It's not laughter it's essentially strangulation. You are choking to death through uncontrollable laughter. So you are listening to yourself laughing as you slowly choke to death unable to stop yourself. As you are slowly dying laughing all the while you slowly realize you can't stop no matter what you do you are dying and though your eyeballs are straining and you are dying of breath your face contorted in a grim smile as you slowly die you begin to collapse still laughing because your body can't do anything else like being trapped somewhere unable to do anything but watch yourself die.
It really pisses me off that Nerdist videos got so little views, when they deserve a lot and lot more. Because Science for example provides a deep and logical explanation for pop-culture that we take for granted. Anywho good job Nerdist, good job
+Ron Petersen I meant that other big channels have over hundreds of thousands of views. Quality of content Nerdist creates are worth much more views. For example Because Science makes a legitimate deep science explanation for of things, that includes an actual physics and calculus
So, what would happen if you drop two containers, one full of Joker Toxin, and the other full of Fear Toxin? Like, if you trap a bunch of people in a room, and break open a canister of both toxins of either sides of the room, what would happen to the people in the middle?
Probably not much, they would die very quickly. But to actually answer the question, since Joker's is mostly based on opiates and hallucinagens, it would make the effects of Scarecrow's gas worse. A bad drug trip.
This is one of the better episodes I've seen you put out. No fuzzy theoreticals, no blatantly sponsored content, just an interesting question, the comic solution and the plausibility of it all IRL. Good on you Kyle Hill, I heartily approve this week. Have a Thumbs Up. I'd still prefer to see like 20 minute episode actually getting into a little more of the hard science behind this stuff though.
so if is the son of felicity and oliver and he's thor than oliver and felicity are titans? (one of them titan other god im not sure how grek mitoligy) (even though thod is a nordic god)
Now I'm curious as to how The Joker has made himself immune to his own toxin... I mean I get that repeated exposure in small doses can build immunity... but how did he survive it when he did that first bit that turned him INTO the joker.
to the air filters comment I say, that would explain it but I must wonder why people say he is then... and the chemicals being different one, that would explain his ability to survive quite well.
It's completely feasible that the joker would keep it in liquid form and spray a mist in people's face out of his flower but when he fills rooms with it he would need a vaporizer of some sort
My favorite Because Science video! Please do more Batman related videos...how about Scarecrow fear toxin, Bane's Venom or The Mad Hatter's microchip in his hats that control minds? I am waiting with Bat-anticipation!
IIRC since Batman TAS was a kid's cartoon, they couldn't have Joker Venom kill its victims, so it just left them permanently catatonic with that rictus grin on their faces. Totally not a fate worse than death...
In all of the film interpretations that I've seen the cloud is, well, a cloud. Meaning that it wouldn't have to be a gas, just an aerosol. It could theoretically be done.
If those compounds were dissolved in DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide), the victims would absorb them through their skin; DMSO is regularly used for transdermal medication delivery.
+Nerdist They could simply make the stuff spray out like in window cleaner spray or perfume sprays, or more effectively you could use sonic vibrating thingies to turn it into a fine mist, you see my point? I've actually never seen the joker (or marvel comics) so I am just saying this because I presume he had to deliver it somehow other then throwing.
+Scientifica Kosmos I think the term you're looking for is 'aerosol', but I completely agree with you. It's the only way I could think of it being used as a 'gas' without the strychnine de-toxifying (probably not a real word, but you get what I mean).
The strychnine would be held separately and mixed in during distribution as an aerosol. Thus the spray isn't from a lone nozzle, but two firing simultaneously.
I love these segments...admittedly most of the time I'm trying to keep up with the concepts. It's awesome because I know that I'll pick up something new from every vid. Keep the info coming!
When I first read the title, the first thing that popped into my head was Joker coming into contact with the Symbiote from marvel (venom, carnage, etc..) and the thought of that made me smile.
Maybe he stores both chemicles in separate pressurised compartments within his jacket, and the mix occurs whenever he triggers his "flower." That sounded better in my head.
Has Because Science ever tackled Kryptonite, specifically multicolored Kryptonite? I just posted this on my Facebook page to discuss that topic. I'd be curious to see what this V-Blog can do with it. "It's not the rock Superman is "allergic" too. It's the radiation the rock emits that can kill him because it prevents his cells from absorbing sunlight and make him vulnerable. The radiation could come from anywhere, not just a rock. Look at Superman 3, which had a Kryptonite beam (though calling it Kryptonite is false since Kryptonite does refer to the rock (Krypton for the planet, ite for meteorite). What WOULD we call the radiation itself? Has anyone bothered to give it a name? Which brings an interesting question: the comics do tend to treat the rocks as the source of the effect, hence different colored rocks have different effects on Superman, but would this be true? Wouldn't be it more accurate to say that the radiation itself would need to shift from one effect to the next in order to affect Superman differently regardless of the color of the rock? If so, what is it that causes the rocks to change color/the radiation to shift? What would need to happen is that the radiation should shift and that should cause the rock to change color, not the other way around."
This is relevant to my interests. Kryptonite emits a radiation that damages Kryptonian cells. In fact its harmful to humans too but it takes much longer for the radiation to take effect. Lex Luthor wore a kryptonite ring for years until he developed cancer that spread throughout his entire body. Superman handles different radioactive signatures differently. Kryptonite obviously makes him instantly weak, and prolonged exposure would kill him. Solar radiation heals him and makes him more powerful. Sometimes he's flown directly into the sun to supercharge his powers. Nuclear radiation from man made bombs also have an adverse effect on him too. In the Dark Knight Returns Superman absorbs the impact of an atomic bomb and he's left emaciated until he can discharge the radiation from his body and absorb UV radiation from the sun. I would love to hear a scientific explanation for how Kryptonite works. Humans can tolerate radiation to a certain extent. Exposure to uranium for a few minutes would cause radiation sickness. We can tolerate daily bombardment of UV radiation provided that we don't remain in a fixed position in direct sunlight for more than a few hours. Skin damage, cellular mutation, skin cancer, all of those things come from our sun. Some natural springs contain trace amounts of barium which is radioactive, and if its ingested in large enough quantities it can cause health problems. You pose some interesting questions that I hope we get some answers to.
sounds like the writer of that particular issue just threw stuff together that sounded about right, "it kills ya, but it also makes ya happy...hmmm so poison, poison - happy drug, happy drug, happy drug, sounds about right..." weird coincidence that the combination actually might produce an effect comparable to the depicted forms of comic book demise? maybe...
you mentioning the word strychnine suddenly made me recall some memories of my childhood particularly when I was in elementary almost over a decade or so ago. i first encountered the chemical strychnine on an entry for a connect-the-dots book about animals. The entry is regarding the Cascade Mountain Wolf where it mentions how strychnine was by hunters to kill them. It was a sad tale but at that time I also find the word strychnine and its pronunciation cool (the book suggested it as 'strike-nine'). That's about it. I just feel like sharing it and great video as always.
I had a dream about the joker. Me and a bunch of other people some of them my classmates, were all in my schools theater. After a couple seconds people started screaming and the joker and his henchmen were gunning down a couple of running students and just as I was about to run I heard him say those that stay will be my henchmen and most likely won’t be killed. So me and a couple other people stayed as the joker came around with this weird looking gun. He held it under our noses and pulled the trigger spraying a gas into our noses and then everyone’s skin turned paper white and our hair turned green we started to laugh and our lips turned red. It only lasted for a few second but honestly it was SUPER relaxing like damn.
maybe it has some sort of temperature set and keeps it's water just below freezing point and when released maybe the gun sends cold air or some very cold water vapor?
I LOOOOVE learning about the real science behind comics poisons. It really brings the reality aspect in the fictional stories. Who else is reading DC comics/graphic novels while watching Batman animated shows and having this video on your phone all at the same time? 🙌 yeaaa that’s me right now 😂 such a huge DC nerd 🤓
But... The Joker's cousin is actually the one who creates the formula for Joker Venom. It's revealed in Legends of the Dark Knight #50, set before the first official meeting of Batman and the Joker.
They also revealed in the New 52 comics "Death of the Family" that one of the chemicals used was the element Dubnium, and revealed it because of its original name Hahnium, which on the table its symbol is "Ha."
You could boil them, compress the cocktail into a tank containing liquid strictnine to the point that the vaporous compounds liquify, adding to the strictnine and creating, essentially, an aerosol which is vaporized liquid falling into a gas AND liquid.
Something doesn't need to be past its boiling point to be a "gas" - a mist would produce similar results while 'merely' being a cloud of small droplets - that's how aerosol cans work, air fresheners, and most inhalers. So it's probably normally kept in a liquid state, and the gaseous version is merely the liquid run through misters due to sheer pressure.
Hemlock Water-Dropwart is a slow-acting, smile inducing poison. It's the closest you can get to actual Joker venom as no poison on the planet has the effect of uncontrollable laughter.
Maybe they chemicals mix when there sprayed and all the chemicals are kept in separate places in jokers suit and then they can be manually controlled by the joker. This might be stretching it a little far but it would be cool if my theory was correct
The components of Joker Venom were actually listed previously in 1993's "DC Comics STAR Labs Technical Manual," which featured an inventory and descriptions of various items in the DC Universe, though I'm not sure if it was accurate.
Hey Kyle, If I where to time travel 20yrs back in time. Would I be in the same exact place on earth or would I be in the exact place the earth is in the universe now?
+Dyslexics Untied Depends on the exact time you are traveling. Let's say that you time traveled back an hour right now, without traveling back to the same place. You would be thousands of miles away from your computer! Time travel really has to be "space-time" travel, or else you'd end up in an ocean or maybe floating through space.
The idea that Joker Venom/Smylex/Whatever contains hydrogen cyanide and strychnine was first seen in DC TECHNICAL MANUAL: S.T.A.R. LABS 1993 ANNUAL REPORT, a supplement for the (officially licensed) DC HEROES tabletop roleplaying game published by Mayfair Games. (The book actually said it was "strychnodide," a [fictional] derivative of strychnine.) Nice to see that bit finally made it to the comics.
always wondered if Harley was exposed to the same toxin as The Joker (pending on which incarnation of her character) how come she didn't end up with the same characteristics (green hair, the permanent grin) and end up with only with the bleached skin and somewhat psychotic tendencies. And that could even be debated if she was always like that or after the toxin
Hang on, there's another comic during "Death of The Family" (not to be confused with the 1980's "Death IN the family" in which Jason Todd (the second robin is murdered by the Joker) it shows that the (or a version of) chemical formula is Ha. (Big H, little a.) That's an element, right?
Right, here's a question If Spider-Man is immune to any gas or toxin unless tailored to the Spider-Sense itself, does that mean Joker would get wrecked by Spider-Man? He can match Batman in hand to hand combat, but Spider-Man could annihilate him in hand to hand.......
Ultinuc While he is still "succeptible" to gases or toxins, his Spider-Sense basically makes any not tailored to it "null" and "void"; basically, his human senses are affected by gases or toxins, but the spider-sense compensates for them
Spiderman would wreck Joker anyway. Batman is just a strong and mobile dude. Spiderman has super strength, super reaction, and can move way faster than Batman. Spider webs are also stronger than steel so Spiderman would just have to web him from afar.
It's probably not a "gas" it's most likely an aerosol, which will keep all those chemicals at a temperature which they wouldn't break down but would still be easy to disperse
I think that is why he holds it in his acid flower but when he has a full tanks of the stuff he just sticks with the acid that would be why we only see him use it with the flower if it's a close kill and with tanks if he wants to kill lots of people in one room and that would be why he puts it in the vents or any air duct so that it does not dissipate to fast so that it could kill more people in the short time he has and he does kinda throw it at them with the flower, even though the toxin did not have a backstory until that comic it all made sense in the end why he did that it all made sense in the end
Strychnine is terrifying. I saw on a episode of Deadly Women, (Belle Gunness) killed around 40 people, (at least 14 of which) were mostly husbands- she’d lace their food with Strychnine, that was commonly used as rat poison in the 1800s. It makes your whole body cringe inward, until your body locks in a fetal position, where all your muscles spasm like a vice or bear trap...it’s one of the most excruciating ways to die. And your conscience the entire time unable to breath, talk or move. It’s like your whole body is squeezing itself to death. That’s some scary shit. I think it’s even a more fucked up way to kill rats, honestly. Then Belle fed their corpses to her pigs on her farm, and burned and buried the rest. People think she got away with it, too. Her house eventually burned down, but they never recovered Belle’s body. Just a headless female carcass that was much smaller than her.
Maybe the breakdown of strychnine by the high temperatures is what allows the smile, as it ends up locking the facial expression rather than contorting the face entirely.
well then wouldn't he have to store it as a liquid then heat it up just before use or store the Strychnine in a different canister then have the 2 gases meet just before use. The only problem I see with this is the grenades he uses but it could be a pressure thing where he adds in the strychnine last to keep the pressure high while being able to keep the temperature lower without the other gases forming back into liquids. ( think I said that correctly)
I had read from the man who laughs the active agent causing the muscle spasms in the face and neck is derived from the active agents in a regular tetanus infection made much more lethal (probably with hydrogen cyanide). Also pin pricking Aaron Cashes newborn baby with it in a one shot i once read (don't remember the name). From the book he went trough hundreds of test subjects to get the desired grin before going public as the Joker. In case you haven't noticed i love this character.
Ah this makes more sense now, I didn't know that cyanide messed with blood oxygenation. So the laughing to death has an element of hypoxia, as the brain shuts down and runs on the more childlike simple regions before you fully suffocate.
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to put these poisons into a solution and aeresolize them? Maybe you could grind them so fine that the particles themselves can remain airborne ... like weaponized anthrax. (asking for a friend)
There needs to be an episode about Scarecrow's fear toxin
you for president, sir.
Probably benadryl in gas form. That shit really is fear toxin.
+Leon Martin Batman Forever doll show
omg I use to trip out on that when I was a teen. fuking stoopid. lmao
TheDCmatrix YES!
Kyle is slowly looking more and more like Thor's younger twin.
And it is awesome.
+Dragonivon How can there be a younger twin?
Thomas Gourley Because even Asgardian women can't have both children at the same time.
+Thomas Gourley If you're a twin, like me, you'd know that both babies don't come out at the same time. The first twin to come out, is the older twin.
I know. I am a twin. I guess I just kind of forgot about that. I'm an idiot,
Let's be completely honest. Regardless of the show's rating, Joker venom is easily one of the most fucked up ways to die in all of fiction.
I actually would love to die of laugher rather than burned or fear
Benjamin568 Fndhfhdnsjqk yeah.... 😓
It's not laughter it's essentially strangulation. You are choking to death through uncontrollable laughter. So you are listening to yourself laughing as you slowly choke to death unable to stop yourself. As you are slowly dying laughing all the while you slowly realize you can't stop no matter what you do you are dying and though your eyeballs are straining and you are dying of breath your face contorted in a grim smile as you slowly die you begin to collapse still laughing because your body can't do anything else like being trapped somewhere unable to do anything but watch yourself die.
Oh god....
The best part is that it GETS PAST RATINGS BOARDS.
It really pisses me off that Nerdist videos got so little views, when they deserve a lot and lot more. Because Science for example provides a deep and logical explanation for pop-culture that we take for granted. Anywho good job Nerdist, good job
+Cj Khis Yeah.
+Cj Khis 16k in views isn't that bad
+Ron Petersen averege big channels are easy get over hundreds of views, and the content not very original.
Cj Khis This video has over 16,000 views. Not just a couple hundred. Also not sure why your pissed. Its not your content to be pissed over.
+Ron Petersen I meant that other big channels have over hundreds of thousands of views. Quality of content Nerdist creates are worth much more views. For example Because Science makes a legitimate deep science explanation for of things, that includes an actual physics and calculus
thor talking about joker venom, seems legit
Well he is immune to the gas
elgato9o *shrugs*
Joker defeats Thor 8/10 times
Now do Scarecrow's toxin! 😍
Ryan Rieth made that
So, what would happen if you drop two containers, one full of Joker Toxin, and the other full of Fear Toxin? Like, if you trap a bunch of people in a room, and break open a canister of both toxins of either sides of the room, what would happen to the people in the middle?
nervous laughter
Luciano Martinez bad smelling room filled with laughter 😉
Probably not much, they would die very quickly. But to actually answer the question, since Joker's is mostly based on opiates and hallucinagens, it would make the effects of Scarecrow's gas worse. A bad drug trip.
Ha ha ha ha ha AHhhhhh!
Would you say that's worse than joker venom and mutagen?
This is one of the better episodes I've seen you put out.
No fuzzy theoreticals, no blatantly sponsored content, just an interesting question, the comic solution and the plausibility of it all IRL.
Good on you Kyle Hill, I heartily approve this week. Have a Thumbs Up.
I'd still prefer to see like 20 minute episode actually getting into a little more of the hard science behind this stuff though.
+Samael 11 Trust me, I'd like longer content too, just not in the cards right now. But there might be a reshuffling in the next few weeks...
Fun fact: strychnine used to be considered a performance enhancing drug.
Look up the 1904 St. Louis marathon for details
He looks like Oliver Queens and Felicity ' s love child.
TRUUU
so if is the son of felicity and oliver and he's thor than oliver and felicity are titans?
(one of them titan other god im not sure how grek mitoligy)
(even though thod is a nordic god)
Ikr !! I'm always relating Kyle with Felicity 😂😂
Talk about a sadistic weapon
Turn 1 Yeti are sadistic weapons. God damn Druids
+The SaT Crew I'll drink to that! (Not this concoction though XD)
This man straight up taught people to make the most horrific poison in comic history
Youve just given someone the tools they need to become the joker!!!!!
+Bruce Wayne It is your duty to protect us! Become the Batman!
Well they also need to have a lot of chemistry experience.
They will end up dying eventually
Now I'm curious as to how The Joker has made himself immune to his own toxin... I mean I get that repeated exposure in small doses can build immunity... but how did he survive it when he did that first bit that turned him INTO the joker.
i don't think he is immune, i've sen him use air filters in his nostrils.
As far as I know, the chemicals he fell into were different, not the same as his venom.
to the air filters comment I say, that would explain it but I must wonder why people say he is then... and the chemicals being different one, that would explain his ability to survive quite well.
i think instead of killing him it mutated him
@@newquinken Lego Batman.
Do scarecrows aka Jonathan Cranes fear toxin/gas next
It's completely feasible that the joker would keep it in liquid form and spray a mist in people's face out of his flower but when he fills rooms with it he would need a vaporizer of some sort
My favorite Because Science video! Please do more Batman related videos...how about Scarecrow fear toxin, Bane's Venom or The Mad Hatter's microchip in his hats that control minds? I am waiting with Bat-anticipation!
Ryan Rieth made fear toxin
Kyle two things
1 scarecrow fear toxin, explain
2 admit you are Thor's younger brother
Mark Hamill will always be the one true Joker for me. When I read the comics, his is the voice I hear.
Des Ires 👍
right?!
IIRC since Batman TAS was a kid's cartoon, they couldn't have Joker Venom kill its victims, so it just left them permanently catatonic with that rictus grin on their faces. Totally not a fate worse than death...
Kyle is so funny hahahaha in this video, Joker would proud.
+IncanTV Thank you!
You're welcome!
"Because science", prove the theory that Jokers is not really crazy he's just really smart and pretending to be crazy
In all of the film interpretations that I've seen the cloud is, well, a cloud. Meaning that it wouldn't have to be a gas, just an aerosol. It could theoretically be done.
I think Joker Gas is likely just an aerosol form of Joker Venom, sprayed into a fine mist rather then being a true gas.
Nerdist you missed the chemical Hahnium which was mentioned in batman new 52 vol.3 death of the family. ....yeah I'm a huge nerd(ist) geddit?
Do a video on the BANE venom and what chemical properties we would need. That would be interesting.
You could store it as a liquid and use a water spray approach, or you could store the parts that don't heat well separately to be dispersed together.
If those compounds were dissolved in DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide), the victims would absorb them through their skin; DMSO is regularly used for transdermal medication delivery.
0:56 I wonder how did he slowly edit his normal face into the Joker's face? Like what editing software did he use to do that?
:04 That's it, I want a campaign to make Kyle Hill the new voice for the Joker in all future games and animated features.
This video made me smile! Wait, I'm not in a smiling or joking mood...... what is going on? AHHHH!!!!
Good that I dont care about Poison :D
+Jess_Marie_G Thanks for watching!
+Nerdist They could simply make the stuff spray out like in window cleaner spray or perfume sprays, or more effectively you could use sonic vibrating thingies to turn it into a fine mist, you see my point? I've actually never seen the joker (or marvel comics) so I am just saying this because I presume he had to deliver it somehow other then throwing.
+Scientifica Kosmos I think the term you're looking for is 'aerosol', but I completely agree with you. It's the only way I could think of it being used as a 'gas' without the strychnine de-toxifying (probably not a real word, but you get what I mean).
Cai Jephcott or it could be an "atomizer" which is used to turn liquids into a fine mist or fog.
The strychnine would be held separately and mixed in during distribution as an aerosol. Thus the spray isn't from a lone nozzle, but two firing simultaneously.
Kyle, I love your hair.
I love these segments...admittedly most of the time I'm trying to keep up with the concepts. It's awesome because I know that I'll pick up something new from every vid. Keep the info coming!
When I first read the title, the first thing that popped into my head was Joker coming into contact with the Symbiote from marvel (venom, carnage, etc..) and the thought of that made me smile.
YES! omg i asked for this and you delivered you are so awesome!!! :)
Maybe he stores both chemicles in separate pressurised compartments within his jacket, and the mix occurs whenever he triggers his "flower." That sounded better in my head.
Has Because Science ever tackled Kryptonite, specifically multicolored Kryptonite? I just posted this on my Facebook page to discuss that topic. I'd be curious to see what this V-Blog can do with it.
"It's not the rock Superman is "allergic" too. It's the radiation the rock emits that can kill him because it prevents his cells from absorbing sunlight and make him vulnerable. The radiation could come from anywhere, not just a rock. Look at Superman 3, which had a Kryptonite beam (though calling it Kryptonite is false since Kryptonite does refer to the rock (Krypton for the planet, ite for meteorite).
What WOULD we call the radiation itself? Has anyone bothered to give it a name?
Which brings an interesting question: the comics do tend to treat the rocks as the source of the effect, hence different colored rocks have different effects on Superman, but would this be true? Wouldn't be it more accurate to say that the radiation itself would need to shift from one effect to the next in order to affect Superman differently regardless of the color of the rock? If so, what is it that causes the rocks to change color/the radiation to shift? What would need to happen is that the radiation should shift and that should cause the rock to change color, not the other way around."
This is relevant to my interests. Kryptonite emits a radiation that damages Kryptonian cells. In fact its harmful to humans too but it takes much longer for the radiation to take effect. Lex Luthor wore a kryptonite ring for years until he developed cancer that spread throughout his entire body.
Superman handles different radioactive signatures differently. Kryptonite obviously makes him instantly weak, and prolonged exposure would kill him. Solar radiation heals him and makes him more powerful. Sometimes he's flown directly into the sun to supercharge his powers. Nuclear radiation from man made bombs also have an adverse effect on him too. In the Dark Knight Returns Superman absorbs the impact of an atomic bomb and he's left emaciated until he can discharge the radiation from his body and absorb UV radiation from the sun.
I would love to hear a scientific explanation for how Kryptonite works.
Humans can tolerate radiation to a certain extent. Exposure to uranium for a few minutes would cause radiation sickness. We can tolerate daily bombardment of UV radiation provided that we don't remain in a fixed position in direct sunlight for more than a few hours. Skin damage, cellular mutation, skin cancer, all of those things come from our sun. Some natural springs contain trace amounts of barium which is radioactive, and if its ingested in large enough quantities it can cause health problems.
You pose some interesting questions that I hope we get some answers to.
I say we test this theory on fish just to be safe. HA HA HA
Haha I see what you did there
Do Fear toxin next
Rather than it being a gas, what about an aerosol or atomised liquid spray?
sounds like the writer of that particular issue just threw stuff together that sounded about right, "it kills ya, but it also makes ya happy...hmmm so poison, poison - happy drug, happy drug, happy drug, sounds about right..."
weird coincidence that the combination actually might produce an effect comparable to the depicted forms of comic book demise? maybe...
Kyle, your hair is goals! And I love Because science, keep up the great work!
I watch for the bounce Kyle does at the end when he says "thanks".
+Ian Watson I can't not do it!
+Kyle, No offense to your grammar but your sentence sounds like, "I can not not do it."
i died at the end of the video
you mentioning the word strychnine suddenly made me recall some memories of my childhood particularly when I was in elementary almost over a decade or so ago. i first encountered the chemical strychnine on an entry for a connect-the-dots book about animals. The entry is regarding the Cascade Mountain Wolf where it mentions how strychnine was by hunters to kill them. It was a sad tale but at that time I also find the word strychnine and its pronunciation cool (the book suggested it as 'strike-nine').
That's about it. I just feel like sharing it and great video as always.
Loved this episode +Kyle Hill! Very interesting indeed... But mate, why so serious? ;)
I had a dream about the joker. Me and a bunch of other people some of them my classmates, were all in my schools theater. After a couple seconds people started screaming and the joker and his henchmen were gunning down a couple of running students and just as I was about to run I heard him say those that stay will be my henchmen and most likely won’t be killed. So me and a couple other people stayed as the joker came around with this weird looking gun. He held it under our noses and pulled the trigger spraying a gas into our noses and then everyone’s skin turned paper white and our hair turned green we started to laugh and our lips turned red. It only lasted for a few second but honestly it was SUPER relaxing like damn.
how does Mr. freeze ice gun work? why? because....I want one and also SCIENCE
maybe it has some sort of temperature set and keeps it's water just below freezing point and when released maybe the gun sends cold air or some very cold water vapor?
It possible that you can store the ingredients in the strychnine at different temperatures in different canisters and then combine them once used
THORS LITTLE BRO?
Lol
Coincidence I think not
Fun fact: that voice you like so much is none other than the great Mark Hamill.
+chrisb4131 Mark Hamill is THE one and only Joker IMO.
Captain Pantaloons you will get no argument from me.
chrisb4131
High-Five!
Captain Pantaloons Down low.....Damn, you weren't too slow. :D
chrisb4131
I'm all over that s*** ;)
love your joker impression intro
I LOOOOVE learning about the real science behind comics poisons. It really brings the reality aspect in the fictional stories. Who else is reading DC comics/graphic novels while watching Batman animated shows and having this video on your phone all at the same time? 🙌 yeaaa that’s me right now 😂 such a huge DC nerd 🤓
But... The Joker's cousin is actually the one who creates the formula for Joker Venom. It's revealed in Legends of the Dark Knight #50, set before the first official meeting of Batman and the Joker.
+Nerdist That smile caused by Strychnine is called as RISUS SARDONICUS.
Nice Mark Hammil impression at the start
They also revealed in the New 52 comics "Death of the Family" that one of the chemicals used was the element Dubnium, and revealed it because of its original name Hahnium, which on the table its symbol is "Ha."
Now I know how to make this gas when I turn into a villain in the future
I hope Mark Hamil sees this video; I just feel like he'd love to see this
Primmy Dharamadhaj he should do a reaction video to it dressed as the joker! 😂
well you know you're at a party, and somebody's passing around a weaponized hallucinogen....
because drugs
If ANY of my Science teachers had looked like Kyle... I'd have paid a TON more attention.
Nice on telling us the formula of the Joker Venom. Care to do Scarecrow's fear gas?
Could you do the science behind Scarecrow's Fear Toxin?
my favorite DORK!!!! keep the videos coming
You could boil them, compress the cocktail into a tank containing liquid strictnine to the point that the vaporous compounds liquify, adding to the strictnine and creating, essentially, an aerosol which is vaporized liquid falling into a gas AND liquid.
Something doesn't need to be past its boiling point to be a "gas" - a mist would produce similar results while 'merely' being a cloud of small droplets - that's how aerosol cans work, air fresheners, and most inhalers. So it's probably normally kept in a liquid state, and the gaseous version is merely the liquid run through misters due to sheer pressure.
Hemlock Water-Dropwart is a slow-acting, smile inducing poison. It's the closest you can get to actual Joker venom as no poison on the planet has the effect of uncontrollable laughter.
can you do a video about a speculations of what kind of chemicals the joker might have fallen into
Kyle's impressions are really good. Subscribed!
im curious how poison ivy's toxins work care to explain please ?
You need an episode going over scarecrow fear gas toxin
Maybe they chemicals mix when there sprayed and all the chemicals are kept in separate places in jokers suit and then they can be manually controlled by the joker. This might be stretching it a little far but it would be cool if my theory was correct
The Joker has always been my favorite villain, and I plan to have my next tattoo to be of his face.
The components of Joker Venom were actually listed previously in 1993's "DC Comics STAR Labs Technical Manual," which featured an inventory and descriptions of various items in the DC Universe, though I'm not sure if it was accurate.
+TheComicCrafter I wouldn't hedge my bets on that being canon.
***** Probably not, but it was pretty neat that they tried producing something like that.
TheComicCrafter Yeah I always liked technical manuals and cool little stuff like that from sci-fi franchises.
Hey Kyle, If I where to time travel 20yrs back in time. Would I be in the same exact place on earth or would I be in the exact place the earth is in the universe now?
+Dyslexics Untied Depends on the exact time you are traveling. Let's say that you time traveled back an hour right now, without traveling back to the same place. You would be thousands of miles away from your computer! Time travel really has to be "space-time" travel, or else you'd end up in an ocean or maybe floating through space.
+Kyle Hill Cool, Maybe that answers the question 'Where are all the time travelers'. Thanks for answering my question, keep up the good work
wait...so is it possible to create such a thing...that's terrifying.
The idea that Joker Venom/Smylex/Whatever contains hydrogen cyanide and strychnine was first seen in DC TECHNICAL MANUAL: S.T.A.R. LABS 1993 ANNUAL REPORT, a supplement for the (officially licensed) DC HEROES tabletop roleplaying game published by Mayfair Games. (The book actually said it was "strychnodide," a [fictional] derivative of strychnine.) Nice to see that bit finally made it to the comics.
always wondered if Harley was exposed to the same toxin as The Joker (pending on which incarnation of her character) how come she didn't end up with the same characteristics (green hair, the permanent grin) and end up with only with the bleached skin and somewhat psychotic tendencies. And that could even be debated if she was always like that or after the toxin
You seemed so drunk in the last part :'D
omg I was thinking the same thing!!!
He's pretending to be affected by the Joker Gas.
Ruby Patterson *thanks captain obvious!*
Thx for the formula
Should do one on the Scarecrow's fear toxin! Totally interested in that!
Hang on, there's another comic during "Death of The Family" (not to be confused with the 1980's "Death IN the family" in which Jason Todd (the second robin is murdered by the Joker)
it shows that the (or a version of) chemical formula is Ha. (Big H, little a.) That's an element, right?
The strychnine could potentially be nebulized and mixed with the others during administration of the gas
"POCKET SAND!"
that intro was sick haha
Right, here's a question
If Spider-Man is immune to any gas or toxin unless tailored to the Spider-Sense itself, does that mean Joker would get wrecked by Spider-Man? He can match Batman in hand to hand combat, but Spider-Man could annihilate him in hand to hand.......
Since when is Spider-Man immune to gases and toxins? I've never seen anything to suggest that.
Ultinuc While he is still "succeptible" to gases or toxins, his Spider-Sense basically makes any not tailored to it "null" and "void"; basically, his human senses are affected by gases or toxins, but the spider-sense compensates for them
Ultinuc I think Death Battle did a Batman vs spiderman as well, actually......
Spiderman would wreck Joker anyway. Batman is just a strong and mobile dude. Spiderman has super strength, super reaction, and can move way faster than Batman. Spider webs are also stronger than steel so Spiderman would just have to web him from afar.
TheLegless101 I agree; I was just wondering whether the gas (his second most powerful weapon) would even touch Spider-Man
It's probably not a "gas" it's most likely an aerosol, which will keep all those chemicals at a temperature which they wouldn't break down but would still be easy to disperse
I think that is why he holds it in his acid flower but when he has a full tanks of the stuff he just sticks with the acid that would be why we only see him use it with the flower if it's a close kill and with tanks if he wants to kill lots of people in one room and that would be why he puts it in the vents or any air duct so that it does not dissipate to fast so that it could kill more people in the short time he has and he does kinda throw it at them with the flower, even though the toxin did not have a backstory until that comic it all made sense in the end why he did that it all made sense in the end
Strychnine is terrifying. I saw on a episode of Deadly Women, (Belle Gunness) killed around 40 people, (at least 14 of which) were mostly husbands- she’d lace their food with Strychnine, that was commonly used as rat poison in the 1800s.
It makes your whole body cringe inward, until your body locks in a fetal position, where all your muscles spasm like a vice or bear trap...it’s one of the most excruciating ways to die. And your conscience the entire time unable to breath, talk or move. It’s like your whole body is squeezing itself to death. That’s some scary shit. I think it’s even a more fucked up way to kill rats, honestly.
Then Belle fed their corpses to her pigs on her farm, and burned and buried the rest.
People think she got away with it, too. Her house eventually burned down, but they never recovered Belle’s body. Just a headless female carcass that was much smaller than her.
Next you should see about Scarecrows fear toxin
Maybe the breakdown of strychnine by the high temperatures is what allows the smile, as it ends up locking the facial expression rather than contorting the face entirely.
well then wouldn't he have to store it as a liquid then heat it up just before use or store the Strychnine in a different canister then have the 2 gases meet just before use. The only problem I see with this is the grenades he uses but it could be a pressure thing where he adds in the strychnine last to keep the pressure high while being able to keep the temperature lower without the other gases forming back into liquids. ( think I said that correctly)
2:25 nice impression. I mean wow.
Could you guys go behind the science of double jumping
I had read from the man who laughs the active agent causing the muscle spasms in the face and neck is derived from the active agents in a regular tetanus infection made much more lethal (probably with hydrogen cyanide). Also pin pricking Aaron Cashes newborn baby with it in a one shot i once read (don't remember the name). From the book he went trough hundreds of test subjects to get the desired grin before going public as the Joker. In case you haven't noticed i love this character.
hey (Because Science) Kyle Hill can u do a vid explaining the science of the Scarecrows fear toxin
Ah this makes more sense now, I didn't know that cyanide messed with blood oxygenation. So the laughing to death has an element of hypoxia, as the brain shuts down and runs on the more childlike simple regions before you fully suffocate.
Can we please have a video explaining what's in or theoretically what could work for scarecrows nightmare serum?
I wonder how much research the writers had to do to get the effects and names of the poisons
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to put these poisons into a solution and aeresolize them? Maybe you could grind them so fine that the particles themselves can remain airborne ... like weaponized anthrax. (asking for a friend)