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The Dark Knight Rises

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Directed by Christopher Nolan

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him… From TMDB

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The Dark Knight Rises is a 2012 action crime thriller film, directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy.

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Hours before the midnight release of the film, several box-office analysts suggested as much as a $198 million domestic opening weekend. However, in the wake of the mass shooting during a midnight screening of the film, Warner Bros. decided to not report further box-office figures for the movie until Monday, July 23, 2012. As a result, other distributors also delayed the release of their official estimates as well. The shooting is also speculated to have hurt the ticket sales as E! Online reported that a North Carolina audience member had stated that "this theater was kinda empty". Some reports released on July 21, 2012, said that rival studios estimated that the film grossed $75 million to…

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  • Forbes @forbes.comBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    The film beat Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” to become his most successful global opening.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has become Christopher Nolan's highest grossing movie of all time at $1.1 billion. Surpassing ‘THE DARK KNIGHT RISES’.

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  • Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    It’s Batman Day. People call Batman ‘66 silly but let’s remember that Christopher Nolan ends The Dark Knight Rises with a slightly higher budget version of this classic scene from that movie.

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  • Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    Bongino said on his February 11 show that Trump “should ignore” an unfavorable court order and, invoking the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises", suggested that the president “set up a courtroom” in the White House and “just start making judicial decisions.”

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  • actioncookbook @actioncookbook.comBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    Emily Wilson is mad at Christopher Nolan for the wrong thing his biggest crime is *showing* Bruce Wayne in the cafe scene at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, the movie should have ended on a slightly-ambiguous note with Alfred looking up in recognition but us not seeing what he was reacting to

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  • chickenwing @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 16, 2023

    Have you noticed how movies are getting longer?. Movies have been getting longer for a few years or so but they are especially long this year. Look at the biggest films this year and see how they are about 20-30min longer than they would be in the past. - The Flash - 2h 24m - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 2h 34m - Oppenheimer - 3h - Barbie - 1h 54m - John Wick: Chapter 4 - 2h 49m - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - 2h 29m And even crazier are the 2 parter movies. - Spider-Man:…

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  • Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2025

    It’s Batman Day. People call Batman ‘66 silly but let’s remember that Christopher Nolan ends The Dark Knight Rises with a slightly higher budget version of this classic scene from that movie.

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  • Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2024

    "The Fire Rises" is a mod that was released just last month on the Steam workshop for Hoi4. The name itself should be a bit of a dead giveaway. That phrase, taken from Bane in the Dark Knight Rises movie is a bit of a stock phrase in accelerationist circles. It currently sits at 169k subscribers. /9

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · May 14, 2025

    Superman (July 11) Probably the first time since The Dark Knight Rises (2012) that I've felt like seeing a superhero movie in theater. (some spaceships too)

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    Gonna watch The Dark Knight Rises instead of doomposting. It’s traditionally my least favorite Nolan movie, but, there are certain resonant elements that seem interesting today

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  • Hubi @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 27, 2025

    >Bale revealed that during the filming of “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Trump Towers, the business mogul invited him to his office. “We were filming on Batman in Trump Tower and he said, come on up to the office,” Bale told Variety. “I think he thought I was Bruce Wayne because I was dressed as Bruce Wayne. So he talked to me like I was Bruce Wayne and I just went along with it, really. It was quite entertaining,” he added.…

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  • Dan @danlikescomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    I love the one movie synergy thing from The Dark Knight Rises movie into comics was giving Bane the coat

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  • Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    I've always liked The Dark Knight Rises (2012) because my brain has thoughtfully edited out the parts that are not the sharp, tight Catwoman movie with Anne Hathaway.

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  • Full Fact @fullfact.orgBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    There's speculation this image comes from the Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. But... 🚫 We couldn’t find a matching scene in the film. 💻 We know it was created or edited using Google AI tools.

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  • ConstipatedWatson @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 28, 2024

    How did Batman survive being stabbed in the Dark Knight Rises movie?. Apologies if this is not an Ask Lemmy worthy question, but I couldn't guess an appropriate community to post it to and welcome suggestions to where to move such a question to. Question is as in the title: how could Batman survive what really seems like a deadly stab by Miranda Tate (=Talia Al Ghul) at the end of the movie and still have the strength to go chase the bomb, the lucidity to set up the autopilot and the…

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  • Film Crave @filmcrave.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    Christopher Nolan’s #TheOdyssey reportedly has a $250 million budget which would match the most expensive film of his career: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. Starring Robert Pattinson, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron.

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  • The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    The Dark Knight Rises. Audiences weren't exactly keen to have it happen at all after Ledger's death, and Nolan made that film like he was assigned homework at a family funeral, but you can see flashes of the cool and good trilogy capper that actually stuck the landing

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  • Molly McQueen 🏳️‍⚧️☯️☭🍓 @subtlypunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    *after watching Batman Begins* That was a great film, except for the Batman voice, but I'm sure they'll fix that in the sequel. *after watching The Dark Knight* Wow! That voice was even more awkward this time, but I think I'm used to it. *after watching The Dark Knight Rises* Oh, fuck you!

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  • the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2026

    The Dark Knight Rises i think i fucking hate this movie

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  • Halloween Henrique @kelzor.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    What Nolan really has is a keen sense of timing: 'The Dark Knight Rises' during Occupy Wall Street, 'Dunkirk' amid Brexit, and now a film about hyper-masculine ancient Greeks that I'm sure in no way taps into the imagery of today’s far right.

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  • Drunk On Mystery, but like....Spooky @drunkonmystery.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    I have watched exactly one porn parody in my life: it was the porn parody of The Dark Knight Rises, which was released before The Dark Knight Rises was so they had no idea what the actual movie plot would be and had to make a bunch of guesses. It is one of the strangest things I've ever seen

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  • the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2026

    The Dark Knight Rises doesn't even feel like a Batman movie most of the time it feels like a CoD Campaign but also for some reason the final boss of 007: First Light is the villain

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  • Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2025

    On tender hooks for “Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning.” Reviews are comparing it to “The Rise of Skywalker” and to “The Dark Knight Rises”, and those are two very different kinds of maximalist, overstuffed blockbuster! It can’t be both! (“The Dark Knight Rises” rules.)

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  • the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2026

    after a day of stewing it over in my head my opinion of The Dark Knight Rises has gone down even more but my opinion of Bane in that movie has skyrocketed

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  • Ray Apollo @rayapollo.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    Ah. This Wicked movie is The Dark Knight Rises for theater kids lmao

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  • White Flight From the Mouth of Infinity @leyndellsoviet.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    End of The Dark Knight Rises, but it's a horror movie.

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  • maxmoran.bsky.social @maxmoran.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    Henrhyd Falls, nr Coelbren, Powys. Also known as the film location of the Batcave in The Dark Knight Rises. 📷 09.10.23 #WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

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  • Tomas Sancio @tsancio.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    The Dark Knight Rises is from 2012, but worth mentioning since it was Christopher Nolan’s experiment of making a terrible movie, with tons of plot holes and awful casting, to see if critics still considered him a genius.

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  • Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    Watching The Dark Knight Rises and Michelle Pfeiffer is still the greatest movie Catwoman

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2026

    You: “Nolan’s worst movie is THE DARK KNIGHT RISES” Me (an intellectual): “Nolan’s worst movie is BATMAN BEGINS”

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  • Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    The Dark Knight Rises is a mess but damn does that movie have some dope scenes. And you know what? While I like to joke about the Bane Voice, Tom Hardy's really good in the flick.

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  • Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    The Dark Knight Rises includes a moment when Bane catches Batman's fist and then hits him with it, so A+ movie imo

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  • Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    The Dark Knight Rises isn't a good movie, however the sharp, tight Catwoman movie that are the only parts my brain remembers from The Dark Knight Rises is a good movie, so it evens out.

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  • Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2024

    Just finished Logan, which I had somehow missed. Very different film from The Dark Knight Rises, which I also recently watched. I much preferred Logan.

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @[email protected]Lemmy · May 12, 2024

    The 165-Year-Old Novel That Helped Inspire ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/11755652 > > If The Dark Knight felt like a relentless crime thriller inspired by the cinema of Michael Mann, The Dark Knight Rises explored the spiritual and emotional journey of Christian Bale’s version of Bruce Wayne. By connecting to the storyline involving the League of Shadows first introduced in Batman Begins, Nolan and his brother Jonathan Nolan were able to bring their…

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  • Exhibitor Relations Co. @ercboxoffice.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Welcome back to the $1B Club, Christopher. THE ODYSSEY becomes the third Nolan film to cross $1 billion worldwide—joining THE DARK KNIGHT and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. An epic milestone, 2,700 years in the making.

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  • Freezer @freezer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    I don't care how grounded or serious you want a Batman story to be. Have Gotham City have some whimsy to it at least. The Dark Knight Rises would have been better if Gotham looked like it did in a Schumacher Batman movie.

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  • Julie 🎃👻🎶 @juliemch.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 3. National Anthem in a Movie. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    ‘THE ODYSSEY’ is officially Christopher Nolan’s highest-grossing film with $1.1B worldwide. It ranks ahead of 2012’s ‘THE DARK KNIGHT RISES’ with $1.08B, not adjusted for inflation. #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #TheDarkKnightRises

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has become Christopher Nolan’s third film to cross $1 billion at the global box office. It joins ‘THE DARK KNIGHT’ and ‘THE DARK KNIGHT RISES’. #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #TheDarkKnight

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  • Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2026

    Nolan getting a kicking, so let me say this: Worst film: The Dark Knight Rises Best film: The Prestige. I will defend The Prestige till the brink of doom. I will battle for it on the cusp of the great waterfall of the void.

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  • Julie 🎃👻🎶 @juliemch.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2025

    #JulyMovieChallenge #Moviesky 7/12. Riot in a movie. The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012)

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    The Dark Knight Rises? Cat movie

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  • 😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    ... Walk on ice..? wait... Guys... Guys.... You DO KNOW that the Dark Knight Rises was just a superhero movie and not a documentary, right? RIGHT?!

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  • Kevin Church (Spooky Remix) @beaucoupkevin.comBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    TENET is definitely Nolan's Bond Film, but THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is the movie with the Bond Opening.

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  • Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    How has it taken us this long to get the two most intensely dedicated actors in one film together? Obviously we know Tom’s credentials, but for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Anne Hathaway actually spend 10 months as a high end international jewel thief and Interpol STILL hasn’t put it all together

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  • Adam K @adamkek.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? I, Robot Spider-Man Homecoming The Dark Knight Rises Captain America the First Avenger I, Robot, while not an adaptation, still has an interesting twist to the laws of robotics. These Batman and Capt. Am. movies are my favorites. #Letterboxd

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    Happy Birthday to the talented and stunning Marion Cotillard, Oscar-winning French film, TV, and stage actress, acclaimed for her roles in BIG FISH, LA VIE EN ROSE, INCEPTION, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, CONTAGION, RUST AND BONE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, THE IMMIGRANT, TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT, and many more.

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  • HuffPost @huffpost.comBluesky · Apr 28, 2025

    The 'Dark Knight Rises' star continues his tradition of outlandish accents in his latest Netflix thriller. www.huffpost.com/entry/2025-t...

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  • Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    Tonight’s movie: The Dark Knight Rises

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  • Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2024

    Recently re-watched The Dark Knight Rises (I'm a defender of the film, and enjoy it) and have only just noticed the MASSIVE plot hole regarding Bane's plan in knowing that Bruce Wayne is Batman but NEVER revealing it to Gotham during his siege, especially when revealing truth about Harvey Dent, FFS.

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  • One Last Post 4: geno nation rises @cmikesspinmove.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    The Dark Knight Rises is a good example of a movie that is a great theater experience that doesn't hold up nearly as much under rewatches.

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  • Michael J. Miller @mycomicrelief.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    It’s #LetterboxdFriday again! My #LastFourWatched shows an unplanned progression of Anne Hathaway movie, Batman movie, Anne Hathaway movie, Batman movie. So the logical question is…do I ride this trend to its inevitable conclusion in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’??

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    ‘THE ODYSSEY’ is currently eyeing a $1.1-1.3 billion finish at the worldwide box office. It would become Christopher Nolan’s highest-grossing film, surpassing ‘THE DARK KNIGHT RISES’. #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan

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  • Sean Marier @seanmarier.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    🤩 CHAND BAORI STEPWELL Abhaneri, Rajasthan, India This place was totally giving me MC Escher vibes. Batman fans might recognize the stepwell for its cameo as an inescapable prison in the opening of Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ #photography #travel #art #architecture

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @[email protected]Lemmy · May 12, 2024

    The 165-Year-Old Novel That Helped Inspire ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. > If The Dark Knight felt like a relentless crime thriller inspired by the cinema of Michael Mann, The Dark Knight Rises explored the spiritual and emotional journey of Christian Bale’s version of Bruce Wayne. By connecting to the storyline involving the League of Shadows first introduced in Batman Begins, Nolan and his brother Jonathan Nolan were able to bring their interpretation of the caped crusader to a satisfying…

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  • Sean Marier @seanmarier.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    🤩 CHAND BAORI STEPWELL Abhaneri, Rajasthan, India This place totally gives me MC Escher vibes. Batman fans might recognize the stepwell for its cameo as The Pit, an inescapable prison in Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ starring Christian Bale. #photography #travel #movies

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  • Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2024

    Batman the Dark Knight Rises was not a good movie but a great collection of disjointed moments

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  • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him] @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 2, 2025

    I just rewatched The Dark Knight Rises. I don't remember this scene.

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  • Lost_My_Mind @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 25, 2024

    I don't understand Catwoman.. I like when characters are clearly defined. You need a clear baseline of a starting point of who these characters are, and where they come from. Their personality can change over time, but not WHO they are. So things like age (unless you plan to age the entire universe equally), facial features, race, gender, eye color, hair color, body size, body shape. These are all things that need to be consistant no matter how many times you reboot the series. Peter Parker has…

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