30 Greatest Dark Knight Rises Posters

The Poster: A chill-inducing one sheet that has the mighty Bane striding away from a shattered Bat mask. Couldn’t be cooler if it tried.

Cool Detail: The broken Bat mask, which hints that Rises could feature Bane’s infamous back-breaking comic-book moment.

The Poster: An arty concoction that manages to include Batman, Bane and Gotham city. A multi-layered composition that reeks of style.

Cool Detail: The ‘deh-shay bah-sah-rah’ background, which cleverly clues in the film’s score.

The Poster: Sort of Dark Knight Rises reimagined in the Star Wars universe. Bane vs Darth Vader, anyone?

Cool Detail: The flying Batmobile, which may or may not be making an appearance in Rises . Given the title, we’d say it’s likely.

The Poster: All this one needs for impact is Bane. In his mask. Staring right into the pits of your soul.

Cool Detail: The mask is super-awesome, but those eyes have it – Bane really looks like he’s attempting to figure out the messiest way to kill you.

The Poster: An old-school composition that more than slightly resembles a still from a set of Saul Bass movie credits.

Cool Detail: Wayne Enterprises, right there in the thick of it all.

The Poster: A brilliantly illustrated one sheet that brings all of our key characters together, somehow finding space for two shots apiece of Batman, Catwoman and Bane. Nice.

Cool Detail: Catwoman aboard the Tumbler, of course. Miaow.

The Poster: An action-pose shot from the film, in which Bane rampages through swathes of Gotham City rioters.

Cool Detail: Is it just us, or does it look like Bane’s bulletproof here?

The Poster: Batman watches on, battered but not beaten, as Gotham City falls to pieces around him. Figuratively and literally.

Cool Detail: It extends the ‘burning world’ imagery of The Dark Knight , pushing Gotham further into the bowels of hell.

The Poster: Imagines Batman as a gargoyle, which comes with all sorts of lovely connotations – not least the fact that gargoyles can fly, giving power to the ‘Rises’ part of the title.

Cool Detail: It’s got comic-book influence all over it, which instantly makes it a cool cat.

The Poster: Catwoman strikes a coy pose as bats circle in the rain-lashed air behind her.

Cool Detail: It’s moody as hell, and miles away from Halle Berry’s version of the clawed minx. Which is always a good thing.

The Poster: Gotham City residents rise up in their hundreds to jeer Batman, who rests atop Wayne Enterprises.

Cool Detail: We know for a fact that this is a scene we're going to see in the movie, making the image all the more hysteria-stoking.

The Poster: Batman watches over Gotham City. Wonder if he’ll answer the call from that apparently re-instated Bat signal?

Cool Detail: It’s all moody and blue, and that gargoyle is all kinds of special.

The Poster: Bane again, all scuffed up and clearly heading into battle.

Cool Detail: That Bat carved into his back. Wonder if he needed a mirror to do that.

The Poster: Focussing on Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman, and hinting that the film’s title could also apply to the mysterious moggy.

Cool Detail: The stitches, which make us think of Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns . Which is always a good thing.

The Poster: Catwoman and Batman have a pose-off. The names-in-wrong-places crediting is a nice touch.

Cool Detail: This poster imagines Catwoman’s get-up anew. Claw blimey.

The Poster: Batman hangs his head as the rain pours down. We do like a bit of pathetic fallacy.

Cool Detail: An armed Gary Oldman in the background, clearly hunting the Bats post- Dark Knight .

The Poster: A companion to the previous entry that installs Guy Pearce as The Riddler.

Cool Detail: Pearce as Riddler. Clearly this poster was created long before we knew Catwoman and Bane were the main villains.

The Poster: Batman blends in with the city as it is blown to pieces.

Cool Detail: It looks like Batman has a new toy. Hurray!

The Poster: Takes the ‘hunted Batman’ imagery even further, as helicopters seek to trap our besuited hero.

Cool Detail: The crackling Bat symbol, in which Bats himself has taken to the air.

The Poster: A snowy affair, in which Catwoman surveys Gotham City.

Cool Detail: Catwoman’s breath crystallising in the chill air. Nice attention to detail.

The Poster: A bleached effort, in which Batman’s accompanied by a swarm of the creatures his suit was inspired by.

Cool Detail: That massive, circling swarm.

The Poster: Before, the city was burning. Now it’s Batman who’s on fire.

Cool Detail: The flaming Batman symbol.

The Poster: Another slick old school effort, with Catwoman appearing in mirror image, kissing airborne bats. As you do.

Cool Detail: The fact that the Wayne Enterprises building also looks like Batman himself, hunched over the city.

The Poster: That first shot of Bane, tweaked to create a moody poster.

Cool Detail: The image seared into the building side.

The Poster: Catwoman shows us who’s boss by using the Bat symbol as a step. That’s sure to get a, uh, rise out of Batman.

Cool Detail: The red Bat signal almost looks like the Joker’s smile…

The Poster: Another poster that attempts to convince us Riddler’s involved in Rises . It almost makes us wish he was.

Cool Detail: The newspaper’s attention to detail, and the fact that it mentions Harvey Dent.

The Poster: A clever play on the end of Dark Knight , in which Batman has become a police target. We especially like the bullet-hole Bat symbol.

Cool Detail: The gun-wielding shadow. Who's that, then?

The Poster: The original, official teaser poster gives a fantastic sense of height, scale and gravitas.

Cool Detail: The Dark Knight poster imagery was all about burning, which echoed Joker’s explosion endeavours. The Rises poster is all about breaking things – definitely Bane’s MO.

The Poster: Grungry and impactful, as the Bat symbol is scorched into metal.

Cool Detail: The whole thing, really; a simplistic but effective use of colour and texture.

The Poster: Batman wears his determined scowl as he prepares to fight the good fight again – presumably for the very last time.

Cool Detail: All those circling bats, which suggest Bat’s done something quite substantial to disrupt so many of the winged things.