The Dark Knight Rises picks up eight years after Batman ... and he succeeded in turning the popular crime-fighter Harvey Dent into a criminal. With Dent dead but the public desperately in ...

Batman took the fall for Harvey Dent’s crimes to preserve Dent’s image as Gotham’s symbol of hope. At the end of The Dark Knight Rises, Batman gave his life (or possibly faked his death ...

demonstrating that they remained resolute in their principles even with their image of Harvey Dent shattered. The Dark Knight Rises' Batman Ending Only Works Because Of Its Gotham Storyline The ...