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The Dark Knight Trilogy

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The Dark Knight Trilogy	comment	In 2005, eight years after Batman & Robin put the Batman film franchise on deep freeze, Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer rebooted the franchise with the first entry of a series called The Dark Knight Trilogy.A Darker and Grittier retelling of the classic Batman mythos, the trilogy follows billionaire Bruce Wayne, haunted from witnessing his parents murdered as a child, in his quest to making himself a formidable vigilante crimefighter to save Gotham City from becoming a Wretched Hive of rampant crime and corruption. Along the way, he meets the familiar allies and foes, and realizes the unintended consequences his presence brings upon the citizens of Gotham.The series consists of: Batman Begins (2005) The Dark Knight (2008) The Dark Knight Rises (2012)All three films star Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/The Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. Other stars in the saga include Katie Holmes (Batman Begins) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) as Rachel Dawes, Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane, Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, Tom Hardy as Bane, Marion Cotillard as Wayne Enterprises board member Miranda Tate and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as GCPD officer John Blake.A direct-to-DVD animesque anthology, Batman: Gotham Knight, helped to bridge the gap between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, though Christopher Nolan had no involvement in its production. A promotional Alternate Reality Game, Why So Serious?, similarly served as a bridge between the two films and can be found here.Batman Begins had a tie-in video game with full participation of the film's cast aside from Gary Oldman and helped inspire the Batman: Arkham Series.While the films feature original storylines, they borrow scenes and themes from multiple Batman comic book miniseries such as Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, Jeph Loeb's The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, and Frank Miller's Batman: Year One and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, as well as maxi-series like Knightfall and No Man's Land. Further, the films borrow heavily from Batman: The Animated Series in terms of style and character. And despite all the liberties taken by the trilogy to combine these disparate elements into a unified vision — or perhaps because of them — Batman fans widely consider the films some of the best adaptations of the franchise to date. Viewers outside the comic book fandom agreed, and the series has been known widely for its critical and commercial success.See also the DC Extended Universe, which introduced new separate versions of the Dark Knight in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the Joker in Suicide Squad respectively; much of this trilogy's team was involved in the newer franchise's first film, and Nolan has executive producer credits on its direct sequels.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Deconstructed; although Bruce has a Secret Identity, it’s practically impossible for him to hide it from everyone else, even when they are not Secret Chasers actively looking to know who the Batman is. The ones who find out all decide to be Secret Keepers, or even Secret Secret Keepers: Batman Begins: Ra's/Ducard immediately knows Batman is Bruce Wayne because he was his Evil Mentor. Alfred, Bruce's Butler, helps Batman every step of the way. Lucius Fox, the Omnidisciplinary Scientist that provides Batman with his gadgets. Batman reveals his identity to Rachel Dawes. She becomes another Secret-Keeper. The Dark Knight: Accountant Coleman Reese discovers evidence that Bruce is Batman (Tumbler blueprints) 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. The Dark Knight Rises: John Blake, another orphan, recognizes Bruce Wayne's Stepford Smiler façade, and figures out that the billionaire with the Dark and Troubled Past must be the Batman. He is a Secret Secret-Keeper. Bane, and in turn, Talia, know exactly who Batman is because they are Avenging the Villain of the first movie, making them Secret Secret Keepers. Selina Kyle, the new Love Interest, finds out Batman's identity the hard way.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_113480b7	comment	John Blake in Rises is a composite of the first three Robins, having Jason Todd's back story, deducing Batman's true identity like Tim Drake, and like Dick Grayson has a brief stint as a police officer and in the end takes up the mantle of Gotham's protector.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Comes with the PG-13 territory. The trope itself gets some Sequel Escalation; in Rises we barely know that Gordon got shot by Bane's mooks until he's seen still in the hospital weeks later..
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: Both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises have an opening action sequence centered around Joker and Bane respectively.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The films in The Dark Knight Saga are arguably the darkest film adaptations of Batman to date.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: Each of the three films has two major Batman villains cooperating in some way or another. With Batman Begins it was Ra's al Ghul and Scarecrow. In The Dark Knight, The Joker shares the movie with Two-Face, but while Two-Face is pushing the Joker's plans forward, he doesn't team up with him, making it a Big Bad Ensemble rather than a Big Bad Duumvirate. This was seemingly subverted with The Dark Knight Rises as Bane appeared be the singular Big Bad right up until The Reveal where it turns out he's part of a Big Bad Duumvirate with Talia al Ghul.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Batman Begins is equal parts crime drama and adventure film, with elements of mysticism figuring heavily into the plot. The Dark Knight abandons the mysticism in favor of a more straightforward crime thriller set completely in an urban environment. The Dark Knight Rises then largely drops the crime drama and becomes more of a large-scale action epic, featuring a plot that wouldn't seem out of place in a James Bond film.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: A recurring theme throughout the series - Falcone underestimates Bruce (who comes back and trashes him years later), Batman underestimates pretty much all his villains and then his villains in turn underestimate him, Gordon is underestimated a few times, Catwoman is underestimated once or twice, etc.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1e6dfea1	type	Ãœbermensch
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1e6dfea1	comment	The Joker (Übermensch and Nietzsche Wannabe)
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1e763245	type	Vice City
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1e763245	comment	Vice City: Gotham, especially in Begins. As Gordon puts it to Flass:
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1eda7a32	type	I Own This Town
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1eda7a32	comment	I Own This Town: In each of the movies: Carmine Falcone in the typical mob lord sense. The Joker has a more disturbing version of it: Come nightfall this city is mine, and anyone left in it plays by my rules. Taken to the extreme with Bane, with isolates Gotham and establishes himself as the warlord of it.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: Batman Begins features the title character dangling and dropping Det. Flass almost as if he were bungee jumping until Batman is satisfied with what information he's given. Subverted and lampshaded in The Dark Knight. Batman wasn't threatening to kill Maroni to get his information but to use the situation in a novel way that would actually make this Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. However, Maroni doesn't tell him anything anyway, because he's not going to rat out The Joker for anyone, least of all Batman. "We're on to you," he says. "You've got rules. The Joker has no rules." The Dark Knight Rises double subverts and lampshades this in the opening scenes of the film. A CIA team has captured a group of Bane's minions and is trying to get Bane's location out of them on a plane; they have them all in hoods, bring one to the open door of the plane, and stick the mook's head out of it. The suspect refuses to talk, and the CIA interrogator pretends to have him killed (shooting his gun into open air before claiming to have thrown the mook from the plane) before moving him out of the way.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1fe4ca78	type	Appropriated Title
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1fe4ca78	comment	Appropriated Title: Batman Begins has two sequels, both under the Dark Knight name, in what has become known as The Dark Knight Saga.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_20fd3270	type	Cape Wings
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_20fd3270	comment	Cape Wings: Batman's hang glider cape, thanks to 'memory cloth', a special type of fabric that has bundled sections designed to take a specific shape when an electrical charge is applied. The Wayne Enterprise's version of memory cloth was originally designed to use in quick-pitch tents for soldiers, before Bruce repurposes the material to jump off rooftops.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Gotham is on the brink of economic collapse when Bruce is a child, under the thumb of the mob by the main events of Begins, being terrorized by psychopaths and increasingly desperate gangsters by The Dark Knight, and becomes a city without law and then a total war zone in Rises. However, by the end of Rises, Gotham shows steps towards becoming A World Half Full.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Jim Gordon, who's trying to be a good cop in what continues to be a very corrupt town.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_228cb20	type	Adaptational Mundanity
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_228cb20	comment	Adaptational Mundanity: The films generally try to depict Batman as close to how he would be in Real Life, stripping out or substituting in more mundane explanations for the more supernatural elements of the Batman mythos. As an example from each film: Ra's Al Ghul is figuratively rather than literally immortal, The Joker is a terrorist who wears face-paint rather than a killer comedian whose skin and hair were bleached by falling into chemicals and Bane's strength comes from Charles Atlas Superpower rather than a Super Serum. This change is reflected in the series' Gotham City, as rather than the gothic nightmare of the Burton films, the neon dreamscape of the Schumacher films or the grimy, cursed hellhole of the Reeves films, Nolan's Gotham is, less so in Begins, a fairly ordinary contemporary New York/Chicago alike.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Bruce's gauntlet blades play a role in the defeat of each Big Bad. With them, he breaks Ra's sword in the train fight, prevents the Joker from blowing up the two ferries, and slices open Bane's mask to defeat him. Pretty good for a costume design that Christopher Nolan felt needed an explanation.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_26ac510e	comment	Batman Begins ends with Jim Gordon saying this to Bruce. "Take this guy: Armed robbery, double homicide. Has a taste for the theatrical, like you", before then giving him the Joker's calling card, setting up for his appearance in The Dark Knight. This is a reference to Batman: Year One, which ends exactly the same way.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_27be0280	type	Porn Stache
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_27be0280	comment	Porn Stache: Sported by Jim Gordon.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Each of the major villains to their own degree. Carmine Falcone is terrified by Ra's al Ghul, to the point where the mention he'll be in Gotham puts the mobster on edge. The Joker is feared by everyone from mob bosses to civilians to cops, and for good reasons. Even after being dropped off a building and having both his legs fractured, Maroni is still too scared of the Joker to give up any information about him to Batman. Everyone from CIA agents to Catwoman is afraid of Bane. Given what he does to Gotham, they're right to be. Batman's MO is to become this to the city's criminals: in most cases of crimefighting, he pulls off moves that seem designed to cause the maximum amount of fear in those he's chasing. In Dark Knight, it's shown to be working, as the presence of the bat symbol in the night sky discourages a would-be thief from going out. However, he is eventually overshadowed by The Joker here.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Most of the cutting-edge technology Batman uses comes from military projects that were fantastic but prohibitively expensive. The Batmobile is the Tumbler, a gap-leaping armored vehicle meant to lay bridges, which they could never get working right. The cape that allows Batman to glide is memory cloth that takes a rigid shape when an electrical current is applied from his gloves. It was intended for tents. The Batsuit (other than the cowl, which is custom made from parts ordered through shell companies in various countries to disguise its origin) is an extremely advanced set of Kevlar armor....which cost $300,000 per person.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2d4fa515	comment	The Joker is feared by everyone from mob bosses to civilians to cops, and for good reasons. Even after being dropped off a building and having both his legs fractured, Maroni is still too scared of the Joker to give up any information about him to Batman.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2d5b1c65	type	Expansion Pack Past
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2d5b1c65	comment	Expansion Pack Past: Alfred's past in the British military and later as a freelance mercenary is often mentioned in anecedotes, but never fully explained.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Consistent with the character's meta portrayal. It's handled somewhat realistically in that, while Batman makes it clear he's completely against straight-up executing criminals under his power, and goes out of his way to use non-lethal takedown methods, he's shown to be willing to use potentially lethal force in a crisis situation (throwing Maroni off a three story ledge (dude could have landed on his head), leaving Ra's al Ghul to die when the monorail crashes, doing the same to Dent (who did land on his head), and shooting at Talia al Ghul with an anti-tank gun to stop her from blowing up Gotham, and virtually anyone he beat up could have died from internal bleeding, concussion, etc.).
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_31708bd3	type	Terror Hero
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_31708bd3	comment	Terror Hero: Largely averted, throughout the movies it's shown that hardened criminals AREN'T cowardly and superstitious. The Batman's shock and awe tactics fail to impress especially against the non-mook villains. Justified as Maroni in The Dark Knight says that Batman ain't that scary if he's not willing to go all the way and kill especially in comparison to the Joker's atrocities. Even when the boss gets dropped from high up and breaks a leg, he's more angry than scared.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_323f135b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Crane, one of the main villains from Batman Begins, was reassigned in the sequel to the head Mook of the Batman Cold Open. The Joker meanwhile ends up being worse than the entire mob put together. To top that off, Bane takes over Gotham as a warlord for months and holds the city hostage with a nuclear bomb.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The Lazarus pit does not exist in this universe. Instead, Ra’s al Ghul achieves immortality by virtue of being a Legacy Character.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_34c67518	type	Save the Day, Turn Away
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_34c67518	comment	Save the Day, Turn Away: Inverted Type 1 at the end of Begins. Rachel tells Bruce the man she loved is gone, and for now, only the Batman remains. Followed by a straight Type 2 at the end of Dark Knight. Batman's stopped the Joker and saved Gordon's family, but instead takes the blame for Dent's murder spree to protect Harvey's legacy.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Hang gliding, microwave weapons, ninjas, sonar mapping, fingerprints, fourth degree burns, and anesthesia, among other things, do not work that way. But it all looks awesome, so who cares?
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The whole trilogy is a poster child for swinging from one end to the other and back again.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_37499c8	comment	Once A Movie: There are multiple uses of this trope: Batman's signature interrogation tactic, screaming 'WHERE?' while beating people up, used on Flass, The Joker, and Bane in each film respectively. It only really worked the way he expected it to in the first one, but either way he did get the information, although the second and third times did not end as well for him, with The Joker manipulating him and tricking him into saving Harvey not Rachel and later, Bruce found out his new Love Interest was Evil All Along and that she had the trigger for the nuclear bomb that he was looking for. Batman surveys the city from high up every movie, each time at a different time of day. There is a party in each movie as well; Bruce's birthday party, Harvey Dent's fundraiser, and a masquerade ball held by Miranda Tate. In each of these movies, when Bruce hosts a party, a villain crashes it. Ras al Ghul in Begins, the Joker in The Dark Knight, and Catwoman in Rises. Batman's bladed gauntlets help him defeat Ducard, Joker and Bane. Batman's vanishing act. First, Batman manages to startle Gordon with it during some of their initial meetings. Then, Batman pulls the same thing on Harvey during their first encounter, and Gordon, who by this point is used to Batman doing that to him after six months of it, simply tells Harvey, "He does that." Finally, Batman himself is on the receiving end courtesy of Catwoman. "So that's what it feels like..." Each movie has a line about thanking Batman (the first two times from Gordon and the last time from John Blake). There is a different location from Gotham in each movie (a prison in Bhutan and the nearby League of Shadows base in Batman Begins), Hong Kong in The Dark Knight and the Pit some unidentified place far from Gotham in The Dark Knight Rises. The only villain to appear in every movie in the trilogy is Doctor Jonathan Crane, AKA Scarecrow. There is a funeral in every movie. First Bruce's parents, then Commissioner Loeb's and finally, Bruce Wayne's own funeral, though he is Faking the Dead.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Joker uses numerous Batman Gambits in The Dark Knight. This is perhaps the most obvious when he is in prison and goads one police officer to try and beat him up, overpowers the officer, and uses him as leverage to get his phone call. The call he makes is to the cell phone that blows up the station. If, at any point along the line, the police had acted differently than he'd anticipated, none of this would have worked. Justified due to police frequently using such phone calls to obtain more incriminating evidence from criminals, or just allowing them to contact their attorneys. Bane's plan to trap the police force in the sewers after he takes over Gotham City is entirely dependent on Commissioner Gordon reacting in the manner he does.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_3a29c5c8	type	Villainous Legacy
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_3a29c5c8	comment	Villainous Legacy: Ra's al Ghul, leader of the League of Shadows, is killed after he tries to annihilate Gotham and all its citizens to rid the world of its corruption. In The Dark Knight Rises his influence continues to be felt since the League was not actually destroyed, and Ra's student Bane sets out to fulfill his dead master's plans along with al Ghul's daughter, Talia, but wants Gotham to suffer first.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_3e7bdd9	type	Sequel Logo in Ruins
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_3e7bdd9	comment	Sequel Logo in Ruins: The Bat logo seen on posters and promo material starts off pristine for Batman Begins. It starts having pieces flaking off and gets surrounded by cracks for the later two films.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: It's the order of the day in this trilogy. In fact, the trilogy goes so far as to pay attention to even the most minute and the most ludicrous details about how things work in real life.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Batman Begins and The Dark Knight both end with Batman triumphant, but at an extreme cost to both himself and Gotham. Dark Knight Rises has a more uplifting ending but not without its own bitterness.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_41d0640b	type	Hello, Attorney!
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_41d0640b	comment	Hello, Attorney!: Both Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Bruce turning on The League of Shadows. Also everyone in Gotham who takes on the mob.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: The trilogy isn't as bad as the comics. In addition to Gordon and Dent, there's an honest judge and an honest mayor, and the Commissioner before Gordon was honest as well, if incompetent. All the above but Gordon bite the dust before the series is over, though.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_461defa0	type	Two-Faced
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_461defa0	comment	When the League of Shadows gives Bruce a chance to evacuate his birthday party, he does it by calling all his guests Two-Faced sycophants.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_4977d7b8	comment	Ra's al Ghul's apparent immortality comes from a simple Body Double trick instead of a supernatural pit of primordial goo. In the third film, he shows up as a hallucination, and points out that there are many types of "immortality". Such as having a child willing to carry out his legacy.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Batman's fighting style for the movies, the Keysi Fighting Method, is set entirely around being as simple and damaging as possible. Joker is by far the least reserved fighter of the cast. One fight has him shove a mook at Batman and then try to kick the Dark Knight in the groin with a knife strapped to his shoe. In another, Joker sets three mad dogs on Batman and then attacks Batman with a crowbar. The Scarecrow in Begins is no slouch either. In his first confrontation with Batman, he hits the vigilante with a dose of fear gas from behind, splashes him with kerosene, and then lights him on fire. Yes, that's right; he brought experimental chemical weapons to a fistfight. Bane, oh so very much. The man's forehead should be considered a lethal weapon. He also trashes some security guards with little more his motorcycle helmet.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Loeb and Garcia didn't last very long, did they? But the latter lasted a bit longer.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_4efce9e6	type	Thematic Sequel Logo Change
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_4efce9e6	comment	Thematic Sequel Logo Change: The Dark Knight has the logo backlit, with the poster featuring a version burned onto a skyscraper representing Joker's reign of chaos. The Dark Knight Rises features the logo shattering apart, representing the fracture that occurs within Gotham.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: The entire basis for Bruce's infatuation with Rachel Dawes - he sees her as the only woman in the world who could possibly understand him and his angst and the most perfectly pure woman imaginable, even though they have very little in common beyond being childhood friends who would like to see Gotham become a better place. Fortunately Selina Kyle eventually comes along and straightens him out.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Bruce Wayne both begins and ends the trilogy out of Gotham and presumed dead, although his prospects at the end are considerably better.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: Each film in the trilogy puts the vanity plates under different colors: Batman Begins turns the WB and DC logos grayscale with a subtle glow effect. The Dark Knight colors the logos in a very dark blue, dark enough that the Warner shield is barely visible. The Dark Knight Rises combines the previous two variants into an icy-blue shade.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_553c27bb	type	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_553c27bb	comment	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Arguably the most serious superhero movies.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: A reoccurring theme in the series. Discussed in Begins. Bruce Wayne gives this as his reason for refusing to kill defenseless criminals. Later subverted, as while Batman doesn't decide to kill Ra's, he still leaves the villain to die in a train crash. Also Inverted in Dark Knight by Joker, who tries to get both Batman and Harvey Dent to kill him so they'll go just as insane.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: Bruce is never seen drinking any alcoholic beverage during the series, save for the scene in Begins where he kicks all his party guests out of Wayne Manor. In The Dark Knight, he's even shown emptying the glass of champagne he took for his toast to Harvey off the balcony of his penthouse. In such situations in the comics, where Bruce had to be seen drinking, he usually switched champagne for ginger beer or some other variant, and in the former situation Bruce had plenty of chances to switch his drink.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_571bfe2	comment	Bane only uses an anesthetic gas to help him cope with a severe injury, instead of a Super Serum that lets him Hulk out to enormous size.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Batman, as always. These films especially place a HUGE emphasis on how dark the character is, but also on how heroic and selfless he is.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_58d31a8b	type	Body Motifs
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_58d31a8b	comment	Body Motifs: All three films put an emphasis on both faces and masks.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: All of them, save Jim Gordon. The Gotham police can't stop the League of Shadows in Begins and get regularly played by The Joker in Dark Knight, to the point Batman has to take out a SWAT team to stop them from killing hostages due to misdirection. The police in Hong Kong are little better. Though quick on the scene, they just watch in stunned confusion as Lau is taken away by Batman. Deconstructed with their inability to do their job in the beginning and reconstructed with their willingness when given the chance in the third film. The police did not have the equipment, ability, or number to take on Bane and his army since the majority of the force gets trapped underground for three months in Bane's trap, becoming malnourished on the little food and water they could get, and thus could only do recon on Bane's movements. Reconstructed after Batman blows open a way for the trapped cops to leave the underground and Batman gives the hesitant ones the hope to actually make a difference, as they are shown that given the right chance and equipment they WILL do their best to protect society, even with low odds. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that the police were shown to be huge heroes, especially with the impact of Foley being too afraid to act during Bane's reign of terror, but deciding to fight after Batman comes back, and then being killed during the war against Bane's army.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: If we're to believe the subtle nods Christopher Nolan gave concerning not-too-obvious members of the traditional Rogues Gallery, Coleman Reesenote or Mr. Reese (mysteries) for short manages to gain a sufficient sense of humility and avoids becoming the Nolanverse Riddler, and Lau never becomes the Nolanverse Calculator.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: All three movies combine multiple stories: Begins - Batman: Year One (Bruce's origin mirrors that particular version, Commissioner Loeb, Carmine Falcone, Detective Flass, a Sequel Hook alluding to The Joker), The Long Halloween (the idea of Batman, the police, and the DA's office presenting a united front; Scarecrow's appearance; Carmine Falcone's downfall), and Contagion (Ra's al Ghul tries to spread a plague across Gotham). The Man Who Falls was also cited as an influence. Dark Knight - The Killing Joke (Joker tries to make someone go crazy, Joker's multiple origins), The Long Halloween (Dent gets disfigured and goes on a rampage, supervillains begin to take over the mob's place), Dark Victory (Commissioner Loeb dies, Gordon replaces him), Batman: Year One (Gordon's family put at risk in the end), Batman and Robin Adventures #1 & 2 (Joker instigates Two-Face to go on an insane rampage) and Joker's original story from Batman #1/The Man Who Laughs (Joker arrives in Gotham and starts killing people). According to Steve Englehart, Nolan also cannibalized elements of Dark Detective and its unpublished sequel. Rises - Vengeance of Bane (Bane's origin, King Snake is substituted for Ra's) Knightfall (Bane shows up and breaks Batman's back), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (an older Batman comes back to fight crime, Gotham is under a nuclear threat, Batman fakes his death), Son of the Demon (Batman gets involved with Talia al Ghul), No Man's Land (Gotham gets blocked off from the rest of the US and declared a disaster area), Legacy (Bane and Talia working together), The Cult (An underground group of criminals take over Gotham, Gordon is put in the hospital as a result of trying to confront them), again, Batman: Year One (Catwoman's origins) and Gotham Adventures #15 (Bane robs financial district, recruits orphans, claims to be helping the poor while using them for his own ends. Nuclear weapons, Gotham's football team and Bane having a serious medical condition are also mentioned, but only in Robin's speculations about what Bane might be doing with the money he stole). There might also be a subtle inclusion of Batman Beyond (A younger man prepped to take Batman's mantle after he resigns towards the end).
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5b87dd9d	type	Superhero Paradox
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5b87dd9d	comment	Superhero Paradox: Subtly applied throughout the series, as it isn't often talked about. Ra's al Ghul would have destroyed Gotham if Bruce hadn't become Batman, but The Joker seems to find Batman an inspiration and tells him how he changed things. Bruce does discuss with Alfred how Batman was supposed to inspire good, not madness and evil; something that The Joker goes on to inspire in Harvey "Two-Face" Dent. On top of that, Batman saved Harvey Dent from certain death but didn't manage to save half his face and more importantly, his Love Interest who also happened to be Bruce's, which let The Joker visit him and convince him to give into insanity. Dr. Jonathan Crane was already evil before Batman came around, but it probably didn't help that Batman drove Crane insane with Crane's own fear toxin. Finally, if Batman did not leave Ra's to die; Bane and Talia would not have sought revenge on Bruce by torturing Bruce and Gotham, then nuking Gotham. Pretty much every main villain in the series with the exception of Ra's al Ghul is somehow linked to Batman in relation to why they're insane and/or evil and why they want to torment others or Gotham.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: According to Nolan; Fear, Chaos, and Pain, respectively. Note that these are all additive themes; each film includes the previous theme(s) in addition to its central one. A more detailed examination is on the trope page.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5d269b12	type	Handy Remote Control
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5d269b12	comment	Handy Remote Control: A villain wields one in both the second and third films.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5db59a03	comment	The Scarecrow in Begins is no slouch either. In his first confrontation with Batman, he hits the vigilante with a dose of fear gas from behind, splashes him with kerosene, and then lights him on fire. Yes, that's right; he brought experimental chemical weapons to a fistfight.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5e8332c	type	Underground Railroad
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5e8332c	comment	The Bat Cave being used by Wayne's ancestors in the Underground Railroad is from an old issue of Shadow of the Bat.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5f252b8b	type	One Phone Call
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_5f252b8b	comment	The police force is not obligated to provide a phone call for anyone and tend to comply if the suspect is being cooperative. However, this is such a pervasive occurrence in media that people brought it up. That said, as the above link states, police are usually more than happy to let criminals call someone so they can tape the potentially incriminating conversation. Not to mention the necessity of providing some means to contact the suspect's attorney.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6156eafa	comment	So Last Season: The batsuit from Begins quickly proves inadequate for Bruce's needs in The Dark Knight. At least now he can move his neck for the first time in twenty years. Averted in Rises, as even though 8 years pass in the story, he uses the same suit that debuted in The Dark Knight. Played straight with the vehicles, however. Each film has the previous film's vehicle show up and then be discarded for something better, with the only possible exception being the Batpod.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_617eef78	type	Heel–Face Town
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_617eef78	comment	Heel–Face Town: In Batman Begins, Gotham City was already struggling in its recovery from economic depression and had only started to improve shortly before Bruce's parents were murdered. The city did try to continue improving in years after, but by the time Bruce returns from his years of training under the League of Shadows, Gotham was drowning in high crime rates and corruption. So much so, in fact, that Ra's al Ghul admits to Bruce just incredibly easy it was for the League to infiltrate the city's entire infrastructure to renew their assault on Gotham. But, by the time The Dark Knight starts, Bruce's war on crime as Batman, and his alliance within Jim Gordon and Gotham PD, have very nearly rid the city of the Mafia's grip, dealing a massive blow to the city's crime rate in the process. As such, Gotham has not only visibly improved, but it's citizens have a renewed sense of hope and faith, the first they've felt in years. That is until a certain clown shows up.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Batman Begins ends with Jim Gordon saying this to Bruce. "Take this guy: Armed robbery, double homicide. Has a taste for the theatrical, like you", before then giving him the Joker's calling card, setting up for his appearance in The Dark Knight. This is a reference to Batman: Year One, which ends exactly the same way. The Dark Knight itself has a huge sequel hook that ends with Batman riding off into the night as a wanted criminal , edging into cliffhanger territory: The series can't very well end on Batman being demonized and hunted, so how will he atone for Two-Face's crimes and regain Gotham's trust? Yet that ending is so organic and un-gimmicky it takes a minute to recognize it as a hook.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_643879c7	type	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_643879c7	comment	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: The movies play with this trope. Selina never gets called Catwoman in the movie proper even though there are a lot of cat motifs surrounding her. Promotional material, novelization and the original script all use the codename, though. Dent briefly discusses the nickname he had during his Internal Affairs days ("Harvey Two-Face") but he never goes by that name in either film. Crane goes by his real name through three movies except for one scene towards the end of Begins when he, hopped up on his own fear gas, calls himself Scarecrow. Bane, interestingly enough, never has his real name mentioned, averting this trope. In the comics, Bane did not have a real name, given his origins. Ra's Al Ghul is a real name and sort of a title in both the comics and the movies, so its usage makes sense. Joker's real name was never revealed in this franchise, nor the original comics. This version of the Batmobile is never actually called "The Batmobile". Its official name is "The Tumbler". Averted with the Batpod, and, to a lesser extent, the Bat (Given Batman's aircraft is usually called the Batwing)
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: Batman greets Sergeant Gordon with this line after appearing suddenly on his back porch in Begins. Selina Kyle warns Bruce of this while they dance at the Masquerade Ball in Rises.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_682c066c	type	Horrifying Hero
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_682c066c	comment	Horrifying Hero: Invoked by Batman, who actively tries to cultivate the image of terrifying, elemental, and incorruptable symbol. Those unlucky enough to be exposed to fear toxins also see him as a giant demonic bat.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6a5aa9d0	type	Author Usurpation
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6a5aa9d0	comment	Author Usurpation: Whenever people think of Christopher Nolan movies, they always think of this trilogy first. Even if they think of Inception first instead, they'll always think about this trilogy second with no exceptions.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Aside from the echoes within the films, there's a number between them. We hear the following conversation between Batman and Gordon towards the end of Begins: And then there is this, towards the end of Dark Knight: Again in Dark Knight Rises: There's also this quote Ducard says in Begins to his then-student Wayne: Wayne, having apparently internalized this lesson, paraphrases this in The Dark Knight: In The Dark Knight, the scene between Alfred and Bruce following Rachel's death mirrors the scene in Begins between Alfred and the child Bruce after the death of Bruce's parents. The Dark Knight has Harvey Dent's slogan, "I Believe In Harvey Dent", said by Bruce Wayne genuinely. Later, in the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, Commissioner Gordon speaks reluctantly and wearily at the eighth annual Harvey Dent day: "I Believed In Harvey Dent".
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Used regularly Played with in Begins, where Bruce's first attempt to do the iconic move on Gordon results in an epic failure. Also used regularly and lampshaded in The Dark Knight And again in Rises when Catwoman is the one doing that to him.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_723943a9	type	Deducing the Secret Identity
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_723943a9	comment	Deducing the Secret Identity: Happens quite a few times throughout the trilogy. The League of Shadows arrives at Wayne Manor to confront Bruce. It's never said how they figured out he was Batman, but the context of the movie implies that it was obvious to them; the oligarch that they trained in combat and tactics returns to his home city, and shortly afterward a masked vigilante utilizing the League's fighting style and tactics and armed with very expensive gear appears. Coleman Reese, 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. Bane probably figured out Batman's identity via similar logic to how Ra's Al Gul did, but Officer John Blake, who also lost his parents to violent crime and grew up an orphan, figures it out after meeting Bruce Wayne and realizing he and Bruce were both the same, having had to learn to cover their grief and anger with smiles and pretend they're getting on with their lives.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_73194909	type	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_73194909	comment	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy: Played with. Batman will attack police officers with swarms of bats and endanger their lives in high speed chases, but all to try and avoid direct confrontation. It's only when he has to stop a Disguised Hostage Gambit that he's willing to take them head-on.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Every Big Bad has his/her pawns. To Ra's al Ghul: Jonathan Cranenote He thought Ra's wanted to hold the city to ransom, William Earle, Rachel Dawes, Mrs. Delane, Carl Finch, and even the Batman himself. To The Joker: Harvey Dent, James Gordon, Rachel Dawes, Sal Maroninote at least until he grows the balls to report the Joker to Gordon, the Chechen, Mike Engel, Anna Ramirez, Coleman Reese, Grumpy, Chuckles, Happy, Dopey, the bus driver, the Gotham National Bank manager... and the Batman again. To Bane and Talia al Ghul: James Gordon, John Daggett, Phillip Stryver, Lucius Fox, Peter Foley, Simon Jansen, Dr. Leonid Pavel, Agent Bill Wilson, Catwoman, and... you guessed it.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_746bfee8	type	Vanilla Edition
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_746bfee8	comment	Vanilla Edition: While not completely bare-bones, the first trilogy box set had this to a degree. To coincide the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Dark Knight Rises, a "limited edition giftset" of the entire trilogy was put out on DVD and Blu-ray for those who couldn't wait for get their hands on the entire series. What did it come with? The movies, the special features discs from the original releases The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises (Blu-ray only), and an excerpt of a book showcasing the trilogy's promo shots and art. No exclusive bonus discs, collectibles, or anything else. That's it. Even worse, the digital codes that came with the set flat-out announced that an "ultimate collector's edition" set on Blu-ray would be put out in 2013, which was Warner basically saying "Ha-ha! We played you all for suckers! Now you'll have to buy the movies again!" to those who wanted it for Christmas of 2012. And even worse, the DVD release of the set did not bring the special features discs over.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7518df99	type	The Power of Legacy
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7518df99	comment	Followed by a straight Type 2 at the end of Dark Knight. Batman's stopped the Joker and saved Gordon's family, but instead takes the blame for Dent's murder spree to protect Harvey's legacy.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: Batman Begins starts off with Bruce Wayne beating up prisoners in Asia. The Dark Knight starts with the Joker robbing a bank and picking off his accomplices one at a time. The Dark Knight Rises begins with Bane conducting a mid-air kidnapping.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: In The Dark Knight, Gordon's daughter Barbara appears, but her face is never seen (she was on-screen briefly in Begins, as well, but doesn't even get credited as her real name).
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7b90899b	type	Ultimate Universe
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7b90899b	comment	Ultimate Universe: Nolan's movies are a classic example of this specific kind of revision: It applies Arc Welding to mix disparate parts of Batman's Rogues Gallery for better Adaptation Distillation. Ra's Al Ghul was unconnected to both Scarecrow and Bane in the early stories, and he likewise had no involvement with Batman's training. But here he is provided that function to better explain and connect Batman's McNinja training, Scarecrow's fear gas, and Bane is likewise one of his students, until he was, as Bruce puts it, "thrown out by a gang of psychopaths". It also significantly dials down the supernatural and pulp science element of the original comics by Doing In the Wizard. Ra's Al Ghul isn't Really 700 Years Old but rather an Artifact Title for an Ancient Conspiracy secret society. Joker likewise doesn't have his showbiz gimmick and chemistry based gadgets (featured in Tim Burton's film) but is instead a violent, manipulative, quasi-anarchic terrorist.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7c020e46	type	One-Scene Wonder
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7c020e46	comment	Crane goes from a major antagonist to a One-Scene Wonder between the first, second, and third films.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The villains deliver some of the best ones ever. Like the one that Carmine Falcone gives to Bruce at the beginning of Batman Begins. Bruce realizes that Falcone is 100% right about him, and his efforts to remedy that eventually enable him to become Batman.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises open with a short prologue introducing the viewer to the Big Bad, showing him doing something badass, and teaching us something about how he operates (e.g., the Joker manipulates his men into backstabbing each other, while Bane inspires such loyalty that his men would die for him).
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8103b995	type	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8103b995	comment	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie: With the titular Dark Knight representing order and justice and practically every major villain of the trilogy representing sectarian fanaticism, large scale terrorism, or chaos, it's practically impossible not to find parallels to the War on Terror.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_83a903f6	comment	John Blake, another orphan, recognizes Bruce Wayne's Stepford Smiler façade, and figures out that the billionaire with the Dark and Troubled Past must be the Batman. He is a Secret Secret-Keeper.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_83f3983b	comment	Lucius Fox (Necessarily Evil and Godzilla Threshold)
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Nolan's penchant for having special effects done in-camera tends to garner this reaction. The Tumbler and the Batpod were both thought to be too unwieldy to operate in real life, when each has at least one model that can be driven. In The Dark Knight, the eighteen-wheeler truck flipping over was at first deemed CGI or a scale model. It was a real semi in a real street. Batman's cape was designed to fold into a backpack for The Dark Knight because the costume designers thought it would get caught in the Batpod's wheel. After a test run in which nothing actually happened, Nolan was happy to let it billow dramatically in the wind (though people still complained). The police force is not obligated to provide a phone call for anyone and tend to comply if the suspect is being cooperative. However, this is such a pervasive occurrence in media that people brought it up. That said, as the above link states, police are usually more than happy to let criminals call someone so they can tape the potentially incriminating conversation. Not to mention the necessity of providing some means to contact the suspect's attorney. After the initial snipe on the clowns failed, some reviewers were confused as to why the SWAT team would state their identities and refrain from opening fire for so long during close combat. As mentioned on the page for The Dark Knight, this is actual operating procedure. As well, people questioned why the Hong Kong police wouldn't just shoot Batman, when basic gun safety informs people that you shouldn't shoot when your view is obstructed by low lighting or a hostage being used as a human shield.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: So very, very much. You could make a drinking game out of it, if you feel like drinking yourself into a coma.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_86d4f985	comment	It also significantly dials down the supernatural and pulp science element of the original comics by Doing In the Wizard. Ra's Al Ghul isn't Really 700 Years Old but rather an Artifact Title for an Ancient Conspiracy secret society. Joker likewise doesn't have his showbiz gimmick and chemistry based gadgets (featured in Tim Burton's film) but is instead a violent, manipulative, quasi-anarchic terrorist.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_88799cf4	type	Badass Cape
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_88799cf4	comment	Badass Cape: Not only is it stylish, but when an electric current is run through it, the shape-memory fibers it's made from can transform the entire cape into a hang glider, or fold it up into a form fitting backpack. Also, while not used in the movie, supplemental materials state that the gloves, which are used to apply the electrical current to the cape to allow it to become rigid, can also be used to administer high-voltage, non-lethal shocks.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Bruce's Lamborghini Murciélago LP 640, bonus is the fact that Murciélago is Spanish for "Bat". The Tumbler, of course.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Nolan's Batman films could arguably be seen as a deconstruction of Batman, by showing the shortcomings and downsides to the kind of mentality one would have to have in order to become Batman. It is definitely NOT a romantic or romanticized view of Batman's lifestyle. In a time when the comics have made the supposedly human Batman, actually superhuman (for example, in the Batgirl comics where Stephanie Brown was the Batgirl, it was stated that Batman only needed 1-2 hours of sleep), the Dark Knight trilogy brought him back to normal. When he tried to fight a handful of panicked people in the first movie, he got mobbed and beaten up despite his armor. As well he's a Jack of All Trades and an expert fighter, rather than being a Master of All, (for example, he couldn't understand the Joker - something that any trained psychologist could do, even Alfred and the beat cop in the interrogation room knew what the clown was about and instead of building his high-tech equipment from scratch, he just pocketed overly-expensive Wayne Enterprise prototypes).
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8dd4b19f	type	Forced Friendly Fire
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8dd4b19f	comment	Forced Friendly Fire: Throughout the series, Batman himself does this when he's swatting aside the firearms of mooks. That is, when he's not twisting the barrel irreparably with a hand brace or stripping a shotgun apart in his plain clothes guise. His rationale is to safely discharge the weapon and avoid lethal injuries for everyone involved in a situation.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8dff7e48	type	Stealth Expert
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8dff7e48	comment	Stealth Expert: Batman.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8ed601a6	type	Two-Part Trilogy
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8ed601a6	comment	Two-Part Trilogy: Double subverted. The second movie is a standalone adventure, and the first and third are closely tied together.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8f9c00fd	type	The Apprentice
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_8f9c00fd	comment	The Apprentice: Batman and to a lesser extent, Bane, were both apprentices of Ra's al Ghul.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified in that he used to be the head of a highly prolific multi-national corporation's R&D department. A working knowledge of the science behind most projects is generally required in such positions.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: All over the place. One of the core points in this iteration of Batman is the idea of Batman, the very being transcending something physical and becoming a symbol of justice against those for whom the normal means are not enough. In a more basic sense, Bats. In the beginning they are one of the sources of Bruce's greatest phobias, but over time he copes with them and eventually in a sense, becomes one of them- a creature of the night. By the final leg of his journey, they are seen again when he symbolically has to feel fear once more to make the jump needed to escape the Pit as opposed to simply welcoming it, and when Blake accepts his place as Bruce's successor and receive the same swarming he did, akin to a test. The logo for Batman Begins is raw and unfinished metal. The logo for The Dark Knight is burned into the side of a building. The teaser poster for Rises has the logo as a gaping hole in the sky.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_94f517db	type	Discretion Shot
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_94f517db	comment	Discretion Shot: It's a rule. Anytime someone (e.g. Rachel or Mayor Garcia) is incinerated by explosives, the viewer only gets to see the first explosion go off almost right behind the victim and his/her hair being blown forward before the picture cuts away from the all-consuming conflagration.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Used frequently and to great effect throughout.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_970c790a	comment	Ra's appears in Rises in a hallucination, and his daughter is the Big Bad.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9723e2cd	type	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9723e2cd	comment	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Bruce appropriates most of his equipment from Wayne Enterprises R&D. Deconstructed in the second movie, when an accountant realizes millions of dollars of equipment have disappeared, including an experimental car that looks exactly like the Batmobile. Then reconstructed when he tries Blackmailing Lucius Fox using the information, only to realize how stupid trying to commit a crime against a billionaire vigilante who beats up criminals with his fists really is. He almost reveals who the Batman is on national television instead, but then stops trying altogether after the Joker tries to have him killed for it.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: All three movies, to varying degrees, as shown on the composite poster above. Split between Scarecrow and Ra's Al Ghul in Begins, The Joker and Two-Face in The Dark Knight, and Bane and Talia Al Ghul in Rises. Scarecrow is the only villain to appear in more than one movie (aside from Bruce hallucinating Ra's), showing up in all three.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9ab3da1a	comment	Ra's/Ducard immediately knows Batman is Bruce Wayne because he was his Evil Mentor.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The first half of Begins chronicles Bruce Wayne's transformation from frightened child to badass vigilante over the course of 20 odd years. Jim Gordon goes from being Batman's sidekick in Batman Begins to being a force of his own in The Dark Knight.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Attempted by Crane, on Batman, and done successfully by Joker, on mob accountant Lau. It's horrifying both times.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9cc1a329	comment	The unselfish Bruce Wayne of this universe. Somehow, this doesn't stop him from maintaining the mean front of being an Upper-Class Twit at the same time.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In The Dark Knight, Lucius Fox makes a rather pointless comment about Batman's new costume resisting cat scratches. This was immediately recognized by fans as a broad hint that Catwoman would be appearing in the next movie.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Scarecrow's appearance in the first act of The Dark Knight and his appearance in The Dark Knight Rises. In Dark Knight, Bruce at one point tries to contextualize the Joker using the same lessons Ducard taught him in Batman Begins. Harvey Dent mentions Carmine Falcone's continuing incarceration in Arkham during Sal Maroni's trial. Ra's appears in Rises in a hallucination, and his daughter is the Big Bad. During Rises, Bruce remembers his father saving him from a well as a child along with the phrase, "Why do we fall?". Gordon gets a brief flashback to comforting Bruce as a child and Dent's actions as Two-Face. Also in Rises, we get to see Bruce's makeshift Batcave from Dark Knight in one scene which also includes the gear he used to get Lau out of Hong Kong. Bane and his men steal Tumblers from Wayne Enterprise. Also, in Dark Knight, we see the first Tumbler's blueprint at the same company. When seeing "The Bat", Lucius Fox remarks that "Yes, it does come in black", mirroring a similar question Bruce asked in Begins.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: A sympathetic example. Lucius and Bruce are technically embezzling assets from Wayne Enterprises, and they are discovered by an auditor (technically again), but it is limited to failed experimental gear collecting dust in the archives rather than things which people actually need on a daily basis.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9f970427	comment	Batman reveals his identity to Rachel Dawes. She becomes another Secret-Keeper.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: In Begins, Ducard can always been seen in a tailored suit when on an assignment and Scarecrow always wears a suit along with his mask until he gets a dose of his own fear gas and begins rampaging in his straitjacket; he returns to the suit (and a little regained sanity) in the sequels. Joker in The Dark Knight also qualifies as an extremely warped version. He even lampshades the suit's quality as he mocks the assembled gangsters.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Joker's disappearing pencil trick is inspired by a conversation between Batman and Joker in Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Batman: Gotham Knight, a direct-to-DVD Animesque anthology that bridges the gap between the first two films.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a6cda066	comment	To Bane and Talia al Ghul: James Gordon, John Daggett, Phillip Stryver, Lucius Fox, Peter Foley, Simon Jansen, Dr. Leonid Pavel, Agent Bill Wilson, Catwoman, and... you guessed it.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Averted with Wayne Manor. After being burnt to the ground in Begins, the new mansion is still years away from completion in The Dark Knight, leaving Bruce and Batman to set up in a penthouse at Wayne Tower.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Just like in the comics, Bruce Wayne downplays his intellect and behaves like a stereotypical eccentric billionaire so that no one would suspect he is really Batman. After Bruce puts his Lamborghini in between the big truck and the police SUV, he acts like this to Gordon. Played with in The Dark Knight Rises: John Blake figures out Batman's true identity upon recognizing the persona that Bruce often wears in public, as Blake himself has learnt to do the same to bottle his anger.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Alfred, though his warrior days are past.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Between the second and third films. In Dark Knight, Rachel believed Bruce was incapable of living without Batman. And yet, Rises opens with Bruce having given up the cowl for 8 whole years, making her choice of Harvey over Bruce and her sudden death because of it all the more tragic. Technically Rachel was right, because although Bruce gives up being Batman, he also gives up being Bruce Wayne as well and is content to live in mental torment as a recluse. That, and the fact that at the first major sign of trouble, he suits up again without a second thought. Batman wasn't so much "given up" (indeed, Rises make a point about Bruce's inability to give the identity up), as forced into retirement due to a lack of organized crime in Gotham.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Played straight with Ducard, then subverted. Played straight with The Joker. Later subverted again with Two-Face.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: The Batmobile and the Batpod.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: Discussed and applied to Batman's vigilante actions. The crisis is the mob families' control of Gotham City, and the corruption that prevents the police and the courts from opposing the mob. Bruce Wayne justifies his illegal and unethical acts (snooping, beating up criminals, etc.) by insisting that they're temporary measures to help the police do their jobs—once Gotham is able to protect itself, he'll retire the Batman persona. District Attorney Harvey Dent, initially one of Batman's biggest fans, favorably compares Batman to the first Roman dictators.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_adfd3165	comment	Joker believes all humans are nothing but animals that will eat each other the second society breaks down. But only Harvey Dent gives in to his base desires, with Batman and those on the ferries showing they're not so ugly on the inside as Joker is.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_af5f2180	comment	Bane, and in turn, Talia, know exactly who Batman is because they are Avenging the Villain of the first movie, making them Secret Secret Keepers.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: A recurring theme in the series. Bruce always believes the people of Gotham are inherently good when freed from consequences, and his enemies always think the people are inherently evil. Ra's al Ghul and The League of Shadows believe the entirety of Gotham is corrupt, and it must be destroyed to allow the rest of the world to regain some semblance of balance. Joker believes all humans are nothing but animals that will eat each other the second society breaks down. But only Harvey Dent gives in to his base desires, with Batman and those on the ferries showing they're not so ugly on the inside as Joker is.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b08b714c	type	Good Policing, Evil Policing
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b08b714c	comment	Good Policing, Evil Policing: The Trilogy shows a morally grey approach to moral contrasts regarding police. In the first film, James Gordon is clearly showcased as the only truly clean officer in the Gotham City Police (as he ruefully tells his Dirty Cop partner "I'm no rat! In a town this bent, who's there to rat to anyway?"). In the second film, the efforts of Batman and Gordon have managed to make the city better, but the police is overall still so corrupt that Gordon is forced to have a few crooked cops in his task force in order to have some personnel (which directly leads to the perdition of Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes when one of said crooked cops sells them out to the Joker). For the most part, there may be more heroic cops in the department, but the Joker's unrelenting terror eventually either kills them or makes them bow to the clown. In the final film the efforts of the Gotham City Police has effectively cleaned up the town, but the cops have become complacent and Deputy Commissioner Peter Foley is a Glory Hound who prioritizes a manhunt for Batman over the terrorists who attacked the Gotham Stock Exchange, which leads to Bane advancing his plans. Contrasting everybody, even Gordon (who is still haunted by the decision to put the blame of all of Dent's murders on Batman in order to build the Dent Act, which is what helped with said cleaning up of the city) is Detective Blake, who for all of his conflicting emotions (especially after discovering Gordon's secret) still does his work and tries to save people as Bane turns Gotham into an anarchic hellhole.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b156a790	type	Evil Sounds Raspy
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b156a790	comment	Evil Sounds Raspy: Reversed: Bruce switches to a very hoarse rasp as Batman—probably for some combination of hiding his identity and making him more frightening to bad guys.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The Joker tries to defy this, but it turns into a Double Subversion when he plants bombs on ferries and says both will blow up unless one boat uses a detonator on the other. One boat has convicts, and the other has innocent people. Neither can bring themselves to do it. For extra irony points, it's the convicted murderers, thieves, and rapists who take the moral route and actually discard their detonator.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b55e8979	type	Science Hero
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b55e8979	comment	Science Hero: Nolan's version of Batman relies on his company's cutting-edge technology to create his superhero persona, provide himself with useful gadgets and find criminals. Also applies to the Omnidisciplinary Scientist responsible for creating Batman's gizmos, Lucius Fox.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: Carmine Falcone and his successor Salvatore Maroni are old-school Italian mafiosi who are slowly put out of business both by The Caped Crusader and his psychotic enemies.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: Batman: Gotham Knight is an Animated Anthology film consisting of six-interlocked short episodes that is (theoretically) set between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b6e75430	type	Bald of Authority
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b6e75430	comment	Bald of Authority: Commissioner Loeb, Police Commissioner of Gotham City in the first two movies.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b6f6226	type	Snobby Hobbies
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b6f6226	comment	Snobby Hobbies: Deliberately invoked by Alfred when he advises Bruce Wayne to cultivate such hobbies so that nobody asks questions about what he does with his time and money. Alfred suggests polo. Bruce refuses; but develops a reputation for wild partying, driving expensive cars, and apparently burning down his own house while drunk. Continued in The Dark Knight, where Bruce uses his being a Wealthy Yacht Owner as a cover for going to Hong Kong.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b72ae7	comment	Lucius Fox, the Omnidisciplinary Scientist that provides Batman with his gadgets.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Crane goes from a major antagonist to a One-Scene Wonder between the first, second, and third films. Alfred has very little screen time in The Dark Knight Rises. Though he does at least make the most of what he has, providing his usual insight, wisdom, and poignancy.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: The Batpod, baby, oh yes.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bb8f2da3	type	Cop Killer Manhunt
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bb8f2da3	comment	Cop Killer Manhunt: The Joker is a cop killer in The Dark Knight. He uses the anger this causes among the police force to his advantage. Batman himself becomes the subject of such a manhunt at the end of The Dark Knight, having (willingly) taken the blame for both Harvey Dent's murder and for the cop killings Dent committed as Two-Face. He's still the Gotham PD's most wanted criminal as of The Dark Knight Rises, with Deputy Commissioner Foley immediately leading a citywide chase the instant Batman reappears after his long hiatus from vigilantism.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Bane, as is tradition. However this is actually one of the few times where he's been portrayed as such outside of the comics, or at least emphasized as one.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bbfaa837	comment	Ra's al Ghul delivers a genocidal Knight Templar harangue that leaves Bruce a complete mess in Begins.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bda018c5	type	Money to Burn
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bda018c5	comment	The mob's savings going up in flames.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: While Gotham City is usually considered to be more of a Chicago than a New York, Manhattan is used for many establishing shots in The Dark Knight Rises, including an aerial view with an under-construction One World Trade Center and some digitally inserted bridges on the Hudson River side. Garbage trucks appear to have logos based on New York's garbage trucks. The GCPD takes many visual cues from the NYPD. Police cars in the trilogy are painted blue with a white roof and pillars, based on the paint scheme used by the NYPD in 1990s (the difference being that the NYPD used baby blue, while the GCPD uses Navy blue). In the opening flashbacks to the deaths of Bruce Wayne's parents in Batman Begins, Gordon and other uniformed officers are shown wearing powder blue uniforms, much like were worn by the NYPD from the 1970s up through the mid-1990s. In the present day shots in Batman Begins and in the entirety of the other two movies, GCPD officers wear black uniforms.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_beb9a361	comment	Ra's Al Ghul (Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain)
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Ra's al Ghul delivers a genocidal Knight Templar harangue that leaves Bruce a complete mess in Begins. The Joker's favorite tactic, using nearly every anecdote as an opportunity to get in someone's head. Bane attempts this, but it seems it didn't work as well.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_bfb5f597	comment	Money Is Not Power: One of the themes of the trilogy are villains who aren't motivated by pure greed, but by some greater philosophic, if terrible, goal. In general, money won't get you anywhere with Batman's enemies, any more than it would with Batman himself. In Batman Begins, Falcone says he runs the city with "power you can't buy... the power of fear" and demonstrates how he sees Bruce as some snot-nosed kid who can't handle the ugly side of life. In a twist of irony, Falcone learns that this power can't save him when scarier people start to show up. In The Dark Knight, the Joker burns his cash payment from the mob and then kills the mob boss who paid him. The Dark Knight Rises: Corporate mogul John Daggett gets hit in the face by this trope when Bane stops doing what he's told. Once Bane tanks all law and order in Gotham, the wealthy elites have no protection from the poor mobs or from being given "death or exile" by Judge Scarecrow
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted and lampshaded in The Dark Knight. Batman wasn't threatening to kill Maroni to get his information but to use the situation in a novel way that would actually make this Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. However, Maroni doesn't tell him anything anyway, because he's not going to rat out The Joker for anyone, least of all Batman. "We're on to you," he says. "You've got rules. The Joker has no rules."
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c1e6c92c	type	UnluckyChildhoodFriend
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c1e6c92c	comment	Unlucky Childhood Friend: Rachel Dawes in Begins. Bruce Wayne himself in The Dark Knight.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: A rare example of the protagonist reassuring his colleagues. Batman reminds Catwoman that she is less selfish than she lets on, and tells Gordon that heroes don't need to dress up like giant bats.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c3fc812d	type	Wuxia
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c3fc812d	comment	Wuxia: Albeit a very modern (and western) take on a traditionally Chinese genre of Martial Arts story. Begins in particular is filled with an extended Training Montage in Asia, Quickly-Demoted Leader, mystical initiations and philosophical introspection. The whole series, American setting notwithstanding, asks the classic Wuxia question; "What does it mean to be a Martial Artist?" and "What is a Warrior's duty to society?"
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c671163e	type	Film Adaptation (Live-Action)
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c671163e	comment	Film Adaptation (Live-Action): An adaptation of the Batman comics, starting with an Origin Story and ending with the implication of Passing the Torch to a new Batman.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c6898a73	type	Ret-Canon
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c6898a73	comment	Ret-Canon: When Dick Grayson became Batman during Batman (Grant Morrison), he and Daiman Wayne was Robin used glider capes similar to the ones Bruce used here. This was also employed on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the Batman: Arkham Series, Young Justice (2010), and Beware the Batman. Starting with New 52: Commissioner Gordon starting retaining red hair, even into the present day. Zsasz's look matched the one he sported in Batman Begins. Bane's look, already an example of this, given it was based on his costume in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, was modified to give him a similar vest and cargo pants to what he wore in The Dark Knight Rises. Detective Comics saw The Tumbler ported over. Elements of Heath Ledger's Joker were incorporated into the comics, most notably the scars. There may have been an abortive attempt to make him closer still, with someone drawing a line at killing Harley.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Gary Oldman's whole look in the films is a Shout-Out to Frank Miller's Batman: Year One. The series also contains shout-outs to The Long Halloween like he rooftop scene where Dent, Gordon, and Batman meet to discuss the mob problem, especially Batman's Stealth Hi/Bye. The color tones for the movie posters are all based on Batman's color palette in the comics: Batman Begins used a sepia tone (his belt and occasionally chest logo) The Dark Knight used blue (occasionally his cape, cowl, boots and gloves) The Dark Knight Rises used grey (his body glove)
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: The unselfish Bruce Wayne of this universe. Somehow, this doesn't stop him from maintaining the mean front of being an Upper-Class Twit at the same time. Harvey Dent at first seems to be this, as everyone in Gotham seems to view him as a living saint. Ends up a subversion by the end of the film.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: The Joker, Jim Gordon, and Bane. Bruce also sports one in Begins.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d3f8ad06	comment	Close on Title: All three films end by showing their title.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Played with. Ra's al Ghul is played by Liam Neeson, though his group is fairly multi-cultural. The Joker and his group are all Americans from Gotham. Finally, Bane is played by Tom Hardy, though like Ra's he has an organization consisting of mercenaries from all over the world.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Commissioner Loeb goes from being a Caucasian man to being an African-American. Bane was originally of mixed Hispanic and English heritage (the former part being more obvious). Tom Hardy portrays Bane as white and English in The Dark Knight Rises, but isn't mentioned to identify with any race. Ra's al Ghul looks Arab in the comics while he is Japanese in Batman Begins. It turns out the real Ra's is played by Liam Neeson, who is Irish. His daughter is played by French actress Marion Cotillard.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dad134b4	type	Exiled from Continuity
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dad134b4	comment	Exiled from Continuity: Word of God states that there are no other DC superheroes existing in this universe. In fact, there may not even be any comic books in this universe
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The Batcave. In the first movie, it's an underground cave network originally re-purposed by Bruce's ancestors for use in the Underground Railroad. In the second film, the Batcave is one big concrete room underneath an empty Wayne Enterprises lot with the Tumbler, an incinerator, some computer monitors and a massive collection of secondary equipment that pops out as needed from the floor and the walls. In something of a Shout-Out to the Neil Adams-era Batman comics, Bruce's Wayne Tower penthouse also sports secret passages leading to spare costumes and equipment. In the third film, the Batcave has been expanded into an even more elaborate underground base that combines the giant cave of the first film with the simple geometric designs of the second.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dba4ae4f	comment	It applies Arc Welding to mix disparate parts of Batman's Rogues Gallery for better Adaptation Distillation. Ra's Al Ghul was unconnected to both Scarecrow and Bane in the early stories, and he likewise had no involvement with Batman's training. But here he is provided that function to better explain and connect Batman's McNinja training, Scarecrow's fear gas, and Bane is likewise one of his students, until he was, as Bruce puts it, "thrown out by a gang of psychopaths".
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Gordon in both films. Also Commissioner Loeb, Mayor Garcia, and Harvey Dent before he loses it.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Ra's Al Ghul's wife.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_df0fdac4	type	Clueless Boss
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_df0fdac4	comment	Clueless Boss: Bruce is perceived to be this after he takes over Wayne Industries, in part because of himself playing up the rich idiot stereotype, and in part because his nights as Batman lead to things like him falling asleep in meetings. It becomes the truth when he becomes a recluse during the time skip in between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, as by the start of the third film the company is rapidly falling apart and Bruce has no idea that it's happening.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e0113647	type	Decon-Recon Switch
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e0113647	comment	Deconstructed in the second movie, when an accountant realizes millions of dollars of equipment have disappeared, including an experimental car that looks exactly like the Batmobile. Then reconstructed when he tries Blackmailing Lucius Fox using the information, only to realize how stupid trying to commit a crime against a billionaire vigilante who beats up criminals with his fists really is. He almost reveals who the Batman is on national television instead, but then stops trying altogether after the Joker tries to have him killed for it.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e20c15ee	type	Dramatic High Perching
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e20c15ee	comment	Dramatic High Perching: At least once each film, Batman observes the city like this. Combines with Cue the Sun across the films: Batman Begins is at night, The Dark Knight is at dawn, and The Dark Knight Rises is in morning twilight.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e276cd	type	The Cowl
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e276cd	comment	Harvey Dent (The Cowl and The Cape, later The Cowl and Vigilante Man)
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Twice (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises), both times involving explosives with the Big Bad holing up most of the city's police department, civilians, and inmates of nearby prison out of the way so that the entire area will be driven to chaos. The former was Arkham, the latter was the entire city.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: The movies' Flass resembled the dark-haired, unshaven, overweight Harvey Bullock more than the comics version of Flass, who was blonde, clean-shaven, and muscular, though movie Flass did retain his comic counterpart's corruption. Likewise, the movies' Loeb only shares the name of the comics' character, resembling Michael Akins in both looks and personality (African-American, young, and honest) more than the comics' Loeb (Caucasian, old, and extremely corrupt). Henri Ducard has become an alias for Ra's al Ghul in this continuity. John Blake in Rises is a composite of the first three Robins, having Jason Todd's back story, deducing Batman's true identity like Tim Drake, and like Dick Grayson has a brief stint as a police officer and in the end takes up the mantle of Gotham's protector. Talia al Ghul combines elements of comic's Talia and her sister Nyssa Raatko, along with a bit of Bane's comic backstory.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: The trilogy takes apart and then puts back together many of the unrealistic and potentially negative elements of the Batman mythos while staying true to the character’s identity as the quintessential Cowl. For example, the second movie is the darkest Batman movie since Batman Returns, but it is placed right on the Idealist side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism. "What are you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone is as ugly as you? You're ALONE!"
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: The League of Shadows is multiracial in Begins. Sal Maroni also employs gangsters of any nationality in The Dark Knight. It's Truth in Television for Maroni: It's possible for anyone to work for the "mafia" (they don't actually call themselves that) and become quite influential. The limitation is that only Italians (or half Italians) can become Made Men.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_eb2195d9	comment	Bruce always believes the people of Gotham are inherently good when freed from consequences, and his enemies always think the people are inherently evil.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Bruce Wayne combines invoking the Jerkass with Obfuscating Stupidity to protect his Batman identity.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Happens at least once per movie. Bruce saving Ducard, Batman saving Harvey, and Bane saving young Talia. The "rewards" for the above good deeds, respectively are Ducard coming back and revealing he is Ra's al Ghul, and then burning down Bruce's home and trying to destroy Gotham, Harvey's botched rescue burns off half his face, which combined with the loss of Rachel Dawes, his Love Interest, drives him into insanity and villainy as Two-Face, and Bane is heavily beaten by the other prisoners of the Pit, forcing him to don his mask to feed himself anesthetic to dull his pain from the injuries.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Subverted in Dark Knight, as the Joker has no real Evil Plan, just the thesis that all Humans Are Bastards, and lots of increasingly complicated "experiments" to prove his point.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f4158af7	type	Everybody Owns a Ford
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f4158af7	comment	Everybody Owns a Ford: The GCPD fleet that we do see, at least as far as patrol cars are concerned, is made primarily of Ford Crown Victorias, plus some Ford Excursion and Ford Explorer SUVs. There's no indication the GCPD owns any non-Ford patrol vehicles.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Bruce Wayne has bad luck when it comes to his homes. The League of Shadows burn Wayne Manor to the ground in the first film, the Joker and his henchmen invade his penthouse in the second, and in the third Bane steals all Batman's equipment inside Wayne Enterprises R&D. Wayne Manor, though, survives the third one.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: If Gotham truly was beyond saving as Ra's al Ghul believed, would Bruce Wayne even be trying to save it from the machinations of the League of Shadows?
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_f9876f7e	comment	There is a funeral in every movie. First Bruce's parents, then Commissioner Loeb's and finally, Bruce Wayne's own funeral, though he is Faking the Dead.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fb7cc1ff	type	Master of the Mixed Message
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fb7cc1ff	comment	Master of the Mixed Message: Rachel Dawes. She'll talk about how she admired Bruce when he was young and then rebuke him, or give Bruce a gift of a childhood memory and then rebuke him, or kiss him and then rebuke him.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: The wording on the sides of police cars in the movies reads "GPD POLICE", or "Gotham Police Department Police".
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: Microwaves do not work that way! And neither do cell phones! Or fusion reactors!! Or sonar for that matter!
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fd4f8299	comment	Ra's al Ghul and The League of Shadows believe the entirety of Gotham is corrupt, and it must be destroyed to allow the rest of the world to regain some semblance of balance.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Who became acting DA between Carl Finch's assassination in Batman Begins and the election of Harvey Dent prior to the events of The Dark Knight? Rachel Dawes (as mentioned by the Batman Begins novelization), or Roger Garcetti (as mentioned by Gotham Tonight)?
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The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: The Joker in The Dark Knight. Cillian Murphy also starts chewing scenery after being poisoned by his own fear toxin. Bane isn't afraid to chew the scenery, either.
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The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Evil Is Not a Toy / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Evil Sounds Deep / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Evil Sounds Raspy / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Eviler than Thou / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Ex-Big Bad / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Exactly What I Aimed At / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Exalted Torturer / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Faceless Goons / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Failure-to-Save Murder / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Fake Nationality / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	False Soulmate / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Fandom Heresy / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Females Are More Innocent / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Fighter, Mage, Thief / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Film Adaptation (Live-Action) / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Film Noir Index / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Films Noirs Index / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Films of the 2010s â€“ Franchises / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Flaming Emblem / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Flight Is the Final Power / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Forced Friendly Fire / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Freak Out / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Friend to All Children / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Game-Breaking Injury / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Gangster Fiction / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Godzilla Threshold / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Good Policing, Evil Policing / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Good Scars, Evil Scars / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Gothic Punk / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Graceful Loser / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Gun Twirling / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Ham-to-Ham Combat / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Holding Out for a Hero / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Hope Bringer / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	I Own This Town / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	I Will Wait for You / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Iconic Sequel Character / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Iconic Sequel Outfit / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Implied Trope / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Improbable Age / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Incompletely Trained / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Inspector Lestrade / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Interim Villain / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Irisless Eye Mask of Mystery / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Ironic Fear / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Istanbul (Not Constantinople) / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	It Is Beyond Saving / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Just One Man / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Killer Finale / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Kinder and Cleaner / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Knight in Sour Armor / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Layered Metropolis / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Legacy Character / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Legacy Immortality / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Lost in a Crowd / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Loving a Shadow / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Man of a Thousand Faces / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Marquee Alter Ego / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Master of the Mixed Message / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	McNinja / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Merchandise-Driven / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Misery Builds Character / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Moment of Silence / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Money Is Not Power / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Motivational Lie / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Movie Superheroes Wear Black / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Near-Villain Victory / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Neck Snap / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Not Afraid to Die / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Not-So-Harmless Villain / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Not Wearing Tights / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Off-the-Shelf FX / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us! / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Old Guard Versus New Blood / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Omnidisciplinary Scientist / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Once per Episode / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	One True Love / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Plot Leveling / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Practical Effects / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Precocious Crush / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Psycho for Hire / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Psychological Horror / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Put on a Bus / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Radial Ass Kicking / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Real Trailer, Fake Movie / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Rebuilt Set / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Restart the World / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Revisiting the Roots / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Revolvers Are for Amateurs / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Rule of Scary / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	SWAT Team / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Save the Day, Turn Away / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Secret Identity / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Secret Identity Apathy / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Secret-Identity Identity / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Secret Identity Vocal Shift / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Secret Secret-Keeper / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Sequel Logo in Ruins / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Slobs Versus Snobs / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Snark-to-Snark Combat / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Soft Glass / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Evil / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Spanner in the Works / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Status Quo Is God / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Stealing from the Till / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Superhero Movie Villains Die / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Superhero Paradox / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Taught by Experience / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	The Armorer / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	The Epic / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	The Glasses Come Off / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	The Mob Boss Is Scarier / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	The Paragon / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	The Smart Guy / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	The World Is Not Ready / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Thematic Sequel Logo Change / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Theme Music Power-Up / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Thememobile / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Think Nothing of It / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	This Cannot Be! / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Thriller / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Throwing Off the Disability / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Throwing the Distraction / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Time-Passage Beard / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	To Create a Playground for Evil / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Tongue Trauma / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Triple Shifter / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Trojan Prisoner / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Ukefication / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Underestimating Badassery / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Unique Protagonist Asset / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Unpopular Popular Character / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Victory Is Boring / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Viler New Villain / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Villain on Leave / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Villainous Face Hold / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Villainous Friendship / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Villains Never Lie / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Viral Marketing / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Virtue Is Weakness / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Visionary Villain / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Watching Troy Burn / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	What the Hell Are You? / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Where's the Kaboom? / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	World of Snark / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	You Are Too Late / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	You Cannot Kill an Idea / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_62f94c6
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62f94c6

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