9. Robin
Im sorry, but Im calling bullshit on the new and improved Robin right here. Apart from a very brief moment of emotional connection, when John Blake reveals his tumultuous past to Bruce Wayne (actually a very good scene I thought, believe it or not) theres nothing else to indicate why he would sign over the Bat-legacy so easily to another. I didnt feel much of a connection to John Blake, but thats most likely because there was just too much going on at any given time to ever experience anything like plight with him. He just seemed to me, like so many other aspects of the franchise (and in TDKR in particular) to have been shoved in there haphazardly and changed somehow to fit with Nolans unerring vision of a truly watered-down Dark Knight. Maybe if hed been established earlier in the franchise, I could have bought it. I maintain its not the act of changing the character that riles me. He could still be called John Blake, he could have his altered origin, he could have been given the Batmantle at the end; I would have accepted all of this happily, if only there was some actual justification. As it was, he showed up for a combined screen time of maybe half an hour, max? And Im supposed to believe hes ready to be Batman, or Robin or Nightwing? Not a chance.