Joker/Mask

Two of the craziest characters in all of fiction are the Joker and the Mask – that’s undeniable – so could they possibly get any crazier? And is there really any need for them to? Well how about combining them?!

That happened in the year 2000 in a collaboration between DC Comics and Dark Horse, when the Batman villain got his hands on the Mask when it turned up in a Gotham City museum.

He donned it and went on a crime spree – acting even crazier than normal – but was defeated when Batman tricked him into taking it off, citing the fact that it was making him unfunny and reliant on overused and tired schtick. The Mask ended the story being buried with the corpse of its classic wearer – one Stanley Ipkiss.