Jumping the gun: Batman in 2012

[Mannix]

I could see them going a couple of different ways, but the two that really stick out in my mind are:

1) They use the Riddler as a kind of anti-Joker. Instead of being all about chaos, Riddler is a scheming schemer scheming to control his little Gotham through various legal and illegal activities white-collar, blue-collar and otherwise.

2) They set Bane up as a chemistry batman to batman's technology batman; he becomes the new public hero, but unbeknownst to everybody, the chemicals Bane uses to enhance himself are eating away at his sanity and he becomes violent, committing several murders which are pinned on batman. batman solves the crime and clears his name, but in the final battle he barely escapes with his life, his back possibly broken kind of like in the comics, showing him that he isn't getting any younger and he needs start training an apprentice. the movie ends with him paying a visit to a kid orphaned by Bane.