Top 10 Darkest Moments in Animated DC Movies
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The world of DC can get pretty dark, even in animated movies. For this list, we'll be looking at dark, violent and disturbing scenes in DC animated films. Be warned of spoilers ahead! Our countdown includes The Origin of Flashpoint Batman from “Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox” (2013), Joker Tortures Robin from “Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker” (2000), The Newcastle Tragedy from “Constantine: City of Demons” (2018), and more! Which dark moment from DC’s animated films freaked you out the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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The joker torturing tim drake and tim drake killing the joker and every moment in justice league dark apoklips war.
Joker making Robin into his son is definitely the most disturbing to me! The torture he's put through, the way Joker taunts Batman and seeing Robin laugh/cry.
Which is just one of the many reasons joker should have been put down long time ago
@@joshmanchester5873 I agree in my eyes the fact that he didn’t put him down for that spoke volumes
It traumatized me as a kid, will never forget seeing that scene
Same! 20 plus years later its still grim to me
This is one of the worst thing that the Joker has ever done to any of the Robins
I don't know, Jason Todd (Robin) being beaten nearly to death with a crowbar by the Joker, and then blown up at the beginning of "Under The Red Hood" was pretty damn dark. I can't believe it didn't make this list. I actually thought it was going to be number 1.
Right???
Same
Under the Red Hood is probably the best adaptation brought to screen, but Apokolips War is pretty much all dark. And the ending doesn't exactly get better. At least The Red Hood's fate is unknown at best, look what happens to everyone at the end of Apokolips War
Not even an honorable mention
I knew Apokolips War was gonna be #1 with all the heroes dying so brutally
If there's one thing I love about animated DC movies, it's that they know how to give us some truly dark moments.
They know how to make a great movie
@@lifeisberserk9566 mainly for animation for Hollywood irl movies they barely have it that title goes to marvel
@@javislugo6835 yeah I meant mostly animated movies, but Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Watchmen, Shazam, Batman 89 and returns and Aquaman were either decent or great movies
I've always believed that the beauty of DC is its dark and ugly parts. The tragedy of most of the characters and how complex it makes everything
DC - Dark Comics
Apokolipse War actually fucked me up for about a day and a half...Damien had actually become one of my favorite characters throughout the course of the DCAU and seeing him, the titans, the justice league, Constantine and the others get wiped away by the flash in the end just as if to say the entire 7-year span of movies never happened still hurts even 3 years later.
Nightwing got robbed in that one too. Was not favorite movie by far, but there were moments i really liked.
@@Mag_Eater I am referring to a scene that is in the same movie they showed in this video.
@@Mag_Eater Sorry, I got a notification on my phone and didn't notice it was not a direct reply.
Beast Boy was my favourite, and he didn't even get so much as a proper death scene. Arguably that's better, though, because knowing he dies at all is painful enough without having to see it happen.
@@nesrie What about Shazam aka Billy Baston?
Love how the entire Elite is talking down to Superman the whole time about how their way of dealing criminals is better. And the moment Superman gives them taste of their own medicine, they start dumping in their pants and even say "You're Superman. You're not supposed to do this!" One of the most cathartic things and overwhelming victories I've ever seen from Superman.
To be fair, their way would be better when done to some criminals like joker
@@jakealter5504
But that's the slippery slope Superman and most other heroes don't want to take. It might *start* with the worst-of-the-worst like the Joker and other super criminals (and people may cheer it on initially), but then what's to stop them from escalating and they start acting out against even minor, normal human offenders (like The Elite start doing) and eventually become dictators like the Justice Lords in the Justice League cartoon, or the One World Order in Injustice?
It may be easy to *think* that one could just stop after one or a few, but...yeah...
@@HalfDemonInuyasha i know
@@HalfDemonInuyasha I think the Justice League could and should develop a code of ethics and a mature supervisory board, but that's if they are serious about being a pro-hero rather than just being kind.
Because obviously no matter what path heroes choose, they are always going to be some gray areas. Like when Superman killed the Joker on sight after the Joker killed Superman's pregnant wife.
I don't think any jury in the world would say Superman should be convicted of murder in that instance, more like send him some well wishes so he can mourn in peace.
Slippery slope is a thing, but people don't just become Super Villains overnight.
I'm sure they are absolutely some ways the Justice League can do more than just put out fires without "crossing the line".
I guess this is why the DCAU is the best. Not because of the bloodshed, more like the reality about combat, war and fates worse than dead. But at the end, we all learn so much about hope.
The Robin getting framed in Teen Titans was realistically a little bit deeper than it was just for the plot, this Dick Grayson from Teen Titans is the most Batman like Robin we had ever seen at the time, Dick really thought he had crossed the line Bruce was talking about and for a split moment actually related, he seriously goes Rouge afterwards and it took the titans telling him he never actually killed anyone for him to get his mentality straight
I’d honestly prefer to think it was purely a mistake on his part, slightly overestimating the true strength and endurance of a living construct of magenta ink. Saiko Tek was a tough customer and for all we know, he could’ve been “programmed” to die at Robin’s hand to sell the illusion, that final hammer fist being the killcode
Shazam’s last “Shazam” was heartbreaking & Horrifying. You can hear the fear in that kid😢
Ikr
Missed out joker shooting Barbara Gordon in the killing joke
I wish they commented on how the heroes had to resort to using trigon to deal with darkseid and that trigon actually proved both capable of doing it and was willing to do it
I was expecting this one too
Personally, I'm glad that wasn't on the list because that movie was terrible
Also her spine getting slashed by Orphan in Young Justice
So Thomas Wayne's Batman is basically The Punisher.
Exactly
Hahaha, somehow haven’t heard it put like that, but it’s perfect
Pretty much
Apokolips War is just one of those movies where you need to see the deaths to believe them. Anyone who hears that specific characters went the way they did without watching will think you lost your fucking mind 😂
It also gave fans a fight that they didn’t expect or that they had wondered about for a long time when they put darkseid against trigon. Trigon might be more of a teen titans villain but the DCAU movies showed that he is fully capable of decimating the justice league AND kicking the crap out of Darkseid on Darkseid’s home turf
I watched it a dozen times and still don't believe what happen to them
I’ve watched how specific characters went the way they did and I think the writers lost their fucking mind when they went fuck all and turned it to an 11.
@@ugoeze7360 like when Wonder Woman lost her arm and Zatanna got eaten alive?
Seeing those deaths and torture will blow your mind.
The disastrous 2022 DC had made us appreciate how great the DCAU is......God I miss Kevin Conroy
Yeah, especially now that Mark Hamill just said that he won’t play the Joker anymore 😢which is understandable.
@@alejandroangel998 Yeah exactly, he is honorable in that regard. That’s how you know they both took their character portrayals at heart. Without Batman there quite literally is no Joker, and vice versa.
@@plasticcargo Batman and Joker are like the two sides of a coin, they compliment each other; Hamill’s Joker lost his compliment.
Rip Kevin Conroy 😞
@@alejandroangel998 "Without Batman, crime has no punchline." - Joker
I really really hope that James Gunn takes some inspiration from dcamu and the classic animated series . Those were some of the best interpretations of DC characters ever.
The Dark Knight Returns Part 2, Under the Red Hood and Mask of the Phantasm are amazing and super underappreciated movies for today's standard.
Underrated? They're some of the most highly rated DC movies out there.
I know that "underrated" has lost almost all meaning these days, but I still didn't think I'd see the day when someone would unironically call those any of these 3 films underrated...
@@randallflagg3700 I think what I meant was underappreciated my bad
Darkest moment of Apokolips War: ALL OF IT.
Yeah, that movie was messed up... in a good way
You could put the entire movie Justice League Dark: Apokolips War on this list
apokolips war was the goriest and most violent animated movie I've ever seen
Oh man, you need to watch some animee.... you have no idea.
@@Caffeine_Club in terms of Dc I meant 😂. Also, I can’t imagine an anime more brutal than that. Holy cow
Probably Comic book movie ever
I thought the death and resurrection of Jason Todd was pretty disturbing.
Oh, C'mon!!!
Robin's torture should definitely be higher on the list
It had traumatized so many of us as kids!!
Even though it's not gore, nor explicit, the mere thought of all what Robin may have gone through still haunts me to this day
It's the "leading to the imagination" part that is actually disturbing
Dc animated series / movies >> Marvel animated series / movies
See how someone always gotta take it too far?
DC animated movies are better than the MCU tbh.
@@kingofnewyork8092 what are you talking about? Marvel movies are no where near as good they take the big screen for sure tho
@@AP_0111 He was talking about Animated shows and movies. As good as DC is they not better than Marvel in that regard.
Joker beating Jason to the point of death is honestly terrifying to look at and really as a kid that Robin in teen titans beats Saico-Tek to death was a dark visual, but Apokolipse War definitely messed me up in how many people not only died but how all of them just get wiped out from The Flash in how that span of movies didn’t happen and it still stings. But now as an adult I take more appreciation towards the DCAU like it’s been one of my early childhood experiences in my life and makes me miss Kevin Conroy even more it still hurts he’s gone
The Return of the Joker moment, honestly between the two versions, the one where Tim pushes Joker into the electrode and doused in (what I believe) a conductive solution before slipping and hitting the switch was the darker moment vs getting shot by the flag
JL Dark Apokolips War and Tim Drake's transformation into Joker's son were the scenes that really disturbed me. I could get their thoughts outta my mind for probably a week.
This is really great. I like how DC highlights and increases on the intensity of Dark Moments and goes to great lengths to make the Characters more so intense and Dark.
Robin’s duel with Saiko Tek is by far my favorite. Only thing I don’t understand was why Robin was fighting it with two birderangs instead of the bird blade
Every single one of them freaked me out the most and let's not forget about Superman's sacrifice from Superman Doomsday to the death of Superman
I am surprised the moment where the Joker made superman believe his wife was darkseid, making him kill her and then detonating a nuclear explosion in the middle of metropolis, just because he wanted to win for once, didnt make it on this list
Because that movie sucked and butchered the Injustice storyline
Joker made Superman think Lois was doomsday, not darksied
@@SMD2x alot!
3:10 Joker Tortures Robin
This is the most notorious torture and brainwashing Robin by The Joker in DC animated universe.
Red Hood beating joker with a crowbar and later blowing himself up should've definitely been on this list
1. Superman kills The Joker (Injustice)
2. Joker tortures Jason Todd (Batman: Under the Red Hood)
3. Joker paralyzes Barbara Gordon (Batman: The Killing Joke)
Yes these were comic book stories but they would become animated movies.
What about Tera's death in Teen Titans Judas Contract or her back story in it? It is hard to pick just 10, there are others but other people mentioned them all ready. Think this should of been a top 20.
It wasn’t that dark considering we all knew Terra dies, and her backstory is a little more closer to the original, in other words it wasn’t really dark it was plain disturbing
I had forgotten the Dracula Batman existed. I remember watching that on WB when i was a kid. A classic
No mention of supes killing joker? Honestly that's the most terrifying thing for me
We need more animated Batman Beyond movies
It just wouldn't be the same without Kevin Conroy as Old Bruce.
@@glennwelsh9784hat’s true but I think it’s well past the time Terry needs to hit his Prime, he is 1 of the 2 true successors to the mantle, he can do it without Bruce he has done it before it would help his character alot to finally become the Terry and Batman we all want him to be
Darkseid wrecking the lantern corps should’ve made the list
That's related to Darkseid defeats the Justice League topic
Yeah, dropped a freaking lava flow on them. Like damn
When I saw the entire Justice league getting ruthlessly beaten and defeated by Darkseid, three things:
1) oh I’m gonna be sick…my body wasn’t mentally prepared for that horrific scene
2) NEVER let Superman lead and plan things in the Justice League
3)Till this day, can’t figure out how tf Darkseid managed to get Starfire into a cyborg, but the rest look horrible
Darkseid knew about the plan thanks to Cyborg.
The version of "Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker" that I remember seeing for the first time actually had the Joker being electrocuted to death by being drenched in water and exposed to electric cables afterwards, which was pretty brutal IMO compared to him just being shot at with the flag of a gag pistol.
You watched the more 'clean' version then in other words you saw the pg kid friendly one. Yes there are 2 versions of the film.
I think it was in the commentary for Over the Edge where they talked about how when the censors told them to change something, it usually ended up being darker than the original scene. If I remember, originally you were supposed to see Batgirl hit the car, but they had to change it to an inside shot, which had more of an impact (no pun intended).
I’m absolutely shocked Jason Todd’s brutal beat down and death wasn’t on this list or even an honorable mention. I know it’s one of the overplayed sayings but holy shit that was super dark.
When I first watched Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, seeing Joker torture Robin absolutely horrified me. Seeing Robin later shot him was surprisingly satisfying for me
Rest in peace Johnny Quick.
He was _too quick_ for his own good.
I’ll jump off the high-rise now.
RIP Kevin Conroy...
"If you don't like the movie, I've got slides."
Is there no way Mark Hamil DOESN'T sound badass evil as The Joker when he gets to deliver lines like that?
How do you not include Batman getting his head blown off in "Batman: Attack on Arkham"? I mean yeah it turned out not to be him but for a split second you thought it was him because at that point you didn't know he had switched outfits with one of the Suicide Squad.
Love the animated movies and how dark they go!!! Definitely not for kids! 😉 👍🏻
Justice League Dark was so good, this is a great list
DC def beats marvel at these moments. But joker turning robin into his clone was the creepiest.
I’ll miss Mark as the Joker, every time time that I read comics where the Joker appears I read it with his voice.
In an article he specifically said that when he gets a call to play the Joker he always asks if Kevin is Batman, otherwise he’s not interested. In his words, they are like Laurel and Hardy.
With Conroy’s death, unfortunately he’s hanging up the Joker.
@@ugoeze7360 yeah, they were like the two sides of a coin complementing each other. Like the Joker once said in the series: “without Batman crime has no punchline”
@@alejandroangel998 - Mark had already retired twice as the Joker, and he came back twice. We'll see if it sticks this time...
What’s interesting about “Justice League: Apokilps War”, which is not one of my favorites The reason is because, I’ll look for the issue, you would think with everyone Wonder Woman would have taken off wrist bands. Because it has been stated that they actually hold back most of her power. Should she take them she would have the full totality of her powers. Which would make her faster and stronger than Superman. It fascinates because it was put out there quite. Mentioned and then mentioned again.
I definitely have to look and see if I can find that particular comic. It belonged to my brother. I’m wondering if he still has it. It was a pretty awesome piece of information that was thrown away. I mean, she is a demigod. With them on a strength rivals Superman’s. Imagine if she took them off.
The infamous Robin/Annie incident…that was more messed up than I thought it would be 😢
Anyone else notice how many of these moments are from G rated movies can only think how the kids watching this with their parents reacted to these dark scary and very mature moments
Every movie here is PG-13 and up, tf?
I love the darkness of DC animations. Marvel cannot match them in this category. It is unfortunate they couldn't carry this success into live-action.
I knew you were going to mention Apokolips War and make it #1, but I thought you guys would say the entire movie for darkest moment.
At least we got two awesome fights between darkseid, Superman, and trigon out of it. Seeing Superman wailing on darkseid and seeing trigon beat darkseid down was great
How about the x death of John Stewart.
Seeing Batman trick and sacrifice Johnny Quick just to prevent the possibility that Flash would suffer his rapid-aging/deadly fate perfectly exemplifies how much Batman cares for the speedster and to what lengths he'll go to protect his friend. Something we've seen in multiple TV shows and movies, and across realities.
Injustice 1 & 2 was enough to show what an out of control Superman looked like.
Johnny Quick always gets me man
It’s weird that show was supposed to be the arrowverse and that’s how they found astra in legends of tomorrow but then it was also somehow part of the dcamu so it was very confusing
The fact that Jason being murdered by the joker is not even on here as an honorable mention is invalidates this list
The torture of Jim Gordon by joker in the killing joke should have been on the list
I love DC animated movies. That's the one area where DC crushes Marvel. If only DC could learn from their animated movies and apply it to live action...
The only reason that Batman made a contentious plan because they're too powerful, and if it goes wrong Batman would use it for back up.
My opinion: Batman isn't wrong. I mean if Batman gone darker, he can't trust himself to be back after what he did.
Both deaths of Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018) should have easily topped the list. Before his depicted deaths, Eobard pulled back his cowl to reveal a bloody, gaping hole in his forehead. Eobard's first (and real) death from a headshot by Thomas Wayne's Batman, which was done in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013), was graphically depicted in the 2018 film through a slow-motion shot of the bullet exiting Eobard's forehead with brain matter and blood flying out. Eobard's second "death" occurred when his time-displaced self (created by his original body tapping into the Speed Force to prolong his final living moments) had his fingers sliced off by Bronze Tiger and his chest filled with bullets in an X pattern, followed by another headshot, by Deadshot.
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I'd say the final scene in The Killing Joke should take number one. The exact moment Batman really lost his shit and killed someone on purpose.
what i love about the transformation of tim to joker as an adult that i always noticed as a kid was that for a few seconds you can see tims face morph into jokers without the makeup. the part of joker where he was still just a mafia goon assassinating people
The Dark Knight Returns: Part 2, I think they revealed that Batman actually killed him. He made himself think the Joker broke his own neck, when it was actually Batman snapping his neck.
Great list of dc animated movies.
Love the dark moments from dc. Hope they make.more
Found a fun fact. The Detective apprehending Robin is clearly based on Detective Zenigata from the Lupin the 3rd animes.
What I think the best part about number six is for the entire movie up until that point Flash is convinced Batman doesn't like him. It wasn't until Johnny's death did Flash realize how much Batman really cared
The fact that no scene from under the red hood didn’t show up on this list is tragic
How is wonderwoman slaughtering the shazam kids not on this list? She literally anakin skywalker'd them
That is right. Violence is not the answer. It’s the question. “YES!!” Is the answer.
The "censored" version of Batman Beyond Return of the Joker gave Joker an even worse death where he accidentally electrocuted himself. Dark.
How many disturbing moments do you have?
DCAU: Yes.
Apokolips War was crazy for me
Here's a good question, the original version (electrocution) or the unrated version seen in the count down, which Joker death from Batman Beyond was more brutal to you?
A lot of disturbing moments, but I’m horrified that the torture of Tim Drake was not number one, the image of him so destroyed after he kills Joker, nightmare inducing.
You mention word "Newcastle" to Contantine, there is solid 50-50 chance you get punched.
Every corporate CEO: Animation's for kids.
Watch Mojo: I'm going to stop you there.
Batman Beyond The Movie: Robin getting Tortured so badly he revealed everything, after being Injected with The Joker's serum, & then accidentally Killing him. That was Heartbreaking to watch.
1:20 If Batman saw Robin like that, he would've been shocked beyond belief.
Joker and Robin torture the darkest to me
Just gotta say, the thumbnail image from TT: Trouble in Tokyo is art in and of itself.
This list is nothing but memories to me.
Great list.....I would add the fate of the people at the demon party in City of Demons and what the guy, who Superman stopped at the beginning of Justice League Dark, did to his neighbors.
Now you gotta do top 10 heroic moments
im surprised joker beating jason todd and the parademon transformation didnt make the list.
I literally cannot stand Apokalips war. For me it ruins the DCAMU for me entirely. Just seeing so many superheroes that I’ve loved since I was a kid getting brutalized was honestly traumatizing. And this is coming from a guy who enjoys shows like The Boys and Invincible, by the way. It honestly felt like a hate letter to superheroes.
If it were to compare to Apokalips War to something, I say that the movie felt like DC's version of Marvel Ultimatum back in 2009. Killing/torturing superheros for the sake of shock value regardless on how disrespectful it felt. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if WB plans to do a live action version for the DCEU just so they have an excuse to reboot. They already did that with Mortal Kombat games, TWICE.
@@deadpoolrockz6410
EXACTLY. IT’S JUST NONSENSE GORE/TRAUMA PORN.
Could've included Justice League: The Final Frontier. The scene where the pilot kills the NK soldier. Probably would've been an honorable mention though. This is a good list
1 disturbance scene from the DC animated features was in Batman versus Robin opening scene. The scene has Damian Wayne Robin taking the batmobile to a deserted town where there was a toy factory, as he gone in he was tracking down a man but gone by Monica of the dollmaker and find several children's actually been probably mutilated and turned into killing machines. 2 from Superman Unbound the scene where Superman is being examined by brainiac was kind of disturbing to me, especially when Superman pulled out the device that was down his throat. Not to mention when brainiac overloaded and caught on fire and melted into a skeleton robot version of himself. It was like when the t800 from Terminator came out of the fire. 3 Wonder woman bloodline had a brutal fight where Wonder woman had to blind herself in order to win the fight and she used poison to do it. There's plenty more scene I can think of but I'll keep it to these 3.
Missed out on Young Justice! The kidnapped child meta-slaves that the Justicr League accidentally kill without knowing would have made a fantastic addition to this list
In my opinion I think that one of the darkest moment was when all the teen titans died and raven tried to end herself and superman stoped her
I would rate Joker's return in The Dark knight returns higher.....he finally breaks Batman by making Batman do the one thing Batman swore he'd never do......kill
5:29 you do recall JL doom that the reason they suffered is because batman had plans to get rid of them if one turned evil
"There's no line the Joker won't cross"
Except messing with the IRS.
And teaming with Red Skull and his “crew” lol.
Why are the animated DC movies so much better than the live action ones?
RIGHT?!
That last one haunts me... they just get killed without the glory of a fair fight
What about when wonder woman killed the little Shazam in Flashpoint
The real fucked up of JLD Apolokis war was that darkseid merged cyborg to a wall on the planet and there was not enough pieces of him left to take back to earth. So cyborg self destruct the planet knowing he was going to die. That whole movie was wild as hell.