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The Dark Knight

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The Dark Knight	comment	Spoilers for Batman Begins will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero thriller film, and the second entry in Christopher Nolan's Batman film trilogy, The Dark Knight Trilogy.A year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman (Christian Bale), Lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman), and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) have achieved real success in taking down Gotham's organized crime by hitting the mob where it hurts: their money. The city's mob leaders become so afraid of Batman and what he represents that when a scarred psychopath in clown makeup shows up and offers to kill Batman, they hire him.But once he's backed by the mob, The Joker (Heath Ledger) decides that simply killing Batman won't satisfy him. He aims to destroy Gotham City from the inside out, and part of his "plan" involves attempts to corrupt the city's two heroes (Batman and Harvey Dent) by making their lives hell until they snap...The Dark Knight burst Out of the Ghetto, receiving an overwhelmingly positive critical reception as a serious drama, thanks in large part to the tour de force performances of its cast — notably Ledger as the Joker. While Ledger's performance and commitment to the role earned praise on their own, public opinion was also undoubtedly informed by his untimely death while the film was in post-production.At its peak, the film was the second-highest-grossing film of all time in the United States (behind Titanic (1997)) and the fourth-highest worldwide (behind Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest). It also became the first comic book film to win an acting Academy Award when Ledger was posthumously given the honor of Best Supporting Actor.The title of this film — The Dark Knight — marks the first time a Batman film has not featured the character's name in the titlenote although the Dark Knight is one of the epithets for Batman.In 2020, the film was inducted into National Film Registry.Followed by the third and final part in the trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. The Animated Anthology Batman: Gotham Knight takes place between the two movies.
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The Dark Knight / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
The Dark Knight / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: This one actually pertains to grenades; the Joker threatens the mob meeting with a bunch of grenades under his coat, their pins attached to a string hooked around his thumb. In order to use an actual grenade, you have to hold the safety lever (or "spoon") down while you pull the pin, then let it go. The Joker puts grenades in the hands of all the bank customers and tellers and pulls the pins so that they'll have to keep "holding on for dear life" in order to keep from blowing themselves up. This scenario would be examined (and busted) on a 2015 episode of MythBusters; it's easy to hold the spoon in place for an extended period using only one hand, and you can even tie it down with something like a piece of pantyhose.
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The Dark Knight / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Dark Knight / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Deconstructed; Batman cannot keep his secret from everyone, which leads to problems. In addition to the ones who found out in Batman Begins, accountant Coleman Reese discovers Where He Gets All Those Wonderful Toys and intends to blackmail Bruce Wayne, but is dissuaded by Lucius Fox. When he tries to sell Batman's Secret Identity, he discovers that the Joker is not happy with the secret being made public. He is saved by Batman and might be ashamed enough to become a Secret-Keeper.
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The Dark Knight / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
The Dark Knight / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Alfred apparently did some military spec-ops work some time before being Bruce's butler, providing him with anecdotal experience concerning the Joker's MO. The story also goes to hint at a rather dark side to the generally pleasant and amiable sophisticate:
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The Dark Knight / int_11c754d8	type	Trail of Bread Crumbs
The Dark Knight / int_11c754d8	comment	Trail of Bread Crumbs: Gordon's men use lightly irradiated bills (secretly provided by Batman) to make drug buys from dealers working for the mob. They turn up in the vaults of the banks that have been robbed by the Joker, allowing the cops to figure out where the mob's money is being held.
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The Dark Knight / int_11cac491	type	Tragedy
The Dark Knight / int_11cac491	comment	Tragedy: Harvey Dent's fall into the Despair Event Horizon, an ending that almost borders on being a downer, heroes performing actions that are questionable - Knight certainly shows traits of this genre, thought its a more hopeful example than most of its ilk.
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The Dark Knight / int_1206dd74	type	Victory Is Boring
The Dark Knight / int_1206dd74	comment	Victory Is Boring: Why Joker ultimately decides against killing Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Dark Knight / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The Dark Knight plays this for all it's worth with the deaths of Rachel and Harvey Dent, AKA Two-Face.
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The Dark Knight / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
The Dark Knight / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: Bruce Wayne conducts a ballistics test using a Gatling gun with a different kind of bullet in each barrel. There is absolutely no reason to have this other than Rule of Cool and Screw the Rules, I Have Money! which entirely fits Wayne's persona.
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The Dark Knight / int_12f62281	type	Escort Distraction
The Dark Knight / int_12f62281	comment	Escort Distraction: A weird variation where the escorted person is the distraction, rather than those who are escorting. Harvey Dent pretends to unmask himself as the Batman and is taken into custody, knowing that the Joker will try to kill him during the transport. This allows the real Batman to go after the Joker and protect Dent long enough for a disguised Lieutenant Gordon to capture the clown before the Batman can be unmasked for real.
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The Dark Knight / int_12ffce31	type	Correlation/Causation Gag
The Dark Knight / int_12ffce31	comment	Correlation/Causation Gag: Two boys are mime-shooting imaginary guns at cars on the street. Suddenly, there's an explosion where they were aiming, making it seem as though they caused it.
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The Dark Knight / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Dark Knight / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Despite the brutality, there is very little blood (in order to preserve the PG-13 rating). Pencil trick and all.
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The Dark Knight / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Dark Knight / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Played with. Although The Joker never calls himself "evil" or "a villain", he styles himself an "Agent Of Chaos", describes all his heinous acts with a grin & smile, and intentionally positions himself as a foil to the heroic Batman and Dent. Also, he actually has a card.
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The Dark Knight / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
The Dark Knight / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: The Joker comes out of nowhere. Even the stories he tells about his past completely contradict each other.
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The Dark Knight / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
The Dark Knight / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: The Joker offers to work as The Dragon for the mob to take out Batman, but he really wants to use their resources to bring chaos to the streets and become Batman's archenemy. In fact, he believes Gotham deserves a far better class of criminal than the mob... which is why later on he violently takes over.
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The Dark Knight / int_140883ec	type	I Will Show You X!
The Dark Knight / int_140883ec	comment	I Will Show You X!: During an argument between a witness on the stand and Harvey Dent: Even more, this scene is a nod back to how Two-Face was created in the original comics.
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The Dark Knight / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Dark Knight / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Many people knew Gordon wasn't Killed Off for Real because of the Joker's trailer line of "Good eeeevening, Commissioner." Gordon hadn't yet been made commissioner at the time of his supposed 'death'. Also, we see Gordon smash the Bat-Signal in the final trailer, something that hadn't happened at that time in the film. Although it wasn't exactly guaranteed, it was pretty doubtful that Gordon was going to die before he became Commissioner.
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The Dark Knight / int_148e222c	type	Crosses the Line Twice
The Dark Knight / int_148e222c	comment	The Joker blocks a stretch of road with a fire truck...that's on fire. A fire truck, get it? Just another way the Joker Crosses the Line Twice.
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The Dark Knight / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
The Dark Knight / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: The movie begins with the Joker and his goons robbing a mob bank. And the Joker ripping off all of his clown accomplices by tricking them into shooting each other.
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The Dark Knight / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Dark Knight / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The Dark Knight is arguably the darkest film adaptation of Batman to date, let alone The Dark Knight Trilogy series. The Gotham City it depicts is much dryer and more gritty rather than fantastically gothic, Batman is hardened and tough but still has realistic limitations, and the Joker appears in possibly his darkest incarnation to date (and that's really saying something) as a domestic terrorist.
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The Dark Knight / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
The Dark Knight / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: The Joker explains how he broke Harvey Dent.
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The Dark Knight / int_154f0a86	type	Metallicar Syndrome
The Dark Knight / int_154f0a86	comment	Metallicar Syndrome: Mentioned when Bruce needs to go rescue someone in daylight, and Alfred asks if he'll be taking the Batpod.
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The Dark Knight / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Dark Knight / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: During the Lower Wacker Drive section of the car chase, the Joker rakes the armored transport with a machine pistol and a shotgun. Harvey Dent asks the SWAT officer riding in back with him if the vehicle is bulletproof against such hits. The officer replies, "He's going to need something a lot bigger to get through this!" Cue the Joker's henchmen handing their boss a rocket launcher. Maroni saying of the Joker: "Some two-bit whack-job. Wears a cheap purple suit and make-up. He's not the problem. He's a nobody". Hohoho if they only knew back then... The same could be said of Batman: "One man, or the entire mob? He can wait." "My dogs are hong-gray! Pity there is only one of you..." Commissioner Loeb says, "You're unlikely to discover this for yourself..." before giving Gordon some advice on what it's like to be a police commissioner. Moments later he's dead, whereupon Gordon is made police commissioner. During the climactic scene where both Rachel and Harvey are tied up in separate warehouses, they are talking to try to calm each other down. Harvey tells Rachel not to worry, that they're coming to save her. Rachel replies, "I know they are, but I don't want them to. I don't wanna live without you..." Very soon afterward, Batman arrives to rescue Harvey, having been told the mixed-up addresses by the Joker. Rachel is subsequently killed.
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The Dark Knight / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
The Dark Knight / int_1649e053	comment	Your Grandma: "If we don't deal with this now..... soon, (motions to Gambol) little... uh, Gambol here won't be able to get a nickel for his grandma."
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The Dark Knight / int_165379c5	type	A Scar to Remember
The Dark Knight / int_165379c5	comment	A Scar to Remember: Narrowly averted twice, both concerning the Joker: The Joker poises a knife at the inner cheek of a man who ordered a hit on him, as he recounts (one version of) how he got his own Glasgow Grin. Though we expect to see the man get the same grin cut into him, the slash of the knife somehow simply makes him fall down dead. The Joker recounts another version of his Glasgow Grin backstory to Rachel Dawson, presumably before she gets the same grin cut into her. She kicks him away, however, and sends the Joker on a hammed-up response just long enough for Batman to swoop in and save her...for now.
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The Dark Knight / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
The Dark Knight / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: The Joker and Two-Face... ssssssssorta. Harvey hates Joker with a passion, but the Joker is the one who pushes Dent into villainy, and the Joker uses Two-Face to sow extra chaos and divert the Gotham PD's attention long enough to set up his next major "social experiment".
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The Dark Knight / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The Dark Knight / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: "Don't tell me it's Wayne. The guy's a complete f--"
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The Dark Knight / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
The Dark Knight / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: The Joker thinks Batman missed during the standoff between the Batpod and the Joker's semi-truck on LaSalle Street when Batman drives away. Then the tow cable Batman attached to the front of the truck flips the whole thing 180 degrees straight up and over.
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The Dark Knight / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
The Dark Knight / int_171ef47c	comment	Maroni saying of the Joker: "Some two-bit whack-job. Wears a cheap purple suit and make-up. He's not the problem. He's a nobody". Hohoho if they only knew back then...
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The Dark Knight / int_1762455b	type	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing
The Dark Knight / int_1762455b	comment	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Harvey Dent is first presented as a awesome and incorruptible crusader for justice, and is a romantic rival to Bruce Wayne. Especially since everyone knows he becomes Two-Face, the obviously... well, obvious assumption would be that he's hiding a dark, corrupt side to his character. Turns out... he isn't. He really was the great guy he seemed to be (at least until he was Driven to Villainy). In the novelization, Bruce/Batman is shown investigating Dent, believing him to be too good to be true, and all he finds is that Dent hides the fact that he had an unhappy childhood with a cruelly abusive father.
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The Dark Knight / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Dark Knight / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The Dark Knight has much more in common with crime dramas and thrillers than with straight-up superhero films, and it abandons the elements of adventure and mysticism that Batman Begins used heavily.
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The Dark Knight / int_177acf96	type	Poisonous Captive
The Dark Knight / int_177acf96	comment	Poisonous Captive: The Joker continues to play mind games with the police while in a cell.
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The Dark Knight / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Dark Knight / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The novel clears up a few details about the movie, such as making it possible to understand Dent's Knight Templar tendencies. Bruce is skeptical that Dent could have a skeleton-free closet, and decides to do some digging. What he finds is that Dent's father was a police officer who abused his mother, and whenever the police were called, they'd look the other way. Eventually, Dent's father killed his mother while he was away at school. This explains Harvey's initial distrust with Gordon at the beginning due to Gordon having dirty cops in his special unit (like Wuertz and Ramirez, to be specific). Bruce eventually realizes he's been digging so hard because he's jealous. Etc. The ARG also fills in a ton of details for what took place between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
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The Dark Knight / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Dark Knight / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The Joker, naturally.
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The Dark Knight / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Dark Knight / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Despite what Batman and Maroni believe, a fall from that height could definitely have killed him. Surviving with broken legs is incredibly lucky (in fact he could have been permanently crippled the way he landed), as death was a very real possibility. At the climax, the Joker is thrown off a building to stop him from detonating the bombs in the ferries; Batman, being Batman, saves his laughing ass by using the grapple gun to snatch him. Judging by how fast he was falling, he should've ended up like Gwen Stacy after stopping so fast; at bare minimum, the leg that the grapple gun attaches to should've snapped in half.
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The Dark Knight / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Dark Knight / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: When Harvey Two-Face flips his coin for Gordon's son, Batman tackles him in an effort to subdue himâ€”and succeeds in subduing him permanently with a miscalculation of force, resulting in a fall that seriously injures his leg and kills Harvey. The mob hires the Joker to the tune of half their collective money to get rid of the Batman. While the Joker successfully puts Batman on his heels, it comes at the cost of not just terrorizing the whole city, but also destroying the established mob unit from within, out of Joker's disdain of money being the mob's only motivation for power.
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The Dark Knight / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Dark Knight / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Pre-release material presented the Bat-Pod as one of Batman's newly developed toys. It's actually the Tumbler's emergency ejection system. When Joker says â€œItâ€™s all part of the plan.â€� in one trailer, itâ€™s as if heâ€™s referring to his own plan. The actual context of the line is quite different: â€œthe planâ€� is a metaphor that the Joker uses to describe the publicâ€™s response to everyday tragedies, like soldiers or gangsters getting killed.
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The Dark Knight / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
The Dark Knight / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: The film presents a Batman at the height of his power, being able to extract a criminal entrenched inside a skyscraper from halfway across the globe, and a Joker who is very good with weapons and able to at least match Batman with some very crazy stunts. Supporting characters such as Harvey Dent and Jim Gordon are more than capable to hold their own, non-action ones like Alfred and Lucius are very dominating, and even minor characters like the bank manager are deadly.
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The Dark Knight / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Dark Knight / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Batman underestimates the Joker throughout most of the film, right from the start when he blithely dismisses him with "One man or the entire mob? He can wait." Naturally, this comes back to bite him in the ass. Joker underestimates the resolve of the people of Gotham at the end, and he's not happy about it.
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The Dark Knight / int_1b06aa41	type	Villains Never Lie
The Dark Knight / int_1b06aa41	comment	Villains Never Lie: The Joker repeatedly claims to be "a man of my word". He's very fond of Exact Words, but seemingly only outright lies once: when he switches the locations of Harvey and Rachel. That he is always believed is presumably due to this trope.
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The Dark Knight / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
The Dark Knight / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: The Joker's leitmotif, a strident violin piece that feels and sounds almost like the droning of an insect swarm.
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The Dark Knight / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Dark Knight / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: US Senator Patrick Leahy shows up (the avowed lifelong fan's third such appearance to date) and defiantly says to the Joker, "we're not intimidated by thugs!" Now that is a campaign platform. He is also in The Dark Knight Rises where his cameo establishes him to be a Wayne Enterprises board member. In-universe, Gordon's daughter (only credited as such) is briefly seen.
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The Dark Knight / int_1bb7211b	type	The Hyena
The Dark Knight / int_1bb7211b	comment	The Hyena: The Joker
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The Dark Knight / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
The Dark Knight / int_1c4e3202	comment	The Spook: The Joker is given no backstory, and the only explanation we get for why he's doing what he's doing is simply a desire to push Gotham to the brink. When he's caught by the Gotham P.D., he's wearing only custom-made clothes with no labels and he isn't carrying any ID; his pockets are full of knives and lint. Batman is also this from the perspective of the citizens of Gotham, who have no idea who he is or where he comes from.
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The Dark Knight / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Dark Knight / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The Joker blocks a stretch of road with a fire truck...that's on fire. A fire truck, get it? Just another way the Joker Crosses the Line Twice. By the end of the second act, the Batmobile had lost a wheel (the Batpod), and the Joker got away. During the trip to China: The final dilemma the Joker presents is similar to the Prisoner's Dilemma. One of the parties in the dilemma is a ferry full of convicts. Bruce Wayne drives a Lamborghini MurciÃ©lago. MurciÃ©lago is Spanish for "Bat".
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The Dark Knight / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
The Dark Knight / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: Double Subverted. Maroni points out that the second-story isn't nearly high enough for him to be afraid of dying if dropped. Batman says he knows, then drops Maroni off the fire escape, fracturing Maroni's legs.
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The Dark Knight / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
The Dark Knight / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: Bruce Wayne is trying to figure out The Joker's motivations. Alfred tells him this story:
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The Dark Knight / int_1faf34ad	type	Prisoner's Dilemma
The Dark Knight / int_1faf34ad	comment	The final dilemma the Joker presents is similar to the Prisoner's Dilemma. One of the parties in the dilemma is a ferry full of convicts.
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The Dark Knight / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Dark Knight / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Harvey Dent accuses Gordon of this for not getting rid of all the possibly corrupt officers Dent looked into, like Wuertz and Ramirez. The mob's decision to hire the Joker, which comes back to bite them later on. Even near the beginning, when the mobsters are confronting Scarecrow about the bad drugs he has sold them. The Chechen complains that his "customers" are now quivering wrecks, but Scarecrow snarkily points out that he never said his drugs offered pleasant trips.
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The Dark Knight / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
The Dark Knight / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: The Joker's clowns during the bank robbery (Grumpy, Chuckles, Happy, Dopey, and the bus driver) are never seen on-camera without their clown masks on. It's revealed that Gordon faked his death to protect himself from the Joker. He comes back disguised as the SWAT officer who drives the armored truck transporting Harvey Dent. Notice that for the duration of the chase, he has his balaclava raised and his goggles lowered to hide his identity, and he doesn't say a word because doing so would give him away.
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The Dark Knight / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Dark Knight / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: The Gotham mob think they are in a crime film, where being the leaders of the various mob gangs means they are the top dogs and can do whatever they want. With that much money and power, surely they can keep this clown under control. They're not. They're in a superhero film where the clown is a supervillain whose capacity for chaos, death and destruction is limitless, and they realize too late that the clown is beyond anyone's control.
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The Dark Knight / int_2104e7d4	type	Powerful and Helpless
The Dark Knight / int_2104e7d4	comment	Powerful and Helpless: The Joker mocks Batman while on the receiving end of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to extract information on the location of Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes who have been kidnapped. He rightly points out that Batman can't achieve anything with all of his strength.
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The Dark Knight / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
The Dark Knight / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: Batman is attacked by the Chechen's dogs twice, and both times has difficulty fending them off. They have been clearly conditioned to be much angrier and hungrier than normal.
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The Dark Knight / int_21c21e1b	type	NotWhatISignedUpFor
The Dark Knight / int_21c21e1b	comment	Not What I Signed Up For: The SWAT officer riding shotgun in Harvey Dent's armored transport, after the Joker uses a bazooka to take out the pilot car in front of them. Why Maroni helps the cops in tracking the Joker in the end, noting that the "madness" of terror the Joker has gripped all of Gotham in was too much, when all he and the mob wanted was simply Batman out of their way.
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The Dark Knight / int_21ec9741	type	Exploited Trope
The Dark Knight / int_21ec9741	comment	Exploited Trope: Harvey Dent manages to take control of dramatic events at a trial and turn them to his advantage, effectively exploiting Unconventional Courtroom Tactics. An accused gangster tries to shoot him in the middle of the trial - Dent promptly punches and disarms him, stunning the entire court. When the judge calls for a recess, Dent hams it up: "Your honor, I'm not finished!"
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The Dark Knight / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
The Dark Knight / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: Batman is portrayed as such; most of the plot revolves around the Joker trying to get Batman to break his moral code and prove that, deep down, everybody is just like him and that Batman's idealism is misplaced.
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The Dark Knight / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
The Dark Knight / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The identities of the Joker's clowns in the bank heist, whose names you would only know through the script or through watching the scene with subtitles. The robbers are: Dopey: Alarm man (one of the two robbers who enters by zip-lining on a cable launched from a vacant office across the street). Is shot in the back by Happy with a suppressed pistol. Happy: The guy who shoots Dopey, then runs downstairs and drills into the vault. As soon as the vault door unlocks, he is shot by Grumpy. Grumpy: The driver of the station wagon, entering through the lobby with Chuckles and Bozo. He is shot in the shoulder by the bank manager, after Bozo tricks him into believing that the manager's shotgun is empty when he really has one shell left. When Happy remarks that he was told to take out the alarm guy, Grumpy says that he was told something similar and shoots Happy. He then stuffs several gym bags full of cash, and Bozo helps him place them by the door. When they're done, Grumpy draws his pistol and aims it at Bozo, believing that the Joker has Bozo to kill him after they load the cash, unaware that Bozo is the Joker. The Joker shrugs and says that actually, he kills the bus driver. Grumpy is confused, until seconds later, when a school bus bursts through the doors and runs over him. Chuckles: He is the guy riding shotgun with Grumpy when they pick up the Joker (as Bozo) on the street corner. When they enter, he announces their arrival by firing a sub-machine gun into the ceiling, then overpowers a guard. He is killed when the bank manager shoots him in the back with a sawed-off shotgun. The Joker (posing as Bozo): Handling crowd control, the Joker sticks primed grenades into the hostages' hands so they will be focused on holding on for dear life. He wounds the bank manager after tricking him into using his last round using a Glock 17 modified to fire full auto. After the school bus arrives, the Joker shoots and kills the driver, and finishes loading the money. As he is about to drive away, the bank manager asks him what he believes in. The Joker momentarily doubles back over to the manager, sticks a smoke grenade in his mouth, and unmasks himself to reveal his clown makeup, before driving off and triggering the grenade. Averted with Bus Driver, as that is his only name in the script.
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The Dark Knight / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Dark Knight / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Pretty much everything the Joker does means you could treat the movie as something like this. He's that good at it.
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The Dark Knight / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Dark Knight / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The spring-loaded spikes fitted on Batman's gauntlets. The wire thrower used in the opening bank robbery is later used to take down a police helicopter. The school bus used in the bank robbery makes an appearance when Gotham General Hospital is evacuated. In a more literal example, the sawed-off shotgun that the mob banker uses to fend off the Joker and his goons at the beginning is taken by the Joker and used by him throughout the movie.note He uses it when he crashes Bruce Wayne's party, to kill the cop who walks up to his truck, and to shoot at the SWAT van that Harvey is being transported in.
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The Dark Knight / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Dark Knight / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Not as frequent as it was in Batman Begins, but there are some considerably impactful ones here. "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." "I am sure a businessman of your stature would understand." Repeated within the same scene. "I make my own luck", which Harvey says when he's about to try Sal Maroni, is echoed by Rachel saying, "you make your own luck" right before the car chase. Harvey's fundraiser is absolutely loaded with them, subtle though they may seem. Both Bruce and the Joker enter the party announcing that they're only just in time; both immediately ask "Where is Harvey Dent?" upon arriving; both spill champagne out of a glass, and so on and so forth.
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The Dark Knight / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Dark Knight / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: All the clowns in the opening bank robbery have one: "Dopey" is actually a competent alarm cracker, and is more familiar with the Joker than his partner, to the point where it's plausible he expects to be killed upon finishing his part of the job. "Happy" isn't especially jovial, and seems relatively low-key compared to the other robbers. "Chuckles" takes the job very seriously, and does a lot of shouting. "Grumpy" shows more of a sense of humor than the other robbers. "Bozo" is far from dumb, and turns out to be the Joker in disguise.
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The Dark Knight / int_2473b050	type	Fast-Roping
The Dark Knight / int_2473b050	comment	Fast-Roping: The SWAT team raid on the Joker's HQ. Batman comes by later, and when he realizes that the hostages and captors have switched clothes, he uses the same rappel lines they used to to tie them up and knock them out.
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The Dark Knight / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
The Dark Knight / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Played with. While Harvey Dent himself isn't this, his alter ego Two-Face more than qualifies.
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The Dark Knight / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Dark Knight / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The last fight between Joker and Batman, with Joker using dogs, construction equipment and crowbars to beat the Dark Knight into the ground.
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The Dark Knight / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
The Dark Knight / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: As Cracked points out, no one seems to care about the getaway bus crashing out of the bank after the Joker has just robbed it, even with all the bank-dust:
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The Dark Knight / int_2633c91d	type	SteelEardrums
The Dark Knight / int_2633c91d	comment	Steel Eardrums: The first driver of the semi truck has them when the Joker shoots the cop at the roadblock, who is standing by the driver's door, from the passenger's seat, with the bank manager's shotgun, firing no more than a few feet from that driver's ear. The driver is killed later on in the chase by shrapnel from the Tumbler, so we don't know if he was deafened enough to keep doing his job or not. When Harvey Dent is approaching the ambulance Thomas Schiff is in after the shooting at Loeb's eulogy, there is a gunshot from somewhere. You notice that Dent flinches, while all of the officers scatter and immediately grab their weapons, but curiously, the paramedic tending to Schiff's leg doesn't so much as flinch, unless he's got auditory exclusion.
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The Dark Knight / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Dark Knight / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The mask The Joker wears at the beginning of the movie matches the mask he wore when performing in a Pagliacci opera as a ruse to capture the S.S. Gotham in the episode "The Joker's Wild" from the 1960s Adam West adaptation, which was his very first appearance◊. The other somber clown masks worn by the Joker's thugs with otherwise normal street clothes, invoke the image his henchman from the Animated Series episode The Last Laugh. Joker using a smoke grenade on the bank manager is a nod to his signature laughing gas venom. A memorable line from the 1989 Batman movie: when asked what he wants, the Joker replies, "My face on the one-dollar bill." In Dark Knight's viral marketing campaign, Joker really did put his face on the one-dollar bill◊! Joker audaciously killing someone at a conference of all the city's biggest mobsters could be another reference to the '89 film (the mobsters are even multicultural). It also serves as a highlight to how different this Joker is from that one, since the means of death is a lot harder to laugh at. The Joker is thrown off a building, but survives this time. As in the 1989 Batman film, Joker once again kills a mobster with a quick impale of a writing utensil, proving once again the pen(cil) is "truly mightier than the sword". The Joker begging Batman to run him over with his Bat-Cycle is eerily similar to Jack Nicholson's Joker begging Michael Keaton's Batman to attack him from his Bat-Wing in Tim Burton's Batman (1989). The Bat-Cycle brings to mind the Burtonverse Batmobile in Batman Returns being able to eject its side panels and become a narrower vehicle known as 'Batmissile'. The Bat-Cycle also seems to reference the most infamous parody nursery rhymes... The Joker wearing a nurse costume is most likely a nod to a scrapped idea from Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, where the Joker was originally going to be dressed like Madonna. The only reason it wasn't used was because a cross-dressing villain was considered too silly. In the film Bruce Wayne resides in a penthouse at Wayne Tower instead of Wayne Manor which is being reconstructed after the events of Batman Begins. Batman operated out of a secret underground bunker in Gotham City instead of the Batcave. In the comics Bruce Wayne left Wayne Manor and lived in a penthouse at the Wayne Foundation building and Batman from a secret sub-basement ("The Batbunker") from the late 60s to the early 80s. The attempt to assassinate Dent in court might be a nod to Two-Face's original backstory, where he was scarred by a mob boss throwing acid on him during a trial. Fox quips that the new Batsuit "should do fine against cats." The Joker shares the yellow teeth and black around his eyes like his BTAS version. Plus, his use of dogs maybe an allusion to his pet hyenas. The scene where the Joker burns a huge pile of mob money is probably a reference to Batman and Harvey Dent doing the same thing in The Long Halloween. The vigilantes who attack Scarecrow and the Chechen while dressed like Batman himself hearkens to The Dark Knight Returns, in which the Mutant Gang essentially switch sides after Batman defeats their leader and become "the Sons of the Batman". The Joker says to Batman, â€œYou complete meâ€�, just like he did in The Batman vs. Dracula. The eyes of Batman's mask glow white when he activates his sonar, invoking his iconic solid white eyes from his appearances in comic books and animated shows. Harvey Dent had previously pretended to be Batman to fool the Joker in The Batman Adventures, although the circumstances were somewhat different. Harvey's transformation into Two-Face plays out the same way it did in Batman: The Animated Series, with an explosion damaging half of his face. While this version of Two-Face refuses to get a skin-graft, it's implied that his animated counterpart did, but for some reason the graft turned bad. Both are also driven by revenge on a crime boss.
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The Dark Knight / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
The Dark Knight / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: Again, zig-zagged with the Gotham Mob's response to Batman in the year since Begins. They've been able to somewhat adjust their tactics to counter him in the field (ex. the Chechnen bringing guard dogs as an early warning system). However, Batman is still so much of an Outside-Context Problem to them that they're basically incapable of fully adapting and are losing (thus forcing them to rely upon the Joker).
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The Dark Knight / int_27990757	type	Two-Headed Coin
The Dark Knight / int_27990757	comment	Two-Headed Coin: Played straight by Harvey; subverted when he becomes Two-Face and the coin gets marked on one side.
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The Dark Knight / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
The Dark Knight / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: How the Joker and a couple of his men get into the funeral procession for Commissioner Loeb to assassinate Mayor Garcia. They kidnap the seven man honor guard that is supposed to do the 21 round salute, tie them up to a column in an apartment overlooking the procession, then steal their uniforms and weapons, then head down for the procession. When Garcia finishes his eulogy, the fake honor guard starts the 21 round salute. Just after the second volley, in a split second Gordon sees the Joker and his men suddenly spin right and aim their rifles at the mayor. He immediately tackles the mayor to the ground just as the Joker fires, the bullet instead hitting Gordon in the chest. The assembled group immediately breaks formation and everyone runs every which way, causing chaos that allows the Joker and all of his men except for Thomas Schiff to escape.
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The Dark Knight / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Dark Knight / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Grumpy gets hit by a flying piece of furniture when the school bus smashes the bank entrance. Wether he's killed or knocked out remains unclear. The bank manager's fate is also unclear since his death via smoke grenade is never confirmed and the Joker may be practicing his "what doesn't kill you makes you stranger" philosophy. Additionally, it's unclear if Maroni survived his car crash; Gordon mentions later on that Harvey's rampage killed five people, but we only see three die (including Harvey) and Maroni would only make four. It's possible, though not likely, that he survived.
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The Dark Knight / int_28e79337	type	Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee
The Dark Knight / int_28e79337	comment	Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee: Gordon plays this straight when he lets Batman interrogate the Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Dark Knight / int_294ed981	comment	Bruce Wayne drives a Lamborghini MurciÃ©lago. MurciÃ©lago is Spanish for "Bat".
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The Dark Knight / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Dark Knight / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Harvey Dent because of his political status and indirect, mostly non-violent means. Continues even after he goes on a killing spree, as he consistently manages to use misdirection and quick thinking to get to his targets.
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The Dark Knight / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The Dark Knight / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Given how many times the Joker bullies, badgers and even randomly kills other criminals in the first half of the film, this trope is the only explanation why nobody just shoots him to stop him from doing that.
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The Dark Knight / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Dark Knight / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Joker is even more feared than Batman. Even when the mob bosses thought he was working for them, they were still too terrified of him to rat him out.
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The Dark Knight / int_2b32a3a1	type	Under the Truck
The Dark Knight / int_2b32a3a1	comment	Under the Truck: Not a chase scene, since the Joker is coming at Batman head on in a truck, while Batman races towards him on the Batpod in the Loop. However Batman fires two towing cables that hit the truck and then proceeds to weave in and out between the wheels of the trailer to tie it up. Because the Batpod is built low to the ground and the truck is quite high off the ground, he doesn't need to slide, just drive normally.
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The Dark Knight / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
The Dark Knight / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: When talking about Batman's necessity:
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The Dark Knight / int_2bdfcf74	type	OffscreenVillainDarkMatter
The Dark Knight / int_2bdfcf74	comment	Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: It's not elaborated on very much where the Joker gets all the resources to enact his plans, which include explosives and even an RPG at one point. However, he does start off the film robbing mob banks, and the deal he makes with them later on seems to give him all the mooks and power he needs.
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The Dark Knight / int_2bfabe7	type	Trespassing to Talk
The Dark Knight / int_2bfabe7	comment	Trespassing to Talk: The Joker manages to sneak into a heavily guarded meeting of mob bosses, makes a pencil disappear, and makes an offer to kill Batman for them.
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The Dark Knight / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Dark Knight / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Two-Face lampshades this: "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Lucius directly invokes this when Bruce turns Lucius's sonar tech into an eavesdropping tool across the whole city. When Bruce protests this is the best way to capture the Joker, Lucius is unmoved and asks bluntly "At what cost?"
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The Dark Knight / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Dark Knight / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The Joker is the epitome of this. True to his twisted behavior, Joker is a horrific Sadist who's very open to the idea of senseless violence, and frequently kills or tries to kill people over petty excuses or just For the Evulz. When he's searched by the police, they find a whole lot of bladed implements — including, of all things, a potato peeler.
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The Dark Knight / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
The Dark Knight / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: The Joker, with the emphasis on "psycho", since he doesn't really stay in the employ of the mob for long. He's definitely in it for the psycho part, though.
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The Dark Knight / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Dark Knight / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Even after all that Batman and Commissioner Gordon did to stop the Joker's mayhem, The Joker proves that even the most noble of men (namely Harvey) can be twisted and their moral code turned to evil. A secondary objective of the Joker was to make Batman break his "one rule" (Batman does not kill). In the end, Batman is forced to break that rule by killing Harvey Dent to save Gordon's family.
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The Dark Knight / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
The Dark Knight / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: Harvey doesn't just give his 50-50 execution judgement to everyone involved in destroying his life, he goes after Gordon, and plans to kill Gordon's son to show the cop how it feels to lose the thing you love most.
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The Dark Knight / int_2ee59bb1	type	Never Be a Hero
The Dark Knight / int_2ee59bb1	comment	Never Be a Hero: Lampshaded with the Batman copycats.
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The Dark Knight / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Dark Knight / int_3036294e	comment	Also a inverted version is pulled by the Scary Black Man on the ferry during the finale, when he asks the Warden for the detonator to the other boat.
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The Dark Knight / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
The Dark Knight / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Batman himself at the end of the movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
The Dark Knight / int_316e9da2	comment	For Bruce, it's any indication Rachel is in danger. When Joker reveals he has not only Harvey hostage, but Rachel too, Batman completely snaps. Bruce proceeds to smash the clown's head straight into a glass window, and then keeps punching him in the face while screaming "WHERE ARE THEY?"
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The Dark Knight / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Dark Knight / int_319e4a2f	comment	Ironically enough, later on Maroni himself gives information about the Joker to Gordon when he believes the Joker is going too far for even his own fear of him to get in the way.
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The Dark Knight / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Dark Knight / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The Joker really likes building bombs.
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The Dark Knight / int_31f7c194	type	Super Window Jump
The Dark Knight / int_31f7c194	comment	Super Window Jump: In Hong Kong, Batman jumps from the top of a skyscraper, glides for dozens of meters and then enters Lau's building smashing through the glass window. Downplayed in the final battle at the unfinished Prewitt Building, where Batman does the same entrance but there is no glass, only a plastic panel.
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The Dark Knight / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
The Dark Knight / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Discussed.
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The Dark Knight / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
The Dark Knight / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Local district attorneys cannot charge RICO offenses. Not even the local US Attorneys can; it has to come directly from the Department of Justice. Dent's mass-trial would also count, but the movie points out that he doesn't expect it to succeed and it's only proceeding because of his local stature. Lau flees to Hong Kong so that he's out of Harvey Dent's jurisdiction and the Chinese won't extradite him. Although it's a moot point since Batman's the one who captures him, Lau is sadly mistaken: Hong Kong has a completely separate legal system from the rest of China and it does have an extradition agreement with the United States. Mainland China will not extradite its own citizens (see Article 8(1) of Extradition Law of the People's Republic of China) but it will try its own citizens for overseas crimes, which can be a bad thing because China has the death penalty and some states don't.
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The Dark Knight / int_3346f944	type	Not Worth Killing
The Dark Knight / int_3346f944	comment	Not Worth Killing: Eventually, the Joker starts thinking this about Batman. Batman himself sees all criminals as this, considering that he has one rule to live by, but he especially believes this about the Joker, who is hellbent on causing him to break that one rule.
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The Dark Knight / int_3373a2e3	type	"Stop the Hero" Twist
The Dark Knight / int_3373a2e3	comment	"Stop the Hero" Twist: When Batman heads to confront the Joker, he discovers the villain has disguised his goons as prisoners and the prisoners as goons, meaning the SWAT units going in will likely shoot the wrong people. He thus takes a detour to punching out the SWAT cops before they can do any harm.
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The Dark Knight / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
The Dark Knight / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: Zigzagged. The first trailer uses Joker's line "It's all part of the plan," but in the film the line is a part of his rant to Harvey that plans are pointless because the world is chaos. However, it becomes VERY clear that Joker does have a master plan, he just spins it in unpredictable ways.
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The Dark Knight / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Dark Knight / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Joker gets Dent's face burned and his girlfriend killed. He then shows up to Dent's hospital bed to say "Hey, it's your own damn fault for thinking there's such a thing as Order in the first place" to add insult to injury. And yet, it serves to give Harvey a new reason to live.
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The Dark Knight / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
The Dark Knight / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: Twice in the final moments of the movie. Batman and Gordon decide not to let the public know about Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face so that the people of Gotham do not lose hope, while Alfred burns Rachel Dawes's letter that stated she chose Dent over Bruce prior to her death. Unfortunately, both decisions backfire with heavy consequences in The Dark Knight Rises.
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The Dark Knight / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Dark Knight / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Despite having half of his face burned off, Harvey Dent doesn't seem to have much trouble speaking, and his facial motions are apparently unaffected.
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The Dark Knight / int_37556e5e	type	Death by Transceiver
The Dark Knight / int_37556e5e	comment	Death by Transceiver: Harvey and Rachel get to share this, with Harvey hearing Rachel's death. Of course, this is the whole reason they had transceivers in the first place.
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The Dark Knight / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Dark Knight / int_381855db	comment	"Is that a...phone?"
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The Dark Knight / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Dark Knight / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Pulled off more frequently and effectively by The Joker than Batman himself. During the interrogation scene, he pushes Batman's buttons enough by revealing that he's got both Harvey and Rachel stashed away and Batman will have to choose which one to save. In his panic, Batman never even considers that The Joker is lying about who is where. Earlier, The Joker's plan to kill Grumpy required him to be standing at precisely the right spot, at precisely the right time, and the bus to back into the bank just so. Harvey Dent of all people pulls one using the Trope Namer himself: he pretends to be Batman and turns himself in, knowing that Joker's crew would come after him during the prisoner transfer and the real Batman would stop them.
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The Dark Knight / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Dark Knight / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: After what Gambol went through with the Joker, Michael Jai White still hates clowns. Nestor Carbonell who played Mayor Garcia also played Batmanuel in The Tick (2001). Batman looking down from the upper level of the parking garage, waiting for the right moment to drop himself onto Scarecrow's van, is reminiscent of a scene in an earlier Christian Bale movie, except Bale dropped something else.
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The Dark Knight / int_394cc57e	type	You Did the Right Thing
The Dark Knight / int_394cc57e	comment	You Did the Right Thing: In the dilemma that two ferries leaving Gotham to avoid the Joker's supposed takeover, one filled with prisoners and the other with innocent civilians, have the detonator to blow up the opposite ferry under a time limit where the penalty of indecision would be them both blowing up; Ginty, the prisoner among many prisoners on the prisoner ferry, after demanding that the detonator to the civilian ferry be handed over to him, instead of detonating it primarily to save his own life, he instead throws it out an open window into the water at the expense that the prisoner ferry could not blow up the civilian ferry, and that it could be blown up instead. This shows that he probably believes the lives of the prisoners, including him, is not worth choosing over the lives of innocent civilians.
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The Dark Knight / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
The Dark Knight / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Joker using a smoke grenade on the bank manager is a nod to his signature laughing gas venom.
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The Dark Knight / int_3ae5bcf1	type	Trojan Ambulance
The Dark Knight / int_3ae5bcf1	comment	Trojan Ambulance: Played with. After the Joker and his henchmen open fire on the crowd at Commissioner Loeb's memorial, one of the henchmen (Thomas Schiff) is shot and put into an ambulance, handcuffed to the stretcher. Harvey Dent takes the opportunity to commandeer the ambulance and kidnap Schiff, who is still handcuffed in the back, to isolate and interrogate him away from police intervention.
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The Dark Knight / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Dark Knight / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Just as an accountant was about to give in to one of Joker's earlier threats (reveal the identity of Batman or people die) he goes on TV to announce that he changed his mind, that he decides that a world without Batman would be too boring, and that if said accountant was not killed in less than an hour, that he would blow up a hospital.
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The Dark Knight / int_3b570d13	type	Eyes Are Unbreakable
The Dark Knight / int_3b570d13	comment	Eyes Are Unbreakable: Despite Harvey having everything around his eye burned off including the eyelid, to the point of exposing the bone at the edge of the eye socket, the eye itself appears entirely undamaged.
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The Dark Knight / int_3b7ba342	type	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy
The Dark Knight / int_3b7ba342	comment	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: The Mafia's network of crime in this film includes alliances with the Russian mob and African American crime gangs, as well as a cybersecurity firm based in Hong Kong. And then they hire the Joker on top of that.
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The Dark Knight / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Dark Knight / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Harvey Dent has been a major part of the Batman mythos for over 60 years, so the question isn't whether or not he'll become Two-Face, it's if it'll happen in this movie or the next. It happens in this one.
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The Dark Knight / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Dark Knight / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: The Joker will order you killed as soon as you do your part of a robbery, make you kill your friends with a broken pool cue as an "initiation", stick a cell-phone triggered bomb in your stomach, or just burn you alive on top of a pile of money if he thinks it'll be fun.
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The Dark Knight / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Dark Knight / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The Joker believes that, deep down, everyone is just as horrible and ugly as he is, and that when they're pushed far enough, anyone will become a murdering psychopath. He just sees himself as one of the few smart and brave enough not to hide it.
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The Dark Knight / int_3e2d68db	type	Menacing Mask
The Dark Knight / int_3e2d68db	comment	Menacing Mask: At the beginning of the movie, The Joker and his gang don rubber clown masks to rob a bank. In a homage to The Killing, The Joker wears the same clown mask worn in the earlier film.
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The Dark Knight / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Dark Knight / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Batman's actions during the first movie come back with this one. At the beginning, Gotham's criminals pick up on the fact that Batman is only effective through his stealth and surprise. The Chechen realizes this and brings along his dogs to give him an early warning. Batman's tools need money and development, and no matter how carefully you hide it, there will be a paper trail. Coleman Reese, an accountant for Wayne Enterprises, finds out Bruce is Batman simply by going through files on how Bruce's money is spent, and locating the blueprints for the Tumbler in the company's archives. This knowledge, however, doesn't do him any good because, as Lucius points out, Reese is attempting to blackmail one of the richest men in the world, who is also a ruthless vigilante that puts hardened criminals in the hospital on a near nightly basis; There is no possible way this will end well for Reese, and he concedes. Following on from Bruce's tools, the limitations of the Batman Begins Batsuit finally come to a head here. Yes, it was designed to protect advanced infantry...but all that Kevlar and Nomex means that Bruce is still ultimately carrying around a lot of weight. Even during Begins, it was evident the suit was hindering his combat skills (on top of problems moving his neck due to the custom graphite cowl). A year's worth of frustrations finally leads to Bruce asking Fox to streamline and update the armor. While Fox redesigns the Batsuit to Bruce's satisfaction, stripping down the weight and increasing its flexibility results in necessary tradeoffs like reduced armor plating and protection. Fox's warnings about it being vulnerable to knives also come true as he gets stabbed by Joker during their final fight and then by Talia in the next film. Once the criminals clue in that Batman has rules and find someone scarier than him, Maroni calls out the fact that no one will talk to Batman. Dirty cops just don't spring into being, as exemplified by Ramirez pointing out that her mother's hospital bills are why she turned. The superhero-story trope of "villain makes the hero choose which of two or more people to save" is not original to this film. But usually, the hero finds a way to Take a Third Option and save everyone. Not here. Additionally, the villain tends to be honest about things like which person is where, even if they don't really have a reason to be.
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The Dark Knight / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Dark Knight / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The cop in the passenger seat of the paddy wagon has this role. Obviously justified, since the audience would have noticed if Gordon started talking.
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The Dark Knight / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
The Dark Knight / int_3f267047	comment	Voiceover Letter: Rachel's "Dear John" Letter to Bruce that we see Alfred reading is voiced out by Rachel herself.
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The Dark Knight / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Dark Knight / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: When Bruce Wayne meets Harvey Dent and Rachel in a restaurant, he allows his date says disparaging things about Batman in order to get Harvey to respond and get his opinion. Harvey rebukes the criticisms and refers to Batman as "an ordinary citizen standing up for what's right".
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The Dark Knight / int_402140eb	type	Why Am I Ticking?
The Dark Knight / int_402140eb	comment	Why Am I Ticking?: The Joker orchestrates a prison break with a cell-phone bomb, which is sewn inside the body of an inmate very crudely. He did promise the man he'd make the voices go away.
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The Dark Knight / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Dark Knight / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The scene where Gordon talks to Harvey Dent in Dent's office, and Gordon is trying his best to alleviate any association between himself and Batman: Batman is bouncing the Joker off the walls of the interrogation room. The cops cast a worried look at Gordon. Joker's famous "Do I really look like a guy with a plan?"... after he's spent the whole movie manipulating people and enacting convoluted plots that just happen to result in the most havoc possible.
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The Dark Knight / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Dark Knight / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Bordering on Downer Ending. The good news? The Joker is finally defeated. Unfortunately, both Rachel and Harvey are dead, and Batman is left to take the blame for the murders Harvey committed after he crossed the Despair Event Horizon.
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The Dark Knight / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
The Dark Knight / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The trilogy collection has Dent as Two Face on the cover. Not really a huge surprise for anyone who is familiar with the comics, but he spends much more of the movie as Harvey Dent than as Two Face.
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The Dark Knight / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Dark Knight / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Batman to the Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_4130657a	type	Cincinnatus
The Dark Knight / int_4130657a	comment	Cincinnatus: Discussed when Harvey Dent compares Batman to the Roman tradition of appointing a dictator in times of crisis.
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The Dark Knight / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Dark Knight / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Rachel, although she's not alone since Harvey also gets kidnapped along with her midway through.
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The Dark Knight / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
The Dark Knight / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: For two characters: The Joker himself, although he actively exploits it to invoke Multiple-Choice Past instead. Beyond the anecdote of "the bandit from Burma", Alfred doesn't really give any further details about his time there, which helps cast additional mystique and a potential shadier past to Bruce's Parental Substitute.note It also nicely serves as a Shout-Out to both a) Alfred's competing ex-military backgrounds in the comics, as well as b) Michael Caine's leading role in The Man Who Would be King, where he was himself a colonial adventurer playing with rubies the size of tangerines◊''.
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The Dark Knight / int_43c77dd9	type	Hellish Copter
The Dark Knight / int_43c77dd9	comment	Hellish Copter: During the car chase, two of the Joker's clowns crash a police helicopter by launching grappling cables from opposite sides of LaSalle Street, which the chopper's rotors get ensnared in.
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The Dark Knight / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Dark Knight / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: At the end, when his attempt to prove that everyone in Gotham is at core vile and self-centered goes wrong, in contrast to his previous antics the Joker goes very, very still and his voice becomes a low growl.
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The Dark Knight / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Dark Knight / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Batman has to play an insane game in the film's final minutes. Disguised Hostage Gambit with multiple SWAT teams bursting in all over the place. Batman has to quickly incapacitate SWAT teams so they don't kill the hostages-disguised-as-Joker-thugs, and take out the real Joker thugs at the same time. There are also police snipers targeting the disguised hostages. He ends up having to use his grapple hook in creative ways to knock over hostages to get them out of line of sight while at the same time getting to floors he needs to be on, blow the floor up beneath SWAT teams and thugs with his bomb launcher, and use the SWAT teams' own grapple ropes to tie them together and then suspend them over the side of the building. All this thought up and implemented on the fly within a time span of two minutes.
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The Dark Knight / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
The Dark Knight / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Or "could have avoided this subplot". The entire police convoy chase is based on having to divert from surface streets down to the lower street levels because of an obstruction. But on the far side of the "down" ramp is another unobstructed lane which the convoy could have taken, avoiding much of the Joker's trap.
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The Dark Knight / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Dark Knight / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: As usual, Batman is unwilling to kill the Joker despite the fact that he's a horrible psychopathic monster who hurts and kills people for fun, albeit in an effort to prove that the system works and that not everyone is as terrible as Joker makes them out to be.
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The Dark Knight / int_45398e01	type	Psycho Knife Nut
The Dark Knight / int_45398e01	comment	Psycho Knife Nut: Though he's perfectly willing to use guns and anything else if necessary, Joker's preferred weapon is knives. His logic:
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The Dark Knight / int_454fd2d	type	Bang, Bang, BANG
The Dark Knight / int_454fd2d	comment	Bang, Bang, BANG: The Joker uses a Glock 18 machine pistol in many of the scenes where he does shoot someone. It's well, except for the fact that the sound effect is actually that of a minigun. However, what is averted is that you do hear the natural clinking noise of shell casings hitting the ground.
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The Dark Knight / int_45d4d694	type	Venturous Smuggler
The Dark Knight / int_45d4d694	comment	Venturous Smuggler: They never appear on-screen, but Batman hires a crew of South Korean smugglers to help him kidnap a Chinese money launderer from his home base in China. The implication is that they're this trope.
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The Dark Knight / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Dark Knight / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Several observing SWAT give Batman an astonished non-verbal compliment when he takes out a full squad, with their own rappel lines, after being designated to be out the game.
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The Dark Knight / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Dark Knight / int_469e3e2f	comment	An In-Universe one for Harvey Dent. As he lies in the hospital, he finds the lucky coin he gave Rachel the last time he saw her, left by the side of his bed. But his hopes that she's still alive are dashed when he turns the coin over... the other side's been charred by the explosion that killed her.
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The Dark Knight / int_46b80fa7	type	Eyebrow Waggle
The Dark Knight / int_46b80fa7	comment	Eyebrow Waggle: Near the end of the interrogation sequence, the Joker does a brief one after he tells Batman "[...] you'll have to play my little game if you want to save one of them.", as if to highlight how he knows he's got Batman right where he wants him.
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The Dark Knight / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
The Dark Knight / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Salvatore Maroni as he's dropped from the second floor by Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_4807342c	type	Easily Swayed Population
The Dark Knight / int_4807342c	comment	Easily Swayed Population: Joker's plans hinge on Gotham City fearing his wrath and acting violently against each other, ironically to prevent him doing further damage. It works up until the end, when they finally stop playing his games... Only to completely buy the notion that Batman is responsible for Two-Face's killings (although he volunteered to take that responsibility to preserve Harvey Dent's image).
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The Dark Knight / int_48b01c26	type	Surveillance as the Plot Demands
The Dark Knight / int_48b01c26	comment	Surveillance as the Plot Demands: The Bat-Cell-Phone-Sonar machine.
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The Dark Knight / int_48da376b	type	Game Changer
The Dark Knight / int_48da376b	comment	Game Changer: The Joker killing the Batman impersonators was cited by Bruce as crossing the line, while Alfred points out that him becoming Batman to begin with is what made the mob so desperate.
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The Dark Knight / int_49b3ebe5	type	Special Effect Failure
The Dark Knight / int_49b3ebe5	comment	The truck-flipping scene is a truly awesome practical effect, but the way Batman does it as seen in the film would be physically impossiblenote the effect was accomplished by using a piston rigged with TNT on the back of the truck to flip it over, something very visible in the finished product. Assuming Batman does exactly what we see regarding the cable, the truck would have just torn the cable out of the asphalt along with the lampposts, and barely been slowed. And if the cable's anchor held firm, the cable would more likely break. Failing that, the truck would simply, abruptly stop. In no case is it capable of generating the force required to make the trailer rise up and turn with the entire rig over its own front end. Further, the rig itself and the trailer are not a single, rigid piece as shown. The two pieces would form a "V" while doing the flip, due to the trailer lagging behind the tractor as it rotates over. Once bent beyond breaking point, the hitch would fail and the trailer would drop back on its wheels.
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The Dark Knight / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Dark Knight / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: They seem to show off a lot of downtown Chicago scenery in the car chase
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The Dark Knight / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Dark Knight / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: When the Joker kills Gambol. From a shot of the the Joker holding a knife in Gambol's cheek, we get a split-second cut to a henchman's horrified expression, then a shot from the other side of the room as the Joker drops Gambol. Actually averted with the Joker's disappearing pencil trick, as we get to see the whole thing, albeit a bloodless PG-13 version, though the whole thing happens so fast you probably couldn't have seen anything no matter what. Lau's murder. At the beginning of the scene, the camera focuses on Lau Bound and Gagged while sitting atop a giant pile of money, then the camera pans down, the Joker sets the pile on fire, and the camera never pans back upwards. We also don't hear so much as a scream.
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The Dark Knight / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Dark Knight / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
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The Dark Knight / int_4bb6d104	type	Shipping Torpedo
The Dark Knight / int_4bb6d104	comment	Shipping Torpedo: Bruce Wayne, towards Harvey and Rachel, since this essentially relegates him to Unlucky Childhood Friend status with respect to the woman he's loved for years.
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The Dark Knight / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
The Dark Knight / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	After being told by the Joker the two locations where Harvey and Rachel are being held, Batman and the police split up to deal with the situation, Batman going after Rachel, and the police going after Harvey. Sure enough, we see them reach their own destinations, with Batman being shown kicking in the door... to the room where Harvey is being held.
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The Dark Knight / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Dark Knight / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Rachel, though not until the end of Act 2. Commissioner Loeb suffers this as well.
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The Dark Knight / int_4d92da97	type	Get into Jail Free
The Dark Knight / int_4d92da97	comment	Get into Jail Free: The Joker does this in order to kidnap Lau and make him reveal the location of the mobs' money.
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The Dark Knight / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Dark Knight / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Inverted; the Joker has no rules.
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The Dark Knight / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Dark Knight / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Batman is interrogating Joker about Harvey Dent's kidnapping in the MCU lockup and Joker suddenly reveals he's had his men kidnap Rachel as well.
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The Dark Knight / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Dark Knight / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: After being told by the Joker the two locations where Harvey and Rachel are being held, Batman and the police split up to deal with the situation, Batman going after Rachel, and the police going after Harvey. Sure enough, we see them reach their own destinations, with Batman being shown kicking in the door... to the room where Harvey is being held. The convict doing the right thing by chucking the prisoner shipâ€™s detonator out the window, and thereby removing any chance of them proving the Joker correct. The civilian ship didnâ€™t take it to that extreme. Best of all, Batman had nothing to do with the decisions made by either ship.
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The Dark Knight / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Dark Knight / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: Two-Face was more cartoony-looking in the comics. In the film, the scarred side of his face is severely burned, with exposed bone and muscle. The Joker has a clean, cartoonish appearance in the comics and some of the other adaptations, but in the film, he gets a dirtier, creepier appearance that gets worse over the course of the film.
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The Dark Knight / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Dark Knight / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Salvatore Maroni.
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The Dark Knight / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Dark Knight / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Two-Face has a moment that doubles as both tropes when he kills Maroni's driver and at the very least causes further injury to Maroni, who had already been reduced to walking on a cane following a Bat Interrogation.
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The Dark Knight / int_50d2ca43	type	The Coats Are Off
The Dark Knight / int_50d2ca43	comment	The Coats Are Off: Stephens casts off his sports jacket before giving the Joker the beating he was implicitly begging for.
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The Dark Knight / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Dark Knight / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Joker actually gives Batman a run for his money, at least when it comes to the "crazy" part: He has pockets full of knives, grenades attached to strings lining his coat, and detonators to strategically placed giant bombs all over town.
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The Dark Knight / int_524f397c	type	Madden Into Misanthropy
The Dark Knight / int_524f397c	comment	Madden Into Misanthropy: The Joker pulls an extreme version of this on Harvey Dent.
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The Dark Knight / int_553c2ade	type	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain
The Dark Knight / int_553c2ade	comment	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: The Big Bad Ensemble falls into this. The Joker is a sadistic terrorist of unknown origin dedicated to destroying any sense of order and government to prove his nihilistic view of humanity correct. Two-Face, on the other hand, is a Tragic Villain and a Fallen Hero who turned evil after being disfigured and watching the love of his life die. He's also a Fair-Play Villain with an admittedly twisted sense of fairness, always giving his victims an equal chance of living or dying with his coin tosses. By contrast, the Joker kills indiscriminately and never even bothers playing fair with his victims, regardless of what he claims.
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The Dark Knight / int_55501673	type	Crooks Are Better Armed
The Dark Knight / int_55501673	comment	Crooks Are Better Armed: Downplayed. The Joker's guys have rifles and are more indiscriminate about using them. The police and SWAT have rifles, but they rarely use them. Notably, the Joker surprises them at one point by pulling out a rocket launcher.
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The Dark Knight / int_556a4863	type	Virtue Is Weakness
The Dark Knight / int_556a4863	comment	Virtue Is Weakness: Once the mob bosses settled down a truce, they've discussed how Batman doesn't kill the criminals he captures and sees that as a reason not to fear him at all. Batman proves them how wrong they are, by showing how non-lethal but painful a fall can be.
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The Dark Knight / int_55ca8aa	type	The Mob Boss Is Scarier
The Dark Knight / int_55ca8aa	comment	The Mob Boss Is Scarier: People definitely see the Joker as being scarier than Batman, and Maroni spells out how no one is going to cross the Joker because they're too afraid of what cruel method he could devise to kill them (and he's personally afraid of a reprisal against the Falcone family should he cross the Joker), whereas all Batman can do is beat them up a bit. Particularly noteworthy in that the mob bosses actually think that the Joker is working for them, and they're still too terrified to cross him. Ironically enough, later on Maroni himself gives information about the Joker to Gordon when he believes the Joker is going too far for even his own fear of him to get in the way.
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The Dark Knight / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Dark Knight / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Harvey Dent compliments Batman's efforts to take down Gotham's organized crime, comparing it to the crisis dictators that the ancient Romans appointed when the enemies were at the gates. Rachel counters that when Caesar was given his chance as dictator he refused to give up his power. However, Julius Caesar never had to give up his dictator powers because the Senate explicitly gave him the title of "Dictator for Life", and this was after Caesar had effectively won the Roman Civil War. Regardless of whether crisis dictators are dangerous for democracy, Rachel can't cite Caesar as a valid example. The nuance between Batman and Harvey Dent mind you, is that it's actually Dent who is the crisis dictator appointed by Gotham's mayor, while Batman is a vigilante who was never granted legal authority by anyone.
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The Dark Knight / int_58b07f3	type	Finale Title Drop
The Dark Knight / int_58b07f3	comment	Finale Title Drop: The final words spoken are the movie's title, at the end of Commissioner Gordon's monologue about Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_5937a87c	type	No Honor Among Thieves
The Dark Knight / int_5937a87c	comment	No Honor Among Thieves: Of the first group of the Joker's lackey's introduced, the only one who isn't killed as soon as he finishes his part of the job is the Joker himself.
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The Dark Knight / int_5942bb71	type	Disguised Hostage Gambit
The Dark Knight / int_5942bb71	comment	Disguised Hostage Gambit: The Joker pulls this in the finale with the people he kidnapped from the hospital, dressing them up as his henchmen while the real henchmen disguise themselves as doctors. This forces Batman to stop the SWAT team from making a fatal mistake.
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The Dark Knight / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
The Dark Knight / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: The Joker constantly berates small-time crooks and mobsters for being petty and shallow enough to care only about profit while ignoring the loftier ideals of Evil:
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The Dark Knight / int_599c74ea	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
The Dark Knight / int_599c74ea	comment	Zero-Approval Gambit: The ending. Batman chooses to take the blame for Dent's murders so his mob convictions won't be overturned and his reputation will remain untarnished.
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The Dark Knight / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
The Dark Knight / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: Though Harvey "Two-Face" Dent does get his iconic facial scars, he never joins Batman's Rogues Gallery. Instead, he has a brief stint as a Vigilante Man (only coming into conflict with Batman when he tries to kill Commissioner Gordon's family) and dies just one day after the incident that caused those scars, leaving the vast majority of Gotham's people unaware that he ever went insane. His vigilantism is still ruthless enough for him to qualify as a villain, particularly as he goes after the family of the only truly honest cop in Gotham.
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The Dark Knight / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Dark Knight / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Downplayed. When Gordon visits Harvey at Gotham General Hospital after his disfigurement, the reveal of his Two-Face look is built up a bit. At first, he's positioned in bed such that we only see the intact half of his face; he turns all the way to face Gordon but the camera cuts to his reaction, delaying the reveal just a tad longer. We do see the full face shortly after.
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The Dark Knight / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Dark Knight / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Harvey Dent's storyline is, in no small way, based on the Jonathan Nolan Story 'Memento Mori', which was also the basis for Christopher Nolan's Memento. A few of the Joker's speeches are near direct quotes from that story. The first half of the film is seemingly adapted from The Long Halloween, complete with the triumvirate of Gordon, Dent, and Batman allying to take down the Mob and the Mob hiring the Joker in their desperation to fight back. However, Holiday is nowhere to be found, the distrust between the trio is gone (aside from Dent taking issue with Gordon having corrupt officers on his payroll), and Carmine and Alberto Falcone aren't anywhere to be seen (Falcone's role filled in instead by an inverse trio of Sal Maroni, Gambol, and the Chechen). The Joker's entire motivation seems to be a distillation of The Killing Joke themes, particularly how one bad day could drive anyone to madness — something he claims of himself, and tries to force on Batman, Harvey Dent, and Gotham in general.
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The Dark Knight / int_5a94cbf6	type	Fake Assassination
The Dark Knight / int_5a94cbf6	comment	Fake Assassination: Zig-Zagged. The assassination attempt itself is real, as the Joker tries to shoot the Mayor in a Conspicuously Public Assassination and escapes in the fray, only for James Gordon to sacrifice himself by Taking the Bullet. Gordon faked his death with Batman's help so that they could lure the Joker into a trap later on.
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The Dark Knight / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
The Dark Knight / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: When Maroni tries to barter the identity of the other Mole in Gordon's unit for his life, Two-Face says it couldn't hurt Maroni's chances. This suggests Dent might actually show some mercy, until it turns out the mobster's survival is based on a 50-50 coin toss. Maroni gets the good heads on that one. His limo driver isn't so lucky. Later, Two-Face takes Gordon's family hostage, and orders him to tell them everything will be fine while he threatens to kill Gordon's son.
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The Dark Knight / int_5b3c4b05	type	X Must Not Win
The Dark Knight / int_5b3c4b05	comment	X Must Not Win: Where X in this case refers to the Joker. It's such a major driving force for the good guys, especially for Batman, that at the end of the movie, Batman takes the fall for Dent's murders partly out of refusal to give Joker the satisfaction of wrecking Gotham.
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The Dark Knight / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
The Dark Knight / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Two-Face's arm can be seen grabbing Maroni's lackey as Maroni gets in the car, before the reveal.
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The Dark Knight / int_5b9dcd73	type	Empty Promise
The Dark Knight / int_5b9dcd73	comment	Empty Promise: Rachel gives one to Harvey. Harvey himself is angry at himself for giving Rachel an empty promise, that he told her everything was gonna be okay when he knew deep down inside that it was a lie. He holds this against Comissioner Gordon when he has him and his family hostage, and plans to kill members of Gordon's family based on a coin toss as revenge for Rachel's death. Harvey makes the argument that Gordon should lie to his son, lie like he lied to Rachel that everything is gonna be okay. Thankfully Batman saves Gordon's son before the coin can land.
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The Dark Knight / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Dark Knight / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: The Joker almost suffers this, but is saved by Batman. Bonus points for adding maniacal laughter to the fall. Done a few minutes later to Harvey Dent.
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The Dark Knight / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
The Dark Knight / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: The Joker's home movie of him torturing and killing an impostor Batman in what appears to be a meatpacking plant (based on the presence of animal carcasses in the background).
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The Dark Knight / int_5bf69547	type	Gang of Hats
The Dark Knight / int_5bf69547	comment	Gang of Hats: The Joker and his goons run a Monster Clown theme, whereas Joker always has makeup and the others wear clown masks or painted tights. This tropes is deviously exploited by the Joker at the climax when he has his hostages wearing said masks, tied standing up, with guns taped into their hands, while the real criminals disguise themselves as the hostages. Thankfully, Batman sees through the trick and manages to make the police understand it before there's needless bloodshed.
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The Dark Knight / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Dark Knight / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: At the beginning of the film, the Chechen is upset with Dr. Crane for supplying him with fear toxin as a street drug (which has horrific, non-pleasurable effects) because his business needs repeat customers.
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The Dark Knight / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
The Dark Knight / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: More like Suddenly Snarling, but the Joker drops every last trace of Affably Evil with shocking suddenness during the scene where he's terrorizing poor Brian Douglas on video. It's enough to give you a Jump Scare:
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The Dark Knight / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Dark Knight / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: According to Christopher Nolan, the main theme of this film (in contrast to "fear" in the previous one) is "escalation"—personified in the Joker, whose emergence comes as a result of Batman's pressure on the mob, with the stakes only rising it from there. Also Order Versus Chaos (per The Dark Knight Trilogy material associating the word "Chaos" with this film), with Batman and Gordon struggling to maintain order in Gotham against the Joker, naturally the self-styled "agent of chaos".
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The Dark Knight / int_5d269b12	type	Handy Remote Control
The Dark Knight / int_5d269b12	comment	Handy Remote Control: The Joker uses one to blow up a hospital.
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The Dark Knight / int_5dbf364d	type	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
The Dark Knight / int_5dbf364d	comment	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Done by the Joker after Stephens presses his Berserk Button. "Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You canâ€™t savor all of the little... emotions. You see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I knew your friends better than you ever did... Would you like to know which of them were cowards?"
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The Dark Knight / int_5f252b8b	type	One Phone Call
The Dark Knight / int_5f252b8b	comment	One Phone Call: In accordance with procedure as stated above, the Joker is not given his phone call. He goes to some lengths to get it... which he uses to escape from jail by calling a cell phone implanted within one of his gang members, detonating a bomb connected to it and destroying a large portion of the prison.
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The Dark Knight / int_5fc9b36a	type	Vigilante Injustice
The Dark Knight / int_5fc9b36a	comment	Vigilante Injustice: This topic is discussed and is later called into question by the film itself. The previous film, Batman Begins, saw Bruce become Batman because Gotham PD was rotten to the core and all attempts at de-corrupting the city were being sabotaged. Between the end of that film and now, Gotham has gotten cleaner as citizens and police have rallied around Batman as a symbol of justice. This has led to a number of copycat vigilantes trying to enforce justice of their own as well outside of the law. Batman's existence and the city's embrace of him are questioned given the city's history, and many see his existence as problematic because The Joker is demanding he turn himself in, but Batman proves to be the person Gotham needs to take the Joker down, and because the Joker exists because Batman exists.
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The Dark Knight / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Dark Knight / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Joker's dialogue during his first meeting with the Mobsters establishes that a year has passed in-universe since the events of Batman Begins.
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The Dark Knight / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Dark Knight / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The Joker is a self-proclaimed "Agent of Chaos" - he really doesn't plan, he just sizes up his enemies' plans and attacks the weak point that causes the most chaos.
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The Dark Knight / int_607d2ef7	type	Mouthing the Profanity
The Dark Knight / int_607d2ef7	comment	Mouthing the Profanity: Immediately after Batman swerves to avoid hitting the Joker, The Joker can be seen mouthing the word "fuck".
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The Dark Knight / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Dark Knight / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The ballet Harvey and Rachel were planning to go see is shown to be Giselle. Watch the Joker very closely during the interrogation room confrontation when Batman is hitting him. In the split second before the last punch, he's actually looking at Batman's fists with a gleeful expression, like he's enjoying it. How did Two-Face get into Maroni's car? Pay very close attention to the bodyguard who is on the very left side of the screen. Watching the scene frame-by-frame, while none of the other characters present are watching, you'll see Dent's hand suddenly grab him from behind and drag him off-camera in a split second. If you look at the left side view mirror, you can watch him as he sits down in the seat.
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The Dark Knight / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Dark Knight / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dent threatens to kill Maroni's wife as revenge.
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The Dark Knight / int_643879c7	type	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
The Dark Knight / int_643879c7	comment	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: The name "Two-Face" is only uttered once, when Harvey remembers that cops used to call him "Harvey Two-Face" when he worked for internal affairs (though just to make it clear what it means, it's revealed right before the audience sees his disfigured face for the first time). Completely averted by the Joker, whose real name is never mentioned.
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The Dark Knight / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Dark Knight / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Attempted by Gordon in the final confrontation with Dent. At one point, the former tries to convince the latter to kill him instead of Gordon's son, but the latter is having none of it.
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The Dark Knight / int_64dd304c	type	Pre-emptive Declaration
The Dark Knight / int_64dd304c	comment	Pre-emptive Declaration: Later: Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Two-Face has a moment that doubles as both tropes when he kills Maroni's driver and at the very least causes further injury to Maroni, who had already been reduced to walking on a cane following a Bat Interrogation.
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The Dark Knight / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Dark Knight / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: Played straight when Batman dives out the window of a fifty story building to save Rachel. Then Inverted when The Joker gives Batman a Sadistic Choice where he only had time to save Rachel or Harvey. Batman thought he was saving the girl, but the Joker lied about which hostage was at which address.
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The Dark Knight / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
The Dark Knight / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: The Joker has a particularly effective one for his Leitmotif, almost into Brown Note territory, achieved by sawing a D note on a cello.
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The Dark Knight / int_671a3e1	type	Too Kinky to Torture
The Dark Knight / int_671a3e1	comment	Too Kinky to Torture: The Joker. Detective Stephens, who's in charge of watching him, even lampshades it. Few seconds later, after Joker insult his friends (see Would You Like to Know How They Died?):
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The Dark Knight / int_679d7cc7	type	Goomba Stomp
The Dark Knight / int_679d7cc7	comment	Goomba Stomp: In this case, Batman does it to a van.
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The Dark Knight / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Dark Knight / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: The Joker both plays this straight and deliberately mocks it. Which is why he's the Joker. He even gets Mike Engel to read one off cue cards in the Deadline News scene.
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The Dark Knight / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Dark Knight / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Played for Laughs when Bruce is planning his trip to China to capture Lau. And Alfred only wants to know what the Russian translation is for "Apply your own bloody suntan lotion."
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The Dark Knight / int_69aa26d1	type	Poison Is Corrosive
The Dark Knight / int_69aa26d1	comment	Poison Is Corrosive: After Commissioner Loeb is poisoned, there's a brief shot of the glass he drank from spilling onto his desk and producing smoke.
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The Dark Knight / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
The Dark Knight / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Loeb asks how the Joker got a sample of his DNA, Gordon explains that someone got into his house to lift it. When he says that they could've gotten it off one of his drinking glasses, he quickly realizes that if they could do that, they could do a lot worse - just as Loeb drinks the acid-laced whiskey.
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The Dark Knight / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
The Dark Knight / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: The Chechen's DOGS! ARE! HONG-RAY! Or as Rifftrax mocks it, "My Al Pacino impression is TERRIBLE!"
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The Dark Knight / int_6a2486cd	type	Graying Morality
The Dark Knight / int_6a2486cd	comment	Graying Morality: Harvey Dent. Gordon's final speech even admits that Gotham needed an Ideal Hero like Dent was, but really deserves an Anti-Hero like Batman. Batman himself falls into this, beyond the usual Anti-Hero vigilantism, after he's pushed to his mental limits by the destruction and tragedy left behind by Joker. In the third act, out of desperation, Bruce makes a questionable decision to weaponize Lucius Fox's sonar technology into an audiovisual eavesdropping tool covering telecommunication all over Gotham. Lucius Fox is not pleased and calls out Batman for treading into these waters.
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The Dark Knight / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Dark Knight / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: While the Joker is set up at the very beginning of the film, the characters in-universe spend the first part of the film pursuing Salvatore Maroni, new head of the Falcone Family and de facto head of Gotham's organized crime, who from their perspective is the Big Bad trying to end Batman's influence on the city. Then he hires the Joker, who takes over and plunges the city into utter chaos.
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The Dark Knight / int_6de890e	type	Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains
The Dark Knight / int_6de890e	comment	Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains: Played with. Batman wears a suit of high-tech armor to contrast the filthiness and poor hygiene of the Joker, which would make this an inversion. However, the Batsuit is designed for utilitarian purposes and it's later confirmed that the Joker had all of his clothing custom-made so that no labels could be traced to him.
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The Dark Knight / int_6e65655f	type	Rejected Marriage Proposal
The Dark Knight / int_6e65655f	comment	Rejected Marriage Proposal: Downplayed. Harvey proposes to Rachel and she tells him she "doesn't have an answer" and needs time to think it over. This is due to her also having feelings for childhood friend Bruce Wayne, whom she had previously promised to wait for until he stopped being Batman so they could be together. She eventually tells Harvey she accepts his proposal...shortly before she's killed in an explosion set up by the Joker. Harvey really doesn't take it well. Bruce is left with the impression she was still going to wait for him and Alfred burns a letter from Rachel telling him she's actually going to marry Harvey in an attempt to spare him more pain.
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The Dark Knight / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Dark Knight / int_6ec4232f	comment	William Fichtner as the banker with the shotgun in the opening heist was an intentional Casting Gag by Nolan, who built the sequence as an homage to Heat.
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The Dark Knight / int_6eeaa3c4	type	Bus Full of Innocents
The Dark Knight / int_6eeaa3c4	comment	Bus Full of Innocents: The Joker's "social experiment."
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The Dark Knight / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
The Dark Knight / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: Harvey to Rachel, as he's about to be loaded into the armored car.
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The Dark Knight / int_6fc21d06	type	Fiction 500
The Dark Knight / int_6fc21d06	comment	Fiction 500: Bruce not only uses his massive wealth to fund all his activities as Batman, but he's wealthy enough to own the company that maintains the city's cell towers. He can push out an automatic software update for all cell phones in the city; one that just happens to turn them into surveillance devices.
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The Dark Knight / int_70535937	type	Flexibility Equals Sex Ability
The Dark Knight / int_70535937	comment	Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Part of Bruce Wayne's Millionaire Playboy cover story for disappearing for a few days to kidnap a money launderer from Hong Kong is to very publicly invite an entire Russian ballet troupe for a trip on his yacht. While he obviously skips out on the outing, his butler is more than happy to keep the women company.
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The Dark Knight / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
The Dark Knight / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Lucius Fox as he leaves the control room for the cell phone sonar system as it blows up behind him. Played for laughs with the Joker when he blows up the Gotham General Hospital. He starts walking away without looking back, only to notice the explosions have stopped. Joker turns around and starts fiddling with the detonator, but nothing happens. He fiddles with the detonator some more, until he's startled by a huge explosion. Joker then resumes walking away without looking back... only now he's walking much faster than before.
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The Dark Knight / int_712c8e6f	type	Phony Newscast
The Dark Knight / int_712c8e6f	comment	Phony Newscast: There are newscasts during the film reporting on the Joker and the Batman; in the DVD extras you're treated to 4 fake in-depth newscasts about Gotham.
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The Dark Knight / int_71bf37e3	type	Vigilante Militia
The Dark Knight / int_71bf37e3	comment	Vigilante Militia: Batman's activities have unfortunately inspired several copycat vigilantes to take on the criminal underworld of Gotham. At least some of these are working together, as seen when two or three of them try to take down Scarecrow's operation. Bruce is not happy about this, as these average citizens don't have the same resources or training that he does and are more likely to get themselves killed. Indeed, the Joker starts targeting them in his hunt for the Batman and brutally murders one on camera.
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The Dark Knight / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
The Dark Knight / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Harvey Dent loses the love of his life and half of his face in one day. It doesn't take much for The Joker to push him over the edge after that.
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The Dark Knight / int_723943a9	type	Deducing the Secret Identity
The Dark Knight / int_723943a9	comment	Deducing the Secret Identity: An accountant for Wayne Enterprises discovers Bruce's identity as Batman simply by going through the company files on how Bruce's money is spent, and locating the blueprints for the "Tumbler" Batmobile in Wayne Enterprises' archives. On the other hand, this knowledge doesn't do him any good, because as Lucius Fox points out, he is attempting to blackmail a oligarch who is also a ruthless vigilante; there is no possible way this will end well for him, and he concedes.
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The Dark Knight / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Dark Knight / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Lampshaded by Alfred. Played straight by Alfred later when Bruce, at the brink of the Despair Event Horizon after Rachel's death, asks Alfred how he caught the jewel thief in the Burmese forest, hoping for an analogous answer on how he could apprehend the Joker while staying within his ideals. Alfred bluntly tells Bruce they burned the forest down. Which then leads Bruce to weaponizing Lucius's sonar tech into a tool to eavesdrop on all telecommunication in the city. Lucius is legitimately awed and terrified at his technology perverted in such a way, a line crossed enough that while he concedes it's the best way to apprehend the Joker in the moment, he tells Bruce it represents Lucius's resignation letter so long as it exists. Once the Joker is captured, Lucius types in a command (his own name) Bruce gave him, which immediately destroys the machine. Maroni only allowed the Chechen to hire the Joker because Lau had been captured. In fact, Maroni hates the Joker as much as the good guys, but he's too scared of a reprisal against the Falcone family to rat out the clown until the DA is missing half his face and the assistant DA is dead.
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The Dark Knight / int_7293c9af	type	Sick Captive Scam
The Dark Knight / int_7293c9af	comment	Sick Captive Scam: Subverted. One of the Joker's henchmen claims to have severe stomach pain. The guards initially ignore this, but it eventually becomes clear he has a real problem, to wit: the Joker sewed a bomb into him in order to create a distraction and escape.
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The Dark Knight / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Dark Knight / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: In the second half of the film, Two-Face becomes just as big of a threat as the Joker as he seeks revenge against everyone he blames for his disfigurement and Rachel's death, even if it adds to the chaos the Joker is sewing. However, the two are both pursuing their agendas separately and never cross paths after Harvey cements his Faceâ€“Heel Turn.
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The Dark Knight / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
The Dark Knight / int_72e0023f	comment	An Invoked Trope during the ferry scene.
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The Dark Knight / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Dark Knight / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Joker keeps asking "Do you wanna know how I got these scars?". But by the end, Batman doesn't care about his supposed Freudian Excuse.
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The Dark Knight / int_74a08ab1	type	Sky Heist
The Dark Knight / int_74a08ab1	comment	Sky Heist: Batman kidnaps the Chinese mob boss Mr. Lau from his Hong Kong skyscraper using a skyhook - after blowing out one of the skyscraper's windows, he trails a cable out of the window that catches the underside of a cargo plane piloted by his allies, dragging him and Mr. Lau out of the building.
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The Dark Knight / int_74b85afd	type	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
The Dark Knight / int_74b85afd	comment	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: After the Joker kills Gambol and takes control of his organisation, he makes Gambol's cronies duel each other to the death to see who'll be allowed to join his own gang of thugs, after breaking a pool cue.
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The Dark Knight / int_7518df99	type	The Power of Legacy
The Dark Knight / int_7518df99	comment	The Power of Legacy: At the end of the film, after Harvey Dent's death, Batman tells Gordon to tell the police force that it was Batman, not Harvey, who was responsible for Harvey's murders, so that Harvey does not lose his white knight reputation.
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The Dark Knight / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
The Dark Knight / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: Anyone familiar with the Batman canon would guess that Gordon's death was faked, as he was only a lieutenant at the time and he's supposed to be "Commissioner Gordon."
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The Dark Knight / int_76102e79	type	Chaos Is Evil
The Dark Knight / int_76102e79	comment	Chaos Is Evil: The Joker, an unrepentant sociopath, likes to style himself as an "Agent of Chaos". Chaos as in abandoning all social rules and pretenses of scruples and giving in into darker, boundless impulses.
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The Dark Knight / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
The Dark Knight / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Batman won't outright kill anyone, but he has no qualms dropping Maroni from a fire escape because he probably won't die from the fall.
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The Dark Knight / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
The Dark Knight / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: Bozo is curiously mute throughout most of the bank robbery, speaking up for the first time to say that he's supposed to kill the bus driver. Then, before leaving with the cash, he unmasks himself as the Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
The Dark Knight / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: The Joker can call himself and Batman "freaks", but if anybody else tries it...
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The Dark Knight / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Dark Knight / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: It is possible that the ending of TDK was setting up Joker to return in Rises (he doesn't die, he says they'll be doing this forever, etc)... but then Heath Ledger died. Anyways, the Joker did not appear and was not even mentioned in The Dark Knight Rises, and a lot of people suspect the lack of the Joker in that movie was not part of the original plan (the Joker was mentioned in passing, though, in the novelization).
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The Dark Knight / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Dark Knight / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: It starts with the DA and his assistant/fiancee kidnapped and strapped to time bombs and just goes downhill from there.
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The Dark Knight / int_78fdd115	type	Witless Protection Program
The Dark Knight / int_78fdd115	comment	Witless Protection Program: Batman kidnaps a mob accountant and turns him over to Gotham police, and the accountant agrees to help the police bring the mob down in exchange for amnesty. In response, the mob hires The Joker as a "problem-solver"; Joker proceeds to get himself arrested, blow up the police station with a cellphone bomb, spring the accountant from his cell and execute him by immolating him with gasoline.
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The Dark Knight / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
The Dark Knight / int_7aa858c1	comment	The Joker poises a knife at the inner cheek of a man who ordered a hit on him, as he recounts (one version of) how he got his own Glasgow Grin. Though we expect to see the man get the same grin cut into him, the slash of the knife somehow simply makes him fall down dead.
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The Dark Knight / int_7b4240c8	type	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive
The Dark Knight / int_7b4240c8	comment	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: This version of the Joker uses a LOT of these.
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The Dark Knight / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Dark Knight / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When Joker's big plan fails at the end Batman taunts him by asking "What were you trying to prove? That deep down everyone's as ugly as you?"
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The Dark Knight / int_7bed2677	type	Super Cell Reception
The Dark Knight / int_7bed2677	comment	Super Cell Reception: Sonar-emitting phones. Not to mention one whose reception doesn't falter inside a man's stomach.
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The Dark Knight / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Dark Knight / int_7c862b8a	comment	When the Joker and his mooks rob a bank, the banker who just watched the gang shooting each other so they'd get more money for themselves points out the apparent decline in the standards local evil holds itself to.
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The Dark Knight / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Dark Knight / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Again, the Joker. Although his plans revolve around chaos rather than laughter, he still gives plenty of evil laughs throughout the movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_7cc3f425	type	Moment of Silence
The Dark Knight / int_7cc3f425	comment	Moment of Silence: Two. After the bombs go off and the Joker escapes at the end of the second act. When Harvey finds his coin and figures out what happened.
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The Dark Knight / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
The Dark Knight / int_7d163c9c	comment	Fox quips that the new Batsuit "should do fine against cats."
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The Dark Knight / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Dark Knight / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: The Joker ignores all basic gun-handling rules, but being that he is the Joker, he probably doesn't care at all if he accidentally shoots someone. Or himself, for that matter. He'd probably think it was hilarious. For example, in the car chase, when he's climbing out of his semi truck after he gets flipped over, he stumbles and the Smith & Wesson M76 sub-machine gun he's carrying accidentally goes off, spraying bullets in a random direction. Probably because he's semi-concussed and trying to use the gun as a crutch. Harvey Dent is flipping a two-headed coin so he won't purposely shoot someone he was interrogating, but he was still pressing a loaded gun to that man's head. But, again, this is Harvey Two-Face we're talking about.
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The Dark Knight / int_7e22477f	type	Breakout Villain
The Dark Knight / int_7e22477f	comment	Breakout Villain: Heath Ledger's Joker has gone down in history as one of the most iconic villains of cinema. Whether it's at Comic-Con, an Internet forum, or a discussion after school between friends, Heath's Joker is fondly recalled above all else from this movie. Sadly, thanks to the passing of Heath, he was unable to appear in any larger roles after this movie (which Breakout Characters usually get).
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The Dark Knight / int_7e226b8a	type	Orbital Shot
The Dark Knight / int_7e226b8a	comment	Orbital Shot: The shots involving the Joker and Rachel's confrontation at Harvey Dent's fundraiser keep rotating around the two to add to the scene's tension. A single continuous orbital shot is used when Gordon and Harvey are arguing on the rooftop after a leak in the department allowed the mob to get their money transferred out ahead of time.
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The Dark Knight / int_7e680062	type	Aspect Ratio Switch
The Dark Knight / int_7e680062	comment	Aspect Ratio Switch: Some scenes were filmed with IMAX cameras, and in the IMAX and Blu-Ray versions, these scenes are very apparent as they use a 16:9 aspect ratio instead of 2.35:1.
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The Dark Knight / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Dark Knight / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Coleman Reese figures out Batman's identity and decides to try and blackmail him, until Fox points out to him that a plan to blackmail one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men about the fact that he's secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands is a plan that has multiple flaws.
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The Dark Knight / int_7fab3dae	type	Pineapple Surprise
The Dark Knight / int_7fab3dae	comment	The Joker questioning why the mob bosses fear getting caught since Batman's arrival: "What happened, did your balls drop off?" Later in the scene, you can also hear someone utter, "Holy shit!" when the Joker reveals all the grenades he has under his coat.
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The Dark Knight / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Dark Knight / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The heist at the beginning sets the stage for how the Joker works. We see just how well the Joker can "play Mousetrap," (especially the entire use of the school bus), his sadistic sense of humor, and the fact he will not only will dispose of henchmen, he'll plan on doing so and not even think twice about it. Harvey's first scene tells us everything we need to know: he uses his trademark coin to take a case, backs Maroni into a corner, and when the witness then pulls a gun on him, he disarms the guy and punches him straight in the face. He then reads the manufacturing information on the gun to Maroni, essentially telling him to try harder next time, and when the judge orders the witness taken away he tells him "your honor, I'm not done". It not only shows us his character motifs, but that he's brazen and fearless as a public figure, which Joker ruthlessly exploits over the course of the movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Dark Knight / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Two-Face, with his talk of random chance being the only true morality in the world. The Joker would be a straw nihilist, except that wouldn't nearly begin to encompass his craziness.
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The Dark Knight / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Dark Knight / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne had to be a ham, but he does it as Batman as well.) and Heath Ledger's Joker. The Chechen too. "My dogs! Are! Hungry!" Harvey Dent definitely has his moments. This also extends to his time as Two-Face.
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The Dark Knight / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
The Dark Knight / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: When analyzing surveillance footage of the Joker, Bruce tells Alfred that the Joker, like any other criminal, has a very simple motive like money or power, only for Alfred to tell him that's not true of every criminal. To illustrate his point, Alfred recalls when he was stationed in Burma, decades back, that he was tasked with bribing local warlords with jewels, only to learn that the caravans carrying the jewels were being stolen by a bandit. Alfred and his men were sent to look for whoever was trading with the bandit, but nothing came up. Sometime later, he saw a child playing with a large jewel, and Alfred concluded that the bandit had no intention of fencing the loot, he robbed the caravans because he thought it was fun. Later in the film the Joker, after getting Lau back, takes his half of The Mafia money and burns it.
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The Dark Knight / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
The Dark Knight / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Harvey says that China will never extradite a national under any circumstances. There actually are circumstances where China will do so, but they're deliberately as specific and unlikely to occur as possible so that they don't have to do so as much as other countries do - for all intents and purposes, his statement might as well be accurate. We know from the beginning that Gordon will eventually take his rightful place as Police Commissioner. However, he gets promoted directly into the position from Lieutenant, skipping all the ranks in between. While he would likely be a city-wide hero after Taking the Bullet for the mayor and helping capture the Joker, explaining why the average police officer wouldn't care, higher-ups would take notice and likely bring him back down to Captain.
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The Dark Knight / int_849f85d8	type	21-Gun Salute
The Dark Knight / int_849f85d8	comment	21-Gun Salute: There is an honor guard of seven officers who fire their rifles three times each at the funeral of Commissioner Loeb. Except, just before they fire the third volley, they suddenly turn their rifles on the mayor and Gordon suddenly notices that the closest one is the Joker sans-makeup, and he immediately tackles the mayor to the ground just as the Joker pulls the trigger. The Joker and his men then melt into the scattering crowd, with Thomas Schiff being tagged in the leg and captured.
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The Dark Knight / int_8531772	type	False Roulette
The Dark Knight / int_8531772	comment	Dent also makes use of False Roulette to get info out of Thomas Schiff. The man cracks quickly, but as it turns out has no information on the Joker's location either.
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The Dark Knight / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Dark Knight / int_85557b38	comment	The SWAT team's tactics when entering the building the Joker's minions have occupied are in fact, the actual procedures a real SWAT team would carry out under the same situation: the officers approach the suspects with weapons drawn and at the ready and identify themselves, demanding that the suspects surrender. Until the suspects present a threat to either the officers or innocents, they have to hold fire. More than one reviewer questioned why SWAT wasn't opening fire, not realizing that this was how they really operate.
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The Dark Knight / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
The Dark Knight / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: The Joker disguises himself as a nurse in one scene to get to Harvey in the hospital. Instead of wearing unisex scrubs or just dressing as a male nurse, he goes drag, complete with a wig. It manages to be funny and creepy at the same time, as is appropriate for the Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
The Dark Knight / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Batman/Bruce Wayne himself, of all people, is actually this as he spends the whole film pining after Rachel Dawes despite the fact that she's clearly moved on with Harvey Dent.
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The Dark Knight / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Dark Knight / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: When Harvey Dent imprisons 549 criminals at once in a RICO case, the mayor warns him that he has to be very careful not to slip up, or everything will be undone. The Joker spends the rest of the movie trying to bring this about, while Batman tries to stop it. Eventually the pedestal is broken when Harvey loses Rachel, half his face, and eventually his mind. He goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge in which he kills five people, two of them cops. At the end, Batman decides to take the blame for Harvey's crimes, so that his prosecution and image can be upheld.
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The Dark Knight / int_869c31aa	type	Ideal Hero
The Dark Knight / int_869c31aa	comment	Harvey Dent. Gordon's final speech even admits that Gotham needed an Ideal Hero like Dent was, but really deserves an Anti-Hero like Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Dark Knight / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: The Joker gives a very short one, but it establishes that he's the one doing the bullying and not the other way around.
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The Dark Knight / int_86bb1fc6	type	Secret Identity Apathy
The Dark Knight / int_86bb1fc6	comment	Secret Identity Apathy: The Joker starts out demanding Batman remove his mask, but eventually decides that would be boring, and puts a hit out on a man who threatens to reveal Bruce's identity.
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The Dark Knight / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
The Dark Knight / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: If it weren't for all the Gotham City stuff, you'd think the movie was about out of control organized crime in Chicago.
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The Dark Knight / int_88088476	type	Cheap Costume
The Dark Knight / int_88088476	comment	Cheap Costume: Averted by the Joker. And defied with the custom suit he wears to the mob meeting. Played straight with the amateur Batmen at the start of the film.
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The Dark Knight / int_89469a56	type	Three-Volley Flinch
The Dark Knight / int_89469a56	comment	Three-Volley Flinch: Gordon flinches during the three-volley salute at Commissioner Loeb's funeral. Justified in a different way than usual: Gordon is expecting the Joker to strike again using the funeral salute as cover for his sniper. Rightly so, as it turns out: the Joker takes a shot at the mayor and Gordon ends up Taking the Bullet.
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The Dark Knight / int_89623e9a	type	The Paragon
The Dark Knight / int_89623e9a	comment	The Paragon: Harvey Dent, an uncorrupted and idealistic prosecutor out to bring down organized crime in Gotham. This makes him the target of everybody.
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The Dark Knight / int_8966382e	type	Bank Robbery
The Dark Knight / int_8966382e	comment	Bank Robbery: The Joker and some of his clowns rip off a mob bank of $68 million to start the movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
The Dark Knight / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: During Maroni's trial, Harvey prevents a witness (one of Maroni's men) from killing him with a smuggled pistol. He is bemused when he notices that the pistol is Chinese, and snarks at Maroni that he should use an American gun if he wants to kill a public servant.
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The Dark Knight / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Dark Knight / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Of all the Joker's acts of callous villainy and casual disregard for human dignity, none is worse than his turning of Harvey Dent into a vengeful monster by warping his mind during his vulnerable time of grief over Rachel's death. In general, this seems to be a favorite of the Joker, who delights in pressing peoples' berserk buttons until he gets underneath their skins. Case in point: the scene where he intentionally makes light of Stephen's dead friends. Therefore, knowing the Joker will enjoy a beating, Stephens prepares to make sure he himself enjoys it even more. Cut to Murphy hearing a commotion and finding the Joker holding Stephens at knifepoint.
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The Dark Knight / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Dark Knight / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Again, Batman/Bruce Wayne of all people is this towards Rachel.
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The Dark Knight / int_8b97cb5d	type	Symbolic Mutilation
The Dark Knight / int_8b97cb5d	comment	Symbolic Mutilation: Here's a fun game: watch The Dark Knight and count how many times people say the word "face" in reference to Harvey Dent, before his accident. By the time you get each instance counted out, Harvey will have lost any interest in playing nice for the public or in prettying up his face, or lack thereof.
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The Dark Knight / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Dark Knight / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: When Wayne Enterprises employee Coleman Reese tries to blackmail Lucius Fox with Batman's identity, Fox replies, "Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men on the planet, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person?...Good luck." Reese immediately backs down. Reese falls victim to this again when he attempts to go public with Batman's identity via a talk show, in hopes it will end Joker's rampage on the city by giving the villain what he wants, Batman unmasked. Unfortunately for Reese, Joker decides he doesn't want Batman's identity revealed after all, since it would make Joker's reign in Gotham "boring". Instead, he puts a bounty on Reese's life to silence him, declaring a hospital will be blown up if Reese isn't killed within the hour, forcing Bruce Wayne and the police to thwart immediate assassination attempts on Reese's life.
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The Dark Knight / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Dark Knight / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: The fire that turns Harvey Dent into Two-Face has a lot of unrealistic things about it, that are ignored for Rule of Scary: For one thing: the fire completely burns and chars all of the skin on the left side of his face. His left eyelid is completely burned away as well as most of his cheek, exposing his jaw muscles and the inside of his mouth, and also leaving that eyeball very vulnerable. For injuries that deep, you would need more prolonged exposure to heat than what would be provided by a thin layer of fuel on the skin, especially given the fact that Batman was present to pat out the flames. While a person could reasonably survive the burning, you could not possibly have that much muscle and your left eyeball exposed without the tissue becoming highly infected and necrotic, then dying off. You would basically need immediate surgery and skin transplants. A brief Hand Wave from Gordon mentions that Harvey refused skin grafts for the injury, explaining why he's able to stay as Two-Face instead of having his face repaired, but given Harvey's compromised thinking at the moment, the medical staff would have immediately turned to a surrogate (if one existed) so that they can give consent to the skin grafts; if a surrogate didn't exist, they would've gone to a medical committee, who would almost certainly overrule his wishes and give him the grafts. One way or the other, Harvey's face is getting repaired. Additionally, after the burn scene, Harvey speaks much more coherently than he should be able to, and makes facial expressions he shouldn't be able to, since his facial muscles are now so badly damaged. In particular, his ability to make "b" and "p" sounds seem to not be affected at all even though half of his lips are now missing. Moreover, people with third degree burns or worse (and Dent appears to have at minimum fifth degree burns) are also highly susceptible to infection. Therefore, they are kept in hospital burn units, where the air they're surrounded with can be temperature regulated. The fact his eye is even intact is probably unlikely as well, considering eyes are round sacs containing liquid and would have been just as vulnerable to the fire. Even then, his intact eye would need constant moisturizing due to his tear ducts and eyelids being burned away. Being unable to close his eye would also mean he is constantly seeing things and would have extreme difficulty sleeping without a blindfold on, let alone leaving him sensitive to light at all times- that's assuming he wasn't blinded. Muscle damage would also probably render the eye unable to move, though he has no problem doing so in the film. Test audiences apparently found the original, more realistic burns to be horribly disgusting, reportedly becoming violently ill.
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The Dark Knight / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Dark Knight / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The end of the second act, which starts with Harvey and Rachel getting kidnapped and ends with Rachel's death. None of the protagonists emerge unscathed.
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The Dark Knight / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Dark Knight / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Most of Joker's seen victims, which make his crimes more palatable. In short order: all the bank robbers who are tricked into murdering each other for money, Gambol and many of his gangsters (a noteworthy example included a pencil), Lau and Chechen. Ironically, Maroni would be known as the man who successfully escaped the Joker only to become a victim of Two-Face, joining Wuertz. An Invoked Trope during the ferry scene.
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The Dark Knight / int_8ef99dbb	type	Pin-Pulling Teeth
The Dark Knight / int_8ef99dbb	comment	Pin-Pulling Teeth: Enforced. The Joker stuffs a hand grenade into the mouth of the nameless banker and ties it to the back of the school bus which he then drives off with. Results in a Fake Kill Scare for the banker as the triggered grenade only produces a puff of smoke.
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The Dark Knight / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Dark Knight / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Three of the Joker's bank robbers agree to kill another one of the robbers so they can take a bigger cut, and get killed themselves for the same motive.
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The Dark Knight / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Dark Knight / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The Chechen is done in by the very guy he had hired earlier in the film.
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The Dark Knight / int_90ff49cb	type	Robbing the Mob Bank
The Dark Knight / int_90ff49cb	comment	Robbing the Mob Bank: The opening bank robbery. Unlike other movies exhibiting this trope, the Joker averts it by being knowingly aware that he's stealing mob money. On the other hand, the clowns he hires, then tricks into shooting each other during the job, play the trope straight.
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The Dark Knight / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
The Dark Knight / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: Of a sort. Christopher Nolan stated in an interview that as opposed to the gritty grimy look of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight would be slightly... cleaner, so to speak. Namely, they clean their images up nicely by blowing lots of stuff up. The Dark Knight was largely missing Batman Begins' classic Gotham art-deco-influenced skyscrapers. It's also a lot less crowded and a bit brighter in The Dark Knight. Batman Begins had a city block built inside of an aircraft hangar to represent the Narrows, including the destructive monorail sequence. The Dark Knight was entirely filmed within downtown Chicago and the surrounding inner suburbs of the city. The Dark Knight Rises uses Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and New York City, hence the different aesthetics.
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The Dark Knight / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Dark Knight / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: When Harvey and Rachel are kidnapped, Harvey's room is brightly lit, while Rachel is in darkness, foreshadowing who is going to die.
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The Dark Knight / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
The Dark Knight / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Batman starts his interrogation of the Joker by slamming the latter's head forwards into the table before them, leading to this exchange:
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The Dark Knight / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
The Dark Knight / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: Joker tells Harvey this after Rachel's death. Surprisingly, it somewhat works, as Harvey decides he's more interested in getting revenge on the Joker's enablers than Joker himself.
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The Dark Knight / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Dark Knight / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Pulled in the bank robbery at the beginning, as the Joker has tricked his clowns into shooting each other one by one due to their greed. In the end, he walks away with the whole haul, without having to share the $68 million with his five henchmen... and only needing to kill the bus driver. Dopey is the first one to be offed and is completely unaware, as his is the first task completed. Happy, on the other hand, was not as fortunate: Averted with Chuckles, who gets shot and killed by the bank manager with a loaded shotgun In the Back before any betrayals can be pulled off, unless it was always planned to let his "usefulness" end as a sacrificial pawn. Grumpy figures out the pattern after killing Happy and figures that Bozo, the only other remaining clown, was ordered to kill him as soon as the cash was loaded. While close, he messed up the order (as well as not realizing "Bozo" was always The Joker). And finally, the bus driver is casually and unceremoniously offed with a burst of gunfire from The Joker after he confusedly asks where the rest of the guys are.
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The Dark Knight / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
The Dark Knight / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: The Joker, obviously. Unlike other incarnations he has white makeup messily applied instead of bleached skin, not that that stops him from being monstrous and cruel at all.
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The Dark Knight / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
The Dark Knight / int_93cb144a	comment	Unhand Them, Villain!: The Joker does this to Rachel when Batman tells him to let her go. She happens to be hanging halfway out a window.
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The Dark Knight / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Dark Knight / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Subverted with Rachel and Harvey. Played straight during the Prisoner's Dilemma in the film's climax.
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The Dark Knight / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Dark Knight / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The Joker has a downplayed one at the end, in contrast to his usual over-the-top theatrics: when the people of Gotham refuse to play his game and reveal themselves to have a core of decency, and it looks like his ultra-nihilistic view of the world might be wrong after all, he goes very, very still...
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The Dark Knight / int_95dd3f2a	type	Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!
The Dark Knight / int_95dd3f2a	comment	Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: A major theme of the Joker's actions in this movie. Joker's not afraid of being killed, as it would destroy Batman's moral code or just create more chaos in general. He wins no matter what happens.
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The Dark Knight / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
The Dark Knight / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: In one of the bank robbery's gags, the mob bank manager sitting in the background is startled when the Joker, Grumpy and Chuckles come in and Chuckles shoots the ceiling. After Chuckles pistol-whips a guard and starts waving his gun menacingly, the bank manager slowly takes off his glasses, picks up a Sawed-Off Shotgun, and fires a single shell through the glass window, hitting Chuckles in the back. He pumps the weapon and goes after the Joker and Grumpy. The Joker (as Bozo) tricks the manager into using his last shell to hit Grumpy in the shoulder before cutting him down in a burst of gunfire.
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The Dark Knight / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Dark Knight / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: In the opening scene, the bank manager wounded by Bozo/The Joker keeps defying him and asking what does he believe in, rather than playing dead to save his life. Averted with one of the fake Batmen, who is captured by The Joker. He says that the real Batman is "a symbol that we don't have to be afraid of scum like you", but in fact, on tape, he is pretty afraid.
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The Dark Knight / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
The Dark Knight / int_96cc4848	comment	"Dear John" Letter: Rachel writes Bruce Wayne a letter about how she is going to marry Harvey Dent and that she'll always be with him as a friend. However, after her death, Alfred burns it before Bruce can read it. It's a relatively minor but still tragic instance of Poor Communication Kills: Bruce assumes she was going to leave Harvey for him.
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The Dark Knight / int_97069d40	type	Harmless Electrocution
The Dark Knight / int_97069d40	comment	Harmless Electrocution: Happy gets this while cracking the mob bankâ€™s safe, courtesy of 5,000 volts of direct current.
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The Dark Knight / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Dark Knight / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Joker, a criminal who spends the film trying to plunge Gotham City into utter chaos.
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The Dark Knight / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
The Dark Knight / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: The Joker tells Senator Patrick Leahy that he reminds him of his father after the latter stands up to him.
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The Dark Knight / int_973edc2b	type	Sequel Adaptation Iconic Villain
The Dark Knight / int_973edc2b	comment	Sequel Adaptation Iconic Villain: The Joker is Batman's most iconic villain in the franchise. After being teased via Sequel Hook in Batman Begins, he now is the main antagonist of the movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Dark Knight / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: The first cop killed during the Chase Scene is black.
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The Dark Knight / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Dark Knight / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Every mobster in the room loses their shit when the Joker reveals that he's wearing a suicide vest underneath his coat.
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The Dark Knight / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Dark Knight / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Rachel and Harvey discussing what a RICO case is and explaining it to Lieutenant Gordon, mostly for the benefit of the audience. Though also justified since even professionals may not necessarily know all the technicalities of RICO.
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The Dark Knight / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Dark Knight / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: The Joker (and Scarecrow in his brief cameo) enjoy suggesting to Batman that he's just as insane as they are.
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The Dark Knight / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Dark Knight / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: During the bank heist, there's no way Joker could have predicted that the one clown would be standing right where the bus was going to come through the wall. There are several other instances of things working out improbably well for him, but that's the most obvious.
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The Dark Knight / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
The Dark Knight / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: "You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."
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The Dark Knight / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
The Dark Knight / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Invoked in-story by the Joker during the iconic interrogation room scene. Joker mocks the Mob for trying to get rid of Batman thinking Gotham City and their criminal operations will go back to the way they were a year ago. They haven't, nÃ©e cannot accept that Batman has changed Gotham forever and that there's no going back.
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The Dark Knight / int_99f2522e	type	Hit Me, Dammit!
The Dark Knight / int_99f2522e	comment	Hit Me, Dammit!: Batman is bearing down on the Joker in the Batpod, and the Joker simply stands there, shooting any vehicle that gets in the way, and muttering (eventually shouting) "Come on. Hit me." in order to test Batman's resolve. Naturally he is unable to run down the defenseless Joker and swerves to the side at the last second and crashes. The Joker simply turns around, mildly amused, before advancing on the disabled Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Dark Knight / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Specifically, the subversion of the Final Speech. The Dark Knight is rated PG-13, probably because Nolan puts the killing blows off-screen. There's also surprisingly little blood in the film. Nevertheless, the amount of sheer menace the movie manages to wring out of its rating makes it arguably more terrifying than many R-rated Gorn-fests.
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The Dark Knight / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Dark Knight / int_9c1f758a	comment	Lau's murder. At the beginning of the scene, the camera focuses on Lau Bound and Gagged while sitting atop a giant pile of money, then the camera pans down, the Joker sets the pile on fire, and the camera never pans back upwards. We also don't hear so much as a scream.
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The Dark Knight / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
The Dark Knight / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: First, Gordon does this by tackling the mayor to the ground just as the Joker is about to shoot him. Later it's combined with Car Fu when the Batmobile intercepts a rocket grenade that was intended for the armored prison transport carrying Harvey Dent, and again when Bruce Wayne uses the Lamborghini to block a pickup truck from smashing the police SUV.
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The Dark Knight / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Dark Knight / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Dopey comments that the bank's silent alarm was attempting to reach a private number instead of 911, because it's secretly a mob bank. Detective Ramirez admits early in the film that her mother is checking into the hospital. This is part of the reason why Dent would personally blame Gordon for Rachel's death. Harvey mentions early in the movie that "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain", foreshadowing both his and Batman's eventual fates. From that same scene, when the Russian ballet dancer suggests that Harvey might be Batman, she uses a menu so that half of Harvey's face is covered. For literal Foreshadowing, note the number of times the light only falls on the right side of Harvey's face. Harvey's predicament. He avoided getting blown to bits, sadly Rachel was not so lucky, since Joker tricked Batman into saving Harvey first and Gordon was too late to save her. And a rather heartbreaking example: While the public calls Harvey their "White Knight", Harvey's aware of a less flattering name being passed around behind his back. He makes Gordon say it as a signal of his rise to villainy. When Harvey is taken to the prison van, pay attention to the detectives watching him. Detectives Stephens and Murphy are giving the man they believe to be the Batman a round of applause. Ramirez is indifferent, and Wuertz is scowling. The latter two betray Harvey and Rachel to the Joker. Note the number of times that Harvey flips his coin before his transformation into Two-Face.
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The Dark Knight / int_9d39440e	type	Right-Hand Attack Dog
The Dark Knight / int_9d39440e	comment	Right-Hand Attack Dog: The Chechen owns a pack of them. After the Joker apparently feeds The Chechen to his own dogs, he adopts the pooches and uses them against Batman in the final showdown.
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The Dark Knight / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Dark Knight / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Why. So. Serious?" From the same speech: "Not. One. Bit." "LOOK! AT! ME!"
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The Dark Knight / int_9e0d9594	type	Death by Secret Identity
The Dark Knight / int_9e0d9594	comment	Death by Secret Identity: Subverted. Coleman Reese learns Bruce's identity, but doesn't end up dead despite the Joker's best efforts. Reese does however decide to keep his mouth shut for good after Bruce saves his life. He isn't going to announce Batman's identity either to blackmail him, or because people are dying. Also subverted with Rachel, since knowing Bruce's identity has little to nothing to do with the circumstances of her demise.
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The Dark Knight / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Dark Knight / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: A sympathetic example. Lucius and Bruce are technically embezzling assets from Wayne Enterprises, a public company with shareholders, and they are discovered and blackmailed by an auditor (technically again).
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The Dark Knight / int_9f1b0b39	type	Counting Bullets
The Dark Knight / int_9f1b0b39	comment	Counting Bullets: In the bank robbery, the Joker tricks the bank manager into spending the last pellet in his shotgun on Grumpy's shoulder by pretending to have been counting the bullets. Grumpy then exclaims, "Where did you learn to count?!"
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The Dark Knight / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
The Dark Knight / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: The mob was content with using the Joker to advance their own interest. That is until he decides he doesn't want to work with them anymore and starts doing worse to them than Batman ever did.
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The Dark Knight / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
The Dark Knight / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: During the fundraising party for Harvey Dent:
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The Dark Knight / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Dark Knight / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: In Gambol's case, it is his grandmother.
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The Dark Knight / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
The Dark Knight / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Harvey Dent starts out an idealistic prosecutor looking to clean up Gotham City from crime and stays that way for most of the movie. While other factors were chipping away at him beforehand, what really sends him over the brink is Rachel's death, not to mention having half his face scarred. Add onto that the Joker and the result is Harvey going from the film's deuteragonist to its secondary antagonist.
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The Dark Knight / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
The Dark Knight / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Subverted with Rachel, who is Killed Mid-Sentence.
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The Dark Knight / int_a11f8240	type	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
The Dark Knight / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Discussed. Even with the legitimate Gordon in charge, the Major Crimes Unit is still made up of mostly corrupt cops - like Wuertz and Ramirez - and there are only maybe a few clean cops - such as Stephens and Murphy. But when Harvey Dent calls the lieutenant on this, Gordon points out that if he refused to work with such cops, he'd be working alone. This eventually comes back to haunt both of them, as Wuertz and Ramirez turn out to both be on Maroni's payroll and eventually kidnap Harvey and Rachel, respectively.
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The Dark Knight / int_a15a08a7	type	Fingerprinting Air
The Dark Knight / int_a15a08a7	comment	Fingerprinting Air: Batman pulls a fingerprint from a computer reconstruction of a bullet that had been shot into a wall. Also an example of Artistic License â€“ Physics, as there's no way a fingerprint can survive the explosive heat of the bullet being fired, being run against the rifling of the gun barrel, or the scratches from entering a brick wall. Further, a real bullet would have flattened on impact, distorting any pattern beyond usability, and any part of the print on the shell casing would have been lost when the casing was ejected (semiautomatic) or retained in the weapon (revolver).
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The Dark Knight / int_a1bc812	type	Smash the Symbol
The Dark Knight / int_a1bc812	comment	Smash the Symbol: In the montage showing the consequences of Batman taking the blame for Harvey Dent's murders, Gordon is shown smashing the bat-signal he put together at the end of Begins. Subverted, in that Gordon doesn't hate Batman at all, but is just in on the cover-up to protect Harvey's legacy.
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The Dark Knight / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Dark Knight / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Rachel Dawes.
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The Dark Knight / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
The Dark Knight / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: Harvey Dent dodges assassination attempts throughout the film as a result of his war on the mobs of Gotham, getting by thanks to the intervention of the Batman, Commissioner Gordon and sheer luck. Less focal characters like Commissioner Loeb and Judge Surrillo are less fortunate then Dent, and are taken out as soon as the Joker appears on the scene. Wayne Enterprises employee Coleman Reese also has to survive a wave of these after he goes to the media with the knowledge of Batman's identity, only for the Joker wanting that to stay secret for his own plans, and puts out an ultimatum: kill Reese or a hospital will be blown up. The police and Bruce Wayne have to scramble to protect him as several citizens are more than willing to carry out Joker's orders.
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The Dark Knight / int_a270b9e5	type	Anarchy Is Chaos
The Dark Knight / int_a270b9e5	comment	Anarchy Is Chaos: The Joker clearly links chaos and anarchy together in his speech to Harvey Dent/Two-Face when he tells him, "Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos."
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The Dark Knight / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Dark Knight / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Actually averted with the Joker's disappearing pencil trick, as we get to see the whole thing, albeit a bloodless PG-13 version, though the whole thing happens so fast you probably couldn't have seen anything no matter what.
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The Dark Knight / int_a2bad7b2	type	Plot Immunity
The Dark Knight / int_a2bad7b2	comment	Although it wasn't exactly guaranteed, it was pretty doubtful that Gordon was going to die before he became Commissioner.
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The Dark Knight / int_a353507	type	Saved for the Sequel
The Dark Knight / int_a353507	comment	Saved for the Sequel: Surprisingly averted with Two-Face. He's Killed Off for Real less than half an hour after he gets his iconic scars. However, Harvey Dent's representation as a symbol of true justice is destroyed by Bane in the next movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_a3cdf764	type	Drinking on Duty
The Dark Knight / int_a3cdf764	comment	Drinking on Duty: Commissioner Loeb drinks Clyburn whiskey, and clearly someone working for the Joker has spiked his tumbler with acid.
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The Dark Knight / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
The Dark Knight / int_a426ae28	comment	Joker later does this again to Gambol during the famous 'Why so serious?' scene. He holds Gambol's face still as he threatens him with a knife and again tells the origin story of his scars.
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The Dark Knight / int_a4b3fe1c	type	Twisted Echo Cut
The Dark Knight / int_a4b3fe1c	comment	Twisted Echo Cut: Rachel tells Harvey her answer to his marriage proposal is "Yes." Batman then kicks down the door...to where Harvey is imprisoned, causing him to shout, "NO! NO! NO!" because he thinks Rachel is going to die (not knowing that Gordon has gone to the address where she's being held).
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The Dark Knight / int_a6cbef9a	type	Joker Immunity
The Dark Knight / int_a6cbef9a	comment	And why doesn't anyone shoot the Joker? Because the good guys know that If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!, and because the mobsters are too afraid of the Joker blowing them and himself up with the grenades hung inside his coat as a Dead Man's Switch.
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The Dark Knight / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Dark Knight / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The Joker's third "scar story" is subverted by Batman. Subverted... by Batman. Played straight... by the movie itself. And double subverted...due to both. We never hear the Joker's third story but Batman giving him scars makes the movie itself a third story. As a result somehow manages to fit all three.
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The Dark Knight / int_a771f727	type	Multi-Take Cut
The Dark Knight / int_a771f727	comment	Multi-Take Cut: Downplayed in the hospital explosion. As shown here, Nolan filmed the explosion from several angles, but decided to put only two in the finished movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Dark Knight / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: The Joker, if "nickname" is a good word for it.
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The Dark Knight / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
The Dark Knight / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: Batman doesn't have it, but Gordon does: The car chase results in a very high body count among the police escorts (see Hellish Copter for instance), but they do arrest the Joker at the end of it, so Gordon gets promoted to Commissioner. And he isn't even demoted back once it turns out the Joker planned to get arrested and breaks out.
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The Dark Knight / int_a9b10a62	type	Think Nothing of It
The Dark Knight / int_a9b10a62	comment	Think Nothing of It: After Batman saves Gordon's son, in a Call-Back to the epilogue of Batman Begins.
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The Dark Knight / int_aaa35901	type	My Card
The Dark Knight / int_aaa35901	comment	My Card: The Joker. Naturally, it's a joker playing card.
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The Dark Knight / int_aaf19fae	type	Doesn't Like Guns
The Dark Knight / int_aaf19fae	comment	Doesn't Like Guns: Batman. Also, while the Joker certainly isn't averse to using guns, he prefers knives because he thinks guns are too quick, and he would much prefer to savor all the little emotions because in their last moments, they show you who they really are.
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The Dark Knight / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Dark Knight / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Dent believes that the police and Batman decided to save him instead of Rachel, when in reality, the Joker set it up such that they'd be saving the person they hadn't intended to save. Bruce's comments at the fundraiser also count for those familiar with Two-Face from the comics.
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The Dark Knight / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
The Dark Knight / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: What Bruce's attempts to understand and find motivations behind The Joker are ultimately a result of. Alfred had to clue him to the fact that people like The Joker can't be explained— they simply are.
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The Dark Knight / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
The Dark Knight / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: The only thing that keeps The Joker from winning is Batman's decision to take the heat for the murders Harvey committed, safeguarding Harvey's image and the stability of Gotham with it. Well, that and Batman's projectile scallops.
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The Dark Knight / int_ad1c3459	type	Big Badass Rig
The Dark Knight / int_ad1c3459	comment	Big Badass Rig: The Joker and his "(S)LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE" semi truck, until Batman uses the Batpod cables to flip it trailer over cab first.
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The Dark Knight / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Dark Knight / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Gordon gets to Loeb's office having learned about the Joker's death threat on him: "Is that a...phone?" Also Reese in the conversation quoted under Blackmail. Batman and Gordon, when Joker revealed that he kidnapped both Harvey and Rachel. Gordon again, when Batman locked the interrogation room and beat their location out of him.
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The Dark Knight / int_ad3d8092	type	Heartbroken Badass
The Dark Knight / int_ad3d8092	comment	Heartbroken Badass: Bruce Wayne after Rachel's death.
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The Dark Knight / int_ad3d83e9	type	Fire and Ice Love Triangle
The Dark Knight / int_ad3d83e9	comment	Fire and Ice Love Triangle: Rachel has two suitors, Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne. Harvey (Fire) is a passionate attorney with a quick temper but ultimately has a good heart at first. Bruce (Ice) acts the part of a carefree billionaire playboy but Rachel is aware he's the ultra-stoic and brooding vigilante Batman. Unusually for this trope, Bruce is Rachel's childhood sweetheart, while she met Harvey later in life. She chooses Harvey because she feels Bruce will never be able to give up being Batman, though tragically she's killed shortly after making that choice. Ironically, Harvey ends up being badly scarred by fire when Rachel dies.
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The Dark Knight / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Dark Knight / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: The Joker's motive, in a rare believable straight example. Alfred refers to a bandit in Burma who robbed caravans full of jewels meant to bribe local warlords. The bandit had no intention of getting rich off the thefts; he just thought it was fun, and he threw the jewels away.
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The Dark Knight / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Dark Knight / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Alfred Pennyworth dials up the snark in comparison to the first film. But Lucius Fox is still the most obvious example. The Joker takes over from Crane as the main villainous snarker. Bruce Wayne himself also qualifies. Despite appearing for only a few minutes, Crane gets in a few good ones too: A few minutes later:
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The Dark Knight / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Dark Knight / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Harvey Dent —> Two-Face.
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The Dark Knight / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
The Dark Knight / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: The Dark Knight abandons the mysticism of the first movie in favor of a more straightforward crime thriller set completely in an urban environment. Although Bruce is decidedly a hero in the whole rule, the city, the themes, the seriousness and the absolute terror that is The Joker gives us a noir atmosphere.
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The Dark Knight / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
The Dark Knight / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: The Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
The Dark Knight / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Jim Gordon is promoted to Commissioner after the Joker's capture. Unfortunately he was still a Lieutenant at the start of the movie, making this one hell of an overnight promotion. Perhaps no-one else wanted the position after what happened to the last one...
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The Dark Knight / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Dark Knight / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Downplayed, but the shotgun-toting bank manager in the opening bank heist fires six shots before he's out — when a shotgun that size has a magazine that only holds four. With one in the chamber, he should have been out when Bozo / The Joker says he is.
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The Dark Knight / int_b3335725	type	Mascot Villain
The Dark Knight / int_b3335725	comment	Mascot Villain: The Joker is featured just as much in the publicity for this film as Batman, if not more so.
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The Dark Knight / int_b43754f1	type	Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics
The Dark Knight / int_b43754f1	comment	Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics: In relation to the comics, The Dark Knight is an exception to the rule. In the comics, it's a rare, rare person who escapes the attentions of The Joker alive, much less uninjured. In the movie, many do so, even cops who are usually the first to go. The Dark Knight and Batman Begins seem to be working very hard to present Batman and his world in a 'realistic' setting. In a superhero setting where the main characters (even heroes and villains with "no powers" like Batman and the Joker) are far more powerful and capable than normal humans, The Joker can go homicidal easily enough. But when you present Joker as a 'realistic' psycho, he's more limited. He still racks up a large death toll, but the level of realism doesn't allow him to be a near-inescapable killing machine like in the comics.
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The Dark Knight / int_b53c113f	type	TerroristWithoutACause
The Dark Knight / int_b53c113f	comment	Terrorist Without A Cause: The Joker is a domestic terrorist who's only goals are to inflict chaos and prove that every person no matter how morally righteous is capable of giving into their darker impulses. What he hopes to accomplish beyond that is never stated.
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The Dark Knight / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Dark Knight / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Happy, the Safecracker Specialist, is told to kill Dopey (the Alarm Specialist) as soon as his job was done, so there would be more for everyone else. Did he really think this wasn't going to happen to him too? After all, the reasoning for his assassination would be the same: one less share, one less accomplice. Ditto the Bus Driver. Grumpy (the Crowd Control Specialist) does catch on, not that it saves him. Still counts for not realizing it sooner.
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The Dark Knight / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Dark Knight / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Harvey Dent. At first. RiffTrax said it best after he punches a witness who tried shooting him, unloads the gun, states the model and manufacturer before placing the weapon in front of the man who wanted him dead, essentially tells him to try harder next time by buying American guns, and then says he's not finished with the witness:
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The Dark Knight / int_b628db4c	type	"Hey, You!" Haymaker
The Dark Knight / int_b628db4c	comment	"Hey, You!" Haymaker:
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The Dark Knight / int_b6d3e6fc	type	Smokescreen Crime
The Dark Knight / int_b6d3e6fc	comment	Smokescreen Crime: The Joker announces that if Coleman Reese isn't killed in sixty minutes, he will blow up a hospital. While the authorities focus on protecting Reese and evacuating every hospital in Gotham, the Joker sneaks into Harvey Dent's hospital room and preys on the prosecutor's trauma to trigger his full descent into a murderous rage.
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The Dark Knight / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Dark Knight / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: When the Joker gets hold of the mob money that's the supposed objective, he sets it on fire. When someone is about to reveal the Batman's identity on live TV, the Joker demands that he be killed. Near the end of the movie, he even admits he wouldn't know what he'd do if he won. "I'm like a dog chasing cars; I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it." Of course, it's quite possible that he's lying in order to manipulate Harvey; he certainly never seems to really question his own motivations.
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The Dark Knight / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Dark Knight / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Harvey Dent as the Betty and Bruce Wayne as the Veronica to Rachel's Archie...she ends up choosing Harvey, thinking Bruce could never stop being Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_b99bed67	type	No-Nonsense Nemesis
The Dark Knight / int_b99bed67	comment	No-Nonsense Nemesis: While Joker, of course, Crosses the Line Twice with each scene that he's in, the same cannot be said for Harvey Dent, post-Two-Face. He hardly has any comedic aspects at that point - nearly every scene he's in is played entirely seriously. As his mental health tanks and his obsession over Rachel's death grows, it gets worse, culminating to the very end where he threatens to kill Gordon's family.
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The Dark Knight / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
The Dark Knight / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The assault on Pruitt Building, Joker's hideout. An epic MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois between Batman, the SWAT and Joker's goons where Batman's non-lethal policy is truly tested.
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The Dark Knight / int_b9fa17b7	type	Pretender Diss
The Dark Knight / int_b9fa17b7	comment	Poser Hating: Batman does not find imitation flattering. Especially if the imitators dressing like him are using lethal force.
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The Dark Knight / int_ba33bad5	type	I'm Not a Hero, I'm...
The Dark Knight / int_ba33bad5	comment	I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: whatever Gotham needs The Batman to be.
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The Dark Knight / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
The Dark Knight / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: The Mob Trio and the trio of Gordon, Dent, and Batman are essentially mirror factions. Both came together in the aftermath of Falcone's arrest and Ra's al-Ghul's death to deal with a crisis inflicted upon them by their opposites (the mob are being squeezed by Batman, Dent, and Gordon, and they are trying to stop the mob's attempts to grab power back). Both of them fight for control over Lau. Both of them vastly underestimate the Joker and what he represents until it's too late. Both of them get savagely torn apart by the Joker at every opportunitynote Joker murders Gambol to co-opt his operation, turns one of Gordon's own cops against the man they're trying to protect, blows up Rachel and disfigures Harvey, butchers the Chechen and feeds him to his own dogs, then finally drives Harvey off the deep end, and both of them eventually have one member turn on them because of how far the Joker goesnote Maroni is horrified at what the Joker is wreaking and tries to stop him by going to Gordon. Dent is driven mad in his grief by the Joker and blames Gordon for Rachel's death.
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The Dark Knight / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Dark Knight / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: The Joker's M.O. So much so that Roger Ebert interpreted this concept as one of the Joker's main themes. Two-Face gives Gordon a choice between his wife, daughter or son being executed. When Reese goes on national television to reveal Batman's Secret Identity the Joker calls the show and tells the audience that he'll blow up a hospital unless Reese is killed within the next hour.
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The Dark Knight / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
The Dark Knight / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: The Batpod. Apparently the center part where the rider sits is gyro-stabilized, as it's always upright. Batman catches up with the Joker by taking some major shortcuts during the Wacker Drive car chase (at one point rocketing through Randolph Street Station, racing down the Pedway,), and re-emerges into Joker's view by tumbling out of an alley onto LaSalle Street... while still staying upright. Batman can even drive it up a wall, flip over backwards, and it'll spin around and keep his ears pointing upward.
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The Dark Knight / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Dark Knight / int_bbfaa837	comment	The novel clears up a few details about the movie, such as making it possible to understand Dent's Knight Templar tendencies. Bruce is skeptical that Dent could have a skeleton-free closet, and decides to do some digging. What he finds is that Dent's father was a police officer who abused his mother, and whenever the police were called, they'd look the other way. Eventually, Dent's father killed his mother while he was away at school. This explains Harvey's initial distrust with Gordon at the beginning due to Gordon having dirty cops in his special unit (like Wuertz and Ramirez, to be specific). Bruce eventually realizes he's been digging so hard because he's jealous. Etc.
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The Dark Knight / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Dark Knight / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In the opening, if you listen carefully, you can hear Grumpy say "what the fuck?" when Bozo tricks the manager into using his last shotgun round on Grumpy's left shoulder. Grumpy then complains, "Where did you learn to count?!" The Joker questioning why the mob bosses fear getting caught since Batman's arrival: "What happened, did your balls drop off?" Later in the scene, you can also hear someone utter, "Holy shit!" when the Joker reveals all the grenades he has under his coat. As Commissioner Loeb is poisoned to death, Gordon audibly yells "Oh shit!" as he tries to keep him from falling. Television edits didn't fall for the slip. It's not a terribly obvious one, but after Batman fails to hit him with the Batpod, the Joker mouths the f-word. Blink and you'll miss it. Later in the same scene, Gordon says "we got you, you son of a bitch" when he (temporarily) captures the Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_bc279b46	type	Costume Copycat
The Dark Knight / int_bc279b46	comment	"My dogs are hong-gray! Pity there is only one of you..."
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The Dark Knight / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Dark Knight / int_bc74ef27	comment	In general, this seems to be a favorite of the Joker, who delights in pressing peoples' berserk buttons until he gets underneath their skins. Case in point: the scene where he intentionally makes light of Stephen's dead friends. Therefore, knowing the Joker will enjoy a beating, Stephens prepares to make sure he himself enjoys it even more. Cut to Murphy hearing a commotion and finding the Joker holding Stephens at knifepoint.
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The Dark Knight / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Dark Knight / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Why doesn't the Joker just shoot Batman? Because he doesn't want to. Batman's just too much fun! And why doesn't anyone shoot the Joker? Because the good guys know that If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!, and because the mobsters are too afraid of the Joker blowing them and himself up with the grenades hung inside his coat as a Dead Man's Switch.
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The Dark Knight / int_bda018c5	type	Money to Burn
The Dark Knight / int_bda018c5	comment	Money to Burn: After taking half of the mob's savings as payment for his services, Joker stacks all of it up, puts Lau on top, and then lights the whole thing on fire ("I'm only burning my half"). In this case, however, it's not about how much money the Joker has, it's about how little he cares about it.
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The Dark Knight / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Dark Knight / int_beb9a361	comment	Batman himself falls into this, beyond the usual Anti-Hero vigilantism, after he's pushed to his mental limits by the destruction and tragedy left behind by Joker. In the third act, out of desperation, Bruce makes a questionable decision to weaponize Lucius Fox's sonar technology into an audiovisual eavesdropping tool covering telecommunication all over Gotham. Lucius Fox is not pleased and calls out Batman for treading into these waters.
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The Dark Knight / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
The Dark Knight / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": When the Joker is confronted by mobsters on his past theft from them.
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The Dark Knight / int_bf3e372	type	Torture Is Ineffective
The Dark Knight / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: Batman pummels the Joker in the police interrogation room, but the Joker laughs it off because torture would never make him talk. He only tells Batman what Batman wants to hear because it amuses him to.
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The Dark Knight / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Dark Knight / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: A famous one occurs when Harvey Dent and Mayor Garcia are conversing in his office. The mayor slowly walks towards the glass window when, suddenly, the Joker-mauled corpse of one of the fake Batmen is flung by a noose onto the window right towards his face. Later, the injured Dent is interrogating Gordon while in the hospital:
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The Dark Knight / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
The Dark Knight / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: Harvey. "NO! NOT ME! WHY ARE YOU COMING FOR ME?!" Doubly so, as Batman also wanted to save Rachel over Harvey. The Joker's just like that..
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The Dark Knight / int_c09b3ff3	type	Physical Scars, Psychological Scars
The Dark Knight / int_c09b3ff3	comment	Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: The Joker and Harvey Dent. Though where the Joker got his is anyone's guess...
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The Dark Knight / int_c0e634cd	type	Throat Light
The Dark Knight / int_c0e634cd	comment	Throat Light: That cell phone the Joker planted in an inmate provides one.
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The Dark Knight / int_c17ee004	type	Running Gag Stumbles
The Dark Knight / int_c17ee004	comment	Running Gag Stumbles: See Rule of Three.
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The Dark Knight / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
The Dark Knight / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: The Joker accurately predicts that Gordon intends to use a form of this interrogation technique. However, he's caught off guard by discovering that the bad cop is Batman... even though he still doesn't talk until he wants to, because that's how the Joker works.
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The Dark Knight / int_c2aa5a9a	type	Double Aesop
The Dark Knight / int_c2aa5a9a	comment	Double Aesop: Subverted with Alfred's tale of a Burmese bandit.
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The Dark Knight / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Dark Knight / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: When the Joker is plunging to his (possible) death, he is completely unafraid: He knows that either Batman catches him so he survives to wreak havoc another day - or he has managed to corrupt the city's last defender. Either way, he wins.
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The Dark Knight / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Dark Knight / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Commissioner Loeb tells Gordon, "You're unlikely to discover this for yourself" about what being a police commissioner is like. Even people who didn't know Gordon would be Commissioner after Loeb's death were reasonably assured he would eventually follow a similar career path to the comics.
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The Dark Knight / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Dark Knight / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The Joker has been captured, Harvey Dent has been saved, Gordon is Not Quite Dead and promoted to commissioner. Then Harvey Dent goes missing... An In-Universe one for Harvey Dent. As he lies in the hospital, he finds the lucky coin he gave Rachel the last time he saw her, left by the side of his bed. But his hopes that she's still alive are dashed when he turns the coin over... the other side's been charred by the explosion that killed her.
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The Dark Knight / int_c4842ab1	type	Appropriated Appellation
The Dark Knight / int_c4842ab1	comment	Appropriated Appellation: "Two-Face" began as a nickname given to him behind his back by officers of the Gotham P.D. After he has half his face scarred and makes his full transition into a villain, he refers to himself by it when Gordon visits him.
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The Dark Knight / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
The Dark Knight / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: Batman decides to take the blame for Harvey Dent's crimes at the end of the film, so that Harvey can remain an inspiration to Gotham.
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The Dark Knight / int_c58daf16	type	The Pen Is Mightier
The Dark Knight / int_c58daf16	comment	The Pen Is Mightier: This exchange when the Joker crashes the mob meeting:
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The Dark Knight / int_c5bcb6d7	type	Subverted Punchline
The Dark Knight / int_c5bcb6d7	comment	Subverted Punchline: When Bruce Wayne is given a new device by Lucius Fox which allows his cellphone to emit sonar pulses to map a room.
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The Dark Knight / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
The Dark Knight / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: When the Joker threatens to keep killing people until Batman unmasks and turns himself in, Harvey Dent makes a public confession that he is Batman and surrenders to the police. However, it turns out to be a sting to get the Joker to come out of hiding.
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The Dark Knight / int_c64ab82b	type	With Great Power Comes Great Opposition
The Dark Knight / int_c64ab82b	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Opposition: Discussed between Harvey Dent and Mayor Garcia. The latter says that while Dent (and for a semi-related case, the Batman, who is one of his greatest contributors) has so much over against Gotham's crime problem, he's made many enemies out of those who profited from it. The trope's quote sums it all up:
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The Dark Knight / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
The Dark Knight / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Harvey Dent goes from "Gotham's white knight" to Two-Face.
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The Dark Knight / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The Dark Knight / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Salvatore Maroni is the kingpin of Gotham's criminal element and still holds a great deal of influence over the city, but by the start of the movie his criminal empire is being chipped away at by both Batman and Harvey Dent. He's very quickly overshadowed by the Joker as the main antagonist of the film, as the resources of his organized crime network are commandeered by the Joker to enact his own destructive plans all while Maroni's reach over the city diminishes throughout.
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The Dark Knight / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Dark Knight / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Will the real Batman please stand up?" Possibly also a reference to that musical they never made. The Joker's monologue to Batman about the people eventually casting him aside and turning against him rings a couple of bells towards a similar speech made by The Green Goblin in Spider-Man. Only this time, the Joker was right. William Fichtner as the banker with the shotgun in the opening heist was an intentional Casting Gag by Nolan, who built the sequence as an homage to Heat. The Joker's goons don clown masks during the opening scene as a reference to Stanley Kubrick's heist film The Killing. The Shawshank Redemption: The detonator found on the prisoners' ship is concealed in a box resembling a book Naturally, since Nolan is a card-carrying Bond fan, the blade at the tip of the Joker's shoe is From Russia with Love. The film also makes use of an Action Prologue, just like the Bond films.
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The Dark Knight / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
The Dark Knight / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: After the funeral scene, the police are trying to talk to Batman, but he won't appear.
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The Dark Knight / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Dark Knight / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Mocked by the Joker, who gives conflicting accounts of how he got his scars depending on who he's talking to. In the end, the Joker has no reason for what he does, he simply is. Ramirez went dirty because she needed money for her mother's hospital bills. Dent loses his fiance and half his face before he goes on murder spree to punish those involved with her death.
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The Dark Knight / int_c9d80884	type	Scheherezade Gambit
The Dark Knight / int_c9d80884	comment	Scheherezade Gambit: Variant when the Joker is captured by the police. Using only his words, he manipulates a police officer into attacking him, then takes the officer hostage.
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The Dark Knight / int_cb5a0181	type	Where's the Kaboom?
The Dark Knight / int_cb5a0181	comment	Where's the Kaboom?: When the Joker blows up the hospital, it only partly detonates — at first. When the last bomb doesn't go off, Joker glares at the intact building, annoyed, and starts fiddling with the detonator and ultimately starts smacking it against his hand until demolition resumes. At that point, he starts running. Contrary to popular rumor, the "malfunction" was fully intentional, to make sure Ledger was a safe distance from the building. Turned against the Joker in the climax with the bomb-strapped passenger ferries. When Joker has Batman pinned with the midnight deadline for one ferry to blow up the other about to occur, he gleefully tells Batman, "We don't want to miss the fireworks. And here...we...go." However, both ferries refused to carry out Joker's demand, causing visible confusion on Joker's face at the lack of an explosion. He even turns around to look at a clock, and when he sees the clock has surpassed midnight, he is visibly shocked that his social experiment failed.
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The Dark Knight / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
The Dark Knight / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Batman has remained this to the Gotham Mob in the interim since Batman Begins, though they've had enough experience by now to adapt somewhat (albeit not well). Joker likewise obviously ends up becoming this to Batman and Gordon once his rampage begins in earnest. In Batman's case, the Mob's struggle and failure to fully adapt is best exemplified by Lau's plan in the first Act. Having him move and hide their money and then flee back to China to avoid extradition would have worked a year earlier. But now in a post-Batman Gotham? With a vigilante who's driving a veritable tank and isn't answerable to law and legal systems? Even Joker explicitly points out Lau didn't think this through (and is ultimately proven correct).
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The Dark Knight / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
The Dark Knight / int_cda501da	comment	Many people knew Gordon wasn't Killed Off for Real because of the Joker's trailer line of "Good eeeevening, Commissioner." Gordon hadn't yet been made commissioner at the time of his supposed 'death'.
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The Dark Knight / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Dark Knight / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Harvey Dent embarks on this after his transformation into Two-Face.
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The Dark Knight / int_cfc55f21	type	Heroic Wannabe
The Dark Knight / int_cfc55f21	comment	Heroic Wannabe: A gang of doughy vigilantes with bat-costumes and guns. One ends up a victim of The Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_d08577eb	type	Broken Base
The Dark Knight / int_d08577eb	comment	Broken Base: In-universe, Gotham's public opinion of Batman is heavily divided (at least until the ending where he accepts the blame for Harvey's crimes).
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The Dark Knight / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
The Dark Knight / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": When Dent, now Two-Face, interrogates Wuertz and he tries to bullshit his way out of it, his response is this.
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The Dark Knight / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
The Dark Knight / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: The GCPD cannot publicly claim that Batman is an ally, but their attempts to deny it are hilariously see-through. They have an "investigation" open into his identity that they are putting no effort into whatsoever (the three "suspects" are Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley, and Bigfoot), they dismiss the Batsignal as faulty equipment, and although the official policy is to arrest Batman on sight, Harvey makes it clear that Gordon's meetings with Batman are an Open Secret.
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The Dark Knight / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Dark Knight / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Chechen falls victim to this, as The Joker feeds him to his own dogs. Fortunately, this happens off-screen.
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The Dark Knight / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Dark Knight / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Batman makes no secret to Harvey Dent that threatening to shoot Thomas Schiff on the basis of a coin-toss is wrong. note Of course, Batman is unaware that it's a trick coin and Schiff is in no physical danger. Rachel's reaction to Bruce letting Dent take the fall as Batman. Though she doesn't directly confront him about it, she professes her disapproval to Alfred, saying that it's completely unheroic, and even decides that it's the last straw regarding her chances of rekindling her romance with Bruce. Dent's reaction to Batman bursting in to rescue him, since he wanted Rachel to be saved instead of himself. So did Batman, for that matter. Also pulled by the Joker, of all people. The 'hero' part might be debatable, but Harvey does this to Detective Ramirez, when he confronts her for delivering Rachel to the Joker. Also a inverted version is pulled by the Scary Black Man on the ferry during the finale, when he asks the Warden for the detonator to the other boat. Gordon's wife's reaction to his faking his death. He offers up a small excuse about how it was for her protection, but she still smacks him. Lucius makes it clear that he is not happy with Batman's plan to use sonar-augmented mobile phones to eavesdrop on the entire city and track down the Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
The Dark Knight / int_d3f8ad06	comment	Close on Title: In continuation of a Nolan tradition used in the other two movies.
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The Dark Knight / int_d4816fb	type	Villainous Face Hold
The Dark Knight / int_d4816fb	comment	Villainous Face Hold: The Joker crashes a party and begins interrogating the guests on the whereabouts of Harvey Dent. First he grabs the jaw of a middle-aged man and jiggles his jowls, then he grabs another man by the jaw and threatens him with a knife. When he's prevented from going further by Rachel, he grabs her jaw and forces her to look at him whilst he tells her how he got his scars. Joker later does this again to Gambol during the famous 'Why so serious?' scene. He holds Gambol's face still as he threatens him with a knife and again tells the origin story of his scars.
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The Dark Knight / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
The Dark Knight / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: Early on, when the Joker removes the clown mask to reveal himself to the bank manager. Done over a Scare Chord.
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The Dark Knight / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Dark Knight / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The Joker is offended when people call him a "freak", but has no problem using the word on other people, AND on himself. It seems to be more the sentiment that irritates him. He also mocks others for being "schemers," when he himself schemes against anyone and everyone, including his own allies. His rant about plans being pointless is also hypocritical, as not only does he actually have a plan, he also has backup plans when his targets don't perform to his liking.
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The Dark Knight / int_d567ce13	type	Who Will Bell the Cat?
The Dark Knight / int_d567ce13	comment	Who Will Bell the Cat?: The Gothamites on one of the two barges packed with explosives finally agree that the other barge full of criminals should be sacrificed instead of them. Except that nobody seems to want to pull the trigger on the detonator... In contrast to the usual examples of this trope, however, eventually someone does decide to "bell the cat", so to speak. One of the civilians finally steps up and asks for the detonator, his rationale being that the criminals have already made their choices and screwed up their lives. But, after some agonizing, he doesn't blow up the criminals after all.
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The Dark Knight / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Dark Knight / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: The Joker. It's unclear if everything that happens in this film is exactly according to his plan or if he simply had one long string of contingencies to keep falling back on, but either way he spends most of the movie puppeteering things to go his way.
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The Dark Knight / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Dark Knight / int_d7b34c31	comment	Averted with Bus Driver, as that is his only name in the script.
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The Dark Knight / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
The Dark Knight / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: "No, I'm not. No, I'm not." It could be argued that the Joker spends the whole movie trying to convince himself of this. He later does admit that he brought Harvey down to his and Batman's level and that "madness is like gravity, all it takes is a little push!"
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The Dark Knight / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Dark Knight / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: The Joker.
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The Dark Knight / int_d87ba943	type	Combat Sadomasochist
The Dark Knight / int_d87ba943	comment	Combat Sadomasochist: The Joker loves to inflict pain and suffering, but also seems to like being at the receiving end, particularly in the scene where he is beaten up by Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
The Dark Knight / int_d8afec40	comment	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome: Inverted during the dinner scene; it's Bruce who asks who elected Batman and Harvey who defends his actions.
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The Dark Knight / int_d8ce4f07	type	Memorial for the Antagonist
The Dark Knight / int_d8ce4f07	comment	Memorial for the Antagonist: Harvey Dent is given a funeral and lauded as a hero despite being driven insane by the Joker and murdering several people. In this case, it's because Batman and Commissioner Gordon agree it's for the greater good if Dent remains a hero in the public's eyes.
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The Dark Knight / int_d8df3d27	type	Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter"
The Dark Knight / int_d8df3d27	comment	Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": In the car chase, the Joker takes a semi truck with the words "LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE" and spraypaints a red S in front of "Laughter".
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The Dark Knight / int_db015585	type	False Confession
The Dark Knight / int_db015585	comment	False Confession: Harvey Dent "outs himself" as Batman in response to public outcry that Batman turn himself in, in response to the Joker's murders, in order to spare Bruce Wayne from doing so, correctly deducing that Joker would attempt to kill him in custody, thus exposing him to the real Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Dark Knight / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Suggested by the Joker about a kidnapped Harvey Dent.
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The Dark Knight / int_dbab18ef	type	Morally Bankrupt Banker
The Dark Knight / int_dbab18ef	comment	Morally Bankrupt Banker: Lau, the Chinese banker for the mob.
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The Dark Knight / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
The Dark Knight / int_dbb414ed	comment	A brief Hand Wave from Gordon mentions that Harvey refused skin grafts for the injury, explaining why he's able to stay as Two-Face instead of having his face repaired, but given Harvey's compromised thinking at the moment, the medical staff would have immediately turned to a surrogate (if one existed) so that they can give consent to the skin grafts; if a surrogate didn't exist, they would've gone to a medical committee, who would almost certainly overrule his wishes and give him the grafts. One way or the other, Harvey's face is getting repaired.
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The Dark Knight / int_dc26df5a	type	Deliberately Non-Lethal Attack
The Dark Knight / int_dc26df5a	comment	Deliberately Non-Lethal Attack: When performing a High-Altitude Interrogation on Sal Maroni, the Batman deliberately chooses to drop him so that it won't kill Maroni but still make him really feel the wrath of Earth's gravity firsthand, by breaking his legs.
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The Dark Knight / int_dc4d0326	type	Ballroom Blitz
The Dark Knight / int_dc4d0326	comment	Ballroom Blitz: The Joker and his men crash Bruce's fundraiser for Harvey Dent.
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The Dark Knight / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Dark Knight / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Wuertz and Ramirez.
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The Dark Knight / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Dark Knight / int_dda99fa8	comment	Played straight by Alfred later when Bruce, at the brink of the Despair Event Horizon after Rachel's death, asks Alfred how he caught the jewel thief in the Burmese forest, hoping for an analogous answer on how he could apprehend the Joker while staying within his ideals. Alfred bluntly tells Bruce they burned the forest down.
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The Dark Knight / int_de414a38	type	Bad Guys Play Pool
The Dark Knight / int_de414a38	comment	Bad Guys Play Pool: Gambol is playing pool with a couple of his cronies before the Joker comes in and puts a smile on his face.
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The Dark Knight / int_df3b7b8	type	Delayed Explosion
The Dark Knight / int_df3b7b8	comment	Delayed Explosion: When the Joker is leaving the hospital as it blows up, there is a pause he clearly was not expecting, forcing him to mash the detonator button until the blasting resumes.
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The Dark Knight / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
The Dark Knight / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: According to documents in the RICO case Harvey Dent pursues against 549 mobsters, the case was prosecuted on July 25, 2008. It's also mentioned in the movie that Rachel was planning to take Harvey to see a ballet the week after the dinner with one of the ballerinas. However, the novelization also mentions that the dinner took place on a Monday night and then that Bruce tried to get information about Harvey from an associate named Al Grooms the Saturday after, and then the Friday after that, he found Harvey and Rachel making out outside of her apartment. July 25, 2008, is also a Friday. However, this is probably excusable considering the possibility that the writer, Dennis O'Neill, simply got his dates all scrambled. Less excusable in the novelization is after The Joker shows up at the mob meeting uninvited. Specifically, it's the scene where Sal Maroni hires a private eye to find out more about the Joker. Three weeks later, the private eye is dead, having been poisoned. That would've extended the ballet's delay significantly before taking Bruce's unexpected love boat into account.
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The Dark Knight / int_df690c7b	type	Barehanded Bar Bending
The Dark Knight / int_df690c7b	comment	Barehanded Bar Bending: In the parking structure battle, Batman bends the barrel of one of the Bat-Vigilantes' guns with one hand.
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The Dark Knight / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
The Dark Knight / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: The bank robbery falls into this when you go by the actual filming location (the old post office at Van Buren Street and Canal Street on the west side of the Chicago River). When the Joker, Grumpy and Chuckles are getting out of the car, they're on the north side of the building. They enter through a north-facing door, but they make a right turn and face west as they run into the lobby and begin shooting into the air. This means that when the school bus bursts through the other doors, it comes in from the west side, meaning it comes in from a north-south street. However, in the exterior shot of the Joker merging with the line of passing school buses, if you look at the buildings in the background or notice the drawbridge gates in the distance, the bus is clearly facing north and turning east and onto the east-west street the station wagon was parked on.
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The Dark Knight / int_e08f95fd	type	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes
The Dark Knight / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: The actual Chicago Police Department marching band appears to play "Balmoral" during Commissioner Loeb's funeral procession down LaSalle Street.
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The Dark Knight / int_e0e52562	type	Loves the Sound of Screaming
The Dark Knight / int_e0e52562	comment	Loves the Sound of Screaming: "Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the little... emotions."
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The Dark Knight / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The Dark Knight / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Used multiple times. It's never really effective. When Batman beats up the Joker. Even discussed, as the Joker criticizes Batman's technique while Batman is beating him. Batman also drops Maroni off a fire escape, breaking both his legs, in order to get information. It still doesn't work, as the mob boss doesn't really know anything about The Joker anyway, and if he did, he is far more scared of The Joker than Batman. Dent also makes use of False Roulette to get info out of Thomas Schiff. The man cracks quickly, but as it turns out has no information on the Joker's location either.
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The Dark Knight / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Dark Knight / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The Joker, who goes from no one, to a bank robber, to the most feared man in all of Gotham.
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The Dark Knight / int_e1d50489	type	Convenient Misfire
The Dark Knight / int_e1d50489	comment	Convenient Misfire: Happens when a witness at Sal Maroni's trial pulls a gun and tries to shoot Dent while on the stand.
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The Dark Knight / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Dark Knight / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Dogs, for the Joker. He compares himself to "a dog chasing cars", hangs his head out the window of a cop car like a dog, and is constantly licking at his lips and skin like a dog. Notably, what animal gives Batman serious trouble in the film?
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The Dark Knight / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Dark Knight / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: The Joker claims to be doing this, no matter how unlikely that may seem.
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The Dark Knight / int_e3f7524b	type	Dice Roll Death
The Dark Knight / int_e3f7524b	comment	Dice Roll Death: Two-Face uses a coin toss solely to determine whether those responsible for his kidnapping and disfigurement live or die, and he does take some lives this way.
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The Dark Knight / int_e407c52e	type	Double Subversion
The Dark Knight / int_e407c52e	comment	Subverted... by Batman. Played straight... by the movie itself. And double subverted...due to both. We never hear the Joker's third story but Batman giving him scars makes the movie itself a third story. As a result somehow manages to fit all three.
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The Dark Knight / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
The Dark Knight / int_e431c24c	comment	The Joker has been captured, Harvey Dent has been saved, Gordon is Not Quite Dead and promoted to commissioner. Then Harvey Dent goes missing...
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The Dark Knight / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Dark Knight / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The two corrupt detectives in Gordon's unit - Mike Wuertz and Anna Ramirez - both exhibit this trope. To elaborate, Wuertz was originally going to be Harvey Bullock, a long-time member of the Batman supporting cast from the comics, and Ramirez was going to be Renee Montoya, who was created for Batman: The Animated Series and was then introduced into the comics. The producers decided to recreate them as original characters because of what happens in the third act, which did not match the character of the characters as previously established. This is clearest in Batman: Gotham Knight, an animated anthology film that bridged the time period between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which introduced Ramirez and featured her partnered with Montoya's comic-book partner Crispus Allen.
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The Dark Knight / int_e5b75009	type	"Psycho" Strings
The Dark Knight / int_e5b75009	comment	"Psycho" Strings: On the soundtrack the Joker's theme is made mostly of these. It's the sound that's produced from razor blades on string instruments.
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The Dark Knight / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
The Dark Knight / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: When Joker's last bomb doesn't go off, he starts smacking the detonator until it does.
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The Dark Knight / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Dark Knight / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Ramirez is working for the mob because their mother is in the hospital and the medical bills were too high. Wuertz, on the other hand, was just in it for the money.
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The Dark Knight / int_e7fe3ece	type	Ominous Walk
The Dark Knight / int_e7fe3ece	comment	Ominous Walk: Subverted when The Joker starts one of these after Batman loses at chicken, then starts to jauntily skip after a few seconds.
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The Dark Knight / int_e85d1816	type	CommissionerGordon
The Dark Knight / int_e85d1816	comment	We know from the beginning that Gordon will eventually take his rightful place as Police Commissioner. However, he gets promoted directly into the position from Lieutenant, skipping all the ranks in between. While he would likely be a city-wide hero after Taking the Bullet for the mayor and helping capture the Joker, explaining why the average police officer wouldn't care, higher-ups would take notice and likely bring him back down to Captain.
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The Dark Knight / int_e888fbd8	type	No Man Should Have This Power
The Dark Knight / int_e888fbd8	comment	No Man Should Have This Power: Batman realizes that the surveillance power of the cell phone array is too tempting and dangerous, so he gives Lucius Fox a kill switch to destroy it after using it for the current emergency.
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The Dark Knight / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Dark Knight / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Maroni gets the good heads on that one. His limo driver isn't so lucky.
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The Dark Knight / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Dark Knight / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Obviously, that Gotham is clearly Chicago is unspoken of. On the other hand, when Lucius Fox meets with Lau on the terrace of his Hong Kong office building, you can clearly see McCormick Place across the street from them.
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The Dark Knight / int_ea6abe17	type	Every Scar Has a Story
The Dark Knight / int_ea6abe17	comment	Every Scar Has a Story: The Joker, as he tells multiple differing accounts about how he got his.
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The Dark Knight / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
The Dark Knight / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: A subtle version, but Ramirez doesn't look as happy as you'd think she'd be watching a victorious Harvey Dent get into a car driven by her (equally compromised) colleague after the Joker has been captured by a Not Quite Dead Gordon.
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The Dark Knight / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Dark Knight / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: How Rachel avoids having a smile put on her face by the Joker. Disturbingly, the Joker chuckles in response.
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The Dark Knight / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
The Dark Knight / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: Between the Joker and Batman throughout the entire movie.
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The Dark Knight / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
The Dark Knight / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Batman's belief and part of how he eventually triumphs over the Joker in the finale: neither of the boats in Joker's "social experiment" are willing to blow the other one up, buying Batman the time he needed to neutralize the Joker's own detonators.
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The Dark Knight / int_eb5b1dcb	type	Harsher in Hindsight
The Dark Knight / int_eb5b1dcb	comment	And a rather heartbreaking example:
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The Dark Knight / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
The Dark Knight / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A very brief, wordless example. When Gordon observes of the Joker that there was "nothing in his pockets but knives and lint", we see someone laying out an improbable number of knives on a table, including some items that could easily be repurposed as knives, including a potato peeler that the handler briefly double-takes at.
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The Dark Knight / int_f018c5cf	type	Offhand Backhand
The Dark Knight / int_f018c5cf	comment	And finally, the bus driver is casually and unceremoniously offed with a burst of gunfire from The Joker after he confusedly asks where the rest of the guys are.
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The Dark Knight / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
The Dark Knight / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Despite Sal Maroni being present, the Joker is the one who causes Harvey Dent to become Two-Face (though it's still Maroni's men that put Harvey in that situation in the first place).
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The Dark Knight / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Dark Knight / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Even Maroni has had enough of all this and gives the cops the Joker's location. Two-Face finds him soon afterwards.
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The Dark Knight / int_f20da4a5	type	Flaming Emblem
The Dark Knight / int_f20da4a5	comment	Flaming Emblem: Used heavily in promotional material as evident by the page image.
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The Dark Knight / int_f329f2a2	type	Got Volunteered
The Dark Knight / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Lucius is displeased when Batman turns his sonar tech into a way of imaging Gotham City via a sonar feed to spy on the whole city to find the Joker. He's then startled when Batman gives him the keys.
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The Dark Knight / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Dark Knight / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Two-Face knocks Anna Ramirez into unconsciousness, after his coin spares her life.
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The Dark Knight / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
The Dark Knight / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Later, when the Joker calls the TV station, Gordon orders every available bus to head to a hospital and get all their patients out. In the confusion, the Joker and his men take their school bus to Gotham General, where they kidnap a number of hospital staff, and a TV-news crew.
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The Dark Knight / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Dark Knight / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: A lot. One notable case is Bruce Wayne's driving a Lamborghini MurciÃ©lago. Also a Bilingual Bonus Stealth Pun: murciÃ©lago is Spanish for bat.
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The Dark Knight / int_f68fcbc6	type	Sealed Orders
The Dark Knight / int_f68fcbc6	comment	Sealed Orders: The Joker starts targeting the highest echelons of Gotham's judiciary system in rapid succession to prevent them from efficiently taking down the Mob. When he targets Judge Surrillo, who is scheduled to preside over the trials, a couple of cops go to her house and tell her she needs to move to a secure location. They hand her an envelope and tell her to open it once she's in her car and go where it says. However, this is subverted because it's a trap. The cops are stooges (not clear if they're on the Mob's payroll or the Joker's), the card just says her destination is "Up", and she gets about a second to process this before her car explodes.
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The Dark Knight / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
The Dark Knight / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: The Joker loves elaborate sadistic choices, playing cards (both as his business card and signature at some of his killings), and dropping clues about his next targets. After his attempt on Harvey Dent at the fundraiser is aborted, he puts name tags on two men he killed reading "Patrick Harvey" and "Richard Dent" the next night to taunt him. He's also immediately impressed by Harvey's very villainous Heads-or-Tails gimmick.
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The Dark Knight / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
The Dark Knight / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Sort of... Harvey Dent losing his girlfriend is the key ingredient in driving him to madness.
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The Dark Knight / int_f79b419e	type	The Most Wanted
The Dark Knight / int_f79b419e	comment	The Most Wanted: Invoked at the end when Batman takes the heat for the murders Harvey Dent committed, including his own. He ends the film as the most wanted fugitive of Gotham P.D., continuing into The Dark Knight Rises where the Police call off the pursuit of Bane when Batman shows up, drawing nearly every cop in the city into a chase with him.
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The Dark Knight / int_f81fb215	type	Choke Holds
The Dark Knight / int_f81fb215	comment	Choke Holds: Bruce Wayne grabs Harvey Dent by the neck when dragging him away just before the Joker and his men crash the fundraiser. Hilariously, this happens right after Harvey started trashtalking him.
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The Dark Knight / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Dark Knight / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: And that is why the Joker's "social experiment" fails.
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The Dark Knight / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Dark Knight / int_f9876f7e	comment	Gordon's wife's reaction to his faking his death. He offers up a small excuse about how it was for her protection, but she still smacks him.
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The Dark Knight / int_f9cf12b2	type	Love Cannot Overcome
The Dark Knight / int_f9cf12b2	comment	Love Cannot Overcome: Rachel doesn't want the problems of being Bruce's love interest until he's done being Batman.
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The Dark Knight / int_fa75f3a6	type	Humans Are Good
The Dark Knight / int_fa75f3a6	comment	Humans Are Good: The Joker is later proven wrong about people, however, when both ships reject the Joker's offer.
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The Dark Knight / int_fada6ffa	type	Lost in a Crowd
The Dark Knight / int_fada6ffa	comment	Lost in a Crowd: The Joker pulls this off twice. To escape the opening bank robbery, the Joker simply slips his school bus into a pre-arranged opening in a long line of identical school buses driving past on the Van Buren Street side of the bank as the police are arriving. The Joker and his men escaping after the assassination attempt on the mayor at Commissioner Loeb's funeral procession: they are posing as the honor guard members and all of the police officers in dress blues are standing motionless as the "honor guard" does the 21 gun salute, until the third volley, when the Joker and his men aim their rifles at the mayor. Gordon tackles the mayor to the ground just as the Joker fires his rifle. This causes all of the pedestrians and the officers to break formation and scatter everywhere. In the chaos, the Joker and his guys melt into the crowd, and all of them get away except for Thomas Schiff, who gets spotted and is shot in the leg. Later, when the Joker calls the TV station, Gordon orders every available bus to head to a hospital and get all their patients out. In the confusion, the Joker and his men take their school bus to Gotham General, where they kidnap a number of hospital staff, and a TV-news crew.
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The Dark Knight / int_fb04ced0	type	Excuse Me, Coming Through!
The Dark Knight / int_fb04ced0	comment	Excuse Me, Coming Through!: People run to get out of Batman's way when he drives the Batpod through Randolph Street Station. It's a miracle that no one dies, especially when things start exploding.
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The Dark Knight / int_fb933192	type	Car Cushion
The Dark Knight / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: When Batman saves Rachel from falling, they both land on a car in the street. In the beginning, Batman even uses a leap onto an escaping van as a means of stopping it.
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The Dark Knight / int_fbc1a68d	type	Low Clearance
The Dark Knight / int_fbc1a68d	comment	Low Clearance: Some of The Joker's goons use harpoon guns and cables to snag a police chopper during a high-speed chase.
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The Dark Knight / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The Dark Knight / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Done intentionally by Lucius Fox:
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The Dark Knight / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
The Dark Knight / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The truck-flipping scene is a truly awesome practical effect, but the way Batman does it as seen in the film would be physically impossiblenote the effect was accomplished by using a piston rigged with TNT on the back of the truck to flip it over, something very visible in the finished product. Assuming Batman does exactly what we see regarding the cable, the truck would have just torn the cable out of the asphalt along with the lampposts, and barely been slowed. And if the cable's anchor held firm, the cable would more likely break. Failing that, the truck would simply, abruptly stop. In no case is it capable of generating the force required to make the trailer rise up and turn with the entire rig over its own front end. Further, the rig itself and the trailer are not a single, rigid piece as shown. The two pieces would form a "V" while doing the flip, due to the trailer lagging behind the tractor as it rotates over. Once bent beyond breaking point, the hitch would fail and the trailer would drop back on its wheels. Batman having the means to bend a rifle barrel with his hands? (It was actually a mechanical device) Sure, he's Batman. The poor dope holding the gun somehow being strong enough to keep a grip on it while Batman bends the barrel? Even if having the terror of Gotham standing right next to him left him scared stiff, that's a lot harder to excuse.
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The Dark Knight / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
The Dark Knight / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: The Batbunker. Introduced here as the replacement for the Batcave, it's a big white military-style installation built under a Wayne Enterprises property. It eventually made its way to the comics when Bruce Wayne was temporarily killed off and replaced by Dick Grayson: Dick decided he wanted his HQ to be in the heart of the city instead of a mansion on a hill, so he moves into a bunker inspired by the film. He keeps using this base even after Bruce returns. This is especially appropriate since the original Batcave is also a canon immigrant. It was introduced in the black and white Batman serials of the 1930's (mostly as a way to save money by re-using an already available cave set the studio had sitting around.)
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The Dark Knight / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Dark Knight / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: A topic between Bruce and Alfred gets referenced again. Combined with I Warned You. Early on... And sure enough, later in the film...
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The Dark Knight / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
The Dark Knight / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: The Joker spends most of the film trying to get both Batman and Harvey Dent to give into their base desires and murder everyone in their way. Dent eventually gives in.
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The Dark Knight / int_fe938414	type	Sympathy for the Hero
The Dark Knight / int_fe938414	comment	Sympathy for the Hero: First, The Joker admits that Batman is better than the mob bosses he used to rip off. Then, as he's saved from falling to his death, the villain praises how his nemesis is incorruptible as "you won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness".
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The Dark Knight / int_feadb064	type	Generic Ethnic Crime Gang
The Dark Knight / int_feadb064	comment	Generic Ethnic Crime Gang: Besides The Mafia, Gotham apparently has a black mafia (led by Gambol) and a Chechen mafiya (led by, well, The Chechen). They seem to have reconciled their differences in order to stop Batman from ruining their business. At the very least, Maroni and the Chechen seem to be friends regardless of the situation. They shake hands at the gang meeting, and later they're shown having lunch together when Gordon and some cops enter to round them up.
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The Dark Knight / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Dark Knight / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Chechen pets his dogs, early in the movie, while calling them his "little princes." This makes it all the more disturbing when, later in the movie, Joker decides to have the Chechen cut up and fed to those dogs, for calling him a freak.
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The Dark Knight / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Dark Knight / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The defective gun Wilmer Rossi uses in his (unsuccessful) attempt to kill Harvey Dent is made of carbon fiber, and not metal. This is so that the gun could pass through the metal detectors without any trouble, as practically all courthouses in America have them. (It still begs the question of how he was able to smuggle in the ammunition, though.) The SWAT team's tactics when entering the building the Joker's minions have occupied are in fact, the actual procedures a real SWAT team would carry out under the same situation: the officers approach the suspects with weapons drawn and at the ready and identify themselves, demanding that the suspects surrender. Until the suspects present a threat to either the officers or innocents, they have to hold fire. More than one reviewer questioned why SWAT wasn't opening fire, not realizing that this was how they really operate. Commissioner Loeb's funeral procession was made of off-duty Chicago Police Department officers, including the bagpipe marching band.
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The Dark Knight / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
The Dark Knight / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Two-Face.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Iron Man / Comicbook	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Joker / Comicbook	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
Pretty Cure Four Seasons / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Reader	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
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The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Calling Card / int_5db577ba
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The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Choke Holds / int_5db577ba
ChristopherBrookmyre	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
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The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Consummate Liar / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Convenient Misfire / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Cool Bike / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Cop Killer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Cop Killer Manhunt / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Cops Need the Vigilante / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Copycat Mockery / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Cornered Rattlesnake / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Correlation/Causation Gag / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Costume Evolution / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Counting Bullets / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Creepy Crossdresser / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Creepy High-Pitched Voice / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Crooks Are Better Armed / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Crossover Ship / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Crusading Widow / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Crusading Widower / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Danger Takes a Backseat / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dare to Be Badass / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Darkness Equals Death / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Daydream Believer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dead Man's Switch / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Deadline News / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Deadly Graduation / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	"Dear John" Letter / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Death Before Dishonor / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Death by Disfigurement / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Death by Looking Up / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Death by Secret Identity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Death by Transceiver / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Death Equals Redemption / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Death Notification / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Deathly Unmasking / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Decomposite Character / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dedication / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Deducing the Secret Identity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Delayed Explosion / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Deliberately Non-Lethal Attack / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Despair Gambit / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Deus Angst Machina / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Development Gag / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Devious Daggers / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Diabolus ex Nihilo / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dice Roll Death / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Did You Actually Believe...? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Die Laughing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dies Wide Open / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Disarm, Disassemble, Destroy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Disc-One Final Boss / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Discreet Drink Disposal / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Disguised Hostage Gambit / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Disposable Vehicle Section / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Disposable Woman / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dissonant Laughter / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Divide and Conquer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Do Not Adjust Your Set / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Doesn't Like Guns / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Doomed by Canon / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Doomed Defeatist / int_5db577ba
DoubleNegativeVFX	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Double Take / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dragon with an Agenda / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dressing as the Enemy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Driven to Madness / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Driven to Villainy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Drone of Dread / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dutch Angle / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Dystopia Justifies the Means / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Early Draft Tie-In / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Easily Swayed Population / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Easy Impersonation / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Empty Promise / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Enemies Equals Greatness / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Enhanced Interrogation Techniques / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Equal-Opportunity Evil / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Escort Distraction / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Every Scar Has a Story / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Evil Duo / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Evil Is Not a Toy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Evil Reactionary / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Eviler than Thou / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Exactly What I Aimed At / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Excuse Me, Coming Through! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Exploited Trope / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	External Combustion / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Eyebrow Waggle / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Eyedscreen / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Eyes Are Unbreakable / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Face-Revealing Turn / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Faceless Goons / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Facial Recognition Software / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Faking the Dead / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fallen Hero / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	False Confession / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	False Roulette / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fame Through Infamy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Famed In-Story / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Family-Unfriendly Violence / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fan Sequel / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fast-Roping / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fatal Method Acting / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Females Are More Innocent / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Film Noir Index / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Film the Hand / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Final Speech / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Finale Title Drop / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Finger Gun / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fingerprinting Air / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Five-Second Foreshadowing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Flaming Emblem / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Flexibility Equals Sex Ability / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Floating Head Syndrome / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Forced Prize Fight / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Forensic Accounting / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fountain of Memes / int_5db577ba
Framestore	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Freak Out / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Friend to All Children / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Frozen Face / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Game Changer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Gang Initiation Fight / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Gangster Fiction / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Gasoline Dousing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Gatling Good / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Generic Ethnic Crime Gang / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Gentleman Snarker / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Goblin Face / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Godzilla Threshold / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Good Policing, Evil Policing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Good Scars, Evil Scars / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Good with Numbers / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Graceful Loser / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Grappling-Hook Pistol / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Graying Morality / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Gun Porn / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Gun Stripping / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Ham-to-Ham Combat / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Handy Remote Control / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hannibal Lecture / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	He Had a Name / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Healthcare Motivation / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hellish Copter / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Her Heart Will Go On / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hero Harasses Helpers / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Heroes' Frontier Step / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Heroic Bystander / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Heroic Wannabe / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	He's Just Hiding / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	"Hey, You!" Haymaker / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Historical Hilarity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hit Me, Dammit! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hive-Mind Testimonial / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hoarding the Profits / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hollywood Density / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Hostage Situation / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Humans Are Bastards / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Humans Are Good / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Am a Monster / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Am Spartacus / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Didn't Tell You Because You'd Be Unhappy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Have You Now, My Pretty / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Let Gwen Stacy Die / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Own This Town / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Want Them Alive! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Warned You / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I Will Show You X! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Iconic Character, Forgotten Title / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Ideal Hero / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	If Jesus, Then Aliens / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	I'm Not a Hero, I'm... / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Impossibly Cool Clothes / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Improperly Placed Firearms / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Improvised Armour / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Improvised Parachute / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Improvised Zipline / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	In Love with Your Carnage / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	In One Ear, Out The Other / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Incoming Ham / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Incorruptible Pure Pureness / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Incredibly Obvious Bug / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Indy Ploy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Ineffectual Death Threats / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Inevitably Broken Rule / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Inspector Lestrade / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Inspirational Martyr / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Instant Death Bullet / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Institutional Apparel / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Internal Reformist / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Internal Retcon / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Involuntary Battle to the Death / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	It's Personal with the Dragon / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	It's Popular, Now It Sucks! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	It's X. I Hate X. / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Jade-Colored Glasses / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Jurisdiction Friction / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Just Keep Driving / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Just One Man / int_5db577ba
KeijiFujiwara	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Kill the Cutie / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Knuckle Cracking / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Lampshaded the Obscure Reference / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Laser Sight / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Last Episode, New Character / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Laughably Evil / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Laughing Mad / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Lawful Good / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Lawman Gone Bad / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Leaning on the Fourth Wall / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Left for Dead / int_5db577ba
LegendaryPictures	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Let Me Get This Straight... / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Let Me Tell You a Story / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Lima Syndrome / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Liquid Courage / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	List of Transgressions / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Loners Are Freaks / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Lost in a Crowd / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Love Makes You Evil / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Loves the Sound of Screaming / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Low Clearance / int_5db577ba
MaggieGyllenhaal	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Making the Choice for You / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Marquee Alter Ego / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Marriage Before Romance / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Mauve Shirt / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Memorial for the Antagonist / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Men of Sherwood / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Menacing Mask / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Messianic Archetype / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Metallicar Syndrome / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Mid-Season Upgrade / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Misanthrope Supreme / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Mischief for Punishment / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Misplaced Accent / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Missing Backblast / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Molotov Truck / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Moment Killer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Moment of Silence / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Money Is Not Power / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Money to Burn / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Monster Clown / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Mood Dissonance / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Mook Carryover / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Morally Bankrupt Banker / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Motivational Lie / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Mouth of Sauron / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Mouthing the Profanity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Movie Superheroes Wear Black / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Multi-Take Cut / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	My Card / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	My Hair Came Out Green / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Nails on a Blackboard / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Naughty Nurse Outfit / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Near-Villain Victory / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Necessary Drawback / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Never Be a Hero / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	New Powers as the Plot Demands / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Newbie Boom / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No Communities Were Harmed / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No Endor Holocaust / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No Hero to His Valet / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No Honor Among Thieves / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No Man Should Have This Power / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No-Nonsense Nemesis / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Not a Mask / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Not Afraid to Die / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Not-So-Harmless Villain / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Nothing Personal / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Nothing Up My Sleeve / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Once per Episode / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	One Phone Call / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	One-Take Wonder / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Open Matte / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Oral Fixation / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Orbital Shot / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Order Versus Chaos / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Oscar Bait / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Out-of-Character Moment / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Out of the Ghetto / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Outside-Context Problem / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Overranked Soldier / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Pan and Scan / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Parking Garage / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Patrick Stewart Speech / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Peek-a-Boo Corpse / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Percussive Maintenance / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Percussive Prevention / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Perverted Sniffing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Phony Newscast / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Physical Disability in Media / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Physical Scars, Psychological Scars / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Pineapple Surprise / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Play-Along Prisoner / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Playing Card Motifs / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Playing Possum / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Plays Great Ethnics / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Poison Is Corrosive / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Poisonous Captive / int_5db577ba
PokeWars	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Politician Guest-Star / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	[Popular Saying], But... / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Post-Final Boss / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Power Fist / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Powerful and Helpless / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Pre-emptive Declaration / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Pretender Diss / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Price on Their Head / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Priceless Paperweight / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Primal Stance / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Principles Zealot / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Prison Ship / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Prisoner's Dilemma / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Psycho for Hire / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Psycho Knife Nut / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	"Psycho" Strings / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Psycho Supporter / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Psychological Projection / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Psychological Thriller / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Put on a Prison Bus / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Rank Up / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Read the Freaking Manual / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Recurring Riff / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Red Herring Shirt / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Reinventing the Telephone / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Rejected Marriage Proposal / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Relative Ridicule / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Resign in Protest / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Restored My Faith in Humanity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Revenge by Proxy / int_5db577ba
Revoltech	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Revolvers Are for Amateurs / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Right Behind Me / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Right-Hand Attack Dog / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Roaring Rampage of Rescue / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Robbing the Mob Bank / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Role Reprisal / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Role Reprise / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Rousseau Was Right / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Rugged Scar / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Rule of Escalating Threat / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Rummage Sale Reject / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Running Gag Stumbles / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sarcastic Clapping / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Save the Day, Turn Away / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sawed-Off Shotgun / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Scars Are Ugly / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Make Them! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sealed Orders / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Secondary Color Nemesis / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Secret Identity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Secret Identity Apathy / int_5db577ba
SelfishGoodSelfishEvil	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sensory Abuse / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sequel Goes Foreign / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Serkis Folk / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Set the World on Fire / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sex Dressed / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Shipping Torpedo / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Should Have Thought of That Before X / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Shrug of God / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	"Shut Up" Kiss / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sick Captive Scam / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sickening "Crunch!" / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Signs of Disrepair / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Silence Is Golden / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Silent Scapegoat / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sinister Switchblade / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sky Heist / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Slasher Smile / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sleek High Rise Apartment / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Slow Clap / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Smash the Symbol / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Smokescreen Crime / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Social Climber / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Soft Glass / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Evil / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Spanner in the Works / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Split Personality / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Stealth Mentor / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Stereotype Flip / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sticky Bomb / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Stock Quotes / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	"Stop the Hero" Twist / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Subverted Punchline / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Success Symbiosis / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sucksessor / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Suddenly Shouting / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Suicide Is Painless / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Super Cell Reception / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Superhero Movie Villains Die / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Superhero Prevalence Stages / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Surveillance as the Plot Demands / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Symbolic Mutilation / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Take Me Instead / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Talk Show Appearance / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Talking Your Way Out / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Tantrum Throwing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Tarnishing Their Own Beauty / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Taught by Experience / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Team Killer / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Teeth Flying / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Ten Little Murder Victims / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Terms of Endangerment / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Terror Hero / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Terrorists Without a Cause / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Commies Made Me Do It / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Corrupter / int_5db577ba
TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Glasses Come Off / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Heavy / int_5db577ba
TheHollywoodFormula	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Hyena / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Judge / int_5db577ba
TheLongHalloween	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
TheMill	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Millennium Age of Animation	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Mob Boss Is Scarier / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Most Wanted / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Oner / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Pen Is Mightier / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Power of Legacy / int_5db577ba
TheReturner	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Scapegoat / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Scourge of God / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Spook / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Thememobile / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	These Hands Have Killed / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	They Knew the Risks / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	This Cannot Be! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	This Means Warpaint / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Threat Backfire / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Three-Volley Flinch / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Thriller / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Throwing Down the Gauntlet / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	To Create a Playground for Evil / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Torture Always Works / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Torture Is Ineffective / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Toyline-Exclusive Character / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Tracking Device / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Tragic Hero / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Tragic Monster / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Traitor Shot / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Transforming Vehicle / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Trauma Conga Line / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Treachery Cover-Up / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Trespassing to Talk / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Tricked-Out Shoes / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Trojan Prisoner / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	21-Gun Salute / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Two-Faced / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Two-Headed Coin / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Two Roads Before You / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Two Scenes, One Dialogue / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Ãœbermensch / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Uncanny Valley Makeup / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unconventional Formatting / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unconventional Vehicle Chase / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Under the Truck / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Underestimating Badassery / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unflinching Walk / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unwanted Rescue / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unwitting Pawn / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Variable Terminal Velocity / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Vehicular Assault / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Venturous Smuggler / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Victorious Loser / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Victory Is Boring / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Vigilante Militia / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Villain Opening Scene / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Villainous Ethics Decay / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Villainous Face Hold / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Villainous Friendship / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Villains Never Lie / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Viral Marketing / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Virtue Is Weakness / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Visionary Villain / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Voiceover Letter / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Vulnerable Convoy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Wakeup Makeup / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Watching Troy Burn / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	We Would Have Told You, But... / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Wealthy Yacht Owner / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Weapon for Intimidation / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Weaponized Car / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	What Were You Thinking? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Where's the Kaboom? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	White Gangbangers / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Who Will Bell the Cat? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Who Would Be Stupid Enough? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Why Am I Ticking? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Why Couldn't You Save Them? / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Will Not Be a Victim / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	With Due Respect / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Witless Protection Program / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Won't Get Fooled Again / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Working Title / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Worthless Yellow Rocks / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	X Must Not Win / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	You Are Too Late / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	You Make Me Sick / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	You Remind Me of X / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Your Mom / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Your Princess Is in Another Castle! / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5db577ba
The Cataclysmic Cinephile (Web Video)	seeAlso	The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	All Crimes Are Equal / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Courtroom Antics / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	She Will Come for Me / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	The Centerpiece Spectacular / int_5db577ba
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Would You Like to Hear How They Died? / int_5db577ba

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