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Ra’s al Ghul’s greatest weapon might be his immortality. In the comics, the Batman villain uses a pool of mysterious liquid known as the Lazarus Pit to revive himself after death. This has become an iconic part of the character. However, when Chris Nolan adapted the character for Batman Begins, the Lazarus Pit wasn’t mentioned.

Nolan did toy with the idea of included the Lazarus Pit in his Dark Knight trilogy and making it more realistic.

“We talked about it,” Batman Begins screenwriter David Goyer says during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast.“I think there might have been a Lazarus Pit in one of the early treatments. We did talk about it. But again, cleaving this sort of Chris’s ideology, it was a question of like, was the Lazarus Pit just a ceremony, or did Ra’s al Ghul/Ducard actually rise from it? It wasn’t clear.”

In the end, the Lazarus Pit was left out of the film. However, there were still hints of Ra’s al Ghul’s long lifespan, and the legends of him being immortal. While it would’ve been cool to see Nolan’s version of the Lazarus Pit, Batman Begins is a classic, so it’s hard to argue with the results.

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