History NightmareFuel / TheJokerBlogs

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowR5vL6oPM Episode 3: "Meet Steve"]] can count, what with [[spoiler: Joker slamming down a dead body in front of the camera]] while addressing [[spoiler: Dr. Quinzel (and more so, [[BreakingTheFourthWall US]])]] about mortality.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ve-iyV5zns Episode 4: "A Dream Come True"]]has the Joker [[spoiler: discussing his dream about shooting and gutting a bear---at the Gotham Zoo, no less---only to find that it's a guy in a bear costume, and he's actually at a theme park....and he keeps gutting the bear, which he then takes back to the lodge and skins, like a bear rug for the fireplace]]. And then we find out that [[spoiler: DA Fields was left on the asylum director's desk, skinned "like a bear rug"]].....
* Joker's rant about individuality and standing out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wXlnmtyfM Episode 8: "BRB"]] can be creepy enough, but nobody beats [[spoiler: learning that Henry "with the fork in the throat" did have it and him shooting the guy with the camera]].
** The bit where he [[spoiler: flips over the table]] also [[JumpScare counts]]; when I first saw this episode, I thought [[spoiler: he was going to [[CameraAbuse attack the cameraman]] or something]].....[[spoiler: though he saves that for the end of the episode]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D69LLG0CGck Episode 10: "Car Trouble]]: The Joker has been [[ParanoiaFuel hiding in the back of Jeremiah Arkham's car]] for an indeterminate amount of time since [[spoiler: his escape in Episode 8]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA42w33MNF0 Episode 12: "Dinner with the Arkhams"]] is a string of TearJerker and NightmareFuel all in its own, that [[spoiler: leaving Mrs. Arkham with a bomb set off to midnight (which later critically wounds her despite Dr. Arkham's desperate grovelling) is just the icing on the blood-spattered wedding cake.]]

** The follow-up, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZlANHUN1g "Dragging Dr. Arkham"]], only shows [[spoiler: Jeremiah Arkham being dragged away from his house, gagged and screaming, before the Joker throws him in the trunk of the car]]... and it's still creepy.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmTxaDvsrXQ Episode 13: "Road Trip"]]: The Joker [[spoiler: whacking Pearl across the head with the clipboard and almost making her crash the car, because "nurses should be seen, but NEVER heard"]]; he then threatens to [[spoiler: cut her eyes out if she speaks up again.]]

-->'''Joker''': No one's coming to save you
* Joker [[spoiler: killing Gary Kopski in the self-evident [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIMijxwIGzI Episode 14: "Killing Kopski]], by framing everything to look like a suicide]] can chill one's bones, especially [[spoiler: the last few seconds of the episode, where the camera is filming Garret's [[ElectrifiedBathtub death-by-electrocution]]]]. Knowing that it's actually possible [[ParanoiaFuel for someone to break in without notice]], and that all these things were done [[spoiler: [[MadLove just to prevent Harleen's wedding from taking place]]]] just shows us how far the Joker [[TheUnfettered is willing to go to make a point.]] Even the most mundane one:

** Seriously, [[spoiler: the electrocution of Garret]] is tough to watch. [[spoiler: Those final, flickering shots of Garrett screaming his last]]...

* The climax of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtM-QyPTcTw Episode 17: Shotgun Wedding]] where Joker's killing spree [[spoiler: not only counts numerous police in casualty, but also the presiding Priest and Guy Kopski, Harleen's would-have-been husband]]. And to top it all, Franchise/{{Batman}}'s appearance did not relieve anyone who have watched at this point, since [[YouAreTooLate the casualties have already raked on for 17 episodes]].

** [[spoiler: Though Batman ends up surviving, he mentions how he's going to carve his dead body now that he has nothing left to lose.]]
* The fact that everyone Joker has interacted with, which includes [[spoiler: Harleen, Dr. Arkham, Dr. Strange, Ted the Bum, Lyle Bolton, the Bookworm and others]] have their lives utterly damaged and or have driven them into a state of inertia or obsession definitely counts. No one seems to have mastered the art of HannibalLecture better. It's not without reason that the Joker mentions to Harleen at the beginning: ''I'm warning you: I get to people.''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y7mTHAgGQA "Further Evidence 1: He Can't Because He's Dead"]] gives us the details on [[spoiler: Steve's murder from Episode 3]], and puts the title of the episode into [[NightmareFuel a much more]] [[FridgeHorror chilling light]].
* Even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ38LN_xfVo&feature=relmfu the trailer for Series 2]] is enough to be [[NightmareFuel unsettling]]; we see Harleen Quinzell, [[spoiler: still wearing her wedding dress from Episode 17]], sitting by herself in a room containing various important props from the series as [[SoundtrackDissonance the Bee Gees' "I Started a Joke" plays in the background]] (the song itself almost qualifies as HONF as the trailer continues). Right at the end, she slowly begins to smile...and then we cut to the Joker in a straitjacket as the [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises "This Fire Rises" chant]] echoes in the background.....
* FE #2 has Dr. Arkham telling his [[spoiler: comatose]] wife about his uncle taking him to the asylum on "Take Your Child To Work Day" (who thinks that's a good idea at Arkham Asylum?) and witnessed an inmate killing a bunch of people and then Jerry having to trick him into killing himself ("You go first ... I'm scared.") Steven Moloney does such a good job you will [[TearJerker sob]] and be horrified at the same time. [[spoiler: And then it ends with Scarecrow gassing a nurse with fear toxin, and then Jeremiah threatening Jim Gordon's wife through the camera, confirming what the trailer hinted at: Arkham is working with him and has completely lost it.]]
* Harleen in the second to last episode, during the news reel. When we last see her [[spoiler: her hair is dyed blonde and she's wearing much brighter lipstick then usual. Half-smirking, her voice higher then usual, she tells the interviewer she can still help the Joker and will continue to see him. It's chilling, seeing Harley beginning to take over.]] It's subtle but... eurgh. That's how surprisingly good the actress was. She doesn't need to be over-the-top to chill you.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DY_rC49WNU&feature=g-all&context=G2d7e857FAAAAAAAADAA FE #3 itself]] has a [[TheFaceless masked, hooded entity]] that [[spoiler: kills one of the Falcones]] right at the end; [[spoiler: the PreMortemOneLiner confirms that it's the Phantasm.]]
--->[[spoiler: "Your angel of death awaits."]]
** Bonus points for the song they play leading up to the end: [[spoiler: Don't Fear the Reaper]]

** Not to mention [[spoiler: Scarecrow [[JumpScare sneaking up on Harleen]] and gassing her during Dr. Arkham's announcement.]]

--->'''Joker''': Then I'll huff.. ''[bang]'' and I'll puff.. ''[bang]'' AND I'LL BLOW YOUR.. ''[bang; [[spoiler: we hear the sound of gushing blood]]]''

*** And prior to this, [[spoiler: Pearl was the only person to be on the receiving end of one of Joker's scar speeches, start to finish, and survive. And the look in Pearl's eyes as Jeremiah has the gun to her head shows she's fully aware she used up the last of her luck on the Joker.]]

*** The gory surgery scene for Mrs. Arkham is bad enough, but at the end of the scene, [[spoiler: Dr. Elliot tells Arkham that they need pressure on the left ventricle. Before anything else can happen though, a gun is suddenly placed onto Mrs. Arkham's new heart and the camera pans up to reveal the gun's owner as none other than the Joker. The episode then ends with a creepy hello from the clown, a bang, and a flatline.]]

** The ending is equally terrifying. "Of course, you realize… this means war!" Also a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the Joker.

*** [[spoiler:He chooses that locker to hide in presumably because it's left open. As soon as he closes it behind him, you can see that the front was ''already marked with a smiley face''. [[MagnificentBastard It boggles the mind.]]]]