If you asked what Deadpool had come up with, the solution still lay within the circus.
Some people might not be familiar with circuses, but their main acts generally consisted of magic, animal taming, and acrobatics.
Among the acrobatic acts, knife throwing and trapeze performances were staples. No matter what kind of circus it was, without those two acts, it was unqualified.
When trapeze acts first appeared, they involved a group of people swinging high in the air, using momentum to fling themselves out and play relay games midair. In essence, it was somewhat like the uneven bars in gymnastics.
Nightwing's elders, the Grayson Family, were a famous Gotham trapeze family. Generation after generation had performed aerial acts, giving him excellent flexibility from childhood and laying the foundation for him to become a Superhero.
Long ago, before televisions and radios existed, people had very limited forms of entertainment. Other than playing cards and drinking, there was little else to do, so traveling circuses found a solid market.
When starting out, they did not even need anything too complicated. They could buy some strange specimens and corpses, put on a freak show, rent a house for exhibits, and make money.
After they developed further, they formed large troupes, much like China's opera companies.
Between different troupes, as Old Guo once said, competitors held naked hatred for one another. Thus, when the circus business was gradually squeezed into decline by all kinds of electronic appliances, brutal internal competition emerged.
At the very least, trapeze acts began pursuing more thrilling and crazier ways to perform.
For example, they incorporated what had originally been magic props into trapeze acts, giving rise to a performance method known as the Human Cannonball.
Simply put, it was a launching device shaped much like a cannon, capable of