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• After Superman is nearly killed by the Soviet nuke, his body deteriorates and rots in midair with his mouth forming a scream of anguish.
• How about 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 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 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 Ax Crazy on the main page are taken from this scene, for added horror.
• Joker's face as he dies.
• Joker 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 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