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** Batman does not kill, and goes to great lengths to do so. Bruce Wayne, however, is clearly shown fighting and killing several members of the League of Shadows in self-defense. Along with their several shackled prisoners. In fact, there's no real indication he was hesitant to kill before he became Batman, just to kill ''innocents''.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The decline in Crane's role between films is an example of this, from key ensemble component to [[One-Scene Wonder]].
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** Ra's al Ghul's {{spoiler|immortality is a simple succession trick. Whenever the apparent Ra's dies, another similar-looking man takes his place and claims to be the original Ra's. This is made easier by the fact that the apparent Ra's is actually just a stand-in for the real leader (e.g. Henri Ducard) who pretends to be a subordinate. All of this is a big change from the comics, where Ra's achieved immortality by supernatural means.}}
** According to [[Word of God]], Bane's mask supplies him with anesthetic to help him cope with an injury, likely meaning that is strength comes from natural sources, as opposed to [[Super Serum|Venom]].
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** Listen to the music as the man on the civilian ferry is about to blow up the convict ferry - Joker theme in full-force. {{spoiler|Then as the man hesitates and puts down the remote, the Batman theme overtakes the Joker theme, which fades and disappears.}}
* [[To Create a Playground For Evil]]: The Joker's apparent goal.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]: Aside from the Joker, it helps to remember that Batman almost always jumps enemies by surprise, and Crane uses ''chemical warfare in fist fights''. And then there was that trick with the rappelling cable on the SWAT team in ''The Dark Knight''...
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Rachel Dawes.
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** Joe Chill learned more about Falcone than the latter would have liked.
** Falcone himself got a Karmic Permanent Madness when he revealed how much he knew about Crane and his operation, and tried to blackmail him.
* [[Hellish Horse]]/[[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: <s> Dr. Jonathan Crane</s> Scarecrow rides a horse he stole from mounted police {{spoiler|when his fear toxin is released upon Gotham City. To the little boy with Rachel Dawes, who is affected by the drug, the horse appears to have [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]] and [[Breath Weapon|breathe fire from its nostrils]], and Scarecrow looks like a veritable Horseman of the Apocalypse}}. Or, you know, the headless horseman from [[Sleepy Hollow (Film)||the Ichabod Crane story]].
* [[Hero's Journey]]: {{spoiler|After being told of a chance to join the League of Shadows, Bruce climbs the mountains and manages to fight off Ra's Al Ghul. After defeating the League to return to Gotham, he gains weaponry, becomes Batman, enlists the help of Lucius Fox and saves Gotham from the League, freeing the people from chaos.}}
* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: Batman performs this on Detective Flass, repeatedly dropping him and lifting him back up from mere inches away from the ground with his batclaw.
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** The Bank Manager (William Fichtner) who very calmly reacts to robbers in his bank... by whipping out a shotgun.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: The Joker, if "nickname" is a good word for it.
** The CIA agent in the intro of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' introduces himself as "I'm CIA". Averted in the novel version where he's given the codename "Bill Wilson"
* [[Orbital Shot]]: The Joker and Rachel. "Is it the scars? Want to know how I got them?"
* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: In ''The Dark Knight'', The Joker overshadows Batman. In the first movie Batman was given central focus, and the villains did not eclipse him. The sequel is more of a "Joker movie" than a "Batman movie", with Heath Ledger getting all the best lines and outperforming Bale in every scene. Overall the movie suceeds, since [[The Villain Makes the Plot]].
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* [[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.
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* [[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]].
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