20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Dark Knight Trilogy

16. Dick Grayson Was Nearly Referenced In Batman Begins

Conspicuous by his absence in all of the Batman movies is the Caped Crusader's sidekick Robin. The Dark Knight Returns' John Blake shared some similarities to Dick Grayson (the most obvious being the fact that he was called "Robin"), but Christopher Nolan isn't a fan of the character and decided not to include him in the trilogy. Things could have been very different though. An early draft of Batman Begins did include Robin. Well, sort of. It revealed that Rachel Dawes was a distant relative of the Grayson family, and while that would have been a neat Easter Egg for fans, Nolan chose to remove it in case they ended up feeling misled when he failed to introduce the sidekick in the sequel.