Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal)

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Rachel Dawes
Real name:	Rachel Dawes
Aliases:	N/A
Alignment:	Good
Relatives/friends:	Bruce Wayne Harvey Dent Alfred Pennyworth
Characteristics:	Gender - Female Hair - Brown Eyes - Blue
Portrayed by:	Maggie Gyllenhaal
Appearances:	The Dark Knight

Rachel Dawes was a District attorney of Gotham City.

[edit] History

[edit] Early life

See: Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes)

[edit] Life with Harvey Dent

Rachel, by this time, is the assisstant DA to Harvey Dent, a man who is challenging the mob in Gotham in a legal way. She has also started dating him, creating a love triangle between herself, Dent, and Bruce.

When the mob hires the Joker to kill Batman out of desperation, the Joker says he will kill people until Batman reveals his identity. Harvey, realizing how important Batman is, says he is the Batman. When Joker tries to kill him, the real Batman and Commissioner Gordon capture him.

But during this time, Joker manipulates two cops into bringing Dent and Dawes to different buildings in the city. There, both of them are tied up with bombs and barrels of gasoline surrounding them. Joker reveals the locations to Batman and the police during his interrogation, but deliberately switches the locations. Batman sets out to save Dawes, while Gordon goes to rescue Dent, unaware of the falsehood in Joker's words until Batman arrives at the storage to find Dent, not Dawes as he believes, inside. Still, Batman manages to get Dent out, although half of his face is caught on fire and hideously burnt in the explosion that occurs seconds after their escape from the building. However, Gordon arrives too late to save Rachel, and she dies when the bombs surrounding her are detonated.

Earlier before her abduction and death, Rachel has left Alfred a note for Bruce, leaving it unsealed so Alfred could also read it. She explains in the letter that because she truly loves Harvey and thinks that Bruce will not be able to give up his life as Batman, she is going to marry Harvey. Alfred goes to give it to Bruce after her death, but instead burns it when he hears that Bruce is sure that she would have waited for him.

[edit] Behind the scenes

Maggie Gyllenhaal's portarayal of Rachel Dawes should be viewed as a continuation of Katie Holmes' from Batman Begins.
First major female character to be killed off in the Batman films, unless one counts the Ice Princess as a major character.