Batman: Arkham City/Trivia


 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill are again reprising the roles of Batman and the Joker. Likewise, Tom Kane, Kimberly Brooks, Wally Wingert, Tasia Valenza, Fred Tatasciore, Danny Jacobs, and James Horan reprise their respective roles from the first game as Quincy Sharp, Oracle, the Riddler, Poison Ivy, Bane, Zsasz, and Jack Ryder. Though Tom doesn't reprise the role of Commissioner Gordon and Fred gets double duty as the voice of Solomon Grundy.
 * Kevin Conroy also plays.
 * Kate Beckett is Talia al Ghul.
 * Dee Bradley Baker is Ra's Al Ghul.
 * Maurice La Marche is Mr. Freeze and Calendar Man.
 * David Kaye takes over the role of Commissioner Gordon from Tom Kane.
 * Tara Strong is Harley Quinn.
 * Grey Delisle is Catwoman.
 * Troy Baker is Two-Face and Robin.
 * Nolan North plays Penguin, but puts on a cockney accent for the role. Makes it hard to believe that Deadpool/Superboy/Nathan Drake is really him. He is also Black Mask.
 * Hugo Strange is voiced by Corey Burton, once again emulating Christopher Lee.
 * Steve Blum lends his talent, of course. But his performance as a random thug in the beginning of the game will have you blinking and wondering, "When did Oghren get so tall?"
 * Mad Hatter wants both Batman's cowl (and his belt) and the crest on Birdman's helmet.
 * He was also Kirk Langstrom aka Man-Bat as well as Doctor Octopus.
 * Khary Payton, a.k.a. Cyborg and Aqualad, is.
 * Kari Wahlgren is Vicki Vale, which begs the question: When did Raine Sage become a news reporter?
 * Rick D. Wasserman (Thor) is.
 * Chris Cox (Captain Atom, Hawkeye) is Deadshot.
 * Killer Croc is now voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who is certainly no stranger to voicing reptiles.
 * Shout-Out:
 * The entire idea of turning a city into a prison and asylum and allowing the inmates to create their own world harkens to John Carpenter's Escape From New York.
 * Wonder City is a ruined, Zeerust model utopia powered by Applied Phlebotinum that eventually drove the inhabitants crazy. Sound familiar?
 * When you return to the Steel Mill, Joker gives a lengthy speech about "your favorite TV show" - Lost ("You've been with it through the ups, the downs, the contrived coincidences, and then you wondered: why did it end up in a church?!").
 * Also, Riddler's "challenges" heavily resemble the traps used in the Saw films.
 * And it doesn't stop there: he introduces each challenge with a video featuring himself explaining the rules and on at least one occasion, refers to said challenge as a "game", two things Jigsaw is famous for.
 * Somewhere between a shout out and a Mythology Gag, one of the buildings you clear snipers from during the Vikki Vale mission is called Dini Towers, also one of the 13th Precinct cops is called Miller.
 * Zsasz also mentions the Sprang bridge.
 * When Catwoman opens the suitcase she was looking for, it emits a bright light.
 * The plot itself borrows ideas from Knightfall and No Man's Land, among other famous Batman stories. A lot of the Joker/Batman dynamic is reminiscent of The Killing Joke.