History YMMV / TheDarkKnightRises

* TrueArtIsAngsty:
** Even moreso than ''The Dark Knight'', the film carries a very melancholy, downtrodden tone.
--->'''Creator/RogerEbert''': It isn't very much fun...I'm thinking of the over-the-top action sequences of the earlier films that had a subcurrent of humor, and the exhilarating performance of Creator/HeathLedger as the Joker. This movie is all serious drama...a dark and heavy film; it tests the weight a superhero movie can bear. That Nolan is able to combine civil anarchy, mass destruction and a Batcycle with exercise-ball tires is remarkable.
** There is a vocal group of fans insisting that [[spoiler:Alfred was imagining/hallucinating that he saw Bruce and Selina in the cafe at the end and that Bruce really did die when the bomb went off - even though Nolan says otherwise]].

** [[spoiler:It's implied at the end that Wayne passed on the Batcave and its tools to Blake, whose true first name is revealed to be Robin. Sadly, due to this film franchise being ended, we'll never get to see this series' version of ''Robin'' in action.]]

** The last cinematic appearance of Catwoman was in the universally reviled [[{{Film/Catwoman2004 2004 film]], and even this film only refers to her as [[ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames Selina Kyle]], possibly to distance itself from that. And while her portrayal in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' is still beloved to this day, it also added a supernatural origin to her powers that wasn't really in keeping with comic book lore. This film's Selina/Catwoman goes back to the roots of her being a criminal who eventually reforms, and has an interesting dynamic with Batman.

** Firearms in the movie when they are fired also have no muzzle flashes or cycling slides. Most obvious in the opening plane scene and the stock exchange robbery; the CIA interrogator's pistol has a sound to show it fired, but no muzzle flash or casing is ejected, making it look very amateurish. The stock exchange robbers fire submachine guns into the air, but again no flashes or casings are shown.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Bruce falls in love twice during the film, and it's debatable whether either time was all that convincing. The CoitusEnsues part between Bruce and Miranda is especially weird, because it has no build-up and [[AbortedArc doesn't even get mentioned again]]. [[spoiler: Retroactively it makes a little more sense from Miranda/Talia's perspective but not Bruce's]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The inclusion of Catwoman and Miranda Tate was a partial response to the criticism of a lack of interesting female characters in the first 2 films, with the major female character (Rachel Dawes) being killed off.

* CharacterRerailment: This is the second time Bane has made an appearance in a live-action Batman film. [[Film/BatmanAndRobin His first film incarnation]] drew criticism for being reduced to DumbMuscle while his comic incarnation was a MagnificentBastard GeniusBruiser capable of matching wits with Batman himself. ''The Dark Knight Rises'' portrayed Bane more accurately to his comic incarnation, and even the film's detractors admit that he's easily the best part of the movie.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Some only watch for the [[MemeticMutation memetic]] opening scene.

* FightSceneFailure: [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11112/111127013/3664402-138689442368.gif Several]] [[http://i.imgur.com/wC8mRoY.gif times]], mooks are shown in big fight scenes hurtling back and collapsing while Batman or Catwoman is standing five feet away and beating up someone else. Batman's first fight with Bane also has a [[http://i.imgur.com/ZKAo5.gif few instances]] of whiffing.

* RelationshipWritingFumble: Just what on Earth is going on between [[spoiler:Bane and Talia? He practically brought her up during her first 8 years of life, she says her father disliked him because he loved her, she calls him her "friend" and so on. Is it LikeASonToMe, LikeBrotherAndSister, WifeHusbandry, BodyguardCrush...?]] Though perhaps it's only logical that two twisted persons with such an extraordinary story also have a very extraordinary relationship. See also AlternateCharacterInterpretation above.

** The blonde trader at the stock exchange who Bane chokes to death would go onto become [[Series/ScreamQueens2015 Chad Radwell]].

* AssPull: [[spoiler:Bruce surviving the bombing at the end was completely left unexplained with no foreshadowing or any FreezeFrameBonus whatsoever]] which very likely contributed to the ending [[BrokenBase having a mixed reception.]]

** [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyBane Bane]], the man born in darkness, is a hulking beast of a man [[GeniusBruiser who is far more crafty than he appears.]] Once a prisoner in the world's worst prison, Bane sacrificed his health and safety [[spoiler:to defend the young Talia Al-Ghul, forming a bond with her that would last for the rest of their lives.]] Intending on fulfilling Ra's Al-Ghul's mission, Bane allows a Gotham socialite to believe he is just a common thug as he infiltrates Gotham to rig the stock exchange and bankrupt Wayne. Defeating and breaking Batman, Bane lures the entirety of Gotham's police into a trap underground, revealing the true downfall of Harvey Dent and inspiring the people of Gotham to true anarchy while holding the city hostage with a bomb after killing the only man who can disarm it. Intending to destroy Gotham, Bane holds the entirety of the city in his grip, being the one and only villain in the entirety of the trilogy to have succeeded in breaking Batman himself.
** [[spoiler:ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul is the daughter of Bruce Wayne's former mentor ComicBook/RasAlGhul and the leader of the [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyLeagueOfShadows League of Shadows]] after his death. She grew up in a HellholePrison with her protector Bane before escaping, who subsequently became Talia's closest confidante. Talia and Bane set out to fulfill the late Ra's' goal to destroy Gotham in order to [[KnightTemplar purge it of sin,]] exposing Harvey Dent's crimes to discredit his legacy that brought the city years of peace, bankrupting Wayne Enterprises through stock market speculation by using Bruce's stolen fingerprints, [[LoveInterestTraitor and manipulating Bruce to fall in love with Talia under the alias Miranda Tate]] to gain his trust and to give them control over the rest of Wayne Enterprise's assets. Talia and Bane decapitate the city's leadership, stir up class warfare, and steal a fusion bomb so they can blackmail the U.S. government into giving them full control over Gotham, while having Bruce locked away in their former prison so he can be witness to Gotham's destruction. Their reign of terror lasts months, despite knowing full well that the bomb will eventually explode anyway, and when Batman returns to stop them, they only pause to rub their impending victory into his face and the extent to which they drew out their vengeance and deceived him.]]

** [[SmugSnake John Daggett]] [[BullyingADragon tries to intimidate Bane]], a DarthVaderClone, [[spoiler:and gets strangled to death doing so]]. Ben Mendelsohn, who plays Daggett, would star as Imperial Director Orson Krennic in ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/RogueOne'', where he faces Vader himself, and again, [[spoiler:nearly]] gets strangled while trying to be intimidating, with Vader countering "Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Director.".

* AudienceColoringAdaptation: This film’s version of Bane became the de facto version for the character for casual viewers who haven’t read the comics or seen any other media. Gone is the Latino powerhouse who runs on a SuperSerum, with Bane more widely known as the DarthVaderClone EvilBrit with a mask that supplies anaesthetic.

* Can'tUnhearIt Being a FountainOfMemes, people like to read Bane's lines in Tom Hardy's voice.
* CaptainObviousReveal Despite Nolan's insistence beforehand that she was just a random business lady, no one really bought it about [[spoiler: Miranda. Especially because he pushed back the production for Cotillard to have her baby. Even when the movie first came out, it was a shock to no one that she was actually Talia al Ghul.]] The film treats this as a huge revelation.

** Being a FountainOfMemes, people like to read Bane's lines in Tom Hardy's voice.

* FoeYay: An unintentional example from the opening scene, which has contributed to the [[FoeYayShipping pairing]] of CIA/Bane.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** A murderous gunman [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18921492 killed a dozen people at a midnight screening of the movie]]. The notoriety of this incident, and the killer being dressed as the [[Film/TheDarkKnight previous movie's]] [[ComicBook/TheJoker villain]], can make the film much harder to enjoy after the fact. Also, the ''Film/GangsterSquad'' trailer that aired just before the attack featured a shooting in a movie theater. Warner Brothers since pulled the trailer and had the final act of the film (in which the theater shooting would've taken place) re-written and shot, though some people's screenings still showed the trailer.
** Bane's storming of Blackgate might be uncomfortable to watch when you take into account that in 2015, Al Qaeda operatives stormed a prison in Yemen amid the overthrow of that country's government and ensuing chaos to break out Al Qaeda members that were imprisoned there.

* HarsherInHindsight: A murderous gunman [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18921492 killed a dozen people at a midnight screening of the movie]]. The notoriety of this incident, and the killer being dressed as the [[Film/TheDarkKnight previous movie's]] [[ComicBook/TheJoker villain]], can make the film much harder to enjoy after the fact. Also, the ''Film/GangsterSquad'' trailer that aired just before the attack featured a shooting in a movie theater. Warner Brothers since pulled the trailer and had the final act of the film (in which the theater shooting would've taken place) re-written and shot, though some people's screenings still showed the trailer.

** Prior to 2020, Bane asphyxiating Captain Jones by callously kneeling on his neck was just a scene in a movie. It would never feel the same again after ex-cop [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Chauvin Derek Chauvin]] murdered [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd George Floyd]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the exact same way for over 9 minutes]]. Floyd's murder sparked [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests massive rioting and civil unrest across the world]] to raise awareness to rampant PoliceBrutality and systemic racism in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates government and was a pivotal event in the UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Sending the entire Gotham City Police Force into the tunnels to try to smoke out Bane? Bad idea because it leads to the entire team being trapped and zero cops left to defend Gotham City against criminals.
** The valet who somehow believed that Selina Kyle was Bruce Wayne's wife without even questioning it. You'd think he'd realize that if someone as prominent as Bruce Wayne actually married, it would be kinda well-known.
** Bruce's whole "I'll fight harder, I always have." attitude to taking on Bane when Alfred tries to point out how dangerous an opponent he is. This is pretty much the same attitude Bruce had towards the Joker in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and look at how that turned out. You'd think he'd know better by now than underestimate the enemy, but then again he's got a bit of a DeathSeeker thing going on, so maybe he just didn't care at that point.
** After Bane's men attack the Stock Exchange and make a bunch of stock trades that leave Bruce bankrupt... and he does nothing about it. Considering that the trades came just after a very high-profile attack on the Gotham City Stock Exchange, it likely would have been relatively easy for him to get the clearly-fraudulent trades reversed and get his money back.

* EpilepticTrees: A leaked photo of what was actually [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w7phCCACiMg/TchSSRiW6pI/AAAAAAAAC4I/kfbi2RkDzWc/s1600/Lazarus2.jpg the exterior set of The Pit]] were initially thought by many to be a different sort of pit, a Lazarus Pit. Given the prominence of Ra's al Ghul in the trilogy's story, it actually wasn't too bad a guess.