The Dark Knight Rises: Five Easter Eggs

This is a non-spoiler article, unless you want to go into the film absolutely pristine. If you’re looking for answers to the burning questions of The Dark Knight Rises, or even any plot points, you’re in the wrong place.The Dark Knight Rises was a complex movie, with a ton of references made to the previous Nolan movies. It makes sorting out what counts as a spoiler and what doesn’t a lot harder, but there are certain things that are just…interesting.Not instructive or illuminating or anything of the sort, but cool, little things clearly thrown in there to reward the person who’s paying attention, enough of a geek to hear it just right, or just in the right headspace at the moment it happens. They’re mostly blink-and-you-miss it stuff, so…for those who blinked…The caterer’s name was “Chill.”If you listen carefully, you’ll notice that the caterer who comes to the Wayne Foundation charity event (the one where the viewer is first introduced to Selina Kyle), appears to be related to the killer of Bruce Wayne’s parents.When Alfred comes to express his concerns to the caterer about his employees not doing as they’re told, he calls the man “Mister Chill.” That’s as in Joe Chill, the mugger who killed the Wayne family in the alley, as seen in Batman Begins.Is it a coincidence? It seems unlikely–yet what seems even less likely is that Bruce Wayne would feel particularly comfortable with a member of that family hanging out in Wayne Manor!