1. Rachel Dawe becomes a Woman in a Refrigerator. (To my embarrassment, I've been attributing the source of the term to Nightwing when in fact it was Green Lantern. Ffft.)

Let's be honest. Rachel Dawe isn't a terrible interesting character by herself. She's respectable, independent, and not wimpy, and I do like her, sure. But do I find her original or terribly interesting? TBH, not really. And then, in The Dark Knight, she's used not as a character, but as a plot device. She essentially exists to be killed so Harvey Dent has a reason to go crazy and so Batman has that much more reason to hate The Joker. It's not very fair, especially when you consider she is the only female character of supposed importance in the whole movie, with the possible exception of the officer who works alongside Gordon.

2. Barbara Gordon. For some reason, Commissioner Gordon's wife is named Barbara. From what I know of the comics (and I'm admittedly new to them) Barbara is his daughter who becomes Batgirl, and then Oracle. This isn't really a huge complaint, I'm just BUTTHURT because I really really really like Oracle.

3. Commissioner Gordon's family. Gordon has two kids. But the movie only ever really shows you his son. He has a daughter, apparently, but she's only mentioned in passing (The mom tells the son, "Go play with your sister.") and you see the top of her head in one of the final scenes. That's it. And the son is established as the person Gordon loves the most. I'm all for fatherly love and all, but it bugs me that he had such a blatantly favorite child, and that that child had to be the son. Honestly, if the other kid's not gonna matter, just make him an only child, then I wouldn't have to be bothered by the subtle (and unintentional, really) message that daughters don't matter. I know most people will find that complaint really piddly but it just... I don't know, it really really annoys me that we don't even see the daughter's face. Ugh.

ALL IN ALL THOUGH, I did enjoy myself. And all son/daughter quibbling I might have, I'm still kind of weirdly, totally in love with Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon. Still wish the whole favorite son thing weren't there to TAINT it though. C'MOONNNNNNN. argh.

They did flip a semi over. Like they really did it. No CGI flipping semis here. Two-Face's face. Holy shit. That was spectacularly gross. SPECTACULARLY. Bale's Batman voice is still pretty ridiculous though.

Haha, I suck at coherent, fully thought out reviews.