Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra - The Feels.

-Main antagonist is a former imprisoned, bald anarchist bent on overthrowing authority
-Said antagonist and his followers succeed in bringing an entire city into complete chaos
-Protagonist is critically injured (or appears so) in fighting the antagonist
-Season 3 is the plot of "The Dark Knight Rises"

And it even managed to be good, on top of it.