller coaster car in motion. However, he isn't paying attention to his surroundings and is decapitated by a low overhang. The book makes it clear Robin is clearly traumatized by the experience.]] The movie [[spoiler:is even worse in which Robin is more directly responsible, knocking Abner into the coaster's gears where his shirt gets caught and his head is crushed. The GoryDiscretionShot is nullified by the horrific sounds of grinding and splatter as he dies]].
* Joker's [[spoiler:face as he dies]].
* Joker [[spoiler: KEEPS this face even as a smouldering skeleton]].
-->'''Batman (inner monologue):''' ''Stop laughing''.
* The flying robot kid things. "Eeugh yourself, bitch."
* Gordon invokes this in his internal commentary about [[spoiler:seeing the Mutant leader kill the mayor]].
-->I hear a nervous giggle and an animal growl. I hear handcuff links snap. I see something I'll take to my ''grave''.
* The film goes more into depth around the Joker's rampage in the Tunnel of Love, following him as he shoots ''everyone'' he comes across, playfully exclaiming "Excuse me! Pardon me! Sorry about that! My bad" and the like. The casual glee he gets in just shooting as many people as possible (especially in the wake of the Aurora shooting and the Sandy Hook massacre) is very, ''very'' disturbing.
* Joker's television massacre was nasty enough in the comic but the movie goes great detail of the audience panicking and nastier joker-smiles. Plus Joker kills his doctor not with one of the dolls snapping his neck but by slitting his throat with a broken mug.
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* After Superman [[spoiler:is nearly killed by the Soviet nuke, his body deteriorates and rots in midair with his mouth forming a scream of anguish.]]
* How about [[spoiler:the Joker killing a talk show host, his other guests, and the entire audience. The image of their corpses and how Miller did the already-creepy Joker Toxin effects will probably give somebody nightmares.]]
** The guy who [[spoiler:scratches his fingernails off trying to get out of the room. And fails.]]

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* After Superman [[spoiler:is nearly killed by the Soviet nuke, his body deteriorates and rots in midair with his mouth forming a scream of anguish.]]
anguish]].
* How about [[spoiler:the Joker killing a talk show host, his other guests, and the entire audience. The image of their corpses and how Miller did the already-creepy Joker Toxin effects will probably give somebody nightmares.]]
nightmares]].
** The guy who [[spoiler:scratches his fingernails off trying to get out of the room. And fails.]]room... and fails]].



* The fight between Abner and Robin ends with Abner [[spoiler: choking Robin from a roller coaster car in motion. However, he isn't paying attention to his surroundings and is decapitated by a low overhang. The book makes it clear Robin is clearly traumatized by the experience.]] The movie [[spoiler:is even worse in which Robin is more directly responsible, knocking Abner into the coaster's gears where his shirt gets caught and his head is crushed. The GoryDiscretionShot is nullified by the horrific sounds of grinding and splatter as he dies.]]
* Joker's [[spoiler:face as he dies.]]
* Joker [[spoiler: KEEPS this face even as a smouldering skeleton.]]
-->'''Batman (inner monologue):''' ''Stop laughing''.

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* The fight between Abner and Robin ends with Abner [[spoiler: choking [[spoiler:choking Robin from a roller coaster car in motion. However, he isn't paying attention to his surroundings and is decapitated by a low overhang. The book makes it clear Robin is clearly traumatized by the experience.]] The movie [[spoiler:is even worse in which Robin is more directly responsible, knocking Abner into the coaster's gears where his shirt gets caught and his head is crushed. The GoryDiscretionShot is nullified by the horrific sounds of grinding and splatter as he dies.]]
dies]].
* Joker's [[spoiler:face as he dies.]]
dies]].
* Joker [[spoiler: KEEPS this face even as a smouldering skeleton.]]
skeleton]].
-->'''Batman (inner monologue):''' ''Stop laughing''.



-->I hear a nervous giggle and an animal growl. I hear handcuff links snap. I see something I'll take to my ''grave''

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-->I hear a nervous giggle and an animal growl. I hear handcuff links snap. I see something I'll take to my ''grave''''grave''.
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* Joker's television massacre was nasty enough in the comic but the movie goes great detail of the audience panicking and nastier joker-smiles. Plus Joker kills his doctor not with one of the dolls snapping his neck but by slitting his throat with broken glass.

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* Joker's television massacre was nasty enough in the comic but the movie goes great detail of the audience panicking and nastier joker-smiles. Plus Joker kills his doctor not with one of the dolls snapping his neck but by slitting his throat with a broken glass.mug.
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* The film goes more into depth around the Joker's rampage in the Tunnel of Love, following him as he shoots ''everyone'' he comes across, playfully exclaiming "Excuse me! Pardon me! Sorry about that! My bad" and the like. The casual glee he gets in just shooting as many people as possible (especially in the wake of the Aurora shooting and the Sandy Hook massacre) is very, ''very'' disturbing.

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* The film goes more into depth around the Joker's rampage in the Tunnel of Love, following him as he shoots ''everyone'' he comes across, playfully exclaiming "Excuse me! Pardon me! Sorry about that! My bad" and the like. The casual glee he gets in just shooting as many people as possible (especially in the wake of the Aurora shooting and the Sandy Hook massacre) is very, ''very'' disturbing.disturbing.
* Joker's television massacre was nasty enough in the comic but the movie goes great detail of the audience panicking and nastier joker-smiles. Plus Joker kills his doctor not with one of the dolls snapping his neck but by slitting his throat with broken glass.
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** The guy who [[spoiler:scratches his fingernails off trying to get out of the room. And fails.]]
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-->I hear a nervous giggle and an animal growl. I hear handcuff links snap. I see something I'll take to my ''grave''

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-->I hear a nervous giggle and an animal growl. I hear handcuff links snap. I see something I'll take to my ''grave''''grave''
* The film goes more into depth around the Joker's rampage in the Tunnel of Love, following him as he shoots ''everyone'' he comes across, playfully exclaiming "Excuse me! Pardon me! Sorry about that! My bad" and the like. The casual glee he gets in just shooting as many people as possible (especially in the wake of the Aurora shooting and the Sandy Hook massacre) is very, ''very'' disturbing.
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* The fight between Abner and Robin ends with Abner [[spoiler: choking Robin from a roller coaster car in motion. However, he isn't paying attention to his surroundings and is decapitated by a low overhang. The book makes it clear Robin is clearly traumatized by the experience.]] The movie [[spoiler:is even worse in which Robin is more directly responsible, knocking Abner into the coaster's gears where his shirt gets caught and his head is crushed. The GoryDiscretionShot is nullified by the horrific sounds of grinding and splatter as he dies.]]
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-->'''Batman (inner monologue):''' ''Stop laughing''.
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* After Superman [[spoiler:is nearly killed by the Soviet nuke, his body deteriorates and rots in midair with his mouth forming a scream of anguish.]]
* How about [[spoiler:the Joker killing a talk show host, his other guests, and the entire audience. The image of their corpses and how Miller did the already-creepy Joker Toxin effects will probably give somebody nightmares.]]
* There's that scene, and then there's the sight of [[spoiler:the Joker and his henchman handing out cotton candy to Cub Scouts at a fair]]. Later, as Batman and Robin are Bat-glidering into the fair, we see from their perspective [[spoiler:the same Scouts, all dead from the poison in the candy and sprawled around like an image out of Jonestown. The Joker's lines under AxCrazy on the main page are taken from this scene, for added horror]].
* Joker's [[spoiler:face as he dies.]]
* Joker [[spoiler: KEEPS this face even as a smouldering skeleton.]]
* The flying robot kid things. "Eeugh yourself, bitch."
* Gordon invokes this in his internal commentary about [[spoiler:seeing the Mutant leader kill the mayor]].
-->I hear a nervous giggle and an animal growl. I hear handcuff links snap. I see something I'll take to my ''grave''

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