The Dark Knight Rises Easter Eggs in DKR

I don't think so. In "Begins," it's three notes - a low note, a high note, and a note in between the two.

The 60s TV series starts with high notes and descends before climbing ("NA NA Na Na na na Na Na", where "NA" is highest, "Na" is medium, and "na" is lowest).

Guys the three notes are the NBC theme.
 
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Wait, what mask of Joker's is a throwback to the 60's?

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Yes. After the credits the screen shows the rubble/destruction in Gotham. The camera shows someone step out of the fog, you only see his shoe step down. He bends down and grabs a batarang that was just laying there. He takes a sigh and stands up again and you see it's Liam Neeson as Ra's Al Ghul. He then says "I should have known that to conquer fear you must alley with an agent of chaos..."

He then turns around and faces the camera and continues "Together, let us break the Bat." Then you see out of the fog Adrian Brody as The Joker steps out, holds his card up then laughs before quickly throwing his card towards the screen.

Bwahahaha :woot:
 
Towards the end of the movie when Catwoman kisses Batman she says something like "In case I won't get a chance to do this later" may have been a reference to the Batman vs Superman issue from Hush where she kisses him and says "Because later you might not be able to do that."
 
Is that what she said? I don'tknow where I got that other line from. A different part in the movie maybe? Guess I'll have to see the movie a third time to make certain. :-D
 
Batman: "Don't thank me yet."
Blake: "Well, I might not get a chance to later."

is probably where you got it from
 
[Batman Begins] Bruce: You're not the devil, you're practice.

[The Dark Knight Rises] Bane: Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

Seems Bruce was right about that one.
 
What exactly were the piano notes? I know they were 2 notes each with 3 sets. Something like C,B...A,G...C#,D#

The key "combination" that Bruce plays on the piano to open the secret entrance to the Batcave is comprised of three two-note chords, starting three octaves above middle-C. The keys he presses are D-E, D-E (up an octave), and G-A. However, the tones heard in the soundtrack are actually a half-step down from the correct tones for the notes he plays. This may simply be a post-production soundtrack adjustment or variance, but could also be that the piano was tuned a half-step down, which is sometimes done on older pianos to reduce the 18-20 tons of string tension stress on their framing.

I should also point out that, back then when this question was aked, the answer that I remember was that the notes were actually the first three notes of the alien message from Close Encounters.
 
Alfred's last name Pennyworth is said for the first time in the Nolan series. Not sure if it was said in the Burton/Schumacher films either.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was said in Batman and Robin.
 
A friend of mine said he and a few others thought Bane's red motorcycle helmet was a homage to Red Hood (Jason Todd). I didn't think about that and after seeing it a second time, I still don't believe it. Does anyone else think it was a homage?
 
A friend of mine said he and a few others thought Bane's red motorcycle helmet was a homage to Red Hood (Jason Todd). I didn't think about that and after seeing it a second time, I still don't believe it. Does anyone else think it was a homage?

IMDB mentions it in their trivia:

During the motorcycle chase scene Bane is wearing a red helmet with black visor as well as a brown motorcycle jacket. This is the original costume Jason Todd took under his Red Hood persona, which is itself a callback to The Joker's original criminal identity.
 
A friend of mine said he and a few others thought Bane's red motorcycle helmet was a homage to Red Hood (Jason Todd). I didn't think about that and after seeing it a second time, I still don't believe it. Does anyone else think it was a homage?
I really don't think so.
 
The Pit Prison where Bruce Wayne is imprisoned after his initial encounter with Bane is stated to have originally been a place where plague victims were sent to avoid contaminating the population. In ancient times, such places were known as Lazarettes, referring to the famous Biblical leper Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead. This is a literalization of the Lazarus Pit, which in the original Batman comics is where Ra's Al Ghul bathes to keep his also literal immortality. Thus, when characters escape the Pit Prison in the film, they are said to have "risen."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr1743532
 
The straw and hay sticking out of Crane's suit!

He may not have the mask, but he still is a Scarecrow in a way.
 
If I'm not mistaken, sitting on a shelf in Wayne Manor is a bust. It looks similar to the bust that was used in the original series to get to the Bat Cave.
 
In the film Alfred's middle name starts with a J. Could that be a reference to his father in the comics who's name was Jarvis?
 
A friend of mine said he and a few others thought Bane's red motorcycle helmet was a homage to Red Hood (Jason Todd). I didn't think about that and after seeing it a second time, I still don't believe it. Does anyone else think it was a homage?
In the same way Bruce's motorcycle jacket and 'scope' during the mayor's speech in TDK was an homage to Deadshot.

Which is to say, not at all.
 
The Pit Prison where Bruce Wayne is imprisoned after his initial encounter with Bane is stated to have originally been a place where plague victims were sent to avoid contaminating the population. In ancient times, such places were known as Lazarettes, referring to the famous Biblical leper Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead. This is a literalization of the Lazarus Pit, which in the original Batman comics is where Ra's Al Ghul bathes to keep his also literal immortality. Thus, when characters escape the Pit Prison in the film, they are said to have "risen."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr1743532

:wow:

Thanks for the info, it is good thinking to include such nods in the movie.
 
Yeah, the prison pit was definitely a reference/homage to the Lazarus Pit. And it is where Bruce saw the "reincarnated" Ra's after all.
 
Robin is Blake's middle name

And John is Grayson's middle name
 

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