You might see the Laughing Man as a Dark Knight Joker type who was evil enough that the supervillains of that world told Laughing Man stories. The Joker was a target of derision as an effeminate monster clown. The Laughing Man made the schtick respectable until Sarasvasti brutally murdered him when he was about to take a blowtorch to Susan Roth's shoulder.

And Huir was worse than that. Somehow, it's not an encouraging thought to realize that a monster of my own society was worse than a sadistic little prick like that idiot in clown makeup.

H'vorxixnon H'ven Soroundon.