8. The Wayne/Tate Tryst
The Problem The relationship between Bruce Wayne and Miranda Tate that blossomed very quickly from professional to personal may have initially looked like a successful part of Tate's plan to destroy Wayne and Batman, but there was precious little hint in the film's development of their dynamic that they were about to fall into bed with one another, no matter how romantic the rain was. There's no place for that kind of James Bond bed-hopping in Batman, and it upset quite a lot of fans.
How To Fix It There was very little reason for Wayne to actually fall for Tate's charms - she didn't need that part of the plan to come off for the rest of it to work, and she didn't seem to gain much from the emotional betrayal, since Wayne was clearly already so hung up with Selina that he was about to change his entire life and ride off into the sunset with her. And if anything, it actually detracted from the effect of the twist's revelation at the end, given the long established model of the femme fatale who entraps the hero with her sexuality only to reveal her true colours. Nolan might not have consciously made that connection (though he probably did,) but he couldn't have thought that at least some of his audience wouldn't. The Dark Knight Rises editing team should have cut this whole story element out, and left Miranda to be a charitable philanthropist, as her deception would have been more grand had emotion been left off the table. In future, don't have an openly promiscuous Bruce Wayne - or at least do as former Batman films have done and simply imply that his bachelorhood and playboy lifestyle extend to a healthy appetite for single women. It's one thing having him conducting actual relationships - such as with Vicki Vale (another from Bruce Wayne's Little Black Book Of Who Not To Sleep With) - for the sake of the narrative, but undeveloped trysts draw too many comparisons with someone like Bond, with all of his physical yearnings. That's an all-too human comparison to make for the most supernatural of superheroes.