Paul Dini

Since this is Bat-Weekend, here’s a bit of perhaps the best Joker adaptation ever, the animated version voiced by Mark Hamill (who voiced the character as the perfect combination of crazy, scary and funny), as written by Paul Dini (famous for episodes that were serious and darkly funny at the same time). Within the limits of what he could do on kids’ TV — obviously he wasn’t allowed to actually kill anybody, at least not onscreen — this Joker was pretty scary, but also an interesting character, often done in by his vanity and his obsession with getting Batman’s attention.