"Dark and gritty" is a label constantly being misused on the Nolan Trilogy, the Nolan trilogy isn't dark nor gritty, in fact is bright and clean, maybe Batman Begins was a little gritty, but it immediately lost that with The Dark knight, the Burton movies are way darker and grittier, in fact, even the Pan's Labyrinth is waaaay darker than the Nolan trilogy
The Nolan trilogy's trademark is that it provided the franchise with a liiiittle more realism, which perfectly suits Batman, after all it's only one more take on the character, and that realism wasn't the problem that eventually arose in TDKR, TDKR had many problems but the realistic approach wasn't one of them, and people have a hard time discerning that, MoS followed a bit of the Nolan tone but not the realism part, because it's impossible to do that when you reach the part of Clark being a space baby, and not the Nolan trilogy nor MoS were devoid of humor, they don't have nearly as much as the Avengers and how could they? Marvel uses by-the-book sitcom dialogue, fine, it works, but that's because Marvel characters are geared that way, most of them, and only some in DC, not Batman nor Superman are known for their comedic value being their fun factor, Batman can throw one or two lines of dry acid humor, but that's it, the characters that provide comedic relief in DC haven't even been introduced yet.
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