10 Exact Moments We Knew Movie Characters Were Doomed To Die

6. Harvey Dent Kidnaps A Criminal - The Dark Knight

For a superhero who doesn't kill, Batman sure finds a way to make sure a lot of his villains end up dead. Even in Chris Nolan's trilogy, where this central rule defines his actions as a superhero, plenty of his rivals die indirectly because of him.

The Dark Knight especially interrogates how far Bruce Wayne is willing to go to stop a deadly threat, with the Joker attempting to make his nemesis break his one rule. He does this not only by threatening Batman's loved ones and city, but by corrupting Gotham's white knight, Harvey Dent.

He turns him into the villainous Two Face and pits him against Batman, but there's more at stake than a scrap between two men. That's because if the public ever found out Dent had become a monster, all the good, legal work he accomplished would be undone and any legitimacy in Gotham would be snuffed out.

Consequently, unless the film would show Batman monumentally failing and proving the Joker right, there's no way the world can know about Dent. He can't survive and become a spectacle, but Bruce and Commissioner Gordon can't exactly hide him away.

As soon as he transforms, and specifically takes a step too far by kidnapping and threatening a criminal at gunpoint, there's no way Dent can see the story out alive.