15 Most Irritating Subplots In The Dark Knight Trilogy

10. The Bruce-Rachel-Harvey Love Triangle (The Dark Knight)

The Subplot: At the end of Batman Begins, Rachel tells Bruce that she can't be with him until Gotham doesn't need Batman anymore, and while she's dating Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, she's conflicted over whether to marry him as she clearly still has feelings for Bruce. However, after Bruce allows Dent to "admit" to being Batman, Rachel finally makes her decision to marry Dent, and after she dies in The Joker's bomb trap, Alfred refrains from letting Bruce know about this (at least until the events of The Dark Knight Rises). Why It's Irritating: Even ignoring the mean-spirited jokes about why Bruce and Dent would ever fight over someone as "plain" looking as Rachel, the whole love triangle subplot plays out like a limp soap opera storyline and exists solely to give Dent a reason to become Two-Face and Bruce a reason to be mopey. Rachel herself is barely defined as a character at all beyond being a damsel-in-distress for her two potential suitors to save, and frankly, her death would have had the same emotional impact even if Bruce and Rachel were completely distant in a romantic sense.