Film Theory: How Batman DESTROYED Gotham (Dark Knight Rises)

If Batman is the hero, Gotham deserves hell, I'm just sorry for Gotham, hello Internet, welcome to movie

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, where today's episode will get real, not Hellmann's real mayonnaise. I mean comic book movies get really real, seriously, even though it seems like they really should. It doesn't matter if comic book superhero movies are realistic, it's been all the rage for literally the last decade and has made a huge difference in the way we view movies made about men and spandex tights. Comic book movies used to be the center of everything cheesy and cheesy. exaggerated, but now every time you turn around there is another alcoholic Jessica Jones or a debate about the ethics of Superman as a divine being, don't get me wrong, I enjoy it, only this is intense and at the center of it all is Batman. or should I say Batman, that's right, gritty realism has been right next to batarangs and the grappling hook in Batman's utility belt since Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy took superhero movies from this and that It's something good.

I love the Dark Knight trilogy, well, most of it anyway because, simply because it's the movie that defined what realism means in comic book movies, the ending has a big mistake, a mistake that puts into question. serious doubt about Batman's hero status from here on out, pull up your spoiler pants because today we are talking about the end of Dark Knight Rises at the end of the movie Batman is victorious Spain has been defeated and Talia al Ghul has died, his death Dramatically, only one major threat remains, but it's a nuclear bomb poised to flatten Gotham as the timer ticks down. below Batman rushes to fly the bomb over the water to a safe distance where it explodes saved city Batman is a hero, except that's not actually what would happen if the

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actually adhered to realism as strictly as Christopher Nolan intended Batman In reality it would have failed.

In your attempt to say the city, let's look at fasting to show you what I mean. I have to tell you a little more about nuclear bombs. In fact, I had the opportunity to visit one of the world's true nuclear weapons sites in Hiroshima. Research for This type of episode and these weapons are incredibly serious neutron bombs like the one shown in Batman. They work by firing incredibly high-energy neutron particles to specifically cause radiation damage. To know how strong a pump is, you look at its performance, which tells you how regular it is. TNT would be needed to achieve the same explosion as the bomb, Batman's neutron bomb is a four kiloton weapon, meaning 4,000 tons of TNT would be needed to achieve the same explosion, that is 8 million pounds of TNT to give you a comparison with the Oshima bomb.

It weighed between 12.5 and 15 kilotons, so this one is actually a little smaller, about a third the size. Fun fact or maybe not so fun, believe it or not, much larger bombs have been made and tested over the years up to the mega ton range which is a hundred times the size of what was detonated over Hiroshima. , so give the movie credit because it actually does a good job of using a much smaller bomb relative to how big these things can get, that being said, they're still far from me though. The other thing that makes neutron bombs special is that they emit about 10 times the neutron radiation of a fission bomb of the same size, meaning that instead of most bombs, the energy is simply In a normal explosion, much of it is specifically radiation energy, which is longer lasting and harder to contain, so although the bat bomb is smaller than, say, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima within the radius of the explosion, the uncontrollable radiation would make it much deadlier, so how big exactly is that explosion?

Well, the movie actually tells us it's six miles or about twelve kilometers. We know how far we need to move the bomb away from everyone else to avoid major casualties. The end of the

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attempts to do this when we see Batman towing the bomb. bomb into the sea with his bat-helicopter, but there are many problems here, the first and most important is time, let's analyze it when Batman places a harness on the bomb, we see that he has one minute and 57 seconds left before detonation. He wastes a lot of time mocking Selina Kyle and saying a heartfelt goodbye to Commissioner Gordon, keeping this hanger hankerchief in mind on the countdown.

He has only 75 seconds to get that bomb as far away from Gotham as possible, so let's evaluate how he can. Suppose Batman's Bat-helicopter is as fast as the world's fastest helicopter. This would make it the Eurocopter x3, which can reach an absolute maximum flight speed of 293 miles per hour. The helicopter needs a minimum of 20 seconds to reach that maximum speed. the speed accepts even though the eurocopter . explode and fly through buildings, how long does it take him to get out of the city, taking into account only the time we see him flying on screen, it takes him 38 seconds to get out of Gotham?

Who will be generous in our calculations here? Surely by that time it can fly at 50% of its maximum speed. I mean, it's pretty clear that he's not going anywhere near one hundred and forty-six miles per hour, half our top speed of 93, since you can see him struggling to lift the pump, he's hitting things, etc., but hey, he'll like it. We'll give the guy a fighting chance, this leaves him with 37 seconds at top speed starting here, based on all of these factors and with the odds heavily in his favor, the bat-copter could fly just 3.1 miles from the city before from detonating over water looking back at what the movie tells us about the radius of the explosion at six miles, it's clear that Batman Batman it's clear that Batman can't get far enough to save Gotham from the basic explosion Batman is a very different type of Supergirl, let me reiterate that our assumptions here are really generous when the planes and helicopters are loaded, they accelerate and fly much slower, remember that the helicopter bat would carry a huge payload, atomic bombs normally weigh between 5 and 20 thousand pounds, including its casing, and although this bomb is small, we can expect it to easily reach around 3,000 pounds of weight which we were not taking into account in the calculations, that kind of weight is not too heavy for the eurocopter x3 according to its technical specifications, but it has more than a third of its total capacity, which means that it would definitely slow down the flight depending on the weight and wind resistance, but hey, let's take it to the extreme just for fun, see if there was ever a chance.

If this scenario is even a little bit accurate because I like Batman and math is fun, let's assume that not only is the bomb weightless, but Batman hooks it to the world's fastest bat helicopter that is somehow already going at full speed and not it is needed any additional time to change the height of the helicopter in the air if we basically ignore the laws of physics to make all this happen you will get a different distance the salmon could travel drum roll please 6.1 miles from the coast, some days you just can. Technically, I can't get rid of a bomb simply by exceeding the bomb's main explosion radius, so I guess technically there was a way to fake it to make it look like it works even in this scenario, not exactly because Batman's bomb is a dirty bomb. and that means you need to take radiation into account to understand what happens in Gotham when the bomb doesn't leave the city.

We'll go back to our original calculations where Batman comes within just over three miles of the coast to find out. what kind of damage the bomb causes from there, you need to be clear about where Gotham is, technically it's a fictional location, but there are plenty of clues in the Batman universe that give a good indication of which real-life city Gotham City is based on. a nickname for New York City that was first used in 1807. The Batman writer's finger also originally meant that Batman's location was New York, which is why he chose the name Gotham and the city used as a substitute for Gotham in Dark Knight Rises is New York City and if that's not enough evidence for you, oh sorry, face the facts, it's true, but okay, you can tell this is specifically Manhattan when you see Bane destroying all the bridges to the city.

I could go on, but there's really no debate. Why does this matter? Knowing that Gotham is more or less New York tells us a lot, especially about where Batman is going with the bomb. If Batman is starting in Manhattan, we know there's only one direction you can go over Manhattan toward the water. Come out with it Now we know Batman's trajectory and all that's left for us is to identify the area 3.1 miles offshore and figure out what would happen if you detonated a four-kiloton nuclear bomb there. Fortunately, modeling a nuclear bomb is incredibly difficult. Remember that there are many more.

There are factors to a dirty bomb than a normal explosion: there is the fireball, which is what creates the mushroom cloud we associate with all the old images of nuclear bombs, then there is the physical radius of the explosion, which is the actual shock wave that goes through buildings and shatters glass and finally there is nuclear fallout that can travel enormous distances and cause damage for decades to come. Fortunately, I don't have to model this explosion myself because the Internet can do it for me. Believe it or not, there is a site called nuclear project that raises awareness about how destructive nuclear weapons are and actually allows you to model the damage that a nuclear bomb would cause anywhere in the world.

Yes, this is one of those nightmare fuel websites, don't play with this one before bed or at the airport like us. It was when we were working on this episode. I have to be on a watch list somewhere right now. You can't include all the factors anyway, but we can include some, including where the bomb explodes and how much it weighs. We know that the radius of the explosion will already be 6 miles and the model tells us that near the center of the explosion we are seeing a 50 to 90 percent fatality rate, so what happens in buildings at 3.1 miles from the coast in Jersey City, Brooklyn and Staten Island? would collapse instantly, everyone from the bottom of Staten Island to northern Manhattan would suffer third-degree radiation burns, although the fireball would be largely contained in water.

Our model shows that almost six thousand people will die immediately and another two hundred thousand. Forty-five thousand people were injured by collapsed buildings and radiation. It is important to remember that it is not necessary for the homeless person to jump into the water for that to happen. The most famous devastating nuclear explosions like the one in Hiroshima did not occur with the bomb on the ground. It happened when the bomb exploded 600 meters above ground level, just like in our scenario with Batman, the bomb exploded in the air, which was actually more destructive than it could have been on the ground based on this simulation, even the structures that were not

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Damage would occur as far as Queens and northern Manhattan, every car window and windshield in lower Manhattan would be broken, the Empire State Building would literally sway and the Chrysler Building would have floors of broken glass, people would die in three boroughs of the city. and believe me. I don't say any of this lightly, this is incredibly scary stuff and it gets worse when a nuclear reaction has no shielding, it creates what is known as radioactive fallout, maybe you've heard of this. They have created a really

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video game. series about it I don't know, in a very basic sense, fallout is residual radioactive material that is released into the atmosphere and falls from the sky after the explosion and shock wave disappear in our model, the fallout of this explosion will follow the way the wind blows or the water flows, fortunately most of the water flows into the ocean along with the rest of the cans and corpses that float in the East River almost most of the time and I say fortunately with a huge grain. of salt, that radiation will contaminate the ocean for years and with it all the marine life that will eventually return to humanity, but what interests us most is the wind, the wind is a completely different story in Manhattan, the wind patterns could carry ashes of radioactive dust or even black rain, literal rain, literal black rain, rain that is black all the way to the island and all the way to Connecticut, and don't think you'll escape it by taking a weekend at Han Compton's because these things can literally last for years. , cancer rates in thecity ​​would potentially be shot up from the air and radioactive drinking water and birth defects would appear all over Manhattan, although it would not be possible to leave the city anyway, remember that in this scenario there are no intact bridges to get out of the city and no there is a way to evacuate Manhattan, everyone will be trapped locked in a radioactive field for weeks and you used to think the Dark Knight trilogy was

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, but let's go back and see if there was anything that could have done it.

It's been done to save the thousands of lives that were lost in Gotham, believe it or not, all of this could have been avoided, let's just say Batman doesn't waste the 42 seconds on goodbyes with Catwoman or this tearful goodbye with Commissioner Gordon, I mean, They do not do it. Anyway, it doesn't even make sense, it's not like he commits suicide, he ends up with Selina Kyle and he could have sent a postcard to Commissioner Gordon saying: Hey, I was Batman all the time in psychology, so let's say that instead of losing the time that could have been spent by you. knows how to get rid of a massive nuclear bomb Batman actually I don't know did his job and used all that time to drag the bomb a little further now he has another 42 seconds to travel at top speed in the bat-copter, so bring Back to our first model, it now has 81 seconds above water more than double what it was doing before doing the calculations that would put Batman safely 6.6 miles offshore now out of the blast radius with room to spare in this scenario Batman almost clears the outer districts and we still have about a thousand casualties left, but deaths have been reduced by 75%, injuries have been reduced by 83%, to around 24,000, which is still a lot, but It's happening in boroughs that are much easier to evacuate and it keeps Manhattan almost completely intact given our super scenario that it's in. has not slowed down at all, it can actually reach nine point five miles away, towards the ocean, where yes, the bomb will still kill a lot of fish, but humanity will actually be saved with no casualties or injuries according to the 42 second model. more than 4 thousand deaths and literally hundreds of thousands of injuries, all of which could have been saved if Batman had kept him in his pants or his rubber fly, but hey, that's just a

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