We're looking at a very tricky character analysis here, because a character like Batman has all kinds of permutations, including two other movies with the same director and Christian Bale in the pa...

We hear a couple of seriously gruesome stories about the Joker's origins in this film, all delivered by the man himself and all of them complete poppycock.If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it t...

Harvey, Harvey, Harvey Dent. What's there to say about him except that he so perfectly embodies his own phrase?:HARVEY: You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the vil...

Man, three leads like that and this movie still find time for Commissioner Gordon? Take that, Tim Burton.Like Batman himself, this version of Gordon got his start in Batman Begins, and like Batman,...

As much as we hate to say it, this is pretty much a big boy's movie, and the major female character doesn't have a lot to do other than support her men and be brave in the face of a gruesome death....

In simplest terms, Alfred Pennyworth is the reason Bruce never shows at the hospital with weird cuts and bruises. He's Bruce's butler, manservant, and stalwart Man Friday: there to cover the legwor...

Fox has a much larger role here than he does in the comics, where he usually just runs Wayne Enterprises while Bruce pummels criminals by the light of the moon. Here, he's kind of Bruce's Q Branch:...

The Scarecrow's really just a cameo here—he got his chance in the spotlight in Batman Begins—but we get a little reminder of what he can do at the very beginning of the whole thing. In the comi...

Mr. Lau is what we politely refer to as a "plot device." He's venal and corrupt, and even as a gangster he's kind of bland: keeping the underworld's money for them without doing any of the more exc...

Sal Maroni serves the same basic purpose that Mr. Lau does. He's part of the old order, picking up where his former boss Don Falcone left off when Falcone was carted off to the nuthouse halfway thr...