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Tag: The Dark Knight Rises

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The World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero

22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022
How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…
2016 Election…

Which Batman Character Does Trump Resemble Most? Part 6: The Conclusion

24 Mar 201624 Mar 2016
For the past several weeks, this blog has investigated which Batman character has the most in common with presidential candidate Donald Trump. We have considered five Batman villains thus far:…
2016 Election…

Is Bane the Batman Character Who Trump Resembles Most?

23 Mar 201621 Jan 2017
"Do you feel in charge?" It is with these words that the power shifts from one man to another in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, as the terrorist…
2016 Election…

Is the Scarecrow the Batman Villain Who Trump Resembles Most?

10 Mar 201621 Jan 2017
This is the second installment in an ongoing series of articles exploring which Batman character Donald Trump resembles most. You can read the first installment here, in which I explain…
2016 Election…

What We Failed to Learn About Terrorism from The Dark Knight

5 Dec 201517 Feb 2018
Or, "Stop Calling Them Gunmen and Start Calling Them Terrorists" One of the most notable elements of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is that, despite being made by a British writer…
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Please, No More Origin Stories of How Evil Villains Used to be Good Guys or Children

17 Oct 201517 Oct 2015
If you haven't heard, the latest complete failure at the box office was the flaccid reboot Pan, an attempt to create a franchise out of the Peter Pan story by starting…
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Why Ben Affleck could be the best Batman ever

24 Aug 201524 Aug 2015
People like to predict that Ben Affleck will fail as the Batfleck. But what this blog post presupposes is, maybe he won't? The fact is, Ben Affleck is a good…
Batman…

A Hero Can Be Anyone: Reflections on the Loss of a Batman

17 Aug 201517 Aug 2015
You may have seen a sad news story about Lenny B. Robinson, a Maryland man who impersonated Batman to bring joy into the lives of children. Many referred to him…
2016 Election…

If the Candidates were Sci-Fi Movie Characters: A Cheat Sheet to the 2016 Presidential Election

4 Aug 20156 Aug 2015
During the last presidential election, Rick Santorum famously told the media that he felt like "this campaign is like an episode of ‘Survivor.’ It’s just a matter of staying in…
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Do You Believe in Harvey Dent?

20 Feb 201527 Feb 2015
Remember The Dark Knight?  Who can forget Harvey Dent's tragic line, the one which foreshadowed both his own downfall and the character arcs of so many of those around him: you either…

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