I swear some people are incapable of thinking beyond anything that isn't right smack in front of their face.

Newsflash: Nolan doesn't own the patent on "dark", nor is his vision the only way to implement dark themes into a movie based on a comic book character.

Seriously. This is retarded. Dark doesn't mean The Dark Knight. Dark is dark and can be done a million ways that are relative to the material at hand.