In the future section, The Great Bear and Eight of Vessels (Rebirth) were the cards I found most relevant to Bruce Wayne’s story arch. As I explained, The Great Bear represents a stage where a hero is laid to rest so they can be reborn. The card came up in the future section, and I took this to mean that sometime in the near future, Bruce will find what he needs to make it out of the crypt from the card and improve his personal life. The Eight of Vessels (Rebirth) appeared to also reference this rebirth that Bruce will undergo to be able to move on with his life. Because of this, I found the reading to be a positive one. I assumed that the reference to this future rebirth meant Bruce will be born again as something other than the Batman, and …show more content…
He is told that Bane will allow him to heal and live in the pit, which is essentially a prison, as Bane destroys Gotham, so Bruce can see the extent of his defeat over television. This is Bruce’s lowest point in the story, but he is given a beacon of hope by some of the other inmates in the pit. He learns of a boy that once made the climb out of the pit by making a jump that to every other man has been impossible. This jump gives Bruce a purpose. He recovers from his injury and trains his body to make the jump. News reports of the situation in Gotham motivate Bruce to try to return to Gotham before Bane destroys his city. The jump provides an opportunity to make the metaphorical rebirth my tarot reading had alluded to. According to The Wild Wood Tarot, the Eight of Vessels represents an opportunity for “looking at the past, acknowledging [a hero’s] mistakes and learning from them, [to] grow and attain new wisdom”(137). This is exactly what Bruce does. During the time in the pit he stops doubting himself and improves his physique, so he is both mentally and physically prepared for the jump. When he is ready he makes he leap out of the pit and returns to Gotham to attempt to save his city from the nuclear explosive Bane is threatening to
Bruce is the focus of the book because he is dying; well, we're all dying, but he's dying soon.
Thomas Foster the author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor wrote a list of identifiers while searching for a Christ-like figure. The very first one is, “crucified, wounds in the hands, feet, side, and head” (Foster 126). One of the first fights with the Mutant Leader, Batman ends up with scars on his head and side. Which directly correlates to Foster’s list even though Batman was not crucified. Another sign is when Bruce said, “I walk the streets of this city I’m learning to hate, the city that’s given up, like the whole world seems to have” (Miller 5, Book 1). Even though Bruce says this he still never gives up on fighting for the good of Gotham city. He is constantly sacrificing his life each and every-time he goes out to defend the citizens. Jesus was faced with hatred and countless attacks, but stays true to his calling. If Batman wouldn’t have continued the city would have completely fell
We are currently living in the Golden Age of Superheroes. They dominate our cultural life, and have become seemingly permanent fixtures in modern media. Since X-Men burst onto the screen fifteen years ago, we have witnessed the release of over forty superhero movies. By 2020 we will have seen the release of more than twenty-five more. Today, the much anticipated film Superman vs. Batman has come to theaters. Though a plethora of superhero movies have been released, it is to the dissatisfaction of many, having long been exhausted by the stories of the Hulk, Batman, and Spider-man. Although I must agree that it is quite easy to get bored with the constant action, and flashing colors of these films, if one looks deep enough into the story they will discover universal themes and metaphors. Though they may be fighting off alien invasions, these heroes are also battling with their personal challenges, challenges which we can
In origin, a hero is an archetype character that refers to protectors, warriors, or god-like man who protects humanity. For instance, Hercules was a hero in Greek mythology. In modern culture, heroism is recognized as an extremely popular trait that a character can possess. In this case, Bat Man, also referred to as The Dark Knight, is indisputably idealized as a hero. Unlike most superheros in comicbooks culture, Bat Man is a simple human being with absolutely no superpowers. Regardless of that, he as a simple human being still exhibits the courage, intelligence, talent and the necessary skills in fighting crime and defeating potentially hazardous villains seeking to either rule the world or cause destruction. In detail, Bat Man’s real name is Bruce Wayne. Bruce was 10 years old when his parents were murdered which fundamentally change his perception about the world. After his parents’ death, Bruce inherited a multibillion dollar company that his father created before his birth, which explains why he has the most advanced technology to help him fight crime. While growing up, Bruce trained himself to fight and had been working out. One night, he came to the conclusion that Gotham city is falling into the hands of criminals. For that reason, he convinced himself that it should be his obligation to prevent it, although he needed a hero identity to hide his real identity
The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with an insight into the Super Hero Series Batman. This crime fighter originally appeared in Detective Comics issue #27 in 1939. It later became a comic book series, a TV series and a movie series. The character Batman is second only to Superman as a Super Hero. Amazingly Batman has no super powers, but he does have a lot of neat crime fighting gadgets. In this paper, we will explore the creation of Batman, his supporting cast of characters both good and bad and the gadgets he used.
Have you ever wondered who the man is under the dark knight mask? Bruce Wayne, is a wealthy American playboy, philanthropist, and owner of Wayne Enterprises, who after witnessing the murder of his parents Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne as a child, he swore vengeance against criminals, an oath tempered by a sense of justice. Bruce Wayne trains himself physically and intellectually and crafts a bat-inspired persona to fight crime. But the man riddle to this amazing “Cape Crusader” is brought along with many interesting facts about this dynamic crime fighter, such as, while Bruce was growing up, he learn he had an older brother, or that Batman is actually afraid of something, how about Bruce Wayne’s no drinking alcohol diet, or even batman’s
The movie begins with a young Bruce Wayne playing outside with his friend Rachael. Bruce steps on some rotten boards and falls into a well sustaining minor injuries. Suddenly he is overcome with a flock of bats living in the wells caverns terrifying him. Throughout most of his childhood he retains this fear of bats and anything even remotely bat-like
He is the one who will save us, he must do that through the act of sacrifice. He gave up his own life for our lives. Batman is Gotham City’s own messiah. Batman gave up his own life in order to protect the city from mass destruction. Batman’s act of flying across the ocean and moving away the explosive bomb can be compared to Jesus’ crucifixion. In a sense, the explosive bomb that Batman carried away symbolized all in all the suffering of Gotham City, in comparison to Jesus when he carried the cross in which he was going to be crucified in. Both carried their means to their end . Although they are not necessarily the same form of sacrifice ,they both did it selflessly. They both knew whathad to be done by them in order to succeed as a savior. As already described, Batman serves as an echo to Jesus. Both of their sacrifices were for the greater good, the benefit for the people. Up to this point Batman is seen as Jesus’ echo but we need to recall that Jesus was not alone when he was crucified. Mary Magdalene and Mary were there to witness Jesus’ crucifixion. In the film one can see that John Blake watched from a distance the explosion of the bomb happen which can lead to the assumption that Batman too, was not alone but he was. Even though John Blake saw the explosion occur that is not to say that he knew it was Batman who was sacrificing himself. The people of Gotham did not explicitly know it was
Another catechism: Who is Bruce Wayne? He is Batman. Who is Batman? A vigilante crime fighter, a haunter of the urban night. Why does he fight? For justice, for virtue, for Gotham City and all who inhabit it. How does he fight? With force, but without fatal violence, he apprehends, but he does not punish, he rescues all who need rescuing, even criminals. How will his task end? It will not end: crime and injustice are forever. Will another replace him when he dies? Perhaps, perhaps not, if injustice is forever, then so too should be the hero who fights it.
In the box office hit Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, Bane plays the main antagonist, who uses his physical strength and mental wits to bring Gotham City, as well as the seemingly untouchable Batman, to their knees. Before his eventual rise to power Bane escapes his childhood prison, Pena Dura, or “Hard Rock”, where he was serving his absent father’s life sentence for revolutionary charges. When he was little, Bane had nightmares of a “Bat-like” demon, which meant that when his journey took him to Gotham City, it was probably not to defeat Batman himself, but to vanquish his childhood tormentor, or at least representation of it (Peaty). Throughout the movie Bane uses his will to kill to senselessly beat and terrorize Batman, cops, and civilians alike with anything from his bare fists, to bombs the size of football fields. He snaps batman like a twig, and then forces him into the same prison that Bane himself was once in, and although he eventually escapes, it takes years of training to heal his back and escape (Dark). There is no end to the pain, destruction, and mayhem Bane caused in the world of Gotham. He is one of Batman’s most formidable arch nemeses, and the single villain to bring Gotham City to its knees. He is truly a
Batman Begins has an incredible amount of struggles that not only Bruce Wayne must face but all of Gotham must face. The first of many of these was Thomas and Martha Wayne's sudden death at the beginning. This left both the people of Gotham and Bruce Wayne to struggle along without them “Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself and Gotham has limped on ever since.” (Batman Begins, Ras Al Ghul, Scene 31) This also created much anger and rage in Bruce Wayne that he released as Batman. There is also the struggle with the crime rate in Gotham and keeping alive the cities slowly falling government. These things differ from the Dark Knight where the struggles are with mainly the Joker and his actions. Many more unexpected and out of control struggles occur in The Dark Knight. The Joker (mastermind terrorist) creates many series of problems and difficulties for Batman, Gordon, Dent, and all of Gotham in general. Another big problem, quite different from the first one is the capturing of Joker. Unlike the first film, the struggles of The Dark Knight are much more external while the first one was fixing what was on Gotham’s internal problems. An example was after Rachel’s death it changed Harvey into an evil person therefore changing the whole ending of the movie, and a lot of the next one. Another big difference between the two films is The Dark Knight has a lot more violence and explosions,
Disturbed and angered at the revelation that his dead partner has actually been alive for the past five years, Batman travels to visit the man responsible for resurrecting Jason: Ra's al Ghul. He learns that Jason was brought back to life with the Lazarus pits. The Lazarus pits have made several appearances in the DC Universe and many characters have used them; the pits are used because “a Lazarus Pit has longevity, rejuvenation, and youth restoration properties. By bathing in a pit a person can have their wounds healed, the old are made young and the dead can be brought back to life” (The Lazarus Pit). However, the use of these pits is controversial, as they can cause insanity.
DC Comics sent their press partners a very cool gift combining the 30th Anniversary of The Dark Knight Returns and the new DKIII: The Master Race mini-series. It was definitely successful in getting me excited enough to share my wonderful gifts with my readers. I got home late one night to find a big box taking up space on one of my living chairs. I couldn’t wait to bust it open. My two kids saw it was from DC and demanded I wake them as soon as I got home so they could see me open it. Neither they nor myself were disappointed by what we found inside.
He's near the harbor. The faint splash of water against the rough, old docks fills his ears. He's about to move to a different perch when out of the corner of his eye he catches a glimpse of three men. They're rounding a corner of one of the storage buildings. He moves through the night without a sound, no one would ever hear or see him slink towards the men. He watches them as a predator would watch prey, ready to pounce if something were to happen. Batman hears clinking as the tumblers slide into place and they pick the lock of one of the middle buildings.After he follows them inside he hears them whispering to one another. Batman reads their lips. The one who appears to be the leader Tells the men to start moving some of the large crates outside, where they will then load them on a truck. "Hey!" Batman yells. His low, but loud voice catches them off guard, and they don't have time to react. Before they know it, he's on top of
Bruce Wayne was a poor kid from a poor city. His family was killed and he decides to fight crime, similar to Spider Man. Only Batman, some how got extremely rich to own his own cave, custom Bat Mobile, and have some sweet gadgets. I don’t know a lot about Batman, but I know enough that money doesn’t grow on trees. Besides, even if he did get the money reasonably, there would be other flaws. For example, there is no way he built his car him self. He had to have had a body shop customize it. And if this were the case, it wouldn’t be too hard for Joker or someone to find out...