Batman has never been one. And this is why he never ends. What Christopher Nolan has presented from Batman Begins (2005) through to The Dark Knight Rises (2012) is very different from the source of it all, the figure of the comic series by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939. And actually, the films in Nolan's trilogy do not depict the same character, even though Christian Bale plays the main role in all three films.

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