12. Juno Temple is Playing Holly Robinson (Even Though She's Called Jen)
Selina Kyles backstory is never quite expounded upon in The Dark Knight Rises; were given hints (I did what I had to do to survive) but its never laid out for us. One of the few concrete clues we get to Selinas background is the small character of her friend Jen (Juno Temple), a street smart Gotham girl (who seems to be a hooker in everything but name) whom Selina protects and looks out for. Jen bears a suspicious resemblance to a pivotal character in the Catwoman comics
Holly Robinson, a young prostitute Selina knows from her past days as a Gotham dominatrix. Juno Temple sorta looks like Holly Robinson, and her character fulfills literally the exact same functionleading one to wonder why the filmmakers didnt just come straight out and
call her Holly.
11. A Tale of Three Robins
As everybody knows by now, Joseph Gordon-Levitts character in The Dark Knight Rises, who assists Batman throughout the film and ultimately becomes his heir, is much more than just Gotham beat cop John Blake: he turns out to be legally named
Robin, a not so subtle nod to the Batman mythos. The wink towards Robin was an acknowledgment that, like the character or not like the character, its a huge part of universe for seventy years, said
co-writer Jonathan Nolan. In creating an original character for their Robin, Nolan, Goyer and Nolan were essentially able to combine elements of the three major Robins (at that point, at least) from the Batman comics. Like Dick Grayson, the first Robin, John Blake is a policeman by day; Blake also arguably shares a lot of Dicks essential personality traits, as the more optimistic ying to Bruce Waynes dark yang. John Blakes origin a mother who died before he knew her, a father killed by crime feels like a nod to the second Robin, Jason Todd; and the fact that Blake was able to deduce at a young age that Bruce Wayne was Batman feels like homage to Tim Drake, the 3rd Robin, who managed the same feat.