In heel erg veel grote Hollywood films word het niet zo nauw genomen met realisme, want het is tenslotte niks meer dan amusement. Maar de website Cracked.com heeft nu zes grote films bekeken, en kwam tot de ontdekking dat de acties van een held soms onbedoelde gevolgen heeft waar je niemand over hoort.

#2.Batman Begins

What You See

In this origin story, Bruce Wayne trains to become a crime fighter, then uses his new skills to stop Gotham City from being destroyed by a really bad drug trip.

But Wait a Minute ...

At the end of Bruce Wayne's training with the League of Shadows, he's asked to execute a prisoner to prove his loyalty. Shocked by this request (how could he have known something called the League of Shadows would be evil?!), he refuses to kill the man. This is a defining moment in his life: His rejection of lethal force is what separates him from the criminals he hunts down. And it's an ideal he unflinchingly sticks to throughout the- oh wait, he sets the building on fire to escape, which triggers a series of explosions that clearly kills several people. Then we see the entire building explode. You know, that same building where we just saw all the other prisoners still being kept in cages.

But hey, at that point he was still new to the whole superhero gig, so we guess we can cut him some slack. He got better at the no-killing thing by the end of the movie, right? Like when he stopped the elevated train the bad guy was on by getting Sgt. Gordon to, uh, blow up the tracks and send it plummeting to the ground in a fireball. That seems a little excessive. Couldn't he have just shut the train down, or knocked the bad guy unconscious, or done literally anything besides sending hundreds of tons of flaming shrapnel crashing into a populated area? (And it was populated; you see several people milling about, watching Gordon do his part).

But even that pales in comparison to what the villains accomplished, which was to release a hallucinogenic gas, designed to incite people to murder in their fear and confusion, across the Narrows, an island region of Gotham City. Not only did the gas hit a large number of civilians, but the Narrows was also occupied by pretty much all of the escaped lunatics and serial killers in the city, as well as every member of the riot police. And the only cure for this gas would take weeks to mass produce. So, how does the movie resolve this nightmare situation?

It doesn't. At the end of the film, Gordon casually mentions that "the Narrows are lost" and that half the escaped mental patients are still on the loose. Batman says he'll round them up, because he's just all Batman like that, and that's the end of it. No details on what happened to, say, the hundreds of guys with automatic weapons who currently think all children are demons (remember the scene where a gassed policeman takes aim at a couple of innocent kids?)

So, uh, everybody on the island died, we guess? Gee, that's kind of a downer ending.