Let us shine a light.

Rachel wasn't against Batman, she was for it, Alfred specifically noted "She believed in what you do, what we do." So i won't buy that she was against Bruce being Batman

@intruder
FACT:BRUCE IS BEING CHASED BY POLICE.....

so what if he's been chased by the police, if he was going to go to strange for therapy then it would be over the fact that he still feels guilty about rachels death and the love interest could easily and would make more sense be talia, i am not saying theres anything wrong with what your saying its possible, but i doubt bruce wayne would get therapy because he's stressed about being chased by the police, its probably going to be due to rachels death and losing harvey to joker

@Ibz
I see no other villians CLEARLY fitting into the stroyline at this time.
MY PERSONAL PICKS ARE
1.Hush
2.Black Mask

@intruder
No need to trash talk....
I just don't think any other villian would clearly fit into the storyline.

@Blackmask i am not saying that they dont fit in to the bloody storyline am i, i am saying your theory about batman being "stressed" about the police and then turning to therapy makes no sense he would more likely turn to therapy because of rachels death

and talia fits in perfectly and much more easily then catwoman,

@Ibz
argreed...But whatever reason I believe he is going to therapy.

I don't see any facts either. I haven't heard that a script is finished which signals that no one knows who is in the movie. Bale hasn't even been given a script yet.

Sorry to be critical. You need a lot more to draw these extraneous conclusions.

@ Intruder what were the Riddler clues that appeared in the actual film (I'm inclined to believe promotional items such as viral marketing do not count)? Black Mask Clue, The Prisoner on the Boat had a Black Mask tattoo on his neck, couple others did too i think, Lucius joked with Bruce "Should be fine against cats." which to me mirrors the "All you Two Faced phonies" line from Begins.

@Intruder
Again please stop.
there is no need for trash talk.

@intruder
Nolan said there is no RIDDLER so whats the point.

Maybe Bruce Wayne's therapist will be Harley Quinn, and after she becomes his girlfriend, she'll break his heart and leave him for the Joker! (hehe, just kidding)

I figured the Riddler wouldn't be in this movie. I assumed Mr. Reese was the Riddler and Nolan would leave it at that, which would fall in line with the Joker's prophecy that he's not a monster, just ahead of the times. So the Joker was a super villain the whole way through, Harvey became one half-way through, and Mr. Reese never became one... but his perhaps his transformation is implied, to happen "off-screen", after the movie finished. Although how can they continue the series without Mr. Reese? Now that Batman is being hunted by the cops, isn't Reese by law obligated to give up the goods on Batman? (I honestly don't know if he would be or not, I don't know much about law.)

@userflak
No need to trash talk.
If you do FRIKIN leave the site....
Just letting people get to know how the characters would fit in.
If your an ARTICLE PRODIGY...FRIKIN write something good!

I LOVE the idea of Hugo Strange as the Batman 3 villain but when I read "[Bruce] will enter therapy and hire Hugo Strange" I made a weird WTF face. Don't you think Bruce/Batman wouldn't risk something like that given the cicumstances? just sayin
oh and you said "not many villains are left to be picked". you do know Batman probably has THE largest rogues gallery of all the super heroes (both DC and Marvel and any other company you can think of). There are plenty to choose from it's just that people have favorites and characters like Black Mask and Catwoman are crowd favorites and more common villains in the comics therefor fans have more exposure to them so the fans would choose them to be in the film adaption. Did that make sense.

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@Robert Garlen

No,it´s no that...I just don´t want Catwoman.
She is a shitty character and I hate her!
Catwoman is the only character I don´t want to see in the movie...I prefer even Robin than her.
I rather to see Talia...she makes much more sense than Catwoman,and is new.
If it´s Catwoman I will boycott the movie.
I hope Nolan keep her far away from TDKR.
Catwoman sucks!!!

@XxBLACKMASKxX: Realistic? Define realistic because I would say most of his villains are realistic except for a select few. Look at the villains Nolan has chosen Ra's al ghul was immortal in the comics he made that work, anybody could argue that fear gas isn't realistic, and Look at the Jokers origin in the comics bleached skin and green hair nolan changed that. I think most villains can be done realistically without destroying the character. In Batmans Rouges galery its the cheesy villains from the 60's that you should fear not the realilisticality.

@GOLDEN123
I GET YOUR POINT.
But throwing in villians like umm....say Blockbuster are a bit off.

Reese must be addressed somehow though, I am glad someone brought that up.

It could be something as simple as Lucius getting all the paper work and computer files that Reese had.

That would be a good way to wrap up the Reese storyline... but still, the problem is that you can't un-ring a bell, and since Reese already said he knows who Batman is, the police might want to know who he suspects anyway and then figure it would make sense that it was Wayne. On another note, while we're on the subject of the Dark Knight's subtle hints (Mr. Reese = mysteries, Fox's remark indicating Catwoman, the Joker wearing Dent's name on the nurse's outfit foreshadowing he means to kill Harvey by directing him down the path of evil), let me thrown out another one. You might think I'm crazy, and I agree this is far-fetched, but here goes:

A lot of people criticized the Dark Knight by saying, Why can't anyone figure out Bruce Wayne is Batman? After all, Batman must have a lot of money, he chose to rescue Rachel twice when the Joker gave him the ultimatum, he was at Dent's press conference, and so on. My question is, I wonder if Gordon himself doesn't know Bruce Wayne is Batman? The reason I bring it up is the scene where Bruce Wayne rescues Reese, and Gordon says to him, "Mr. Wayne, isn't it? Well, that was a really brave thing you just did." I couldn't help but notice Gordon says it in an interrogating way, as if accusing Wayne of being "a hero." After getting the anonymous cell phone message, Gordon probably figured it was from Batman trying to save Reese. And when Wayne says he was trying to make the light, Gordon say, "You mean you weren't protecting the van?" I thought it was a funny question to ask if he wasn't at least suspicious of Wayne's true identity. He also asks it a bit incredulously, the way cops in movies might say "I'm on to you" to suspects without voicing their suspicions out loud. Then he follows up by saying, "You don't watch a whole lot of news," as if deciding to go along with it.

That's kind of an obscure one, I know, lol.