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1) The ninja guys believed that Gotham is full of criminals and has no future. They believe that destroying Gotham is the cure.

2) Joker didnt steal all the money only a "small" partial

3) Crane and the Bat-Fakes were tied up after the fight. Their arrest was just not shown.

1) Gotham has no hope. The group has been destroying corrupt cities like Rome for many many years. They tech. tried to destroy the city once before economically but Bruce Wayne's father keep the city alive to the point it wasn't destroyed. The second time they go with the force approach you see in Batman Begins.

2) No they don't. You can assume the Joker was just using the money to start his operation or to get the mobs attention. This is assumable due to the burning of the money in the end and the Jokers speech of the "better class of criminal"

3) Crane was never a serious villain. In the first movie he was just the front for the much larger organization. In the Dark Knight he is re arrested with the fake Batmen (Who don't learn their lesson. The guy from the "Crane Scene" who ask Batman why they cant help, is the one that is hung later on.)

**The Adam person two post above is wrong. The Scarcrow/Crane escapes when batman is latched onto the side. When he gets back up, he jumps down the parking structure to land on Cranes van, catching him.**

"I dont need your help" -Batman

"Thats not my prognosis" -Crane

(1) Ra's, who had been conspiring with Crane the entire time, plans to destroy Gotham by distributing the toxin undetected via Gotham's water supply, and then vaporizing it with a microwave-emitter stolen from Wayne Enterprises so he sends the ninjas to do so

(2)The film begins with the Joker robbing a mob-owned bank with several other accomplices, whom he tricks into killing each other. That night, Batman impersonators attempt to interrupt a meeting of various mobsters and the Scarecrow. The real Batman appears, but suffers injuries which lead him to re-design the batsuit. Batman and Lieutenant James Gordon contemplate including new district attorney Harvey Dent in their plan to eradicate the mob, as he could be the public hero Batman cannot be. Bruce discovers that Harvey Dent is dating Rachel Dawes. Mob bosses meet to discuss Batman, Gordon, and Dent, while a Chinese mobster accountant, Lau, informs the gang leaders he has hidden their money to preempt a plan that Gordon has hatched to seize the mobsters' loot. The Joker arrives unexpectedly, offering to kill Batman for half their money.

(3)Because he was not discovered as a villan until later

In Batman Begins, the ninja guys are part of a group led by Ras al-Ghul called the League of Shadows, and they're trying to destroy Gotham City because Ras believes that it's become too corrupt. If the city is destroyed, he thinks, then as the survivors come back together, they can rebuild it and become closer.

His intentions are good, but his methods are bad.

Joker never gives his money to Lau, the Asian businessman. Lau takes the money from the mob bosses of Gotham so that he can "keep it safe," and to control the mob. Joker steps in and offers to kill Batman for half of all the mobsters' money. Near the end of the movie, in fact, we see Joker burning his share of the money, with Lau tied up on top of it all.

Crane seems to escape from Batman at every turn—in Batman Begins, he got away, but only because of the panic caused by his fear toxin spreading through The Narrows' part of Gotham. In The Dark Knight, Crane got away because of the confusion with the Batman impersonators, and also because Batman's suit wasn't built to deal with dogs. Batman jumped on Crane's vehicle at one point to try and take him down, but Crane drove Batman into a support beam and escaped in the van.

They were not just Ninja guys they were a underworld organization called as the "League of Shadows", whose leader was Ra'as al Ghul (Liam Nesson) they wanted to destro Gotham City because in their opinion the city is so corrupt that it should be wiped out from the map of the world.

No, I don't think so that the Joker gave the money back to the Chinese guy, his name was Lau he took all the mob's money to HongKong considering it as a secure place out of Batman's jurisdiction

Batman tied him and all the copycats Batmans and the police might have taken them to Jail or Arkham

Heath Ledger (aka the joker) did not kill himself after the movie. He was actually shooting another movie in London, when he was sick, came back home to NY for a few days and died from an accidental overdose of medication. I do not believe he intended on killing himself because his last movie in london he was a producer for. Plus, he had everything going for him, his little girl, the Dark Knight, and the movie in london. If you want more insight about Heath Ledger, on the Bio channel (on cable) they were talking about his life. I personally Michelle his ex- girlfriend had an impact on him after they broke up

sorry to ask a question, but who is crane? and joker said while he burned that huge pile of money something about not caring about greed and such, and for the ninjas they think gotham is too corrupted and want to end it by destruction

because the city is full of crime and all in it should go down with it, the joker doesn't keep the money he burns it along with the Asian guy , that last one I not sure

well idk about the first and last questions but the joker doesnt give his money to the chinese guy he is stealing it from him and the mob.

1.) I don't know

2.) not sure

3.) who the **** is Crane?