People walk past a poster of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" outside a theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. With a fixation on random violence, Gotham City dysfunction and the death of a ... more 

People walk past a poster of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" outside a theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. With a fixation on random violence, Gotham City dysfunction and the death of a star, the "Batman" movies have long been consumed with tragedy and terror. Now an unfathomable horror is forever linked to the series less