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Batman's Superhero

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Batman, the protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s film Batman Begins ( 2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), is portrayed as one of the most iconic superheroes in Marvel films. Simon Locke states “Marvel is famous for having significantly reworked the super-hero genre in the early 1960s, by giving its heroes ‘problems’ making them seem more realistic to many readers” (Locke, 33). Marvel films have succeeded in surprising their audience worldwide by illustrating superheroes in a dynamic way with the superhero fiction. Nolan portrays Batman as a powerful and dynamic savior figure. Bruce Wayne, Batman’s alter-ego, is a wealthy and prominent public figure who devotes his life into the savior figure so popular in media. Unlike …show more content…

As a superhero, Batman has no special power except his own technological skills and personal fortune. He utilizes high tech deceptions to build his suits and to fight crime and save Gotham city. Thus, technologies in the films is a means of transformation for the protagonist to become a superhero. In adding advanced technology to these films, as one of the most essential elements for gaining the superpowers, the films give us a kind of magical vision of advanced technology and an image of Batman as a “savior figure.” The use of the technology in Nolan’s Batman films is associated with the parallels between the Batman figure and Christian discourse. In this way, the association between technology and the divine is present in the Batman series, in a specific moment when Batman fights criminals and saves the people of Gotham with his technological …show more content…

Batman is a Christ figure in the films because he is called upon to make a great sacrifice in order to save Gotham City. His action such as his self-sacrifice is linked with Christian themes. The way Nolan depicts Batman related to Christ figure is driven by the Christian symbolisms. The purpose of Christian symbolism taken in the films is not that Batman is faithful, but how he achieves greatness and determines to sacrifice himself for people he loves. While some argue that it is his faith that gave him greatness, others also point out the fact that it is his discipline and moral feeling, the action he takes to become

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