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The Joker was known for his unbreakable concentration. It seemed, whenever caught mid-preparations, as if the clown had practically zoned out into his own little world that revolved solely around whatever task he had at hand. There were very few things that could have snapped him out of his zone and back to reality. A batarang to the head, for instance, did very little as the Batman had duly noted. But he knew of a fail-proof method that attracted the Joker's attention every time. He knew how the clown could be distracted off his task of destroying the Gotham City. Unfortunately, it was also closer to a suicide than approaching the Joker usually was.

The only thing that pierced that concentration was his daughter's cry for help.

The Joker was a formidable foe at any given time. He was extremely resilient and deceptively strong, even a competent hand-to-hand fighter, despite usually avoiding brawls. But if engaged in a full-on Daddy mode, he was simply vicious. He ceased to bother with tricks and trinkets, with killing jokes and deadly punchlines and would go simply for a gruesome kill. The Batman had seen him pick up a random crowbar and assault his own soldier with it, beating him into a bloody pulp and refusing to stop until there was nought left of the poor sod.

So now, even if the Joker was very close to completing his set-up with some poison gas canisters and his daughter was precariously sitting by herself, playing with her plush rabbit, the Batman decided to circle around her carefully and take the clown head-on. As long as the Joker didn't have to worry about the safety of his kid, the Batman had rather good chances of coming out of the fight alive.
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Foreshortening practice.

The expression and title of this piece comes from my friend's musing as we saw a big-horn goat with her kid in a desert museum. Though there was plenty of space between us, the goat began to stare us down immediately. My friend remarked she had gone to “full-on Mommy mode”. The expression stuck with me, and I later on began to ponder that primal, overwhelming instinct every animal has about protecting their offspring. Hence, I figured, it'd shift the Joker's scariness at least to the power of three if he was ever taken over by a similar instinct.

The Joker © DC Comics

Description
The Joker was known for his unbreakable concentration. It seemed, whenever caught mid-preparations, as if the clown had practically zoned out into his own little world that revolved solely around whatever task he had at hand. There were very few things that could have snapped him out of his zone and back to reality. A batarang to the head, for instance, did very little as the Batman had duly noted. But he knew of a fail-proof method that attracted the Joker's attention every time. He knew how the clown could be distracted off his task of destroying the Gotham City. Unfortunately, it was also closer to a suicide than approaching the Joker usually was.

The only thing that pierced that concentration was his daughter's cry for help.

The Joker was a formidable foe at any given time. He was extremely resilient and deceptively strong, even a competent hand-to-hand fighter, despite usually avoiding brawls. But if engaged in a full-on Daddy mode, he was simply vicious. He ceased to bother with tricks and trinkets, with killing jokes and deadly punchlines and would go simply for a gruesome kill. The Batman had seen him pick up a random crowbar and assault his own soldier with it, beating him into a bloody pulp and refusing to stop until there was nought left of the poor sod.

So now, even if the Joker was very close to completing his set-up with some poison gas canisters and his daughter was precariously sitting by herself, playing with her plush rabbit, the Batman decided to circle around her carefully and take the clown head-on. As long as the Joker didn't have to worry about the safety of his kid, the Batman had rather good chances of coming out of the fight alive.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
Foreshortening practice.

The expression and title of this piece comes from my friend's musing as we saw a big-horn goat with her kid in a desert museum. Though there was plenty of space between us, the goat began to stare us down immediately. My friend remarked she had gone to “full-on Mommy mode”. The expression stuck with me, and I later on began to ponder that primal, overwhelming instinct every animal has about protecting their offspring. Hence, I figured, it'd shift the Joker's scariness at least to the power of three if he was ever taken over by a similar instinct.

The Joker © DC Comics