Maybe, but it wouldn't be the first time we had a comic book macguffin in a Nolan movie: The microwave generator in Batman Begins.

True, it was based in physics but naturally a machine like that would not only vaporize the water supply; it would cause anybody in its vicinity to boil to death.

Yeah the microwave transmitter and fear toxin aren't comic book enough for you? What about the team of ninjas secretly controlling the world and bringing 'order' to it?

I know what you mean, but it always cracks me up how many comic book/fantastical elements there really are in Nolan's films that people don't think of.

@darklordzor

Which is why it takes a good story teller to "disguise" those comic elements and make them feel believable. That's why Dark Knight was better then Batman Begins: Dark Knight felt more "real" because it was about people. That bloody microwave transmitter ruined Batman Begins IMO. Even when I watch it now, I'm glued to the screen until Batman begins jumping onto trains to deactive something that might as well be a nuke.

Which is why I'm slightly disheartened to see another "device" in Dark Knight Rises. First Catwoman's outfit, now this (althought it does cool!) I doubt this is going to be the next Dark Knight I'm afraid :(

the ears are the problem.