10 Superhero Movies That Made Major Changes To Iconic Comic Moments

1. Knightfall (And Knightquest And KnightsEnd) The Dark Knight Rises

The Comic Book Moment: Similar to Doomsday, Bane was introduced so DC could achieve a sale-boosting event, in this case the replacement of Bruce Wayne with a new, "radical" Batman. The venomed-up hulk wreaked a reign of terror over Gotham, culminating in him snapping Bruce's back and forcing Jean-Paul Valley to take up the mantle. Much more violent, a healed Bruce eventually has to step up to stop him.

The Movie Version: The Dark Knight Rises follows Knightfall in the most accurate way Nolan was capable of for the first half, building up to the iconic breaking of the Bat, but then diverged sharply into No Man's Land. It did, however, keep Knightquest's idea of a Batman successor alive through John Blake, culminating in "Robin" discovering the Bat-cave and (presumably) taking up the mantle.

Did The Change Work? The shift into the underground prison feels almost like a bait-and-switch to comic fans, putting aside the Batman successor stuff until the very, very end, but as with the previous two movies, picking and choosing in aid of the overall theme works to Nolan's benefit. After all, Jean-Paul Valley's super-90s suit is part selling-point, part parody, all ridiculousness, so anything approaching that would feel naff in the real world that's been established, and the transference from fear to hope is the film's whole point, so for Robin to go bad wouldn't quite fit.

It would have been cool to see the whole arc, but at the end of the day an approximation of Knightfall was enough.

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