History WhatAnIdiot / TheDarkKnightTrilogy

* In one of the first scenes of the movie, a gang wearing clown masks robs a mob bank. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder They constantly shoot and kill each other to get a larger share of the money they steal.]] The manager fights them, but is overpowered and captured. Bozo (really ComicBook/TheJoker in disguise, kills Grumpy by running him over with a school bus that is the getaway car. The manager sees all this.\\

'''Instead:''' As soon as he turns the detonator on, he asks Batman if he wants to hear [[MultipleChoicePast how he got his scars]] (the ''third'' time he's asked that question), which gives the caped crusader the distraction he needs to kick the device off of the Joker's hands and defeat him.

'''Instead:''' As soon as he turns the detonator on, he asks Batman if he wants to hear how he got his scars, which gives the caped crusader the distraction he needs to kick the device off of the Joker's hands and defeat him.

'''Instead:''' As soon as he turns the detonator on, he asks Batman if he wants to hear how he got his scars, which gives Batman the distraction he needs to kick the device off of the Joker's hands and defeat him.

'''Instead:''' He asks Batman if he wants to hear "how he got his scars" before setting the bombs off, which gives Batman the distraction he needs to kick the detonator off of the Joker's hands and defeat him.

* With his PrisonersDilemma scheme against two boats foiled, the Joker decides to take matters into his own hands and blow both boats up with his own detonator. He has Batman pinned so that he can't do much besides kicking.\\

* With his PrisonersDilemma scheme against two boats foiled and Batman presumably pinned, the Joker decides to take matters into his own hands and blow both boats up with his own detonator.\\

'''You'd Expect''': That the Joker waste no time and turn the key as soon as he gets the detonator out.\\
'''Instead''': He asks Batman if he wants to hear "how he got his scars" before setting the bombs off, which gives Batman the distraction he needs to kick the detonator off of the Joker's hands and defeat him.

* With his PrisonersDilemma scheme against two boats foiled and Batman cornered, the Joker decides to take matters into his own hands and blow both boats up with his own detonator.\\

'''Instead''': He asks Batman if he wants to hear "how he got his scars" before setting the bombs off, which gives Batman the distraction he needs to kick the detonator off of the Joker's hands.

'''You'd Expect:''' They'd claim the murders were done by the Joker, who kills dozens of people every day on a whim. A few more deaths can be easily pinned on him, and who would believe him if he claims he didn't do it?\\

'''Instead''': They send the entire police force into the sewers, which leads Gotham to go downhill, because Blake doesn't find out the explosive trap until it's pretty much too late, after all the cops have basically gone into the tunnels, and Bane sets off the explosives, and traps the cops underground, leaving Bane and his men free to invoke their ReignOfTerror on the town.

* In one of the first scenes of the movie, a gang wearing clown masks robs a mob bank. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder They constantly shoot and kill each other to get a larger share of the money they steal.]] The manager fights them, but is overpowered and captured. Bozo (really [[TheJoker The Joker]] in disguise, kills Grumpy by running him over with a school bus that is the getaway car. The manager sees all this.\\

* In one of the first scenes of the movie, a gang wearing clown masks robs a mob bank. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder They constantly shoot and kill each other to get a larger share of the money they steal.]] The manager fights them, but is overpowered and captured. Bozo(really [[TheJoker The Joker]] in disguise, kills Grumpy by running him over with a school bus that is the getaway car. The manager sees all this.\\

'''Instead''': He plays it all real and scans his hand, allowing Bane to take the reactor and hold Gotham City hostage with it. It could be argued that since Miranda Tate is in fact Bane's accomplice Talia al Ghul, that Bane would have known what Fox was doing, but still..
* Also from the same movie: [[spoiler: After Batman beats down Bane, he demands to know who "the triggerman" is. It turns out to be Miranda Tate, who is in fact, Talia Al Ghul, the daughter of Ras Al Ghul. She then stabs Batman in the chest. And she has the detonation remote.]]\\

* Near the end of the movie, [[spoiler: after stopping Miranda Tate (Talia Al Ghul), the heroes have to somehow stop the reactor from destroying Gotham. Unfortunatly, Talia has flooded the basement where the reactor is supposed to be kept.]]\\
'''You'd Expect''': [[spoiler: Talia to keep her mouth shut about flooding the fusion reactor basement to the heroes, so that they would have continue to waste time dragging the reactor to the location to attempt to reconnect it, which would be in vain, and thus, the reactor would blow up! [[TheBadGuyWins And then Talia would have succeeded]].]]\\
'''Instead''': [[spoiler: Talia, drawing her last breath, says about the reactor basement flooding, and gloating to the heroes to prepare themselves for their dooms. [[HeroicSacrifice Batman then manages to fly the reactor miles away from Gotham as it explodes]] and foil Talia's scheme. Very NiceJobFixingItVillain!]]

No superhero series is perfect. Not even Batman himself in the ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga''.

* After the Joker is arrested, he's put in a secure room for interrogation. While there he's handcuffed and the door locked, although both are removed as the interrogation goes... physical. Eventually, though, the police and Batman get the information they need and rush out.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The remaining police would really shackled the Joker in again and lock the cell's door from the outside as well. The room has huge windows, so they can see if he starts trying to break out.\\

'''Instead''': They send the entire police force into the sewers, which leads Gotham to go downhill, because Blake doesn't find out the explosive trap until it's pretty much too late, after all the cops have basically gone into the tunnels, and Bane sets off the explosives, and traps the cops underground, leaving Bane and his men free to invoke their ReignOfTerror on the town. It was even brought up in the WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded parody.
---> '''John Blake''': "I... don't think this is such a good idea sir. I mean, what if something happened? We'd have, like, zero cops left."
--->'''Gordon:''' Holy cow, you're right! I think these drugs have me talking crazy. Maybe just, uh, block all the exits and send in there like a SWAT team or something to smoke them out. Good -- good call, rookie. Here, have some money. (offers a tissue box)

** Also was brought up in the HowItShouldHaveEnded parody.
---> '''Fox''': Okay, I'll just scan my hand here...
--->(He presses something on the touch screen, an alarm blares out, and the room starts flooding.)
--->'''Fox''': Oops. I seemed to have activated the emergency flood chambers. I suppose this will put a hiccup in whatever plans you had about stealing the reactor, wouldn't it? I do apologize.
--->(Bane sinks underwater.)
--->'''Fox''': Well, get busy swimming or get busy dyin'.
--->(He dives underwater to escape)

* Batman was forced to kill Harvey Dent after he went mad from grief and killed five people in a revenge spree. But the public reveres him as a hero, so Gordon and Batman fear that telling them the truth, that their hero snapped and became a murderer, will demoralize them. They decide to blame the murders and Dent's death on someone else.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' They'd claim the murders were done by the Joker, who kills dozens of people every day on a whim. A few more deaths can be easily pinned on him, and who would believe him if he claims he didn't do it?\\
'''Instead:''' Batman himself takes blame of the deaths, causing the public and the police to turn against him. In danger of being arrested, Batman goes into hiding and his career ends for eight years.\\

* Carrying over from the end of ''TheDarkKnight'', Alfred has kept Bruce completely ignorant of the fact that Rachel Dawes chose Harvey Dent over Bruce himself, since Rachel ultimately felt that she could never be with Bruce due to his obsession with being Batman. \\

'''You'd Expect:''' That Gordon would listen to Dent (if he isn't already aware of the fact that he does have dirty cops in his unit) and perhaps even coordinate with him to root out the ones who are least trustworthy. It is Gotham after all, and Gordon's been in the game long enough to know how corrupt the force is. \\

* Batman was forced to kill Harvey Dent after he went mad from grief and killed five people in a revenge spree. But the public reveres him as a hero, so Gordon and Batman fear that telling them the truth, that their hero snapped and became a murderer, will demoralize them. They decide to blame the murders and Dent's death on someone else.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' They'd claim the murders were done by the Joker, who kills dozens of people every day on a whim. A few more deaths can be easily pinned on him, and who would believe him if he claims he didn't do it?\\
'''Instead:''' Batman himself takes blame of the deaths, causing the public and the police to turn against him. In danger of being arrested, Batman goes into hiding and his career ends for eight years.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Gordon, having been a GCPD cop during the times of both Ra's al-Ghul's and the Joker's attacks, to consider the possibilities of the sewers as a trap and maybe send only a small but elite team (maybe just one SWAT team and a couple of less important officers) to investigate the tunnels, so that if a trap did go off, they still have a decent enough force to deal with any future riot or hostage situations that might occur. Some would notice, but not a huge loss. Or alternately, just not send any cops into the sewers at all and keep them all on the streets.\\

'''Instead''': He plays it all real and scans his hand, allowing Bane to take the reactor and hold Gotham City hostage with it.

'''You'd Think''': [[spoiler: Miranda/Talia would simply press the remote and detonate the nuclear reactor and destroy Gotham City instantly.]]\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The remaining police would handcuff the Joker again and lock the cell's door as well. The room has huge windows, so they can see if he starts trying to break out.\\
'''Instead:''' They leave him un-handcuffed and put ''one'' policeman ''inside'' the cell to guard the door. After provoking the policeman into fighting him, the Joker overpowers the cop, holds him hostage, then initiates his breakout plan.

'''Instead''': They abort the operation and send every policeman to evacuate the hospitals and while letting the Joker escape, which almost causes the complete collapse of Gotham into anarchy.

'''Instead:''' Batman himself takes blame of the deaths, causing the public and the police to turn against him. In danger of being arrested, Batman goes into hiding and his career ends for eight years.

'''You'd Expect''': Gordon to consider the possibilities of the sewers as a trap and maybe send only a small but elite team (maybe just one SWAT team and a couple of less important officers) to investigate the tunnels, so that if a trap did go off, they still have a decent enough force to deal with any future riot or hostage situations that might occur. Some would notice, but not a huge loss.\\

'''Instead:''' They blame the deaths on Batman, causing the public and the police to turn against him. In danger of being arrested, Batman goes into hiding and his career ends for eight years.

'''Instead''': They send the entire police force into the sewers, which leads Gotham to go downhill, because Blake doesn't find out the explosive trap until it's pretty much too late, after all the cops have basically gone into the tunnels, and Bane sets off the explosives, and traps the cops underground, leaving Bane and his men free to invoke their ReignOfTerror on the town.\\
** It was even brought up in the WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded parody.

'''You'd Expect''': That they'd send some men to evacuate hospitals or disarm the bombs in them, storm the ship, incapacitate the Joker and thus end the madness.\\
'''Instead''': They abort the operation, send every policeman to evacuate the hospitals and let the Joker walk away, which almost causes the complete collapse of Gotham into anarchy.

'''However:''' Even if Foley and Blake went with the reasonable route, Bane probably had alternative plans he could use to make sure his ReignOfTerror came to light.
** It was even brought up in the HowItShouldHaveEnded parody.

'''Instead:''' Gordon blows off and ignores all of Dent's warnings for whatever reason, whether because he doesn't trust Dent or thinks Dent has no right to criticize him since he didn't come up in the GCP etc., stubbornly insisting that he has to do the best he can with what he has. This ultimately comes back to bite everyone in the ass when [[spoiler:two of Gordon's cops, Wurtz and Ramirez, are ultimately revealed to have been working for the mob and by extension the Joker all along]].

'''Instead''': They send the entire police force into the sewers, which leads Gotham to go downhill, because Blake doesn't find out the explosive trap until it's pretty much too late, after all the cops have basically gone into the tunnels, and Bane sets off the explosives, and traps the cops underground, leaving Bane and his men free to invoke their ReignOfTerror on the town.

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