16 Plot Holes In 'Batman' Movies That Fans Shined A Bat-Signal On

From Redditor u/Snowbank_Lake:

So in Batman Returns, Max pushes Selena out the window, and assumes she dies from the fall. We know that she doesn't, but he doesn't know until she shows up at work during his meeting with Bruce Wayne. I believe he told Bruce that Selena was on vacation or something. But if Selena had actually died, her body would have been found at the bottom of the building where she works, with a broken window in the office. Didn't Max consider that someone might find that suspicious? Especially if he hadn't planned to report her missing.

From Redditor u/Kerriganszergheels:

The Dark Knight Rises, the entire sequence of Bruce going broke. Absolutely bullsh*t that bane could commit securities/banking fraud by SHOOTING UP THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Exactly zero transactions would be processed. And the whole nuclear bomb/reactor thing. I can suspend disbelief for comic book movies, but some things are absolutely ridiculous if you’re shooting for “realism.”

From Redditor u/WhyDidILogin:

Near the end, we learn that the Riddler actually is not trying to kill the Batman and in fact, believes they are both "allied" to take down corruption, including Bruce Wayne. However, earlier in the scene in the 3 riddles with the DA, he set it up so a bomb would likely go off when the Batman was surely going to be in the same room as the bomb.

This is not one of those times where a character just "makes a dumb decision"... because the Riddler "does not make mistakes" according to Batman in the same movie.

From Redditor u/wee_g:

[The Riddler's] ultimate goal was to reveal the lies and corruption within Gotham by eliminating the high-up officials and gangsters of the city, but then his plan ended in what? Flooding the city and killing mostly poor people, especially when you consider most of the filthy rich in Gotham would have lived high-up in their ivory towers.

I may have missed something in the Riddler's big scheme but at the time of watching the movie it really didn't make sense to me, and still doesn't.

From Redditor u/TheGeekyAndroid:

The Riddler published photos of all his victims from outside the club as proof of corruption.. all from the same angle, Falcone was later shot from the same position...

If they had simply found that angle they would of found his apartment and saved us all about another 90mins... [both the police and Batman missing that seems extremely unlikely and frankly ridiculous}.

From Redditor u/DalB53:

They really stressed the “world's greatest detective” thing through the whole movie, something I really appreciated, BUT… when he and Gordon find the thumb-drive (hah get it) and get all of the pictures downloaded, why wasn’t the FIRST thing he do was triangulate where the pictures were taken from? That’s like Detective 101 and would’ve found the Riddler's hideout almost immediately.

The real answer is “because then you wouldn’t have a movie,” but seriously it’s something SOMEONE should’ve thought of.

From Redditor u/KutestKoala0407:

Ok, so we know a few things about the prison hole:

1. It is not guarded
2. The inhabitants make efforts to escape
3. They have access to rope
4. They can free roam around and vandalize anything in the prison
5. The main obstacle is a particularly long jump that you could try multiple times due to rope safety
6. The safety rope could be climbed up to minimize the jumping

A few things we know about prisoners:

1.They are world experts at DIY engineering 2. They have nothing but time 3. They will happily break sh*t for materials

How did this prison hold anyone? They could build ladders and hooks. They could have dug their way out. They could have carved their own hand holds.

From Redditor u/MixtureExciting5838:

I noticed that Batman found the carpet tool towards the end of the movie in an evidence bag at the Riddler's apartment. Why would the cops leave evidence at a crime scene? Granted Batman couldn't go back to GCPD because of punching Gordon so it had to be somewhere he could find it. But that doesn't make sense for the cops to leave it in the apartment.