The Dark Knight Rises Plot overview and Character Overview Possibilities

I like how you connected some dots together but it's not going to happen and I hope it doesn't.

RUMORS state that the "Lazarus Pits" is actually a water well of sorts {Bane is seen rising from the well in the teaser trailer}. The League of Shadows supposedly has set fire to an Alcatraz-island-esque prison. Bane was a convicted bandit. He escapes the chaos erupting in the prison when he discovers the well. The chanting, "he rises, he rises" is heard. As he nears the top, an explosion rises up the the well. Young Ra's sees this, Bane feels no pain. I BELIEVE Ra's thinks Bane is the avatar of a deity. Bane, living with this false belief that he is immortal sets out to conquer. Over-confidence that leads to his downfall, dying in a flame he started {his tactic is to set building on fire and gain the upper-hand on opponents, explaining the breather mask}.

Catwoman probably takes Azrael place as a Batman replacement while Bruce is in exile. John Blake is a beat cop. Gordon is going to die. Miranda Tate is the love interest. Bane burns buildings, bringing Bruce back.

lazarus pit:ain't happening. too supernatural for nolan. he is too realistic when it comes to batman...

The problem I see with your theory is that it ignores the events of the end of TDK. Batman is on the run, Gordon is hunting him. The mob is in tatters, the Joker is in custody and Gotham is angry at Batman for the murders of cops and Harvey Dent. Rachel is dead. Batman will be shut down in the wake of those circumstances and Bruce’s grief…feeling responsible for the death of Rachel and Dent.

So the absence of Batman that Gordon is talking about from his hospital bed is that. And his request to have Batman come back is to face down Bane who is destroying Gotham. That’s when we’ll see the epic battle.

I believe that Batman will be broken by Bane. Why else would Nolan work so hard to make a Bane that fits his universe, when villains that are more ready made exist? Ignoring Bane’s iconic accomplishment would be a waste. And remember the words of the teaser: EVERY HERO HAS AN END.

I think JGL could still factor in as a replacement for Batman. But not in the way you describe. I think he’s filling the role of Max Cort (renamed John Blake). The police officer who heads the task force for capturing Batman. More on that below.

We still have not had an answer to Gary Oldman’s comments from earlier in the year that the villain would be from one of the old, old comics. I think we’re still going to get Hugo Strange. Batman is going to be battling it from all sides, with the police and Strange trying to hunt him and Bane/LOS destroying the city. Strange is trying to find out Batman’s identity and he manipulates Blake into believing he could be Batman himself. Blake finds out that Bruce Wayne is Batman. He finds the Batcave and puts on the suit. He runs into Bane somehow and gets beaten and his back broken.

Bane believes he has killed the Batman forever. But he’s mistaken. With the element of surprise, Bruce is able to defeat Bane in the end and become the white knight and will be cleared of all the Dent murders.

What’s key here is how these scenes are presented in the film. I believe that we’ll see Bane break Batman’s back in the first scenes of the movie (key people have described the opening scenes of the movie as incredible). You’ll have no lead up or idea what’s going on (Nolan is the king of cutting a movie like this). Then it will flash back to events immediately after TDK or perhaps a flashback to a young Ra’s al Ghul discovering Bane somehow.

Thoughts?

In Batman Begins you have Bruce searching for answers to the death of his parents, his feeling of helplessness to protect them or get justice for them and he stumbles on the LOS. He uses that training to learn how to be Batman and protect Gotham (and people like his parents) and stands up to the LOS.

In Dark Knight you have the Joker's chaos and escalation, and manipulating even the best of Gotham (Dent) into crimes resulting in the deaths of several innocent people. Batman feels empowered to meet the threat that he previously felt helpless in but the results are not what he had envisioned.

In Dark Knight Rises I believe we'll see an overlay and variation of both those themes from BB & TDK. Batman now morns people he loved (Dent & Rachel) but now he feels it was his own actions that led to their deaths and when the threat of Bane/LOS arises, he will be conflicted about intervening worrying that his help will do more harm than good. I think Hugo Strange helps reintroduce that manipulation theme, however twisted with John Blake conned into thinking he can be Batman, leading to the mistaken identity.

@ mtsirtsan

most likely scenarios according to who? you're thoughts? come on now. no one has mentioned anything about Azrael, no one knows if the Lazarus Pit will even be in it (doubtful), and pretty much everything else is just your speculation.

you can't say these the most likely scenarios.

ive seen everyone in this site assuming that bruce wayne/batman is saying "what if he doesnt exist anymore" to gordon in the hospital. but its entirely possible that line what just cut into the trailer like trailers usually. trailers always cut up dialogue and piece them together differently

I was thinking more along the lines of Dark Knight Rises. Batman retires and Gordon knows who he is except the difference is when Bane shows up with the d only Gordon is left to stop them and he gets put in the hospital. Bruce goest to visit him and Gordon pleads with him to come back. Batman returns and gets owned by Bane at first and then in round two wins, rising to be Gotham's constant protector. Or at least something along those lines.

I think Despero's right on the money with the Bane origin theories and it sounds really cool. Also I bet it's Bruce talking to Gordon in the hospital but wearing a ski mask like in Batman Begins when he visits him in his office and puts the stapler to the back of his head like a gun. Or he's just hiding in the shadows but I bet it's a mask cause hey remember those pictures of a stunt man wearing a mask hanging out the window when they were filming at the hospital in England a few weeks ago?

@goatmilk: you mean........




...THIS PICTURE???????/

I guess we'll have to wait and see...

So, let me get this straight, all this was "revealed" to you, AND it's an "assumption?" Who revealed it? God? That's about the only "logic" you could use to justify that.

And we're supposed to take you seriously when you don't even understand how to use an apostrophe?

F-A-I-L!