Dark Theory Suggests The Tragic Fate Of Christian Bale's Batman
Though the ending of The Dark Knight Rises indicates that Bruce Wayne is alive and living in quiet retirement, Batman's actual fate may be far darker and more tragic. The Dark Knight Rises is the final film in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Concerning an older Batman who comes out of his quiet life of seclusion in order to fight against Bane and the forces that threaten Gotham, The Dark Knight Rises rounds Nolan's trilogy off with a definitive end to the narrative arc of Christian Bale's Batman.
After fighting Bane and losing, Batman overcomes his own inner turmoil in order to return to Gotham City one final time and save it from total annihilation. In thwarting Bane's plan, Bale's Batman finds himself using the Batwing to fly an unstable nuclear device as far out of the city as possible in order to save Gotham's residents, seemingly dying in the process in a touching final heroic sacrifice. However, the film's epilogue sees Alfred glimpse Bruce in a cafe, hinting that he survived — something The Dark Knight Rises seems to confirm by having Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) assert that the Batwing's autopilot had been fixed.
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Though The Dark Knight Rises' ending seemed to confirm that Bruce was alive, he may have actually met a sad fate after all. In fact, there is a very good chance that Batman didn't escape the nuclear blast, and that he did pay the ultimate sacrifice for his heroics. The Dark Knight Rises offers as much evidence in support of the theory as it does that Bruce is actually alive, but his death is actually the far more logical conclusion of the two.
The moment in which Alfred briefly glimpses Bruce by chance in an
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