The Christopher Nolan 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Batman Dark Knight trilogy took its own creative spin on the caped crusader and despite where you stand on Christian Bale's gravelly voice, there’s a lot to love about them. From Heath Ledger's first and last outing as perhaps one of the greatest, if not in the top three Jokers. To some great moments of cinematography, and action set-pieces on big practical sets.

The stories between the trilogy do vary in quality, but everyone’s got their favorite line, scene, or screenshot from the films that are memorable. It’s also a Batman that doesn’t kill, technically. Unlike whatever it was that Zack Snyder tried to do, Nolanverses Bruce isn’t lethal but he does bring a lot of collateral damage. So for fun, it’s worth looking at all the times in the Nolan trilogy that someone could have died through Batman's actions.

Warning: Spoilers For The Dark Knig⛦ht Trilogy Below

Does Batman Have A Body Count In The Dark Knight Trilogy?

Technically Batman in the Nolan movies does have a body count, but it’s only the two leaders of the League Of Shadows: Talia and Ra’s Al Ghul. Ra’s is crushed in a Train crash that was carrying a microwave emitter bomb whilst Talia breaks her spine in a truck crash carrying a Nuclear Bomb.

However, none of the henchmen or goons get a gruesome end, outside of the occasional broken bone and concussion of course. So our look at the Nolan verse is going to include every time Batman was involved in a scene and there are a few moments, especially when vehicles are involved, that Bruce could ꦜhave left quite a trail of bodies behind him.

Batman Begins

Starting off strong we have Batman Begins, the start of the Nolan Trilogy, and a banger of a movie right out of the gate that had some excellent casting and an intriguing yet classic Batman origin story. We’ll be skipping through things until we find a spot where it gets physical and potentially lethal for everyone involved, especially Bruce.

So to start things off, our first potential corpse comes at the three-minute mark. We’ve seen tiny Bruce fall down the well before we hard cut to adult Bruce in a Chinese Prison. He’s approached by a very large Asian man who tells him he’s in hell and that he is the Devil, whilst Bruce remarks that no, the big lad is just practice, before smacking him right in the Brain Pan with a metal tray.

Now, he’s bum-rushed by a group immediately after, but the big guy isn’t seen again so he could easily have some concussion or brain damage or a bad burn from falling over the hot cooking stall that Bruce kicked him over. The health care in a prison that run-down probably isn’t the best, so any infections from the wounds Bruce deals out are probably going to be gangrenous if not fatal.

From there Bruce is jumped by the big guy's cohorts; there are about six of them and we see him snap one prisoner's leg — again poor healthcare and infections are probably not going to help their recovery. The rest of the group gets their butts kicked by Bruce before the fights are broken up by armed guards and Bruce is chucked into solitary. We’re three minutes in and the body count is at two so far.

Bruce is told that he’s being put away as protection for the other prisoners and it’s implied that this isn’t his first brawl that l𓃲eft a lot of guys on the groun🌃d and badly bruised.

Because of the way Batman Begins timeline jumps around, we’ll just be tallying the bodies as the movie shows them to keep things ꦆsomewhat coherent.

A Visit From Ra’s Al Ghul

Bruce is met by Ra’s Al Ghul in his cell and from there he starts to look into the League of Shadows. We don’t get any more violence for a while as it’s mostly Bruce Wayne trying to track down the League and then training to become better at punching people and how to use ꧟Fear as a weapon.

He’s mainly fighting Ra’s at this point, but it’s a one-sided montage with Young Bruce origin story flashbacks until the big showdown on the ice. Speaking of, it’s an odd choice for your potential “Chosen One” to be accidentally murdered whilst sparring with real swords in an incredibly unstable and dangerous area.

Ra’s could have easily killed Bruce when he drops into a crag after Ra’s bonks his sword lightly on the ground. Crevices are known to be miles deep, and Bruce is shown shivering with hypothermia after getting out of it so there was water under there as well. That easily could have been the end of Batman before he even began. But we wouldn’t have a movie if that happened.

It’s Rewind Time

We’re back in Flashback County USA right after thi꧙꧅s so we’ll skip ahead to more violence.

During the Flashback it’s shown that Bruce intends to shoot his parents' murderer Joe Chill, but a random woman in the Courthouse beats him to it. Scratch off one missed opportunity for Batman's kill count.

Worth mentioning is that during the flashbacks Bruce throws his gun off the Gotham docks. We never see where it goes, but if you’re a cynic you could assume there may have been someone fishing there or a homeless person hanging out and if that gun hit them on the head and caused them to fall into the river, we got another body.

Our next big moment for a potential kill count comes when Bruce is going through his Fear Initiation with the League of Shadows. Ra’s makes him inhale the smoke of a flower and then hides amongst other Ninja.

Now, Bruce handles the Fear Toxin pretty well, but we see in the movie that other people really, really don’t.

For example, Gordon's partner draws his gun on some kids when he’s spooked on Fear Toxin. Bruce doesn’t have a gun, but he is a trained Ninja by this point and if he had a “Bad Trip” he could have easily gone nuts and murdered at least 16 or more Ninjas in a Fear Toxin-induced panic since Ra’s continues to attack♈ and provoke Bruce during his halluci🦋nation.

The League Burns Down

On the topic of the League asking for murder, to finish his initiation Bruce has to murder a farmer to prove his “Commitment to Justice”. He does refuse, but we never see that poor tied-up man again when the whole League of Shadows Headquarters burns down and explodes after Bruce st🌸arts a fire, so he’s probably dead.

Along with every member of the League still inside, which is at least 22 people as we see multiple members lying on the ground and🌸 not moving during the clim🍬atic scene.

Another confirmed “death” we get onscreen is of the fake Ra’s Al Ghul who has a large part of a burning ceiling fall on top of him whilst dueling with Bruce. We also get a still close-up shot of his face to show that he is, in fact, dead.

For those keeping score, we’re 40 minutes in and the body count is 26.

The League of Shadows detonates and it’s a big building so there were probably even more Ninjas, staff, peasants, and prisoners that we didn’t see getting immolated, crushed, or blown into tiny gooey bits just off camera. But we’ll not count those as there’s no way to prove for sure how filled with people the hideout was.

We have another disputable potential death as Bruce and the real Ra’s (Liam Neeson) hang from an ice-covered cliff. Liam’s out cold and Bruce is hanging on with a gauntlet, but that could have easily been another death.

If Bruce hadn’t been doing his upper arm workouts or the Gauntlet didn’t catch, or the ice and snow weren’t providing grip, off he goes. But he’s not due to die yet as we need an antagonist for the rest of the movie.

Bruce Wayne Is Batman

We’ll be skipping ahead again as it’s mostly worldbuilding, creating the Batsuit, and so on. The next meat-slapping scene where Batman can add to his tally comes around an hour in when Bruce goes out as Batman for the first time and tries to interrupt a shipment of Falcone’s.

We see the usual thing of Batman grabbing guys into darkness, quick cuts of brief takedowns and it’s lovely and horror-filled. But there’s nothing that could be classed as lethal, hospital visit and a potential night in ICU, but nothing fatal. That is until we get to Falcone himself, B🅠atman grabs him out of his sunroof and theജn headbutts him.

Now, a headbutt may not seem lethal, but Batman's cowl can stop knives, baseball bats, and direct shots from bullets — that’s a very solid object. Plus Falcone is instantly out cold with one hit, so it’s implied that there was a lot of compressed force put into that smack. Hits that hard to the brain that render it unconscious are never good. Especially in the long term.

After an injury like that you’re lucky to walk away with a concussion, let alone minor brain damage, a cracked skull, a bleed, a subdural hematoma forming from the trauma on the brain, or you just may not wake up at all. Thankfully Falcone does come around, but that’s after being moved across town and strapped to a signal light, still unconscious, for what’s probably been a few houꦐrs.

A scene immediately after this has Batman appearing to Rachael whilst battering one of two mafia thugs sent to silence her. One runs, but we never see what happened to the body of the other guy. He’s just gone. Perhaps Bruce tossed him over the side before striking his menacing pose?

On The Trail Of An Investigation

We’ve got more world-building after that though before our next potential corpse comes in the form of Gordon's partner Flass in a scene that’s familiar from Blade 3. Batman gets Flass in a Leg Snare Trap which whips him up several stories to the roof for Batman to interrogate him. What follows is a yo-yo-ing of the very large and rotund corrupt cop toward the ground and back up again.

Now, that tether has to be pretty darn strong to support all that weight of the actor Mark Boone Jr in the first place, let alone bungee him up and down a drop that’s at least five or six stories tall. If it were to snap, the detective would have turned into a gore-filled abstract art installation on the ground. So that’s another body on the pile for Batman.

Late Night Visits At Arkham Asylum

At one hour and 27 minutes, we have Batman ambushing the League of Shadows before using a henchmans gun to shoot another goon in the foot at Arkham Asylum. This one could count as a two-fer as not only is the one doing the shooting used as a human shield and could have been potentially shot, but the guy who gets it in the foot could have bled out.

We then see another mercenary grapple hooked into the darkness to a very high spot where he just disappears. Now, Bruce could have dropped him or those wild shots could easily have hit anyone in the water pipe room that just a few minutes ago was shown to be full of people, mercenaries and inmates alike.

Right after that Batman appears and uppercuts a guy down some stairs, so we can check off a broken neck for that one. Doctor Crane also gets a nasty whack to the head off the edge of a concrete pathway courtesy of Batman and we know already what a bout of trauma-induced unconsciousness can cause.

After the encounter we get Batman escaping from the police using Bats and explosives. It’s worth mentioning this scene briefly as Batman goes through a small cell with two men in it before chucking an explosive that’s as small as his palm but big enough to blast through thick brickwork and pipes.

Those two inmates are dead, the concussive force of the explosive in that small sealed room would have either turned them into chunks or given them severe internal damage. Think the same effects of an RPG Rocket Launcher fired in a small room and you’re about halfway there.

The First Car Chase Of The Trilogy

Immediately after that, Batman drives his Batmobile over a police car that we’re shown has two officers in it. The Tumbler crushes the roof and the bonnet flat — if those cops didn’t move fast enough they would have been pancaked. So add another two to the tally because now we’ve got a car chase ❀going on.

During the chase we see the Batmobile drive through a bus stop, which easily could have people in it as he goes through Gotham at top speed. He could have hit a💦 pedestrian and annihilated them at any time.

Luckily he doesn’t but we’ll add another three corpses to the list because another Police car plows into a barrier during the chase with enough speed to bend the metal protective barrier. There’s also one that flips after he drops mines and another that pirouettes into a smashed mess with another highspeed barrier collision.

Whilst you could argue the police are fine since they didn’t show the Officers dead. The velocity they went into those flips is enough to warrant serious injury if not months in the ICU.

Showdown With The League Of Shadows

Now fast forward to the climactic showdown as the stakes get raised. The Fear Toxin is in the water and the Microwave Emitter is on its way to the main water supply, but there’s still a small tally of bodies to take. The criminals from the Asylum are loose, The Narrows is dosed in Fear Toxin and it’s a bad time to be there.

The body count is fairly small as we close things out, though probably a lot of people died in the scuffles in The Narrows, Batman technically wasn’t at fault for that one. Our next two kills we see are when Batman throws one Ninja off a several-story drop, followed by riding a seco🌺nd d⛄own onto their head.

So we can scratch two bad guys and an unfortunate civilian that was hanging onto Batman as he grappled onto Ra’s Al Ghul's escaping train.

Finally, we have Ra’s himself dying on a speeding monorail as it derails spectacularly outside of Gotham City’s Central Water Hub. That’s a definite kill, plus whoever gets caught in the crumbling wreckage that travels for at least a block as it smashes down into an underground parking garage before exploding in a massive fireball.

It’s implied it’s empty, but there could easily be a few people in their cars, milling around, or a homeless person seeking shelter that’s pancaked by a train. So we’ll it an even six in the parking garage. Plus around ten for the wrecked streets, car crashes, and manholes landing on people ﷽in the carnage that was wreaked on the train route to the Hub.

The body count for Batman Begins is sitting at 61 potential kills for Batman.

The Dark Knight

Next up we’ve got perhaps one of the best Batman movies in the Nolan Trilogy for a number of reasons. Whether that’s Heath Ledger's performance, th🎶e Bat Gadgets, the twisting plot, or all the lovely subtext anꦅd metaphors throughout.

But boy does this movie rack up the body count, especially when The Joker gets involved. Whilst Bruce doesn’t murder anyone, he is involved in a lot more trips to the ICU for those thugs and probably a few civilians in that one ꦜBatmobile ch🏅ase scene.

Our Caped Crusader Returns

The Dark Knight starts off strong with an introduction to The Joker racking up his own little kill count in a Bank, but since we’re following Batman's body trail we have to skip ahead for a bit. It’s around seven minutes in where we see our favorite Caped Crusader ret🦋urn with style.

Batman has been busy between movies and the criminals of Gotham are now terrified at night that they might run into him, yet some still risk it. In this case, it’s a return of Doctor Crane in a Multi-Story Parking Lot where we get the iconic line about Batman not wearing Hockey Pads as he shuts down a vigilante group.

Crane is the only villain that cameos in all three Nolan movies.

We also get some fun violence at this point. The Vigilantes attack and Batman rumbles onto the scene with his remote-controlled Tumbler, where he could have easily run over two goons who barely saw him coming. So we’ll start off early by clocking those two in as flat pancakes under the treads.

Bruce also smashes in the front of Scarecrow's van, which could have flattened Crane, so we can add another point to the scoreboard there. Other than that this scene is fairly bloodless, so we’ll be jumping to our next opꦓportunity f🌸or death.

Dark Knight is a slower burn than Batman Begins, but it’s worth it when it gets there. It’s also the last performance of the late Heath Ledger.

Lau Takes A Plane Trip

It’s a big time jump to around about 30 minutes in where Batman is capturing the Mob's money launderer Lau from his Hong Kong Office. It’s a big set-piece scene that’s worth bringing up because Batman's target could have died at this point.

After assaulting Lau's business like a heavily armored flying squirrel, Batman grabs Lau and uses a Fulton Recovery-esque device. Then the two are zipped out of the building and into the night sky by South Korean Smugglers hired by Bruce Wayne.

All that’s keeping Lau from becoming a street pancake is Batman's grip and a tiny strap, so it could have gone wrong so fast. With how fast they’re whipped out the window of Laus Skyscraper, all it would take is Batman's gloves to be wet, or the tow rope to snap, or the tiny black strap holding Lau to the line to rip becaus♚e Batman got his🗹 weight wrong and off they go.

Tumbling onto the streets of Hong Kong from extremely high up. It’s a reckless move, but in the movie it pays off. Laus also left outside Gotham PD all night where he could have died from exposure, so we’ll put Lau in the tally with 🐓the othe༒rs.

Whilst there are a lot of deaths in this movie, they’re all caused by the Joker. So we can’t pin those on Batman potentially screwing up, unfortunaꦍꦿtely.

Very Poor Choice Of Words

At around 49 minutes on the movie's timecode, we have The Joker and his boys busting up Bruce’s party and whilst the partygoers are herdered at gunpoint, Bruce nips into a panic room to get on his Batsuit to take down the Clown.

Unfortunately, Rachel is held hostage and this is where we get another potential kill and a great line delivery from Heath Ledger. Rachel is hanging out of a window, Batman tells The Joker to let her go and Ledger replies: “Very poor choice of words”.

Though Batman technically causes the death of Rachel in this movie, he didn’t set off the bꦛomb that led to her g✅etting flame-grilled — he just chose the wrong person.

He drops her out of the Skyscraper window and although Batman catches her in the movie, if he wasn’t fast enough, or his glider cape didn’t slow their fall despite not being full of air enough to slow their descent already, then we’ve got another case of Batman-induced Street Pizza.

Also, since Rachel dies later in the movie, we can still count this as another potential death caused by Batman. Sorry, Rachel, you’re in for a rough time in this film.

During this scene, Batman fights Joker's armed goons in a room full of people. All it would take is one stray shot, but unfortunately they forget how guns work and engage Batman in hand💧-to-hand combat instead. Go𓂃od job guys.

Pick A Better Spot

At one hour and five minutes in we’ve got Batman chasing down some mob boys for information on The Joker. We see one guy get tossed over a banister in a nightclub onto the floor below followed by some screams, and another goes headfirst down some stairs. That’s two broken-necked bodies for Batman's scorecard.

Then we see him holding one of the bosses named Moroni, the new head of Falcone's old crime family several feet up threatening to drop him with said Mob Boss remarking that the height is too short and it won’t kill him. It doesn’t, and he breaks his ankles, but what if Batman got his measurements wrong or Mr. Mafia landed on his head, that’s another dead body for Batman right there.

Time For Another Car Chase

It’s a little bit of a wait until the next big scene where Batman does something questionable, at one hour and fifteen minutes in the timecode we see the second big chase of the Nolan Triloꦚgy as Batman tries to rescue H🌠arvey Dent from an ambush by The Joker.

There’s a lot of collateral damage in this scene as the Tumbler absolutely tears through an underground section o♏f the highway.

In fairness, he is trying to take down a truck that’s firing RPGs and other heavy rounds into the side of the S.W.A.T. column transporting Dent. Our first casualty is one of The Jokers Truck Drivers in a Garbage Truck who gets smooshed inside the cab as the Batmobile plows into it at high speed, thrusting it into the ceiling.

Our next big collateral moment is after the Batmobile takes an RPG to its side at point-blank range and crashes into a homeless camp. Now it looks like it’s far enough away from anyone, but what if it wasn’t and instead tore through a bunch of tents and their occupants, grinding them under its chassis?

We’ll not be adding that to the tally, but what we will do is add a rough estimation for all the cars that Batman blows up with the Bat Bike as he tries to get out.

We do see that there are kids watching the explosions from inside a car in the next lane, so we can throw in an average of around five to six people that could have been🅷 inside the three that Batman detonat🥂es.

At the climax of the chase, The Joker shoots three cars driving towards him whilst aiming at Batman, it’s probably fair to pin those on Bruce. He could have taken the fight to somewhere secluded instead of charging The Joker down in the open, in public, surrounded by civilians, but he doesn't. So that's at least three we’ll add to the scorecard.

After Batman leaves the Batmobile it self-destructs to cover his tracks, that shrapnel could have hit anyone inside that Homeless camp. Plus we’re shown that there’s a group watching just a few feet away, nice one Bruce.

The Joker's Trolley Problem

At the climax of the movie, The Joker presents the city of Gotham with a Trolley problem. There are two ferries, one filled with 50 or so prisoners, and another with the same amount of civilians. Plus, there are explosives on both ships. Only one can remain and The Joker will sink both if a decision isn’t made.

The detonators for each boat are left in the hands of the opposing side, but sadly nobody is blown up as neither side chooses to do the dark act and Batman takes The Joker down before he can trigger both bombs.

Now, if Batman had been late or screwed up and gave The Joker an opening to detonate the explosives, well we got another 50 people added to Batman's body count right there.

We also see Batman absolutely decimate a S.W.A.T. Team sent into the Joker's hideout to rescue more hostages. Five of which he hangs off the building — luckily their ropes don’t snap and it’s assumed they’re retrieved later. But what if their ropes gave way or weren’t secured properly for the weight of five heavily armed men? That’s five corpses for the tal꧋ly on t🎐hat one Batman

Batman also throws three Rottweilers off the edge of the construction site whilst fighting the Joker, so we can add three do💮gs to the high score.

The final scene with The Joker itself is a great way to close out the film and we can also add one final kill to the tally for the loss of Harvey Dent, who ends up falling to his doom and breaking his neck at the hands of Batman. This happened as Dent was holding Commissioner Gordon's family hostage. Then the movie closes out.

The final body count for The Dark Knight sits at a very modest 28 people and three dogs. But it would be 77 if﷽ one of the Ferries exploded.

The Dark Knight Rises

Out of the entire trilogy, the Dark Knight Rises has probably one of the highest potential body counts. Gotham is held hostage with what’s essentially a nuke by the remnants of the League Of Shadows. If Bruce had dropped the ball at any point, the death toll would be in the thousands if not hundreds of thousa𝕴nds. Gotham as a city would’ve ceased to exist.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, like the others we’ll roll it back to where Batman comes onto the scene and start marking up our tally of potential corpses from there. There are also a few legit kills, but we'll get to those.

Batman's Back, Alright!

Despite the third film in the trilogy opening with a plane crash, Batman is not involved in that one and it takes until around a long-awaited 46 minutes into the movie's timecode for Bruce to show up in his fancy costume.

For the first part of the film he’s hobbling around Wayne Manor being depressed. Now we’ve got him in the first of this movie's car chases, and roughly the fourth in the trilogy so far.

Even though it’s technically a motorcycle chase as he’s in his Bat Pod, he doesn’t do anything particularly questionable until 49 minutes inඣ when he u🐎ses the Bat Pods canons to drop a ramp for himself.

It's something worth pointing out that there’s a taxi stopped right next to the ramp and all it would take is to be a millimeter off and the Taxi Driver and their potential Fare are turned into ground Beef Chuck inside the cab.

It’s a loose straw grab as you could argue the Taxi was emptied by the police a few seconds beforehand, but there’s no fun in that. So we’ll start off strong with two fresh bodies for Batman.

He Can Fly?

For the first time in the trilogy we get to see Batman finally get his Batwing and boy, are there questions to be had about the design of it. Namely, the gigantic rotating dual fans directly underneath the craft that spin at head height.

These rotating circular blades give the craft vertical lift, but unlike the ones that drive it forward, they’re uncovered, unmarked, and unprotected. All it would take is Batman to be just a little too low or not paying attention to what he’s landing on and you’ve got a flying Blender making people smoothies.

Whilst Batman never uses it for this obviously, there are a few moments where all ෴it would take is the craft to dip in power a little and drop a few feet during that police chase and we’ve got a lot of dead Cops.

We never see that happen in the movie but it’s definitely a design choice that’s worth picking at as it’s very od𝄹d.

Gotham Has Seen Better Days

It’s a big time skip right to near the end of the movie at around two hours on the timecode for things to start getting spicy again. Mainly because Batman spends a lot of time out of action with a broken back at the bottom of The Pit after having a train run on him🃏 by Bane.

It’s worth mentioning though that everything that goes down during Bane's reign of terror in Gotham at this point is on the shoulders of Batman.

Or technically Lucius Fox, as he was the one who put all of the Wayne Tech Batman toys in one spot for Bane's men to break into. Whilst unintended, it gave them access to advanced weaponry and a couple of Batmobiles to use as IFVs. There’s also the Fusion Bomb.

Batman's body count bumps up a little bit around two hours and twelve minutes . Batman appears suddenly on the scene between the Cops and Bane's men. Using the Batwing he riddles three Tumblers with High Calibre bullets before flying off, the Tumblers were implied to have soldiers in them manning the turrets. The cars stop becoming a t💙hrea💜t immediately after.

It’s safe to chalk up another three kills for Batman there, one for each dude in the cars. There’s also another three more Tumblers that get taken out ten minutes later by Batman once again in the same way as he chases down Talia in the Batwing. Though Catwoman does help.

There are two in each of these so that’s six dead guys in total, then Talia and her driver make eight as the movie closes out. You could also argue there's one incredibly unlucky fisherman out in Gotham Bay about to have an extremely bad day, so we'll close off on one last little irradiated accidental murder.

During the final chase, Commissioner Gordon is in the line of fire inside a shipping container with the Nuclear Bomb. Any of Batman's High Caliber rounds could have gone through the crate and Gordon.

The One-Sided High Score

We end The Dark Knight Rises with a relatively small body count of 14. However, it’s worth noting that Bane's body count in the last film alone, on his own, drastically dwarfs Batman's by several hundred if not a few thousand.

From the plane crash to the individual executions and the bombing that took out several bridges filled with cars, the Mayor, half of two Football teams, and whoever else was hit with shrapnel in the other blasts throughout Gotham or the sewer tunnel explosions.

There are also all the murders and executions from Kangaroo Courts during Gotham's fall into Chaos to be included, as well as the Cops clipped in the shootout in the finale. Bane's murdering mayhem becomes almost comical at times but it’s an impressive K/D Ratio.

Across the entire Batman Nolan Trilogy, the body count accrued by Bruce Wayne during his antics as Batman is 102 people and three dogs.