How Deadly Is the Joker’s Magic Pencil Trick? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
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Heath Ledger’s Joker is iconic for many reasons, but one particularly memorable scene is his disappearing pencil trick. But how bad would this be in real life? Kyle has the serious details on this week's Because Science!
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Learn more:
• MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY OF TIPIs: bit.ly/2yuhWrZ
• LIST OF TIPI OBJECTS: bit.ly/2AI83wP
• TIPI BY PENCILS AND PENS: bit.ly/2jVcEkN
• TIPI BY A CHOPSTICK: bit.ly/2jVE7mf
• TIPI BY UMBRELLAS: bit.ly/2AI83wP - Розваги
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super video but you suould check "Zombie go boom" chanel who tested if pencil can go through forhead (and it can)
have a good day love your videos
Nerdist how does supes see when he uses his heat vision
.. haven't watched.. but I hope you liken the pencil to being as fucking useless as a screwdriver, knife or crossbow to kill -Zombies- _Walkers_ in TV shows .. and that the only real way is to destroy the critical brain stem and such... just like *the cold of late Fall/Early Spring and ALL OF WINTER would* .... #NoZombiesInCanada #BecauseScience
Ok but wait what about the added force being applied by literally slamming his head into a table, along with maybe the trajectory of the pencil? I've read the brain stem doesnt recover like the rest of the brain does
Nerdist the wood splitters and It makes small fractures in the bone and it goes through like butter even if it is the frontal bone ( I wrote this before watching the whole video)
That guy couldn’t be treated. The Joker blew up the nearest hospital.
Cherryfan001
XD
"I'm a man of my word."
In the end. This poor henchman still dies.
the perfect crime
Most favorite part of the movie 🖤
"over 50% of TIPIs are caused by pointed umbrellas"
Penguin: soup time
😂😂
Lol
Your pfp though
Umbrellas...Somehow it reminds me of Another...
@@shisui101 lmao I was going to say the same
The Joker never claimed it would be deadly, and we never see in the movie what happens to the Henchman, only that he falls to the floor (unconscious). It is equally possible (without the science to back it up), that the pencil slides along the outside his face (the path of least resistance), doing no damage whatsoever, and he only drops to the ground from having his face slammed against the table (the pencil being dislodged from the table, and falling somewhere out of view). It doesn't seem to me that the Joker (in this instance) is concerned with lethality, only theatricality.
Yeah but Joker also doesn't care about safety so he'd probably go for what's easiest to setup and there's no guarantee that it'd fall out of sight.
It's also equally possible that the Joker did exactly what it looks like he did, but the henchman will be fine after he wakes up with a terrible headache and has the pencil removed.
He was also concerned with defending against the henchman.
Chances are, he succeeded on both counts, even if the henchman lived.
if you go frame by frame the pencil bottom can be seen INSIDE HIS FOREHEAD
Theatricality and deception. Powerful tools against the uninitiated, but we are initiated.
2008 Joker: Pencil Trick
2019 Joker: Scissor Trick
What’s the scissor trick?
I’m guessing it’s probably really brutal
spoiler alert
What’s the scissor trick?
@@jeryro1642 watch the movie
Is it really violet and brutal?
The guy who had a kangaroo tooth go through his eye hit a kangaroo on his motorcycle, btw -- KH
R.I.P. Kangaroo
Nerdist without a proper helmet smh
Good to know!
Then onwards he became monocular
Now talk about what John Wick does with pencils
Daniel Allen "with a foking pencil!!!"
@@fzproject6462 "if you hear anything about his stories trust me if anything they're watered down
Jeorg Sprave on the Slingshot Channel did a test on that by the way.
@@fzproject6462 Who the fouck can do that?
It’s called
*INSTA-KILL*
Be honest Joker's magic trick was funny.
Not funny...
*MAGICAL!!!*
Yeah I fucking laughed out pound in the theaters when it was there and everybody looked at me
Julian Hen ik I was saying I was a an idiot interrupting the movies
no, it just made me cringe in pain
Yes. It was hilarious 😂
What if I've always had a pencil in my skull? How would I know? I feel like I have a pencil in my skull, I think Twilight isn't that bad.
If you had a pencil in your skull, how would you know? Your memories would slowly get erased. Ta dah. I'll show myself out.
Well, as a series of films, Twilight really isn't that bad. That said Twilight and Breaking Dawn pt 1 are hot garbage.
But, they brought us Anna Kendrick, so balances?
Yep you do have a pencil in your skull
@@steelrarebit7387 It took 5 seconds (let me repeat that but slower and louder 5 S E C O N D S) to understand that
@@steelrarebit7387 *WHEEZE*
Its a magic trick because the pencil "disappears"
We're so lucky to have you on the internet.
I wonder how long it took SuperTy to figure that out. He certainly seems to think it took everyone else just as long.
SuperTy1122 oh really? I never guessed that! Thanks Captain Obvious!
Hey, give him a chance. Not everybody would understand that at first. So, yeah.
Juicy Grandpa oof
It never says that he died from it, in fact it’s quite possible he was just knocked unconscious.
Sholtzy You actually see him alive in the background later in the film.
@@TheLithp when ?
I doubt the mob know much about TIBI survival rates anyway. The Joker made his point. ;-)
and lived happily afterwards from the free lobotomy
Not only that, but the pencil didn't need to fully penetrate his face to "disappear."
It only had to go in far enough that friction would remove the pencil from the table as the victim fell backward and then stay in his face.
Heath ledger: “do you want to see me make this pencil disappear”
Jared Leto: “do you want to see me make this fan base disappear?”
Raymond Griffin this one hits a lil too close 😂
John Wick used a pencil to kill 3 men in a bar.
Nice to know?
So?
With a foking pencil.. who da fok do dat 😂😂😂😂😂
@@49999 delete your account
Welomeister stfu Maximilianmus kid
Maybe that's the "magic" of the trick? Something that looks so deadly and traumatizing is actually relatively safe and treatable. So the gangsters see it happen and are spooked out, then get REALLY spooked out when the victim gets up and walks around like nothing happens, THEN get absolutely terrified when the very victim drops dead days later (if untreated and assuming no major blood vessels damaged).
That's definitely a good train of thought. I'd always looked at it this way: the mob bosses were criminals (and certainly not squeamish), yes, but they mostly saw themselves as regular businessmen and probably didn't deal with street level violence very often. Then in comes Joker, an unknown, acting a bit like them in their, for lack of a better word, board meeting and when security tries to remove him, he starts talking about magic tricks then the next thing they know, he bashes the enforcer's head into the table, the pencil's gone, and the enforcer is unconscious, possibly dead. That kind of sudden brutality would be pretty shocking to anyone who isn't from Arkham.
Another reason it could be so scary to them is the simple incongruity of a pencil being used as a weapon. To most people, pencils are pretty fragile things that they can snap with ease; then Joker rams one through a guy's skull. All of a sudden, you find yourself terrified of what he could do with something a little more sturdy. Compare the utter disbelief and awe that characters use when they speak of John Wick killing three men in a bar with a pencil in the John Wick movies.
It's also pretty great that this type of injury mirrors (not exactly of course) how trans-orbital lobotomies were performed.
My eye is itchy.
Same here
Better itch it with an umbrella
SlimySlime I have a pimple on my right eye 😄 it’s always itchy
Radioactive Gameing controll do you mean your eyelid? One on the eyeball is something far worse.
Mary McEwen thank you I forgot how to write eyelid
Kyle: “Transorbital Intracranial Penetrating Injury”
Me: “tippy”
I deadass said it in my head and then I noticed your comment
from Wikipedia:
[Needlefish can making short jumps out of water at up to 60 km/h (37 mph). Since needlefish swim near the surface, they often leap over the decks of shallow boats rather than going around. This jumping activity is greatly excited by artificial light at night; night fisherman and divers in areas across the Pacific Ocean have been "attacked" by schools of suddenly excited needlefish diving across the water towards the light source at high speed. Their sharp beaks are capable of inflicting deep puncture wounds, often breaking off inside the victim in the process. For many traditional Pacific Islander communities, who primarily fish on reefs from low boats, needlefish represent an even greater risk of injury than sharks.]
That's unnerving, but thank you
How do you get a needlefish in your face? Best question of 2017
I just looked up needlefish in google images wondering about that. Those things are big, and have many, many sharp looking teeth. Seems like the needle fish (assuming it was alive) would be the most painful of the TIPI's.
Top 10 questions that science still can't answer.
My best guess would be, they were deep sea fishing and a needlefish jumped from the ocean on to his boat piercing him in the eye.
TheBoyCalledSam going fishing for one and being unlucky?
Some needlefish species actually attack. They can dart at divers or swimmers if they feel cornered. I was surprised, too.
2:27 This is all very fascinating, but I'd like to know the science behind your gravity defying hair.
Nick Craig Superglue
CML
Nick Craig super glue
I'm sure he addresses that on the SPAACE program.
lol I think he's just flipping the camera over.
^^ This guy definitely doesn't get it
The only question I have is this: Since it went in eraser-first, wouldn't that be more devastating? The blunt force of the eraser would likely cause more damage. It wouldn't puncture so much as tear through the eye, orbital cavity, opthalmic nerves, temporal lobe, and ventricular arteries all while forcing everything from the iris and cornea to the bone fragments deep into the brain. It would be like crashing a car into a brick wall; you would have a trail of brick fragments behind, leading up to, and at the stopping point of the car as well as pieces lodged in the grill after it had passed through. Add to that the stopping force of hitting the Occipital bone, which is anywhere from ~9.7mm in females and up to ~15mm in males, it would likely either fracture or completely shatter the pencil or scrape the interior wall. This would cause further brain trauma. If it goes down, towards the brain stem, it could tear through the medula oblongata and occipital lobe all the way to the brain stem. If it shattered, you have a multi-directional debris field, wiping out everything in the occipital lobe and beyond. If it wasn't fatal, it was likely permanently debilitating. That guy would've been brain dead instantly. Had it been point-first, he may have had a better chance, as the sharpness would've spread the brain matter rather than mash it into paste. The tip breaking likely would have required surgical attention, but not on the grander scale of a fully-shattered pencil. Is there a doctor in the house to corroborate any part of my theory? 😉⬅️ Irony
Fuck off UA-cam, go study how to become an Ophthalmologist.
Joker- “Ta-dah! It’s gone.”
John Wick- “Nice. My record is three.”
Actually, It's Five.
Ricardo, The FBI
Not at once. He killed three before, then two more in the second movie.
StarkBytes
So everybody gets the point?
😂😂😂
StarkBytes
Nah. That would ruin the joke.
😂😂😂
I only watch Nerdist because of "Because Science"
Ayydrian same
Saaame
You mean because of Kyle Hill and his luscious locks?
Precisely...Yes.
Ayydrian exactly
That umbrella gave me "Another" flashbacks..
DerMotze That was through her throat though
Mr. ElectriDictator that is true. Still reminded me of that accident
I desperately need to know how he even stuck the pencil into the table.
He stabbed it in point first.
@@DansilSchroeder it would've broken the tip of the pencil and not be able to stick into the table
Probably it isn't a normal pencil in the first place
It was probably really really sharp
Really sharp or not, those tables are tough.
*The Anime "Another" already introduced me with this trick.*
With an umbrella...yeah..
I cringe so hard every time i hear of that final destination-esqe death in "another" (which is really animes final destination in a nutshell)
And a neck tho
That was brutal
"HOW DO YOU GET A NEEDLE-FISH IN YOUR FACE!?" lolol
go fish in a place with needlefish and wait for one to jump.
This is why i wear swimming goggles.
River Monsters: Season 9 Episode 3, www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/river-monsters/full-episodes/coral-reef-killer
Yes bless us with knowledge science Thor
I'm dead xd
😂😂😂😂😂😂
TheDustyOldHuntsman - Science is just Magic we *_do_* understand.
Go forth my children and spread the science -- KH
+Nerdist
Yes, Let's "spread the science" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Kangaroo’s tooth? That HAD to have been a Aussie, and that’s what I’ll believe until proven otherwise
This episode made me highly uncomfortable. Keep it up.
What's the explosive force of a Peacock mantis shrimps club punch if it's Godzilla sized?
Youcant Stopme! Earth shattering
the hand/arm would just break down.
It will shatter on its own impact, the force that will be created assuming that it can still move at the same speed is so huge that no known biological hardening can withstand it.
Can't even throw that coz bones/shells, tendons and muscles would break with that snap imho
Youcant Stopme! you weird...but totally awesome
The worst thing about it is that the most implausible part of the magic scene is sticking the pencil in the table so it stood up on it's own without breaking the pencil just by doing that and didn't deflect or break from the 'magic trick' which would require a pretty square on hit
RDeathmark , just to play Devil's Advocate, The Joker had a lot of objects that look mundane, but are actually weapons. I know it's not fair to assume other people saw that the pencil was more than a pencil, but I alwayhs assumed it was actually some type of hard metal stabbing object made to look like a pencil. Of course, this was never even hinted at, so I'm not saying it definitely was, but that's just where my mind went when I saw the scene.
Demoth Hymside pencil shaped throwing knife....
I assumed he was chewing gum and used that to make the pencil stand point up. Don't recall it actually being point down in the film. I'm sure someone's done a frame by frame though.
I didn't even notice that it was a sharpened pencil, I thought he just balanced it on the flat, unsharpened part...
Nerdist: Scissors cause TIPIs
2019 Joker: ...You called?
Maybe it’s not a normal pencil, it could be rigged.
i just cringe when he was naming those list of injuries
.....screw driver.......OUCH
chopstick? bruh I'm just squinting my eyes
Bright Hosts a dirty old ice pick was the preferred medical instrument when this was a cure for schizophrenia....
That last sentence sounds vaguely racist.
Bright Hosts HAHAHAHAHHA
get out now!
I gave my ex chopsticks once... wonder where they went
Counter theory: Joker pulls the pencil out of the way while slamming the guy's head down. Concussion not a TIPI, which would make it a magic trick
Shhh don't expose our secret. That's Evan Era's job. 😂
waait does he
Even if the pencil didn't kill him, the concussion could theoretically kill him as well, or at minimum potentially knock him out.
To be fair, even with the pencil in his eye he could suffer massive head trauma from the force that Joker crammed into his head and onto the table... also, if the pencil happened to knick any large blood vessels on the way in due to the aggressive nature of its entry, it is possible that the security guy could've had an anneurism which would either immediately kill him or impair him for life- not including his now completely blind eye and the disabilities caused by that aforementioned concussion.
Real magic trick. the guy was on jokers payroll and "unconscious/dead" was there to protect him if things went bad. On the floor he has superior position for a shootout. Joker is always 7 steps ahead.
2008: How about a magic trick?
2019: How about another joke murray?
I say the guy just got knocked out by hitting his head on the table
From pencils to umbrellas... Great my eye hurts
You're welcome -- KH
am I really the only one that felt the pain as he explained TIPI’s !?!?!?
Adeel Jaffry my nose started bleeding while I was wincing at the pain of a pencil entering someones eye
2:35 he’s upside down and his hair doesn’t move now that’s a real
magic trick
No i think he filmed him just standing on his feet than turning the camera
MorreGaming woosh
"I'm gonna make this minority disappear."
By the way I'm a gamer and we live in a society
bruh
My farther was an ancap and a gamer, and one night he was acting cringier than usual.
-Andrew Jackson
You can't trust minorities these days...
This guy has the looks of Chris Hemsworth (Thor in MCU) and the voice and knowledge of Jake Roper ( Vsauce3)
I like both channels.
Jake Roper sucks
MINIMAN of iron You watch vsauce!!!
Discount thor
@@user-zx1jk1uj5d why
"I'm Jared Leto" lmao
John Wick kills dude with pencil
Joker: welcome to the club
I'm more concerned with the feasibility of stabbing a pencil into a table like that.
Exactly! The pencil will break-
When you list the items from TIPIs, it sounds like you could be reading from a "Find the Object" book.
Maybe you should make a horror game that starts out as object finding but then turns out to be about gruesome ways to die... Just an idea.
... FOUND IT!!... ow... I... I found it.
Kyle The Science God:”My point is…”
Me:”Hehe, like the point on that pencil.”
Joker's pencil trick vs John Wick's pencil kill.
His jared leto laugh is good than jared leto himself
Jared Leto sucks as the joker.
his laugh sucked
*better
@@mr.potatto2039 thank you for correcting me 😑😶
One of my friend told me that he someone nearly made the trick on him in FIRST CLASS and barly missed his eye. Just listing was cringe. It was maybe 2cm away from his eye he told me and pointed at the spot. And that was in 2004 I think before the movie. Children are sometimes really fed up.
Jesus christ.
Who thought at that Another scene when the girl fell off the stairs when he showed the umbrella?
Mauro Ventimiglia eyyy
I know I didXD
I did XD
Great video! I would note that a person unfortunate enough to have the penetrating object transect their internal carotid artery would likely expire very quickly as depicted in the movie. If he were concussed from the blow to the head at the table, he may not even regain consciousness before dying either. The general tendency is for vessels to get pushed out of the way by a penetrating object, but they can get caught sometimes.
This one made me squirm because when I was in 2nd grade a saw a kid in my class get a pencil in his eye and he did it to himself. He was being a clown, disobeying the teacher and threw his head down into the table... with the pencil still in his hand. It didn't go all the way through (as far as I know) but it was sticking out of his face and they took him to the nurse, then weeks later he comes back to school wearing an eye patch. Telling everyone "no big damage".
What?? What a lovely surprise I always thought these came on Thursdays??
LukeR2002 Threw me off big time. Thought I somehow accidentally slept until Thursday
Same here
It's a holiday miracle. (oops) -- KH
Nerdist oh hi thor
Cucumber rick?
Umbrella through the eye, what does that remind me of, sigh, I donno, I'll go and watch some Anime, oh right...
*another flashbacks intensify*
Oof I never want to see *another* TIPI again
But that was through the ne....ck. Oh gosh....😓😲😷
Joseph McCafferty nah, it soomed in on the eye just before she was impaled, so we guess the eye
Alkatron which anime?
When he got our the umbrella who else though of Another
holdon, he thought everything was fine? did he forget he fell on a chopstick and it went through his brain. I dont think that after stabbing myself in the brain with a utensil my first reaction would be "alright lemme sleep it off" "hmm wow my eye is red, strange, well whatever its not like anything bad happened to it recently"
I read "how daddy is the joker"... quite
Harlequin: "Daddy please joke me!"
The answer is 100%
SneezyAnus
Kazoontight,
SneezyAnus
br3nus - PTBR * Harley
It's a name not a birth defect
I'm here my children
I knew it, I knew umbrellas were evil. This is why I don't use them.
hat and coat > umbrella.
great episode. i had to watch it in parts though x-x my eyes, the backs of them, and my head started hurting the more he talked about the items that were found in someones head. x-x
Dood, your Bane impression was hilarious! Had me dyin!!
My eyes are hurting for some reason
Veteran Viewer its the same reason like when you think of itches you get the urge to scratch somewhere on your body and how thinking of disgusting stuff can make some pople womit even though nothing is actually happening to their body.
Veteran Viewer the first time he said eye I started rubbing my eyes and I can't stop
You might want to get an x-ray... You might have a toy power ranger stuck in your brain!
Dog How do People *womit*
One to add to the list. Receipt spike, from a restaurant shoet order line. Saw it my 2nd year as an EMT, when I responded to a stabbing at a place I worked, in high school.
Watress' ex showed up with a large knife, and tried to end her. Senior waitress was a retired marine, got the blade in her forearm, and was able to drive said spike in, shutting him down.
At 5 foot 3, and 138 pounds, she didn't look scary. But she scared me shit out of me, and I grew up around marines and bikers.
Can confirm the "boys don't brace themselves correctly." In Pre-K I tripped while climbing off of a chair and simply landed point side up on the pencil in my hand. Luckily, I fell sideways and it hit above my ear.
Kyle: "You know what you have to be worried about: Umbrellas"
Me: "Nooope. Nope. Nope. Another. Nopenopenopenopenope" **clicks away from the video** "Noooooppppeee!"
Dude calm down. Just breathe man. You can make it through this. Just breathe.
When I read this I thought he was going to show an Another clip
yeah i feel you. it just reminded me about one anime(cant remember for the life of me) where a school girl fell don some stairs and the umbrella went through her throat killing her instantly.
god damn that made me cringe so hard
Was it me or was it harder to swallow things after seeing that scene?
YES! I'm not the only one who thought it! :D
One that I remember seeing was on a program about amazing stories of human survival, and there was a boy who was bike riding around a farm, lost control of the bike, and slammed head first into a piece of tractor equipment with a long spike (a thresher, maybe?). It went through his skull and actually poked out the back a little. They pulled him off, treated him at a hospital, and he was completely fine.
Another amazing case is Phineas Gage, who had an iron rod propelled into his head by an explosion. He survived, it just made him an asshole, and had a few other side effects. :P
Genocidal Santa if i had an iron rod shoved through my skull and the only side effect was that i became an asshole, id be pretty damn happy. oh wait, i already am one
I can vouch for having seen this show here in Canada. Probably back in the 90s. Or maybe it was on an old segment of 'That's Incredible!'. ;]
some nerd i mean something had to give
Genocidal Santa
And let’s face it, who wouldn’t be a bit irritable after getting a metal rod slammed through their face?
Thank you for the coverage. I appreciate people that attempt to explain my techniques.
I HAD SO MUCH AGONY SEEING THIS VIDEO
Hey look. Thor bane.
Grin Reaper Of Trolls
Kurt Thor Bane?
I would love to see a behind the scenes video for one of these videos.
Aidan Yelsma
:D
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i like your profile pic
Thanks. I found it on some facebook fanpage.
Aidan Yelsma cool
I have a ton of blooper videos I plan on releasing in the near future -- KH
Hey man i realy like your editing and the way you explain your theory’s.
What about that shield guy who lost his eye from a cat scratch?
cat scratches are toxic
Shield guy? You mean the Leader of Shield named Sam L. Jackson?
You're thinking of Nick Fury. Hah, that wasn't a cat. In Captain Marvel we find out It's an alien (a Flerken) with the form of a cat. It can shapeshift, spew a bunch of nasty tentacles from its mouth, and its "scratch" is anything but a simple scratch.
08:50 I expected people from Nerdist to know that Bruce Wayne DOES invest his fortune into making Gotham a better place... I'm a little disappointed.
i was about to say the same thing!
The Thomas and Martha Wayne Foundations...plural.
HE could do ALOT more is what they are pointing out. There have been studies that back this up. It would cost him his billions though if I remember it correctly but it would be far better than him running around punching people even though those people really need a good punching.
It cost 300 million (or was it 3 billion) dollars a year to clean up after Batman. It is called the "Rainy Day Fund".
So you think Batman's made Gotham a better place hmmm? ;)
When Kyle mentioned how 50% of tipi victims who died was from an umbrella i... I had flashbacks to the anime another when the girl fell down the stairs and was impaled by the embrellla and blood sprayed everywhere I mean I know it was in the and all but just.... *shivers* still scares the he'll outta me to think about 😨😨😨😨
Maverickmontes I don't watch that, but thanks for marking that image on my brain
Joker: I took out a guy by showing him a magic trick
John Wick: I Killed three men with a foking pencil
wick is also breaking necks "by the book".
I couldn't finish this episode. I'm high AF and that's when I usually love watching Kyle's videos but when he started to go down the list of all things people had jammed into their eyes, that's when i had to stop it because I felt every item he said and when he got up to screwdriver, that was the final blow. Still getting a like though because I appreciate the effort
Sooooo it was doubly a magic trick because it disappeared AND his assistant likely survived?
This breakdown was truly uncomfortable.
GOOD. EMBRACE THE FEAR IVAN -- KH
"Chopsticks how!!! How do you get a needle fish in your face" I died!! Love your videos!!!
I think your forgetting something. Remember when he pulls out the pencil he "stabs" the pencil into the table. This tells me the pencil has something like a blade or something in it.
*Let's put a smile on that face*
I always assumed it wasn't a real pencil, but some kind of weapon he designed to look like one. :) Like we see he carries a lot of blades with him, and a good example of the Joker creating a custom weapon is the shoe-blade that he kicks Batman with in the penthouse. Because it would be hard to ensure a regular pencil would go through the mobster's eye in the exact right spot to kill him. Odds are, it would accidentally hit the guy's forehead and snap, and the eraser end is still pretty blunt, even if he was pushing his head down really hard.
Also, how did he stab a lead pencil into a table without it snapping/falling? He'd have to be pretty strong/fast, even if the table is just wood, it would have to be pretty soft to not only pierce the wood (have you written with a lead pencil lately?the lead snaps even just while writing) but embed deep enough to not just flop out when a guy's face hits it. I think it's not actually a wooden pencil with lead and rubber eraser, but some kind of blade with metal tips. We don't really even see an eraser on the end, just shiny silver metal so it could have been slightly sharp. The henchman has a lot better chance of being outright killed by a blade through the brain than a pencil.
Of course I could be wrong, the Joker is definitely skilled at killing in random ways so a pencil doesn't seem that unrealistic for him, it also adds to his unpredictability and the feeling that nothing is safe when he's around because he can literally turn anything into a weapon. (I subscribe to the theory of him being some rogue military/government agent with training in torture, fighting and interrogation). Also we can see the Joker cradling the front of the guy's head at an angle that would suggest the pencil went upwards (aka higher and deeper into the brain's important bits) after he hits the table and falls back, so it's possible he was guiding the man's head to directly line up his eye with the pencil.
A piece of sharp metal made to look like a pencil. Why not?
exexpat11 Can't tell if sarcasm or not.
The Joker might have this as a concealed deceptive weapon. Not exactly Smile Gas or killer balloons or acid to the face or whatever cheesy weapons of the past. Pencil Spike? Why not?
You're *probably* right. Depends on how cheap the pencil is. I've had a fair few where the graphite just _whoops!_ fell clean out of the wood.
It's not hard to conjecture that he bought such a cheap-ass pencil, knocked the wood out, and replaced it with a long piece of metal just for that trick.
Nicholas Tosoni Yeah it's possible for sure and that was just my interpretation :) I guess one of the great things about this joker is that we'll never really know the answer. He likes to keep people guessing, it makes them unsure and vulnerable. Is he really just the random and unpredictably dangerous wildcard who can kill a man with a single flimsy pencil, the force of unexplained chaos that he wants people to think?
Or is he secretly a clever planner who can make a deadly metal weapon look like something harmless and just wants you to think he is crazy by overly denying it? He is a master of making deliberate things look random, after all. He could very well be aware of how he comes across and is more control of his image than he lets on. He seems to be well-versed in psychology and predicting what others will think and do, so he probably knows that if he wants people to think he's crazy he can't just say that he is, because crazy people are too delusional to recognize this, they're not self-aware enough nor in touch with objective reality vs their own. But by denying it, it really just makes his sanity seem less credible.
Maybe he's some combination of both the chaotic lucky madman and the calculating and controlling psychopath, his actions speak louder than his words at least and I personally believe he has traits of both. Either way, whatever conclusion someone comes to, he knows that he's to be feared so it really doesn't matter because he'll win either way.
He thinks he is sane, but wants you to think he's crazy by using reverse psychology and insisting that he is sane. I think there are different types of sanity, and while he may be completely in control and not "crazy" in the usual sense, he is still delusional. He's gone so insane that he's done a complete 360 and reached a level of super-sanity that humans aren't meant to achieve, where the social contract is meaningless and life is a depressing joke of a nihilistic mindfuck. Kind of like having a really hellish trip on a monster dose of acid, except it never ends and you're stuck with that worldview and personality forever. But he leaves just enough uncertainty about his mindframe and intentions to assure uneasiness so that way he'll always have the upper hand.
I love this movie and this character. So much of Heath's performance and Chris' intentions are open to conjecture, even a decade later and that in itself is pretty crazy.
I always thought pencil went in his nostril into his brain
I love this backingtrack too
happy holidays! thanks for the early episode
Selektive Kollective and to you good sir or ma'am I hope you had a terrific Christmas and I hope you a wonderful life and to anyone else reading this as well
No problem, totally did it on purpose too -- KH
You just could have mentioned Joerg Sprave...
Yup a pencil crossbow would work
The Tale of Phineas Gage, Made lo-bot-o-mies all the rage.
They said to be ace, you must IMpale your face,
but - turns out, this advice is not sage.
David Beddoe the triumphant return of the limerick... Very nice
Instead of sage you should have said suffice
But suffice doesn't rhyme with anything in that.
Rando I want to slap the shit out of that avatar.
David Beddoe it’s Willy Wonka from Charlie and the chocolate factory and Tom and jerry at least that’s what I think it’s called
Your Bale-Batman impression was good, especially the 'uheheeheh' part.
The Penguin knows whats up. That eyeglass surely must be a gentlemans accessory for umbrella-fencing. Bullet- and umbrellaproof, I'd wager! Recommended on your dominant side that faces the opponent while fencing with classy umbrellas.
ArtonizPN his umbrealla can shot rockets
I have a question about a function in the Sonic games. In the underwater levels, when Sonic is almost out of air, he can go to a grouping of bubbles on the ground and wait for a big bubble to come out and inhale it and refill his air supply in his lungs. How would this scientifically work?
probably not well. Unless the bubble has amazing surface tension it'd pop before you could get a breath in
assuming the air bubble stays together really well.
I would've thought going through the eye holes is the obvious explanation. There's nowhere else for it to get in his face.
To answer the question of how you get a needlefish in your face. They have a tendency to jump out of the water right at boats due to the bright lights on the boat.
man watching the images of that one guy still made my stomach turn even without gore and on top of that I was already sick
dis dude looks like thor
and jared leto
whos dat ill google it
wow oh yea lol
Spark Mark u didnt know who thor was?
Fully-Mobile XL no he's talking about Jared leto
Did enough people not assume it went through the eye socket to warrant an explanation? That's pretty sad.
In the scenario where joker has a military background. I venture that the joker had enough skill to slam the guy's head at such an angle for it to be lethal. That's one thing that Kyle didn't take into consideration, sure it's survivable, but with the right angle. Deadly.
The umbrella bit reminded me of "Another".
I thought he was drawing sperm at 7:50
I watch because Science because of science.
I'm going to sleep early toady.
Also me at 3AM:
I think he needs to do an Because Science on his own hair! He gets that too impossibly perfect!!