Basic Trope: The hero finds the solution to a mystery, but their limited knowledge of the problem should not have allowed them to.
- Straight: There are very few clues leading to the whereabouts of the Joker, but Batman finds him anyway. Because he's Batman!
- Exaggerated: Batman finds out everything about the Joker: his whereabouts, his purpose, his hidden allies, the number of bullets in his gun, what he ate that morning...
- Downplayed: Batman attempts to explain how he realized the Joker's whereabouts, but his explanation is still incomplete.
- Justified:
- Batman knows that the Joker has always prepared his traps at the Amusement Park. There's no need to think it so hard this time: he must be in the Amusement Park, again.
- Most of Batman's deductions were made in his head, made unaware to the viewer.
- Inverted:
- Batman provides a very sound reasoning for his deduction of the Joker's whereabouts... but he was mistaken. And the Joker knew he would commit that mistake. Because he's the Joker!.
- Batman is given a substantial amount of evidence leading to the Joker's hideout, but comes to the wrong conclusion.
- Subverted:
- Batman has an "Eureka!" Moment and provides a very sound reasoning for his deduction of the Joker's whereabouts.
- Batman can't figure out where the Joker is and starts searching at random... and the Joker happens to be in the first place he tries.
- Batman merely lucked out in that Option #1 of X possible deductions was correct.
- Double Subverted:
- Batman has an "Eureka!" Moment and provides a very sound reasoning for his deduction of the Joker's whereabouts. Hey, wait a moment Batman... that reasoning is fine, but it is based on the knowledge of the hour of the day when the Joker took a bus. How did you know that? "Because I'm Batman!"
- the first of ten-thousand-plus possible deductions stretches believability a bit too much.
- Parodied: Batman deduces the Joker's whereabouts by randomly saying words until one of them feels right.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Batman has a small clue of the Joker's whereabouts. The small clue led to another clue, and then to another, and finally to the main reveal. The process is completely clear for the reader.
- Enforced: There are not enough pages left for a big detective work. Let's get on with that, and head to the fight scenes.
- Lampshaded: (Visible Sigh) "I don't know how you do it, Batman..."
- Invoked: "Hiya, Batsy. What took you so long?"
- Exploited: The Joker put a bug in the rainbow colored bouquet, and uses Batman's tendency to solve riddles with little to work with to have him unwittingly plan his next scheme.
- Defied: Gordon: "Wait a moment, Batman! I'm not taking my men anywhere unless you explain what makes you think that the Joker is at the Amusement Park!"
- Discussed: (continued from Defied) Batman: "Very well, commissioner, here's what we know so far based on our current evidence, and some ideas of where they would normally fit in..."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: The Joker gloats that Batman will never find him. Batman shows up immediately after he said that. He never mentions how he did find him.
- Deconstructed: The Joker intends to use Batman for his next plan but overestimates Batman's ability to deduce where he is. Batman never finds the Joker and the latter can't continue with his plan.
- Reconstructed: The Joker is then ambushed by Batman and the police at the very next place he goes to, with Batman having known that the Joker might give up if he at least wasn't there to stop him, and would come somewhere like here instead. In the end, the cops take away the Joker, who is laughing at the irony of Batman using him for his next plan instead.
- Alternatively... "Will the Joker really give up just like that? What exactly is taking Batman so long? Who is the joke really on? Find out next time, same Bat-Example, same Bat-Trope!"
- Played For Laughs: There's absolutely no clue on the location of the Joker. He can be anywhere. And Batman finds the solution completely from out of the blue.
Hm...Pizza days are usually on Friday...the number of bananas that make up a bunch is generally considered to be three or more...my shoes are a size too small...Good Lord! you want to go back to Bat Deduction, don't you?!
