[Iceman]

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Originally Posted by solidwii

I wonder if the role of judge (cillian murphy)was actually written with the Joker in mind. "Death by exile"

Actually, Nolan had originally planned on doing a sequel with the Joker at the center again. He was working on the details when Ledger died and had to go in a completely different direction. I guess Bane and his army made the most sense to him.

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Originally Posted by Greenskar

^This.

Again, its things like this that make me cringe when fans say Nolan's Batman films are based on realism. I think Nolan wants to give it an authentic feel to bring the audience into this world, and the lack of a Lazarus out to bring Ra's from the dead makes it less of a comic feel too I suppose. But its clearly more of a film based on a comic book character than a comic book movie to me. If that makes any sense.

I still like it though.

I like to believe that the Lazarus Pit still exists somewhere and Ra's is once again biding his time in the shadows even though that doesn't really make sense. Too much to explain if they actually brought the character back I guess. Although the Lazarus Pit would have been a better explanation for healing Bruce's back than time and a punch. If they could have just left out the line about his vertebrae protruding from his back it would have been easy to accept that all Bruce needed was a few months rest and rehab.