We see how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), the compulsive loner and eccentric billionaire, has transformed himself into Batman, the scourge of evil and savior of Gotham City.

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He just stoked class warfare to manipulate the citizens of Gotham City into doing what he wanted, which was to create chaos before the inevitable nuclear explosion.

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The initiative included a variety of advertising, marketing and social-media gambits, including a commercial that ran through July4 featuring a superhero-level version of the 300C that was depicted as being assembled in the dark environs of some industrial district of a brooding Gotham City, the fictional setting for the Batman film series.

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The hotel building forms just part of part of the Abraj al-Bait complex, a Gotham City-like eruption of seven huge towers, conveniently sited a stone's throw from the Great Mosque.

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The man is Batman, and the city is Gotham - home of the American nightmare.

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For me, it conjures up images, all at once, of wealthy Manhattan, lawless Chicago during the 1920s, and the most infamous fictional metropolis, Gotham City.

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The Gotham of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is actually Chicago, and for the residents of the Windy City, having their city chosen to depict urban dystopia is just another thing to be proud of.

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The Joker appears as an answer to Batman in Gotham City, after Jim Gordon worries that Batman is going to cause escalation in the methods and behaviors of criminals.

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