The Dark Knight Trilogy · Elseworlds
The Dark Knight
EssentialMovie20082h 32m
The Joker forces Batman and Gotham to decide what they are willing to become.
Nothing after the credits
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Can you skip The Dark Knight?
No. It carries part of the main DC throughline, and what comes after it assumes you have seen it. See the full DC order.
DC guides
- DC movies in orderDC has never had one timeline. Here is every continuity, kept separate, each in the order that actually works.
- New DCU orderJames Gunn's reboot, in order. Short, current, and the only DC continuity that is still being built.
- Every Batman actorSix actors since 1989, across five continuities that mostly have nothing to do with one another, and one actor who plays the part in two of them, thirty-four years apart.
- Every Joker actorFour film Jokers who get a name, a fifth who does not, and no two of them in the same story.
- DC essentialsMost of DC is not a series at all, which means most of it can be skipped without any consequence.
Where it sits in the DC order
- Release order
- #19 of 52
- Chronological order
- #19 of 52
- Released
- 18 July 2008
- In-universe era
- The Dark Knight Trilogy
What to watch next
In release order
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