So you have batman out of action for 8 years, Gotham all happy and in control and then few things happen that starts moving things around for batman to return.
People might complain about batman dropping the costume off all these years. For one , if you are a real hero , you would want villains of the week and continue fighting till your really old or your side kick is ready for action. But he is a superhero, self sacrifice seems to be the prime objective for them. He wanted to clean up the city with a symbol . He was that symbol , but once other started using that symbol for evil , he knew this has to change. How , let the white knight be the hero. Dent's legacy and the lies behind his death will ensure more is done by people of gotham and the police to stop villains emerging . That's what batman is all about. That's what any good person willing to do a deed is all about. Once his work is done , go quietly back to his life. But that was tough for wayne as he was and has always been scarred too deep in life.
Most superheroes have a tragic background and they don't want that tragedy struck upon others. These people are similar to the other heroes we see in real life . You had world leaders and peace activist strive a lot and for long for change. Once they brought the change , and showed the light , the people just did not know what to do with the light . Most of them were fighting against having their people under a master . But most don't realise is that people what exactly that , but in a different form , a leader , someone to look upto. They just don't know how to live their lives by themselves.
What after 8 years of clean gotham. People lead their normal lives. But inside 2 things were brewing. The majority of middle / lower class were just stuck in their own routine , but still felt they were being oppressed by the higher classes . Even though this was not an oppression by force. They felt generalised the term oppression and hence reached a melting point in society where chaos rules . But out of chaos comes another kind of order and people take this for being better than what they had. Bane knew this and this was exactly what the league of shadows were all about as well. The other thing brewing was that you still have people who were corruptable and willing to go to any lengths to fullfill their greed. Hence you had the corrupt , cash rich using their resources for their own evil. But like Bane said , just paying him some money didn't make daggett own him , It was the other way around Daggett showed his weakness towards Bane and that was enough for Bane to start the fire.
Was written that for evil to rise , the good people had to just do nothing . All the good that wayne foundation was doing was of no use as they just lost hope and did not strive to do the good / correct thing in life. If wayne had left batman altogether and continued as wayne , maybe all this destruction in TDKR would have not existed in the first place. This reflects our own society in a way . We were oppressed and liberated more than half a century ago , yet we still feel we were better off being ruled over and we seem to be running like headless chickens . People don't and might never realise what they have until it is taken away from them. Bane wanted to show this , hence held them all hostage and then planned to annihilate them all. Even in today's world people wish for revolution and some spark or fire to motivate them , change them. But more often than not , that spark or fire is started by evil which they interpret as good , just because its different. What next after TDKR , Gotham still needs a symbol , a saviour , someone to show them the way and this cycle will keep continuing , unless people themselves realise they keep repeating history and should take an alternate route in life.
One thing people didn't like was the fact that wayne was alive , even though batman was dead. Our history is full of empires grown to the peak and fallen. You have some sections of people who still want something bad to happen , so that good will rise out of it. The answer though is , you don't need something to latch on to , to rise , just rise from where you are , without the rope !!!
People might complain about batman dropping the costume off all these years. For one , if you are a real hero , you would want villains of the week and continue fighting till your really old or your side kick is ready for action. But he is a superhero, self sacrifice seems to be the prime objective for them. He wanted to clean up the city with a symbol . He was that symbol , but once other started using that symbol for evil , he knew this has to change. How , let the white knight be the hero. Dent's legacy and the lies behind his death will ensure more is done by people of gotham and the police to stop villains emerging . That's what batman is all about. That's what any good person willing to do a deed is all about. Once his work is done , go quietly back to his life. But that was tough for wayne as he was and has always been scarred too deep in life.
Most superheroes have a tragic background and they don't want that tragedy struck upon others. These people are similar to the other heroes we see in real life . You had world leaders and peace activist strive a lot and for long for change. Once they brought the change , and showed the light , the people just did not know what to do with the light . Most of them were fighting against having their people under a master . But most don't realise is that people what exactly that , but in a different form , a leader , someone to look upto. They just don't know how to live their lives by themselves.
What after 8 years of clean gotham. People lead their normal lives. But inside 2 things were brewing. The majority of middle / lower class were just stuck in their own routine , but still felt they were being oppressed by the higher classes . Even though this was not an oppression by force. They felt generalised the term oppression and hence reached a melting point in society where chaos rules . But out of chaos comes another kind of order and people take this for being better than what they had. Bane knew this and this was exactly what the league of shadows were all about as well. The other thing brewing was that you still have people who were corruptable and willing to go to any lengths to fullfill their greed. Hence you had the corrupt , cash rich using their resources for their own evil. But like Bane said , just paying him some money didn't make daggett own him , It was the other way around Daggett showed his weakness towards Bane and that was enough for Bane to start the fire.
Was written that for evil to rise , the good people had to just do nothing . All the good that wayne foundation was doing was of no use as they just lost hope and did not strive to do the good / correct thing in life. If wayne had left batman altogether and continued as wayne , maybe all this destruction in TDKR would have not existed in the first place. This reflects our own society in a way . We were oppressed and liberated more than half a century ago , yet we still feel we were better off being ruled over and we seem to be running like headless chickens . People don't and might never realise what they have until it is taken away from them. Bane wanted to show this , hence held them all hostage and then planned to annihilate them all. Even in today's world people wish for revolution and some spark or fire to motivate them , change them. But more often than not , that spark or fire is started by evil which they interpret as good , just because its different. What next after TDKR , Gotham still needs a symbol , a saviour , someone to show them the way and this cycle will keep continuing , unless people themselves realise they keep repeating history and should take an alternate route in life.
One thing people didn't like was the fact that wayne was alive , even though batman was dead. Our history is full of empires grown to the peak and fallen. You have some sections of people who still want something bad to happen , so that good will rise out of it. The answer though is , you don't need something to latch on to , to rise , just rise from where you are , without the rope !!!
