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A year later in ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce begins to hope that [[TheAce Harvey Dent]] can take his place as Gotham's savior, due to Harvey locking many criminals away legally. Bruce also hopes to begin a relationship with Rachel Dawes, his oldest friend, but Rachel is dating Harvey Dent and ultimately chooses Harvey over Bruce. Rachel leaves a letter with Alfred to tell Bruce this. Unfortunately, Comicbook/TheJoker appears and brings chaos and violence to Gotham City. Batman eventually triumphs over ComicBook/TheJoker, but in the process, Rachel Dawes is killed and Alfred burns Rachel's letter, so Bruce won't be crushed by Rachel choosing Harvey, and Harvey Dent is turned into the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeful]] [[FallenHero Two-Face]]. Batman decides to take the blame for the murders Harvey Dent committed, knowing that Dent needed to remain a hero in the eyes of Gotham and to prevent the arrests of the Gotham mob from being undone.
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A year later in ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce begins to hope that [[TheAce Harvey Dent]] can take his place as Gotham's savior, due to Harvey locking many criminals away legally. Bruce also hopes to begin a relationship with Rachel Dawes, his oldest friend, but Rachel is dating Harvey Dent and ultimately chooses Harvey over Bruce. Rachel leaves a letter with Alfred to tell Bruce this. Unfortunately, Comicbook/TheJoker appears and brings chaos and violence to Gotham City. Batman eventually triumphs over ComicBook/TheJoker, The Joker, but in the process, Rachel Dawes is killed and Alfred burns Rachel's letter, so Bruce won't be crushed by Rachel choosing Harvey, and Harvey Dent is turned into the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeful]] [[FallenHero Two-Face]]. Batman decides to take the blame for the murders Harvey Dent committed, knowing that Dent needed to remain a hero in the eyes of Gotham and to prevent the arrests of the Gotham mob from being undone.
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!!''Alfred Pennyworth''
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelCaine
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidMcCallum, Armando Réndiz (Latin-American Spanish; ''Begins''), Creator/JoseLavat (Latin-American Spanish; ''The Dark Knight'' and ''Rises'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''
-->''"Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make: the right choice."''
The Wayne Family butler, Alfred is Bruce's guardian, confidante and oldest friend. He knows Batman's identity, having aided him from the very start.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidMcCallum, Armando Réndiz (Latin-American Spanish; ''Begins''), Creator/JoseLavat (Latin-American Spanish; ''The Dark Knight'' and ''Rises'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''
-->''"Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make: the right choice."''
The Wayne Family butler, Alfred is Bruce's guardian, confidante and oldest friend. He knows Batman's identity, having aided him from the very start.
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This particular incarnation of Batman is unique from other live-action movie portrayals in that we see him begin as an inexperienced vigilante before becoming the veteran crimefighter we all know and love.
In ''Batman Begins'', Bruce is haunted by his parents being killed. After failing to kill [[JustifiedCriminal Joe Chill]], the man who killed his parents, Bruce meets [[TheDon Carmine Falcone]] who tells him just [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how much he does not understand criminals and the crueler aspects of life]]. Bruce disappears from Gotham to learn about the criminal underworld and trains with the [[AncientConspiracy League]] [[KnightTemplar of Shadows]] and [[EvilMentor Henri Ducard]]. He later returns and as Batman, he attacks the criminal underworld controlling the city and meets [[PsychoPsychologist Jonathan Crane, AKA Scarecrow]]. Batman finds himself having to save the city from Henri Ducard, AKA Ra's al Ghul and The League of Shadows, who plan to use Scarecrow's fear toxin to destroy Gotham. Batman does save the day but at the cost of Wayne
A year later in ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce begins to hope that [[TheAce Harvey Dent]] can take his place as Gotham's savior, due to Harvey locking many criminals away legally. Bruce also hopes to begin a relationship with Rachel Dawes, his oldest friend, but Rachel is dating Harvey Dent and ultimately chooses Harvey over Bruce. Rachel leaves a letter with Alfred
Eight years later in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', Bruce is retired as Batman but is drawn back into being Batman as [[GeniusBruiser Bane]] and [[DarkActionGirl Catwoman]] appear in Gotham.
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* HundredPercentHeroismRating: [[spoiler: Non-videogame example. At the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises'', when Batman is believed to be dead after saving Gotham, he has earned the respect that he deserves, even getting a statue put up in his honor.]]
* ActionHero: He can beat the holy crap out of even a stupidly lopsided outnumbering of mooks.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In ''Rises'' Bruce went into retirement eight years ago after only a year of crime fighting, where he has done nothing but dwell on his failures and losses. In the comics Bruce has a career spanning several years at least while in ''The Dark Knight Returns'' comic, which ''Rises'' adapts elements of, he was forced by the public due to distrust which he was resentful of and didn't seem to have many regrets.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is much less surly and grim than most incarnations of the character in comics and other adaptations.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Batman's motivations in Nolan's trilogy is quite different from comics and other versions, in that it's essentially romantic. While Batman was traumatized by his parents' murder, what really convinced him to travel the world, train and learn to become a crime-fighter is Rachel Dawes chewing him out for even thinking of using a gun against Joe Chill, and his crusade in the first two films is more or less to prove to Rachel that he's changed and become heroic. In ''The Dark Knight'' he repeatedly tells her that he sees Harvey Dent's war on crime as a potential way to end his crime-fighting which would allow them to be together. Even in ''Rises'', his motivations are driven by his feelings towards Miranda Tate and Selina, [[spoiler:and in the end, he decides to give up fighting crime and settle down with Selina]]. In most other versions, Batman's love-life is complicated because of his commitment to the mission, and that he's tragically incapable of giving up despite his feelings for other women. In Nolan's films, his mission was arguably motivated by his romantic relationships.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: ''Animal Alias'' variant, as per usual.
* AntiHero: A PragmaticHero. Has resorted to the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on many occasions, including dropping someone off a building and breaking both their legs on one occasion. Has also caused quite a lot of collateral damage with equipment like the Tumbler, and acts jerkish and anti-social in his rich billionaire persona to help hide his activities as Batman, but that's just a [[HiddenHeartOfGold facade]].
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* ArchEnemy: He has four across the trilogy:
** The first is Henri Ducard, the true Ra's al Ghul and leader of the League of Shadows. He's Bruce's former mentor who attempts to recruit him into joining the League of Shadows, the [[GreaterScopeVillain same group that is indirectly responsible]] for the deaths of his parents since they tried to destroy Gotham through damaging the economy. Several after his death at the end of the first film, Ducard's actions in the first film come back to haunt Bruce in the third film in the form of Bane [[spoiler:and his daughter Talia]].
** The second is Jonathan Crane, better known as the Scarecrow. While he becomes less of a threat with each instalment and is an UnwittingPawn for the League in ''Begins'', he's Bruce's most reoccurring foe and appears in all media related to the trilogy.
** The third is unsurprisingly the Joker, who's actions next too Ducard's has the biggest impact on Bruce and Gotham. The Joker's aggression pushes Bruce to solidify his moral code and ThouShallNotKill rule, and his actions result in the [[spoiler:death of Rachel and Harvey's transformation into Two-Face]], culminating in Bruce deciding to become a HeroWithBadPublicity to protect Gotham. Overall, the Joker causes the most harm to Bruce out of all the villains in the trilogy.
** The fourth is Bane, the FinalBoss of the trilogy and Bruce's [[GeniusBruiser intellectual and physical superior]]. Similar to how the Joker pushed Bruce to deciding what his moral code is and what he stands for, Bane pushes Bruce to realises what his limitations actually are and to find the strength to succeed seemingly impossible tasks.
%%* BadassBiker: Becomes one in ''The Dark Knight'' thanks to the Batpod.
* BadassBoast:
** In ''Batman Begins'', he gets one before fighting another prisoner:
--->'''Prisoner:''' You are in hell, little man, and I am the devil.\\
'''Bruce:''' You're not the devil. You're ''practice''.
** Delivers one to Bane in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', which doubles as an IronicEcho:
--->'''Batman:''' When you tell me where the detonator is, ''you'' have ''my'' permission to die!
* BadassCape: In addition to the 'look like a giant bat' intimidation factor, his cape is also functional as a glider.
* BadassInDistress: In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', [[spoiler:Bruce is trapped in the prison Bane and Talia were in for a while until he overcomes his insecurities and flaws, and trains hard enough to escape.]]
%%* BadassLongcoat: Wears one occasionally in ''Batman Begins''.
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%%* BadassNormal: Well, duh. Most notable when he's put up against the [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower blatantly superhuman]] Bane.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:He anticipates Fox's ethical objections to the surveillance system he commissions to track down the Joker, and so gives him the kill code to destroy the system once its sole purpose is fulfilled.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: During his self-imposed seclusion in ''The Dark Knight Rises''. He is clean shaven when he returns to Gotham, which symbolizes his regained confidence and willpower.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In a flashback in ''Batman Begins'', Bruce expresses that he wants to [[spoiler:take Wayne Manor apart brick by brick]]. At the end of ''Batman Begins'', [[spoiler:his entire mansion is burnt down.]]
* BecomingTheMask: Bruce shows hints of this, such as instances where he retains the Bat-voice either when alone or out of costume, and his general obsession with ''being'' Batman and embodying his myths.
* BeneathTheMask: We see the default Bruce Wayne personality (usually when alone with Alfred, and Catwoman brings it out) to be less serious and more mischievous than the ultra-intense Batman. He is more introspective and strategic when out of costume, while as Batman he instead uses incredible focus, cunning, and quick thinking to overcome challenges.
* BettyAndVeronica: In ''The Dark Knight'' he becomes the Veronica to Harvey's Betty. He's the unlawful vigilante and millionare playboy while Dent is the morally upstanding attorney and Gotham's "White Knight" and, despite the fact she is dating Harvey, [[spoiler: Bruce gets to share a kiss with her.]] However, [[spoiler: she reveals in a letter that she couldn't be with Bruce due to his obsession with being Batman and chose to be with Dent.]]
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Inverted. Bruce shows distaste for his masked persona whenever he's in public, claiming the guy has "issues" in ''Begins'', and wondering who appointed him as the protector of Gotham in ''The Dark Knight''. This, combined with his MillionairePlayboy persona, throws off all suspicion of him being Batman.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His forearm blades are his most consistent tools in hand to hand combat, and he ends up using them to win the final fights in all three movies: they break Ra's's sword in the train fight, are fired off to wound the Joker and set him up for Bruce's takedown in the Pruitt Building, and they break Bane's mask.
* ByronicHero: He experiences great personal suffering while fighting crime.
* TheCasanova: Part of his public persona as a rich playboy is being a hit with the ladies, showing up with two of them in a restaurant he buys in ''Begins'' and absconding with an entire Russian ballet in ''The Dark Knight''. However, in his personal life, he has gotten involved with all the major female characters in the series: shared a kiss with Rachel, slept with Miranda and settled down with Selina.
* CharacterDevelopment: A large part of ''The Dark Knight'' shows his Moral Code solidifying compared to the end of ''Batman Begins'', in response to Joker's aggression. Notably, it seems that the people of Gotham's unwillingness to give in and kill when faced with dire circumstances inspired Batman to take his ThouShaltNotKill policy more seriously [[spoiler: and save the Joker so he could be properly tried.]] ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' shows him overcoming his strict limitations of his own fear and growing past his weaknesses in order to match Bane's monstrous strength. ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' also shows Bruce [[spoiler:coming to terms with how dangerous and draining it is to be Batman, and finding [[LegacyCharacter a replacement for him as Batman]].]]
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: ''Batman Begins'' shows Bruce's training with the League Of Assassins which give him nearly superhuman skills like being able to vanish from Comissinor Gordon without the latter noticing or being able to lift overweight mob boss Carmine Falcone from the ground. The later movies downplay it a bit, showing that Bruce highly relays on intelligence and gadgets. Than again, in ''The Dark Knight Rises'' he heals very fast from a broken spine and escapes his prison by using sheer will.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Rachel was his closest friend in his pre-Batman days and he sought a relationship with her when he came back. She [[spoiler:ended up choosing Harvey Dent over him, and died without letting him know]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Bruce continues as Batman regardless of the increasing amounts of injuries he gains. In TDKR, [[spoiler:he is shown unable to move on without Rachel or his life as Batman, as she thought before her death. It isn't until the ending that Bruce is able to accept that what he has done as Batman is enough and he can move on with his life.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Batman has [[ThouShaltNotKill two]] [[DoesNotLikeGuns rules]]. Everything else is fair game, for instance shooting razor blades into Joker's face to throw off his stranglehold. Early on, even the first rule has been bent a bit when dealing with [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul]] by refusing to either murder him ''or'' save his life, and in some instances with the latter he's thrown shotguns to other people for them to use instead of him.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Or rather "Reboot" in this case, as unlike the Batman of the Characters/BatmanFilmSeries, the one here has the comics' suave MillionairePlayboy mask and makes sure to devote time to it, whereas the Batman of at least Keaton's time was a reclusive SociallyAwkwardHero for whom the "Bruce Wayne" identity was little more than a mask. There's also the fact he's much more reluctant to kill than Keaton's Batman, who not only did kill, but at times sported a PsychoticSmirk while doing so.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Anyone who's read the comics should know that his origin story was kicked off by his parents being murdered by a mugger.
* CoolCar: The Batmobile is a Tumbler that was made to [[TankGoodness be used in military situations.]]
* CoolGarage: The Batcave throughout much of ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is spookily cool but when [[spoiler: Wayne Manor is set aflame towards the end]], Batman uses a literal garage as his base of operations in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Both make a return in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', as well as a massive flood-able generator room and Wayne Enterprises entire sealed off R&D.
* TheCowl: As usual he fights in the shadows with fear and deception. He's there and gone before his target knows what hit him.
* CrazyPrepared: Though not ''quite'' as much as his comic or DCAU counterparts, Bruce Wayne sure has prepared for a lot of stuff.
** At the end of ''Begins'', Ra's has him pretty soundly pinned. In ''The Dark Knight'', we see that the gauntlets on Batman's new suit have spring loaded scallops, which would help in just such an occasion [[spoiler: as the ending of ''The Dark Knight'' demonstrates.]]
** Upon receiving catastrophic damage, the Tumbler's ejection system still provides Batman with the Batpod for a speedy getaway, while the source vehicle is designed to self-destruct.
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the self-destruct option for [[spoiler:the sonar device]] was most likely included because Batman anticipated that Lucius would not approve of it. Judging by how Bruce built it himself, he probably felt the same way, [[spoiler:despite the Joker making it necessary.]]
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' also shows him being too paranoid to release many inventions, using a room that can be manually flooded in an instant for housing an experimental generator, extra batsuits (which comes in handy since his first one gets damaged in the first fight with Bane), and most importantly [[spoiler: creating a perfect autopilot program for the Bat while at the same time constantly bemoaning how terrible it is that there's no autopilot, just in case he needs to fool his closest friends into thinking he died in a crash. Which he does at the end so he and Selina can vanish.]]
** He doesn't house all of his equipment under a single roof - the reason why Bane does not end up acquiring the Batpod, the Bat, or the extra Batsuits is because it's presumed he never finds out where they are stored, with the backup Batsuit being stored in what was the interim Batcave of ''The Dark Knight'', the Batpod stored in a back alley storage container, and the Bat having camofluage and being placed on top of a skyscraper.
* CrimefightingWithCash: The R&D of Wayne Entereprises makes his toys. He also funded a fusion reactor in DKR to fight the energy crisis.
* CoveredWithScars: To the point where Alfred sternly tells him, "Know your limits, Master Wayne" in ''The Dark Knight''.
* CurbstompBattle: He's on the receiving end from Bane early in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', which breaks his back and lands him in a hellhole prison. Another fight [[spoiler: with Bane]] turns the tables; while Batman has trouble keeping up with his opponent's speed and ferocity in the confines of the crowd, once the fight opens up it becomes evident that [[spoiler: Bane]] really has no chance, as Batman has shrugged off ''everything'' he's thrown at him, even when enraged, and now Batman has room to bob and weave and break [[spoiler: Bane's]] arms.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His parents were killed when young, prompting his journey to becoming Batman. Then he spent a time as a criminal himself in order to understand them and ended up in prison.
* DarkIsNotEvil: These movies in particular, more than most other adaptations, place a major emphasis on how dark the character is. They also place a major emphasis on how morally good and selfless he is.
* DatingCatwoman:
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', he has BelligerentSexualTension with the TropeNamer Selina Kyle. [[spoiler: At the end of ''Rises'' this trope becomes literal with Bruce dating Selina in Florence, Italy.]]
** [[spoiler: His other love interest, Miranda Tate, comes off as this, as she turns out to be Talia al-Ghul and much more villainous than she first appears; so Bruce's interest in her might count as well.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: As "Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire". Batman is more about intimidation than witty one-liners, although does have his moments as a SilentSnarker. It becomes more evident when he finds himself in SnarkToSnarkCombat between himself or Alfred, Fox, and Selina.
* DeathSeeker: In ''The Dark Knight Rises'' this is deconstructed. People point out that without fear of death, Bruce can't summon the determination to truly strive for the upper hand and he will continue to lose. He gets better.
* DentedIron: Throughout his career as Batman, Bruce has accumulated several injuries, some of which actually have hampered his fighting skills. In ''The Dark Knight'', he displays bruises on his back that actually concern Alfred, who tells Bruce to know his "limits". In ''Rises'', his years of being slumped and inactive in his home make him noticeably out of practice when he dons the suit again and is easily dominated by Bane in their first fight. Bruce even has to use a bionic brace on his knee in this movie, since he didn't recover from breaking it after the events of the second film.
* {{Determinator}}:
** This was mildly present even as a child. After falling down an old well, Bruce was less worried about his broken arm than he was about the massive swarm of bats.
** As Batman, things that will not stop him include: being set on fire while suffering from a weaponized hallucinogen (first film); a SWAT team, about to kill hostages dressed as kidnappers and vice-versa (second film). Feral dogs attacking him while being beaten by a crowbar (second film). [[spoiler:Police pursuit and being HatedByAll because of [[TakingTheHeat false murder charges]], even while chasing Bane and his men (third film)]]. [[spoiler: Dislocated vertebrae at the bottom of a prison pit, hundreds of miles away from Gotham, with a time bomb set to explode within a few months]]. When Selina is trying to convince him to leave Gotham before [[spoiler: it explodes]] he summarizes it quite nicely.
--->'''Selina:''' You don't owe these people any more. You've already given them everything.\\
'''Batman:''' Not everything. '''Not yet'''.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: "''No guns. [[ThouShaltNotKill No killing]].''" He annoys Selina, who says, "Where's the fun in that?!" when he tries to force this code on her during the rooftop fight with Bane's men. When dealing with some of the Joker's goons in the fundraising party, he disarms one and dislodges his firearm.
* TheDreaded: To criminals, until Comicbook/TheJoker comes to Gotham and becomes even more feared. At the end of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he regains this status [[spoiler:after TakingTheHeat for Harvey Dent's five murders.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Have you watched how he drives? As Bruce Wayne, he's normal, but as Batman, he's a whole other story.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After going through physical and emotional hell over the course of the trilogy, all while helping to save Gotham no less than three times, Bruce is finally able to move on from his quest for vengeance and put his trauma behind him at the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises'', retiring to a quiet life with Selina.]]
* EtTuBrute:
** He really must have felt disappointed when [[spoiler:Selina lures him against her will into a trap, resulting in him being beaten up by Bane.]]
** This also happens with [[spoiler:Miranda Tate]] later in the film. [[spoiler:Unlike with Selina, though, this betrayal was deliberate.]]
* ExactWords: "Tell me where the trigger is, then you have my permission to die!" [[spoiler: Batman doesn't kill Bane after learning the identity of the triggerwoman, but Catwoman does.]]
* ExaltedTorturer: He is the high-functioning case. If you are a SmugSnake of a dirty cop, he won't hesitate to traumatize you and scare you half to death as a form of interrogation. If you're a crime lord holding out information on a madman going on a destructive rampage through his city, he will go even farther. If you are said madman and the clock is ticking on people's lives, he will start at bodily harm and beat you within an inch of your life if that's what it takes. The Joker sees all this and, with mixed awe and annoyance, declares him "incorruptible" (because he has only one rule, "no killing", and he won't break it).
* ExpelledFromEveryOtherSchool: According to [[AllThereInTheManual the visual dictionary]], Bruce being kicked out of Princeton was not nearly the first time he'd been expelled from an Ivy League school. This is probably meant to establish the adult Bruce as a directionless layabout due to not properly coming to terms with his parents' murder.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises'', he fakes his death via bomb so he can finally put Gotham and his past behind him.]]
* FamilyHonor: He cares nothing for the social stature of his family name as seen in ''Batman Begins'', but carrying his family's legacy to protect Gotham is his primary motivation. This is established in the very beginning of ''Batman Begins'' and elaborated on by the writers in a DVD commentary with the conclusion of ''The Dark Knight Rises''.
* FamedInStory: Between Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises, the legends surrounding him grow, as does his symbol. Mayor Garcia and Foley repeatedly focus on the official line that he killed Harvey Dent, but kids, cops, and even criminals are all shown treating his return with awe. Catwoman is distracted from her safe cracking by his return!
* TheFettered: His 'one rule' is unbreakable.
* {{Fiction 500}}: The Tumbler, the body armor, the custom weaponry, the ''state of the art urban flying machine known only as the Bat''.... Bruce Wayne [[http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/fictional-15-12/bruce-wayne.html ranks #8 on Forbes's Fictional 15 list]] with a net worth of $6.9 billion.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic, shares this with Henri Ducard/[[spoiler:Ra's al Ghul]] and Miranda Tate/[[spoiler:Talia al Ghul]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Consistent with his comic book incarnations. Any kids who meet Batman (the boy in the Narrows, Gordon's son) are entirely unafraid of him, unlike most adults. He also gives food to a street urchin when he himself is starving, rescues teenaged imitators when they get in over their heads fighting crime, and in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', he is revealed to be funding orphanages with Wayne Enterprises' profits. At least, until the money stops.
* GameBreakingInjury: He injures his left leg after falling off a building with Two-Face, and by the time of ''Rises'', the cartilage in his knee has deteriorated to the point where he can't walk without a cane, and wears a [[PoweredArmor powered leg brace]] while in costume.
* GeniusBruiser: While Bruce didn't officially graduate from Princeton, he is fluent in at least two languages, knows enough engineering and electronics to replicate and expand upon existing technology without outside help, exceptional talent in the field of criminology (without formal training, as far as the viewer knows), and he is a good enough actor to fool three of his closest friends.
* GlorySeeker: In ''Rises'', Alfred believes that Bruce is just trying to recapture his glory days as Batman and that he should just accept that he isn't the Caped Crusader anymore. Though it drives (temporarily) a wedge between Bruce and Alfred, [[spoiler: he manages to put his life as Batman behind at the end.]]
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: He spends a large chunk of ''The Dark Knight'' trying to figure out what kind of motive The Joker could have for doing what he does. By the time he realizes that The Joker's actions are an end in and of itself, it's already too late.
* GoodIsNotSoft: From his {{Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique}}s to his [[HeroWithBadPublicity willingness to make decisions he is hated for]], this Batman is a major example of this trope.
* GreatDetective: Downplayed compared to his comics counterpart, who is unequivocally considered ''The'' World's Greatest Detective. However, Bruce is still shown to be a bit better than the police in tracking people and things down and solving mysteries; it's usually conflated with his [[ScienceHero use of technology and forensic skills]], and the movies don't involve "cases" so much as "long involved plots" unsuitable for detective work. Interestingly, in these films Bruce doesn't seem to have studied criminology in his travels, which he's generally done in most other incarnations.
* GuileHero: His greatest weapon is turning fear against those who prey on the fearful.
* GuiltComplex: He blames himself for everything that goes wrong; his dead parents, the people The Joker kills, [[spoiler: Rachel's death, and Harvey Dent's FaceHeelTurn. Also, Gotham's almost destruction in Ducard/Ra's hands. Possibly, of losing the Narrows. If the novelization is to be believed, Ducard's death. It's such an AchillesHeel for him that Bane attempts to use it as a FateWorseThanDeath by the third film... and very nearly succeeds]].
* HandicappedBadass: After suffering a GameBreakingInjury on his right leg [[spoiler:after falling with Two-Face at the end of ''The Dark Knight'']], Bruce could barely move his leg at all without the support of a cane. However, he gains a pseudo bionic-like device for his leg to help him keep moving.
* HasAType: The three women Bruce gets involved with, Rachel, Selina, and [[spoiler: Talia]], are all brunettes.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After [[spoiler:Rachel dies]] he is struggling with both villains and his own grief.
* HesBack: He pulls this off twice in ''Rises'', first when Batman returns after the stock market is hacked, then after Bruce escapes the Pit and returns to Gotham.
-->'''Bane:''' So, you came back to die with your city!\\
'''Batman:''' No. I came back to stop you.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: By the end of ''The Dark Knight'' after taking the heat for Two-Face's murders.]]
* TheHero: Batman is the titular superhero who brings justice for Gotham City.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Rachel's death is the cause of this lasting 8 years between the 2nd and 3rd movie.]]
* HeroicBuild: He is very muscular, to the point that he even provides part of the page image for the DyeingForYourArt page.
* HeroicLineage: In this universe, all the known Waynes were important and noble men of their times. Bruce is a superhero, Thomas was a doctor and tried to change Gotham into a better place and a distant ancestor helped slaves escape through the Undergound Railroad.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' to spare Gotham a nuclear bombing. However, this turns out to not be the case. He left a clue to each of his four [[SecretKeeper Secret Keepers]] to let them know he was still alive: The [[CoolPlane Bat's]] autopilot patch for Lucius, a fixed Bat-signal for Gordon, GPS co-ordinates to Blake for the Batcave, and last and definitely most... fulfilling Alfred's fantasy of seeing Bruce running away from it all with a lady in tow ([[DatingCatwoman Selina, no less]]) in Italy.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Batman's Bruce Wayne persona is only jerkish because he's trying to distract everyone from the theory that he might be Batman. He barely maintains it in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', where Miranda Tate points out that if he really ''was'' a shallow womanizing asshole, he wouldn't be so devoted to charity with personal connections to him (such as Harvey Dent, and orphanages), then be crushed when his causes fail.
* HonorBeforeReason: Deconstructed, as once the underworld figures out his one rule, they stop fearing him as much as they do ComicBook/TheJoker, who would kill them for fun.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He's this way for at least one villain per film.
** In the first film, there is Ra's al Ghul, a mentor who proved to be an extremist sociopath.
** In the second film, there is Harvey Dent, who proves to be NotSoAboveItAll when pushed over the edge by the Joker.
** In the last film, there is [[spoiler: Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul.]] Also he puts a lot of faith in Selina Kyle, and ends up (in his own words) "disappointed." [[spoiler:It's subverted in the end, where the faith he has in her ends up bringing out her good side.]]
** He also tends to underestimate the assorted {{Big Bad}}s in each film:
*** When the Joker appears, Batman, somewhat hypocritically, dismisses him as just one man who couldn't possibly be more dangerous than the mob. He ends up destroying quite a bit of the city, [[EvilerThanThou driving the last nail into the mob's coffin]] [[NearVillainVictory and almost doing the same for Batman]], and [[TheCorrupter drives Harvey Dent to madness.]]
*** Later, Batman, who has been out of action for roughly eight years, gets back in the batsuit, and is able to hunt down and capture several League of Shadow members who were trying to escape a bank robbery. The primary villain Bane manages to get away. Batman dismisses Bane as just another one of Ra's al Ghul's flunkies. When Bruce and Alfred review tapes of Bane's assault on the bank, Bruce brushes away Alfred's assessment of Bane's combat abilities, stating that he'll simply "fight harder". He teams up with Catwoman to go underground and take out Bane, only to be outsmarted by Bane and lured into a trap. It's only thanks to the ensuing CurbStompBattle that Batman realizes just how dangerous Bane really is.
* HorrifyingHero: Fittingly, the reaction that ''this'' Batman gets out of criminals (and decent folk) is ''not'' a "Shining Angelic Crusader of Justice", but rather "Hideous Demonic Giant Bat", believed by the poor folks stuck in The Narrows when their minds were warped by fear toxins.
* HopeBringer: This is his ultimate goal: give hope to the Gothamites that their city does not "belong to the criminals and the corrupt" and that their lives will get better.
* IconicSequelOutfit: While the batsuit in the first movie is more comic-accurate, the second batsuit is so synonymous with [[Creator/ChristianBale Christian Bale's]] incarnation that the original suit never once appeared in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* TheIdealist: Surprisingly inconsistent with his comic-book counterpart, even though he still possess most traits of a [[AntiHero cynical superhero]]. His desire to use non-lethal force comes from compassion, which is taunted as a weakness throughout the trilogy. It's taken to extremes in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', where [[spoiler:moments before he [[HeroicSacrifice flies a bomb away from Gotham to his death]], he reminds Selina and Gordon that he has faith in them]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: His refusal to kill stems from his belief that compassion is what separates him from the criminals he fights.
* IHaveThisFriend: In ''The Dark Knight Rises'', Bruce refers to Batman as his "powerful friend" in the hopes of changing Selina's mind about working with Bane to get him to go broke.
* IncompletelyTrained: Bruce has never completed his training with the League of Shadows that he started in ''Begins''. When his current lesson was to execute a man, he chose to flee and develop his skills as Batman on his own.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: He's called "incorruptible" by the Joker. Granted, Batman is the epitome of GoodIsNotNice, but Batman in the [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolanverse]] absolutely will not kill.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce throws a lavish fundraising party for Harvey Dent and declares his support for him in front of the guests. It rubs Rachel the wrong way, making her believe Bruce is actually mocking Dent and his efforts, but he maintains that he meant it.
* IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery: These films usually avert this trope, but on one occasion in the Dark Knight he acquires this look via a [[TechnoBabble Sonic imager]] in his mask giving his eyes an appearance similar to the comics.
* IronicFear: Of bats, even when in the persona of Batman. He gets over this as ''Batman Begins'' going from fearing bats to letting them fly around him and ultimately [[spoiler:using them to non-lethally defeat SWAT teams.]]
* IWorkAlone: This aspect of Batman is less present in this version, as he has faith in his allies like Alfred, Lucius and Gordon to aid him. However, when dealing with his copycats in ''The Dark Knight'', Batman bluntly states that he doesn't need their help.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Uses this often to get information but when he does it against Scarecrow by [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fear gassing him]]]] and then interrogating him; it makes Scarecrow [[spoiler: become insane and evil instead of sane and evil.]] Later, in ''The Dark Knight'', it doesn't work at all against Joker due to him being TooKinkyToTorture.
* KnightInSourArmor: This trope neatly fits him like a glove. He watches [[spoiler: his parents gunned down in front of him, the woman he loves is killed (and then he finds out that she loved someone else more than him), the KnightInShiningArmor he hoped would let him retire had turned insane, the city he had fought so hard to protect has vilified him, [[ComicBook/TheJoker he has seen the worst humanity has to offer]], he spent eight years in seclusion, three separate psychopaths have tried to destroy the city he swore to protect, he gets the shit beaten out of him and is tossed into a prison described as "hell on Earth" and is forced to watch his city turned into an anarchic prison...]] and yet he is still a staunch idealist who believes that RousseauWasRight, that people are worth saving, [[ThouShallNotKill and refuses to kill anyone]].
* ALadyOnEachArm: How he sometimes appears at social gatherings as a way of keeping up his "billionaire playboy" persona.
* LadykillerInLove: Actually downplayed since his ladykiller persona is just an act and Bruce may have never been relationship with the gorgeous women he appears in public with. The truth is that he pines for Rachel his entire life and wishes to be together with her. [[spoiler: In ''Rises'' he moves past his grief from her death and is in a stable and loving relationship with Selina Kyle.]]
* LargeHam: When he is Batman, he has these moments. More so in ''The Dark Knight'' and ''Rises'', while in ''Begins'' he was ''usually'' more subdued.
* LegallyDead: William Earle has Bruce declared dead to make it easier to turn Wayne Enterprises into a public company. It doesn't work because Bruce left a will naming Alfred as his beneficiary.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The series' theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZst_2xJHAI Molossus]], tends to play when he's onscreen as Batman.
* LetsGetDangerous: When Batman's limits have been reached, he resorts to other measures. See JackBauerInterrogationTechnique for more info. Case in point:
** In the beginning of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he is content to deal with the mob first until the Joker kills one of the copycats that Batman had saved only a few days ago. He turns all of his attention to Joker.
* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler: The only ones seen at Bruce's grave are the four men who knew he was Batman; Alfred, Gordon, Blake and Lucius. Of course, Bruce isn't actually dead which they learn afterwards.]]
* MadeOfIron: Batman has fallen off buildings numerous times (half the time not landing on his feet), set on fire, hit by a brick wall from a moving van, bitten by mob dogs, stabbed in the torso by [[spoiler:Talia]], and taking a huge beating from Bane twice (the same guy punching holes in concrete pillars).
* ManlyFacialHair: Has one in the {{backstory}} of ''Batman Begins'' when in prison and kicking seven criminals' asses at once.
* MarriedToTheJob: Subverted. Bruce initially made it clear that once Gotham no longer needed Batman, he would go on to settle down and start a family. Unfortunately, circumstances forced him to put his mission before his personal happiness, [[spoiler:as seen with Rachel's death. It's only after meeting Selina Kyle and saving Gotham one last time that he is able to start a new life.]]
* MasterActor: You would have to be to balance being a MillionairePlayboy and a superhero, and fool three of your closest friends while doing so along with the entire city.
* McNinja: Had training along these lines from [[EqualOpportunityEvil The League Of Shadows]]. However, due to their KnightTemplar tendencies and [[spoiler: desire to destroy Gotham with Scarecrow's fear toxin]], Bruce left them ([[StuffBlowingUp violently]]) and later, [[spoiler:left their leader, Ra's al Ghul, to die, after he tried to destroy Gotham]].
* MegatonPunch: He lands the mother of all kicks on [[spoiler: Bane]], sending him through a glass door, and then ''another one'' sending him flying another few feet. The second one is especially funny, as the victim looks up, dazed, [[OhCrap just in time to see it coming]].
* TheMentor: He gives advice and guidance to John Blake's Luke, a heroic young man who ''also'' lost parents to violent death. [[spoiler:Except he doesn't die.]]
* MillionairePlayboy: He keeps up this appearance as a cover. In ''Batman Begins'' he randomly buys a restaurant and in ''The Dark Knight'', he absconds with the entire Russian ballet in a seaplane.
* TheMourningAfter: In ''The Dark Knight Rises''. [[spoiler: After Rachel dies in ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce resolves never to love anyone else romantically again and becomes a recluse for eight years, seeing no chance of having a normal, happy life now she's gone. He even thinks trying to move on would somehow insult her memory, because he believes she never gave up waiting for him. It's then {{subverted|trope}} when Alfred reveals that Rachel actually chose Harvey Dent over Bruce (which he didn't mention at the time to avoid pouring salt in the wound); after this revelation Bruce pursues a relationship with Miranda Tate. ''That'' [[LoveInterestTraitor doesn't end well either]], though luckily Selina Kyle is quick to take her place]].
* NiceGuy: Especially in comparison to other incarnations of the character. He is fairly respectful to those that he meets, even in his MillionairePlayboy persona. While he certainly takes his mission to protect Gotham seriously, he comes across as less obsessive about it that than in the comics and other adaptations. Also, while Bruce/Batman in other adaptations will reluctantly, if genuinely admit how much he respects and needs the help of his allies, this incarnation has no problem stating that he owes his success to the aid of his allies and friends.
* MrFanservice: Part of the 'billionaire playboy' persona is looking fantastic.
* NonIdleRich: Par the course for Batman. Bruce fools the public and most people in his social circle by posing as a lazy, carefree and eccentric billionaire but it's all a cover for his double life as a superhero.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: That shallow womanizing playboy can't ''possibly'' be a ferocious vigilante that dresses up like a bat, because "a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues".
* OldSuperhero: A downplayed example, but in ''The Dark Knight Rises'' Bruce is around thirty-nine years old after being retired for eight years. This means he starts to suffer from the many injuries he acquired while crime fighting while focus is placed on his struggle to achieve the same physical feats that he could do in the first two films.
* OnceAnEpisode: Each film in the series has him directly involved in the death of one adversary.
** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', [[spoiler:he refuses to outright kill Ra's al Ghul, but all the same, he leaves him to his own devices, resulting in his death when the train goes off the rails.]]
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[spoiler:In order to save Gordon's son, he knocks Two-Face over a narrow ledge, resulting in Two-Face breaking his neck in a nasty fall.]]
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', [[spoiler:he shoots at Talia al Ghul with lethal intent in the bomb truck she's driving, resulting in her crashing it and dying moments later.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** [[spoiler:Several times Bruce mentions that he has not fixed the autopilot, which comes back near the end when he has to fly the bomb away. Barring the fact that [[ILied he lied]], and used it to fake his death.]]
** If he ever threatens to kill someone, you know damn well that a very serious situation is going on.
* OrderVersusChaos: Represents order to the Joker's chaos in ''The Dark Knight'' because he is trying to keep the city stable and the rule of law in place.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[MemeticMutation HIS PARENTS ARE DEEAAAAAAAD!]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: To 'Robin' John Blake in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' by giving him the coordinates of the Batcave.]]
* PoweredArmor: Prior to the leg brace [[GameBreakingInjury mentioned above]], Batman tries out power-assist technology at the start of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' (you can hear the noise of the servos). It lets him [[BarehandedBarBending bend a gun barrel with one hand]] and almost literally tear his way through the side of the Scarecrow's van, but he later mentions to Lucius Fox that the new armor is too heavy and clumsy.
* PretenderDiss: In ''The Dark Knight'', Batman doesn't appreciate the costumed vigilantes who dress up as him and try to fight the mob. When one says he only wanted to help, Batman shouts back that he doesn't need help and mocks their costumes for featuring "hockey pads".
* PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative: In the novelization of ''Begins'', between returning to Gotham and revealing himself to Earle, Bruce poses as his own cousin, "Gene Valley", to investigate the legends about Ra's al Ghul.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gets a few that serves to deconstruct some of his character traits:
-->'''Maroni:''' ''They're wise to your act; you'' ''[[ThouShaltNotKill have rules.]]'' ''But the Joker, he has no rules. No one is going to give him up for you.''\\
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'''Old Prisoner:''' ''You're NotAfraidToDie. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak. How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?''
* ReedRichardsIsUseless:
** Lampshaded and Justified in ''The Dark Knight Rises''. When Alfred asks Bruce why he doesn't hand over all his fancy technology to the police for their use, Bruce replies that one man's tool is another man's weapon, and he fears somebody would misuse his technology if it falls into the wrong hands. He's later proven right when [[spoiler: Bane steals all of the experimental weapons he has locked away and turns his fusion reactor into a bomb.]]
** It is also pointed out that the prototypes are all far too expensive in terms of the mass production required for a police force, or the military, with the unmodified Batsuit costing at least $300,000.
* RetiredBadass: Bruce has not been Batman for quite a while between ''The Dark Knight'' and ''The Dark Knight Rises'', but HesBack for the film. [[spoiler: He finally gives the cowl to Robin John Blake at the end of the film, and fakes his death to get out of the job.]]
* RichesToRags: [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane and his men raid the Stock Exchange and execute fake trades that bankrupt Bruce, causing him to go "From Billionaire to Bum."]]
* RousseauWasRight: In stark contrast with [[StrawNihilist The Joker's]] belief of HumansAreBastards, Batman firmly believes in the good of humankind. For example, [[spoiler: in ''The Dark Knight's'' climax, The Joker has rigged two ships (one containing prisoners, and the other containing refugees) with explosives. If one ship blows up, the other ship leaves. However, not only do both sides defy The Joker, it was the prisoners who refuse to do it first]].
* ScienceHero: He has all those wonderful toys provided by Lucius Fox and his "Applied Sciences Division" at Wayne Enterprises, and can excise clues from even the most mangled evidence.
* SecretIdentity: This series provides a deconstruction of the trope. No matter how hard Bruce tries, he can't keep his identity as Batman from everyone and, at least once per movie, one character finds out. At least most of his friends agree to keep his secret.
* SecretIdentityVocalShift:
** The deepening of Bruce Wayne's voice when he puts on the Batman costume sounds like he's gargling with gravel. Oddly, he still does this even when he's talking to people as Batman who know his secret identity.
** He takes this to another level in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' where he has his normal Bruce Wayne voice, a raspy voice for talking to allies as Batman, and the gravel-gargling voice he uses when trying to scare the crap out of bad guys.
* SlapSlapKiss: With Selina Kyle, predictably enough. They go from SnarkToSnarkCombat in their first scenes to BigDamnKiss.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Represents idealism to The League of Shadows' cynicism in ''Batman Begins''. He believes that Gotham can be saved while they believe it is beyond saving and needs a MercyKill.
* StealthExpert: Along with Batman's obligatory StealthHiBye, although Gordon nearly caught him the first time he tried this with Gordon. He thinks it's just some nut.
* TheStoic: Even as a child, Bruce [[CatapultNightmare woke up quietly]] [[AvertedTrope after nightmares]], and rarely cried.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Dark Knight'', for Harvey Dent's crimes. He is later cleared in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', ironically enough, by Bane.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome[=/=]TallDarkAndSnarky: The playboy persona is handsome ''and'' snarky because Batman is scary and stoic.
* TechnicalPacifist: While he never intends to kill someone, he turns a blind eye to [[spoiler:Ra's al Ghul]], and accidentally kills several people. The garbage truck driver in ''The Dark Knight'' and Ra's in ''Batman Begins''.
* TerrorHero: Although Batman has inspired hope in Gotham by the time of ''The Dark Knight'' (enough to inspire {{Heroic Wannabe}}s), criminals are scared of Batman. At least they are until the mob realizes Batman [[ThouShaltNotKill won't actually kill them]]. While they're still afraid of him, they fear the Joker far more.
* ThatManIsDead: As of ''The Dark Knight Rises'', Bruce Wayne has forsaken his Batman identity. That Batman hasn't been seen since [[spoiler:the death of Dent.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: {{Deconstructed}}. ''The Dark Knight'' explores how this moral high ground makes him drastically weaker than the Joker. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] by [[EvilMentor Ducard]] in ''Batman Begins''. Notably though, this version of Batman is ''not'' a zealot about this stance and will kill when it's necessary. [[spoiler:Ra's Al Ghul, Two-Face, and Talia al Ghul all found this out the hard way.]]
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: After reconditioning himself in the Pit during ''Rises'', no more mention is made of his bum knee or broken back.
* TookALevelInBadass: Throughout ''Batman Begins'', which chronicles his journey from frightened child to caped crusader. ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' did it again, showing him recovering first from years of apathy, and later from severe beating and near death; the result releases certain inhibitions and hardens him enough [[spoiler: To match and overpower Bane in their next confrontation.]] Subverted in that Bane [[spoiler: clearly has the physical advantage over Bats in their second fight, though by no means as decisively as their first bout. Batman wins not by overpowering him, but by [[AttackItsWeakPoint disabling his mask]].]]
* TripleShifter: He is so invested in his career as Batman that he barely gets a regular sleep. In ''The Dark Knight'' he falls asleep in the middle of board director meeting at Wayne Enterprises.
* {{Ubermensch}}: Part of his HopeBringer goal is to become a larger-than-life symbol that will inspire others to change the status quo of Gotham.
* UnclePennybags: His charity efforts get a mention in ''Rises'', where is stated that he supported an orphanage and the news of it closing down when he goes broke affects him.
* UnwittingPawn: He ends up being this to every BigBad in the trilogy: he plays into Ra's al Ghul's hands by [[spoiler:saving his life]] and later by raiding Arkham Asylum when Rachel gets poisoned; he plays into the Joker's hands twice, first by bringing Lau in and causing the Chechen to hire the Joker in the first place, and then by luring him into a trap set by Gordon and, as part of Joker's distraction to escape police custody with Lau in tow afterwards, sets off to save Rachel [[spoiler:only to end up saving Harvey instead]] (though the third time Joker tries to get him to play into his hands, he just saves the Joker from falling to his death, having learned his lesson from the first two times); and he plays into the hands of Bane [[spoiler:and Talia]] by chasing the men who had just committed stock exchange fraud against him, trusting Miranda Tate [[spoiler:(actually Talia in disguise)]] with the fusion reactor, and letting Selina Kyle lead him to Bane for their first confrontation.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: At the end of ''Batman Begins'', Rachel mentions this, though compared to many other examples of the trope this is rather downplayed, as he's still on the side of good.
* VigilanteMan:
** The police see Batman as this in ''Batman Begins'' which allows [[spoiler:Dr. Crane to call the cops on him. SWAT tries to arrest Batman and they fail.]]
** Also, Henri Ducard has advice for Bruce on this:
---> "A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely... A legend, Mr. Wayne."
* WellDoneSonGuy: In Bruce's mind his work as Batman for Gotham is simply continuing his father's work of making his home a better place. In the bonus feature's of TDKR dvd, one of the writers states Bruce's thoughts during the end as...
--> "[[spoiler:What I've done is enough.]] My father would be proud."
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: - As a kid and as a young adult, Bruce was terrified of bats, so it's no accident that the bat became his personal symbol when he began his one-man crusade against crime in Gotham.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Batman thinks that he and Rachel are destined to be together and that Harvey is just a Romantic FalseLead. But [[spoiler: as Rachel reveals in a letter, she would have chosen Harvey Dent.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: At the very least, Batman would [[spoiler:attack a vehicle that has Talia inside of it, with artillery]].
* TheWisePrince: Figuratively and secretly he is the prince of Gotham and does a good job "ruling" it.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Averted. Bruce never gets closure with Joe Chill, his parents' murderer, because of a female assassin posing as a reporter shooting Chill before Bruce can get the chance.]]
* ZeroApprovalGambit: He came up with this plan at the end of ''The Dark Knight'' to ensure the criminals Harvey Dent locked up stayed locked up. It works for eight years, but it ultimately crashed and burned after [[spoiler: Bane reveals what Batman and Gordon did.]]
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[[folder:Alfred Pennyworth]]
!!''Alfred Pennyworth''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Know your limits, Master Wayne."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelCaine
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidMcCallum, Armando Réndiz (Latin-American Spanish; ''Begins''), Creator/JoseLavat (Latin-American Spanish; ''The Dark Knight'' and ''Rises'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''
-->''"Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make: the right choice."''
The Wayne Family butler, Alfred is Bruce's guardian, confidante and oldest friend. He knows Batman's identity, having aided him from the very start.
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* ActionHero: He can beat the holy crap out of even a stupidly lopsided outnumbering of mooks.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In ''Rises'' Bruce went into retirement eight years ago after only a year of crime fighting, where he has done nothing but dwell on his failures and losses. In the comics Bruce has a career spanning several years at least while in ''The Dark Knight Returns'' comic, which ''Rises'' adapts elements of, he was forced by the public due to distrust which he was resentful of and didn't seem to have many regrets.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is much less surly and grim than most incarnations of the character in comics and other adaptations.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Batman's motivations in Nolan's trilogy is quite different from comics and other versions, in that it's essentially romantic. While Batman was traumatized by his parents' murder, what really convinced him to travel the world, train and learn to become a crime-fighter is Rachel Dawes chewing him out for even thinking of using a gun against Joe Chill, and his crusade in the first two films is more or less to prove to Rachel that he's changed and become heroic. In ''The Dark Knight'' he repeatedly tells her that he sees Harvey Dent's war on crime as a potential way to end his crime-fighting which would allow them to be together. Even in ''Rises'', his motivations are driven by his feelings towards Miranda Tate and Selina, [[spoiler:and in the end, he decides to give up fighting crime and settle down with Selina]]. In most other versions, Batman's love-life is complicated because of his commitment to the mission, and that he's tragically incapable of giving up despite his feelings for other women. In Nolan's films, his mission was arguably motivated by his romantic relationships.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: ''Animal Alias'' variant, as per usual.
* AntiHero: A PragmaticHero. Has resorted to the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on many occasions, including dropping someone off a building and breaking both their legs on one occasion. Has also caused quite a lot of collateral damage with equipment like the Tumbler, and acts jerkish and anti-social in his rich billionaire persona to help hide his activities as Batman, but that's just a [[HiddenHeartOfGold facade]].
%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave badass tropes at first level and at their own alphabetical spot, please.
* ArchEnemy: He has four across the trilogy:
** The first is Henri Ducard, the true Ra's al Ghul and leader of the League of Shadows. He's Bruce's former mentor who attempts to recruit him into joining the League of Shadows, the [[GreaterScopeVillain same group that is indirectly responsible]] for the deaths of his parents since they tried to destroy Gotham through damaging the economy. Several after his death at the end of the first film, Ducard's actions in the first film come back to haunt Bruce in the third film in the form of Bane [[spoiler:and his daughter Talia]].
** The second is Jonathan Crane, better known as the Scarecrow. While he becomes less of a threat with each instalment and is an UnwittingPawn for the League in ''Begins'', he's Bruce's most reoccurring foe and appears in all media related to the trilogy.
** The third is unsurprisingly the Joker, who's actions next too Ducard's has the biggest impact on Bruce and Gotham. The Joker's aggression pushes Bruce to solidify his moral code and ThouShallNotKill rule, and his actions result in the [[spoiler:death of Rachel and Harvey's transformation into Two-Face]], culminating in Bruce deciding to become a HeroWithBadPublicity to protect Gotham. Overall, the Joker causes the most harm to Bruce out of all the villains in the trilogy.
** The fourth is Bane, the FinalBoss of the trilogy and Bruce's [[GeniusBruiser intellectual and physical superior]]. Similar to how the Joker pushed Bruce to deciding what his moral code is and what he stands for, Bane pushes Bruce to realises what his limitations actually are and to find the strength to succeed seemingly impossible tasks.
%%* BadassBiker: Becomes one in ''The Dark Knight'' thanks to the Batpod.
* BadassBoast:
** In ''Batman Begins'', he gets one before fighting another prisoner:
--->'''Prisoner:''' You are in hell, little man, and I am the devil.\\
'''Bruce:''' You're not the devil. You're ''practice''.
** Delivers one to Bane in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', which doubles as an IronicEcho:
--->'''Batman:''' When you tell me where the detonator is, ''you'' have ''my'' permission to die!
* BadassCape: In addition to the 'look like a giant bat' intimidation factor, his cape is also functional as a glider.
* BadassInDistress: In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', [[spoiler:Bruce is trapped in the prison Bane and Talia were in for a while until he overcomes his insecurities and flaws, and trains hard enough to escape.]]
%%* BadassLongcoat: Wears one occasionally in ''Batman Begins''.
%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave badass tropes at first level and at their own alphabetical spot, please.
%%* BadassNormal: Well, duh. Most notable when he's put up against the [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower blatantly superhuman]] Bane.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:He anticipates Fox's ethical objections to the surveillance system he commissions to track down the Joker, and so gives him the kill code to destroy the system once its sole purpose is fulfilled.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: During his self-imposed seclusion in ''The Dark Knight Rises''. He is clean shaven when he returns to Gotham, which symbolizes his regained confidence and willpower.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In a flashback in ''Batman Begins'', Bruce expresses that he wants to [[spoiler:take Wayne Manor apart brick by brick]]. At the end of ''Batman Begins'', [[spoiler:his entire mansion is burnt down.]]
* BecomingTheMask: Bruce shows hints of this, such as instances where he retains the Bat-voice either when alone or out of costume, and his general obsession with ''being'' Batman and embodying his myths.
* BeneathTheMask: We see the default Bruce Wayne personality (usually when alone with Alfred, and Catwoman brings it out) to be less serious and more mischievous than the ultra-intense Batman. He is more introspective and strategic when out of costume, while as Batman he instead uses incredible focus, cunning, and quick thinking to overcome challenges.
* BettyAndVeronica: In ''The Dark Knight'' he becomes the Veronica to Harvey's Betty. He's the unlawful vigilante and millionare playboy while Dent is the morally upstanding attorney and Gotham's "White Knight" and, despite the fact she is dating Harvey, [[spoiler: Bruce gets to share a kiss with her.]] However, [[spoiler: she reveals in a letter that she couldn't be with Bruce due to his obsession with being Batman and chose to be with Dent.]]
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Inverted. Bruce shows distaste for his masked persona whenever he's in public, claiming the guy has "issues" in ''Begins'', and wondering who appointed him as the protector of Gotham in ''The Dark Knight''. This, combined with his MillionairePlayboy persona, throws off all suspicion of him being Batman.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His forearm blades are his most consistent tools in hand to hand combat, and he ends up using them to win the final fights in all three movies: they break Ra's's sword in the train fight, are fired off to wound the Joker and set him up for Bruce's takedown in the Pruitt Building, and they break Bane's mask.
* ByronicHero: He experiences great personal suffering while fighting crime.
* TheCasanova: Part of his public persona as a rich playboy is being a hit with the ladies, showing up with two of them in a restaurant he buys in ''Begins'' and absconding with an entire Russian ballet in ''The Dark Knight''. However, in his personal life, he has gotten involved with all the major female characters in the series: shared a kiss with Rachel, slept with Miranda and settled down with Selina.
* CharacterDevelopment: A large part of ''The Dark Knight'' shows his Moral Code solidifying compared to the end of ''Batman Begins'', in response to Joker's aggression. Notably, it seems that the people of Gotham's unwillingness to give in and kill when faced with dire circumstances inspired Batman to take his ThouShaltNotKill policy more seriously [[spoiler: and save the Joker so he could be properly tried.]] ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' shows him overcoming his strict limitations of his own fear and growing past his weaknesses in order to match Bane's monstrous strength. ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' also shows Bruce [[spoiler:coming to terms with how dangerous and draining it is to be Batman, and finding [[LegacyCharacter a replacement for him as Batman]].]]
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: ''Batman Begins'' shows Bruce's training with the League Of Assassins which give him nearly superhuman skills like being able to vanish from Comissinor Gordon without the latter noticing or being able to lift overweight mob boss Carmine Falcone from the ground. The later movies downplay it a bit, showing that Bruce highly relays on intelligence and gadgets. Than again, in ''The Dark Knight Rises'' he heals very fast from a broken spine and escapes his prison by using sheer will.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Rachel was his closest friend in his pre-Batman days and he sought a relationship with her when he came back. She [[spoiler:ended up choosing Harvey Dent over him, and died without letting him know]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Bruce continues as Batman regardless of the increasing amounts of injuries he gains. In TDKR, [[spoiler:he is shown unable to move on without Rachel or his life as Batman, as she thought before her death. It isn't until the ending that Bruce is able to accept that what he has done as Batman is enough and he can move on with his life.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Batman has [[ThouShaltNotKill two]] [[DoesNotLikeGuns rules]]. Everything else is fair game, for instance shooting razor blades into Joker's face to throw off his stranglehold. Early on, even the first rule has been bent a bit when dealing with [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul]] by refusing to either murder him ''or'' save his life, and in some instances with the latter he's thrown shotguns to other people for them to use instead of him.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Or rather "Reboot" in this case, as unlike the Batman of the Characters/BatmanFilmSeries, the one here has the comics' suave MillionairePlayboy mask and makes sure to devote time to it, whereas the Batman of at least Keaton's time was a reclusive SociallyAwkwardHero for whom the "Bruce Wayne" identity was little more than a mask. There's also the fact he's much more reluctant to kill than Keaton's Batman, who not only did kill, but at times sported a PsychoticSmirk while doing so.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Anyone who's read the comics should know that his origin story was kicked off by his parents being murdered by a mugger.
* CoolCar: The Batmobile is a Tumbler that was made to [[TankGoodness be used in military situations.]]
* CoolGarage: The Batcave throughout much of ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is spookily cool but when [[spoiler: Wayne Manor is set aflame towards the end]], Batman uses a literal garage as his base of operations in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Both make a return in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', as well as a massive flood-able generator room and Wayne Enterprises entire sealed off R&D.
* TheCowl: As usual he fights in the shadows with fear and deception. He's there and gone before his target knows what hit him.
* CrazyPrepared: Though not ''quite'' as much as his comic or DCAU counterparts, Bruce Wayne sure has prepared for a lot of stuff.
** At the end of ''Begins'', Ra's has him pretty soundly pinned. In ''The Dark Knight'', we see that the gauntlets on Batman's new suit have spring loaded scallops, which would help in just such an occasion [[spoiler: as the ending of ''The Dark Knight'' demonstrates.]]
** Upon receiving catastrophic damage, the Tumbler's ejection system still provides Batman with the Batpod for a speedy getaway, while the source vehicle is designed to self-destruct.
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the self-destruct option for [[spoiler:the sonar device]] was most likely included because Batman anticipated that Lucius would not approve of it. Judging by how Bruce built it himself, he probably felt the same way, [[spoiler:despite the Joker making it necessary.]]
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' also shows him being too paranoid to release many inventions, using a room that can be manually flooded in an instant for housing an experimental generator, extra batsuits (which comes in handy since his first one gets damaged in the first fight with Bane), and most importantly [[spoiler: creating a perfect autopilot program for the Bat while at the same time constantly bemoaning how terrible it is that there's no autopilot, just in case he needs to fool his closest friends into thinking he died in a crash. Which he does at the end so he and Selina can vanish.]]
** He doesn't house all of his equipment under a single roof - the reason why Bane does not end up acquiring the Batpod, the Bat, or the extra Batsuits is because it's presumed he never finds out where they are stored, with the backup Batsuit being stored in what was the interim Batcave of ''The Dark Knight'', the Batpod stored in a back alley storage container, and the Bat having camofluage and being placed on top of a skyscraper.
* CrimefightingWithCash: The R&D of Wayne Entereprises makes his toys. He also funded a fusion reactor in DKR to fight the energy crisis.
* CoveredWithScars: To the point where Alfred sternly tells him, "Know your limits, Master Wayne" in ''The Dark Knight''.
* CurbstompBattle: He's on the receiving end from Bane early in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', which breaks his back and lands him in a hellhole prison. Another fight [[spoiler: with Bane]] turns the tables; while Batman has trouble keeping up with his opponent's speed and ferocity in the confines of the crowd, once the fight opens up it becomes evident that [[spoiler: Bane]] really has no chance, as Batman has shrugged off ''everything'' he's thrown at him, even when enraged, and now Batman has room to bob and weave and break [[spoiler: Bane's]] arms.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His parents were killed when young, prompting his journey to becoming Batman. Then he spent a time as a criminal himself in order to understand them and ended up in prison.
* DarkIsNotEvil: These movies in particular, more than most other adaptations, place a major emphasis on how dark the character is. They also place a major emphasis on how morally good and selfless he is.
* DatingCatwoman:
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', he has BelligerentSexualTension with the TropeNamer Selina Kyle. [[spoiler: At the end of ''Rises'' this trope becomes literal with Bruce dating Selina in Florence, Italy.]]
** [[spoiler: His other love interest, Miranda Tate, comes off as this, as she turns out to be Talia al-Ghul and much more villainous than she first appears; so Bruce's interest in her might count as well.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: As "Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire". Batman is more about intimidation than witty one-liners, although does have his moments as a SilentSnarker. It becomes more evident when he finds himself in SnarkToSnarkCombat between himself or Alfred, Fox, and Selina.
* DeathSeeker: In ''The Dark Knight Rises'' this is deconstructed. People point out that without fear of death, Bruce can't summon the determination to truly strive for the upper hand and he will continue to lose. He gets better.
* DentedIron: Throughout his career as Batman, Bruce has accumulated several injuries, some of which actually have hampered his fighting skills. In ''The Dark Knight'', he displays bruises on his back that actually concern Alfred, who tells Bruce to know his "limits". In ''Rises'', his years of being slumped and inactive in his home make him noticeably out of practice when he dons the suit again and is easily dominated by Bane in their first fight. Bruce even has to use a bionic brace on his knee in this movie, since he didn't recover from breaking it after the events of the second film.
* {{Determinator}}:
** This was mildly present even as a child. After falling down an old well, Bruce was less worried about his broken arm than he was about the massive swarm of bats.
** As Batman, things that will not stop him include: being set on fire while suffering from a weaponized hallucinogen (first film); a SWAT team, about to kill hostages dressed as kidnappers and vice-versa (second film). Feral dogs attacking him while being beaten by a crowbar (second film). [[spoiler:Police pursuit and being HatedByAll because of [[TakingTheHeat false murder charges]], even while chasing Bane and his men (third film)]]. [[spoiler: Dislocated vertebrae at the bottom of a prison pit, hundreds of miles away from Gotham, with a time bomb set to explode within a few months]]. When Selina is trying to convince him to leave Gotham before [[spoiler: it explodes]] he summarizes it quite nicely.
--->'''Selina:''' You don't owe these people any more. You've already given them everything.\\
'''Batman:''' Not everything. '''Not yet'''.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: "''No guns. [[ThouShaltNotKill No killing]].''" He annoys Selina, who says, "Where's the fun in that?!" when he tries to force this code on her during the rooftop fight with Bane's men. When dealing with some of the Joker's goons in the fundraising party, he disarms one and dislodges his firearm.
* TheDreaded: To criminals, until Comicbook/TheJoker comes to Gotham and becomes even more feared. At the end of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he regains this status [[spoiler:after TakingTheHeat for Harvey Dent's five murders.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Have you watched how he drives? As Bruce Wayne, he's normal, but as Batman, he's a whole other story.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After going through physical and emotional hell over the course of the trilogy, all while helping to save Gotham no less than three times, Bruce is finally able to move on from his quest for vengeance and put his trauma behind him at the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises'', retiring to a quiet life with Selina.]]
* EtTuBrute:
** He really must have felt disappointed when [[spoiler:Selina lures him against her will into a trap, resulting in him being beaten up by Bane.]]
** This also happens with [[spoiler:Miranda Tate]] later in the film. [[spoiler:Unlike with Selina, though, this betrayal was deliberate.]]
* ExactWords: "Tell me where the trigger is, then you have my permission to die!" [[spoiler: Batman doesn't kill Bane after learning the identity of the triggerwoman, but Catwoman does.]]
* ExaltedTorturer: He is the high-functioning case. If you are a SmugSnake of a dirty cop, he won't hesitate to traumatize you and scare you half to death as a form of interrogation. If you're a crime lord holding out information on a madman going on a destructive rampage through his city, he will go even farther. If you are said madman and the clock is ticking on people's lives, he will start at bodily harm and beat you within an inch of your life if that's what it takes. The Joker sees all this and, with mixed awe and annoyance, declares him "incorruptible" (because he has only one rule, "no killing", and he won't break it).
* ExpelledFromEveryOtherSchool: According to [[AllThereInTheManual the visual dictionary]], Bruce being kicked out of Princeton was not nearly the first time he'd been expelled from an Ivy League school. This is probably meant to establish the adult Bruce as a directionless layabout due to not properly coming to terms with his parents' murder.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises'', he fakes his death via bomb so he can finally put Gotham and his past behind him.]]
* FamilyHonor: He cares nothing for the social stature of his family name as seen in ''Batman Begins'', but carrying his family's legacy to protect Gotham is his primary motivation. This is established in the very beginning of ''Batman Begins'' and elaborated on by the writers in a DVD commentary with the conclusion of ''The Dark Knight Rises''.
* FamedInStory: Between Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises, the legends surrounding him grow, as does his symbol. Mayor Garcia and Foley repeatedly focus on the official line that he killed Harvey Dent, but kids, cops, and even criminals are all shown treating his return with awe. Catwoman is distracted from her safe cracking by his return!
* TheFettered: His 'one rule' is unbreakable.
* {{Fiction 500}}: The Tumbler, the body armor, the custom weaponry, the ''state of the art urban flying machine known only as the Bat''.... Bruce Wayne [[http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/fictional-15-12/bruce-wayne.html ranks #8 on Forbes's Fictional 15 list]] with a net worth of $6.9 billion.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic, shares this with Henri Ducard/[[spoiler:Ra's al Ghul]] and Miranda Tate/[[spoiler:Talia al Ghul]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Consistent with his comic book incarnations. Any kids who meet Batman (the boy in the Narrows, Gordon's son) are entirely unafraid of him, unlike most adults. He also gives food to a street urchin when he himself is starving, rescues teenaged imitators when they get in over their heads fighting crime, and in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', he is revealed to be funding orphanages with Wayne Enterprises' profits. At least, until the money stops.
* GameBreakingInjury: He injures his left leg after falling off a building with Two-Face, and by the time of ''Rises'', the cartilage in his knee has deteriorated to the point where he can't walk without a cane, and wears a [[PoweredArmor powered leg brace]] while in costume.
* GeniusBruiser: While Bruce didn't officially graduate from Princeton, he is fluent in at least two languages, knows enough engineering and electronics to replicate and expand upon existing technology without outside help, exceptional talent in the field of criminology (without formal training, as far as the viewer knows), and he is a good enough actor to fool three of his closest friends.
* GlorySeeker: In ''Rises'', Alfred believes that Bruce is just trying to recapture his glory days as Batman and that he should just accept that he isn't the Caped Crusader anymore. Though it drives (temporarily) a wedge between Bruce and Alfred, [[spoiler: he manages to put his life as Batman behind at the end.]]
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: He spends a large chunk of ''The Dark Knight'' trying to figure out what kind of motive The Joker could have for doing what he does. By the time he realizes that The Joker's actions are an end in and of itself, it's already too late.
* GoodIsNotSoft: From his {{Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique}}s to his [[HeroWithBadPublicity willingness to make decisions he is hated for]], this Batman is a major example of this trope.
* GreatDetective: Downplayed compared to his comics counterpart, who is unequivocally considered ''The'' World's Greatest Detective. However, Bruce is still shown to be a bit better than the police in tracking people and things down and solving mysteries; it's usually conflated with his [[ScienceHero use of technology and forensic skills]], and the movies don't involve "cases" so much as "long involved plots" unsuitable for detective work. Interestingly, in these films Bruce doesn't seem to have studied criminology in his travels, which he's generally done in most other incarnations.
* GuileHero: His greatest weapon is turning fear against those who prey on the fearful.
* GuiltComplex: He blames himself for everything that goes wrong; his dead parents, the people The Joker kills, [[spoiler: Rachel's death, and Harvey Dent's FaceHeelTurn. Also, Gotham's almost destruction in Ducard/Ra's hands. Possibly, of losing the Narrows. If the novelization is to be believed, Ducard's death. It's such an AchillesHeel for him that Bane attempts to use it as a FateWorseThanDeath by the third film... and very nearly succeeds]].
* HandicappedBadass: After suffering a GameBreakingInjury on his right leg [[spoiler:after falling with Two-Face at the end of ''The Dark Knight'']], Bruce could barely move his leg at all without the support of a cane. However, he gains a pseudo bionic-like device for his leg to help him keep moving.
* HasAType: The three women Bruce gets involved with, Rachel, Selina, and [[spoiler: Talia]], are all brunettes.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After [[spoiler:Rachel dies]] he is struggling with both villains and his own grief.
* HesBack: He pulls this off twice in ''Rises'', first when Batman returns after the stock market is hacked, then after Bruce escapes the Pit and returns to Gotham.
-->'''Bane:''' So, you came back to die with your city!\\
'''Batman:''' No. I came back to stop you.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: By the end of ''The Dark Knight'' after taking the heat for Two-Face's murders.]]
* TheHero: Batman is the titular superhero who brings justice for Gotham City.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Rachel's death is the cause of this lasting 8 years between the 2nd and 3rd movie.]]
* HeroicBuild: He is very muscular, to the point that he even provides part of the page image for the DyeingForYourArt page.
* HeroicLineage: In this universe, all the known Waynes were important and noble men of their times. Bruce is a superhero, Thomas was a doctor and tried to change Gotham into a better place and a distant ancestor helped slaves escape through the Undergound Railroad.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' to spare Gotham a nuclear bombing. However, this turns out to not be the case. He left a clue to each of his four [[SecretKeeper Secret Keepers]] to let them know he was still alive: The [[CoolPlane Bat's]] autopilot patch for Lucius, a fixed Bat-signal for Gordon, GPS co-ordinates to Blake for the Batcave, and last and definitely most... fulfilling Alfred's fantasy of seeing Bruce running away from it all with a lady in tow ([[DatingCatwoman Selina, no less]]) in Italy.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Batman's Bruce Wayne persona is only jerkish because he's trying to distract everyone from the theory that he might be Batman. He barely maintains it in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', where Miranda Tate points out that if he really ''was'' a shallow womanizing asshole, he wouldn't be so devoted to charity with personal connections to him (such as Harvey Dent, and orphanages), then be crushed when his causes fail.
* HonorBeforeReason: Deconstructed, as once the underworld figures out his one rule, they stop fearing him as much as they do ComicBook/TheJoker, who would kill them for fun.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He's this way for at least one villain per film.
** In the first film, there is Ra's al Ghul, a mentor who proved to be an extremist sociopath.
** In the second film, there is Harvey Dent, who proves to be NotSoAboveItAll when pushed over the edge by the Joker.
** In the last film, there is [[spoiler: Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul.]] Also he puts a lot of faith in Selina Kyle, and ends up (in his own words) "disappointed." [[spoiler:It's subverted in the end, where the faith he has in her ends up bringing out her good side.]]
** He also tends to underestimate the assorted {{Big Bad}}s in each film:
*** When the Joker appears, Batman, somewhat hypocritically, dismisses him as just one man who couldn't possibly be more dangerous than the mob. He ends up destroying quite a bit of the city, [[EvilerThanThou driving the last nail into the mob's coffin]] [[NearVillainVictory and almost doing the same for Batman]], and [[TheCorrupter drives Harvey Dent to madness.]]
*** Later, Batman, who has been out of action for roughly eight years, gets back in the batsuit, and is able to hunt down and capture several League of Shadow members who were trying to escape a bank robbery. The primary villain Bane manages to get away. Batman dismisses Bane as just another one of Ra's al Ghul's flunkies. When Bruce and Alfred review tapes of Bane's assault on the bank, Bruce brushes away Alfred's assessment of Bane's combat abilities, stating that he'll simply "fight harder". He teams up with Catwoman to go underground and take out Bane, only to be outsmarted by Bane and lured into a trap. It's only thanks to the ensuing CurbStompBattle that Batman realizes just how dangerous Bane really is.
* HorrifyingHero: Fittingly, the reaction that ''this'' Batman gets out of criminals (and decent folk) is ''not'' a "Shining Angelic Crusader of Justice", but rather "Hideous Demonic Giant Bat", believed by the poor folks stuck in The Narrows when their minds were warped by fear toxins.
* HopeBringer: This is his ultimate goal: give hope to the Gothamites that their city does not "belong to the criminals and the corrupt" and that their lives will get better.
* IconicSequelOutfit: While the batsuit in the first movie is more comic-accurate, the second batsuit is so synonymous with [[Creator/ChristianBale Christian Bale's]] incarnation that the original suit never once appeared in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* TheIdealist: Surprisingly inconsistent with his comic-book counterpart, even though he still possess most traits of a [[AntiHero cynical superhero]]. His desire to use non-lethal force comes from compassion, which is taunted as a weakness throughout the trilogy. It's taken to extremes in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', where [[spoiler:moments before he [[HeroicSacrifice flies a bomb away from Gotham to his death]], he reminds Selina and Gordon that he has faith in them]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: His refusal to kill stems from his belief that compassion is what separates him from the criminals he fights.
* IHaveThisFriend: In ''The Dark Knight Rises'', Bruce refers to Batman as his "powerful friend" in the hopes of changing Selina's mind about working with Bane to get him to go broke.
* IncompletelyTrained: Bruce has never completed his training with the League of Shadows that he started in ''Begins''. When his current lesson was to execute a man, he chose to flee and develop his skills as Batman on his own.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: He's called "incorruptible" by the Joker. Granted, Batman is the epitome of GoodIsNotNice, but Batman in the [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolanverse]] absolutely will not kill.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce throws a lavish fundraising party for Harvey Dent and declares his support for him in front of the guests. It rubs Rachel the wrong way, making her believe Bruce is actually mocking Dent and his efforts, but he maintains that he meant it.
* IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery: These films usually avert this trope, but on one occasion in the Dark Knight he acquires this look via a [[TechnoBabble Sonic imager]] in his mask giving his eyes an appearance similar to the comics.
* IronicFear: Of bats, even when in the persona of Batman. He gets over this as ''Batman Begins'' going from fearing bats to letting them fly around him and ultimately [[spoiler:using them to non-lethally defeat SWAT teams.]]
* IWorkAlone: This aspect of Batman is less present in this version, as he has faith in his allies like Alfred, Lucius and Gordon to aid him. However, when dealing with his copycats in ''The Dark Knight'', Batman bluntly states that he doesn't need their help.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Uses this often to get information but when he does it against Scarecrow by [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fear gassing him]]]] and then interrogating him; it makes Scarecrow [[spoiler: become insane and evil instead of sane and evil.]] Later, in ''The Dark Knight'', it doesn't work at all against Joker due to him being TooKinkyToTorture.
* KnightInSourArmor: This trope neatly fits him like a glove. He watches [[spoiler: his parents gunned down in front of him, the woman he loves is killed (and then he finds out that she loved someone else more than him), the KnightInShiningArmor he hoped would let him retire had turned insane, the city he had fought so hard to protect has vilified him, [[ComicBook/TheJoker he has seen the worst humanity has to offer]], he spent eight years in seclusion, three separate psychopaths have tried to destroy the city he swore to protect, he gets the shit beaten out of him and is tossed into a prison described as "hell on Earth" and is forced to watch his city turned into an anarchic prison...]] and yet he is still a staunch idealist who believes that RousseauWasRight, that people are worth saving, [[ThouShallNotKill and refuses to kill anyone]].
* ALadyOnEachArm: How he sometimes appears at social gatherings as a way of keeping up his "billionaire playboy" persona.
* LadykillerInLove: Actually downplayed since his ladykiller persona is just an act and Bruce may have never been relationship with the gorgeous women he appears in public with. The truth is that he pines for Rachel his entire life and wishes to be together with her. [[spoiler: In ''Rises'' he moves past his grief from her death and is in a stable and loving relationship with Selina Kyle.]]
* LargeHam: When he is Batman, he has these moments. More so in ''The Dark Knight'' and ''Rises'', while in ''Begins'' he was ''usually'' more subdued.
* LegallyDead: William Earle has Bruce declared dead to make it easier to turn Wayne Enterprises into a public company. It doesn't work because Bruce left a will naming Alfred as his beneficiary.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The series' theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZst_2xJHAI Molossus]], tends to play when he's onscreen as Batman.
* LetsGetDangerous: When Batman's limits have been reached, he resorts to other measures. See JackBauerInterrogationTechnique for more info. Case in point:
** In the beginning of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he is content to deal with the mob first until the Joker kills one of the copycats that Batman had saved only a few days ago. He turns all of his attention to Joker.
* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler: The only ones seen at Bruce's grave are the four men who knew he was Batman; Alfred, Gordon, Blake and Lucius. Of course, Bruce isn't actually dead which they learn afterwards.]]
* MadeOfIron: Batman has fallen off buildings numerous times (half the time not landing on his feet), set on fire, hit by a brick wall from a moving van, bitten by mob dogs, stabbed in the torso by [[spoiler:Talia]], and taking a huge beating from Bane twice (the same guy punching holes in concrete pillars).
* ManlyFacialHair: Has one in the {{backstory}} of ''Batman Begins'' when in prison and kicking seven criminals' asses at once.
* MarriedToTheJob: Subverted. Bruce initially made it clear that once Gotham no longer needed Batman, he would go on to settle down and start a family. Unfortunately, circumstances forced him to put his mission before his personal happiness, [[spoiler:as seen with Rachel's death. It's only after meeting Selina Kyle and saving Gotham one last time that he is able to start a new life.]]
* MasterActor: You would have to be to balance being a MillionairePlayboy and a superhero, and fool three of your closest friends while doing so along with the entire city.
* McNinja: Had training along these lines from [[EqualOpportunityEvil The League Of Shadows]]. However, due to their KnightTemplar tendencies and [[spoiler: desire to destroy Gotham with Scarecrow's fear toxin]], Bruce left them ([[StuffBlowingUp violently]]) and later, [[spoiler:left their leader, Ra's al Ghul, to die, after he tried to destroy Gotham]].
* MegatonPunch: He lands the mother of all kicks on [[spoiler: Bane]], sending him through a glass door, and then ''another one'' sending him flying another few feet. The second one is especially funny, as the victim looks up, dazed, [[OhCrap just in time to see it coming]].
* TheMentor: He gives advice and guidance to John Blake's Luke, a heroic young man who ''also'' lost parents to violent death. [[spoiler:Except he doesn't die.]]
* MillionairePlayboy: He keeps up this appearance as a cover. In ''Batman Begins'' he randomly buys a restaurant and in ''The Dark Knight'', he absconds with the entire Russian ballet in a seaplane.
* TheMourningAfter: In ''The Dark Knight Rises''. [[spoiler: After Rachel dies in ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce resolves never to love anyone else romantically again and becomes a recluse for eight years, seeing no chance of having a normal, happy life now she's gone. He even thinks trying to move on would somehow insult her memory, because he believes she never gave up waiting for him. It's then {{subverted|trope}} when Alfred reveals that Rachel actually chose Harvey Dent over Bruce (which he didn't mention at the time to avoid pouring salt in the wound); after this revelation Bruce pursues a relationship with Miranda Tate. ''That'' [[LoveInterestTraitor doesn't end well either]], though luckily Selina Kyle is quick to take her place]].
* NiceGuy: Especially in comparison to other incarnations of the character. He is fairly respectful to those that he meets, even in his MillionairePlayboy persona. While he certainly takes his mission to protect Gotham seriously, he comes across as less obsessive about it that than in the comics and other adaptations. Also, while Bruce/Batman in other adaptations will reluctantly, if genuinely admit how much he respects and needs the help of his allies, this incarnation has no problem stating that he owes his success to the aid of his allies and friends.
* MrFanservice: Part of the 'billionaire playboy' persona is looking fantastic.
* NonIdleRich: Par the course for Batman. Bruce fools the public and most people in his social circle by posing as a lazy, carefree and eccentric billionaire but it's all a cover for his double life as a superhero.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: That shallow womanizing playboy can't ''possibly'' be a ferocious vigilante that dresses up like a bat, because "a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues".
* OldSuperhero: A downplayed example, but in ''The Dark Knight Rises'' Bruce is around thirty-nine years old after being retired for eight years. This means he starts to suffer from the many injuries he acquired while crime fighting while focus is placed on his struggle to achieve the same physical feats that he could do in the first two films.
* OnceAnEpisode: Each film in the series has him directly involved in the death of one adversary.
** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', [[spoiler:he refuses to outright kill Ra's al Ghul, but all the same, he leaves him to his own devices, resulting in his death when the train goes off the rails.]]
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[spoiler:In order to save Gordon's son, he knocks Two-Face over a narrow ledge, resulting in Two-Face breaking his neck in a nasty fall.]]
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', [[spoiler:he shoots at Talia al Ghul with lethal intent in the bomb truck she's driving, resulting in her crashing it and dying moments later.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** [[spoiler:Several times Bruce mentions that he has not fixed the autopilot, which comes back near the end when he has to fly the bomb away. Barring the fact that [[ILied he lied]], and used it to fake his death.]]
** If he ever threatens to kill someone, you know damn well that a very serious situation is going on.
* OrderVersusChaos: Represents order to the Joker's chaos in ''The Dark Knight'' because he is trying to keep the city stable and the rule of law in place.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[MemeticMutation HIS PARENTS ARE DEEAAAAAAAD!]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: To 'Robin' John Blake in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' by giving him the coordinates of the Batcave.]]
* PoweredArmor: Prior to the leg brace [[GameBreakingInjury mentioned above]], Batman tries out power-assist technology at the start of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' (you can hear the noise of the servos). It lets him [[BarehandedBarBending bend a gun barrel with one hand]] and almost literally tear his way through the side of the Scarecrow's van, but he later mentions to Lucius Fox that the new armor is too heavy and clumsy.
* PretenderDiss: In ''The Dark Knight'', Batman doesn't appreciate the costumed vigilantes who dress up as him and try to fight the mob. When one says he only wanted to help, Batman shouts back that he doesn't need help and mocks their costumes for featuring "hockey pads".
* PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative: In the novelization of ''Begins'', between returning to Gotham and revealing himself to Earle, Bruce poses as his own cousin, "Gene Valley", to investigate the legends about Ra's al Ghul.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gets a few that serves to deconstruct some of his character traits:
-->'''Maroni:''' ''They're wise to your act; you'' ''[[ThouShaltNotKill have rules.]]'' ''But the Joker, he has no rules. No one is going to give him up for you.''\\
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'''Old Prisoner:''' ''You're NotAfraidToDie. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak. How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?''
* ReedRichardsIsUseless:
** Lampshaded and Justified in ''The Dark Knight Rises''. When Alfred asks Bruce why he doesn't hand over all his fancy technology to the police for their use, Bruce replies that one man's tool is another man's weapon, and he fears somebody would misuse his technology if it falls into the wrong hands. He's later proven right when [[spoiler: Bane steals all of the experimental weapons he has locked away and turns his fusion reactor into a bomb.]]
** It is also pointed out that the prototypes are all far too expensive in terms of the mass production required for a police force, or the military, with the unmodified Batsuit costing at least $300,000.
* RetiredBadass: Bruce has not been Batman for quite a while between ''The Dark Knight'' and ''The Dark Knight Rises'', but HesBack for the film. [[spoiler: He finally gives the cowl to Robin John Blake at the end of the film, and fakes his death to get out of the job.]]
* RichesToRags: [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane and his men raid the Stock Exchange and execute fake trades that bankrupt Bruce, causing him to go "From Billionaire to Bum."]]
* RousseauWasRight: In stark contrast with [[StrawNihilist The Joker's]] belief of HumansAreBastards, Batman firmly believes in the good of humankind. For example, [[spoiler: in ''The Dark Knight's'' climax, The Joker has rigged two ships (one containing prisoners, and the other containing refugees) with explosives. If one ship blows up, the other ship leaves. However, not only do both sides defy The Joker, it was the prisoners who refuse to do it first]].
* ScienceHero: He has all those wonderful toys provided by Lucius Fox and his "Applied Sciences Division" at Wayne Enterprises, and can excise clues from even the most mangled evidence.
* SecretIdentity: This series provides a deconstruction of the trope. No matter how hard Bruce tries, he can't keep his identity as Batman from everyone and, at least once per movie, one character finds out. At least most of his friends agree to keep his secret.
* SecretIdentityVocalShift:
** The deepening of Bruce Wayne's voice when he puts on the Batman costume sounds like he's gargling with gravel. Oddly, he still does this even when he's talking to people as Batman who know his secret identity.
** He takes this to another level in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' where he has his normal Bruce Wayne voice, a raspy voice for talking to allies as Batman, and the gravel-gargling voice he uses when trying to scare the crap out of bad guys.
* SlapSlapKiss: With Selina Kyle, predictably enough. They go from SnarkToSnarkCombat in their first scenes to BigDamnKiss.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Represents idealism to The League of Shadows' cynicism in ''Batman Begins''. He believes that Gotham can be saved while they believe it is beyond saving and needs a MercyKill.
* StealthExpert: Along with Batman's obligatory StealthHiBye, although Gordon nearly caught him the first time he tried this with Gordon. He thinks it's just some nut.
* TheStoic: Even as a child, Bruce [[CatapultNightmare woke up quietly]] [[AvertedTrope after nightmares]], and rarely cried.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Dark Knight'', for Harvey Dent's crimes. He is later cleared in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', ironically enough, by Bane.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome[=/=]TallDarkAndSnarky: The playboy persona is handsome ''and'' snarky because Batman is scary and stoic.
* TechnicalPacifist: While he never intends to kill someone, he turns a blind eye to [[spoiler:Ra's al Ghul]], and accidentally kills several people. The garbage truck driver in ''The Dark Knight'' and Ra's in ''Batman Begins''.
* TerrorHero: Although Batman has inspired hope in Gotham by the time of ''The Dark Knight'' (enough to inspire {{Heroic Wannabe}}s), criminals are scared of Batman. At least they are until the mob realizes Batman [[ThouShaltNotKill won't actually kill them]]. While they're still afraid of him, they fear the Joker far more.
* ThatManIsDead: As of ''The Dark Knight Rises'', Bruce Wayne has forsaken his Batman identity. That Batman hasn't been seen since [[spoiler:the death of Dent.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: {{Deconstructed}}. ''The Dark Knight'' explores how this moral high ground makes him drastically weaker than the Joker. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] by [[EvilMentor Ducard]] in ''Batman Begins''. Notably though, this version of Batman is ''not'' a zealot about this stance and will kill when it's necessary. [[spoiler:Ra's Al Ghul, Two-Face, and Talia al Ghul all found this out the hard way.]]
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: After reconditioning himself in the Pit during ''Rises'', no more mention is made of his bum knee or broken back.
* TookALevelInBadass: Throughout ''Batman Begins'', which chronicles his journey from frightened child to caped crusader. ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' did it again, showing him recovering first from years of apathy, and later from severe beating and near death; the result releases certain inhibitions and hardens him enough [[spoiler: To match and overpower Bane in their next confrontation.]] Subverted in that Bane [[spoiler: clearly has the physical advantage over Bats in their second fight, though by no means as decisively as their first bout. Batman wins not by overpowering him, but by [[AttackItsWeakPoint disabling his mask]].]]
* TripleShifter: He is so invested in his career as Batman that he barely gets a regular sleep. In ''The Dark Knight'' he falls asleep in the middle of board director meeting at Wayne Enterprises.
* {{Ubermensch}}: Part of his HopeBringer goal is to become a larger-than-life symbol that will inspire others to change the status quo of Gotham.
* UnclePennybags: His charity efforts get a mention in ''Rises'', where is stated that he supported an orphanage and the news of it closing down when he goes broke affects him.
* UnwittingPawn: He ends up being this to every BigBad in the trilogy: he plays into Ra's al Ghul's hands by [[spoiler:saving his life]] and later by raiding Arkham Asylum when Rachel gets poisoned; he plays into the Joker's hands twice, first by bringing Lau in and causing the Chechen to hire the Joker in the first place, and then by luring him into a trap set by Gordon and, as part of Joker's distraction to escape police custody with Lau in tow afterwards, sets off to save Rachel [[spoiler:only to end up saving Harvey instead]] (though the third time Joker tries to get him to play into his hands, he just saves the Joker from falling to his death, having learned his lesson from the first two times); and he plays into the hands of Bane [[spoiler:and Talia]] by chasing the men who had just committed stock exchange fraud against him, trusting Miranda Tate [[spoiler:(actually Talia in disguise)]] with the fusion reactor, and letting Selina Kyle lead him to Bane for their first confrontation.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: At the end of ''Batman Begins'', Rachel mentions this, though compared to many other examples of the trope this is rather downplayed, as he's still on the side of good.
* VigilanteMan:
** The police see Batman as this in ''Batman Begins'' which allows [[spoiler:Dr. Crane to call the cops on him. SWAT tries to arrest Batman and they fail.]]
** Also, Henri Ducard has advice for Bruce on this:
---> "A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely... A legend, Mr. Wayne."
* WellDoneSonGuy: In Bruce's mind his work as Batman for Gotham is simply continuing his father's work of making his home a better place. In the bonus feature's of TDKR dvd, one of the writers states Bruce's thoughts during the end as...
--> "[[spoiler:What I've done is enough.]] My father would be proud."
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: - As a kid and as a young adult, Bruce was terrified of bats, so it's no accident that the bat became his personal symbol when he began his one-man crusade against crime in Gotham.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Batman thinks that he and Rachel are destined to be together and that Harvey is just a Romantic FalseLead. But [[spoiler: as Rachel reveals in a letter, she would have chosen Harvey Dent.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: At the very least, Batman would [[spoiler:attack a vehicle that has Talia inside of it, with artillery]].
* TheWisePrince: Figuratively and secretly he is the prince of Gotham and does a good job "ruling" it.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Averted. Bruce never gets closure with Joe Chill, his parents' murderer, because of a female assassin posing as a reporter shooting Chill before Bruce can get the chance.]]
* ZeroApprovalGambit: He came up with this plan at the end of ''The Dark Knight'' to ensure the criminals Harvey Dent locked up stayed locked up. It works for eight years, but it ultimately crashed and burned after [[spoiler: Bane reveals what Batman and Gordon did.]]
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!!''Alfred Pennyworth''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Know your limits, Master Wayne."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelCaine
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidMcCallum, Armando Réndiz (Latin-American Spanish; ''Begins''), Creator/JoseLavat (Latin-American Spanish; ''The Dark Knight'' and ''Rises'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''
-->''"Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make: the right choice."''
The Wayne Family butler, Alfred is Bruce's guardian, confidante and oldest friend. He knows Batman's identity, having aided him from the very start.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: For all his scheming to take Wane Enterprises public, he apparently never accounted for the possibility that [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne -one of the richest, most powerful men in the world- would be able to simply ''buy'' the shares after they went public.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He tried turned Wayne Enterprises into a publicly-traded company in an attempt to wrest control away from Bruce. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, he succeeds... only for Bruce to buy most of the shares through various charities and trusts. And then Bruce fires him.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He tried turned turning Wayne Enterprises into a publicly-traded company in an attempt to wrest control away from Bruce. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, he succeeds... only for Bruce to buy most of the shares through various charities and trusts. And then Bruce fires him.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: White-haired, funny, very kind and loving to Bruce, played by Creator/Michael Caine, the list goes on.
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* CoolOldGuy: White-haired, funny, very kind and loving to Bruce, played by Creator/Michael Caine, Creator/MichaelCaine, the list goes on.
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* {{Expy}}: Of Justin Hammer in ''Film/IronMan2'' in the sense of being a CorruptCorporateExecutive who thinks he's the BigBad but is ultimately overshadowed by his DragonInChief.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Daggett earnestly believed that he was the main character of a corporate/police drama where he would successfully absorb Wayne Industries and Bane was his loyal attack dog. Instead, he was the second fiddle in a superhero movie, having no knowledge of the depth of the [[spoiler: Talia's]] plans and the League of Shadows ambitions with Gotham.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Daggett earnestly believed that he was the main character [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] BigBad of a corporate/police drama where he would successfully absorb Wayne Industries and Bane was his loyal attack dog. [[TheDragon Dragon]]. Instead, he was the second fiddle SmugSnake in a superhero movie, having no knowledge of the depth of the [[spoiler: Talia's]] plans and the League of Shadows ambitions with Gotham.Gotham. Turned out Bane ''was'' TheDragon but to someone [[EvilerThanThou with far more dangerous (and more nihilistic) plans than him]].
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* OverlyGenerousFool: Alluded to when Alfred tells Bruce that his father Thomas almost bankrupted his corporation, Wayne Enterprises, trying to stimulate Gotham City's economy and save it from economic collapse.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Especially towards Lucius; however, he does his best to avoid getting on Bruce Wayne's bad side, only putting him in Applied Sciences because he specifically mentioned it catching his eye and being genuinely nice towards him for the most part (going so far as to ''not'' tell him that Applied Sciences is, in Lucius's words, "dead end"), because he knows that he's a Wayne and would have him removed for crossing him. [[spoiler:He finally crosses Bruce when he fires Lucius for asking too many questions about a misplaced microwave emitter, and so he finds himself out of a job the day after the Wayne Manor fire. Clearly, he's the only one who's surprised by this turn of events.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: Especially towards Lucius; however, he does his best to avoid getting on Bruce Wayne's bad side, only putting him in Applied Sciences because he specifically mentioned it catching his eye and being genuinely nice towards him for the most part (going so far as to ''not'' tell him that Applied Sciences is, in Lucius's words, a "dead end"), because he knows that he's a Wayne and would have him removed for crossing him. [[spoiler:He finally crosses Bruce when he fires Lucius for asking too many questions about a misplaced microwave emitter, and so he finds himself out of a job the day after the Wayne Manor fire. Clearly, he's the only one who's surprised by this turn of events.]]
