3. Rachel Dawes' Death Scares English Countryside
Rachel Dawes death at the hands of an explosion rigged by the Joker (dude
loves to blow things up) was purposefully designed, according to co-writer Jonathan Nolan, as
a direct rebuke to all those scenes in superhero movies where the hero is told he must chose between saving one person or another, and just ends up saving both; Batman arguably fails to save either Rachel Dawes
or Harvey Dent, plunging the third act of The Dark Knight headlong into tragedy. The explosion of the warehouse where Rachel is being held was staged at Battersea Power Station in London; apparently the film crew didn't do a good enough job warning residents, because that night emergency services were flooded with calls from people
who feared a real terrorist attack was in progress.