8 Movie Characters Who Foreshadowed Their Own Deaths
6. Harvey Dent (The Dark Knight)
Harvey Dent's turn from White Knight to Dark Knight is the emotional backbone of Christopher Nolan's 2008 masterpiece, with his accidental death at the hands of Batman feeling both deserved and undeserved at the same time.
In one of the film's early scenes - which finds Bruce, Rachel, Natascha and Harvey discussing the identity of the Batman - Dent correctly predicts where his story is headed, with the line "you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" summing up his arc perfectly.
In the eyes of the people, he does die a hero - a public servant who dedicated himself to cleaning up the streets of Gotham.
But Batman and Commissioner Gordon know the truth - he actually turned into a murderous villain, driven mad by the death of Rachel Dawes - a truth they chose to cover up, in order to cement Dent's legacy as a beacon of hope for Gotham to cling to.