How is the pencil trick possible?
The pencil penetrated through one of the thug’s eyes (although this is not explicitly shown), as the vulnerable eye is the only possible “point of entry” for the pencil to make an instant kill. Death would result from either the force of the eyeball, the pencil, or both breaking the bone directly behind the eye socket and forcing it into the brain; alternatively, the pencil itself could have penetrated straight through to the brain. Then again, for moviegoers who can’t suspend their disbelief, the pencil itself could have been one of the Joker’s deadly props. The Joker, throughout the character’s history, has always had a supply of normally harmless items made deadly, such as playing cards that are razor-sharp and flowers that squirt acid. The present Joker proves to have the same fondness for malicious gadgets right from the beginning, when he uses a smoke grenade on the bank manager. This seems especially plausible given that an ordinary pencil could not be jammed into a table, as th
