20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Dark Knight Rises
1. Batman Learns From His Icey Mistakes
Rather masterfully bookending his series with an easily missed piece of character development, the Bruce Wayne fans see driving Gotham out of the darkness in The Dark Knight Rises feels a world away from the reckless and brassed off League of Shadows-member-in-training trying to keep his head above water in Batman Begins.
And this was brilliantly alluded to in the moment Batman finally returns to his city in the trilogy's finale, with The Dark Knight confidently striding across the ice towards Commissioner Gordon and his crew as he sets the war against Bane into motion.
Two films earlier, when trying to best his mentor Henri Ducard/Ra's al Ghul on a similarly thin sheet of ice, Bruce infamously found himself tumbling through the frozen floor thanks to his impulsive decision to "sacrifice (his) footing for a killing stroke."
This time around, however, Wayne was the embodiment of composed atop the ice as his vital lessons learned in the pit and renewed confidence in his abilities not only kept him from literally going under, as many others had when sentenced to a chilling exile, but buoyed him in his quest to save Gotham, too.