The Batman Movie

The Batman is a 2013 American superhero film and part of The DC Bruce Timm Rebirth Fanon-Verse. The Film follows Bruce Wayne, who became a vigilante after the murder of his parents. Bruce is currently into his second year of fighting crime. It’s currently election year and someone is killing off Mayoral candidates one by one, leaving riddles behind each murder that Batman must solve while a new power rises in Gotham's underworld; Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot. Batman must uncover the corruption that plagues Gotham City and how it may tie to his own family while another masked vigilante makes her debut.

### The Murder of Don Mitchell Jr.

On Halloween, Gotham City mayor Don Mitchell Jr. is murdered by the Riddler, a masked serial killer. Reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne became the vigilante Batman after his parents were killed, investigates the murder alongside the Gotham City Police Department (GCPD). Lieutenant James Gordon discovers a message that the Riddler left for Batman. The following night, the Riddler kills Commissioner Pete Savage and leaves another message for Batman.

### The Iceberg Spy

Batman and Gordon discover that the Riddler left a thumb drive in Mitchell's car containing images of Mitchell with a woman, Annika Kosolov, at the Iceberg Lounge—a nightclub operated by Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot, crime boss Carmine Falcone's lieutenant. While the Penguin pleads ignorance, Batman notices that Selina Kyle, Annika's roommate, works at the club as a waitress but in the night as a thief known as Catwoman. When Annika disappears, Batman sends Selina to the Iceberg Lounge for answers and discovers that Savage was on Falcone's payroll, as is district attorney Gil Colson.

### The Riddle Collar

The Riddler abducts Colson, straps a timed collar bomb to his neck, and sends him to interrupt Mitchell's funeral. When Batman arrives, the Riddler calls him via Colson's phone and threatens to detonate the bomb if Colson cannot answer three riddles. Colson refuses to answer the third—the name of the informant who gave the GCPD information that led to a historic drug bust ending gangster Salvatore Maroni's operation—and is killed. Batman and Gordon deduce that the informant may be the Penguin and track him to a drug deal.

### The Capture of The Penguin

They discover that Maroni's operation transferred to Falcone, with many corrupt GCPD officers involved. Selina inadvertently exposes them when she arrives to steal money and discovers Annika's corpse in the trunk of a car. After a car chase, Batman captures the Penguin, but he and Gordon learn the Penguin is not the informant.

### The Trail and The Victim

Batman and Gordon follow the Riddler's trail to the ruins of an orphanage funded by Bruce's murdered parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, where they learn that the Riddler holds a grudge against the Wayne family. Bruce's butler and caretaker, Alfred Pennyworth, is hospitalized after opening a letter bomb addressed to Bruce. The Riddler leaks evidence that Thomas, who was running for mayor before he was murdered, hired Falcone to kill a journalist who was writing a story about Martha's family history of mental illness. Bruce confronts Alfred, who maintains that Thomas only asked Falcone to threaten the journalist into silence; Thomas planned to turn himself and Falcone over to the police once he found out Falcone murdered the journalist instead. Alfred believes that Falcone had Thomas and Martha killed to silence them.

### The Arrest of Falcone

Selina reveals to Batman that Falcone is her father. After learning that he killed Annika for discovering he was the informant, she tries to kill Falcone, but Batman and Gordon arrive in time to stop her.

### The Riddler Arrest

Gordon arrests Falcone, but the Riddler misses killing Falcone with a sniper rifle moments later. The Riddler is unmasked as forensic accountant Edward Nashton and incarcerated in Arkham State Hospital, where he tells Batman he took inspiration from him when targeting the corrupt. Batman learns that Nashton has planted car bombs around Gotham and cultivated an online following that plans to assassinate mayor-elect Bella Reál.

### The Flood

The bombs destroy the seawall around Gotham and flood the city. Nashton's followers attempt to kill Reál, but Batman and Selina manage to stop them.

### The Protector of Gotham

In the aftermath, Nashton befriends another inmate, while Selina deems Gotham beyond saving and leaves. Batman aids recovery efforts and vows to inspire hope in Gotham.

### The Post Credit Scene

Harvey Dent became district attorney after Colson's death.

## Cast

* Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne / Batman
* Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle / Catwoman
* Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin
* Paul Mescal as Edward Nashton / Riddler
* Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth
* Tom Berenger as Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb
* J.K. Simmons as Lieutenant James W. Gordon
* Robert Pattinson as Stanley Merkel
* Ian McShane as Carmine Falcone
* Hana Hrzic as Annika Kosolov
* Frank Grillo as Milos Grapa
* Charlie Carver & Max Carver as The Twins
* Sylvester Stallone as Rupert Thorne
* Teyonah Parris as Fish Mooney
* Rupert Penry-Jones as Donald Mitchell Jr.
* Jayme Lawson as Bella Reál
* Peter Sarsgaard as Gil Colson
* Peter McDonald as William Kenzie
* Suzzanne Douglas as Dinah Drake-Lance
* Jared Leto as Jack Oswald White / The Joker
* Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent
* Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Ryder
* David Harbour as Detective Harvey Bullock