How does liam neeson die in batman

Whatever he was, Bruce kills his old master or more accurately, "chooses not to save him" during their fight on the monorail. Two films later, an older, more jaded Bruce Wayne is locked in a deadly feud with Bane, and the future of Gotham City is at stake. Little does the Caped Crusader know that his brawny opponent is merely a puppet for Talia al Ghul, Ra's daughter come to finish the work started by Neeson's character in Batman Begins.

After the first round clash between Batman and Bane , Bruce is taken to The Pit, an old prison seemingly located in India where he endures a swift but grueling recovery. It's here, while hanging from a rope in order to repair his broken back, that Bruce is confronted by an old enemy. Liam Neeson reprises his role as Ra's al Ghul for this short scene, appearing to Bruce as a sharply-dressed vision borne of intense pain and hallucination.

Because Ra's has a reputation for repeatedly cheating death in the DC comics, some interpreted this scene as an indication that Neeson's villain was indeed still alive. After all, there's no body seen at the end of Batman Begins. The villain's purpose here is to physically represent Bruce's thought process, working out what the other inmates have told him and incorrectly deducing that Bane must be the child of Ra's.

Nevertheless, the cameo does play on Ra's al Ghul's comic book immortality. In his youthful days, Ra's al Ghul was a skilled mercenary who worked for a powerful warlord. He fell in love with the Warlord's Daughter.

She conceived a child with him and they secretly married. Out of a sense of dishonor, the warlord had the mercenary condemned to The Pit , but exiled him instead. The warlord had his daughter take her husband's place in the prison. The mercenary then joined the League of Shadows and rose through the ranks relatively quickly. In the Pit, Ra's' wife gave birth to a daughter that she named Talia, who spent the early years of her life locked up with her mother.

One day, the prison doctor forgot to lock the door to their cell and the other inmates eventually attacked and murdered Ra's' wife. With the assistance of a prisoner known as Bane , Talia later escaped from the prison, although Bane was beaten within an inch of his life while he defended her.

Talia found her father and brought him back to the Pit to enact vengeance. There, he rescued Bane, who became mutilated. The League of Shadows trained Talia and Bane, but due to the constant reminder of the fate that his wife had suffered, Ra's exiled Bane.

It was for that reason that caused Talia to have resentment towards her father until his death. Ra's found Bruce Wayne in a Bhutanese prison, where he presented himself simply as Henri Ducard, an associate of Ra's al Ghul , and offered him a "path. When asked if he was ready to begin, Bruce replied that he could barely stand.

As a test, Ducard attacked Bruce and explained that death would not wait for him to be ready. After he defeated Bruce, Ducard asked him what he feared. After Bruce recovered, Ducard began to train him in every aspect of Ninjutsu.

Ducard was a very skilled warrior and a stern teacher. Throughout his training, Bruce was unable to best Ducard, but came extremely close during a sword battle, that was fought upon a frozen glacial lake.

However, Bruce forgot to take full notice of his surroundings and Ducard broke the ice beneath him for the victory.

While Bruce recovered from the cold water while he sat with Ducard around a fire, Ducard explained that his wife's death had taught him that there were those in the world that must be mercilessly fought and that vengeance was his release. Ducard was unable to understand why Bruce couldn't avenge the deaths of his parents. At the end of his training, Ducard forced Bruce to face him while he was slightly drugged. Ducard hid among several of the men while Bruce attempted to locate him.

He leaped out at Bruce from his hiding place and managed to wound Bruce slightly on his arm. Bruce, however, gave an identical injury to two of the other ninja, and tricked Ducard into capturing the wrong person.

Bruce revealed the trick and defeated his mentor. As a final test, Ducard handed Bruce a sword and ordered him to kill a man who was accused of murder, but Bruce refused. Bruce believed that he could not fight evil with evil methods. Ra's al Ghul certainly died on that monorail, just as anyone else would have in real life. Rachel LaBonte is a news, feature, and movie review writer for Screen Rant with a deep passion for film and television. A graduate of Emerson College, she majored in Media Arts Production while specializing in screenwriting.

She's been a writer ever since high school when she realized she was rather good at it and joined as many entertainment news clubs as she could while in school. Most notably, she wrote for Emerson's website Emertainment Monthly, and one of her film reviews won an Evvy Emerson's student awards for Best Review. Her deep love of movies led to her working at a movie theater for five years, which she loved despite the angry customers. By Rachel Labonte Published Jul 27, Share Share Tweet Email 0.

Rachel Labonte Articles Published Rachel LaBonte is a news, feature, and movie review writer for Screen Rant with a deep passion for film and television.