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Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and adapted from the Batman comics. The first live-action film starring the Caped Crusader since 1997's Batman & Robin, and a Continuity Reboot for the franchise, it marked the start of Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.The film opens In Medias Res with Bruce Wayne incarcerated in a prison in Bhutan, where a man named Henri Ducard arranges for Bruce's release and offers him a place in Ra's al Ghul's League of Shadows. Ducard trains Bruce in the way of the Ninja — and in overcoming fear — while Bruce explains his Back Story. Upon discovering that Ra's intends to have Bruce lead the League of Shadows into Gotham City so the League can destroy it, Bruce renounces the League and lays waste to its mountaintop temple.Bruce returns to Gotham after his training comes to its abrupt end; he vows to take back the city from the criminals and prove that Gotham is not beyond saving. To accomplish his goals, Bruce combines his League of Shadows training, obscene wealth, old fear of bats, and access to his company's R&D projects to turn himself into a vigilante crimefighter. The Batman makes his grand entrance by bringing mafioso Carmine Falcone to justice, but in doing so, he discovers that Dr. Jonathan Crane has disturbing plans for Gotham City involving large quantities of a fear toxin — and that Crane works on orders from someone far more dangerous than Falcone...Followed by The Dark Knight.
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Secret Identity
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Secret Identity: Deconstructed; although Bruce has one, it’s practically impossible for him to hide it from everyone else, even when they are not Secret Chasers actively looking to know who the Batman is. The ones who find out all decide to be Secret Keepers, or even Secret Secret Keepers: The Big Bad immediately knows Batman is Bruce Wayne because he was his Evil Mentor. Alfred, Bruce's butler, helps Batman every step of the way. Lucius Fox, the Omnidisciplinary Scientist that provides Batman with his gadgets. Batman reveals his identity to his Love Interest Rachel. She becomes another Secret-Keeper.
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The Man in Front of the Man
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The Man in Front of the Man: Bruce, entering the League of Shadows, is introduced to Ra's al'Ghul, looking every bit the namesake, with his adjutant, Ducard. But before long it becomes clear the big man is a Decoy Leader and "Ducard" is the true Ra's al Ghul. Misdirection is, after all, one of the League of Shadows' prime tricks.
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Dirty Coward
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Dirty Coward: This is exactly what Falcone is when you take away all of his mafia mojo.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: Producer Larry Franco appears as a cop during a chase scene.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: "Scarecrow... Scarecrow..."
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: This movie marked a definite shift away from the previous Batman films; the world of Batman goes from being camp and over-the-top to dark and gritty. Even the humor is much more toned down.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Joe Chill's death scene looks remarkably like the death of JFK's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald: he's being escorted under guard when someone steps out of the crowd and shoots him in the chest.
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You Can't Thwart Stage One: The League of Shadows manages to start spreading the toxin throughout Gotham (and are most of the way to blowing up its water mains) before they are defeated.
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Heel–Face Door-Slam
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Happens when Joe Chill, who agrees to testify against Carmine Falcone in exchange for early parole, is assassinated by one of Falcone's goons immediately after the hearing.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Bruce Wayne says he ought to tear down Wayne Manor. The villains end up doing that for him. "You think I can't defeat two of your pawns?" / "As you wish." More mooks promptly appear. Ra's showing up at the birthday party and telling Bruce that he should have let him die. Guess what happens when Ra's gets trapped on the train later?
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All There in the Manual
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According to the novelization, Ducard does not like the idea of using nuclear weapons to implement his plans, and at the start of the book it's clearly stated that he (or, at least, a predecessor in the role of Ra's) tricked Hitler into losing World War II simply because he believed Hitler was too much of an extremist. Now, in The Dark Knight Rises, Bane plans to destroy Gotham with a nuclear bomb, and Bane's nuclear goals may have factored into his excommunication for excessive extremism...
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Bridal Carry
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Bridal Carry; Batman does this to Rachel. The scene was also the basis for one of the film posters, in which it was not clear if Rachel was dying or merely unconscious.
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Artistic License – Biology
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Artistic License – Biology: After Bruce falls into a frozen lake during a training session, Ducard tells him to focus on keeping his chest warm because his extremities "will take care of themselves." This is the exact opposite of how the human body works when cold, and Christopher Nolan himself worried people would freeze to death in real life by taking Ducard's advice.
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Graceful Loser
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Graceful Loser: Henri Ducard. When he is beaten and then left by Bruce in the crashing monorail, he just closes his eyes and accepts death.
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: A lot of promotional material made Scarecrow look like he would be the Big Bad, when in the full film, he's more of a secondary antagonist, acting as a go-between for the Falcone mob and the League of Shadows while advancing the latter's plans in secret.
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Beta Outfit
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Beta Outfit: Bruce starts out with an armored ninja costume before settling on the bat motif.
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Scare Chord: Batman gets a few when attacking the mooks on the dock in Batman Begins, followed by some serious "Psycho" Strings.
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Soft Glass: The bats that are summoned to keep the police distracted have no trouble breaking through glass windows. Batman is also able to crash through one of the monorail trains windows without any harm.
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The Cameo: Tim Booth from James has a small non-speaking role as lesser known Batman villain, Victor Zsaz. Character actor John Nolan, the director's uncle, appears at Bruce Wayne's birthday party. Actress Lucy Russell appears as a guest as a restaurant. Actor Jeremy Theobald appears as a water board technician. Actor Shane Rimmer appears as The Older Gotham Water Board Technician
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Calling Card: The joker playing card seen in The Stinger.
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Smuggling with Dolls: The Mafia under Carmine Falcone are shown to be using stuffed animals to import street drugs and the League of Shadows' hallucinogens, with different types of animals going to different dealers.
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I Own This Town
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I Own This Town: Carmine Falcone points out to Bruce Wayne all the government officials in the bar they're at — cops, a judge — then points a gun at Wayne's head and says that he could shoot him right there without any consequences at all.
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High-Altitude Interrogation: Batman performs this on Flass, repeatedly dropping him mere inches away from the ground and then lifting him back up with his batclaw.
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Take My Hand!
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Take My Hand!: Bruce Wayne saves the unconscious Ducard in this manner. He can only use one arm because he is flat on his back, with the gauntlet on his other arm wedged into the ice to hold him in place. At least Bruce yells to let the audience know it was really hard.
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Faceless Goons: The League of Shadows.
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Adaptational Villainy: In the original comics, Henri Ducard was simply a ruthless mercenary who served as a Secret-Keeper for Batman upon learning who he was. In this film, he's the Big Bad and the real Ra's al Ghul.
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Crimefighting with Cash: Bruce's suits and gadgets are mostly prototypes that his company shelved for various reasons.
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Crapsack World: Gotham is pictured as one. It's revealed that the League of Shadows are partly responsible for the current state of Gotham, having tried to destroy the city, which they perceived as a Wretched Hive, using economic means. Which mostly just made it more wretched.
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Chekhov's Gun: The blue flower. The fact that the monorail beams follow the same route as the water mains, and that the hub for both is located under Wayne Tower. Subverted with the weak first batch of Batsuit masks. It seems like foreshadowing for Batman's mask breaking, but it never comes back up, unless it's meant to foreshadow events in The Dark Knight Rises. All of the features that Fox describes when Bruce is trying out the Tumbler (its use to jump over rivers, and the rampless jump boosters) come in handy during the car chase and to get into the narrows after the cops have raised the bridge. The secret elevator to the Batcave comes in handy during the climax.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: A heroic example of both happens at the same time at one point. When a maître d' tries to 86 him for letting his two companions skinny-dip in the hotel's pool area, Bruce simply buys him off.
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Ironic Echo
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"Didn't you get the memo?" Said first by Earle to Lucius when firing Lucius. After Bruce Wayne gives Earle's job to Lucius, Bruce Wayne explains why he has the authority to do so, (providing the above Ironic Echo) and once Bruce is finished talking, Lucius says "Right you are, Mr. Wayne" and then looks at Earle, takes off his glasses, and asks "Didn't you get the memo?" This provides two ironic echoes in a row.
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Ultimate Final Exam
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Ultimate Final Exam: In the final test of his worthiness to join the League of Shadows, Bruce is dosed with a hallucinogenic compound derived from the blue flower he retrieved from the mountain, and then challenged to find Henri Ducard in a crowd of masked League members before Ducard can find him - the challenge being to resist the hallucinations and maintain discipline while simultaneously avoiding discovery. For good measure, it's wrapped up with a Deadly Graduation in which Bruce is encouraged to murder a criminal.
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In Medias Res
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In Medias Res: The film opens with Bruce Wayne being held in a Chinese prison, and we don't find out the circumstances leading up to it until later. This is in line with Nolan's style of non-chronological narratives.
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Lemming Cops
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Lemming Cops: The car chase plays this straight: Despite Batman's "no killing" creed (which the cops don't know about), many cops engage him in a high speed chase through the Loop, along highways and through back streets, as he's trying to rush a dying Rachel to the Batcave so he can give her the antidote. Over the course of the chase, we have the Tumbler drive over and crush a police car to start things off. Then, in the later parts, you wonder why the dispatcher doesn't call off the chase even after Batman uses a combination of caltrops and quick maneuvers to take out several police cars with multi-car pileups. When Bruce does get back to the Batcave and is admonished by Alfred for his reckless driving, (Alfred has been following the news reports of the chase), Alfred tells him "It's a miracle no one was killed." Er, yeah.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: Whilst being questioned by Batman, Crane throws out a line directly quoted from Batman: Haunted Knight. Crane's method for widely distributing the fear toxin is through the pipes under Arkham Asylum, an approach the Scarecrow also used in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Dreams in Darkness". Crane also gets gassed in Batman's presence and hallucinates him as a demonic creature in another Animated Series episode, "Nothing to Fear". "I'm Batman", as delivered to Falcone. If you pause and look carefully at the evidence bag with the Joker playing card at the end of the film, you can see that the name of the registering officer was J. Kerr, one of the Joker's known aliases in the comics. When Bruce Wayne is "introduced" to Ra's al Ghul at his party, he finds himself facing a bald Asian League of Shadows member who could be a younger version of their supposed leader. In the comics, Ra's al Ghul has immortality because he uses the Lazarus Pit to rejuvenate his youth. One cop says "Who is this guy?!", just like another cop in Tim Burton's film. Also for the 1989 Batman, Flass's Adaptational Ugliness makes him look far less like the comic Flass (tall and muscular, ex-military, clean-cut white hair, clean-shaven) and much more like the corrupt officer Max Eckhardt (long-haired, shorter, overweight and mustachioed) from that film. At Victor Zsasz’s trial, Dr. Crane formally refers to him as “Mr. Zsasz�, which happens to be the character’s supervillain moniker in the comics.
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Alliterative Title
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Alliterative Title: Batman Begins.
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Funny Background Event: When Commissioner Loeb is talking to Gordon during the climax, he's using another cop's chest-mounted radio and we can see the poor guy being dragged back and forth as Loeb paces around.
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Hellish Horse
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During the climax when the Narrows is gassed over, the immune Rachel shepherds a little boy terrified out of his mind due to the fear gas. Scarecrow charges in and gives his villainous diatribe and freaks out the kid even more (see Hellish Horse above)... until Rachel shuts him up with her taser and sends him away screaming like a ninny.
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Impersonating an Officer
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Impersonating an Officer: As Ra's al Ghul puts it, Bruce Wayne is trying to defend "a city so corrupt [the League of Shadows] infiltrated every level of its infrastructure. Effortlessly." How effortlessly? The district attorney, Carl Finch, is shot dead by a henchman posing as a police officer. In the finale, Ra's sneaks the microwave emitter into the Narrows in a SWAT truck, and his henchmen are posing as SWAT officers.
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_27f10418
 Batman Begins / int_2881d45e
type
Gaining the Will to Kill
 Batman Begins / int_2881d45e
comment
Gaining the Will to Kill: After he has trained with the League of Shadows, Bruce's mentor asks him to do this as a show of his commitment after his last test. Namely, executing a prisoner who killed a fellow farmer for his land. Needless to say, the future Batman refuses, causing said mentor to later remark on his lack of 'courage to do all that is necessary' in comparison to himself and his plan to destroy Gotham to scare the rest of the cities in the nation into reforming. Towards the end, Batman does get Ra's at his mercy, and is asked again whether he now had that courage. He doesn't kill Ra's, but instead leaves him to die in the derailing monorail that he himself had set in motion. However Bruce seems perfectly fine with killing people indirectly since in the very scene where he refused to execute an individual he blew up the building everyone was in to get away, likely resulting in more than a few casualties including the person who was tied up to be executed as well.
 Batman Begins / int_2881d45e
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2881d45e
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2881d45e
 Batman Begins / int_29a39f6
type
Easter Egg
 Batman Begins / int_29a39f6
comment
Easter Egg: Take a look at the first letter of tracks 4-9 on the soundtrack. It spells "Batman"!
 Batman Begins / int_29a39f6
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_29a39f6
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_29a39f6
 Batman Begins / int_2af6bbeb
type
Break the Haughty
 Batman Begins / int_2af6bbeb
comment
Break the Haughty: Happens twice to Carmine Falcone. When Batman makes his first appearance. Compare the untouchable crime lord smugly lecturing his underlings not to probe too deeply into the "secrets of scary people" with the terrified old man cowering in the back of a limo trying to load a shotgun with shaking hands a few minutes later, and who then finds himself pulled through a sunroof, headbutted into unconsciousness, and tied to a spotlight surrounded by the drugs he was smuggling into the country. Then in prison a few scenes later, Crane reduces him to a lunatic in an insane asylum mumbling "Scarecrow... Scarecrow...".
 Batman Begins / int_2af6bbeb
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2af6bbeb
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2af6bbeb
 Batman Begins / int_2b1db021
type
Flight Is the Final Power
 Batman Begins / int_2b1db021
comment
Flight Is the Final Power: after spending the film learning to combine his martial arts training with high-tech weaponry, Batman surprises the League of Shadows with a new trick during their attack on Gotham City: a glider suit that gives him controlled flight, allowing him to pursue Ra's Al Ghul's train.
 Batman Begins / int_2b1db021
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2b1db021
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2b1db021
 Batman Begins / int_2bbba5f3
type
Say Your Prayers
 Batman Begins / int_2bbba5f3
comment
Say Your Prayers: One could see Ra's/Ducard's Obi-Wan Moment as this as well.
 Batman Begins / int_2bbba5f3
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2bbba5f3
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2bbba5f3
 Batman Begins / int_2bdae2ae
type
Awesome, but Impractical
 Batman Begins / int_2bdae2ae
comment
Awesome, but Impractical: Most of the gear from Applied Sciences that Bruce uses to become Batman are very powerful. The Nomex survival suit can stop a knife and anything but a straight shot, but bean counters thought a soldier's life wasn't worth the $300,000 price, rendering it too expensive to be viable for mass production. It's well within the means of a multi-billionaire on a crusade against injustice, however.
 Batman Begins / int_2bdae2ae
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2bdae2ae
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2bdae2ae
 Batman Begins / int_2bfb1856
type
Beard of Evil
 Batman Begins / int_2bfb1856
comment
Beard of Evil: Ra's al Ghul sports the Fu Manchu of villainy, as does Ducard.
 Batman Begins / int_2bfb1856
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2bfb1856
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2bfb1856
 Batman Begins / int_2c77fae3
type
Darkness Equals Death
 Batman Begins / int_2c77fae3
comment
Darkness Equals Death: There's a good guy example in the sequence on the docks, where Batman pulls a mob goon into said dark space.
 Batman Begins / int_2c77fae3
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2c77fae3
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2c77fae3
 Batman Begins / int_2c9e262
type
Catapult Nightmare
 Batman Begins / int_2c9e262
comment
Catapult Nightmare: Averted, as Bruce has a Flashback Nightmare and simply wakes up breathing heavily.
 Batman Begins / int_2c9e262
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 Batman Begins / int_2c9e262
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2c9e262
 Batman Begins / int_2d4fa515
type
Ax-Crazy
 Batman Begins / int_2d4fa515
comment
Ax-Crazy: Mr. Zsaz. Though he's pretty quiet during his small amount of screen time, the tie-in video game displays him as very much so. It is hinted in the movie as well, since he has some of the tally mark scars he cuts on himself every time he kills someone in the comics. Also, he comes at Rachel and a young boy with a knife in the Narrows when the Narrows are flooded with fear gas.
 Batman Begins / int_2d4fa515
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2d4fa515
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2d4fa515
 Batman Begins / int_2f913008
type
Insanity Defense
 Batman Begins / int_2f913008
comment
Insanity Defense: Dr. Johnathan Crane (aka The Scarecrow) helps mob boss Carmine Falcone by testifying to the insanity of Falcone's thugs and having them put in Arkham Asylum to avoid jail time. But while there, he does twisted experiments on them to drive them to insanity.
 Batman Begins / int_2f913008
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2f913008
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2f913008
 Batman Begins / int_2f94135c
type
Thou Shalt Not Kill
 Batman Begins / int_2f94135c
comment
Bruce is also more loose with his Thou Shalt Not Kill code. While he doesn't directly murder people, he seems to be okay with Murder by Inaction. Although this makes sense if you consider it is the beginning of his career as a hero and is still refining himself. He is more reckless and violent through the movie than what he would become later.
 Batman Begins / int_2f94135c
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2f94135c
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2f94135c
 Batman Begins / int_2f948e12
type
Throwing the Distraction
 Batman Begins / int_2f948e12
comment
Throwing the Distraction: Specifically mentioned in-universe as a "cheap parlor trick" to distract and confuse one's enemies.
 Batman Begins / int_2f948e12
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_2f948e12
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_2f948e12
 Batman Begins / int_306dece3
type
Office Golf
 Batman Begins / int_306dece3
comment
Office Golf: Played for Laughs when Bruce Wayne walks into Wayne Enterprises and successfully charms the secretary in a matter of seconds.
 Batman Begins / int_306dece3
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_306dece3
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_306dece3
 Batman Begins / int_30c15c8f
type
Watching Troy Burn
 Batman Begins / int_30c15c8f
comment
Watching Troy Burn: Ra's Al Ghul burns down Wayne Manor while trying to destroy the city.
 Batman Begins / int_30c15c8f
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_30c15c8f
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_30c15c8f
 Batman Begins / int_31362f50
type
Hollywood Fire
 Batman Begins / int_31362f50
comment
Hollywood Fire: Bruce Wayne's mansion is burning hot enough to crack the ceiling beams, but falling beams are the only real danger.
 Batman Begins / int_31362f50
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_31362f50
 Batman Begins / int_313e9485
type
Hero with Bad Publicity
 Batman Begins / int_313e9485
comment
Hero with Bad Publicity: A headline after the battle at Wayne Manor: "Drunken Billionaire Burns Down Home"
 Batman Begins / int_313e9485
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_313e9485
 Batman Begins / int_319e4a2f
type
Even Evil Has Standards
 Batman Begins / int_319e4a2f
comment
Even Evil Has Standards: According to the novelization, Ducard does not like the idea of using nuclear weapons to implement his plans, and at the start of the book it's clearly stated that he (or, at least, a predecessor in the role of Ra's) tricked Hitler into losing World War II simply because he believed Hitler was too much of an extremist. Now, in The Dark Knight Rises, Bane plans to destroy Gotham with a nuclear bomb, and Bane's nuclear goals may have factored into his excommunication for excessive extremism... A slightly ambiguous example occurs in the first conversation between Jonathan Crane and Carmine Falcone, when the subject of what to do about Rachel Dawes comes up. Crane requests not to know the details, but it's not made clear whether this is due to moral indignation or whether he simply wants to maintain plausible deniability. Falcone seems to believe it's the latter (which, seeing as Crane is a sadistic torturer who enjoys making people suffer, isn't exactly an unreasonably conclusion to take) and is clearly not particularly impressed by what he views as Crane's hypocrisy, thus making it a case of this trope for him as well (since he is, at least, honest throughout the movie about what a huge bastard he is).
 Batman Begins / int_319e4a2f
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_319e4a2f
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_319e4a2f
 Batman Begins / int_31fa019d
type
All Psychology Is Freudian
 Batman Begins / int_31fa019d
comment
All Psychology Is Freudian: Jonathan Crane is all over the place. He could well be a behavioral or biological psychologist, considering how he was using his fear gas. But the only psychology we see him actually deliver is total bullshit designed to get Rachel off his back, and that name-checks Jungian theories.
 Batman Begins / int_31fa019d
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_31fa019d
 Batman Begins / int_31fcc258
type
Training Montage
 Batman Begins / int_31fcc258
comment
Training Montage: "The Will To Act" is downright epic.
 Batman Begins / int_31fcc258
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_31fcc258
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_31fcc258
 Batman Begins / int_332cabca
type
Danger — Thin Ice
 Batman Begins / int_332cabca
comment
Danger — Thin Ice: As part of Bruce's Training from Hell, Ducard breaks the ice underneath him and plunges him into the icy depths.
 Batman Begins / int_332cabca
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_332cabca
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_332cabca
 Batman Begins / int_333b48a6
type
Thememobile
 Batman Begins / int_333b48a6
comment
Thememobile: The movie introduces The Tumbler as the Batmobile. In this case, it is only referred to as The Tumbler.
 Batman Begins / int_333b48a6
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_333b48a6
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_333b48a6
 Batman Begins / int_33f89198
type
Blade Brake
 Batman Begins / int_33f89198
comment
Blade Brake: Batman uses his gauntlets for this effect while rescuing Ducard.
 Batman Begins / int_33f89198
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_33f89198
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_33f89198
 Batman Begins / int_34579385
type
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
 Batman Begins / int_34579385
comment
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Subverted. Bruce is about to assassinate Joe Chill when the mob assassinates him instead for becoming an informant. This is when Bruce realizes that crime has become so pervasive, killing one person won't resolve anything.
 Batman Begins / int_34579385
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_34579385
 Batman Begins / int_348c7ded
type
Sword Cane
 Batman Begins / int_348c7ded
comment
Sword Cane: R'as al Ghul carries one in the finale.
 Batman Begins / int_348c7ded
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_348c7ded
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_348c7ded
 Batman Begins / int_34c67518
type
Save the Day, Turn Away
 Batman Begins / int_34c67518
comment
Save the Day, Turn Away: Inverted. Rachel leaves instead, because she realized that Bruce Wayne never came back to Gotham, only Batman.
 Batman Begins / int_34c67518
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_34c67518
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_34c67518
 Batman Begins / int_34dcfc96
type
Kick the Dog
 Batman Begins / int_34dcfc96
comment
Kick the Dog: A member of the League of Shadows, disguised as a SWAT team member, pushing away a frightened lost child. Also Falcone, when he berates Bruce and has his goons beat him and throw him out of the restaurant they're in.
 Batman Begins / int_34dcfc96
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_34dcfc96
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_34dcfc96
 Batman Begins / int_34e89418
type
A Birthday, Not a Break
 Batman Begins / int_34e89418
comment
A Birthday, Not a Break: Bruce Wayne has a party on his birthday. Unfortunately, Ra's al Ghul comes to his party, burns down his mansion, and attempts to drive all of Gotham insane, leaving Batman to stop him.
 Batman Begins / int_34e89418
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_34e89418
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_34e89418
 Batman Begins / int_3517000d
type
Mad Scientist
 Batman Begins / int_3517000d
comment
Mad Scientist: Dr. Crane shares several traits of the trope.
 Batman Begins / int_3517000d
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3517000d
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_3517000d
 Batman Begins / int_36c73fcf
type
It Always Rains at Funerals
 Batman Begins / int_36c73fcf
comment
It Always Rains at Funerals: The aftermath of Bruce's parents' funeral is shown, along with their headstones. It is raining and the traditional black umbrellas abound.
 Batman Begins / int_36c73fcf
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_36c73fcf
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_36c73fcf
 Batman Begins / int_36e89853
type
Nothing Can Save Us Now
 Batman Begins / int_36e89853
comment
Nothing Can Save Us Now: The police commissioner responds to Lt. Gordon's pleas for reinforcements by saying there are no more reserves to send and no help is coming. However, just at that moment, Batman in the Batmobile roars into the crisis to save the day.
 Batman Begins / int_36e89853
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_36e89853
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1.0
 Batman Begins
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Batman Begins / int_36e89853
 Batman Begins / int_36ec2454
type
Rule of Pool
 Batman Begins / int_36ec2454
comment
Rule of Pool: Played With when Bruce and two dates enter a fancy restaurant. The two air-headed bimbos almost immediately take their shoes off and jump into the fountain fully clothed, with Bruce joining them after buying the hotel.
 Batman Begins / int_36ec2454
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_36ec2454
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_36ec2454
 Batman Begins / int_38d02d44
type
Batman Gambit
 Batman Begins / int_38d02d44
comment
Batman Gambit: Ironically, it is the League of Shadows who execute one when they release the prisoners in Arkham Asylum. As soon as the majority of the police force moves in to recapture the escapees, the League proceeds to gas the entire area with the fear compound.
 Batman Begins / int_38d02d44
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_38d02d44
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_38d02d44
 Batman Begins / int_3909db4f
type
Failed State
 Batman Begins / int_3909db4f
comment
Failed State: Invoked by the League of Shadows. R'as al-Ghul claims credit for attempting to weaponize economics to collapse Gotham City in the film's backstory, having viewed it as a Soiled City on a Hill. Thomas Wayne's philanthropic efforts, and then his death inspiring the rest of Gotham's Blue Bloods to contribute, threw a Spanner in the Works, prompting the main plot of the film, where the League weaponizes Jonathan "Scarecrow" Crane's fear toxin to achieve the same end.
 Batman Begins / int_3909db4f
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3909db4f
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_3909db4f
 Batman Begins / int_396d046e
type
Fun with Homophones
 Batman Begins / int_396d046e
comment
Fun with Homophones: The leitmotif for Ra’s al Ghul is titled Lasiurus, as in Lazarus.
 Batman Begins / int_396d046e
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_396d046e
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_396d046e
 Batman Begins / int_396e1c2a
type
Face Death with Dignity
 Batman Begins / int_396e1c2a
comment
Face Death with Dignity: Trapped on a train that's about to crash and explode, Ra's al Ghul simply sits back and slowly closes his eyes.
 Batman Begins / int_396e1c2a
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_396e1c2a
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_396e1c2a
 Batman Begins / int_39d96ba9
type
Refuse to Rescue the Disliked
 Batman Begins / int_39d96ba9
comment
Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: During Batman's climax fight with Ra's Al Ghul, the train they're in is about to crash, and Batman has Ra's at his mercy. Rather than kill him or save him, Batman escapes, leaving Ra's to die on the train.
 Batman Begins / int_39d96ba9
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_39d96ba9
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_39d96ba9
 Batman Begins / int_3b20d7f4
type
Runaway Train
 Batman Begins / int_3b20d7f4
comment
Runaway Train: The bad guys attempt to poison Gotham City by sending an uncontrolled monorail train, which carries a device that supposed to cause fear-inducing gas spew everywhere, towards Gotham's central water source.
 Batman Begins / int_3b20d7f4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3b20d7f4
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1.0
 Batman Begins
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Batman Begins / int_3b20d7f4
 Batman Begins / int_3cf10fcf
type
*Click* Hello
 Batman Begins / int_3cf10fcf
comment
*Click* Hello: Played with. When Batman covertly introduces himself to Jim Gordon at the GCPD, we're initially lead to believe that he's put a gun to the back of the sergeant's head, complete with an audible click, to keep him from raising the alarm. This being Batman however, it's soon revealed to be a bluff; he's actually holding a stapler.
 Batman Begins / int_3cf10fcf
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3cf10fcf
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_3cf10fcf
 Batman Begins / int_3d204abb
type
Battle atop the Poles
 Batman Begins / int_3d204abb
comment
Battle atop the Poles: Bruce Wayne spars opponents while balancing on wooden stakes during his Training from Hell by Ra's Al Ghul.
 Batman Begins / int_3d204abb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3d204abb
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_3d204abb
 Batman Begins / int_3d699462
type
Curb-Stomp Battle
 Batman Begins / int_3d699462
comment
Curb-Stomp Battle: Bruce's fight in the prison near the beginning of the movie. He totally wipes the floor with "the Devil" and his pals.
 Batman Begins / int_3d699462
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3d699462
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_3d699462
 Batman Begins / int_3e854cb7
type
Trainstopping
 Batman Begins / int_3e854cb7
comment
Trainstopping: Subverted. Batman deliberately intends to cause the monorail train (built by his dad, no less) to crash by having Gordon blow up a piece of the beam with the Tumbler. He doesn't take Ra's al-Ghul in the train with him when he leaves, letting the subsequent explosion kill Ra's.
 Batman Begins / int_3e854cb7
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Batman Begins / int_3e854cb7
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1.0
 Batman Begins
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Batman Begins / int_3e854cb7
 Batman Begins / int_3f0b2f50
type
Make It Look Like an Accident
 Batman Begins / int_3f0b2f50
comment
Make It Look Like an Accident: When Dr. Jonathan Crane tells Falcone, that Assistant D.A. Rachel Dawes is snooping on their operations, Falcone says that they should bribe her into silence, but when Crane says that won't work, he places a hit in her. When Crane says that murdering her might bring even more attention, he says that they could make it look like a mugging gone wrong.
 Batman Begins / int_3f0b2f50
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3f0b2f50
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1.0
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Batman Begins / int_3f0b2f50
 Batman Begins / int_3fe2b13f
type
Ungrateful Bastard
 Batman Begins / int_3fe2b13f
comment
Ungrateful Bastard: At first Bruce seems to take this view of Ra's al Ghul when he visits the birthday party with clear intent to continue his plan of destroying Gotham. It's actually an inversion - Ra's states Bruce would have done better to let him die, as it would have defeated the plan entirely.
 Batman Begins / int_3fe2b13f
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_3fe2b13f
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_3fe2b13f
 Batman Begins / int_4127eb1
type
Shut Up, Hannibal!
 Batman Begins / int_4127eb1
comment
Shut Up, Hannibal!: During the climax when the Narrows is gassed over, the immune Rachel shepherds a little boy terrified out of his mind due to the fear gas. Scarecrow charges in and gives his villainous diatribe and freaks out the kid even more (see Hellish Horse above)... until Rachel shuts him up with her taser and sends him away screaming like a ninny. During their fight aboard the train, Ra's dismisses Bruce's abilities, only for Bruce to shut him up with a pretty good rejoinder. It's made even better by the sudden look of apprehension on Ra's' face at how much he's underestimated his former student.
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Bat Out of Hell
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comment
Bat Out of Hell: Not so much Batman himself (though the citizens under the influence of the fear gas see him as a monstrous bat), but the sequence wherein he calls upon a massive swarm of his namesake as a diversionary tactic for the SWAT team. Works wonders!
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Batman Begins / int_41a48472
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Bat Signal
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Bat Signal: Batman tells Gordon to "watch for [his] sign" in their first meeting; this sign turns out to be Falcone strung up to a spotlight, his cut coat resembling a bat. Gordon then turns this into the Bat-Signal at the end.
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Batman Begins / int_429732d8
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: While Alfred is usually thought of as having an upper-class English accent, Caine decided that Alfred's sense of duty and loyalty towards Bruce Wayne reminded him of the comradeship that exists in the military, so he based the character's voice on that of a colonel he knew when he was in the army as an 18-year-old. Ultimately, his accent is more or less identical to his natural Cockney accent.
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Batman Begins / int_43b154c9
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Tranquil Fury
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comment
Tranquil Fury: Bruce's reaction to Ducard's revelation that the League of Shadows was responsible for the Gotham Depression — meaning that they're not only responsible for the suffering and despair that's consumed Gotham over the last 20 years, but they indirectly responsible for the deaths of Bruce's parents.
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Batman Begins / int_443b78cd
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Made in Country X
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Made in Country X: The parts for Batman's mask have to be reordered because the graphite content was wrong, making them fragile.
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Batman Begins / int_44467fe1
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type
Flashback Nightmare
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comment
Flashback Nightmare: The opening of the movie shows Bruce dreaming of falling into a well and being surrounded by bats as a child.
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Batman Begins / int_4478c66d
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type
Bang, Bang, BANG
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Bang, Bang, BANG: The shot produced by Joe Chill's revolver is a little bit louder than it really would be. Then again, it happens in a flashback, so more likely it being so loud reflects the trauma the incident had on Bruce.
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Batman Begins / int_455794d
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Your Tradition Is Not Mine
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Your Tradition Is Not Mine: This is Batman's origin story in this film. Recruited by the League of Shadows, Bruce Wayne quickly becomes their star pupil, believing he's finally found a group of people who share his passion for fighting crime and can give him the training and tools to do so effectively. However, he abandons them when he rejects their final exam, which required him to execute a captured and imprisoned thief. The eventual discovery that they're a fundamentalist cult who may claim to fight crime, but whose real purpose is to burn down any civilization they view as having become too corrupt and decadent, didn't help either.
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Batman Begins / int_458c91d8
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Walking Disaster Area
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Walking Disaster Area: Mentioned, as Gordon talks about escalation: "We start carrying semi-automatics; They start carrying automatics. We start wearing kevlar; They start using armor piercing rounds. And you're wearing a mask and jumping off rooftops; Take this guy, armed robbery, double homicide, taste for the theatrical, and leaves a calling card." [Card is flipped over, showing a joker]
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Batman Begins / int_46e1fd22
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You Do NOT Want to Know
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You Do Not Want To Know: A frequent theme of this movie.
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Batman Begins / int_47198ac4
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Body Double
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Body Double: How Ra's al Ghul appears immortal.
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Batman Begins / int_4977d7b8
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type
Reassignment Backfire
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comment
Reassignment Backfire: When Bruce Wayne returns from his training with the League of Shadows, Fox's military prototypes catch his attention. After Bruce entrusts Fox with supplying him all the gear he needs in order to be Batman, Earle fires Fox for asking too many questions about a certain microwave emitter that was seized by the League of Shadows. At the end of the movie, Bruce has returned to being the head of Wayne Enterprises by buying back all of his company's shares, and also gives Fox a better job: Earle's. "Didn't you get the memo?"
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Batman Begins / int_4a32f262
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type
The Hero's Journey
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The Hero's Journey: Bruce leaves his home of Gotham as a college student, spends years wandering the world to understand the criminal mind until he's trained to use his new skills by the League of Shadows, and then returns to Gotham to utilize these skills to save the city from the corruption that drove him out in the first place.
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Batman Begins / int_4a852053
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Evil All Along
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Evil All Along: Not only is "Ducard" not a good guy, he's actually the real Big Bad, Ra's Al Ghul.
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_4aa98555
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him
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comment
To Know Him, I Must Become Him: Though not in the context of literally becoming another person, Ra's Al Ghul says the following line to Bruce: "To conquer Fear, you must become Fear." Specifically, in order for one to conquer their fears, they have to become someone else's fear, and revel in making them afraid.
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You Are Too Late
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You Are Too Late: Notably, one of the major themes of the movie is recognizing when it isn't too late to make a difference or turn things around, whatever naysayers may say.
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Batman Begins / int_4c3f14e0
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Get into Jail Free
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comment
Get into Jail Free: The movie opens with Bruce Wayne in a Chinese prison. It's pointed out that a man of his wealth and fame is only in a place like that by choice — Bruce is attempting to learn about the criminal mindset. However, Ducard regards this path as a dead end and quickly arranges his release so he can be tutored by the League of Shadows instead.
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Batman Begins / int_4d92da97
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Mentioned in a conversation between mob boss Falcone and Dr. Crane regarding Rachel Dawes getting a little too close to their illegal operations.
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Batman Begins / int_4e52a624
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Wham Line
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comment
Wham Line: After Bruce sends Fox away from his party to take care of the antidotes before Ra's al Ghul touches down...
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Songs in the Key of Lock
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Songs in the Key of Lock: Bruce and Alfred use a series of cords on a nearby piano to open the secret door to the Batcave inside Wayne Manor.
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Batman Begins / int_4ea822ce
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Adaptational Ugliness
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Also for the 1989 Batman, Flass's Adaptational Ugliness makes him look far less like the comic Flass (tall and muscular, ex-military, clean-cut white hair, clean-shaven) and much more like the corrupt officer Max Eckhardt (long-haired, shorter, overweight and mustachioed) from that film.
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Batman Begins / int_4f247a69
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The odd, almost memetic, gravelly voice Christian Bale uses when Wayne is in his Batman persona is very pronounced in the two sequels, but in this film Bale hardly uses the gravelly voice at all, he mostly only speaks in a slight whisper. The title doesn't have Dark Knight in it, unlike the two others. Conversely, this is the only film with Batman in the title. Bruce is also more loose with his Thou Shalt Not Kill code. While he doesn't directly murder people, he seems to be okay with Murder by Inaction. Although this makes sense if you consider it is the beginning of his career as a hero and is still refining himself. He is more reckless and violent through the movie than what he would become later. The chest-emblem on the main bat-suit does not match the film’s signature bat-symbol. Rather than having the main “Dark Knight� symbol of the trilogy, bat-suit’s chest-emblem looks similar to the future Batman: Arkham Series by Rocksteady. This would be fixed in the following film in which Batman gets a new suit with an emblem the matches the trilogy signature bat-symbol. There's much more usage of comic-style visuals through the use of CGI to create the Narrows and the gothic-inspired monorail, which seem much closer to the stylized Gotham of the 90s films. The sequels would totally eliminate this (aided by the Narrows and the monorail both being destroyed in this film's climax) in favor of making a Gotham that looks completely like an ordinary modern city. Related to the above, the film in general is much more fantastical. While Begins isn't too out there, it still features a secret mystical cult of ninjas, a specialized fear toxin that makes you hallucinate your worst fears and the aforementioned stylised Gotham City, making it a more elevated and "comic-booky-y" film than its two sequels, The Dark Knight especially. Even when the League of Shadows show up again in Rises they're more depicted as N.G.O. Superpower mercernaries rather than as ninjas.
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Smug Snake
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Smug Snake: Carmine Falcone is easily the most arrogant and contemptuous villain in the movie. At least Crane is fairly polite, and Ducard acts respectful to Bruce Wayne. Falcone, on the other hand, acts so smug that he ends up being easier to hate than Crane and Ducard despite doing much less damage. During the "secrets of scary people" scene, Flass warns Falcone that there's something going on and they should bail. Falcone just sits there in his car for a little while, then decides to get up to see for himself what's going on... namely, that Batman's beating up several of Falcone's goons at the same time. Apparently even with this going on right in front of him it takes him a little while to figure out that Batman's someone to be feared. So, he decides to get back to his car to get a gun. Too late.
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Trash the Set
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Trash the Set: Wayne Manor burns down. Though the mansion used for outside shots was not burnt, as it was an actual home of royalty.
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Batman Begins / int_4ff6f484
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Playing Drunk
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comment
Playing Drunk: Bruce is holding a social event in Wayne Manor when Ra's al Ghul threatens the entire building. Bruce, thinking quickly, pretends to be drunk and moody and insults everyone until they decide to leave.
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Batman Begins / int_502b147b
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: As Bruce approaches Joe Chill to kill him and he's swarmed by reporters, a female assassin emerges from the crowd with a gun: Crane before setting Batman on fire:
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Batman Begins / int_508d91a2
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Cave Behind the Falls
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Cave Behind the Falls: The Tumbler exits the Batcave by leaping through a waterfall.
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Batman Begins / int_50c23153
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Trashcan Bonfire
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comment
Trashcan Bonfire: This is how Bruce Wayne disposes of his ID before heading off to the wilds of Asia. The wino warming himself there convinces Bruce not to burn his expensive longcoat too, but to give it to him instead (Bruce having already bought his jacket).
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Majority-Share Dictator
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comment
Majority-Share Dictator: At the end of the movie, Bruce Wayne has regained control of Wayne Enterprises by buying controlling interest in it, which he uses to fire CEO William Earle and rehire Lucius Fox into that position.
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Batman Begins / int_524f03f1
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Not What It Looks Like
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Not What It Looks Like: Alfred on top of Rachel in the car.
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Rachel's less than thrilled reaction to Bruce planning to murder Joe Chill to avenge his parents is steeped in this.
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Crooks Are Better Armed
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Crooks Are Better Armed: The film justifies this trope, setting up a theme of escalation for The Dark Knight.
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Adaptational Attractiveness
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Adaptational Attractiveness: Cillian Murphy is a considerably more attractive version of Jonathan Crane's original gaunt, long-faced look from the comics.
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Batman Begins / int_557838d1
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Deceptive Disciple
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Deceptive Disciple: Inverted, The League of Shadows plans to use Bruce and his connections to help burn Gotham to the ground. Bruce promptly turns against the group when he finds out.
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Batman Begins / int_560e8d61
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Reassigned to Antarctica
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Reassigned to Antarctica: Earle reassigned Fox to Applied Sciences to keep Fox from causing troubles for him. This makes Fox the most valuable person for Bruce as he's overseen the creation of most of the tech that Bruce needs for Batman. And at the end of the movie, Bruce appoints Fox new CEO to replace Earle.
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Batman Begins / int_5798bfbf
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What the Hell Are You?
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comment
What the Hell Are You?: Falcone meets Batman, violence ensues.
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Zero-Approval Gambit
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comment
Zero-Approval Gambit: Bruce acts as a drunken boor at his party, throwing out all the guests as they react in disgust. He was actually doing it for their own protection, as Ra's al Ghul had just shown up.
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Batman Begins / int_599c74ea
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It's All My Fault
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It's All My Fault: When Bruce was a boy, he blames himself for getting scared the night his parents were murdered. stating that if he hadn't been scared and had them leave the theater, then his parents wouldn't have been shot. Alfred is quick to assure him that the only one to blame for that is Joe Chill.
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Batman Begins / int_5ad80bf8
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type
Guilt Complex
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comment
Guilt Complex: Bruce Wayne has a major case of this, blaming himself for getting his parents killed — as a little boy, he had asked his parents to leave a performance of the opera Mefistofele due to the performers triggering his fear of bats, resulting in them going through what is now called "Crime Alley" and their paths crossing with the mugger Joe Chill.
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You Cannot Kill an Idea
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comment
You Cannot Kill An Idea: Bruce Wayne uses this sort of reasoning when devising his future role, as advised by Henri Ducard. A man acting just by himself as a man can be killed, bribed, or discouraged, but by becoming a 'symbol', the man becomes "more than just a man"; even if he dies, the symbol lives on to inspire others. Guess what symbol Bruce eventually settles on... It's heavily implied that Ra's Al Ghul has operated by the same principle.
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Batman Begins / int_5b6fe35f
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Superhero Paradox
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comment
Superhero Paradox: It begins at the end of the movie, when Gordon wonders aloud about what the criminals will do to keep up with Batman being on the side of the police, and then mentions this weird new hitter going around who uses a playing card as his signature. Then, in The Dark Knight, escalation is the main theme. The cops and organized crime were locked in a stalemate. Then Batman came and tipped the scales, and the existing criminal element didn't stand a chance against him. The Joker is explicitly named as crime's response to the Batman, a monster that didn't — couldn't — exist before Batman did. Nobody's very pleased with the thought.
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Batman Begins / int_5b87dd9d
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Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
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Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Falcone taunts Bruce by telling him that he talked with Joe Chill about the murder of Bruce's parents, and Chill told him that Thomas Wayne died begging for his life like a dog. This is a lie (and Bruce knows it since he was there when it happened), plus a major Kick the Dog moment for Falcone.
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As Long as There Is Evil
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As Long as There Is Evil: Ra's Al Ghul cites civilization's cyclic decay into criminality as the reason for the League of Shadows' existence.
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Batman Begins / int_5dff009d
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Super Prototype
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Super Prototype: The movie has most of Batman's gear be acquired from rejected R&D prototypes from Wayne Enterprises. The suit was rejected by the army because it was too expensive, while Bruce customizes the suit to his preferences along with combining the built-in harness to work with a Grappling-Hook Pistol. The Tumbler was designed for jumping gaps to lay cables for bridges, the bridge system didn't work right but the vehicle itself was an impressive high mobility tank. This set a precedent across different media that much of Batman's gear is him adopting and repurposing existing prototypes instead of custom building everything from scratch.
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_5e782d0c
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Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad: A Historical In-Joke reference to the Civil War Underground Railroad is made when Bruce and Alfred are exploring the Batcave.
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_5e8332c
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type
Spanner in the Works
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Spanner in the Works: The deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne ended up being this for the League of Shadows. The League's plan to destroy Gotham through an artificially created economic depression was working perfectly up until the Wayne murders. Their deaths finally shocked Gotham's wealthy and powerful into action and the City recovered just enough to endure. The League had to wait nearly 20 years before trying again.
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Batman Begins / int_60194b82
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Have You Told Anyone Else?
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Have You Told Anyone Else?: Non-lethal example. Carmine Falcone reveals to Dr Crane that he knows about the unethical medical experiments being carried out on the patients at Arkham asylum, implying that he's going to blackmail Crane if he doesn't cooperate. Crane responds by donning his Scarecrow mask, giving Falcone a dose of fear-inducing toxin, and torturing him into insanity.
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Batman Begins / int_60492b98
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Cover-up Purchase
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Cover Up Purchase: Bruce and Alfred are ordering the components which will eventually be assembled into the batsuit:
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Batman Begins / int_60656b4e
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type
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Ra's al Ghul translates in Arabic to "Head of the Demon". Ra's is obviously not one of the heroes with that name.
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Batman Begins / int_60fa92ac
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Psycho Psychologist
 Batman Begins / int_6269a4b3
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Psycho Psychologist: Dr. Jonathan Crane; AKA Scarecrow.
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Batman Begins / int_6269a4b3
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: In the final scene Gordon tells Batman that now that Gotham has a masked hero, masked villains are appearing too. He then provides him with evidence of one such villain: a Joker card.
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Batman Begins / int_6293c185
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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If you pause and look carefully at the evidence bag with the Joker playing card at the end of the film, you can see that the name of the registering officer was J. Kerr, one of the Joker's known aliases in the comics.
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Batman Begins / int_62f9d08e
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Buddy Snaps First
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Buddy Snaps First: Bruce Wayne, fourteen years after his parents' murder, attends the court hearing of the culprit Joe Chill. Chill is able to get paroled and freed when he testifies against crime lord Carmine Falcone. Bruce, angered by this turn of events, has already hidden a gun inside of his coat sleeve and intends to kill Chill outside of the court hall in revenge. Fortunately, what saves Bruce from enacting his plan and ruining his own life is the sudden appearance of one of Falcone's henchpeople, as she emerges from the crowd of reporters covering the case, and fatally shoots Chill.
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Batman Begins / int_638b7928
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He Knows Too Much
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He Knows Too Much: Joe Chill is killed because he knows about Carmine Falcone's criminal activities. Falcone himself got a face full of fear gas years later after trying to blackmail Dr. Crane with the information he had on Ra's operation.
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Batman Begins / int_65acf9db
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Brandishment Bluff
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Brandishment Bluff: Batman sneaks into Gordon's office to introduce himself for the first time. To keep Gordon from turning around and seeing him, he imitates a Dramatic Gun Cock using a stapler pressed to the back of Gordon's head.
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Batman Begins / int_66eb63b1
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A Storm Is Coming
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A Storm Is Coming: Batman greets Gordon with this line after appearing suddenly on his back porch.
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Batman Begins / int_67d722d8
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: Bruce spots a camouflage-painted military vehicle in the Applied Sciences department.
 Batman Begins / int_680f950
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Batman Begins / int_680f950
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Horrifying Hero
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Horrifying Hero: Batman is really scary, especially when he first goes into action, hanging upside down to drop down on mooks, grabbing them from right next to their buddies, and scaring one guy so badly he screams. Ra's and the League of Shadows, however, are immune to this effect, as they are familiar with his tactics (they're the ones who trained him, after all).
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Batman Begins / int_682c066c
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Mook Horror Show
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Mook Horror Show: Whoever designed the predator levels of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City must have loved the warehouse scene. It's got Falcone's goons steadily getting more and more freaked out as Batman picks them off one by one.
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Batman Begins / int_6860368a
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Expecting Someone Taller
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Expecting Someone Taller: Inverted. Mob Boss Carmine Falcone tells a young Bruce Wayne that he's "taller than he looks in the tabloids." He then makes it clear however that he's not very impressed by Wayne's naive bravado.
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Batman Begins / int_69391768
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At the Opera Tonight
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At the Opera Tonight: The movie eschews sending the Wayne family to the usual movie (Tyrone Power in Zorro) and instead has Thomas and Martha Wayne mugged and killed leaving the opera early. (The opera in question is Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito, which shows thought from the writers: a lazy writer would probably have gone with Die Fledermaus for the name, but Mefistofele is much more thematically appropriate.)
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Batman Begins / int_694da243
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Unfazed Everyman
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Unfazed Everyman: When the Tumbler parks by Wayne Tower, a bum walks up to it and comments "Nice ride!" Then it fires rockets into a nearby bridge support. The bum's response is to only stare at it like, "What was that?"
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Batman Begins / int_6a6b23ff
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: Henri Ducard is actually Ra's al Ghul and though Bruce saved his life, The League of Shadows will still attempt to destroy Gotham under Ra's command.
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Batman Begins / int_6b2b3b59
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Ivy League for Everyone
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Ivy League for Everyone: Given that Bruce Wayne is the richest man on the planet, it's no surprise that he attended Princeton, which he enjoyed, but noted that "they don't feel the same way."
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Batman Begins / int_6b3c357e
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Meaningful Echo
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Meaningful Echo: When Rachel asks who Batman is, he replies with the same words she previously had berated him with while he was acting like a vapid playboy, saying that despite his assertions he's not that person underneath, his actions are what should define him. "Why do we fall, sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." Also with Alfred, the same exchange occurs between him and Bruce in the anachronic opening, and after Wayne Manor burns, immediately after the above:
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Batman Begins / int_6bd689ca
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The Shrink
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The Shrink: Dr. Jonathan Crane is, as it turns out, a villainous example of the trope.
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Batman Begins / int_6d089995
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Disc-One Final Boss
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Disc-One Final Boss: Carmine Falcone seems to be the root of Gotham's problems, as The Don of the Gotham Mob, but he's really just a patsy for the League of Shadows, via the Scarecrow. He's captured and driven insane while his bosses continue their schemes.
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Batman Begins / int_6de71c57
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Stealth Hi/Bye
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comment
Stealth Hi/Bye: First subverted as Bruce Wayne stumbles out the window and falls (very painfully) down a stairwell after gaining Gordon's trust. So he asks Fox to develop his batsuit wings, so he can make a quicker and smoother exit by gliding off rooftops. Once he puts on the suit, he does this flawlessly several times throughout the rest of the movie.
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Batman Begins / int_7012424f
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Let the Past Burn
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comment
Let the Past Burn: The film's Darkest Hour is when Ra's al Ghul incapacitates Bruce Wayne, then sets Wayne Manor on fire and leaves Bruce to die there. Continuing his father's legacy (in this case, making Gotham a better, safer city) is one of Bruce's major motivations. Bruce is convinced at that moment that he's completely ruined Dad's legacy, and the destruction of his father's house is a very concrete representation of that.
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Batman Begins / int_7188489c
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Deducing the Secret Identity
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comment
Deducing the Secret Identity: The League of Shadows arrives at Wayne Manor to confront Bruce. It's never said how they figured out he was Batman, but the context of the movie implies that it was obvious to them; the oligarch that they trained in combat and tactics returns to his home city, and shortly afterward a masked vigilante utilizing the League's fighting style and tactics and armed with very expensive gear appears.
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Batman Begins / int_723943a9
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Stealthy Mook
 Batman Begins / int_72b8af59
comment
Stealthy Mook: the League of Shadows gives their members martial arts, ideological indoctrination, and stealth as part of their training, and we see League members pop out of seemingly nowhere during Bruce Wayne's Training Montage.
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Batman Begins / int_72b8af59
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Arc Words
 Batman Begins / int_7464705c
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Arc Words: "Don't be afraid". "Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up" "You always fear what you don't understand" "All that is necessary" or "What is necessary" "You never did learn to mind your surroundings"" Bruce: "Haven't given up on me yet?/You still haven't given up on me?" Alfred: "Never." "It's not who you are underneath. It's what you do that defines you." Rachel says this to Bruce after he returns to Gotham from his training and later when Rachel asks Batman his name he says "It's not who I am underneath. But what I do that defines me." to reveal his identity to her.
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Batman Begins / int_7464705c
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If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
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If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Downplayed when Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul instructs Bruce Wayne to execute a criminal in order to complete his initiation into the League of Shadows (naturally, Bruce refuses). However, the League is not challenging him to prove that he's evilnote after all, they certainly don't consider themselves or their acts evil, so why would they order Bruce to act evilly?—they are asking him to prove his commitment to a cause they think is right.
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Batman Begins / int_74b85afd
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Hollywood Science
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Hollywood Science: The microwave device intended to vaporize all the water in Gotham City is turned on with people standing right next to it. Keeping in mind that people are 80% water, this is just one of the more obvious reasons why the city-threat plot device is implausible.
 Batman Begins / int_7582930a
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Batman Begins / int_7582930a
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Bat Scare
 Batman Begins / int_75bfffd4
comment
Bat Scare: Used as a plot point when a young Bruce Wayne falls into a disused well and disturbs a colony of bats that live there. This causes him to develop a phobia of bats that he conquers when he becomes Batman. He later weaponizes it by including in his gadget repertoire a bat swarm lure, which he unleashes to escape from Arkham Asylum when surrounded by a mass police response to his appearance.
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Batman Begins / int_75bfffd4
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All of Them
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All of Them: Bruce, in response to a homeless guy asking who was going to come looking for Bruce: "Everyone."
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Batman Begins / int_76c7754f
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Batter Up!
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Batter Up!: Alfred tests out a sample Batman cowl by hitting it with a baseball bat; the cowl shatters, which Alfred determines is due to a problem with the graphite mixture.
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Face Your Fears
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comment
Face Your Fears: A major theme. Ducard teaches Bruce to conquer his own fear, Falcone outright gloats about using fear to get his way, Batman actively exploits the fears in others and Scarecrow uses hallucinogens that cause his victims to be consumed by their fears.
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: While having dinner at a fancy restaurant, Bruce's dates essentially strip and start bathing in the fountain. When asked to leave, Bruce simply buys the restaurant. Then as the new owner, changes the rules about what's allowed to happen in the fountain.
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Batman Begins / int_78c5ce7e
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Actually, I Am Him
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comment
Actually, I Am Him: In order to get the needed training for his war on crime, Bruce seeks out Ra's Al Ghul, the head of the Asian League of Shadows. He ends up dealing mainly with Henri Ducard, the League's second-in-command. Ra's tends to sit in the background and be imposing while Ducard does all the work of testing and advising Bruce. When drama ensues and everything starts exploding, Bruce saves Ducard; he doesn't discover until much later that Ducard was really Ra's Al Ghul all along, using another man as a decoy.
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Violence Really Is the Answer
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comment
Violence Really Is the Answer: The movie presents an example where he has no choice, as his mentor turned enemy explicitly states that he feels no gratitude that Bruce previously saved his life and vows to kill Bruce if he doesn't join his cause. Ultimately, Batman doesn't kill the villain but rather declines to save him, which is still at odds with Batman's code of ethics, at least the one established in the comics (especially as it was Batman's plan to stop the train that put the villain in a position which threatened his life).
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A Threesome Is Hot
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A Threesome Is Hot: Alfred advises Bruce Wayne to pose as a Millionaire Playboy so no one will realise he's Batman. Cut to Bruce pulling up in a low-slung sports car with two beautiful women sharing the passenger seat (later they start publicly bathing in the restaurant's ornamental pool).
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Batman Begins / int_7a667c8d
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type
Comic-Book Adaptation
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Comic-Book Adaptation: Currently the last Batman movie to receive one. It's okay if you haven't heard of it; it didn't come out with much fanfare, and was more of an original story packaged with reprints of classic Batman stories.
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Batman Begins / int_7c4f6612
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Falcone easily defangs Bruce Wayne's attempt to confront him and dresses him down for his delusions about the world:
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Suspect Is Hatless
 Batman Begins / int_7e1184d8
comment
Suspect Is Hatless: During the Batmobile chase with the increasingly frantic cops.
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Bullying a Dragon
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Bullying a Dragon: When Falcone tries to blackmail Jonathan Crane. As noted above, it doesn't go well for Falcone.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bruce's decision in the climax to leave Ra's to his death in the plunging train will come back to bite him in the ass a decade later. Towards the end of the Second Act, Bruce taking out Crane and his goons at Arkham. Sure, it allows him to rescue Rachel and stops any more toxin from being dumped into the City's water supply. But with Crane's operations now exposed, it also forces Ra's to accelerate his timetable for destroying Gotham.
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Actually Pretty Funny
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Actually Pretty Funny: Flass tells Gordon that him insisting on being the Token Good Cop makes Dirty Cops like himself nervous. Gordon retorts, "I'm no rat!" then mutters, "In a town this bent, who's there to rat to, anyway?" which makes Flass crack up.
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Don't Think, Feel
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Don't Think, Feel: Inverted. Bruce Wayne starts out driven by rage and guilt. The League of Shadows teaches him to use his head.
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Cover-Blowing Superpower
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Cover-Blowing Superpower: Ra's al Ghul confronts Bruce at his home while he's holding a party. Bruce has to find a way to evacuate the party without attacking.
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ConservationOfNinjitsu
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Conservation of Ninjutsu: Batman has the easiest time against dozens of gangsters and hundreds of cops, a much harder time against a few League of Shadow operatives, and the hardest time against just Ra's. Justified in that the League of Shadows has had the same combat training Batman did, and Ra's is the one who taught him.
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Revenge Is Not Justice
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Revenge Is Not Justice: Discussed, fourteen years after Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered, he returns to Gotham City to attend the public trial of Joe Chill, who agreed to cooperate with Gotham's DA in taking down the Falcone crime family in exchange for early release from prison. When Rachel Dawes, Bruce's childhood friend and the DA's assistant, tries to dissuade Bruce from going (as she was the one who was going to drive him to the trial), Bruce firmly insists on going, as unbeknownst to Rachel, Bruce had fully intended on killing Joe Chill himself. Shortly after the trial's conclusion, one of Falcone's hitmen gets to Joe and kills him before Bruce could. Frustrated that Falcone had escaped justice again, Rachel and Bruce later discuss how Falcone managed to pull it off, which Bruce noted that he should thank Falcone for it, only for Rachel to point out that what he wanted was revenge, not justice, and imported the importance of an impartial judicial system, which Bruce complains as being broken. Disgusted, Rachel drives Bruce up to a diner that Falcone frequents, making sure to drive him by the countless homeless encampments along the way to show Bruce just how bad Gotham's crime families have been making things for Gotham citizens and how much they're destroying everything Bruce's parents have fought for, and pointing out that Joe Chill himself was a victim of Falcone's criminal empire, despite his crime. She then promptly slaps Bruce after he reveals the revolver he planned to kill Joe Chill with, and tells him how ashamed his parents would be of him. Bruce ultimately takes the lecture to heart, and it's the starting point on his journey to becoming The Dark Knight.
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McNinja
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McNinja: Batman himself. Plus the League of Shadows in Begins are quite a diverse group. When the League returns as an antagonist in The Dark Knight Rises, they are still ethnically diverse.
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Grappling-Hook Pistol
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Grappling-Hook Pistol: The titular character's wonderful toy allows him to latch onto a monorail car as it makes its way towards Wayne Tower in the finale of the film. It also established a bit of slightly more realistic tech to the gun; the gun fires the projectile but it is anchored to the suit and the belt has a motor for the ascension. Since his costume is likely built with a harness that means it isn't reliant on his physical strength to hold on and allows him to snatch mooks and pull them to the ceiling.
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: A prisoner talks himself up to Bruce Wayne, but Bruce responds with a boast of his own: "I'm Batman" — the ultimate badass boast.
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That Man Is Dead
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That Man Is Dead: Crane, after being exposed to fear gas.
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Blinded by the Light
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Blinded by the Light: Henri Ducard shows Bruce Wayne how to use a pinch of gunpowder to achieve this effect.
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Protagonist-Centered Morality
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Protagonist-Centered Morality: Jim Gordon might not be a dirty cop, but he covers for the dirty cops on the force and does effectively nothing to curtail their illegal activities and participation with the mob, even angrily protesting "I'm no snitch!" when it's suggested that he might cooperate with those trying to stop said corruption. But he was kind to Bruce Wayne after his parents got shot, so obviously Batman knows he's a good person.
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Cool Car
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Cool Car: The Batmobile of this franchise differs, because Nolan departs from the traditional "sleek sport roadster" of previous Batman adaptations, going instead for the Tumbler, or "Fast Urban Military Combat Tank That Comes In Black". It does retain the jet engine with afterburner common to most Batmobiles though. And Bruce Wayne also drives a Lamborghini for those occasions where he puts on his "Millionaire Playboy" façade in public. When dropping it off with a valet, the valet quips "Nice car," and Bruce tells him "You should see my other one."
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Mind Rape
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Mind Rape: Dr. Crane deliberately does this to his patients. It also happens to Falcone at the hands of Dr. Crane; and ironically Batman gases Crane with his own toxin; removing any sanity that Crane had and leaving only the fear-obsessed Scarecrow.
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Batman Begins / int_8a4988bb
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Anachronic Order
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Anachronic Order: Played with. Bruce's backstory up until his final exam with the League of Shadows is told non-linearly through a series of flashbacks during his Training Montage. Once the backstory catches up with Bruce in the mid-east prison, everything is in chronological order.
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Golf Clubbing
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Golf Clubbing: Bruce's way of making a surprise entrance to Wayne Enterprises is to flirt with the secretary and then get caught by Earle teaching her Office Golf. Also how Alfred deals with a League of Shadows member when he rescues Bruce from his burning mansion.
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Mr. Exposition
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Mr. Exposition: A bit part exists to quickly recap the train situation as it's happening. After it blows up spectacularly, Gordon cheers, so anyone who hasn't been paying attention knows that it's a good thing.
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Dragon with an Agenda
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Dragon with an Agenda: Scarecrow provides an unusual example. He does the same thing The Joker does to the Mafia, but his agenda is just that of a different villain to whom he is a more loyal dragon.
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Ancient Conspiracy
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Ancient Conspiracy: The League of Shadows has been responsible for numerous Historical In-Joke incidents, claims that the evil is done in service of a "good" goal.
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Firing Day
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Firing Day: Lucius loses his job at Wayne Enterprises due to merging departments. Bruce later reinstates him by giving him Earle's job.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: In Bruce's perspective, Joe Chill.
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Ripping Off the String of Pearls
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Ripping Off the String of Pearls: When Joe Chill robs the Waynes, he yanks Martha's pearls off her neck before shooting her.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Falcone himself got a face full of fear gas years later after trying to blackmail Dr. Crane with the information he had on Ra's operation.
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Rule of Symbolism
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Rule of Symbolism: Bats at multiple points in the film. Batman goes from just being afraid of them, to surrounding himself with them in the batcave, to later summoning them against the SWAT officers when they surround the building he's in.
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Black-Tie Infiltration
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Black-Tie Infiltration: The League of Shadows does this during Bruce's birthday party. Ra's al Ghul doesn't even attempt to disguise himself; he gives Mrs. Delane his name and asks to see Bruce.
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Big Bad
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The Big Bad immediately knows Batman is Bruce Wayne because he was his Evil Mentor.
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Men Are the Expendable Gender
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Ducard mocks Bruce's father for not defeating his murderer, protecting himself and Bruce's mother, and saving Bruce from emotional trauma and orphanhood. The possibility that Bruce's mother could have done anything whatsoever to protect herself, her husband and her child, let alone that she should have, is never even suggested. This despite the fact that the murderer had a gun and none of the Waynes were armed, so Martha probably stood about as much of a chance of defeating him as her larger and presumably stronger husband did. For the record, Bruce himself doesn't blame his father for failing not to die, but is mentioned as having strong survivors' guilt. Ducard, again, doesn't raise an eyebrow at hearing Bruce blame himself for what happened and his need to make up for it, despite the fact that Bruce was eight-years-old at the time.
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Tanks, but No Tanks
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Tanks, but No Tanks: Played for Laughs. This movie's version of the Batmobile is the Tumbler, a prototype bridge-deploying vehicle for use in combat zones; they never could get the bridge to work, but the Tumbler itself remains a fast, armored vehicle that excels in any terrain. When Batman first deploys it, some police are asked for the make and model of the vehicle. They can't come up with any description besides "a black... tank."
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Continuity Reboot
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Continuity Reboot: Following the original Batman Film Series movies directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher, the series was rebooted in 2005 with Batman Begins, which is the first installment of The Dark Knight Trilogy. This movie retold Batman's origin story in a new, grounded, gritty and "realistic" style. It was possibly the first movie to really popularise the term "reboot", with the filmmakers stressing that it was not a Prequel to Batman (1989).
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Been There, Shaped History
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Been There, Shaped History: Ra's al Ghul reveals to Bruce that the League of Shadows are responsible for, among other things, the Sack of Rome, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Wretched Hive of a Crapsack City that Gotham has become.
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Evil Mentor
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Evil Mentor: Henri Ducard/ Ra's al Ghul. He inducts Bruce Wayne into the League of Shadows and teaches him the skills of combat, camouflage, and how to strike fear into the minds of criminals. Their methods are ultimately too extreme for Bruce, as they would prefer to kill all criminals without mercy and even destroy entire cities they deem too corrupt to survive with everyone inside. Even near the end, the real Rha's Al Ghul calls Bruce his greatest student, and voices his regret that Bruce is not "saving" Gotham along with him by destroying it.
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Evil Costume Switch
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Evil Costume Switch: When Ducard is revealed to be Ra's al Ghul, his suit is black while it was previously blue or brown.
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Taking the Bullet
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Taking the Bullet: Thomas Wayne throws himself in front of his wife in the opera back alley to protect her from Joe Chill. Doesn't work.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: During the flashback where Bruce returns to Wayne Manor for the first time as an adult, he tells Alfred that it just reminds him of the dead and he'd as soon see the whole place demolished. He comes around on that opinion, only for the Manor to be demolished by the villains in the lead-up to the film's climax. Bruce's pretend-drunken rant mentions "two-faced friends" that "smile through their teeth". Ducard's story during Bruce's early training about his late wife's murder. This becomes very important come The Dark Knight Rises.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: The bats that are summoned to keep the police distracted have no trouble breaking through glass windows.
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This Is Gonna Suck
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This Is Gonna Suck: One of these happens for Ra's al Ghul when he realizes that Batman isn't going to save him. His reaction has this expression written all over it.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Courtesy of Ducard: "The training! is! nothing! Will! is everything!"
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Death by Secret Identity
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Death by Secret Identity: Ra's knows Bruce's identity as the Batman from the start, but ends up dead by the end of Begins.
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It Is Beyond Saving
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It Is Beyond Saving: The League of Shadows believe Gotham is this, comparing it to ancient Rome in its decadence. The city has grown intolerably corrupt and must be destroyed, so that balance can be restored to the world.
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Three-Point Landing
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Three-Point Landing: Batman does this at some point.
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Elite Mooks
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Elite Mooks: Near the end of the movie, Ra's Al-Ghul sends 4 serious-looking ninjas in full metal body armor to fight Batman. They do marginally better than everyone else who's tried to fight Batman up to this point until they pushed him into a mob.
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Cathartic Exhalation
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Cathartic Exhalation: The engineers monitoring the water mains in response to the pressure drop.
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Forensic Accounting
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Forensic Accounting: The film has Rachel's boss stumble onto the League of Shadows' plan after he discovered a cargo ship had arrived in Gotham's port with one more cargo container than its manifest said it embarked with. Unfortunately a couple of Dirty Cops off him before he is able to tell anyone. The film shows Alfred and Bruce trying to reduce the risk of this happening while gathering supplies to create his equipment. Someone ordering a single, very specific item would raise suspicion and leave an obvious trail. Someone ordering 10,000 of them is just a routine business order that no-one would pay attention to.
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Secret-Keeper
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Secret-Keeper: Bruce ends up with three of them by film's end: Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox and Rachel Dawes.
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Evil Is Not a Toy
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Evil Is Not a Toy: Falcone works with Crane and Ra's al Ghul for the drugs they smuggle, unbeknownst that the latter two are actually aiming toward higher, more destructive goals. In addition, Crane thinks Ra's is holding the city ransom, not planning to destroy it without prompting as the case really is.
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1.0
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type
Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
 Batman Begins / int_a11f8240
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Supposedly most of Gotham's police and judicial officials are portrayed as corrupt. Rachel, Gordon and Loeb are the only apparent exceptions to this. This exchange with James Gordon is a good example (though you might assume Loeb is fairly incompetent): The words are barely out of his mouth before Batman proves him wrong by boosting the Tumbler across the river.
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New Tech Is Not Cheap
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New Tech Is Not Cheap: Used to justify why there's an entire branch full of hardware for Bruce to 'borrow' from Wayne Enterprises.
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1.0
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: A word of advice to people like Joe Chill: if you're trying to rob a couple at gunpoint and just want to get your hands on whatever it is you want from them (e.g. wallets and jewelry), never put your finger on the trigger. There's a good chance your gun will go off if your finger twitches at the slightest movement.
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Not Quite Flight
 Batman Begins / int_a29a7058
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Not Quite Flight: Bruce develops a short-range glider due to his cape being made out of "memory cloth".
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1.0
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Saved for the Sequel
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Saved for the Sequel: The unresolved romance between Bruce Wayne and Rachel Dawes.
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Noose Necktie
 Batman Begins / int_a3db5076
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Noose Necktie: Scarecrow has a noose around his neck which comes with his bag gas mask. Which might be a reference to his appearance in Season Three of Batman: The Animated Series
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type
Adaptation Dye-Job
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Adaptation Dye-Job: Martha Wayne usually has brown or black hair in the comics. Sara Stewart portrays her as a blonde.
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1.0
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Dream Intro
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Dream Intro: The movie starts with a Flashback Nightmare by Bruce, retelling his first encounter with bats when he was a little kid. The nature of this sequence is slightly given away by the echoing voices.
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Calling the Cops on the FBI
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Calling the Cops on the FBI: Scarecrow orders his men to call the cops when Batman shows up, knowing they'll go after the vigilante and let them go.
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Due to the Dead
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Due to the Dead: At the end of the novelization, Bruce buries Ducard, or what was left of him after the monorail crashed, next to Thomas Wayne.
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Event Title
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Event Title: Batman Begins.
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Rule of Scary
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Rule of Scary: Alfred asks Bruce "Why bats?" Crane's scary scarecrow mask.
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Obfuscating Stupidity
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Obfuscating Stupidity: The film shows Bruce learning the importance of doing such to maintain his cover; he also feigns a drunken temper tantrum in order to stealthily evacuate the guests from his manor.
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N.G.O. Superpower
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Related to the above, the film in general is much more fantastical. While Begins isn't too out there, it still features a secret mystical cult of ninjas, a specialized fear toxin that makes you hallucinate your worst fears and the aforementioned stylised Gotham City, making it a more elevated and "comic-booky-y" film than its two sequels, The Dark Knight especially. Even when the League of Shadows show up again in Rises they're more depicted as N.G.O. Superpower mercernaries rather than as ninjas.
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Vengeance Denied
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Vengeance Denied: Chill is killed by one of Carmine Falcone's men in order to keep Chill from testifying against Falcone. In other versions of the story, Batman's Rogues Gallery kill Chill when they realize Chill created their worst enemy.
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Entitled Bastard
 Batman Begins / int_a90f0639
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Entitled Bastard: Inverted with Ra's, who wants Bruce to kill him instead of save him.
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Think Nothing of It
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Think Nothing of It: Batman's "you will never have to [say thank you]" philosophy.
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Save the Villain
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Save the Villain: Bruce saves Henri Ducard when his lair explodes. Later, Henri Ducard returns as Ra's Al Ghul to destroy Gotham and tells Bruce that he warned him about compassion. After Ra's al Ghul and Batman's last battle, Batman leaves Ra's al Ghul to die as the monorail crashes.
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Near-Villain Victory
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Near-Villain Victory: If Bruce hadn't been saved by Alfred from his mansion and Gordon hadn't been able to blow up the monorail tracks; Gotham's citizens would have all been driven insane or killed each other due to Scarecrow's fear toxin and Ra's al Ghul's plan.
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Carmine Falcone's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Bruce Wayne gives him the idea of becoming Batman. Moreover, Falcone has Joe Chill shot before Bruce himself has a chance to, ensuring Bruce's anger will continue to seek an outlet.
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Oh, Crap!
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During their fight aboard the train, Ra's dismisses Bruce's abilities, only for Bruce to shut him up with a pretty good rejoinder. It's made even better by the sudden look of apprehension on Ra's' face at how much he's underestimated his former student.
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Batman Begins / int_ad1db87c
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Deadpan Snarker
 Batman Begins / int_ae3d6438
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Deadpan Snarker: Various characters show signs of this, though Lucius Fox is the most apparent, like in his conversation with Bruce Wayne about the Nomex bulletproof survival suit. Alfred Pennyworth might qualify too, though not to the same extent as in the sequel. Jonathan Crane as well. Ra's al Ghul: And of course, Bruce gets several zingers in.
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Batman Begins / int_ae3d6438
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RoofHopping
 Batman Begins / int_b06186c2
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Roof Hopping: Batman does this with a car (well, the Batmobile), much to the consternation of the police.
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Soiled City on a Hill
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Soiled City on a Hill: Gotham City is this from the point of view of Henri Ducard and the League of Shadows, the latter being an ancient secret organization that takes upon itself to destroy societies and cities that, according to their standards, have become too corrupt and decadent. ("The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome. Loaded trade ships with plague rats. Burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.") Next on their list: Gotham City.
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The Don
 Batman Begins / int_b5b4bd37
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Carmine Falcone is easily the most arrogant and contemptuous villain in the movie. At least Crane is fairly polite, and Ducard acts respectful to Bruce Wayne. Falcone, on the other hand, acts so smug that he ends up being easier to hate than Crane and Ducard despite doing much less damage.
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Batman Begins / int_b5b4bd37
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Left for Dead
 Batman Begins / int_b64b1fc1
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Left for Dead: Ra's Al Ghul leaves Wayne to die in his burning mansion. Too bad for him.
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Batman Begins / int_b64b1fc1
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Institutional Apparel
 Batman Begins / int_b70b1e3b
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Institutional Apparel: The asylum inmates' orange jumpsuits.
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Omnidisciplinary Scientist
 Batman Begins / int_b72ae7
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Lucius Fox, the Omnidisciplinary Scientist that provides Batman with his gadgets.
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Blood from the Mouth
 Batman Begins / int_b8dbe475
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Blood from the Mouth: From the decoy Ra's al Ghul, during the destruction of the compound.
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Incomprehensible Entrance Exam
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Incomprehensible Entrance Exam: To join the League of Shadows, Bruce Wayne is told to retrieve a mysterious blue flower from a remote mountain and then deliver it to a secluded monastery with no indication of what the flower might be for or even what's expected of him there. For good measure, once he actually arrives there, he's made to participate in a fist-fight with his mentor, despite being exhausted to the point of collapse.
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Finish Him!
 Batman Begins / int_bb6461b4
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Finish Him!: After being defeated at the end of the film, Ra's expects Bruce to kill him. He adheres to his one rule... by forcing Ra's to choose between getting off the monorail and dying in the imminent crash.
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Batman Begins / int_bb6461b4
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Knight Templar
 Batman Begins / int_bbfaa837
comment
Knight Templar: The League Of Shadows as a whole, really. Beyond well-intentioned extremism, their attitude leads them to dismiss all of Gotham as beyond saving, and to use this to justify using Crane's fear-toxin to drive them to kill each other. Ducard claims they exploited Gotham's corruption in order to pull this off in the first place; at no point does it seem to occur to them that it probably would be a better idea to focus their efforts on simply confronting Gotham's criminal elements instead.
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Millionaire Playboy
 Batman Begins / int_be23e9f6
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Millionaire Playboy: Invoked; it goes hand in hand with Batman's Secret Identity.
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Comforting Comforter
 Batman Begins / int_bf1edb7e
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Comforting Comforter: While a uniformed officer in this movie, Gordon wraps a coat around a young Bruce Wayne as he waits in the police station after the murder of his parents. This act of kindness affects Bruce so much, he mentions the incident to Gordon as his Internal Reveal of Batman's Secret Identity in the final film.
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Money Is Not Power
 Batman Begins / int_bfb5f597
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Money Is Not Power: Falcone says he runs the city with "power you can't buy... the power of fear" and demonstrates how he sees Bruce as some snot-nosed kid who can't handle the ugly side of life. In a twist of irony, Falcone learns that this power can't save him when scarier people start to show up.
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Batman Begins / int_bfb5f597
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Europeans Are Kinky
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Europeans Are Kinky: When the two girls who accompany Bruce strip down in the middle of an upscale restaurant and start bathing in a fountain, he excuses their behavior to an outraged maitre'd with "They're European" and a shrug.
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Throat Light
 Batman Begins / int_c0e634cd
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Throat Light: When the city is hopped up on fear gas and they get a look at Batman, he's basically a bat-demon with a hellfire inner glow.
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Outrun the Fireball
 Batman Begins / int_c12f0c4
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Outrun the Fireball: Twice. Wayne saving Ducard from the exploding house of the League of Shadows. Wayne and Alfred making it into the elevator before the family building blows up.
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Morality Chain Beyond the Grave
 Batman Begins / int_c1c600cc
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Morality Chain Beyond the Grave: Bruce Wayne reveals to Rachel Dawes that he was considering avenging his parents by shooting Joe Chill, who murdered them. Rachel then slaps Bruce twice.
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Fun with Acronyms
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Fun with Acronyms: Several songs on the soundtrack are named after species of bat, containing six listed in order as:
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Murder by Inaction
 Batman Begins / int_c2d6fc5e
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Murder by Inaction: How Batman gets around the issue of not killing Ra's al Ghul: simply leaving him to die on the train while it crashes, though it's hinted that he was also giving Ra's every chance to escape by himself.
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Xanatos Gambit
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Xanatos Gambit: When Batman encounters Ra's al Ghul in the train, Batman starts jabbing at the train's controls with a knife, to make it look like he's trying to stop the train (he actually locks the controls). However, he already sent Gordon ahead in the Batmobile to knock out an incoming segment in the train's elevated tracks, such that the train would be destroyed if it wasn't stopped.
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Playing Card Motifs
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Playing Card Motifs: Lieutenant Gordon hands Batman a Joker card found at the scene of a crime, foreshadowing the Joker's prominent role in The Dark Knight.
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Devil Complex
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Devil Complex: During his brief time in a prison in Tibet, Bruce Wayne is attacked by the leader of the local prison gang, who boasts that "You are in Hell, little man, and I am the Devil!". Bruce finds the whole intimidation attempt comically overblown, and fights off both him and multiple other men simultaneously.
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Water Source Tampering
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Water Source Tampering: A variant: Scarecrow laced Gotham's water supply with his fear toxin for months, without anyone realizing it. The toxin had no effect in this form. It needed to be absorbed through the lungs to have an effect—the bad guys' ultimate plan was to use a microwave emitter to vaporize Gotham's entire water supply, thereby exposing the whole city.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles
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Needle in a Stack of Needles: Ducard's training, where he hides among his followers while Bruce stalks him, everyone dressed in ninja gear. Batman's mask is ordered in several parts, each from a different overseas company in orders numbering thousands to avert suspicion.
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 Batman Begins / int_c420a553
type
We Can Rule Together
 Batman Begins / int_c420a553
comment
We Can Rule Together: Ra's al Ghul tries to get Bruce Wayne to join him in his homicidal crusade:
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c420a553
 Batman Begins / int_c547cd6d
type
Bulletproof Vest
 Batman Begins / int_c547cd6d
comment
Bulletproof Vest: The movie establishes that the Batman's suit is a $300k body armor, so it's somewhat justified that it works pretty well. In The Dark Knight, Bruce asks Fox to redesign the suit to be more resistant to dog bites, realistically showing a common weakness in ballistic armor. In The Dark Knight, Gordon takes a bullet for the mayor while wearing a standard kevlar vest and is injured badly enough to convince everyone he's dead. He's away for some time before coming back into action.
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c547cd6d
 Batman Begins / int_c6c5ce4
type
Bedlam House
 Batman Begins / int_c6c5ce4
comment
Bedlam House: The movie shows that Dr. Jonathan Crane runs the asylum, using it as his personal lab and the inmates as the test subjects for his fear toxin. However, as the film is intended to be a more realistic depiction of the Batman franchise, Arkham is portrayed as a modern, clean, spacious, and well-lit facility rather than gloomy and gothic.
 Batman Begins / int_c6c5ce4
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c6c5ce4
 Batman Begins / int_c75df49a
type
Shout-Out
 Batman Begins / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: In the car chase scene, Gordon sees the Tumbler for the first time and watches as it drives over and crushes a police car's roof. He says, "I've got to get me one of those." Earle comments, "Bruce? You're supposed to be dead." Joe Chill's death seems like an homage to The Godfather Part II, with the killer shouting "Falcone says hi!" while disguised as a journalist.
 Batman Begins / int_c75df49a
featureApplicability
1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c75df49a
 Batman Begins / int_c76f81b8
type
Non-Idle Rich
 Batman Begins / int_c76f81b8
comment
Non-Idle Rich: Thomas Wayne still works as a doctor at the hospital despite his estate being worth billions. Bruce also qualifies, when he's not engaging in frivolous pursuits in order to maintain his image as a Millionaire Playboy.
 Batman Begins / int_c76f81b8
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c76f81b8
 Batman Begins / int_c7d86fbe
type
Plausible Deniability
 Batman Begins / int_c7d86fbe
comment
Plausible Deniability: Wayne Enterprises applied science head Lucius Fox invokes this when Bruce Wayne becomes concerned that his increasingly "unusual requests" for materials for his prototype Batsuit may cause Fox to out him: "Mr Wayne, if you don't want to tell me exactly what you're doing - when I'm asked, I don't have to lie. But don't think of me as an idiot."
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c7d86fbe
 Batman Begins / int_c85c20f6
type
Super Hero Origin
 Batman Begins / int_c85c20f6
comment
Superhero Origin: Deconstructed; notice that Joe Chill kills Bruce Wayne’s parents, but the police catch him quickly and he goes to prison. But then he gets out because he agrees to testify against Carmine Falcone, who orders Chill killed before he can say anything, and the cops—paid off by Falcone—are unwilling AND unable to deliver justice to him. Carmine Falcone gives Bruce Wayne a "The Reason You Suck" Speech that forces him to begin The Hero's Journey, then he is trained by the League of Shadows and outsmarts Earle to become the Batman. A possible explanation is that Gotham was a Cornered Rattlesnake and it is trying to produce a superhero to survive: Notice that all of the forces oppressing Gotham were Threshold Guardians that created the Super Hero that will fight them.
 Batman Begins / int_c85c20f6
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c85c20f6
 Batman Begins / int_c868a42a
type
Freudian Excuse
 Batman Begins / int_c868a42a
comment
Freudian Excuse: Henri Ducard's apparent reason for becoming a Knight Templar.
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c868a42a
 Batman Begins / int_c8c6a43c
type
Fly-at-the-Camera Ending
 Batman Begins / int_c8c6a43c
comment
Fly-at-the-Camera Ending: Batman gliding off a rooftop and just past the camera, his cape cloaking it with black.
 Batman Begins / int_c8c6a43c
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c8c6a43c
 Batman Begins / int_c946460a
type
Hummer Dinger
 Batman Begins / int_c946460a
comment
Hummer Dinger: The tumbler is essentially a wheeled tank (and described as such by one of the cops attempting to pursue it).
 Batman Begins / int_c946460a
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c946460a
 Batman Begins / int_c9597a03
type
Self-Deprecation
 Batman Begins / int_c9597a03
comment
Self-Deprecation: Bruce Wayne mentioned that Batman "clearly has issues". Justified since he kinda has to do that in order to maintain his secret identity as Batman, and he does have issues with bats.
 Batman Begins / int_c9597a03
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_c9597a03
 Batman Begins / int_cbe687ab
type
Corrupt Corporate Executive
 Batman Begins / int_cbe687ab
comment
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Earle turns to be out to be one of those. While he isn't as bad as some other examples of this trope, but he did steer Wayne Enterprises away from its founder's vision, reassigned Fox to Applied Sciences, and he later fired Fox for asking too many questions about a stolen microwave emitter. Didn't you get the memo?
 Batman Begins / int_cbe687ab
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_cbe687ab
 Batman Begins / int_d2ddb362
type
ReasonYouSuckSpeech
 Batman Begins / int_d2ddb362
comment
Rachel gives Bruce a brief but angry "Reason You Suck" Speech and a slap when he reveals that he planned to avenge his parents by gunning down Chill in cold blood.
 Batman Begins / int_d2ddb362
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d2ddb362
 Batman Begins / int_d32b5dde
type
Hope Bringer
 Batman Begins / int_d32b5dde
comment
Hope Bringer: At the end of the film, Gordon tells Batman that, for the first time in a long time, there's hope on the streets of Gotham, thanks to him.
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d32b5dde
 Batman Begins / int_d352b919
type
No Sympathy for Grudgeholders
 Batman Begins / int_d352b919
comment
No Sympathy for Grudgeholders: Rachel is offended that Bruce is still dwelling on the murder of his parents and had planned to murder Joe Chill, and she slaps him for it.
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d352b919
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type
Hoist by His Own Petard
 Batman Begins / int_d397657d
comment
Hoist by His Own Petard: Jonathan Crane is poisoned with his own fear toxin after trying to hit Batman with it again. The League fails in its plans and Ra's gets killed because Batman used skills they taught him to save Gotham. Earle gets bought out of controlling Wayne Enterprises through the exact same financial tricks that he attempted to take control in the first place.
 Batman Begins / int_d397657d
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d397657d
 Batman Begins / int_d39e327f
type
What the Hell, Hero?
 Batman Begins / int_d39e327f
comment
What the Hell, Hero?: Alfred admonishes Bruce for reckless driving when saving Rachel from the fear toxin. Rachel gives Bruce a brief but angry "Reason You Suck" Speech and a slap when he reveals that he planned to avenge his parents by gunning down Chill in cold blood.
 Batman Begins / int_d39e327f
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d39e327f
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type
Villainous Face Hold
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comment
Villainous Face Hold: Inverted; Batman does this to terrorize Scarecrow. After forcing Scarecrow to inhale his own fear toxin, Batman grabs his jaw and back of the head, and interrogates him on his employer. During this process, Scarecrow hallucinates that Batman is made of tar.
 Batman Begins / int_d4816fb
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d4816fb
 Batman Begins / int_d7c3ba61
type
Race Lift
 Batman Begins / int_d7c3ba61
comment
Race Lift: In the superhero film featuring Batman, white actor Liam Neeson plays Ra's al Ghul, who is traditionally depicted in Batman comics to be of Arab descent. In the comics, Commissioner Loeb is white. He is played by black British actor Colin MacFarlane in the film.
 Batman Begins / int_d7c3ba61
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d7c3ba61
 Batman Begins / int_d7ff49ab
type
Put Them All Out of My Misery
 Batman Begins / int_d7ff49ab
comment
Put Them All Out of My Misery: Henri Ducard comes across as being evident from his Knight Templar attitude, and also being apparent from his earlier talk (if he means it) about how his wife was taken from him and he "learned the hard way that there are those in the world without decency, who must be fought without pity." The sign of Put Them All Out Of My Misery itself is in his conversation with Bruce Wayne about the prospect of destroying Gotham.
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d7ff49ab
 Batman Begins / int_d8573ef9
type
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
 Batman Begins / int_d8573ef9
comment
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Bruce Wayne became Batman because nearly all the public officials of Gotham were in the pocket of the crime lord Carmine Falcone, preventing Falcone from facing justice.
 Batman Begins / int_d8573ef9
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d8573ef9
 Batman Begins / int_d8afec40
type
…But He Sounds Handsome
 Batman Begins / int_d8afec40
comment
…But He Sounds Handsome: Inverted; Bruce makes fun of his alter-ego while establishing his rich idiot persona.
 Batman Begins / int_d8afec40
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_d8afec40
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d8afec40
 Batman Begins / int_d99a228f
type
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
 Batman Begins / int_d99a228f
comment
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Since it's Arkham Asylum, the sight of a man dressed as a bat blasting his way into your cell and through to the next one with miniature mines doesn't rate so much as a raised eyebrow from the two inhabitants of said cell.
 Batman Begins / int_d99a228f
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d99a228f
 Batman Begins / int_d99add77
type
Symbolic Weapon Discarding
 Batman Begins / int_d99add77
comment
Symbolic Weapon Discarding: After his parents' murder, Bruce Wayne acquires a revolver with the intent to shoot Joe Chill, only to see Chill shot by one of Falcone's agents. Later, Rachel angrily chastises him when he shows her the gun, saying his father would be ashamed of him. Shaken by the exchange and realizing that he almost became just like the man who killed his parents, he throws the gun into the harbor and confronts Falcone, which leads to his journey to eventually become Batman.
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d99add77
 Batman Begins / int_d9d8fd35
type
Battle Butler
 Batman Begins / int_d9d8fd35
comment
Battle Butler: Alfred takes out a League of Shadows assassin with a golf club in order to rescue Bruce from the burning Wayne Manor.
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_d9d8fd35
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d9d8fd35
 Batman Begins / int_d9f4972a
type
Recruited from the Gutter
 Batman Begins / int_d9f4972a
comment
Recruited from the Gutter: An unusual example. Ra's al Ghul finds Bruce Wayne in a Third World prison and sets him on the path to becoming Batman, though they ultimately betray each other.
 Batman Begins / int_d9f4972a
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_d9f4972a
 Batman Begins / int_dbb414ed
type
Hand Wave
 Batman Begins / int_dbb414ed
comment
Hand Wave: Batman (who has a strict no-kill policy) gets into a high-speed chase on the freeway with the cops, causes more than a couple crashes and drives over several cop cars with the cops still inside, endangering dozens of civilian and police officer lives. Yet we know no one is hurt (very badly) because Alfred says: "It's a miracle no one was killed."
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1.0
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_dbb414ed
 Batman Begins / int_dbca2c99
type
Red Herring
 Batman Begins / int_dbca2c99
comment
Subverted with the weak first batch of Batsuit masks. It seems like foreshadowing for Batman's mask breaking, but it never comes back up, unless it's meant to foreshadow events in The Dark Knight Rises.
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_dbca2c99
 Batman Begins / int_dc4d0326
type
Ballroom Blitz
 Batman Begins / int_dc4d0326
comment
Ballroom Blitz: R�'s al Ghūl and his men crash Bruce Wayne's birthday party.
 Batman Begins / int_dc4d0326
featureApplicability
1.0
 Batman Begins / int_dc4d0326
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_dc4d0326
 Batman Begins / int_dc774000
type
Start X to Stop X
 Batman Begins / int_dc774000
comment
Start X to Stop X: Ra's explains to Bruce that the League of Shadows attempted to destroy Gotham by causing an economic collapse, ironically fueling the very same criminality and desperation-induced thievery that drove them to target Gotham in the first place.
 Batman Begins / int_dc774000
featureApplicability
1.0
 Batman Begins / int_dc774000
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1.0
 Batman Begins
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Batman Begins / int_dc774000
 Batman Begins / int_dd22df26
type
Hands-On Approach
 Batman Begins / int_dd22df26
comment
Hands-On Approach: Bruce seduces the secretary at Wayne Enterprises with this technique under the pretense of showing her how to play golf. He managed to do this in only a few seconds.
 Batman Begins / int_dd22df26
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_dd22df26
 Batman Begins / int_defd0c58
type
A Taste of Their Own Medicine
 Batman Begins / int_defd0c58
comment
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Batman gives Crane a dose of the same fear-inducing toxin that Crane had previously used to attack both Batman and Rachel. He even uses the trope phrase.
 Batman Begins / int_defd0c58
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_defd0c58
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_defd0c58
 Batman Begins / int_df582b0b
type
Continuity Snarl
 Batman Begins / int_df582b0b
comment
Continuity Snarl: Considering that Bruce Wayne's canonical birthday is February 19, the novelization reveals an apparent several-month gap between the Wayne Manor fire and the commencement of the rebuilding (which started in the fall with the sealing of the Batcave), as well as an apparent nine-and-a-half month gap between the end of this movie and the arrival of The Joker (which Batman was alerted to at 11:30 PM on December 1). It's worth noting that according to Nolan, The Dark Knight takes place (and was released) in July of 2008–and several months after the end of Begins.
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_df582b0b
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_df582b0b
 Batman Begins / int_df79b05b
type
Media Scrum
 Batman Begins / int_df79b05b
comment
Media Scrum: When Bruce is in the police station after his parents' death, we can see shots of police holding back the reporters who want to talk to him. When Joe Chill is released, he is surrounded by a gaggle of reporters throwing questions at him...one of whom is an assassin for Falcone sent to kill him.
 Batman Begins / int_df79b05b
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_df79b05b
 Batman Begins / int_dfe57573
type
Historical In-Joke
 Batman Begins / int_dfe57573
comment
Historical In-Joke: Ra's says that the League has worked to restore the world to balance throughout history as human civilization achieved decadence around the world, and claims credit for the 410 AD sacking of Rome, the Black Plague, and the Great Fire of London.
 Batman Begins / int_dfe57573
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Batman Begins / int_dfe57573
 Batman Begins / int_e062bcc4
type
Sink or Swim Mentor
 Batman Begins / int_e062bcc4
comment
Sink or Swim Mentor: Ducard attacks Bruce while he's still exhausted from climbing the mountain, pointing out that Death is not going to wait until he's ready for it.
 Batman Begins / int_e062bcc4
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_e062bcc4
 Batman Begins / int_e0a8ebe5
type
The Shangri-La
 Batman Begins / int_e0a8ebe5
comment
The Shangri-La: The headquarters of the League of Shadows.
 Batman Begins / int_e0a8ebe5
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_e0a8ebe5
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Batman Begins / int_e0a8ebe5
 Batman Begins / int_e0e52562
type
Loves the Sound of Screaming
 Batman Begins / int_e0e52562
comment
Loves the Sound of Screaming: Dr. Jonathan Crane is implied to enjoy using his fear toxin to force people into panic attacks. Just consider what he said about his patients to Falcone after spraying him with said fear toxin.
 Batman Begins / int_e0e52562
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_e0e52562
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Batman Begins / int_e0e52562
 Batman Begins / int_e0e8cce6
type
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
 Batman Begins / int_e0e8cce6
comment
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Henri Ducard thinks Bruce Wayne's belief in Thou Shalt Not Kill is pointless and that criminals should be executed. Later, he tells Bruce that Gotham is too corrupt to save and believes that Gotham should be destroyed; rather than Bruce's belief that there are good people in Gotham who can fix it.
 Batman Begins / int_e0e8cce6
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_e0e8cce6
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Batman Begins / int_e0e8cce6
 Batman Begins / int_e125c425
type
Completely Unnecessary Translator
 Batman Begins / int_e125c425
comment
Completely Unnecessary Translator: Ducard translates for Ra's al Ghul, who later speaks to Bruce in about five words of perfect, if clipped, English. May serve as foreshadowing that Ducard IS Ra's al Ghul, and that was a decoy. Using this trope allows him to literally speak for Ra's, while not revealing his identity.
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Batman Begins / int_e125c425
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type
Two Roads Before You
 Batman Begins / int_e3b1ae34
comment
Two Roads Before You: One to bats, one to just groups of people.
 Batman Begins / int_e3b1ae34
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_e3b1ae34
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_e3b1ae34
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type
Scared of What's Behind You
 Batman Begins / int_e3bd37f2
comment
Scared of What's Behind You: When a pair of goons sent by Falcone attack Rachel, she fights with them and draws her taser. When one of the guys runs away, she thinks it's because of her, not having noticed that Batman is behind her and had effortlessly beaten down the other thug.
 Batman Begins / int_e3bd37f2
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1.0
 Batman Begins / int_e3bd37f2
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_e3bd37f2
 Batman Begins / int_e3c20140
type
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
 Batman Begins / int_e3c20140
comment
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: During the scene where Bruce Wayne meets Ra's Al Ghul (actually his decoy), we see him communicate in what is supposed to sound like Tibetan (as the league's headquarters is in the Himalayas). In actuality, Ken Watanabe isn't speaking in any known language, though according to some release's subtitles, it's supposed to be Urdu.
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Batman Begins / int_e3c20140
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type
Scary Scarecrows
 Batman Begins / int_e47e0eb
comment
Scary Scarecrows: This version of The Scarecrow goes for the sackhead slasher look.
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1.0
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Batman Begins / int_e47e0eb
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type
Composite Character
 Batman Begins / int_e4965307
comment
Composite Character: Henri Ducard is a mentor of Batman just like his comic counterpart, but he's also the real Ra's Al-Ghul. Rachel Dawes is apparently based on Rachel Caspian from Batman: Year Two and Andrea Beaumont from Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
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Big Damn Heroes: When Gordon calls for reinforcements in the fear gassed Narrows, Commissioner Loeb replies there is no else to help (he is wrong). At that exact moment, the Batmobile roars in to the rescue.
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Resignations Not Accepted: Implied; when it looks like Bruce will refuse the League of Shadows Evil Plan, Ducard's voice takes on an urgent tone as he offers Bruce the sword, telling him there's no turning back.
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No More for Me: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it version appears in the police chase scene. A lot attendant, upon seeing the Batmobile and the police cars enter the parking structure, looks down at his drink as if there's something wrong with it.
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Expospeak Gag: After Lucius Fox finishes explaining exactly how he derived the antidote for Crane's fear toxin to save Bruce's life:
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Evil Plan: The League of Shadows' plan to Mercy Kill Gotham, though Bruce defeats them early in the movie. But since he saved Henri Ducard, AKA Ra's al Ghul, they try to destroy Gotham again.
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Ra's al Ghul and his men walk right into the manor as guests at Bruce's birthday party. When he realizes who they are, he's quick to get everyone else out. Good thing, too, as they burn the house down immediately after.
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Tagline: "Evil fears the Knight"
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Assurance Backfire: When rushing Rachel Dawes back to the Batcave to get her an antidote to the Scarecrow's fear toxin, Batman tells her to stay calm, before informing her that she's been poisoned, which causes her to visibly panic.
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Vigilante Execution: Done to Joe Chill. Subverted: the "vigilante" (really a hitwoman paid by Falcone) was stopping him from testifying against a mob boss, and the real enraged victim, Bruce Wayne, never got a chance to kill him. Bruce Wayne is also asked to do this to signify his graduation into the League of Shadows.
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The Batmobile of this franchise differs, because Nolan departs from the traditional "sleek sport roadster" of previous Batman adaptations, going instead for the Tumbler, or "Fast Urban Military Combat Tank That Comes In Black". It does retain the jet engine with afterburner common to most Batmobiles though.
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You Killed My Father: Played with; turns out the League of Shadows created the economic depression that led to the crime wave that killed Bruce's parents. And averted with Joe Chill, who's shot dead by a mob assassin before Bruce has a chance to kill him.
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Artistic License – Physics: The microwaving of Gotham's water supply to such a temperature that the steam bursts pipes. Why worry about the Scarecrow's fear drug? Worry about how many citizens got steam-cooked...
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Brick Joke: Before starting work on his Batman persona, Bruce pays a homeless man for his coat; while he plans to burn his, the homeless man insists he keep it, saying that it's a "nice coat" and repeating it to himself after Bruce leaves. When he publicly debuts as Batman to intercept one of Falcone's drug shipments, he sees the same homeless man and simply tells him, "Nice coat." He's quite delighted to hear it.
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Creator Cameo / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Credits Medley / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Creepy Blue Eyes / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Creepy Monotone / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Crime-Concealing Hobby / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Cross-Referenced Titles / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Crusading Widow / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Crusading Widower / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Cutscene Power to the Max / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Danger — Thin Ice / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Dare to Be Badass / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Darkness Equals Death / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Death by Secret Identity / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Decade Dissonance / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Deceptive Disciple / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Decoy Leader / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Deducing the Secret Identity / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Dented Iron / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Devil Complex / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Dies Differently in Adaptation / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Disc-One Final Boss / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Don't Think, Feel / int_341c02e9
 DoubleNegativeVFX
seeAlso
Batman Begins
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Dragon with an Agenda / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Dream Intro / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Driven to Madness / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Driving Stick / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Elite Mooks / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Entitled Bastard / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Epic Movie / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Equal-Opportunity Evil / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Especially Zoidberg / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Europeans Are Kinky / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Event Title / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Evil All Along / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Evil Evolves / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Evil Is Not a Toy / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Evil Mentor / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Expecting Someone Taller / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Expelled from Every Other School / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Expospeak Gag / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Face Your Fears / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Faceless Goons / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Failed State / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Fight Unscene / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Finish Him! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Flashback Nightmare / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Flight Is the Final Power / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Flower from the Mountaintop / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Fly-at-the-Camera Ending / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Forensic Accounting / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Four Eyes, Zero Soul / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Freak Out / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Friend to All Children / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Gaining the Will to Kill / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Gangster Fiction / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Get into Jail Free / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Glasses Pull / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Go Among Mad People / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Golf Clubbing / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Good Policing, Evil Policing / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Graceful Loser / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Grappling-Hook Pistol / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Ham-to-Ham Combat / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hand Wave / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hands-On Approach / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hangover Sensitivity / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Happy Flashback / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Have You Told Anyone Else? / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Heel–Face Door-Slam / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Heel–Face Town / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hellish Horse / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hello, Attorney! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hermit Guru / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hero's Evil Predecessor / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
High-Altitude Interrogation / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Historical Rap Sheet / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Hollywood Fire / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
I Like Those Odds / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
I Owe You My Life / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
I Own This Town / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Icy Blue Eyes / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Impersonating an Officer / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
In Medias Res / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Incomprehensible Entrance Exam / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Incorruptible Pure Pureness / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Inferred Holocaust / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Insanity Defense / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Insecurity Camera / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
It Is Beyond Saving / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
It Is Pronounced / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
It's Always Sunny in Miami / int_341c02e9
 Ivy League
seeAlso
Batman Begins
 JephLoeb
seeAlso
Batman Begins
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Jitter Cam / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Just One Man / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Justified Criminal / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Legacy Character / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Legacy Immortality / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Legally Dead / int_341c02e9
 LegendaryPictures
seeAlso
Batman Begins
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Lemming Cops / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Let the Past Burn / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Licked by the Dog / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Lost in a Crowd / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Loves the Sound of Screaming / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Magic Antidote / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Magical Negro / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Majority-Share Dictator / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Make It Look Like an Accident / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Make Way for the New Villains / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Market-Based Title / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Marquee Alter Ego / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
MegaCorp / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Men Are Uncultured / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Millionaire Playboy / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Miniature Effects / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Misery Builds Character / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Money Is Not Power / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Mook Chivalry / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Mooks, but no Bosses / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Morality Chain Beyond the Grave / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
More Despicable Minion / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Motive Misidentification / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Murder by Inaction / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Mushroom Samba / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Never Found the Body / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
New Tech Is Not Cheap / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Ninja / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
No Communities Were Harmed / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
No Endor Holocaust / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
No, I Am Behind You / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
No More for Me / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
No Sympathy for Grudgeholders / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Non-Idle Rich / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Noose Necktie / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Not Quite Flight / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Not Wearing Tights / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Nothing Can Save Us Now / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Novelization / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Obi-Wan Moment / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Once per Episode / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Opera / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Paid Harem / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Paparazzi / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Plausible Deniability / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Playing Card Motifs / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Playing Drunk / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Pretending to Be One's Own Relative / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Pretty Boy / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Prodigal Hero / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Protagonist Title / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Psycho for Hire / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Psycho Psychologist / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Put on a Bus / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Put Them All Out of My Misery / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Ramp Jump / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Reassignment Backfire / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Recruited from the Gutter / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Refuse to Rescue the Disliked / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Revenge Is Not Justice / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Revolvers Are for Amateurs / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Ripping Off the String of Pearls / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Role Called / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Rule of Scary / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Runaway Train / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Sackhead Slasher / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Safety in Muggles / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Save the Day, Turn Away / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Saved for the Sequel / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Say Your Prayers / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Scare Chord / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Scared of What's Behind You / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Scary Scarecrows / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Scary Stitches / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Screw the Rules, I Make Them! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Secret Identity / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Secret Identity Vocal Shift / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Secret Secret-Keeper / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Self-Defenseless / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Sequel Adaptation Iconic Villain / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Servile Snarker / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Sexy Soaked Shirt / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Shrouded in Myth / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Silent Running Mode / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Sink or Swim Mentor / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Skinny Dipping / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Smoke Out / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Smuggling with Dolls / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Snobby Hobbies / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
So Proud of You / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Society Is to Blame / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Soft Glass / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Soft-Spoken Sadist / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Soiled City on a Hill / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Songs in the Key of Lock / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Sorting Algorithm of Evil / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Spandex, Latex, or Leather / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Spanner in the Works / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Stealthy Mook / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Stick 'em Up / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Stock Unsolved Mysteries / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Stunt Double / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Success Symbiosis / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Suit Up of Destiny / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Super Hero Origin / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Super Prototype / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Superhero Movie Villains Die / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Superhero Paradox / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Superhero Prevalence Stages / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Superheroes Wear Capes / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Sword Cane / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Symbolic Weapon Discarding / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Take My Hand! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Tanks, but No Tanks / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Taught by Experience / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Technological Pacifist / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Bad Guys Are Cops / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Black Death / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Cameo / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Cast Showoff / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The City Narrows / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes / int_341c02e9
 TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks
seeAlso
Batman Begins
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Don / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Glasses Come Off / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Last DJ / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Man in Front of the Man / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Scream / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Shangri-La / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
The Swarm / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Thememobile / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Think Nothing of It / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
This Is Gonna Suck / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Thou Shalt Not Kill / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Thriller / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Throat Light / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Throwing the Distraction / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Time-Passage Beard / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
To the Batpole! / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Token Good Cop / int_341c02e9
 TomoyukiDan
seeAlso
Batman Begins
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Training Montage / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Trainstopping / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Trash the Set / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Tricked-Out Shoes / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Two Aliases, One Character / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Ultimate Final Exam / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Underground Railroad / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Unexpected Gameplay Change / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Vengeance Denied / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Viewers Are Goldfish / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Vigilante Execution / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Vigilante Injustice / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Villainous Face Hold / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Violence Really Is the Answer / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Virtue Is Weakness / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Walking Disaster Area / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Warrior Therapist / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Watching Troy Burn / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Water Source Tampering / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Well-Trained, but Inexperienced / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Western Terrorists / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
We've Got Company / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
What the Hell Are You? / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Workout Fanservice / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Wrecked Weapon / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Yellow Peril / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
You Are Too Late / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
You Cannot Kill an Idea / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
You Do NOT Want to Know / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Your Tradition Is Not Mine / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
It Always Rains at Funerals / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Regent for Life / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Stoic Spectacles / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Trashcan Bonfire / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
Would You Like to Hear How They Died? / int_341c02e9
 Batman Begins
hasFeature
You ALL Look Familiar / int_341c02e9