The Dark Knight Rises The TDKR General Discussion Thread - - - - - Part 154

[BatLobster]

I never understood the Alfred googles Bane argument, lol why would anyone assume that? He does have access to, you know...the Bat-computer.

TDK established Alfred being able to obtain addresses of former Arkham patients and intel on the GCPD too, and like Joker said, we see how easy it was for them to pull up Selina's record earlier in TDKR. So it's not like that kind of thing hadn't been pretty well-established.

 

[Travesty]

A secret society isn't the same thing as people with documented arrest records.

 

[titansupes]

I never understood the Alfred googles Bane argument, lol why would anyone assume that? He does have access to, you know...the Bat-computer.

TDK established Alfred being able to obtain addresses of former Arkham patients and intel on the GCPD too, and like Joker said, we see how easy it was for them to pull up Selina's record earlier in TDKR. So it's not like that kind of thing hadn't been pretty well-established.

Exactly. It's the Bat-Computer. It pretty famously has access to all kinds of things aka Police files, CIA etc. Maybe they could have have had Alfred say something like "The Bat-Computer was able to pull up the CIA's files on the League--" before going into it (which may well be in the script, if I recall?)... but then people would have complained about exposition or something.

 

[BatLobster]

Bane was a mercenary on the CIA's radar so it's reasonable to assume that the existence of the LoS, at least whispers of it, were also on their radar since they had some minor intel on Bane's past. If Bane's legend was spreading amongst the men that worked for him, then that means his past associations- the Pit, the League, Ra's etc. were a known thing in certain circles. Being known as the guy who escaped the pit (despite being untrue) and too extreme for Ra's were things that would've helped Bane's rep. All it takes is one person talking.

Personally, I tend to think the cat was probably out of the bag on the LoS after the failed Narrows attack. Maybe Gotham was left to assume it was Crane's doing, but there would've had to have been some kind of CIA investigation that would've assumed it was the work of some type of global terrorists. Who knows where that might've led them.

I mean, I get it was convenient exposition and all but then...the Bat-computer is a convenient, exposition spewing machine in general.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I was kidding about the google thing.









He was probably using Bing.

 

[BatLobster]

You sly dog, you.

 

[Brother Jack]

I was kidding about the google thing.









He was probably using Bing.

Only (the amazing) Spiderman uses Bing.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I don' think that the LOS was supposed to be this uber secret organization. Bruce already knew about them before meeting "Ducard", after all.

Ducard: "...A man who offers you a path. The path of the League of Shadows."
Bruce: "You're vigilantes."

 

[Shikamaru]

Fun fact: if you watch Season 2 Episode 8 of Arrow, there's a scene where Moira seems to have googled "Ra's al Ghul" in the same way. So it's safe to assume the DCU has some sort of LoS search engine .

 

[BatLobster]

I don' think that the LOS was supposed to be this uber secret organization. Bruce already knew about them before meeting "Ducard", after all.

Ducard: "...A man who offers you a path. The path of the League of Shadows."
Bruce: "You're vigilantes."

Good point. Bruce obviously didn't know the full scope of the organization, but it seems like the type of thing where there are some whispers and rumors about it. Much like Batman when he's starting out.

 

[Snow Queen]

Fun fact: if you watch Season 2 Episode 8 of Arrow, there's a scene where Moira seems to have googled "Ra's al Ghul" in the same way. So it's safe to assume the DCU has some sort of LoS search engine .

This is what Ra's gets for setting up a Facebook account and checking in at Nanda Parbat.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Tea Time folks

 

[The Joker]

I don' think that the LOS was supposed to be this uber secret organization. Bruce already knew about them before meeting "Ducard", after all.

Ducard: "...A man who offers you a path. The path of the League of Shadows."
Bruce: "You're vigilantes."

Good catch. I forgot about that. Bruce instantly labels them as soon as he hears their name, so they must have some kind of rep.

 

[Decepticonus]

Good catch. I forgot about that. Bruce instantly labels them as soon as he hears their name, so they must have some kind of rep.

I always assumed he knew nothing of them and just going off the name he was like 'hmmm, a group with a name like that which fights injustice, sounds like vigilantes.'

 

[Decepticonus]

I never understood the Alfred googles Bane argument, lol why would anyone assume that? He does have access to, you know...the Bat-computer.

Do people really argue that? I'm pretty sure we were all saying it on here because the idea sounds hilarious, that's all.

 

[The Joker]

I always assumed he knew nothing of them and just going off the name he was like 'hmmm, a group with a name like that which fights injustice, sounds like vigilantes.'

Ra's: "My name is Ducard but I speak for Ra's Al Ghul, a man greatly feared by the criminal underworld"

Bruce had just spent months/years studying and living and working with criminals, so if Ra's has a fearsome rep in the underworld then Bruce must have heard of him and the LOS, too.

 

[BatLobster]

 

[Kane52630]

You're missing two photos.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Batman's ears have been getting smaller and smaller.

 

[Snow Queen]

You're missing two photos.

Yeah, how could he forget West/Martinson and Conroy/Timm/Radomski?

 

[titansupes]

That's awesome.

 

[Penguin]

Keaton’s Batman is also the only one to have the yellow logo.

 

[Thoix]

Keaton’s Batman is also the only one to have the yellow logo.

Kilmer also had the yellow logo:

 

[ComicChick]

the july fan art contest is up and it is time to vote.
please take a moment to drop in and vote for your favorite. thank you

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=502709

 

[shauner111]

I always assumed he knew nothing of them and just going off the name he was like 'hmmm, a group with a name like that which fights injustice, sounds like vigilantes.'

That's how i took it all these years. But it's possible that Bruce knew.

You're missing two photos.

They're the two that don't matter.