- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW): In issue #84, while the Rat King (in this incarnation a god of chaos) is holding a child by the leg over a drop into the east river, Raphael orders him to let the child go, to which the Rat King responds by dropping the latter to his doom. Michelangelo, after rescuing the child, lampshades the stupidity of saying that, bringing up The Dark Knight as a reference.
Literature
- At the end of Battle Ground, Harry references The Dark Knight when he quips:"I'm the hero Chicago needs, not the one it swiped on Tinder."
- In Love Letters to the Dead, Laurel mentions watching The Dark Knight on TV in a letter written to Heath Ledger.
Video Games
- In PAYDAY 2 and PAYDAY 3, masking up for the first time unlocks the achievement "No One Cared Who I Was..."
Web Animation
- Minilife TV: The episode "A Dark Night" is about Chris, Ian, Snowball, Archie, and Michael catching the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises.
- Family Guy: In "Hot Shots", Peter mentions that he destroyed all the vaccines in town, leading to a parody of the hospital explosion scene from The Dark Knight, complete with Peter in Joker makeup.Peter: All right, what else did I have to do today? Ah, yes, overdose in my apartment. I better get home.
- The Simpsons: In "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times", the segment Bartman Begins is a parody of Batman Begins.
