Batman Begins (2005)

Ra's al Ghul recognises that Gotham's corruption reaches beyond individual criminals. His proposed purge makes every resident expendable, with fear toxin supplying the mechanism. The film also undermines his posture as a detached diagnostician: the League helped engineer the city's earlier economic crisis. He has noticed a systemic failure while helping create it, a contradiction that makes his certainty about destroying Gotham especially revealing.