Nolanverse

Nolanverse
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Aliases	The Dark Knight Trilogy
Creators	Christopher Nolan · David S. Goyer
First Appearance	Batman Begins (June 15, 2005)
Last Appearance	The Dark Knight Rises (July 20, 2012)

The Dark Knight Trilogy, also called the Nolanverse, is the continuity of Christopher Nolan's live-action films adapting DC Comics' Batman mythos in a grounded and realistic manner.

Points of Interest

• China
  • Hong Kong
• Himalayas
• The Pit
• United States
  • Gotham City
    • Arkham Asylum
    • Blackgate Prison
    • GCPD Headquarters
    • Gotham General Hospital
    • The Narrows
    • Wayne Manor
      • Batcave
    • Wayne Tower
      
      

Residents

• Bruce Wayne / Batman
• Alfred Pennyworth
• Lucius Fox
• Rachel Dawes (Deceased)
• James Gordon
• John Blake
• Selina Kyle
• Anthony Garcia (Deceased)
• Gillian Loeb (Deceased)
• Ra's al Ghul (Deceased)
• Talia al Ghul (Deceased)
• Bane (Deceased)
• The Joker
• Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow
• Harvey Dent (Deceased)
• Jacob Freely / The Man in Black
• Victor Zsasz
• Carmine Falcone
• Sal Maroni
• Gambol (Deceased)
• The Chechen (Deceased)
• The Russian
• The Italian
• Lau (Deceased)
• Dr. Leonid Pavel (Deceased)
• Joe Chill (Deceased)
• Floyd Lawton / Deadshot
• Waylon Jones / Killer Croc

Media

Films

• Batman Begins (2005)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Ancillary media

Tie-in films

• Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

Video games

• Batman Begins (2005)

Comics

• Batman Begins: The Official Movie Adaptation

Novels

• Batman Begins (2005)
• Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization (2012)

Shorts

• Gotham Tonight (2008)
• Two Scoops of Justice! (2025)

Notes

• The novels Batman: Dead White, Batman: Inferno, and Batman: Fear Itself are tie–ins to Batman Begins, intended to be set after that film, but the events of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises contradict them and render them non-canon.
• While Batman Begins was the only film in the trilogy to receive a console video game, mobile games were made based on The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. A console game based on The Dark Knight was in development but was canceled.
• Batman: Gotham Knight is considered canon to the Nolanverse, despite none of the actors from Batman Begins reprising their roles in it, as well as Wayne Manor being rebuilt, apparently prior to The Dark Knight.
• The films are all original stories, but they draw heavily from many Batman comic storylines, with the heaviest influences being "Year One", "The Long Halloween", "Knightfall", and "The Dark Knight Returns".

Trivia

• The Nolanverse was meant to be as realistic as possible. The Lazarus Pits do not exist, the Joker wears clown makeup as opposed to having his skin bleached by chemicals like in the comics, and there is no indication that any metahumans or other superheroes exist in this universe.
  • Matt Reeves' The Batman Saga also grounds Batman in a more realistic reality, but with more stylized and heightened elements than Nolan's films.
• Zack Snyder stated it was briefly considered to retroactively make the Dark Knight Trilogy the start of the DC Extended Universe during the production of Man of Steel. Had this occurred, John Blake, Bruce Wayne's successor, would have likely been the version of the Batman seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

See Also

• Characters from Nolanverse
• Other things related to Nolanverse
• Nolanverse's Comic Appearances
• Reality Gallery: Nolanverse