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* [[Ax Crazy]]: The Joker is the living embodiment of this trope.
* [[Badass]]: Aside from the obvious, special mention goes to Harvey Dent, {{spoiler|pre-Two Face}}. A witness pulls a gun on him from the witness stand, and without missing a beat, Dent disarms him, decks him and recommends he buy his weapons American next time he wants to assassinate the DA.
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: Discussed. Even with Jim Gordon in charge, the Major Crimes Unit (in a nice [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Gotham Central]]'') is still made up of mostly corrupt cops. But when Harvey Dent calls the lieutenant on this, Gordon points out that if he refused to work with such cops, he'd be working alone. This eventually comes back to haunt both of them, as {{spoiler|Wuertz and Ramirez turn out to both be on Maroni's payroll and eventually kidnap Harvey and Rachel}}.▼
* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]: One of Gotham's major gangsters is seen playing pool before {{spoiler|[[Evil Versus Evil|Joker comes in and murders him]].}}▼
* [[Badass Bystander]]: The Bank manager in the opening gives us the page image. Despite being a Mob banker there are many people who enjoy his reactions far too much.
* [[Bad Boss]]: C'mon, now. It's the ''Joker''.
▲* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: Discussed. Even with Jim Gordon in charge, the Major Crimes Unit (in a nice [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Gotham Central]]'') is still made up of mostly corrupt cops. But when Harvey Dent calls the lieutenant on this, Gordon points out that if he refused to work with such cops, he'd be working alone. This eventually comes back to haunt both of them, as {{spoiler|Wuertz and Ramirez turn out to both be on Maroni's payroll and eventually kidnap Harvey and Rachel}}.
▲* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]: One of Gotham's major gangsters is seen playing pool before {{spoiler|[[Evil Versus Evil|Joker comes in and murders him]].}}
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Ginty, the Good Prisoner}} in the ferry boat scene.
* [[Ballroom Blitz]]: The Joker breaks into Bruce's cocktail party.
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* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: The Joker offers to work as [[The Dragon]] for the mob to take out Batman, but he really wants to use their money to bring chaos to the streets and become Batman's archenemy. He doesn't think highly of the mob and believes the city deserves a better class of criminal... so he takes over. [[Complete Monster|In a decidedly hostile way]].
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Dent {{spoiler|believes that the police and Batman decided to save him instead of Rachel, when in reality, the Joker set it up such that they'd be saving the person they hadn't intended to save}}. Also counts because you already know what's bound to happen to Harvey: When Bruce talks about him at the fundraiser, he says, "Look at that face. [[Analogy Backfire|That's the face of Gotham's future.]]"
* [[The Dreaded]]: [[The Joker]] is feared by ''EVERYONE''.▼
* [[Drinking on Duty]]: This is how {{spoiler|Commissioner Loeb dies, via his alcohol being spiked with poison.}}
* [[Empty Promise]]: Harvey Dent makes one to Rachel.
* [[Eucatastrophe]]: The only thing that kept [[The Joker]] from winning is that Batman makes the decision to take the heat for the murders Harvey committed thus preserving his image (and Gotham's stability.)▼
** And Batman's [[Chekhov's Gun|projectile scallops.]]▼
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Or grandmamas, in Gambol's case.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: {{spoiler|Dent}} threatens to kill Maroni's wife as revenge.▼
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Maroni tells Gordon where to find the Joker because he feels {{spoiler|killing Rachel}} was "too much".
** A careful look at Maroni's behavior suggests he never really approved of the Joker or his methods. He seems surprised and slightly alarmed to hear his associates hired the clown because "we haff to fix reel problem- Bat-muhn". Maroni wants to turn things back to the way they were before, the mob had all the power and authority. He has no interest in the Joker's blatant anarchy, which explains why he turns on the Joker as soon as they retrieve the money (ironically, Maroni does exactly what The Joker predicts will happen to Batman: "They need you right now... but when they don't? They'll cast you out. Like a leper.")
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{{quote|'''Banker''': Criminals in this town used to believe in things; honour, respect. Look at [[The Joker|you]], what do you believe in?}}
** The Joker mockingly uses this on Batman, about how he let him kill people. "Even for a guy like me, that's cold."
▲* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: {{spoiler|Dent}} threatens to kill Maroni's wife as revenge.
* [[Every Scar Has a Story]]: The Joker takes this quite literally, as he tells multiple differing accounts about how he got his.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: And that is why {{spoiler|the Joker's "social experiment" fails.}}
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* [[Eye Scream]]: ''"How about a magic trick? I'm going to make this pencil disappear."''
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Harvey Dent --> Two-Face.}}
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: The Joker has long thrived on being this, but the fact that he is still funny despite the sheer number of vile acts he commits here may set a new standard for the trope.▼
* [[Faking the Dead]]:
** Gordon's apparent demise.
** Then at the end, Batman pulls this when {{spoiler|Dent shoots him. He waits until Gordon's son is about to get shot, and then tackles him.}}
* [[Fallen Hero]]: Harvey Dent.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Specifically, the brutal subversion of the [[Final Speech]]. ''The Dark Knight'' is rated PG-13, probably because Nolan puts the killing blows off-screen. There's also [[Bloodless Carnage|surprisingly little blood]] in the film. Nevertheless, the amount of sheer menace the movie manages to wring out of its rating makes it arguably more terrifying than many R-rated [[Gorn]]-fests.▼
* [[False Reassurance]]: {{spoiler|Two-Face confronts someone who wronged him looking for information. When asked whether providing that information will save him, Two-Face says it couldn't hurt his chances. This suggests a more merciful outcome, until it turns out his survival is based on a coin toss. Combined with [[Exact Words]], Two-Face says it couldn't hurt HIS chances, not the driver's.}}
* [[False Roulette]]: Harvey Dent interrogates one of the Joker's henchmen this way. {{spoiler|The revolver is fully loaded, but he's using a two-headed coin, so there's no risk. Not that the henchman or Batman know this.}} When Batman arrives on the scene, he's quick to call [[What the Hell, Hero?]]
{{quote|'''Batman''': You'd leave a man's life to ''chance''?
'''Harvey''': Not exactly. }}
▲* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Specifically, the brutal subversion of the [[Final Speech]]. ''The Dark Knight'' is rated PG-13, probably because Nolan puts the killing blows off-screen. There's also [[Bloodless Carnage|surprisingly little blood]] in the film. Nevertheless, the amount of sheer menace the movie manages to wring out of its rating makes it arguably more terrifying than many R-rated [[Gorn]]-fests.
* [[Fast Roping]]: The Gotham SWAT team employs this trope to raid the Joker's HQ. Batman comes by later and when he realizes that {{spoiler|the hostages and captors have switched clothes,}} he uses the same rappel lines they used to to tie them up and knock them out.
▲* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: The Joker has long thrived on being this, but the fact that he is still funny despite the sheer number of vile acts he commits here may set a new standard for the trope.
* [[Fiction 500]]: Bruce Wayne (or his father) would definitely be somewhere near the top.
* [[Final Speech]]: Brutally subverted with {{spoiler|Rachel}}, who is [[Killed Mid-Sentence]].
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* [[Foil]]: In this version, {{spoiler|Two-Face}} is envisioned as one for Batman. {{spoiler|Since he's killed off before he can become a fixture in Batman's [[Rogues Gallery]], his main role is that of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|an embittered man who abandons a position of wealth and power to become a vigilante after he's traumatized by the murder of a loved one.]] But unlike Batman, he has no qualms about killing, he openly believes in vengeance, and he has none of Batman's self-discipline or sense of responsibility (which is why he uses a coin toss to avoid having to make hard decisions)}}.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|Detective Ramirez admits early in the film that her mother is checking into the hospital.}}
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* [[For the Evulz]]: The Joker's motive. A rare straight example that works.
** Possibly the Scarecrow, who deals intentionally-poisoned drugs.
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* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Bruce Wayne after {{spoiler|Rachel's death}}.
* [[Hellish Copter]]: A police chopper participating in an [[Escort Mission]] {{spoiler|Gets clotheslined by the Joker's [[Mooks]] using harpoon launchers and highrises.}}
* [[Hero Insurance]]: Batman doesn't have it, but Gordon does: {{spoiler|The chase sequence results in a very high bodycount among the police escorts (see [[Hellish Copter]] for instance), but they do arrest the Joker at the end of it, so Gordon gets promoted to commisioner. And he isn't even demoted back once it turns out the Joker planned to get arrested and breaks out.}}▼
* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: {{spoiler|Batman himself}} at the end of the movie.▼
* [[Heroic Wannabe]]: A gang of doughy vigilantes with bat-costumes and guns. {{spoiler|One ends up being a victim of The Joker}}.
* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]
{{quote|'''Joker''': (after Rachel [[Groin Attack|kicks]] him) [[You Got Spunk|A little fight in you. I like that]].
'''Batman''': (just off-screen) Then you're gonna love me. *PUNCH* }}
▲* [[Hero Insurance]]: Batman doesn't have it, but Gordon does: {{spoiler|The chase sequence results in a very high bodycount among the police escorts (see [[Hellish Copter]] for instance), but they do arrest the Joker at the end of it, so Gordon gets promoted to commisioner. And he isn't even demoted back once it turns out the Joker planned to get arrested and breaks out.}}
▲* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: {{spoiler|Batman himself}} at the end of the movie.
* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] and [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''The Dark Knight''. Batman wasn't threatening to kill Maroni to get his information but looking to use the situation in a novel way that would actually make this [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]].
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|[[The Joker]] feeds the Chechen gangster to [[Right-Hand Attack Dog|his own dogs]]. Fortunately, this happens offscreen.}}
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* [[Morally-Bankrupt Banker]]: The mob banker in the second film.
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: In a nod to the comics (especially ''[[The Killing Joke]]''), the Joker gives several tragic backstories about himself. "Wanna know how I got these scars?"
* [[My Card]]: The Joker. (It's... [[Captain Obvious|a joker card]].)
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Joker's method of driving Two-Face to madness was very similar to a storyarc in ''Gotham Knights'' where Two-Face was getting close to being rehabilitated, but then Joker drives him insane again by implying that Bruce Wayne and Grace Lamont were having an affair.
** Batman facing the Joker at the very top of a high building has a noticable similarlity to the final showdown in the 1989 Tim Burton movie. Joker actually falling to his [[Disney Villain Death]] probably would have sealed the deal.
** In the first courtroom scene, one of Maroni's goons pulls a gun on Harvey while he's on the stand, but Harvey nonchalantly punches the goon out before he can pull the trigger. This is a nod to Two-Face's origin in the comics, where his facial scars were the result of a mob flunky trying to kill him in the middle of a trial.
** In one scene, a teenage criminal laughs at his friend for being too afraid of Batman to go out at night, skeptically asking "What are you, ''superstitious''?" This is, a nod to Batman's famous declaration that "Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot..."
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▲* [[Eucatastrophe]]: The only thing that kept [[The Joker]] from winning is that Batman makes the decision to take the heat for the murders Harvey committed thus preserving his image (and Gotham's stability.)
▲** And Batman's [[Chekhov's Gun|projectile scallops.]]
* [[Never Be a Hero]]: Subverted. The "Batman dopplegangers" were fighting with the intent to kill, so [[Technical Pacifist|Batman]] had every reason to be upset. Also, they lacked the training and equipment that Batman had, meaning it was only a matter of time before they got killed. {{spoiler|Which one of them did.}}
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailer and pre-release material present the Bat-Pod as if it's just Batman's new toy. The truth is, however, more sobering. {{spoiler|It's the Batmobile's ejection system, and the only reason Batman is using it is because the Batmobile was destroyed.}}
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** If you watch the movie with the subtitles on, you can see that he said, "as long as you keep your politics out of my office".
* [[Not So Harmless]]: The Joker. Though aware of his crimes, at first Batman and the authorities just see him as "one man," and focus on bringing down the mobsters. The mobsters, for their part, regard him as a "nobody" as well...
* [[Ominous Walk]]: Subverted: The Joker starts one of these after Batman loses at chicken, then starts to jauntily skip after a few seconds.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The Joker
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Chechen LITERALLY pets his dogs, early in the movie, while calling them his "little princes." {{spoiler|This makes it all the more disturbing when, later in the movie, Joker threatens to cut Chechen up, and feed him to those dogs, [[Disproportionate Retribution|for calling him a freak]].}}
* [[Phony Newscast]]: There are newscasts during the film reporting on the Joker and the Batman; in the DVD extras you're treated to 4 fake in-depth newscasts about Gotham.
* [[Physical Scars, Psychological Scars]]: The Joker subverts this since his different stories about how he got his physical "scars" (which are apparently supposed to be a metaphor for his mental scars) contradict each other, implying in turn that he's probably not being truthful about his mental scars either. Harvey Dent, however, plays it straight because his face was burned in the same incident that {{spoiler|killed his girlfriend, Rachel Dawes}}.▼
* [[Pineapple Surprise]]: What The Joker threatens to do to escape a room full of mobsters.
▲* [[Physical Scars, Psychological Scars]]: The Joker subverts this since his different stories about how he got his physical "scars" (which are apparently supposed to be a metaphor for his mental scars) contradict each other, implying in turn that he's probably not being truthful about his mental scars either. Harvey Dent, however, plays it straight because his face was burned in the same incident that {{spoiler|killed his girlfriend, Rachel Dawes}}.
* [[Plot Immunity]]: {{spoiler|Jim Gordon and his fake death scheme.}}
* [[Protagonist Journey to Villain]]: Harvey Dent's fall from grace.▼
* [[Poser Hating]]: Batman does ''not'' find imitation flattering. Especially if his imitators are dressing like him but ready to use lethal force.
* [[The Power of Legacy]]: At the end of the film, after Harvey Dent's {{spoiler|death, Batman tells Gordon to tell the police force that it was Batman, not Harvey, who was responsible for Harvey's murders, so that Harvey does not lose his white knight reputation.}} ''The Joker must not win.''
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'''Batman:''' No, but I know how you got ''these''! ''(launches his spring loaded scallops at Joker's face)'' }}
* [[Product Placement]]: A lot. One notable case is Bruce Wayne's driving a Lamborghini Murcielago. Also a [[Bilingual Bonus]] [[Stealth Pun]]: ''murciélago'' is Spanish for ''bat''.
▲* [[Protagonist Journey to Villain]]: Harvey Dent's fall from grace.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: The Joker, with the emphasis on "psycho," since he doesn't really stay in the employ of the mob for long. He's definitely in it for the psycho part, though.
{{quote|'''Joker''': If you're good at something, never do it for free.}}
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'''Bruce''': How?
'''[[Determinator|Alfred]]''': [[Kill It with Fire|We burned the forest down]]. }}
* [[Right Behind Me]]: "Don't tell me it's Wayne. The guy's a complete [[Curse Cut Short|f--]]"▼
* [[Right-Hand Attack Dog]]: The Chechen owns a pack of them. {{spoiler|After [[The Joker]] apparently [[Hoist by His Own Petard|feeds The Chechen to his own dogs]], he adopts the pooches and uses them against Batman in the final showdown}}.
▲* [[Right Behind Me]]: "Don't tell me it's Wayne. The guy's a complete [[Curse Cut Short|f--]]"
* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: See The movie's a little too complicated to be summed as "People are really nice," but generally speaking, yep, you heard me right. ''Not all people are bastards''. In a [[Darker and Edgier]] ''Batman movie''.
* [[Rule of Three]]: The Joker's third "scar story" is subverted by Batman.
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** "''My dogs are hungry! [[Costume Copycat|Pity there is only one of you...]]''"
* [[Terrorist Without a Cause]]:[[The Joker]] in ''The Dark Knight'' is about as pure of an example as you can find.
▲* [[The Dreaded]]: [[The Joker]] is feared by ''EVERYONE''.
* [[Think Nothing of It]]: After {{spoiler|Batman saves Gordon's son}}
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' Thank you.
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* [[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.]
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