3. A Watchful Protector
While nobody's saying Nolan has copyright over the image of a man in a dark coat standing on a rooftop, he certainly made it his own throughout The Dark Knight trilogy. Such posturing, all swooping and scaling, surely helped to create the brooding figure of omniscience that Batman clearly relishes. If it weren't for the fact that nobody ever sees him, you'd scold him for attention-seeking. Bond, meanwhile, looks out onto London from his vantage point on a Whitehall roof. It's broad daylight. No Bat signal beckons him, just the silent flapping of a city's Union Jacks, dotted in the skies like Chinese lanterns.
