12 Dumbest Comic Book Movie Characters

10. Commissioner Gordon - The Dark Knight Rises

Again, most of the time, Gary Oldman€™s version of Commission Gordon is extremely intelligent. We can even overlook the fact that he doesn€™t work out Batman€™s secret identity, because Bruce Wayne€™s double life remains a heavily guarded secret throughout the Nolan films.

However, there€™s one moment in The Dark Knight Rises that simply can€™t go unpunished. It€™s a spectacular new level of comic book movie stupidity, which got a lot of people killed and almost irredeemably screwed over Gotham City.

Stupidest moment: €œNo more patrols, no more hide and seek. Get every available cop down there and smoke him out€ demands Gordon from his hospital bed, sending every available policeman into Bane€™s hidden base.

This decision leads to a huge number of policemen getting trapped, and allows Bane€™s forces to easily overpower the city€™s remaining defences. Maybe the GCPD should have a rule allowing officers to refuse the commissioner€™s orders when he€™s in a hospital bed on heavy medication.

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