Probably Unanswerable Questions
What happens to the Joker? Why couldn't Harvey's crimes have been pinned on the Joker instead of Batman? Why are all the criminals on a boat?
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- The major unanswerable question is what happens to the Joker: the Dark Knight Rises novelization has him as the lone prisoner in Arkham, but Nolan is quoted from the promo trail as not addressing the Joker at all out of respect for Heath and not wanting to account for a real-life tragedy.
- Why could Harvey's crimes not have been pinned on the Joker, a criminal mastermind already in an asylum, instead of making Batman take the public fall; the answer offered is that it is an artifact of earlier scripts where Dent's goodness carried more of the dramatic load.
- Why are all the criminals on a boat, and to go where; the hosts can only guess they are being evacuated with the city.
- Earlier, the Joker's long-term plan was flagged as something to return to because it is really hard to tell.