Batman/Characters/Arkham Series: Difference between revisions

 

==== [[Batman]]/Bruce Wayne ====

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** [[Broken Ace]]: Especially noticeable in Arkham City, when Batman wants to {{spoiler|save Talia from the Joker, rather than stop Strange's plan to kill, at the very least, thousands.}}

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Arkham City has a number of [[DLC]] costumes, including 70s Neal Adams, [[The Dark Knight Returns]], [[Batman: The Animated Series|Animated]], [[Batman Beyond]]<ref>It's still Bruce in the suit, not Terry</ref>, [[Grant Morrisons Batman|Batman Inc.]], and [[Sinestro Corps War|Sinestro Corps]].

** [[Badass in Distress]]: {{spoiler|Temporarily when captured by the Joker in the beginning of Arkham City, sort of the entirety of the game on a smaller scale, and definitely during his capture by Harley in "Harley Quinn's Revenge".}}

** [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Bruce Wayne Held Hostage]]: How he ends up in Arkham City.

* [[Building Swing]]: With his [[Grappling Hook Gun]].

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Batman only has [[Thou Shall Not Kill|one rule]]. Everything else is fair game.

* [[The Cowl]]

'''Batman''': I noticed. }}

* [[The Determinator]]: "I'll never let [[The Joker|you]] win. ''Never''."

* [[Genre Savvy]]: It's Batman, what do you expect?

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Listen to the things he says to the Riddler's informants (not to mention knocking them out anyways).

'''Batman''': {{spoiler|"'''I'll make it.'''"}} }}

** He also fights off the Mad Hatter's mind control. It doesn't matter if it's in his head or his blood, Batman will fight it.

* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: Batman can question Riddler's henchmen in this manner, provided the player is close enough to interact with a nearby ledge. Also his preferred method of questioning {{spoiler|Quincy Sharp}} in a cutscene.

* [[Hurting Hero]]: He shows signs of this a third of the way into ''Arkham City'', and he gets even worse in ''Harley Quinn's Revenge''.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: He can even keep inventions he jury-rigs himself on the fly (the REC) or gets from others (the Freeze Blasts and Freeze Clusters) on him, even though his utility belt isn't even built for that.

* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]

* {{spoiler|[[Master Swordsman]]: Wields Talia's scimitar against Clayface.}}

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: He's not as fast as [[Catwoman]], [[Robin]], or [[Nightwing]], but he's much stronger and has higher maximum upgraded [[Body Armor as Hit Points|body armor]].

* [[Not So Above It All]]: Batman's pride is a serious issue; a large section of the problems he faces in City could have been avoided if he had simply gone with the flow. He stubbornly refuses help from anyone even when it would clearly help, like when {{spoiler|Robin offers to help him find Ra's al Ghul}}. He refuses to take orders from anyone; the entire boss fight with Mr. Freeze could have been avoided if he had simply agreed to {{spoiler|get Nora}}. Finally, he is so dead set on doing what he wants, he was willing to {{spoiler|let Arkham City and everyone in it burn in order to get Talia, that Alfred has to cut off access to his Satellites to get him back on track}}.

** [[Fridge Brilliance|This happens after getting injected with Joker's blood.]] See [[Sanity Slippage]].

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: As Bruce Wayne.

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Can be pulled off. However, the version most fans are familiar with is saved for a cutscene near the end of the first game.

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: It's implied that being injected with Joker's blood is taking a toll on Batman's sanity. For starters, when he defeated Mr. Freeze, he hallucinates Joker's laughing head on Freeze's body.

** {{spoiler|Goes into full throttle after Joker's death. Throughout the DLC, he is much more gruff, his internal monologue is entirely about the goal at hand and his threats to the informants lose any playfulness. Hell, he even begins to speak much more like a [[Guttural Growler]].}}

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Don't bother trying a [[Hannibal Lecture]] on him. Just don't. He's kind of sick of it by now. Bones will break.

* [[Technical Pacifist]]

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: However rough he is on criminals, Batman would never intentionally kill one of them, {{spoiler|or let the Joker die while it was within his power to save him.}}

 

==== [[The Joker]] ====

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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Almost spoken word for word to Batman {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words|as he kicks the bucket]]}}.

* [[Are We There Yet?]]: Asks this in the prequel comic to the first game, while handcuffed in the Batmobile. Batman's response is [[Offhand Backhand|simple but effective]].

** Yet again in the prequel comic to the ''second'' game, as he's being transferred down the hallway while strapped in a wheelchair. The guard [[Deadpan Snarker|takes it in stride]]. {{spoiler|Probably because he and the boys were planning to [[Cold-Blooded Torture|slice Joker up]] [[Genocide Backfire|for all the guards he killed last time...]]}}

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Enforced at the end of the first game where he pulls a [[One-Winged Angel]]. Otherwise, he's more than capable to beat up a room of guards, including Cash and Gordon. Next to Batman, though, he's an [[Elite Mooks|Elite Mook]] with [[Contractual Boss Immunity]], or at least {{spoiler|Clayface's portrayal of his fighting ability as such was enough to convince Batman.}}

* [[Backstab Backfire]]: {{spoiler|After losing his chances at immortality, Joker begs for the cure. Batman tells him that he'll most likely start committing crimes again anyways. Joker, interpreting it as a refusal, then stabs Batman in the shoulder, causing Batman to drop the cure vial, which shatters on the floor and ruins any chances of Joker's survival.}}

** {{spoiler|It gets even worse when Batman says immediately after the vial was broken that he still would have given Joker the cure.}}

* [[Batman Gambit]]: The events of the first game could've been avoided entirely or drastically changed if someone had put proper handcuffs behind Joker's back, or simply left him in full restraints.

** Another possibility would be when he yells "boo" at the medic, while 4 or 5 guards are pointing rifles. If just one of those guards had [[Boom! Headshot!|overreacted...]]

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Ensemble]]: With Hugo Strange in Arkham City.}}

* [[Body Horror]]: Big time with this incarnation. In ''Arkham Asylum'', he {{spoiler|takes a huge Titan dose and transforms into a huge, hideous Titan monster with his spine poking out of his back, his ribs protruding from his sides, and a huge claw on each finger}}. And in ''Arkham City'', he's extremely sick, and his face is one large, disgusting rash.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Let's see: he organized the development of a secret Titan project, arranged for the supervillains he needed to be at Arkham during his plan, arranged for Blackgate to be burned down, and planned his own recapture and escape, doing most of this from his own jail cell. After his escape, he manipulated Batman into wandering around Arkham until he was ready for their final confrontation.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]

* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: The only consistent thing in all his back stories is Batman.

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Irony]]: Although he finds it [[Actually Pretty Funny|kinda funny]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Distressed Dude]]}}: {{spoiler|The aforementioned run-in with the guard and his crew. He's only rescued [[Just in Time|at the very last second]] by an [[Dressing as the Enemy|incognito]] Harley Quinn}}.

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: {{spoiler|He just couldn't see that Batman would have given him the cure even after all of the horrible things he's done.}}

* [[Evil Laugh]]: What'd you expect?

* [[Fighting Clown]]

* [[Foreshadowing]]: He pretty much {{spoiler|spoils the ending of Arkham City}} if you choose not to jump out of the church immediately when he activates the bombs.

* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]: Pun aside, The Joker's last words were a weak, amused chuckle and claiming that Batman's statement that despite what he continuously does, he still would have saved Joker had he not attempted to knife Batman in the back, was actually pretty very funny.}}

* [[Groin Attack]]: Some of the Joker's finishers invoke this trope.

* [[Laughing Mad]]: It's [[The Joker]]. What did you expect?

* [[Lean and Mean]]: A more typical example in the first game, but once he falls ill, his body absolutely withers away.

* [[Monster Clown]]: As well as his normal state, he becomes a ''literal'' one at the end of the first game, after shooting himself with the Titan formula. His appearance in the second game also seems to come close to a literal interpretation of the trope, given his disease-induced deformities.

* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: He is fully capable of beating up (and killing) several guards and security officers at once, all of whom having heavier frames than him, as well as body armor.

* [[Absolute Cleavage]]

** [[Vapor Wear]]: She is obviously not wearing a bra.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III or IV, at least after choosing to save Batman. At first she's an...

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type I.

* [[Bait the Dog]]: She strikes a deal with Ivy to retrieve her orchid in return to clearing a way to Strange's vault (where the orchid is), {{spoiler|only to drop the plant on the floor and crushing it.}}

* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]

* [[Combat Stilettos]]

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: While she's still not evil, her actions show that her morals aren't that up to par yet. She even comments about when she started getting a conscience and actually hesitated whether to let Batman die or not.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: You thought Alfred was bad? Her whole dialogue oozes sass as well as her thoughts.

* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: There are secret doors in Wayne Manor that Catwoman can't use.

* [[Femme Fatale]]

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In an interesting conversation found on the interview tapes, Hugo Strange comes to the conclusion that Selina might suffer from this more than even she is aware of. From his analysis, she despises men because her father abandoned her, and this is the reason that she can't come to trust Batman. Still, she loves him and seeks his approval, and the way she goes about this is to get his attention by stealing and dressing seductively.

* [[Green Eyes]]: The game made them particularly striking.

* [[Moral Dilemma]] <--> [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]]. While Batman isn't exactly her ''friend'', she does meet this trope twice. The first one, subtly, consisted of helping/saving him when he was confronting the Joker or getting into the vault. It wasn't difficult. The second one was much more grave, and she either had to save Batman from the verge of death or get out of Arkham City with the loot she recently gained. She placed more consideration for this decision.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Parental Substitute]]: To Holly Robinson. In her interview tapes, Hugo Strange draws parallels between her relationship with Holly to Batman's relationship with Robin.

* [[Pungeon Master]]

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: His [[DLC]] costumes include [[Batman: The Animated Series|Animated]] and [[Kingdom Come|Red Robin]].

* [[Badass Cape]]: Though less badass and versatile of a cape than Batman's, his still is used in stun maneuvers and gliding.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Saves Batman from Ra's Al Ghul's assassins. Also {{spoiler|saves Batman from asphyxiation in "Harley Quinn's Revenge"}}.

* [[Brought to You by The Letter "S"|Brought To You By The Letter R]]: He also draws an R when spraying Explosive Gel.

** [[Shield-Bash]]: He can also hit enemies with it.

* [[One-Scene Wonder|One Scene Boy Wonder]]: Appears in one single cutscene of the game's story, in which he takes down two of the League of Assassin's members confronting Batman, before being given a sample of Bruce's blood to analyze and being told he's needed in Gotham while Batman deals with Arkham City

* [[Sidekick]]

* [[Simple Staff]]: Noted because Tim Drake is often touted as the best staff user in DC. It shows in his combat.

 

==== [[Nightwing]]/Dick Grayson ====

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* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: One of his counters involves doing this to two thugs at once by jabbing them both in the gut with his escrima sticks.

* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: As a counterpoint to [[Perpetual Frowner|Batman]], Nightwing only looks grim in his 3D model.

* [[She Fu]]: Played with; while his acrobatics [[Female Gaze|show off his body]] only slightly less than Catwoman's, his fighting style is otherwise pretty methodical. He'll do flashy flips and flourishes a ''lot'', but half the time during and every second in between is spent just [[Spam Attack|laying into thugs]] in the [[Combat Pragmatist|fastest and most effective possible way]]. Occasionally taking breaks for his [[Rule of Fun|many wrestling maneuvers]].

* [[Shock and Awe]]: His escrima sticks are electrified in this game. And it is ''ever'' so satisfying to [[Who's Laughing Now?|use them on the mooks]].

[two minutes and five unconscious thugs later]<br />

'''Thug #6:''' [''absolutely terrified''] Nightwing?! Are you there?! ''What are you?!'' }}

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Will occasionally do a head-scissors takedown if near the proper environment. Will perform a release German Suplex as a noisy take down in Predator gameplay.