'Star Trek Into Darkness' poster

As Den of Geek pointed out earlier, the Star Trek poster seems to be borrowing from The Dark Knight Rises, whose poster also features a collapsing urban landscape doubling as recognizable silhouette. Placing a caped figure atop rubble also conjures up images of Batman from The Dark Knight. Of course, Batman was the hero, whereas Cumberbatch’s still-nameless villain (Is it Khan?) has been called a “one-man weapon of mass destruction” and “an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization.”

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