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• Complete Monster: Joker, probably more so than any other incarnation (yes, even The Dark Knight). He still has a sense of humour, but mostly his motivation can be summed up as "hate and sadism", and his humor is more black and angry than mirthful.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Joker cutting Two-Face's wrist open with pieces of shrapnel already stuck in his fingers. Talk about Crazy-Prepared.
  • Oh, and Harley Quinn's part in the same scene - ambushing Two-Face and his thugs by disguising herself as a gorilla.
  • Batman, with only three words, shows that he can torment the Joker just as much as the Joker torments him.
  Joker: (after Batman arrives) "Obvious... and everybody knows. You wear your shame like a badge. Because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on. Yes... just look at you... desperate to be feared, you want to be perceived as a monster, draped in black. And yet... you leave that little window... a glimpse at the perfection underneath. Obvious - the chiseled good looks - not the jaw, the mouth of a monster... why do you let it be seen? Tell me why."
  Batman: "To mock you."
  • "There's no cure for you. No cure. Just a Batman."
• Older than You Think: Most people would assume that Jokers appearance in this story is inspired by the Heath Ledger Joker in The Dark Knight, but this Joker was actually designed long before the first images of Ledger in makeup went public. The similarities are a complete coincidence.
• Squick: A lot of the scenes involving the Joker, in particular some of his more gruesome murders, but a genuinely creepy example is of him doing something as seemingly innocuous as eating shrimp in a thoroughly revolting manner.