Now a decade after Heath Ledger‘s Oscar-winning performance in The Dark Knight, we finally have an answer as to how filmmakers made the Joker‘s iconic “disappearing pencil” trick a reality.

Joker has on incredibly rare or out-of-continuity occasions become a hero in his own right, with his turn as a force of good not usually lasting long in either instance. More recently acting as a ...

In the scene, the Joker places a pencil upright into the table, before asking the men in front of him if they would like to see a magic trick. He then proceeds to slam a man’s head into the ...

A henchman (played by Charles Jarman) is instructed to attack Joker for wasting their time, only for the villain to jam the man’s head into a pencil, which he had stuck into the table.