Doctor dressed like The Joker delivers a baby and nightmares

The joker stopped being a super villain so he could deliver a baby.

On a dark night -- err, knight? -- a baby entered the world into the hands of the Joker.

Dr. Paul Locus, an OB at the Henry County Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, didn't let work impede his Halloween fun. Locus had dressed like the Heath Ledger version of The Joker, and opted to stay in character to deliver Justin and Brittany Selph’s baby daughter, Oaklyn.

We'll just assume he said "why so serious" once the baby started crying because if you're going full-on Halloween you have to go full-on.

Sure, little Oaklyn could grow up with a petrifying anxiety about scalpel-wielding, green-haired comic book villains, but who doesn't suffer that fear really?

At least Dr. Locus didn't dress like the Ben Affleck version of Batman.

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[H/T: Buzzfeed]

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