Batman (1989)

As Gotham City approaches its bicentennial, Mayor Borg orders district attorney Harvey Dent and police Commissioner Gordon to make the city safer. Meanwhile, reporter Alexander Knox and photojournalist Vicki Vale investigate sightings of a masked vigilante called “Batman” who is targeting the city’s criminals. Both attend a fundraiser hosted by billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne, who unknown to the city is secretly Batman himself, having chosen his vigilante path after a psychotic mugger murdered his parents when he was a child. During the event, Bruce becomes infatuated with Vale during the event, but cuts short their meeting to secretly pursue Gordon, also attending, when he leaves on police business.

Mob boss Carl Grissom, whom Dent and Gordon are targeting, sends his sociopathic second-in-command Jack Napier to raid Axis Chemicals, unaware it is an ambush to have him murdered for sleeping with Grissom’s mistress Alicia. Although corrupt police lieutenant Eckhardt arranges the hit on Napier by conducting an unauthorized police operation, Gordon arrives, takes command, and orders officers to capture him alive. When Batman arrives to prevent Napier’s escape, Eckhardt is killed by Jack as revenge for double-crossing him, but as he tries to escape Batman, he falls off a rail just above a vat of acidic chemicals. Batman attempts to save Jack, but lets go, dropping him into the chemicals.