13 Most Shocking Comic Book Movie Twists Of All Time
3. The Joker's Deception - The Dark Knight
For all his posturing about being a dog chasing cars, and not having a real plan, his plot to destabilise Gotham and Batman is an intricately crafted manifesto that hints as a precise mind behind the chaos. And his evil machinations in The Dark Knight contain a couple of devastatingly fiendish twists.
First, it turns out that he intended to be captured by Batman and hauled off to jail, despite seemingly fighting tooth and nail not to be. And then even more explosively, he delivers his deadly gambit: that Batman must choose between Rachel and Harvey Dent, only with the catastrophic twist (for Bruce, at least), that he's switched the locations to basically ensure that Rachel dies.
It's a masterful ploy, twisting not only the whole thrill-filled sequence, but also further playing with the audience's expectations of the Joker.