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Batman As A Hero In The Dark Knight
In the deep and dark shadows of Gotham city is a hero, The Dark Knight, or as many people know him: Batman. The Dark Knight is the second film in the Batman trilogy. The story follows the relentless conflict involving Batman and his nemesis, “The Joker.” He ends up teaming up with the mob in Gotham against Batman, to take him down. The Joker attempts to lure Batman out by saying he’ll start killing people if he didn’t reveal himself. Recognizing that Batman wouldn’t do it, District Attorney, Harvey Dent, decides to “reveal” himself as Batman as a plan to capture the Joker.
They end up succeeding and capturing him; however, the Joker wanted to be caught. He alerts Batman that Dent and Rachel, who he is also in love with, are hooked up to explosives in separate locations, forcing him to choose whom to save. Rachel ends up dying and Dent gets saved, but half his face gets singed off. The Joker ends up visiting Harvey in the hospital to take advantage of the anger he has over Rachel’s death, and turns him bad. After, the Joker ends up blowing up the hospital, and the city evacuates. The two ferries leaving break down, though. The Joker tells them that one ferry has to blow up the
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As much of a successful and independent woman she was, she always found herself in those types of scenarios where she is portrayed as a damsel in distress. He saves her multiple times in Batman Begins, the first installment of the trilogy. There was one scene where there were escaped convicts in an alleyway that surrounded her and the little boy with her. And when it seemed like all hope was lost, Batman came in to save the day. Additionally, there was a scene in The Dark Knight, when the Joker got ahold of her and held her hostage. When he told him to let her go, he lets go of her out an open window, but there was Batman to catch her when she fell. The author from Depauw explains it

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