Five Craziest Looks For The Joker Ever

Believe it or not, this week's tattooed, grills-sporting, Home Alone-impersonating Joker photo from David Ayer's upcoming Suicide Squad movie is far from the oddest, creepiest or most inexplicable that the character has looked during his time in comics and on the screen.

The character has been through a ton of iterations, Elseworlds and the like -- and is the case whenever you get too many variant editions of the same guy...not all of them are ordinary or expected.

Here are  our picks for the five weirdest Joker looks. Let us know your picks below.

The Batman

One of the most stylized and divergent takes on the Batman mythology ever to come to the small screen, The Batman ran from 2004 to 2008 and we got some very interesting choices in how certain characters and concepts were brought to the screen.

Flashpoint

The mother of Bruce Wayne, Martha snapped when her son was killed in a mugging. The same incident that turned her husband Thomas into the brutal, gun-toting vigilante known as the Batman also saw a mother totally lose her humanity.

Capullo

Greg Capullo's Joker from Death of the Family cannot be ignored here; months after he literally cut the skin off his face and hung it out to be found, The Joker stole the same, months-decaying skin back and lashed it to his head. The unsettling imagery is one thing -- just be glad this comic wasn't something you could smell.

The Dark Knight

People forget now, because it's so iconic, but yeah -- when we first saw this, very few people were sold, and more than a few were repulsed by the scars and wondering why he looked like Jack Nicholson's Joker in that scene where he tried to paint his face a regular skin tone and "melted."

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth

This one seems to have been an inspiration for Capullo.

Anyway, this one's pretty much just the regular Joker, but filtered through the bizarre and horrifying imagery of Arkham Asylum.

Still, this is the version of the character which, for years, people have said was downright scary.

Honorable mentions...

In the Arkham video games, there's a point where Joker takes a drug called Titan. The result is...

...hideous, deformed, bizarre and near-comical.

Speaking of which, those who read The New 52: Futures End will remember the abomination that Brother Eye made out of The Joker in the 35 years later future: 

Neither of these were meant to be the look of the character, just modifications made to suit a single, specific story, so we didn't count them (although that could be argued about Flashpoint as well). Still...definitely weird and worth a mention.