bkev said:

Warbler said:

huh? I don't understand, are you say that in Dark Knight, Batman didn't want the public to be buddy-buddy with the police? I never got that idea from watching the movie.

I've only seen the movie once, but from what I understood in the ending Bats told Gordon he needed to be viewed as a menace and not a hero so that Harvey Dent could be remembered not as two-face but as the DA. So, Gordon was going to tread him as a vigilante in press statements etc. and not publicly support him; rather, the opposite. I thought Gordon was supposed to treat Batman like a criminal from then on out.

How could you not understand. Batman was the hero. Not the hero we want to need, but the hero we need to want. And he's the hero that we deserve to have, but not the hero we have to deserve. Don't you see lil' Jimmy Jr? That's why Batman is running away at the end. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain, or hero along until you villain enough to die.

It all made perfect sense!