THE BATMAN: Ending Explained - Easter Eggs & Bruce Wayne TWIST Explained

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The Batman delivered a neo-noir high wire act that showed us a battle of wits between the Batman and the Riddler. But the secret origin of the villain actually drew several parallels with the hero. These two are far more alike than bruce Wayne realizes. In this video, we examine how the Batman paved the way for the Riddler's followers.

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Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, and Srinidhi Rao

0:00 Ending Explained
1:10 Batman and Riddler Similarities
6:20 Batman Inspires Mob Rule, Joker Parallels
10:35 Bruce Wayne Twist Explained

So the movie actually has several little twists and teases in the final 20 minutes, like the Joker reveal, and the reveal of the Riddler’s real plan. But the most important moment in the ending was 2 words. I’m vengeance. Yes, but not when Batman says it. The movie ends with the Riddler's followers storming Gotham garden. Batman unmasks one of them, and he recognizes the guy.

It’s the man from the mayor’s funeral, who said that all the rich people in the city needed to be brought down, that all the elites were corrupt. Now, early in the movie, this guy seems like just another disaffected person. In fact, we think his goals align with Bruce's. Batman and Gordon are trying to take down the corrupt infrastructure of Gotham City–they’re trying to take down the rich power brokers that this guy hates.

But then this man borrows Batman’s line [I’m vengeance]. And this makes Bruce–and the audience–re-examine his war on crime. It makes us go back and notice how the movie has been drawing parallels between Riddler and Batman that we didn't even notice. The movie’s ending is about recognizing that fine line that separates the vigilante who operates outside the law, from the villains who break the law.

And, it also makes Bruce become a better Batman. So let’s talk about this ending, and all the hidden clues that led up to it.

The Riddler was inspired by Batman. He sees him as his partner. All those notes he left him weren’t clues, or a kind of villain cat and mouse game. The notes were instructions, telling Batman how to help Riddler get vengeance on the truly corrupt.

Riddler’s Arkham monologue at the end isn't a villain rubbing the hero’s face in his victory.--he’s trying to celebrate what he sees as their mutual victory. This is really the movie's biggest twist-that Batman was helping the Riddler succeed all along. That the two of them were more alike than Batman realized–in fact the movie was setting this up from its very first shot.

The movie opens with a shot form inside the riddler’s point of view, as he looks through binoculars. Later in the movie, Bruce watches Selina through a pair of binoculars, and we see this same POV shot.

We hear his breathing, inside his heavy mask. This places us inside his head. In a way, we’re all wearing this mask with him. Just like Bruce is always wearing a mask–he sees his real self as Batman.

The two characters also make their first appearance in the same way–appearing from the darkness. But in Batman's case, he emerges from the darkness intentionally, just as he comes into the light at the end of the movie. But for the riddler, his reveal shows that he has always been in the darkness. Just as the lies of Gotham's power brokers have been hiding in the darkness for 20 years.

Riddler and Bruce are both orphans, and they both grew up on the Wayne estate. The riddler just grew up in an orphanage at the edge of the state, where he could see Wayne tower from a distance. So it's very much like Bruce grew up in a castle, and Riddler was one of the lowly serfs living in a hut.

So, not only are Bruce and the Riddler both orphans, but Carmine Falcone was responsible for both their parents’ deaths. And, in a roundabout way, Thomas Wayne was responsible for all their deaths too. He asked Falcone to lean on the reporter, and his moment of weakness got his family killed by Falcone–maybe.

But Riddler’s father wants to saint the weather. Falcone said he was on Maroni’s payroll. So Selina, Bruce and Riddler are all dealing with the sins of their fathers. All of these broken people are the products of a tainted system, and they’re all employing different means to make it clean.

Bruce narrates the movie, which is later revealed to be his Taxi Driver-esque diary. And of course later in the movie, they find countless ledgers and diaries that the riddler has been keeping–all encrypted.

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