Film references
Casting sides
The casting sides that were discovered in March 2007 contain plot points that will very likely appear in the film.
Characters
The following characters appear in the film, according to IMDB.
- The Joker
- Batman/Bruce Wayne
- Harvey Dent
- Lt. Jim Gordon
- Rachel Dawes
- Police Commissioner Gillian Loeb
- Lucius Fox
- Salvatore Maroni
- Gambol
- The Chechen
- Mike Engel
- Albert Rossi
- Brian Douglass
- Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow
- Citizensforbatman.org evolves from a support site for Batman into a full-fledged community of vigilantes who emulate Batman. They appear in the film as Batman wannabes, according to several reviews.
- Gothamusd.net mentions the bus line being rerouted in District 22, and in the TDK IMAX prologue, the Joker is seen escaping the bank heist in a yellow school bus conspicuously marked "District 22."
- The sixth episode of Gotham Tonight, which became available on July 11, has a breaking news segment referring to the bank robbery that takes place during the opening sequence of The Dark Knight. As mentioned in the Gothamusd.net June 20 update, there is a field trip on July 11. This might explain how the Joker is able to escape the robbery within a line of yellow school buses.
- Ballerina Natascha Patrenko appears in the film as Bruce Wayne's date at a fancy restaurant, where he is introduced to Harvey Dent.
- From first-hand reports from film screenings, there is a plot point involving Wayne Enterprises technology where Batman uses a new wireless technology system to secretly monitor all cell-phone users in Gotham, which threatens his relationship with Lucius Fox.
- From several reports, it is revealed that Dent's extensive Internal Affairs investigations led to police officers giving Dent the nickname "Harvey Two-Face."
- It has also been reported that corruption in Gotham PD trickles even into the MCU, when corrupted cops help Joker kidnap Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes.