8 Movie Heroes You Didn't Realise Probably Died Horrible Deaths
6. All The Heroes Left In Gotham - The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The "Heroic Ending"...
Having ridden Gotham of its tyranny and defeated the real mastermind behind the takeover, Miranda Tate, Bruce Wayne realises that he must sacrifice his own life to save the inhabits of his beloved city, because there's a huge nuclear weapon primed to go off and destroy everything. Mounting the Batwing - a large, bat-shapped aircraft thing - he attaches the weapon, and flies off out into the ocean, where the bomb detonates, and, uh "kills" him. Everybody looks on poignantly at Bruce's sacrifice, but the day remains undeniably saved.
But wait...
Except it doesn't, because a huge nuclear weapon just exploded in the city's bay area, which means that the effects of a fallout - what with the wind blowing the radiation in every possible direction - are inevitable. See what we're getting at? Somewhat horrifically, radiation poisoning is going to be a serios problem for many of Gotham's inhabitants... and that means heroes like John Blake, Commissioner Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, and Lucius Fox are going to find themselves in a seriously awkward position.
And when you consider that Bruce had - in his own words - two minutes to fly the device out into the bay, we know that he couldn't have gotten particularly far. According to "actual science" which I looked up for the purposes of this article, 10 miles seems to be just about enough distance from a nuclear explosion to prevent direct damage (i.e the city itself). But anywhere in the vicinity of 100 miles? Completely exposed to fallout radiation.
Bane, at one point, even specifies that the fusion device has been transformed into a "4 megaton bomb" - that kind of yield would have had a truly devastating effect. Which means that so many of our favourite heroes will be spluttering into an early grave, regardless of Bruce's heroics. Either that, or they all develop awesome super powers and team up to fight crime.
Yeah, that's what happened.
