The Dark Knight Saga: Difference between revisions

== The Dark Knight Rises ==

* [[Badass Boast]]:

{{quote|'''Bane''': I'm Gotham's reckoning.}}

* [[Bald of Evil]]: Bane.

* [[Be All My Sins Remembered]]: A leaked photograph, regarding a mention of Harvey Dent, reveals that Bane ends up exposing Dent's crimes to the public after eight years of secrecy.

* [[The Cameo]] / [[As Himself]]: Pittsburgh Steelers player Hines Ward cameos as himself, playing for the "Gotham Rogues". He outruns the imploding football field and drops the football in shock. McFarlane toys even made a special action figure of him in the Gotham Rogues uniform.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: [[Word of God|Tom Hardy]] described Bane's fighting style as this, less about a fair fight and more about caving your ribs in and crushing your skull.

* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Catwoman [http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/WmsPX5r22bY.9fEYu55RZg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/theprojector/250_catwomanbatman_092611.jpg apparently] [http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Dpg4m23n0BmRx9SOTC1.4A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/theprojector/250_catwomanalone_092611.jpg wears them.]

** The trailer shows her fighting in regular boots, but that could just be movie magic editing, since staging actual fight scenes with high heels is kind of...impossible. They did the same thing with Silk Spectre in [[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]].

** And then this [http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=90729 poster] pops up.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Bane is every bit as formidable a fighter as in the comics, but his ostentatious luchadore gimmicky mask has been completely discarded, in favour of a rather intimidating looking breathing apparatus.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Bane, in another villainous example. Even in his first scene he's snarking about how the CIA's pretend [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] is obviously fake, as it would be both illogical and dangerous to bother shooting a prisoner before you throw them out of a plane.

* [[Death Faked for You]]: Bane fakes the death of his associate Dr. Pavel by taking a blood transfusion and injecting it into a corpse that's about to be mangled beyond recognition in a plane crash. It's also strongly implied that he plans to do far worse to Pavel once he gets him out of there.

* [[The Dreaded]]: The trailers seem to indicate Bane is this; as even Catwoman states her fear of Bane.

* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: At one point in the film, Bane collapses most of a football field in the middle of a game. A single player makes it to safety in the endzone, then looks back on the gaping hole in the ground, dropping the ball in shock.

* [[Evil Brit]]: How Bane has been reimagined.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Bane.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]].

{{quote|'''Batman:''' Why didn't you just...kill me?

'''Bane:''' Your punishment must be more ''severe''.}}

* [[Flying Car]]: The Bat, à la the Batmobile from ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' or the more standard [[Cool Plane|Batwing]].

** [[Defied Trope|Defied]] in the third trailer:

{{quote|'''Catwoman:''' My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.

'''Batman:''' This isn't a car.}}

* [[Forced to Watch]]: Judging from Bane's dialogue in the trailers, it seems he wants Batman to see Gotham burn before he kills him.

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Bane asserts, "Nobody cared who I was until I put on the mask."

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Bane, if the prologue and trailers are anything to go by. This is accurate to the comics, and a marked contrast to most adaptations which portray him as [[Dumb Muscle]]. See [[Never Live It Down/Comic Books|the relevant page]] for more.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Bane has been re-imagined as one of these. After receiving a bad injury in his backstory, he gets through the pain by wearing a mask that constantly supplies him with anesthetic gas.

* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: To gain information on Bane, a CIA operative interrogates his mooks by threatening to throw them out the open door of a plane in mid-flight.

* [[Informed Attribute]]: The CIA operative notes in the intro that Bane is "a big guy". The film otherwise makes little effort to hide that Tom Hardy is actually a cm shorter shorter than the American average of 175.9 cm and noticeably shorter than Christian Bale.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: He pretty much exposits his plan to his enemies while captured. Justified, as he knew they wouldn't be able to live to talk about it, anyways.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Bane gets his within the first six minutes of the film.

* [[Masquerade Ball]]: One's going on in the theatrical trailer, with Bruce Wayne, Miranda Tate, and Selina Kyle in attendance.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: A stock broker at one point asks Bane the same question Carmine Falcone asked Batman almost a decade earlier.

{{quote|'''Broker:''' What are you?

'''Bane:''' I'm [[Shadow Archetype|Gotham's reckoning]].}}

* [[Mythology Gag]]: The "R" in the cheer sign (0:12 in the trailer) is the logo of Red Robin.

* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Averted. After the first Tumbler was destroyed in the previous film, a number of replacements have been built. Unfortunately, Bane has at least some of them.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: "Deshi Basara", Bane's thematic chant (although it's not Latin, but Moroccan Arabic meaning "He Rises").

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Catwoman.

{{quote|'''Bruce:''' (during the ball) It's a brazen costume for a cat burglar.

'''Selina:''' Yeah? Who are *you* pretending to be? }}

* [[Prisons Are Gymnasiums]]: Seems we'll get a heroic example with {{spoiler|Bruce Wayne doing push-ups to get back in Batman shape while imprisoned.}}

* [[Race Lift]]: Bane was half-Hispanic, half-Anglo-Brit in the comics, being the son of the English B-list Robin villain King Snake and an unnamed woman he had a brief affair with. In the film, he is played by the full Anglo-Brit [[Tom Hardy]], though his accent is harder to place.

* [[Engineer Exploited For Evil]]: Going by how Dr. Pavel reacted when Bane got him out of the plane, it's likely that he willingly defected to the Bane's enemies' side and did not want to return to him.

* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: Even though writing and production took place well in advance of the headlines in question, a very common reaction to the release of the second trailer is that Bane and Catwoman sound like they're organising the Occupy Gotham movement. Nolan even thought about filming footage of the Occupy protests for ''Rises'', but ending up not doing so.

* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: Said by Selina Kyle/Catwoman to Bruce Wayne/Batman at the [[Masquerade Ball]].

* [[Tagline]]: ''The Fire Rises'' and ''The Legend Ends''.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: According to the trailer, Gotham's mayor plans to fire Gordon, simply because a decorated hero cop who made his name fighting crazed supervillains isn't necessary in the now-peaceful climate. Yeah, they're going to feel ''very'' stupid by movie's end.

* [[Time Skip]]: Takes place eight years after the previous film, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120119212654/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/121/1213032p1.html according to] [[Word of God]].

* [[Trojan Prisoner]]: Apparently, Bane allowed himself to be captured so his soldiers could then take over the plane and cause it to crash as part of his plan to bust out Dr. Pavel.

* [[Tuckerization]]: At the football game, the visiting team's quarterback bears the name Ravenstahl, after current Mayor of [[Pittsburgh]] Luke Ravenstahl. The majority of filming for ''Rises'' was done in Pittsburgh.

** The surviving home player in the end zone is real life Steelers player Hines Ward who was one of many current and former Steelers players involved in the filming. Steelers coach, Bill Cowher, even makes an appearance as the Gotham Rogues' team coach.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Bane's underlings appear fanatically loyal to him. For instance, when he tells one of his mooks to remain on a crashing plane in order to fool the authorities<ref>who are expecting to also find the body of a prisoner in the wreckage</ref>, the mook simply nods happily... and asks an ominous question.

{{quote|'''Mook''': ''Have we started the fire?''

'''Bane''': ''The fire rises.''}}