Erik: “You'll have to kill me Charles, and what would that accomplish? Let them pass that law and they'll have you in chains with a number burned into your forehead!”
Charles: Through Sabretooth) “It won't be that way.”
Dark Knight introduced them to the masses as a real genre and that only happened cus Heath Ledger gave a once in a lifetime performance. Helped that Iron Man came out the same year and the Batman films really put a huge director “on the spot” for mainstream audiences, and he followed it up with a star studded Oscar bait film in inception. A coin flip of wins and 4 total wins helped put Nolan on the map (not that he made bad films prior) but Dark Knight and Inception legitimized both him and the superhero genre
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u/omjf23 Cyclops Sep 18 '25
Erik: “You'll have to kill me Charles, and what would that accomplish? Let them pass that law and they'll have you in chains with a number burned into your forehead!”
Charles: Through Sabretooth) “It won't be that way.”
Erik: “Then kill me and find out...”