History Film / TheDarkKnightRises

** The Gotham electric company is ''utterly ruthless'', cutting power to Bruce's home only a day or two afterward the stock incident. Bruce would have to be months behind on his payments for them to actually do that. They can't just assume he won't pay right off the bat.
** Bruce going bankrupt shouldn't have gotten him automatically thrown off the Wayne Enterprises board, especially since he has a pretty solid defense for the trades being bogus. He still presumably owns his stake in the company, and would need to sell it first.
** Despite what the characters repeatedly claim, Bruce Wayne is only broke; he is '''not''' bankrupt, except in a functional sense. To be bankrupt, Bruce would have to go to the bank and formally declare himself to be so, in writing. Merely not having money in your bank account is not the same as being bankrupt in a legal sense, especially since Bruce owns many valuable items and properties (including his mansion) that he could either rent, sell or put up as collateral for a loan if he needed cash quickly. This is yet another reason that he shouldn't have been kicked off the Board- even if there was a law or policy that said that nobody could sit on the Board if they were bankrupt (and in real life this is often ''not'' the case, by the way), it still would never apply to someone who hadn't declared themselves to be such yet.

** The Dent Act, a law which amongst other things denied parole to every inmate locked up in Blackgate and allowed exceptions to prison gender segregation, which was passed by the Gotham City Council. In real life, no American city would have this amount of authority over the criminal justice system -- that belongs to the state governments.

* BerserkButton: Do not remove Bane's mask. '''Ever'''. As he tells the CIA agent, "It would be extremely painful." Literal truth! He immediately makes it a threat against the agent by adding an extra "For you." on to the end.

** Despite being [[CanonForeigner an original character for the movies]], John Blake borrows elements from a number of comics' characters. Namely [[spoiler:the first three Robins. His full name is '''Robin''' John Blake, he became a police officer as an adult and is an orphan like Dick Grayson (who also shares "John" as a middle name), his street smarts and being an orphan who had to fend for himself long before meeting Bruce mirror Jason Todd, and he deduces Bruce Wayne is Batman like Tim Drake. Finally, similar to Dick, he takes up the mantle as Gotham's protector after Bruce's "death". Furthermore, he takes some inspiration from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'''s Terry [=McGinnis=], taking up the mantle from an older, limping, retired Bruce, never having been a Robin, and being fed up with some of the secrets in the Bat Family]].

--->'''Blake:''' ''[to the external police at the bridge]'' '''YOU IDIOTS! YOU ''SONS OF BITCHES!'''''

*** Also, Wayne Enterprises's people hide in '''Tellson's Bank''', according to the script.

* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler:Jumps between '''Type I''' and '''Type IV''' between Bane and Talia. In the past, Bane saved her life, and Talia mentions that they loved one another when they were in the League of Shadows; in the present, however, they have seemingly reverted to friendly partners in crime working towards avenging Ra's (with Bane disregarding her wishes and attempting to murder Batman before the detonation).]]

** Notice in the first fight between Batman and Bane that Bane takes care not to get hit in the face too many times, quickly countering Batman once he starts getting hit in on that area. That's because the mask he's wearing is pumping anesetics into his system, keeping the chronic pain he got from the past at bay. In the second fight, its gets damanged and that pain leads to his downfall as he can't concentrate on the fight and now ''feels'' the hits Batman is dealing. If Bruce had indeed targeted that in the first fight, it's likely he would've beaten Bane then and there.

* LightFlickerTeleportation: That one henchman repeatedly fires an automatic assault rifle at Batman in the dark, and each time, the muzzle flash created by each individual bullet discharge provides enough light to show Batman jumping closer and closer.

* HandSignals: During the stock exchange robbery, Bane does a small motion towards the janitor henchman as a signal that they are going mobile.

''[Bane watches as the Bat flies away, with a "YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe" look on his face as his eyes follow it out of sight]''

* FacelessGoons: Bane and his men all wear full motorcycle helmets complete with chin guards when they are escaping from the stock exchange. Which therefore means that Foley and Blake have actually seen Bane out of mask, but the first time they get to see him for themselves, he's wearing a helmet.

* ColdSniper: Barsad, Bane's Lieutenant, is mostly seen with an assault rifle, but during the gunfight before Gordon enters the tunnels, he's shown shooting three [=SWAT=] officers in the back with a [[BFG Barrett M107 sniper rifle]], while stationed on a fire escape.

* ColdSniper: Barsad, Bane's Lieutenant, is mostly seen with an assault rifle, but during the gunfight before Gordon enters the tunnels, he's shown shooting three [=SWAT=] officers in the back with a large sniper rifle, while stationed on a fire escape.

* CharacterTics: Bane has a habit of holding the lapels of his jacket open like a very dapper gentleman, even when he's not wearing lapels or even a jacket.