20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Dark Knight Rises
11. What's In A Mask?
But before The Bat was truly ready to step back into the shadows after eight years on the sidelines, Bale's Bruce opted to stop by a certain masquerade charity ball that was, unbeknownst to Wayne, being thrown by Marion Cotillard's Miranda Tate.
It's here during his quest to retrieve his mother's pearls from Selina Kyle that a rather notable detail is seen hiding in plain sight. While just about everyone else in attendance is hiding their true identity with a literal mask, Wayne isn't seen sporting one at all.
This reflects the idea that billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne is merely a mask the Batman wears to hide his true self, with Tate's willingness to reveal her face in the sequence also hinting at that moniker merely being a cover-up for her real identity of Talia al Ghul, too.