A darker knight In this scene from the popular 2008 movie The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne confronts Batman, Wayne’s alter ego and only real friend. True to the vision of comic book artist and writer Frank Miller, this film and its sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, present the crime-fighter as a singularly driven loner incapable of forming or sustaining relationships. Some clinical observers have argued that the current Dark Knight version of Batman often displays the features of schizoid personality disorder.