8 Comic Book Movies That Were Ruined By Terrible Plot Twists

3) Bruce Wayne Survived

Sorry, The Dark Knight Rises. You’re actually a pretty good movie, but you do have two really irritating plot twists. On top of the reveal that Bane isn’t what he thought he was, the end of the film gives us a controversial ending for Bruce Wayne that just doesn’t work on both a character-based and logical level.

After apparently dying while disposing of a bomb to save Gotham, Alfred discovers Bruce living it up in Paris with Selina Kyle. Yes, some fans prefer to think of this as an Inception-like dream sequence but, let’s face it, this was intended to be reality, so we have to treat it as that.

While the idea to give Bruce a happy ending, by having him finally be able to move on with his life, is a good-natured one, it feels like a betrayal of Batman’s core character that he would ever leave Gotham and, frankly, ever sort out his psychological hang-ups enough to lead a normal life. On top of that, fans have had to pick apart the logic of having Bats escape the nuclear explosion in tact ever since.

As Robin put it, in Return of the Caped Crusaders: “Holy unsatisfying ending!”