[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Spoiler!

Not only does it cheapen the ending of TDK but it also cheapens the character of Bruce Wayne/Batman. One of the defining moments in that film for Wayne was during the Joker killings where Alfred says:



So at the end of the film he chooses to take the blame for those cop killings and that is totally fine. But for Bruce to just sit around for 8 years doing nothing after that point is really strange. It would have made sense for Batman to still be out there fighting crime despite Gotham's hatred towards him. It's especially weird given that all it takes for him to get back out there is to throw that thing on his leg. Yes he gets beat down by Bane but after a short training montage he's back in form and better than ever.

Not really a spoiler, so I won't tag it...I think you are forgetting that at the end of TDK that all the mob guys are already arrested and waiting to go to trial. So really the streets of Gotham are already cleaned up at the end of TDK, once Joker and Two Face were gone there was nothing left for Batman to do.