How Batman Escaped At The End Of The Dark Knight Rises

How Batman Escaped At The End Of The Dark Knight Rises

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The Dark Knight Rises made the audience believe Batman died, only to reveal right at the end that he was alive and well. So, how did he do that?

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How Batman Escaped At The End Of The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises left a couple of mysteries, but the biggest one is how Batman escaped right at the end of the movie – and here’s how he could have done it. Batman has had an interesting history on the big screen, beginning in the 1940s with two serial films followed by an adaptation of the 1960s TV show starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Fast forward to the 1980s, Warner Bros. began its first Batman film series with Tim Burton’s Batman, followed by Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin.

The Caped Crusader went through another adaptation in the early 2000s, this time with Christopher Nolan as director and with a very different style than Burton and Joel Schumacher’s films. First was Batman Begins in 2005, which introduced the audience to Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Liam Neeson as Ra’s al Ghul, and Cillian Murphy as Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow. The sequel, The Dark Knight, featured a new version of Batman’s archenemy, the Joker (Heath Ledger), and had a much darker tone than its predecessor which — along with Ledger’s performance and the overall story — made it one of the best superhero films of all times. Nolan’s trilogy closed with The Dark Knight Rises, now with Bane (Tom Hardy) and Talia al Ghul (Marion Cotillard) as villains. The film made fans believe for a couple of minutes that Batman sacrificed himself to save Gotham City, but that turned out to be a lie.

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With Gotham City about to be destroyed by a bomb, Batman and Selina Kyle (aka, Catwoman) did their best to stop it from detonating by taking it to the reactor chamber so it could be stabilized, but Talia made sure that wouldn’t happen. With no way to stop the detonation, Batman decided to use the Bat and flew the bomb away from the bay, so it wouldn’t explode over the city. Batman was then presumed dead. But, the end of the film revealed that Bruce was alive and well, living in Europe with Selina. It was mentioned earlier in the film that the Bat’s autopilot wasn’t working, and as Batman was never seen leaving the aircraft, fans have wondered how it was possible for him to be alive.

How Batman Survived The Bomb In Dark Knight Rises

How Batman Escaped At The End Of The Dark Knight Rises

The ending of The Dark Knight Rises reveals that Bruce Wayne survived Talia’s bomb. In order to explain how Batman could have gotten out of the Bat and gone to a safe zone before the bomb went off, it’s important to note that that specific part of the film is not told chronologically – meaning that the Bat flying away and the close-ups of Batman’s face are not happening at the same time. This makes it possible for Batman to set the aircraft to autopilot — which was revealed to have been fixed before this happened — and eject safely before the explosion.

As to when exactly the Dark Knight ejected from the Bat, some believe it happened ten seconds before the explosion, while some argue it could have happened during the explosion at the top of the building (connecting with one of Ra’s al Ghul’s lessons in Batman Begins about smoke). The trick here is Nolan’s use of non-linear shots to make the audience believe Batman didn’t survive at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, saving one last surprise for the final shot of the film. Bruce’s survival means he could move out of the Batman’s shadow and live his own life free of the vigilante’s responsibility following him saving Gotham City.

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Does Batman Really Survive The Dark Knight Rises? Theories Explained

Now, it’s possible that the Bat, just like the Tumbler, had a secondary vehicle through which he could have escaped. Some fans have theorized it could have been a vehicle that could go underwater, so as to provide some shield against the radiation from the bomb), and with enough speed to allow him to get as far from the blast’s radius as possible. Considering the non-linear shots, Batman could have ejected himself from the plane and flown miles away in no time. It’s also possible the ending of The Dark Knight Rises was all in Alfred’s head and didn’t actually happen at all. After all, Bruce’s father-figure wanted him to leave the Batman life behind and move on. Death was not something Alfred had in mind, so it could be Alfred saw Bruce being happy with Selina as a way to cope with his grief.

The biggest reason Batman could have survived (and retired) in The Dark Knight Rises is because Nolan wouldn’t have ensured the autopilot explanation was in the film if the hero was meant to die all along. Batman always made sure that his gadgets were working and it seems counterproductive to have spent so long healing in an underground prison only to survive, get back to Gotham, and die in a blast. To be sure, Nolan has a tendency to include story details that warp what is and isn’t reality (Inception, The Prestige being examples) and he could have done the same for the ending of The Dark Knight Rises. But when parsing through the film’s finale in hindsight, it’s more than likely Batman simply ejected himself ahead of time.

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