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4. Batman Retires/Bruce Dies

Rocksteady need a way to cap off their trilogy (Origins was Warner Bros. Montreal), and what better way than to succeed where Christopher Nolan completely dropped the ball? Killing off Batman in any number of ways would be a way for them to retain artistic control of the franchise they've helped build from the ground up, impeding other WB-licensed developers from making any subsequent phoned-in efforts like Origins. How Bruce could eventually die is something that's continually debated and played around with in the comics, and as Nolan teased fans with the idea of using a nuclear bomb to take him down, depending on an intended level of realism, Rocksteady might only need to let age and reality catch up with an already extremely weathered Bruce Wayne.