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In the [[2005]] [[film]] ''[[Batman Begins]]'', [[Japan|Japanese]] actor [[Ken Watanabe (actor)|Ken Watanabe]] plays Ra's al Ghul, who trains Bruce Wayne to be a warrior in his League of Shadows (a renamed League of Assassins.) When Ra's reveals to Wayne his plan to destroy [[Gotham City]] and demands that he execute a peasant who had murdered his neighbor as his initiation, Wayne rebels and sets fire to the League's temple, 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]] with a fear toxin that would destroy the city. Towards the end of the movie we learn that Watanabe's character was a decoy, and that his second-in-command [[Henri Ducard]] (played by [[Liam Neeson]]) is the real Ra's al Ghul. Although Ra's is originally a character of [[Arab]] ethnicity in the comic books, he is presented here as either of [[East Asia]]n (in the case of the decoy) or [[Europe]]an ethnicity.
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