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Batman: Arkham is a Video Game series based, of course, on the Batman superhero franchise.Each game revolves around the inmates of the infamous Arkham Asylum, the mental institution that holds (or fails to hold) all of Batman's insane foes. Asylum has the Joker seizing control of Arkham Island and freeing all the other inmates, including the Bat-rogues. City takes place a year later, with Batman caught up in a plan to imprison Arkham's inmates in a walled-off area of Gotham City that includes pivotal locations in Batman's history, including Crime Alley and Ace Chemicals. Origins is a prequel detailing how Batman first met several of his enemies, including Joker, Bane, Deadshot, and the Riddler. Knight is the alleged finale of the series, in which Batman battles an alliance of his rogues led by Scarecrow and a new foe, the Arkham Knight, as they attempt to destroy Gotham and Batman once and for all.In what was (at the time) a departure for most licensed games, the Arkham games are set in their own universe, nicknamed the Arkhamverse, which takes cues from all elements of the Batman mythos. Adaptation Distillation is in effect to create a setting that will have elements familiar to those with only a passing knowledge of Batman, but is free to tell its own story without adhering to a previously established continuity. The games are primarily based on the comics (the Post-Crisis continuity to be specific), naturally, and incorporate aspects from some of the Dark Knight's most iconic storylines, including A Death in the Family, The Killing Joke, Hush, Knightfall, The Dark Knight Returns, and more. From non-comic media, major influence comes from the Tim Burton films, the Joel Schumacher films, the Christopher Nolan films, and Batman: The Animated Series and the DC Animated Universe in general. The last is more notable, as Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill reprise their iconic roles as Batman and the Joker, respectively. Additionally, Asylum and City were written by acclaimed DCAU writer Paul Dini.The main games are third-person Action-Adventure with a Wide-Open Sandbox component, with a heavy emphasis on movement, combat against multiple foes simultaneously, and stealth-based type of gameplay. Batman has the ability to glide, use his Grappling-Hook Pistol to scale up and down most buildings and structures, and activate "detective mode", a special vision that allows him to take note of important persons and objects in the vicinity and survey a situation before deciding to move in. Each game also features a selection of Batman's gadgets, including batarangs, smoke pellets, explosive gel, the batclaw, a line launcher, hacking devices, and more. These tools let Batman explore the environment in new ways and give him new special attacks to take out enemies. A levelling system allows the player to enhance Batman's attributes over time, unlocking new ways to use his gadgets, new features for them, new skills for Batman himself, etc.The games are famous for introducing the "Freeflow combat system" based around three main actions: Attack, Stun, and Counter. Similar gameplay styles have now been incorporated into many other games, most notably Shadow of Mordor, Sleeping Dogs (2012), and Metal Gear Solid V. The system here sees Batman face different types of enemies utilizing various weapons that require particular types of attacks to damage them, and you're encouraged to mix up Batman's different attacks and gadgets to take them down with both speed and style. However, badass though he may be, Batman is not invincible, and in encounters with multiple opponents, if you just leap into the fray he'll quickly die to a hail of gunfire or a few well-placed kicks and punches. This is where the stealth based "predator sequences" come in, when Batman can't engage his enemies directly and utilizes more discrete methods. As Batman is known to do, use his gadgets, environmental hazards, and good old-fashioned trickery, to strike your foes from the shadows and melt away before they realize you were there.On June 21, 2023, a port of the main Rocksteady trilogy was announced for the Nintendo Switch, and it released on December 1, 2023.GamesMain Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) Batman: Arkham City (2011) Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition (2012): An Updated Re-release of City released exclusively on the Wii U, featuring gamepad and gyro integration, all of the DLC, and a new combat mode exclusive to the port. Batman: Arkham Origins (2013) Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (2013) (A Metroidvania tie-in portable game) Batman: Arkham Knight (2015) Batman: Arkham VR (2016): Originally a PlayStation VR-exclusive game, it has since been released on Steam. Batman: Return to Arkham (2016): Remastered ports of Arkham Asylum and City developed by Virtuos for PS4 and Xbox One, with several graphical enhancements and all the DLC included (including previously console-exclusive DLCnote Though Return to Arkham: City does not contain the additions from the Armored Edition for Wii U, such as the "Battle Armored Tech Mode" and the sonar). Both remasters would later be bundled with Knight (and all of its DLC) in a Compilation Re-release titled Batman: Arkham Collection. Batman: Arkham Trilogy (2023): A compilation featuring ports of Asylum, City, and Knight for the Nintendo Switch, with all DLC included. The ports for Asylum and City are developed by Turn Me Up Games (who had previously done the Switch ports of the Borderlands Legendary Collection and It Takes Two) as opposed to Virtuos (the developers behind the Return to Arkham remasters).Other Batman: Arkham City: Lockdown (2011): iOS and Android fighting game by NetherRealm Studios which pits Batman against numerous enemies, including Slade "Deathstroke" Wilson, in one-on-one battles. Batman: Arkham Origins (2013): iOS/Android game, again by Netherrealm studios, with similar gameplay to Lockdown. Batman: Arkham Underworld (2016): Clash of Clans clone based on the series, released alongside Arkham Knight. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024): A separate spin-off game set in the Arkham universe.Animation Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014): DC Universe Animated Original Movies film set in the Arkham universe. Has since been rendered non-canon by Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice LeagueComics Batman: Arkham Asylum: The Road to Arkham (2009): A comic book prequel to the first game. Batman: Arkham City (2011): An interquel comic bridging the gap between Asylum and City. Batman: Arkham Unhinged (2011–2013): A comic book miniseries following various villains before and during Arkham City, including Hugo Strange, TYGER security, and various Arkham inmates. Batman: Arkham City: End Game (2012): Six-issue digital comic set directly after the ending of City. Batman: Arkham Origins (2013–2014): A prequel comic set before the events of the main game. Batman: Arkham Knight (2015): Interquel comic bridging the gap between City and Knight. Batman: Arkham Knight: Genesis (2015): Another comic centering on the Arkham Knight himself.Literature Batman: Arkham Knight (2015): Novelization by comic writer Marv Wolfman. Batman: Arkham Knight - The Riddler's Gambit (2015): Prequel novel by Alex Irvine focusing on the Riddler.Additionally, elements of the series have appeared in other series by WB Games. Notably, Arkham City-inspired skins for Batman, Joker, Catwoman, and Harley Quinnnote as well as Arkham Origins Batman and Deathstroke in the mobile version appear in Netherrealm Studios' Injustice: Gods Among Us, and the Arkham Knight Batmobile makes a (sadly non-drivable) appearance in LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: As mentioned in Adaptation Distillation, a lot of characters resemble actors who've played them before, including The Joker looking like Jack Nicholson, Two-Face's unscarred side looking like Tommy Lee Jones (though he has The Dark Knight level scarring), The Penguin looking like Danny DeVito (albeit as the actor normaly looks), and even Batman in Knight resembles Ben Affleck. This also extends to voice acting, as Wally Wingert admitted to trying to emulate Frank Gorshin's laugh as The Riddler and Troy Baker likewise admitted to emulating Richard Moll's Two-Face voice. Likewise, many found Baker's Harvey Dent voice to sound similar to Aaron Eckhart and Roger Craig Smith's voice as the younger Batman to sound like Christian Bale's Batman voice at times. Unrelated to past actors, The Riddler in City and Knight resembles (respectively) Stephen Merchant and Charlie Sheen, and Robin in the latter game resembles Eminem. Copperhead in Origins resembles Miley Cyrus. In City, Corey Burton used his Christopher Lee impression for Hugo Strange. | |
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Shows Damage: In you're using the default costume Batman can and will show injuries and battle damage over the course of the games. Likewise in both City and Knight, Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing's default costumes will also show battle damage. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: The idea that being rendered unconscious would consistently lower the average person's heart rate to around 30 bpm is pure fantasy. In fact, that would likely be a dangerous drop in heart activity. Silent Takedowns usually consist of Batman or another playable character covering a thug's mouth and nose for a few seconds before they pass out. While it is possible to be chocked into unconsciousness in such a way, it would take far longer to do in real life than what's shown in the games. Sometimes (albeit rarely) Batman employs the far more realistic vascular neck restraint technique instead. | |
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Heroes Fight Barehanded: In Combat Mode, it is very possible for Batman to take on dozens of heavily armed enemies without using any gadgets. Batarangs included. | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age: Each Batman game (except of course Origins) marks the passing of a certain iconic feature of the Batman mythos: Batman: Arkham Asylum deals with the end of the Asylum which nearly gets totally destroyed in the course of the game's events. Likewise Blackgate Penitentiary was burned down before the game began. This destruction leads to a huge problem for the city on containing the criminal threat calling for a radical solution that was already in the works in the secret room of Quincy sharp. Batman: Arkham City ends with the death of the Joker, bringing his deadly rivalry with Batman to a close, finally doing away with his Joker Immunity. Likewise Arkham City, which was formerly the dilapidated area of Old Gotham — Monarch Theatre, Crime Alley, Harvey Dent's old office, Penguin's ancestral museum — gets converted into a prison and becomes a ghost town by the end of the game. Batman: Arkham Knight ends with Batman unmasked before the world by Scarecrow. While the Golden Ending leaves it ambiguous if Batman died or not (though the next game reveals he survived...for a few more years anyway), his classic career as a superhero is finished. His allies move on and Gordon becomes the New Mayor. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has the Bat-Family be murdered by a brainwashed Batman, who then gets Killed Off for Real by the Suicide Squad, bringing Batman and the Bat-Family as a whole to a tragic end. | |
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Notice This: Only in Detective Mode, though, since it highlights objects of interest. | |
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Crapsack World: A decent argument could be made that the games are actually darker than the main verse, and possibly even the darkest Batman adaptations ever made. To recap... In Asylum; At least half of the asylum's staff is murdered by the Joker's gang, and Joker intends to do the same to the rest of Gotham. Across the game, Batman at best saves the lives of some 20-odd Arkham personnel and salvages a worse disaster had Joker's Titan plan succeeded, but in the end, Joker killed 100 people in a single night, and every body you come across only increases the sense that Batman fails more often than he succeededs. In City: 121 people die during Protocol 10. Gotham apparently has a population in the millions, and given the huge crime rate and how many people Strange and Sharp were apparently throwing in, it's likely that Arkham had a population that's nearly a thousand, and when Strange states that at least 22 percent of the inmates were killed, it's clear that hundreds were murdered, with 121 being one number cited by a TYGER command, including many who likely did nothing to deserve it, and this isn't counting the political prisoners and doctors killed by the Joker, or that Batman ultimately fails to save Talia, the love of his life in the Arkhamverse, from Joker. In the end, the Joker does die, but there's no sense of triumph or catharsis. In Origins: Gordon is the only honest cop we see; beyond him, the police are all thugs with uniforms who hurt people for no reason beyond wanting to amuse themselves. And this is all before the assassins showed up along with the Joker, who apparently killed most of the staff at the Gotham Royal Hotel, at least 1/4 of Black Mask's men, and likely a great deal of the staff at Blackgate when he broke out and started the riot. In Knight, Scarecrow extorts the city into evacuating the city population, but it's definitely likely that several remained behind in the city since the evacuation took place in 24 hours. Furthermore, Scarecrow successfully unleashes a chemical weapon on a city population, and while that was countered by Poison Ivy's World-Healing Wave, it's likely that it would have aftereffects for years. Furthermore, Batman ends up having his identity exposed by Scarecrow, a defeat much worse than anything he has experienced in any other comic, animated, and film adaptation. The ending leaves it ambiguous if Bruce survives, but his classic career as Batman is finished, and while most of his villains seem incapacitated at the end of the campaign, others like Two-Face and Black Mask continue to torment Gotham afterwards, as evidenced by the DLC episodes. That's not even getting into the implication that Lazarus Pit chemicals leaking into the city water system for years is the actual reason Gotham has such a high rate of mental illness and crime (and this includes Batman). | |
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Utility Weapon: Most weapons/gadgets have three functions: one in melee combat, one in the stealth sections, and one for exploration (although the utility and stealth functions frequently overlap). The main exception for a long time was the Cryptographic Sequencer — it was mainly used as a "have you beat the goons yet?" gate, though got some use in decoding and pinpointing radio transmissions from City onwards, and received a full secondary function in Knight (hacking or temporarily shutting down enemy devices) for Predator challenges. | |
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Aborted Arc: Quite a few. Finishing the Spirit of Arkham sidequest in Asylum reveals that Warden Sharp is the reincarnation of Amadeus Arkham. However, an Arkham Story in City reveals that he was just hypnotized by Dr. Strange with the help of the Mad Hatter. This was furthered in Knight, where Strange had Sharp commit suicide. The Stinger for Asylum had either Bane, Scarecrow, or Killer Croc reaching for a canister of the TITAN formula, hinting that they were going to do something with it. However, in City, only Bane ever actually does anything with the TITAN formula. In City, you can find a positive pregnancy test somewhere in the Steel Mill, hinting that Harley Quinn was pregnant. However, going to that same room in Harley Quinn's Revenge shows a pile of negative pregnancy tests and a box with the disclaimer that it could give false positives. | |
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Cardboard Prison: Origins: It begins and ends with a riot at Blackgate Penitentiary. In Origins Blackgate Batman enters the prison to quell another riot. Asylum: A fire at Blackgate has resulted in much of the Joker's gang being moved to the asylum. Joker stages another riot within minutes of being brought back. City: The prison was made because of the damage done to the existing prisons in the last game. Black Mask managed to escape briefly; Strange added turrets to the walls in response, Strange tried to fake a breakout to justify Protocol 10, and Catwoman has the option to escape during her story arc. Doing so results in a Non-Standard Game Over where Joker's gang breaks out and lays siege to Gotham. Knight: Not in the main plot, but the DLC and an Easter Egg. Said Easter Egg? Setting the clock to 10/31/2015 sees Kirk Langstrom transform back into Man-Bat and escape from the GCPD. Whereas the Season of Infamy DLC's Kiler Croc mission has a brief one at Iron Heights Penitentiary, and two of the Arkham Episodes have Penguin and Riddler making failed attempts, and a third one sees Two-Face having a successful, albeit brief, one. | |
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Spiritual Successor: To the Batman-related parts of the DC Animated Universe, especially because its writer wrote for the first two games and several of its voice actors appear in the series, either reprising their roles or taking on new ones. | |
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No Flow in CGI | |
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No Flow in CGI: Averted; Batman's cape is very fluid and reacts realistically to his movements and the surrounding environment. In Arkham Asylum, at least, a member of the development team spent an entire year working solely on Batman's cape to get it just right. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: Each game takes place over the course of a single night. This isn't too bad if you just play through the main plot, but it starts getting ridiculous as you tackle the sidequests and try to find all the collectibles (which will all take far more than just one night's worth of real-world time to complete). | |
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Also used in Origins during Anarky's side quest. He tells Batman that he has a choice: let Anarky's bombs stationed around Gotham detonate or defuse them and Bats' decision will determine what Anarky does with him. Naturally, you being Batman, you are forced to defuse the bombs to progress the quest. Letting them detonate will always lead to a Game Over. | |
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Easter Egg: The Arkham games are famous for their incredibly subtle and clever Easter Eggs; some of them are incorporated into Riddler trophies, others simply visual details there for the fans to pick up, but its most famous ones are those that nobody noticed until the developers revealed it. In Arkham Asylum, there was a secret room announcing the Arkham City plan that nobody found until it was outed a year later by the developers; in Arkham City, two years after the game's release, it was revealed (in a video some suspected was also released by the developers, on a YouTube channel with a cryptic pseudonym) that there was a secret conversation with Calendar Man referencing Rocksteady and Arkham Knight. | |
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Artifact Title: The series is referred to as "Arkham" despite leaving the asylum completely after the first game at least until the climax of Arkham Knight. Each successive title has made justifications for the title; City was based around the idea of creating a small city (an isolated part of Gotham) to serve as a wing of the Asylum, Origins makes sense as the origin story of some of the inhabitants of the Asylum (and indirectly, but significantly, the Asylum itself), and Knight has a self-titled antagonist whose back-story includes the Asylum heavily and, per Sefton Hill, is a Double Meaning title that refers to Batman himself who is progressively going insane as a result of Scarecrow gas and Joker toxin and returns to the Asylum at the finale, where his identity is exposed and his career is finished. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The ground takedown is a brutal one-hit KO where Batman slams a fallen goon's head into the ground, which also gives him a larger point bonus than any other normal takedown in AR challenges. The problem is that the animation is slow, lacks invincibility frames, and can't be canceled, so more often than not Batman will get pummeled by other enemies and the attack will be cancelled. | |
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Enemy Within | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_2fb3170e | comment |
Subverted somewhat in Knight. Despite being billed as the main villain, Batman tracks down and attacks Scarecrow first, attempting to get rid of him as the most dangerous threat. This backfires, and after being exposed to fear gas, Hallucination!Joker plagues Batman for the rest of the game as an Enemy Within. Arkham Knight also appears to be a villain, possibly in a Big Bad Duumvirate with Scarecrow. While the Knight does have significant plot presence, Scarecrow and Hallucination!Joker fill in the roles as Big Bad, with the Knight filling in a sort of Dragon-in-Chief role. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Despite featuring Arkham Asylum, Blackgate Penitentiary, and Iron Heights Penitentiary, none of the canonical guys in charge (Jeremiah Arkham, Victor Zehrhard, and Gregory Wolfe) appear, instead replaced respectively by Quincy Sharp, Joseph Martin, and Ranken respectively. | |
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Model Museum | |
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Model Museum: Across the franchise, collecting Riddler Trophies can unlock "Character Trophies", full turnaround models of characters and enemies that can be viewed from a selection from the main menu. | |
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End-of-Series Awareness | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_38c493f1 | comment |
One mook-chatter has one stating they've been through Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Knight and wondering what will happen next. Another mook will then say that it's probably time to leave Gotham City, while also noting they had a great run. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_39b8d3d6 | comment |
Boring, but Practical: The dodge maneuver doesn't deal any damage, isn't accompanied by any satisfying sound effects, and is more likely to extend the length of combat without making it any more interesting. However, since it reliably provides invincibility frames, dodging after each attack is one of the safest ways to rack up high combos and scores, since even giant brutes and gunmen can't break Batman's combo while he dodges. note This slow-but-steady method of "dodge, attack, dodge, attack" has been nicknamed the "Hop-N-Bop." The weapon-breaking special move resets your special combat meter and doesn't knock anyone out, but it is absolutely vital to get rid of the various weapons that the thugs can use, especially the guns (which shred Batman's health) and the shields (which can abruptly reset your combo if you accidentally hit one). For enemies, some of the most effective tools in their arsenals aren't guns, mines, or anything high tech — instead, knives and shields. Enemies wielding them have attacks that can't be countered or require a precise input to counter (which may be locked behind upgrades), Batman can't attack into them easily since knife-wielding enemies will dodge away and shields will block his normal strikes, and in Arkham Knight they can't be disabled with the disruptor prior to getting into a fight. Robin, Nightwing, and Catwoman's group attacks don't cause much damage, but they are great for getting the player some breathing room to avoid being attacked and in combat challenges, because of the way the scoring system works, the attacks are easily the most point-efficient attack in the game (the attack has a certain amount of points, but it is then multiplied for every person the attack hits; at high combos, you can easily get thousands of points at once). | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: CRT televisions, cigarette vending machines, and magnetic audio tape all exist alongside LCD monitors, electronic restraint collars, and advanced broadcast encryption technology. In Origins, there are even advertisements for trans-Atlantic zeppelin flights, while Batman spends most of the game flying around in a supersonic jet. | |
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Cast of Snowflakes | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_3e848d5c | comment |
Cast of Snowflakes: The game is quite well regarded for its unique character models and NPCs several of these models as well as variations can be seen in a separate page on the game's menu. The increase in character models from Arkham Asylum to City and from there to Knight is fairly astounding to observe in terms of Sequel Escalation. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_40c57041 | comment |
In comics and most adaptations, Hugo Strange is a criminal mastermind or conman whereas in Arkham City he is a Manipulative Bastard who gets the top on all of Batman's rogues except Joker. Likewise in the comics, Hugo Strange was the first villain to learn of Batman's identity but in the original story, Strange Apparitions, it came about because he trapped Batman and unmasked him and in Prey he managed to trick Batman into revealing it, whereas here he's competent enough as a shrink to create an accurate psychological profile of Batman from a distance. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: It's Batman's story. Do you expect anything else? Arkham Origins: Batman has defeated Black Mask and his assassins, ingratiated himself with the police, and managed to make Gotham less of a hellhole, but Black Mask's fall leads to a power vacuum in Gotham's underworld that a certain clown steps in to fill, and we all know how that goes. Arkham Asylum: Batman stops Joker and prevents Gotham from destruction by TITAN. But Arkham Asylum is heavily damaged, almost everybody of its staff is dead. And there's Quincy Sharp's plans about Arkham City... Arkham City: Batman saves the day. Unfortunately, Talia is dead (at least for now), Catwoman's apartment got bombed by Two-Face, it's left unclear whether any of the people Joker poisoned can be savednote though it is later revealed in Harley Quinn's Revenge that all of them did get cured in time, and Batman actually intended to save the Joker, despite the latter's evil nature, and failed. It is also mentioned that close to a quarter of the Arkham City population were killed in the Protocol 10 attack. Some of these casualties were likely innocent political prisoners. The Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC ends with Harley's plan a resounding failure, but Bruce is still even more emotionally closed-off than usual. Not even the brief prospect of losing Tim gets him to open up - he just grapples away, leaving a very concerned Gordon in his wake. Arkham Knight: The Big Bad Ensemble is thwarted and the GCPD takes Gotham back, but Scarecrow has successfully made Batman suffer, and unmasked him in front of Gotham and the world. In order to keep everyone else safe, Bruce and Alfred blow up Wayne Manor with themselves inside, and possibly die. Gotham is watched over by a new Batman. | |
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Non-Lethal K.O. | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_41d128e4 | comment |
Non-Lethal K.O.: Some of the things Batman can do like shooting people in the head with the Batmobile's cannon (which apparently is "non-lethal" but even a rubber bullet traveling at that velocity would probably cave a guy's head in; those are meant to be shot center-mass) or taking a car door and slamming it on a thug's neck after knocking him down don't seem very non-lethal but it's Batman so they're fine. | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | comment |
Alternate Continuity: The first game was designed to be consistent to the history presented in the comics. The second game, as well as the third prequel game, establishes several key differences. Namely that Arkham City is Batman's first encounter with Hugo Strange and Knight confirms that the three main games on the whole cover the final three years of his crime-fighting career ending with the Götterdämmerung of most of Batman's Rogues Gallery, Arkham Asylum and Batman himself. | |
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The Stinger | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_48081842 | comment |
The Stinger for Asylum had either Bane, Scarecrow, or Killer Croc reaching for a canister of the TITAN formula, hinting that they were going to do something with it. However, in City, only Bane ever actually does anything with the TITAN formula. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: Oh yes. City takes it further because, well, it's out in the open city, and Origins as well, being even more of the city (along with some Scenery Gorn in the Firefly sequence). Finally, Knight takes things up to eleven as one of the most detailed and beautiful (not to mention somewhat destructible, thanks to the Batmobile) environments on the current generation of consoles. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Arkham Asylum: As you complete more and more of the Riddler's challenges, he grows increasingly annoyed at Batman, at one point making this comment which seems like he's accusing the player of something they've likely done at least once: Arkham City: This comes up frequently as Enemy Chatter. One dialogue among three thugs inside the museum during the epilogue initially sounds like they're just discussing what's going to happen to the inmates now that the Arkham City experiment has failed. But considering that players never hear who the 'they' they're talking about are, it sounds an awful lot like they're talking about where the sequel will take place. Here's the exchange, with a bit of paraphrasing. In "Harley Quinn's Revenge", a couple of thugs discuss the fan theory that Batman carried Clayface out of Arkham City, not the Joker before one of them dismisses it as stupid and unrealistic. The other responds that so was the idea of two Jokers. Joker (as usual) leans on the wall throughout all the games. However he outright leans so hard the fourth wall cracks with this line: There's also Calendar Man's secret conversation. To access it, you need to set the game's clock to December 13, 2004 (the date of Rocksteady's founding): Arkham Knight: The first time Batman hallucinates the Joker, he cackles, "Oh, don't act all surprised, Bats; you knew this was going to happen sooner or later!" — a not-so-subtle nod to everyone insisting he would return somehow, either revealed as Not Quite Dead or resurrected as the Arkham Knight. One mook-chatter has one stating they've been through Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Knight and wondering what will happen next. Another mook will then say that it's probably time to leave Gotham City, while also noting they had a great run. If Batman stalls during the final confrontation with Penguin, waiting to save Nightwing from being held at gunpoint just to hear the entire conversation, Dick will nervously mention how Batman probably likes listening to this play out, but he doesn't. | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_4da6ac | comment |
Rated M for Manly: It's a series of games about becoming a quintessential Badass Normal and beating up loads of people to singlehandledly save a city, can't get manlier than that! | |
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But Thou Must! | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_504e271f | comment |
But Thou Must!: Several times in City and Knight, you're seemingly given a choice which actually has only one "correct" option, with the other leading to a Non-Standard Game Over. Knight plays with this a bit in one of this choices, where it actually forces you to take the "wrong" option once before giving you the choice again, revealing the former to be a Daydream Surprise. Averted in one of Knight's sidequests, which instead uses a Last-Second Ending Choice which determines Azrael's fate. Also used in Origins during Anarky's side quest. He tells Batman that he has a choice: let Anarky's bombs stationed around Gotham detonate or defuse them and Bats' decision will determine what Anarky does with him. Naturally, you being Batman, you are forced to defuse the bombs to progress the quest. Letting them detonate will always lead to a Game Over. | |
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Bookends | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Arkham City, which sees the end of the Batman/Joker feud ends with the Joker singing about him and Batman over part of the end credits. Similarly, Arkham Origins, which sees the start of the feud, ends the same way. For the whole franchise in general, the finale of Arkham Knight takes place in the same location the series started: in Arkham Asylum. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_5a40d6a | comment |
As mentioned in Adaptation Distillation, a lot of characters resemble actors who've played them before, including The Joker looking like Jack Nicholson, Two-Face's unscarred side looking like Tommy Lee Jones (though he has The Dark Knight level scarring), The Penguin looking like Danny DeVito (albeit as the actor normaly looks), and even Batman in Knight resembles Ben Affleck. This also extends to voice acting, as Wally Wingert admitted to trying to emulate Frank Gorshin's laugh as The Riddler and Troy Baker likewise admitted to emulating Richard Moll's Two-Face voice. Likewise, many found Baker's Harvey Dent voice to sound similar to Aaron Eckhart and Roger Craig Smith's voice as the younger Batman to sound like Christian Bale's Batman voice at times. | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_5d5cc3fd | comment |
In Origins, Copperhead uses a hallucinatory poison and the Mad Hatter returns for a repeat performance. In addition, we get to see a few scenes from Joker's insane perspective. | |
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Gameplay and Story Segregation | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_6320eced | comment |
Gameplay and Story Segregation: You can do a lot of legitimately un-Batman-like things in this like literally yanking people off rooftops with your grapple. It's almost scary to the levels of Video Game Cruelty Potential that is possible when you get to control the Dark Knight and decide not to abide by his code. But in-canon Batman is the same as he ever is so no one ever died by his hands. | |
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Wild Mass Guessing | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_67e84a8e | comment |
In "Harley Quinn's Revenge", a couple of thugs discuss the fan theory that Batman carried Clayface out of Arkham City, not the Joker before one of them dismisses it as stupid and unrealistic. The other responds that so was the idea of two Jokers. | |
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Mook Horror Show | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_6860368a | comment |
Mook Horror Show: When using stealth ("Predator Mode"), you can not only use gadgets to spook enemies in a variety of ways, but you can use detective mode to see their steadily increasing heartbeat as you pick them off one by one. Their behavior also turns more erratic, jumping at shadows and firing wildly at nothing. When there is only one left, often they'll be too freaked out to put up a fight even if you just calmly walk towards them in full view. | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: Many villains fit this trope. In "City": The Joker's boss fight happens just before Batman must take on the Big Bad—Hugo Strange. But after Batman defeats Strange, it's quickly revealed he was the puppet of Ra's Al Ghul, who then commits suicide minutes later. Batman then has to save Talia from The Joker, who appears to be the game's real Big Bad. But after rescuing Talia, who kills The Joker, the true final boss is revealed in a major plot twist: Clayface was employed by The Joker to impersonate him at various points in the game, and the Joker Talia stabbed was merely a decoy Joker, who transforms back into Clayface. In "Origins": Black Mask is advertised and set up as the Big Bad, only for a plot twist about a quarter way through the game to reveal that The Joker is the true villain, having kidnapped Black Mask days earlier and taken over his operation. Subverted somewhat in Knight. Despite being billed as the main villain, Batman tracks down and attacks Scarecrow first, attempting to get rid of him as the most dangerous threat. This backfires, and after being exposed to fear gas, Hallucination!Joker plagues Batman for the rest of the game as an Enemy Within. Arkham Knight also appears to be a villain, possibly in a Big Bad Duumvirate with Scarecrow. While the Knight does have significant plot presence, Scarecrow and Hallucination!Joker fill in the roles as Big Bad, with the Knight filling in a sort of Dragon-in-Chief role. | |
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Lore Codex | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_6e6ac290 | comment |
Lore Codex: Each game lets you access the Batcomputer's files in the pause menu to review the biographies of characters you've met, riddles the Riddler has tasked you with, and little short stories about the history of different places in Gotham. | |
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Superman Stays Out of Gotham | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_70489c17 | comment |
Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Reconstructed rather satisfyingly. Since every game takes place in less than a night, Batman simply has no time to phone in Comic Book/Superman or Green Lantern to help him. | |
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Deducing the Secret Identity | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_723943a9 | comment |
Deducing the Secret Identity: The Series has some examples of people figuring out the Bat's identity, though some of them never reveal it to Batman or anyone else: In an interview tape found in Batman: Arkham City, Hugo Strange managed to deduce Batman's identity by simply creating a psychological profile of a man who would be the caped crusader, and then matching it to the most likely person who could fit the mask. Strange smugly taunts The Riddler about the fact he figured it out before the Insufferable Genius could. In Batman: Arkham Origins, it's implied that Bane figured out Batman's identity by tracking radar telemetry of the Batwing's movements. In Batman: Arkham Knight, one random mook conversation has two henchmen managing to put the pieces together based on a couple factors. The first is Batman's funding, and if he isn't government-funded, it'd have to be some rich guy. Another mook throws out Bruce Wayne as a candidate, with another one replying "Yeah, maybe it's him." This is followed by a chuckle, with them all dismissing it as impossible, but they managed to figure it out before the aforementioned Riddler could. | |
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Blocking Stops All Damage | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_72d43279 | comment |
Blocking Stops All Damage: Countering attacks prevents any damage and contributes to your total combo count. | |
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Intercom Villainy | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_734c7010 | comment |
Intercom Villainy: The villains throughout the series are primarily heard over public intercoms played throughout buildings and neighborhoods they've hijacked. They give their minions advice on how to find Batman, complain about their performances, and threaten them in ways appropriate to their characters. This especially applies to the Riddler, who hacks into Batman's radio channels in every game just to taunt him. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: Arguably Batman himself! Arkham Batman is arguably the strongest Batman incarnation of all time. In the first game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, he was injected with Scarecrow's toxin multiple times and fought through it with no rest or antidote. In the second game, Batman: Arkham City, his survival of the events is all that is needed to be mentioned. He fights off essentially all of his most famous foes in a single night, most of which were taken down WHILE HE WAS AT THE BRINK OF DEATH. The only time the comics Batman has even done anything close to this was in Knightfall, and even then, he only had a fraction of the hinderances the Arkham Batman had, and only took down a fraction of the criminals Arkham Batman took down in one night, and comics Batman lost while Arkham Batman won. In the prequel, Batman: Arkham Origins, he defeated Lady Shiva twice, once when he was still in training; defeated Deathstroke without problems in his 2nd year; beat up Killer Croc; and Bane did the backbreaker on him… and COULDN'T break his back, unlike in the comics and Nolanverse. In comics and most adaptations, Hugo Strange is a criminal mastermind or conman whereas in Arkham City he is a Manipulative Bastard who gets the top on all of Batman's rogues except Joker. Likewise in the comics, Hugo Strange was the first villain to learn of Batman's identity but in the original story, Strange Apparitions, it came about because he trapped Batman and unmasked him and in Prey he managed to trick Batman into revealing it, whereas here he's competent enough as a shrink to create an accurate psychological profile of Batman from a distance. Calendar Man goes from a Harmless gimmick villain to being a vicious serial killer who is genuinely menacing, The Riddler's OCD leads him to build many a Death Trap, serving as a Wild Card who creates a network of informants in different factions and as an unofficial Knowledge Broker for Gotham's underworld. Mr. Freeze and Clayface likewise have a larger profile in these games, with Mr. Freeze providing Batman the most intricate Boss Fight of the entire series and Clayface being the Final Boss of Arkham City, providing the largest character model as well as being one of the few villains Batman uses lethal force against. The Scarecrow, a minor villain in most comic events and in Batman Begins, gets a scarier costume, serves as a Level in Boss Clothing in Asylum before becoming the Big Bad of Arkham Knight where he unleashes a level of destruction that exceeds Hugo Strange and Joker and finally outs Batman's Secret Identity before the world, which no villain in any adaptation has ever done. While most incarnations of Jason Todd are badasses in their own right, none of them are at the level of Arkham Knight's incarnation, who (as the titular Arkham Knight) leads an army of professional killers whom he's specifically trained to kill Batman, and manages to take over Gotham in mere hours. Whilst Tim Drake in the comics is by no means un-badass, his Batman: Arkham City appearance definitely seems to be aiming for a grittier approach to the character, with a far more chiseled and muscled appearance, a buzz cut, and the idea that he takes part in cage-fighting in his spare time. | |
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Prison Riot | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_758c4e2c | comment |
Prison Riot: A Once an Episode occurrence. Every game features a prison on the verge of mass outbreak, with the exception of Origins, where the mass outbreak is actually what kickstarts the plot. | |
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Rogues Gallery Showcase | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_75b5a541 | comment |
Rogues Gallery Showcase: One of the series' selling points is that players get the opportunity to meet and beat up Batman's rogues. | |
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Action Prologue | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_77414bc2 | comment |
In Arkham Origins, the Batcave is attacked by Bane after he deduces that Bruce Wayne is Batman, while Wayne Manor is attacked during the Action Prologue of the Cold, Cold Heart DLC. | |
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Kung-Foley | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_7968898f | comment |
Kung-Foley: One of the core parts of Arkham's free-flow combat is the exaggerated and satisfying sound design. When Batman hits a goon, his fists makes a sound like a shotgun blast and that sound gets even louder if he's knocking this mook out | |
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And Now for Someone Completely Different | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_7bf14666 | comment |
And Now for Someone Completely Different: Every game features DLC playable characters. Notably, each one features a different villain as one of the playable characters. Asylum has The Joker. City has Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing. Origins has Deathstroke and Initiation Bruce Wayne. Knight has Harley Quinn, Red Hood and Batgirl. Azrael is playable in a series of sidequests. Commissioner Gordon, GCPD Officer Owens and The Joker are also playable in scripted story sequences. Assault On Arkham implied that Amanda Waller was killed by Deadshot, of all people. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Stealth is as much important as speed in hostage missions. If you're spotted too early before dispatching other thugs, or if you are too slow, the villains won't hesitate in killing them, triggering a Game Over. | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_87629455 | comment |
No Communities Were Harmed: Gotham's similarity to New York City has never been more apparent. Let's see: there's Miagani Island (Manhattan; it's even named after the native American tribe that used to live there), Grand Avenue (Times Square), the Lady of Gotham (Statue of Liberty), Amusement Mile (Coney Island)... Gotham North and South seem to be Long Island, but with some bits of Manhattan, like a Bowery and Diamond District). | |
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Medium Awareness | |
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Joker (as usual) leans on the wall throughout all the games. However he outright leans so hard the fourth wall cracks with this line: | |
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Green Gators | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_89f623b4 | comment |
Green Gators: Killer Croc, a mutant crocodilian man, has green scales with a grayish underbelly. | |
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Deconstruction | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: Due to being a kind of amalgamation of a lot of different Batman universes, the Arkham franchise really takes a look at some of the problems of the Batman mythos. The series takes a good look at a lot of the Batman's mental problems (trust issues, guilt over his parents, unwillingness to work together with others unless it's mandatory, pride and arrogance, and obsession with crimefighting), series tropes like Joker Immunity, ideas like the relationship between Batman and his rogues gallery and, in the end, if all this destruction and suffering really is doing any good for Gotham. | |
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Non-Standard Game Over | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_8e0430ab | comment |
City: The prison was made because of the damage done to the existing prisons in the last game. Black Mask managed to escape briefly; Strange added turrets to the walls in response, Strange tried to fake a breakout to justify Protocol 10, and Catwoman has the option to escape during her story arc. Doing so results in a Non-Standard Game Over where Joker's gang breaks out and lays siege to Gotham. | |
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Big Bad | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_970c790a | comment |
In "Origins": Black Mask is advertised and set up as the Big Bad, only for a plot twist about a quarter way through the game to reveal that The Joker is the true villain, having kidnapped Black Mask days earlier and taken over his operation. | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_98b1dc8f | comment |
Luck-Based Mission: Downplayed. The replayable predator challenges are easily beatable with enough skill, as long as the random guard patterns allow so. The maps usually allow at least one medal to be easily obtainable before the guards are alerted, but once they are, you may end up waiting several minutes to get the other medals. | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Arkham games inflict long-term changes and damages in a manner that the comics continuity does not. Both Arkham and Blackgate are ravaged in Asylum, Joker dies in City and stays dead, as does Hugo Strange, Ra's (he gets better, but for how long, it's up to you) and Talia. Batman gets outed as Bruce Wayne in Arkham Knight and goes underground. | |
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Difficult, but Awesome | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_9b9397bb | comment |
Difficult, but Awesome: Most of Nightwing's gadgets don't have an equivalent to Batman and, unlike Robin and Catwoman, can't be play-tested in the main game before you take them to the Challenges. In spite of this, their unique styles, such as being able to use the Escrima Sticks around corners and the Wrist Dart potentially being a One-Hit KO, add a completely new dimension to the predator challenges and open up a lot of new creative avenues if you get used to them. | |
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_9ee065ab | comment |
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Origins takes place between Christmas Eve and Christmas morning; the DLC picks things up a week later on New Year's Eve. Knight takes place on Halloween night with a DLC set on a much earlier Valentine's Day. | |
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Rogues Gallery | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_a0396574 | comment |
Arkham Knight sees the entirety of Gotham City evacuated after a terrorist threat from the Scarecrow, leaving Batman's Rogues Gallery to burn the fire stations, prey on remaining civilians and tear apart Gotham's banks. Not to mention the army of tanks and drones the Arkham Knight sets loose. This is especially prominent after the Scarecrow releases the Cloudburst, blanketing the city streets in Fear gas. | |
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It's Probably Nothing | |
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It's Probably Nothing: Averted at low fear levels and Inverted at high fear levels. At the beginning of a stealth segment, the guards know that Batman is around somewhere, so they have the presence of mind to check anything out of the ordinary. Once they get panicky enough, they'll start freaking out at the slightest noise in fear that it might be Batman, whether or not it is. | |
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Fingerprinting Air | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_a15a08a7 | comment |
Fingerprinting Air: The Detective Scanner lets Batman pick up on available clues in the environment to solve past crimes and hunt down criminals. While initially somewhat far-fetched (one prompt in Asylum has the player form a trail via detecting traces of alcohol in the air), Origins' refines the process — the cowl's trackers are still extremely sensitive, but the clues themselves are more realistic and believable (like scanning impact points to identify a bullet's trajectory and origin of fire), and the crime scene reconstructions can be interacted with to highlight overlooked objects of interest. Knight takes it one step further by adding a deep tissue scanner, meaning Batman can analyze the skin, muscle and bone layers of corpses for possible abnormalities. | |
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Enemy Chatter | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_a1f82f86 | comment |
This comes up frequently as Enemy Chatter. | |
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Alternate History | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_a86069f | comment |
Alternate History: Beginning with City, the series provides several hints that the advanced progression of technology in this version of the DC Universe has radically sped up cultural development, partially explaining why Art Deco cities and zeppelin travel lines exist alongside cellphones and unmanned attack drones — a strategically crumbled commemorative engraving on the balcony above the gates of Arkham City reveals the facility was opened at some point in the 1990's. Likewise, Modern Gotham was built on Wonder City, a Ra's Al Ghul sponsored Steampunk township filled with automatons and Lazarus-powered "green" energy. The Cyrus Pinkney side quest in Origins reveals that Gotham had functional automobiles in 1855 (possibly due to Lazarus Technology), and Deathstroke, 55 at the time of Knight, reveals that, like his comic counterpart, he fought in the Vietnam War. | |
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Urban Ruins | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_a8739d3e | comment |
Urban Ruins: Arkham City's titular city is a rotting, sequestered part of Gotham that has been fractured by flooding, earthquakes and bombings from the various gangs imprisoned in the City. The entire place is littered with starving criminals fighting over limited food drops. This is especially prominent after Protocol 10 removes a fifth of the population and sets some of the city's landmarks aflame. Arkham Knight sees the entirety of Gotham City evacuated after a terrorist threat from the Scarecrow, leaving Batman's Rogues Gallery to burn the fire stations, prey on remaining civilians and tear apart Gotham's banks. Not to mention the army of tanks and drones the Arkham Knight sets loose. This is especially prominent after the Scarecrow releases the Cloudburst, blanketing the city streets in Fear gas. | |
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Disabled in the Adaptation | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_aa96059e | comment |
Disabled in the Adaptation: While his eyesight was fine prior to Knight and VR, in those two games, Alfred takes after Michael Gough and Alan Napier's incarnations in needing to wear glasses. While fine during Origins and Blackgate, the Penguin during the events of City, Knight, and VR features a vent in his neck from smoking and a beer bottle jammed into his left eye in place of his traditional monocle. Assault on Arkham, an interquel film, shows that the beer bottle happened at some point before Asylum, though the lack of the vents suggested that happened between Assault and City. The Calendar Man is an Evil Cripple, his right leg being shorter than his left and wearing a brace and elevated shoe to compensate. Harley Quinn's DLC episode in Knight shows her hearing voices in her head. | |
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Game of The Year Edition | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_af3e4cbe | comment |
Game of The Year Edition: The main trilogy of the Arkham series has received a Game of the Year Edition on consoles and PC (Arkham Knight however has some DLC that are only exclusive to the PlayStation 4 version). | |
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Retcon | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: Some of the original info from Asylum character bios has been overwritten later in the series by both WB Montreal and Rocksteady. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
In Knight, the Arkham Knight's militia are also stricken with this. They are personally trained by the Knight himself to counter anything Batman may throw at them. They still exhibit the same reckless and unobservant behavior that the other enemies do (they don't even bother to look up during encounters, even when the Knight tells them that the Bat likes to attack from above, don't check your hiding places terribly well and constantly boast about how "one man couldn't possible defeat our army!"), only becoming aware of what's happening when the Knight gets on the intercom saying "he's picking you off from the rafters!" or "split up and travel in pairs!". Some militia members also mention that they have black belts in Krav Maga, but they aren't any better fighters than the rest of the militia. The only thing that gives the militia an edge over other factions is that they employ medics, brutes, and have access to various technology like Detective Mode-camouflaged uniforms and flying drones. Granted, they couldn't have anticipated the upgraded Batmobile to deal with as well, but an elite army designed to combat Batman should really have the skills and mindsets to back it up. | |
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It's All About Me | |
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The Clayface in this game bears Basil Karlo's name (blink-and-you-miss-it when Bats takes Harley's "party list") and now-in-continuity powers: otherwise he's an amalgamated Batman: The Animated Series Clayface (Matt Hagen) and Preston Payne. This is canon. Karlo acquired the powers of Hagen and Payne in the early 90s. What's new, however, is his desire to impersonate people. In the comics, Karlo turned to crime out of egomania. The acting ability was a trait of Hagen's in the animated series. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: This is present in all of the games to an extent, but is really noticeable in Asylum and City in particular. This is more of a Justified Trope in Origins and Knight, where Batman mostly goes up against cops and the Arkham Knight's militia respectively. Since these enemies are naturally professionally trained with firearms and would be much better shots, you'd expect to have a harder time dodging them. However, armed thugs in the games seem unnaturally accurate with guns. Batman can dive like a maniac, swing from vantage points like a drug-fueled monkey, inch towards the edge of a building so that only his cowl's ears are visible and inmates will nail him with every shot as he moves. It's undoubtably there to encourage players to take out armed opponents with stealth rather than brute force, but it's incredibly difficult to believe how a bunch of two-bit thugs could so easily keep a bead on the Bat with such consistency. | |
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Evil Cripple | |
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The Calendar Man is an Evil Cripple, his right leg being shorter than his left and wearing a brace and elevated shoe to compensate. | |
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Informed Attribute | |
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Informed Attribute: In the Arkhamverse, Talia al Ghul is established as Batman's true love. She's the one he's willing to shelve his main quest in Arkham City to save from Joker. He mourns her in a brief moment in Arkham Knight and many characters and Ra Al Ghul himself call her the "love of his life". The problem is the only real interaction the two have on-screen is when Batman is trying to coerce her into taking him to the nearest Lazarus Pit by leading her on to think he'll sign up to be Ra's heir. She's stated to have the same peace-by-mass-murder philosophy as Ra's and more than once, Barbara questions what Bruce sees in her. | |
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Scoring Points | |
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Scoring Points: Each game features challenge maps where you can fight a couple waves of enemy (generally four) and get points based on what your highest combo was and the variety of moves you used. If you get high enough points, you can also earn up to three medals, which you need for 100% completion. Of all the bonuses to your points, the biggest is the Flawless Freeflow bonus, which you get for completing a round in a single combo without taking damage. | |
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Ret-Canon | |
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Ret-Canon: Bane's appearance in Asylum and City initially inspired his redesign in The New 52, though it's since been revised to add a vest and cargo pants. | |
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Bedlam House | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_c6c5ce4 | comment |
Bedlam House: Arkham naturally. From Asylum: The marketing (as evidenced in the tie-in Arkham Care website and some of the in-game PA announcements) desperately tries to make it seem like a pleasant, modern psychiatric institution. To utterly hilarious degrees; it's really something to stand in a dank, creepy and falling-apart Arkham corridor listening to a pleasant voice on a commercial witter on about how Arkham is 'the state's premier psychiatric therapeutic facility', how the famous supervillains who get locked up there 'are only half the story' and other such nonsense. City: Proudly features an even worse solution: Arkham City, a walled-off slum section of Gotham where former Arkham patients and Blackgate convicts alike are thrown in and left to their own devices. Then hired mercs kill everyone in the place. How therapeutic. Just like in the comic canon, Arkham and Gotham's darkness is so much, the founder of the Asylum, Amadeus Arkham, was eventually driven insane and admitted as an inmate. | |
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Burn Scars, Burning Powers | |
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Burn Scars, Burning Powers: Firefly is a Pyromaniac armed with a flamethrower, and as you can tell once he wears a more skin-baring outfit in Arkham Knight, the majority of his body is covered in third-degree burn scars. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability: Two sets of people get hit with this in City: the League of Assassins' warriors and Hugo Strange's TYGER guards. Each member of the League is described as being able to go up against 100 men in combat and win. Interacting with the display case in Penguin's lair that has a ninja in it says that she only managed to kill 8 of Penguin's goons before they held her down and beat her unconscious, casting serious doubt on this claim. Even in gameplay, while they are harder to fight than the thugs, they aren't much of a threat to Batman if you're good at countering. As for the TYGER guards, they are specifically noted to have been trained to fight against Batman efficiently. All this amounts to is that their heart rates never go beyond "Nervous" in combat and gameplay-wise, they aren't really any smarter or more dangerous than the rest of the enemies you face. In Knight, the Arkham Knight's militia are also stricken with this. They are personally trained by the Knight himself to counter anything Batman may throw at them. They still exhibit the same reckless and unobservant behavior that the other enemies do (they don't even bother to look up during encounters, even when the Knight tells them that the Bat likes to attack from above, don't check your hiding places terribly well and constantly boast about how "one man couldn't possible defeat our army!"), only becoming aware of what's happening when the Knight gets on the intercom saying "he's picking you off from the rafters!" or "split up and travel in pairs!". Some militia members also mention that they have black belts in Krav Maga, but they aren't any better fighters than the rest of the militia. The only thing that gives the militia an edge over other factions is that they employ medics, brutes, and have access to various technology like Detective Mode-camouflaged uniforms and flying drones. Granted, they couldn't have anticipated the upgraded Batmobile to deal with as well, but an elite army designed to combat Batman should really have the skills and mindsets to back it up. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: Hugo Strange, Talia al Ghul, The Joker, Poison Ivy, Killer Moth, Black Mask, Mr Freeze & his wife, Nora, and either Ra's al Ghul, or Nyssa Raatko (depending on what choice you made) | |
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Serial Escalation | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_ce104b8e | comment |
Serial Escalation: Each game ups both the playable environment and the stakes involved. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham Island constitutes the playable area and Batman has to both recapture all the escaped inmates and stop the Joker from unleashing an army of TITAN soldiers on the city. In Batman: Arkham City, the walled super-prison of Arkham City makes up the playable area and Batman has to both stop the Joker from poisoning the city with his infected blood and prevent Hugo Strange from enacting Protocol 10. In Batman: Arkham Origins, Old Gotham and a few more bits constitute the playable area, and this time Batman is up against eight of the world's deadliest assassins, as well as hundreds of escaped criminals and mercenaries loose on the streets, all looking to collect the huge bounty on Batman's head and not afraid to kill innocents and destroy property to draw him out. In Batman: Arkham Knight, the three islands of downtown Gotham make up the playable area and Batman is up against the greatest odds yet, with Scarecrow developed a new fear toxin which he plans to disperse over the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Arkham Knight having conquered the city with his huge militia army, and the Joker threatening to take over Batman's mind from beyond the grave. | |
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Run the Gauntlet | |
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Run the Gauntlet: The entire series is a glorious invocation of this trope. Every game has tons of famous villains from Batman's Rogues Gallery, and a big part of the enjoyment of the series is seeing how each one of them is represented. You'll be taking down a bunch of them throughout the game, either relegated to side content or as part of the main plot as Arc Villains. Because the Arkham games are an Ultimate Universe, some of the fun is seeing how elements from The Animated Series, the Tim Burton films, the Christopher Nolan films, and the comics all blend together for each villain. | |
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After-Combat Recovery | |
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After-Combat Recovery: Achieved in a somewhat roundabout way. Gaining experience points restores your health, and beating people up gives you XP. Ergo, damage taken in combat may be healed from the XP you got from fighting. Depending on how much damage you took and how much XP you got, you may or may not be restored to full health. Bosses reliably give you enough XP to heal fully, however. The reason this works for this trope is that the XP doesn't tally (and thereby the healing doesn't begin) until you finish the entire encounter, whether it's a gang of ten mooks trying to beat you down or a room full of gun-toting mooks you have to stealth-kill. | |
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Anti-Frustration Features | |
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Anti-Frustration Features: The games grant the player some mercies that help leave informants the last man standing in a fight. Takedown attacks will not target them unless they are the only target available. Informants are also not keen on picking up weapons or shields to fight with. Firearms, while rare in combat encounters, are probably the single most dangerous weapon for your combo meter you can encounter in a melee fight. However, the games tend to make it obvious when a firearm is about to enter the field, as the cabinets the mooks get fresh guns cause an audible alarm, and if the opponent found a gun lying around, there's another audible sign when the're getting ready to fire. And even then, the first volley almost always misses so you have one last chance to deal with the armed mook before they get to deal some real damage. | |
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Have a Nice Death | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_d933263 | comment |
Have a Nice Death: Whenever the player dies, they get a brief scene of the antagonist they were dealing with taunting them. | |
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Video Game Perversity Potential | |
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Video Game Perversity Potential: The possibility of zooming and observing, from "interesting" angles, female characters such as Harley Quinn and Catwoman. Exaggerated when Knight gave players photo mode, and three playable well-shaped female characters. Default Selina and Harley have cleavage, and alternate outfits are tighter, especially from the back. For whatever reason, even Batgirl's armor tightens up behind her cape. | |
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Hijacked by Ganon | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_da76b18 | comment |
Hijacked by Ganon: City had shades of this, with Hugo Strange and Ra's al Ghul's plotline being wrapped up in a single cutscene and the Joker having by far the most screentime. Origins is full bore; despite hyping Black Mask up as the Big Bad, it was Joker the entire time. Although, an observant player can notice the various hints dropped from the start of the game that this is the case. In Knight, despite Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight being a Big Bad Duumvirate, Joker once again plays the role of a Greater-Scope Villain, whose death not only instigates the Villain Team-Up but keeps reappearing as a hallucination to Batman. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Batman usual MO. Anouncing there will be pain and giving unbearable beatings to lower mooks, until he gets the name of someone else above the chain of command or of a place. | |
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Obligatory Swearing | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_e292f761 | comment |
Obligatory Swearing: There's very little blood and no sex in the game. Characters like Killer Croc are characterised as swearing almost habitually. | |
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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: Joker's hair was darkened a bit in Return To Arkham remaster, so it matches the color in Knight. (Which got darker to match with Origins) | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_e431c24c | comment |
The first time Batman hallucinates the Joker, he cackles, "Oh, don't act all surprised, Bats; you knew this was going to happen sooner or later!" — a not-so-subtle nod to everyone insisting he would return somehow, either revealed as Not Quite Dead or resurrected as the Arkham Knight. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: The Riddler. Unlike most of the villains, who fall under the Love to Hate category to most fans, Riddler is a condescending, conceited Insufferable Genius that makes Sheldon Cooper look modest and both in-universe characters and many fans of the game absolutely despise him. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: A common takedown move for Batman involves punching thugs in the pelvic ring. Which ends up looking like this trope. | |
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Downloadable Content | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_ef43c232 | comment |
Arkham City has a pair of Downloadable Content challenge maps that are Augmented Reality simulations of theoretical attacks on the Batcave and Wayne Manor by TYGER soldiers. Supplemental materials reveal that this exact scenario occurs during protocol 10, but Nightwing and Alfred are able to hold off the guards until the GCPD arrive. | |
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Decomposite Character | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_f0508c08 | comment |
Detective Comics #1000 saw the Arkham Knight as a costumed identity appear, but this turned out to be a fusion of Decomposite Character and Samus Is a Girl as the comics Knight turned out to be Astrid Arkham, the daughter of Jeremiah Arkham. | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_f4fd424c | comment |
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Arkham City has a pair of Downloadable Content challenge maps that are Augmented Reality simulations of theoretical attacks on the Batcave and Wayne Manor by TYGER soldiers. Supplemental materials reveal that this exact scenario occurs during protocol 10, but Nightwing and Alfred are able to hold off the guards until the GCPD arrive. In Arkham Origins, the Batcave is attacked by Bane after he deduces that Bruce Wayne is Batman, while Wayne Manor is attacked during the Action Prologue of the Cold, Cold Heart DLC. In Arkham Knight, Scarecrow's forces attack Batman's clock tower and kidnap Barbara Gordon off-screen. The trope is downplayed in a later sequence where the Arkham Knight's drones attack Wayne Tower; as the Arkham Knight is Jason Todd, he knows full well that Bruce Wayne is Batman, but neither Batman nor the player are aware of this at this point in the story, and it's easy to assume that the Arkham Knight is just trying to seize control of one of the tallest buildings in Gotham City. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
| Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_f7d4f121 | comment |
Mushroom Samba: Once per game, Batman will be drugged somehow and experience surreal and creepy hallucinations. Asylum has the famous Scarecrow sequences. In City, Batman gets poisoned by Joker and suffers a few hallucinations as a result. The same thing happens when Batman drinks some from a Lazarus Pit. Finally, a side quest has the Mad Hatter try to take over Batman's mind, taking him to a bizarre dreamscape. In Origins, Copperhead uses a hallucinatory poison and the Mad Hatter returns for a repeat performance. In addition, we get to see a few scenes from Joker's insane perspective. In Origins: Blackgate, Catwoman temporarily blinds Batman with a flashbang during the final boss battle, resulting in a semi-hallucinogenic sequence where he tries to predict incoming attacks using only sound. Way too many to count in Knight. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: Granted, it's criminals that Batman's dealing with, but he can be quite the dirty combatant if he feels like it. He can air-launch The Penguin as Bruce Wayne at the start of City. He can fire endless electrical charges at hapless mooks just for the fun of it (Just don't do this to mooks with guns.) He can do a similar thing with smoke bombs (though this doesn't hurt them; just confuses them. Again, don't do this against mooks with guns unless you're at a safe distance.) | |
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Last-Second Ending Choice | |
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Averted in one of Knight's sidequests, which instead uses a Last-Second Ending Choice which determines Azrael's fate. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: The female version of Copperhead made her debut as part of DC Rebirth, though there's been plans for her to debut as part of the New 52 era. Detective Comics #1000 saw the Arkham Knight as a costumed identity appear, but this turned out to be a fusion of Decomposite Character and Samus Is a Girl as the comics Knight turned out to be Astrid Arkham, the daughter of Jeremiah Arkham. | |
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Foe Romance Subtext | |
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Foe Romance Subtext: All four games illustrate this in Joker and Batman's relationship, he whole series can read like an overall story of Batman and Joker's relationship. Starting early in Batman: Arkham Asylum with Joker: "Tell me Bats, what are you really scared of? Failing to save this cesspool of a city? Not finding the Commissioner in time? Me, in a thong?!" and that the premise of the whole night was a party Joker threw for Batman. Continuing in Batman: Arkham City with the increasing phone calls from Joker to Batman, the final death scene with Batman carrying Joker out in his arms, and Joker's swan song to Batman. Given their beginnings in Batman: Arkham Origins when Joker's obsession with Batman begins, including his Red Hood story and his mention of "meeting someone very special earlier tonight", and another song for Batman during the credits. It finally culminates in Batman: Arkham Knight with Hallucination!Joker mentioning over and over again being inside of Batman, the heavy indicators that Joker's death affected him so much that he could never return to normal (not even Talia's death is mentioned that much), and the serenade number Hallucination!Joker performed with a little help from Johnny Charisma. Catwoman even makes a dig at the relationship in Knight, and how Batman should stop mourning him and "find new maniacs". | |
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