How Deadly Is the Joker’s Magic Pencil Trick? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill) 

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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)

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 🖤

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Lol

Your pfp though

Umbrellas...Somehow it reminds me of Another...

@@shisui101 lmao I was going to say the same

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.

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 😂

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

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*

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?

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*

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.

R.I.P. Kangaroo

Nerdist without a proper helmet smh

Good to know!

Then onwards he became monocular

Nice to know?

So?

With a foking pencil.. who da fok do dat 😂😂😂😂😂

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Welomeister stfu Maximilianmus kid

Raymond Griffin this one hits a lil too close 😂

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.

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

That's unnerving, but thank you

I deadass said it in my head and then I noticed your comment

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

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.

Fuck off RU-vid, go study how to become an Ophthalmologist.

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.

Ayydrian same

Saaame

You mean because of Kyle Hill and his luscious locks?

Precisely...Yes.

Ayydrian exactly

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

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

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. 😂😂😂

go fish in a place with needlefish and wait for one to jump.

This is why i wear swimming goggles.

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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

DerMotze That was through her throat though

Mr. ElectriDictator that is true. Still reminded me of that accident

I'm dead xd

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Go forth my children and spread the science -- KH

+Nerdist Yes, Let's "spread the science" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

No i think he filmed him just standing on his feet than turning the camera

MorreGaming woosh

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...

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Jake Roper sucks

MINIMAN of iron You watch vsauce!!!

Discount thor

@@user-zx1jk1uj5d why

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.

Adeel Jaffry my nose started bleeding while I was wincing at the pain of a pencil entering someones eye

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You can't trust minorities these days...

You're welcome -- KH

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.

Jared Leto sucks as the joker. his laugh sucked

*better

@@mr.potatto2039 thank you for correcting me 😑😶

Exactly! The pencil will break-

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

Mauro Ventimiglia eyyy

I know I didXD

I did XD

Jesus christ.

LukeR2002 Threw me off big time. Thought I somehow accidentally slept until Thursday

Same here

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Nerdist oh hi thor

Cucumber rick?

Aidan Yelsma :D ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5-_AZD2HDpw.html

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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

*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?

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.

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?

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

hat and coat > umbrella.

Grin Reaper Of Trolls Kurt Thor Bane?

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*

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

Maverickmontes I don't watch that, but thanks for marking that image on my brain

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? ;)

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.

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

GOOD. EMBRACE THE FEAR IVAN -- KH

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.

Yup a pencil crossbow would work

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I guess the answer depends on whether the Flash could beat Magneto if Magneto knew he was coming.

Not without phasing. Lightsabers apply force.

gloomy Computation, it's hot gas contained by a magnetic field. Flash can move thru the atmosphere way faster than speeds that would cause nuclear fusion without actually producing a trail of star stuff, so the gas part is not an issue, and he moves too fast for the heat to transfer to his body; so the question is whether Flash can move very fast against a strong magnetic field.

Could the flash die by cyanide ingestion? I guess the speed force makes him pretty powerful in regards to outside influence but what about inside agents? Dying by cianide would make him not that powerful i guess...

Doesn't he got fast healing and accelerated metabolism? I would think he would be able to handle a much larger dose than regular humans.

ArtonizPN his umbrealla can shot rockets

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

wick is also breaking necks "by the book".