History Film / BatmanBegins

* SuccessSymbiosis: Fox provides much of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s gear, so Bruce Wayne has to keep him employed over the objections of the board.

** And Bruce Wayne also drives a Lamborghini for those occasions where he puts on his "RichIdiotWithNoDayJob" façade in public. When dropping it off with a valet, the valet quips "Nice car," and Bruce tells him "You should see my other one."

** "It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you." [[spoiler:Said first by Rachel Dawes to Bruce Wayne when Bruce was trying to explain that his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob persona was all an act. Bruce later repeats it to Rachel ("It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me"), as Batman, when she asks who he is.]]

* MillionairePlayboy: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]; it goes hand in hand with RichIdiotWithNoDayJob.

* NonIdleRich: Thomas Wayne still works as a doctor at the hospital despite his estate being worth billions. Bruce also qualifies, when he's not engaging in frivolous pursuits in order to maintain his image as a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob.

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Rachel's [[NoSympathyForGrudgeholders less than]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech thrilled]] [[ArmorPiercingSlap reaction]] to Bruce planning to murder Joe Chill to avenge his parents is steeped in this.

** Rachel gives Bruce a brief but angry ReasonYouSuckSpeech and an ArmorPiercingSlap when he reveals that he planned to avenge his parents by gunning down Chill in cold blood.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: When Bruce reveals the revolver he had planned to kill Joe Chill with at the courtroom, Rachel gives him not one, but two of these.

** "All that is necessary or "What is necessary"
** "You never did learn to mind your surroundings"

* [[Arc Words]]:

* Arc Words:

** "It's not who you are/who I am underneath. It's what you do/But what I do that defines you/me".

** The words are barely of his mouth before Batman proves him wrong by boosting the Tumbler across the river.

** (though you might assume Loeb is fairly incompetent). This exchange with James Gordon is a good example:

** the words are barely of his mouth before batman proves him wrong by boosting the Tumbler across the river.

* YouCanPanicNow: "Gentlemen, time to spread the word. And the word is: panic!" ''[turns on the microwave and blows out the sewers in the Narrows]''

-->'''Batman:''' I won't kill you... ''[Batman throws one Batarang out the window and detaches a monorail car with another before preparing to jump out]'' [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked but I don't have to save you.]]
** Earlier, Ducard tells Bruce that he's stronger than his father. Bruce remarks Ducard never knew his father. Ducard doens't deny it, instead emphasizing Bruce's own anger and will in comparison to his father's. [[spoiler: Ducard ''didn't'' know Thomas Wayne ''personally''. But, he knew of him as one of Gotham's leading citizens when the League of Shadows struck Gotham 20 years earlier. He knows of him because the deaths of Thomas and Martha ironically and unwittingly derailed their original attack.]]

* MurderByInaction: [[spoiler:How Batman gets around the issue of not killing Ra's Al Ghul; simply leaving him to die on the train while it crashes, though it's hinted that he was also giving Ra's every chance to escape by himself.]]

* AdultFear: The movie shows the obvious example of Bruce seeing his parents die, but also includes [[spoiler:seeing your home burned to the ground]], what it is like to live in a fairly realistic city so filled with crime that even the police belong to the mob and murder is a common occurrence and what it is like to be betrayed by a ParentalSubstitute that helped you overcome your flaws [[spoiler:twice, actually]].

* SpannerInTheworks: [[spoiler: The deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne ended up being this for the League of Shadows. The League's plan to destroy Gotham through economics was working perfectly up until the Wayne murders. Their deaths shocked Gotham's wealthy and powerful into action and the City recovered just enough to endure. The League had to wait nearly 20 years before trying again.]]

* ExactWords: Batman uses this to justify [[spoiler:letting Ra's al Ghul die after defeating him on the monorail, giving him the choice between getting off the monorail and dying in the imminent crash]].

** A prisoner does this to Bruce Wayne, but Bruce responds with one of his own proving the man to be a SmallNameBigEgo.