When a mugger shoots his parents outside the opera, a guilt-ridden billionaire’s son trains with assassins and returns to hunt criminals as a bat.

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When a mugger shoots his parents outside the opera, a guilt-ridden billionaire’s son trains with an order of assassins and returns to hunt Gotham’s criminals as a bat; but when the mentor who taught him turns up leading a plot to vaporize the city’s drugged water, he fights him on a runaway monorail.

Film: Batman Begins · Writer(s): Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer · Director: Christopher Nolan · Year: 2005