The Dark Knight Rises Will Dr. Leslie Thompkins ever show up in the Batman films?

[Golgo-13]

I remember early on that ppl were speculating that'd she'd be in TDK. I've alway thought she would make a wonderful addition to the Nolan-verse. When Batman gets seriously injured, he really has no one to turn to. I know in BB, Fox and Alfred remedied him from the fear toxin, but they're not really doctors; and i noticed in TDK, Gordon was about to radio for help for Bat's after he took that plunge with Two-Face off the building, before Bat's regained consciences and stopped him.

I really think Batman needs a trusted physician he can go to when he's hurt. Plus we need a strong female character in the movies. Rachel has been pretty weak from the beginning.

From Wiki:

Leslie is portrayed as having been a close friend of Thomas Wayne. She took it upon herself to look after Wayne's son, Bruce, after the boy's parents were killed, often acting with the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth, as a parental figure and guardian, although other sources have her as a woman who comforted Bruce immediately after his parents' deaths.[citation needed] During that time, Leslie was concerned with Bruce's behavior as he grew increasingly antisocial. She was even more perturbed when she discovered that, in his adult years, Bruce spent his nights fighting the criminal elements of Gotham as the Batman.

Leslie disapproves of Bruce's vigilantism, and feels partly responsible for his transformation into Batman, fearing that somehow she failed him as a role model. Bruce has, though, admitted to feeling guilty for being unable to live up to her pacifist example[citation needed]. She also has been linked to Alfred romantically on more than one occasion.

Dr. Thompkins ran a clinic for criminals and drug addicts in Gotham City. While the majority of her patients were repeat offenders, she continued to do her job with great perseverance and determination. During the No Man's Land storyline, she ran the town's only medical clinic, operating under a strict 'No Violence' policy regardless of her patients's actions and intent. Even Killer Croc respected the rule and stayed out, despite his strong desire for revenge against Victor Zsasz.
[edit]

 

[Rikxiepoo]

Seeing as how she would have been a more important character in the first film than in any other, I doubt she will appear as an important supporting character in the third film. She might appear in flashbacks if Nolan decides to do some but I doubt that.

 

[elgato]

I want her in BB3 so baaaaad...

 

[JokerLedger]

If anything she should've been in the first one.

 

[Golgo-13]

I don't think it would be too hard writing her into 3. They could say she was out of town for a few years.

But the flashback thing could work too. They could show flashbacks of Bruce as a teenager, and have her part of those.

 

[Timstuff]

Judi freakin' Dench gorramit.

 

[Riven]

I've never been much of a fan of Leslie Thompkins. She always felt like a tacked-on mother surrogate, taking away from Alfred's character (surgeon, emotional crutch). Possibly I also dislike her because the actress voicing her in TAS did such a terrible, dispassionate job...

Judi freakin' Dench gorramit.

I'd say Vanessa Redgrave or Helen Mirren.

 

[Nepenthes]

there was quite a store at my workplace when I passed around photos of Helen Mirren in a bikini recently




that's all I have to contribute here

 

[Laderlappen]

I have been saying Piper Laurie, Mia Farrow, or Candice Bergen. Great actresses that arent too big names. But with the possibility of a third movie without Morgan Freeman, it might be a bigger part, so thumbs up to Vanessa Redgrave? Not that much bigger name really, but she has been more sucessful the later years.

 

[Matt.S99]

Helen Friggen Mirren dammit!

 

[the gael]

Hellen mirren seems a good choice. If Bruce is seriously injured ( to much for Alfred ), leslie could be a good addiction to the nolan universe

 

[GregComicFan]

I also think Leslie is a good addition to Bruce/Batman's world.

She is a love interest/flirtation for Alfred.

She knew Thomas Wayne.

She can act as a mother to Bruce, and his doctor. It makes sense Bruce would need a doctor to look after him as Batman.

 

[Coleman Reese]

Bruce's injuries are increasing. In BB it was a simple bruise. In TDK he had a pretty deep opened wound and multiple healed injuries. It also doesn't help that "the separation of the plates makes you more vulnerable to knives and gunfire." He may be seriously f-ed up in the Third and that would be the perfect entrance for Leslie Thompkins.

 

[Nepenthes]

Alfred should be arrested for aiding a fugitive! Batman is wounded and runs into Leslie's shelter, it's full of bums and teenage prostitutes. Helen Mirren looks at a photo of Thomas Wayne on the wall, looks at Batman and says "oh, my poor boy. Now we play doctors" and takes of her clothes.

 

[BobJM]

Ellen Burstyn FTW

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000995/

 

[Laderlappen]

Ellen Burstyn FTW

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000995/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000995/[/quote]That's That's it! We have to have Ellen Burstyn in the role! Great choice man!

 

[Nepenthes]

that's absurd. she's not hot

 

[chamber-music]

I also think Leslie is a good addition to Bruce/Batman's world.

She is a love interest/flirtation for Alfred.

She knew Thomas Wayne.

She can act as a mother to Bruce, and his doctor. It makes sense Bruce would need a doctor to look after him as Batman.

Helen Mirren played Micheal Caines wife in a film

 

[Van Petrol]

I would love to see Leslie Thompkins in the Nolan Bat-Movies. But I feel its most likely a little too late in the game now to do so.

 

[DieSmiling]

She'll never appear in a Batman movie because her character is unknown, and really, pretty unimportant. I mean, Alfred basically can do everything she does. And Alfred was a complete afterthought himself until Nolan came along... Batman Begins was probably the best opportunity to feature her in a movie, so my best guess is that we'll never see her.

 

[BobJM]

What if Thompkins is basically Catwoman's equivalent to Aflred?

Thompkins knows of Catwoman's identity and helps her in her serious times of need.

 

[Nepenthes]

^ good idea

 

[Nave 'Torment']

Maggie Smith should play Leslie:

 

[Nave 'Torment']

or maybe even Sigourney Weaver?

 

[Nave 'Torment']

i see her as the maternal equivalent to Lucius Fox in these films -- and so should've played a more active role when Bruce came back to Gotham and started off as Batman. Leslie's relationship should've been altered, and given a more professional bend than what we're used to, just like Fox. Just as Fox is Batman's connection to his father's past and the tech from Wayne Enterprises, Thompkins should've been Batman's connection to his mother's past through the various soup-kitchens and hospitals at the Narrows -- a look at the downtrodden people of Gotham whom Bruce deems "good." She would've been ideal in Batman Begins.

I suppose a lot of that role has been filled up by Rachel in the film, but i still wonder how Batman would have been the grounded detective he is today had it not been for a more direct access to the streets of Gotham and its many lowlifes. State-of-the-art technology visibly fails as a tool to fight crime if you don't have access to the desperate individuals, informants, and milieus of other street-level connections. In many ways, she's the opposite of Oracle in the DCU, and yes, very much like the Alfred-equivalent for Selina Kyle.

The reason I'm connecting Martha Wayne to Leslie? Well, initially Martha's philanthropy differs from Thomas' in that she was always talking about what could be done on the human front, I see Thomas as more of an industrialist who's doing what he can with his wealth, while Martha would act whatever is possible on a humane level. If you cure criminality at its root -- the reason "Joe Chills are created" then Batman really don't have to fight his crusade. It's a fitting dimension that was left unexplored in the films, and of course very humane. Bruce Wayne lost BOTH his parents that night, but from Frank Miller to Christopher Nolan it seems that Bruce is only grieving his father.

Which is fine, but... I dunno, I see differently.