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The second movie in Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy.

The sequel to Batman Begins and continuing the story about 6 months after, The Dark Knight tells the tale of Bruce Wayne's dealings with his most infamous villain yet, The Joker. Also during the tale of the movie, we witness Batman's dealing with the crazed Two-Face, who combined with the Joker, forces Gotham and Batman to question themselves to their core.

This movie has become one of the top grossing movies of all time due to its high critical reception and because of the death of one of the main stars, Heath Ledger, who played the Joker.

Wikipedia Page: The Dark Knight

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Was the Gotham Hospital scene a goof-up?

OK, I read it on Facebook, but don't know whether it is true or not. The scene in The Dark Knight where the Joker blows Gotham Hospital up was initially not according to plan, but Heath Ledger improvised with his skills. So, initially when he…
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How does the fingerprint on the bullet work in Dark Knight?

I never entirely understood the scene where Bruce and Alfred shoot bullets into bricks and they figure out a finger print from it. How does that technology work exactly?
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Was the improvement to Batman's suit actually noticeable?

At the beginning of The Dark Knight they make it a significant point that Batman needs an improvement to his suit, in particular that he needs to be more flexible, as he realizes after the initial fight against the goons in the parkhouse and their…
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Is the Batpod an electric vehicle?

In Nolan's The Dark Knight, I noticed that the Batpod: makes a characteristically different sound than the Batmobile seems to have the torque associated with electric motors That made me wonder: is the Batpod battery-powered?
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Do the previous Batman movies adhere to Batman's rules?

Christopher Nolan's take on Batman makes it very clear that Batman has a set of rules, or at least 1 rule that he follows and in The Dark Knight (2008), it's addressed several times. That one rule is that he refuses to kill anyone. Do the previous…
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What happened to the missing hospital bus?

In The Dark Knight, after the Joker blows up the hospital, he gets on a school bus which is then seen driving away as the hospital explodes. It's later mentioned that a school bus is missing with 50 people (presumably this same bus Joker got on).…
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What did the Joker's detonators actually target?

I was watching Batman: The Dark Knight the other day and something jogged my memory. There is a scene where the Joker puts two bombs in two separate boats and gives the detonator to the boat owners. He claims that each boat can use the detonator to…
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Anna Ramirez's fate In The Dark Knight

After Ramirez admits her role in Rachel's kidnapping in The Dark Knight, Dent flips the coin landing on the unscarred side and then knocks her out - she is then not mentioned again. What happened to her?
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How did the Joker plant bombs in the hospital?

In The Dark Knight (2008), the Joker calls into a TV show where Reese is about to reveal Batman's identity, and says that if Reese isn't dead within 60 (90?) minutes, then he [the Joker] would blow up a hospital. I'm not even going to ask how the…
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Sal Maroni's fate in the Nolan Batman trilogy

The last we see of Sal Maroni in The Dark Knight is the car flipping over. IIRC there is no further mention of him in the film or in The Dark Knight Rises either. Has there been any E.U mention of him?
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What was the purpose of the canister shoved into the banker's mouth by the Joker?

In The Dark Knight prologue, the Joker shoves a canister into the banker's mouth, and yet, the banker just sits there with the canister smoking in his mouth. Why did he just sit there, and what did the canister do?
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How did the Joker time the Rachel explosion so precisely?

Given that the Joker doesn't have a clock in his cell, how did he time the explosion so precisely such that Batman will only have time to save one? If he told Batman 1 min later, Gordon would have saved Rachel too.
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Why doesn't anyone realize the honor guard at Commissioner Loeb's funeral procession is full of the Joker's men?

In the Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne tracks Melvin White aggravated assault, moved to Arkham twice to his apartment, which is overlooking Commissioner Loeb's funeral parade, where he finds a police honor guard unit tied to a post, blindfolded, mouths…
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What hits Joker's thug in the bus scene?

It seems that one of Joker's thugs at the beginning of The Dark Knight lost his consciousness because he was hit by something. However, there is nothing heavy enough to have caused such an effect in that scene (he got hit by a wood panel which…
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