Maybe it was, but then if Bruce really did survive it, I think that's exactly what he would have done. And the way they set up the ending, the only difference between him living and dying is him finishing the auto pilot. Given that Fox did ask him to look into it, its not like they had to go out of their way to make it. And the whole having to manually having to fly the bomb away from people is just as over done these days I think.

Now, could they have made a more powerfully tragic scene if they went from the get go he should die? Maybe. But in a way it would clash with the other films in the series, which had a roughly positive ending. And perhaps its an even more powerful message that a man can climb out of the pit of darkness, beat its spawn, save the world, and retire afterwards living the normal life the cruel world had denied from him since he was a child.

IS HE NOT GAY ANYLESS?

There....

always pays to shout.....