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Line 121: {{spoiler}} [[Image:Batmanbegins2.jpg\|190px\|thumb\|left\|[[Liam Neeson]] as "Henri Ducard" (Ra's al Ghul) with [[Ken Watanabe (actor)\|Ken Watanabe]] as the Ra's al Ghul decoy]] In the 2005 [[film]] ''[[Batman Begins]]'', [[Japan\|Japanese]] actor [[Ken Watanabe (actor)\|Ken Watanabe]] plays a decoy of Ra's al Ghul, who trains Bruce Wayne to be a warrior in his League of Shadows (a renamed League of Assassins, although closer to Ra's' "Demon" organization in its importance). When Ra's reveals to Wayne the League's plan to destroy Gotham City and demands that Wayne execute a peasant who had murdered his neighbor as his initiation, Wayne rebels and sets fire to the League's fortress, apparently killing Ra's in the process. Months later, Wayne, now embarked on his career as Batman, discovers that Ra's is alive and conspiring with the [[Scarecrow (comics)\|Scarecrow]] to poison Gotham's [[reservoir (water)\|reservoir]] with a fear toxin that would destroy the city. Toward the end of the movie, Wayne discovers that the man he saw die was a decoy, and that his second-in-command and Bruce's mentor [[Henri Ducard]] (played by [[Liam Neeson]]) is the real Ra's al Ghul. Although Ra's is a character of [[Arab]] ethnicity in the comic books, he was presented here as either of [[East Asia]]n (in the case of the decoy) or [[Europe]]an, or likely [[Eurasian (mixed ancestry)\|Eurasian]] ethnicity. At Bruce's 30th birthday party, Henri Ducard (played by [[Liam Neeson]]) reveals himself to be the real Ra's al Ghul and that the one he killed was a decoy. Ra's has arrived in Gotham personally to destroy the city - he was the one who had conspired with Crane to distribute the toxin undetected via Gotham's water supply, the vaporize it with a stolen device from Wayne Enterprises. Bruce tricks his guests into leaving, and then fights Ra's while League of Shadows henchmen set fire to Wayne Manor, which is destroyed...but Bruce escapes the inferno with Alfred help. In the film, the agenda of Ra's al Ghul's organization differs slightly from that of the comic book version. Ra's explains that the League of Shadows is an ancient group dedicated to preserving its vision of [[justice]], by means as violent as necessary. They believe in "purging" or destroying cities that have become corrupt and decadent. He claims that the group was responsible for the fall of the [[Roman Empire]], the [[Bubonic plague]], and the [[Great Fire of London]]. He also claims the League of Shadows created the poverty that ravaged Gotham when Wayne was a child in order to motivate the poor to rise up and destroy the city.▼ At the end of the movie, Batman and Ra's al Ghul battle aboard a runaway train. As they head toward a fallen pillar, Batman destroys the train's controls. After defeating his former mentor, Batman jumps from the rail, leaving Ra's to die as the train plummets off the rails and explodes. Although Ra's is a character of [[Arab]] ethnicity in the comic books, he was presented here as either of [[East Asia]]n (in the case of the decoy) or [[Europe]]an, or likely [[Eurasian (mixed ancestry)\|Eurasian]] ethnicity. ▲In the film, the agenda of Ra's al Ghul's organization differs slightly from that of the comic book version. Ra's explains that the League of Shadows is an ancient group dedicated to preserving its vision of [[justice]], by means as violent as necessary. They believe in "purging" or destroying cities that have become corrupt and decadent. He claims that the group was responsible for the fall of the [[Roman Empire]], the [[Bubonic plague]], and the [[Great Fire of London]]. He also claims the League of Shadows created the poverty that ravaged Gotham when Wayne was a child in order to motivate the poor to rise up and destroy the city. ==Video game appearance==

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