Does the dog die?
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The Dark Knight
Movie • 2008 • Superhero
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Specifically, three attacking rottweilers get hit/ thrown off a ledge inside a construction zone in the last act of the movie.
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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In one of Joker's stories he tells of how his father abused him and his mother in one of his drunken fits
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Though not brutalized, Rachel Dawes is held against her will and ultimately killed in a bombing. This is more or less done for both positive and negative character development for Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent (respectively)
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Graphic descriptions of it, but it's only mentioned, not shown.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Joker claims to have had an abusive father but he’s possibly lying
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Joker gaslights a character into thinking he (Joker) is not at fault for something he very clearly is.
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The Joker gives varying stories about how he got his scars that could serve as an explanation for why he does evil things. However this is only talked about and not shown, and it’s possible that the joker made it all up.
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Is someone stalked?
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Bruce Wayne uses his surveillance equipment to view a romantic interest's activities. This is commented on and it is implied that he also acts based on questionably gathered information to actively sabotage her interactions with an implied romantic rival. It's actually pretty creepy.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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In one of the Jokers stories his father had a drinking problem
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In the beginning of the movie, a man who bought drugs from the Scarecrow is seen in distress. Don't use the Scarecrow as a dealer, his drugs take you places, but not places you want to go.
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Animal Death
Does a cat die?
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Catwoman is not in this one.
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Not on-screen at least.
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Is there a dead animal?
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3 Dogs are punched off a ledge by Batman. They would fall into the broken down Elevator shaft offscreen
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Animal Distress
Are animals abused?
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Attack dogs are used by the Mafia and the Joker. Batman fights these dogs and the dogs are injured/die.
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Not other dogs but people
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Animal Phobia
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Appendages
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Does someone break a bone?
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A man is dropped from a fire escape while being interrogated and it is implied that he breaks both his legs
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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In the beginning of the movie, one of the Scarecrow's victims is shown. The person unknowingly took some nasty hallucinogens from the Scarecrow. The Joker also poisons a man's drink.
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Is someone restrained?
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Harvey and Rachel are tied to chairs.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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A child is threatened with being killed.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Rachael unintentionally sacrifices herself, so that Harvey may live instead.
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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The Joker has facial scarring, but Heath Ledger does not.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does someone cheat?
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There is a love triangle between Rachel, Bruce, and Harvey.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The Joker kidnaps several people. Some of these people are killed or forced to appear in threatening videos with the Joker.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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A jumpscare if a body hung in a batsuit around the middle of the movie
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Are there clowns?
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Obviously
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Emetophobia safe 💕
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Does someone spit?
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Joker spits on one of his henchmen on screen at the mid point of the movie. You don't really see the saliva, but you see the action of spitting. Don't know why people said no to this.
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Head
Is there eye mutilation?
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Half of Harvey’s face is mutiliated. His right eye is constantly bulging.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Invasion of the Middle East and 9/11 analogies were pervasive in 2000s media and this is no exception, Joker exploding buildings in Gotham City draws from the September 11th attacks.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Commissioner Gordon defends his hiring of criminals as police officers, as far as I could tell he wasn’t portrayed as being in the wrong. A corrupt cop is one of the few people spared by Harvey (although who he kills is decided entirely by a coin flip). Gordon has Batman help him do the “good cop, bad cop” routine which involves torturing Joker and one cop nearly beats up The Joker while he’s imprisoned and (at this point) nonthreatening. If this lessens it for you, it’s worth noting that the film humanizes at least one prisoner by having him take the detonator from a cop and dispose of it in the “two boats” scene (saving the people on both boats).
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Is there incarceration?
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The Joker is shown in a prison cell after being captured.
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LGBTQ+
Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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The Joker is predatory (but not sexually) and crossdresses in a nurse outfit and wig in one scene, fooling one person into believing he’s a woman nurse before killing him. However, it’s clear that The Joker isn’t trans.
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Loss
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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in the beginning bruce/Batman is seen stitching up his cut
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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No mental institution is shown, but the in-universe Arkham Asylum is mentioned when talking about the character Thomas Schiff, a paranoid-schizophrenic and one of the Joker’s men.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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With Harvey Dent after half his face is disfigured. The hospital is blown up shortly afterwards
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Mental Health
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Is there misophonia?
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Joker has a lot of ticks to do with licking lips, clicking tongue etc
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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The Joker is mentally ill and very very violent
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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No autistic meltdowns but sudden mood swings/bursts of anger.
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Neck
Is there a hanging?
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The body of someone already dead is left hanging by a noose where it can be found by the good guys.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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It is implied that Joker cuts someone's throat off screen, but could've been their cheek.
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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There is shaky camera movements in the Joker's movies. They are shot basically as if the Joker had a handheld camera so there is A LOT of motion.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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“Son of a b*tch” once but otherwise not obscene.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Batman runs his own personal mass surveillance system using peoples' cell phones.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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It’s not played as a joke at all (in fact, this in a serious scene) but The Joker dressing as a woman nurse is seemingly portrayed as creepy and aberrant.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Harvey is very rough with a paranoid schizophrenic and holds a gun on him when he doesn’t provide the answers he wants.
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Race
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Does the black guy die first?
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The first two people killed on screen where we see their faces are Black. There are some deaths before this, but all are masked (and we never see their faces) or off screen.
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Relationships
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Religious
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Self Harm
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Two-Face makes a quick attempt but ultimately decides his fate with a coin toss. It lands on the "live" side.
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A person holds a gun to their head and flips a coin to decide whether or not they pull the trigger.
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Joker tells a story about how he got his scars, saying that his wife was carved by a mugger and was heartbroken. To make his wife feel better, he carved a smile onto his face. It’s unclear if this is true or not, but it is disturbing nevertheless.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Harvey Dent/Two-Face does attempt to shoot himself though
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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Having Joker there is sexual
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Sexism
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Sexual Assault
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The villain circles a scared woman, then grabs her face with a knife in his hands. He says "a little fight in you, I like that"
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Sickness
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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The hero and villain's disagreement on this is the main conflict of the movie.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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The main villain is stopped but at a great cost.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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There are several different car crashes. The Joker, driving a truck, causes police cars to crash. Bruce Wayne crashes his car on purpose.
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Does a plane crash?
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No, but an helicopter does.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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In the beginning of the movie, Batman gets stitches from Alfred, it shows the wound once
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Does someone drown?
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A S.W.A.T. van full of officers drives itself off a ledge and falls into water, no one is actually seen drowning and there's no assertion that anyone even died from it though.
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Is there gun violence?
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Joker’s goons, as well as gangs and the police, all use guns. A memorial service scene includes the Joker and his men disguised as soldiers, who shoot into crowds.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Several big explosions though
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Whole Body
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Is someone tortured?
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The Joker tortures a man dressed us as Batman. VERY DISTURBING. Although, we don’t see most of it happen.
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Is there body horror?
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Harvey Dent's severely burned face is gruesome. There is exposed muscle and his teeth are visible through his damaged cheek. It also looks like his eyelid was burned.
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Is someone burned alive?
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The right side of Harvey Dent’s face is severely burned
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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The Joker has a smile carved on to his face, although we never see it happen.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Not on screen, but the driving part of a truck is pushed into the roof of a tunnel, implying the driver was crushed to death.
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Is someone stabbed?
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A man is stabbed in the eye with a pencil. The Joker also describes killing others with a knife, and why he prefers knives to guns.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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There is a fight in a club scene which leads to the hero pushing someone down some stairs, but it is very darkly lit and hard to tell.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Two-face/Harvey Dent
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