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Batman Saving Dent over Rachel

posted 5 years ago by LordBAElish (2015)
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I've seen this movie a bunch and was confused on this until recently. After Joker tells Batman the locations of the two, Batman tells Gordon he was going after Rachel, Gordon is going to try to save Dent. I had thought that Batman lied to Gordon because he feared he wouldn't get to Dent and time and wanted to make sure somebody would be able to save him because Dent was that important to Gotham.

What really happened is Joker lied to Batman, he switched the locations of Dent and Rachel. Joker knew Batman had a thing for Rachel so he purposely mixed up the locations. Joker wanted Dent alive and knew the Gordon wouldn't get to him in time so he mixed up the locations so the Cops were actually trying to get to Rachel. Joker knew Batman and Dent both cared for Rachel, so it would potentially break both of them.

[–] redban (5290) 3 months ago

Yes - it’s implied that Joker knew Batman would go for Rachel. And Joker knew Batman would get there in time, with his technology; whereas the police would likely be too late. So he lied. Dent was in the location that Joker said Rachel would be.

Flipping Dent to the bad side was the end game of Joker’s plan. So he wanted Dent to survive