The Dark Knight

The Joker robs a mob bank in broad daylight. A world where chaos is ascending and the rules are breaking down.

Harvey Dent: "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." The theme of corruption and maintaining ideals.

Batman is winning against the mob. Harvey Dent is the white knight prosecuting criminals. Rachel and Bruce's unresolved feelings. Gotham is improving.

The mob turns to the Joker for help. He proposes killing Batman. An agent of chaos enters the ordered world.

Should Bruce reveal himself? Can Dent clean up Gotham so Batman isn't needed? Bruce considers retiring. The debate between idealism and pragmatism.

The Joker kills a Batman impersonator and threatens more deaths. Batman must engage with chaos. No more holding back.

Harvey Dent represents the hope that Gotham can be saved without Batman. His relationship with Rachel and Bruce carries the theme.

Batman vs Joker escalates. The Hong Kong extraction. The party scene confrontation. "Why so serious?" The promise of the premise - Batman facing true chaos.

Batman captures the Joker. False victory - they think they've won. The interrogation reveals the Joker's real plan. Stakes explode with Rachel and Harvey captured.

Batman must choose who to save. Rachel dies. Harvey becomes Two-Face. The Joker escapes with Lau. The white knight falls. Everything crumbles.

Harvey Dent is disfigured and corrupted. Rachel is dead. The symbol of hope has become a murderer. Gotham's white knight is destroyed.

Two-Face murders corrupt cops and mob members. Batman realizes his crusade caused this. Has he made things worse? What is he willing to sacrifice?

The Joker's ferry social experiment. Batman realizes he must prove people are good, and he must bear the burden of Dent's crimes to preserve hope.

The ferries refuse to blow each other up. Batman defeats the Joker. Batman stops Two-Face from killing Gordon's son. Dent falls to his death.

Batman takes the blame for Dent's murders. He becomes the villain to preserve hope. Gordon destroys the Bat-Signal. "The Dark Knight." He sacrifices everything.