History NightmareFuel / BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns

* Let's just say pretty much every scene with The Joker. Michael Emerson makes him utterly terrifying and he does it without ever raising his voice or even showing much emotion beyond amusement. It just shows how completely removed from any humanity The Joker truly is.
* In the original script, Batman was [[spoiler:to fake his death]] by using a hospital tube needle to gouge out a pill hidden in the flesh of his forearm. The scene was described as bloody, as painful and as having Bruce enjoying it.

-->'''ComicBook/TheJoker''': '' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!'']]

** There's something chilling about Superman's composure during his fight against Batman. He seems completely calm when implicitly threatening to kill one of his oldest superhero allies. The Big Blue Boy Scout of old, this ain't.

** Batman's rematch against the Mutant Leader is Nightmare Fuel for how unflinchingly gritty, [[{{Squick}} gross]] and brutal it is. The two wrestle in a filthy mud-bath surrounded by the Mutant gang members and it's a pure slugfest that shows just how damn scary this Batman can be even without his gadgets or the element of surprise. Batman makes the Leader bleed like a faucet with a simple slash to the forehead, giving us the [[SarcasmMode wonderful]] mental image of blood mixing with the sludge. With surgical precision, Batman ends the fight by snapping the Leader's arm and leg before pummelling his face into the dirt, all with a [[BloodKnight sadistic grin]] on his face. It's a miracle Batman didn't kill him.
-->'''Batman:''' You just don't get it, son. This isn't a mud-bath - it's an operating table. [[PreAssKickingOneLiner And I'm the surgeon.]]

** There's something chilling about Superman's composure during his fight against Batman. He seems completely calm when implicitly threatening to ''kill'' one of his oldest superhero allies. The Big Blue Boy Scout of old, this ain't.

*** 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 is very, ''very'' disturbing.

[[caption-width-right:200:"''[[GoOutWithASmile Stop...stop LAUGHING...]]''"]]

-->'''TheJoker''': '' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!'']]

-->'''TheJoker''': '' Be still, my heart.''

* The flying robot kid things. "Eeugh yourself, bitch."
* 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 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.
** In the comics when the Joker kisses the lady guest and her face transforms into a [[http://cfile2.uf.tistory.com/image/2126DE3E53A57DDD2C1A99 hideous grin.]]

* Joker's [[spoiler:face as he dies]].
* Joker [[spoiler: KEEPS this face even as a smouldering skeleton]].
-->'''Batman (inner monologue):''' ''Stop laughing''.
** The fight between Batman and the Joker also shows how close to (or clear off) the edge Batman has gone at this point, as soon as he's close enough to the Joker for a one-on-one fight, he opens by throwing a batarang [[EyeScream right into the Joker's eye]]. At this point, the Joker [[OhCrap begins to realize]] that Batsy [[TheGlovesComeOff might not be playing his game anymore.]]

* 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''.

-->'''TheJoker''': ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!]]''

-->'''TheJoker''': ''[[{{Irony}} ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!]]''

* How about [[spoiler:the Joker [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udgre4v_L4I 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]].

* In the orginal script, Batman was [[spoiler:to fake his death]] by using a hospital tube needle to gouge out a pill hidden in the flesh of his forearm. The scene was described as bloody, as painful and as having Bruce enjoying it.

* 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.

* 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]].

* In the orginal script, Batman was to fake his death by using a hospital tube needle to gouge out a pill hidden in the flesh of his forearm. The scene was described as bloody, as painful and as having Bruce enjoying i.

* In the orginal script, Batman was to fake his death by using a hospital tube needle to gouge out a pill hidden in the flesh of his forearm. The scene was described as bloody, as painful and as having Bruce enjoying it.

* Let's just say pretty much every scene with The Joker. Michael Emerson makes him utterly terrifying and he does it without ever raising his voice or even showing much emotion beyond amusement. It just shows how completely removed from any humanity The Joker truly is.

* 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.