Batman: Every Live-Action Gotham City Ranked Worst To Best

The Gotham City of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is, for better or worse, very much in tune with the tone of those three movies. By that, it means that Nolan's Gotham is extremely real and extremely grounded.

Of course, this Christian Bale-headlined trio of pictures took a more realistic, tangible approach to the Dark Knight. Rather than the fantastical, fantasy or outright cheesy tone of those Batman films that had preceded it, Nolan's trilogy presented itself as showing how Batman could exist in the real world with real gadgets, real vehicles and extremely real villains.

While this approach clearly worked in bringing a sense of validity and authenticity to Gotham City, it also meant that some of the unique charms of the comic-book Gotham were lost. Pulling inspiration from Chicago, New York City, New Jersey and even Tokyo, this Gotham very much felt like a city we could all find ourselves in at some point, but in doing that it lost some of the otherworldly gothic tones so synonymous with the Gotham City of the comics.

For Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, the Gotham seen was perfect. To top this list, though, this Gotham was maybe a little too real for its own good.