Na novela do filme , ficou um pouco mais claro que uma grande quantidade de munições que o Batman Os disparos não foram feitos para o Coringa, eles foram apontados para os carros alegóricos e qualquer outra coisa que parecesse pervertida. Apenas as balas parecem ter sido apontadas para ele, e elas foram evidentemente evitadas por sua dança errática:
Bullets, lasers, and missiles screamed down on Broad Avenue, all taking out their assigned targets. Batman wanted to make sure the Joker didn’t have any more surprises hiding in any of his floats or other equipment. So the equipment had to be obliterated.
In the middle of all the destruction, he saw the Joker doing the waltz. Everything had missed him. So far.
All right! He was having fun now.
Things were exploding all over the place. There went a float, here a truck—oops! a building got it that time — bad shot.
O script versão 1988 simplesmente mostra sua sobrevivência como nada menos que milagroso
Batman OPENS UP with everything, and we see the GATLING, MISSILES and LASER EXPLODE INTO ACTION.
EXT. ANGLE ON JOKER - MOMENT LATER
A rocket, bullets, and the laser beam SMASH into the street, all around the Joker. He leaps, LAUGHING, into the air and, miraculously, avoids being hit.
Como um aparte, vale a pena notar que no roteiro original ( versão de 1986 ), o Coringa estava em um tanque durante esta sequência.
EXT. BROAD AVENUE - ON BATWING
The black ultralight hurtles down Broad Avenue at full speed, on a suicide mission. MISSILES streak past on either side. MACHINE GUN FIRE peppers the dome of the cockpit. The REAR STABILIZER WING takes a direct hit... and BURSTS INTO FLAME!
The BATWING, trailing thick black smoke, bears down on the tank like a kamikaze plane. BOMB BAYS OPEN as BATMAN dumps the last of his high explosives DIRECTLY INTO THE PATH OF THE TANK. The BATWING takes a hard bounce off the top of the tank and CRASHES TO THE STREET.