10. "Now...where was I?"
It appears that the Dark Knight Trilogy might very well be in the same "continuity" as Christopher Nolan's second film (and his major breakthrough as an indie director), Memento. The doctor who examines Bruce Wayne (Ive seen worse cartilage in kneesthats because there is
NO cartilage in your knee) is played by Reno 911s Thomas Lennon, who made a small appearance in Memento as the doctor who examines Sammy Jankis. I like to think I'm exactly the same doctor and it's all happening inside Guy Pearce's mind, Lennon said later. Whether or not that's true is probably for Nolan to say. I'd like to think that's happening. Maybe the World's Finest movie can have a crossover scene, with Batman explaining to Leonard Shelby that vengeance is bad for the soul?
9. Restoring Balance to the World
For anyone paying close attention, The Dark Knight Rises script is
full of little hints that Marion Cotillards Miranda Tate is going to turn out to be Talia, the (in this iteration, at least) murderous daughter of Liam Neesons (apparently deceased) Ras al Ghul. In Mirandas first scene with Bruce, she talks about restoring balance to the world, which was pretty much Ras mantra throughout Batman Begins; the ability of Banes men to show up at the worst possible time all throughout The Dark Knight Rises second act is pretty handily explained by the fact that
Tate is always present, and always fouling things up. (Notice that the truck she marks off for Gordon and his men is
not the truck with the bomb in it.) Even the fact that Miranda has environmentalist sympathies shes supporting a clean energy reactor might be a nod back to the comics, where Ras was much more of an ecoterrorist. (And maybe the scene of a shirtless Bruce on the floor post coitus with Miranda is a nod to all those 70s comics with Batman as a bare chested love God...? Are we on our way to seeing Damian Wayne on film?)