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One of the things that Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy has really excelled at is calling on the source material to inspire a brand new story. While the broad strokes and general happenings in several Batman comics stories are apparent, the creative team chooses not to do direct adaptations, but instead allow the concepts of the source to chart new territory for the stories they’re trying to tell. A lot of people seem surprised when I tell them that Batman #1 from spring of 1940 informed a lot of where the script for The Dark Knight would take Heath Ledger’s Joker.

The trailers and promotional materials that have been released for The Dark Knight Rises show pretty strong signs of Nolan taking some broad strokes from some other comics stories. One of them is kind of expected given what he’s done with the past two films, the others come from a whole different type of Batman story: The apocalyptic, at least in terms of Gotham City.