The consensus among Batman fans appears to be that Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is a flawed masterpiece. As solid as it was, The Dark Knight Rises couldn’t live up to the heights of ...

W hen it comes to Batman comics over his 85-year history, none are as beloved as Frank Millers The Dark Knight Returns.The 1986 four-issue miniseries changed the course for the DC hero forever ...

Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film The Dark Knight gave Batman and movie fans both what remains the best and most chilling take on The Joker to date. Heath Ledger‘s performance as the iconic ...

The Joker doesn’t even appear in The Dark Knight Rises, but his specter hangs over more than 70 years’ worth of Batman stories.Created by artist Jerry Robinson with Bill Finger and Bob Kane in ...

The Dark Knight takes a different approach, in which the Joker’s relationship to the hero is less important than his relationship to the film as a whole. In a sense, he is just as much, if not ...

The Joker getting Batman to kill him was also part of the Joker's Dark Knight plan. But there are other books to reference as well, looking at the idea – pushed by Zur-En-Arrh – of standing ...

From the Joker’s first comic appearance to The Long Halloween and Batman reboots of yore, these are the books that influenced the Dark Knight trilogy.

Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight was the highest-grossing film in 2008. As well, it still remains one of the most critically-acclaimed Batman films of all time. However, a large part of ...

Given the success of "Batman Begins" three years ago, adventurous, ... indelible performance as his arch-nemesis the Joker, “The Dark Knight” may be the most hopeless, ...

Batman won out over Joker in The Dark Knight, but which DC heroes could have won out sooner. By Ben Hathaway. April 20, 2025, 7:15pm. Comments. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; ...