12 Key Influences In Batman Begins

By Jack Pooley /

4. "Swear To Me!"

One highly memorable scene from Batman Begins involves Batman's interrogation of corrupt Detective Flass (Mark Boone Junior), yanking him into the air and hanging a terrified Flass upside down as he quizzes him about Falcone's drug supply, before growling the terrific one-liner, "Swear to me!" This is reminiscent of a scene from the 1996 comic Batman: Haunted Knight, where in the story "Fears", Batman is on the hunt for the Scarecrow, and similarly hangs a man upside down with one of his Bat-contraptions in the rain. Both do a fantastic job of selling just how intimidating the Caped Crusader can be.