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==== [[Batman]]/Bruce Wayne ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kevin Conroy]] in ''Asylum'', ''City'', and ''Knight'', Roger Craig Smith in ''Origins''}}
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type II in the first game, Type III in Arkham City.
* [[The Ace]]: His character bio even makes sure you know that he's in peak human physical and mental condition.
** [[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>
* [[Badass]]: It's the Goddamn Batman, what were you expecting?
** [[Badass Baritone]]: Provided by Kevin Conroy in ''Arkham Asylum'', ''Arkham City'', and ''Arkham Knight'', while Roger Craig Smith voiced him in ''Arkham Origins''.
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'''Batman''': ...It's ''me'', remember? }}
** In Arkham City, Alfred comments on Batman's constant equipment drop requests, asking if he considered a larger utility belt. Batman says that he ''did'', but that it was too large and slowed him down.
** One of the most impressive feats of [[Crazy Prepared
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: The first thing that he did as soon as he got his Batman gear back was to rescue Catwoman from Two-Face. He also has some of this with Talia.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Gains a more sardonic edge to his usual straight-laced demeanor in the second installment, likely due to stress.
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==== [[The Joker]] ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Mark Hamill]] in ''Asylum'' and ''City'', [[Troy Baker]] in ''Origins''}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]: He created the Titan formula that made him sick, and his final attack on Batman destroys the last of the cure.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]:
{{quote|'''Joker:''' [[It Makes Sense in Context|You're making me late for my spa treatment]]! {{spoiler|I mean, it's not like you've got a girl to save anymore, is it?}}.<ref>Note: {{spoiler|Shortly before the Clayface fight, he killed Talia}}</ref>
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: At the end of the second game. Confirmed several times in "Harley Quinn's Revenge" as well.}}
* [[Large Ham]]: A [[Foil|deliberate contrast]] to [[The Stoic|Batman]].
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==== [[Catwoman (comics)|Catwoman]]\Selina Kyle ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Grey DeLisle]]}}
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]
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==== [[Robin]]/Tim Drake ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Troy Baker]]}}
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* [[Action Genre Hero Guy]]
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* [[Domino Mask]]
* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: Inverted. One of the cops he rescues from Harley comments that he expected Robin to be ''shorter''.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Mythology Gag|Robin]] [[Visual Pun|Hood]].<ref>In his very first appearance, Dick Grayson said his name was "Robin, as in Robin Hood...not robbing hoods!"... hey, it was [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|1940]]</ref>
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]
* [[Grappling Hook Gun]]: Unlike when Batman or Nightwing uses it on [[Mooks]], he pulls himself toward ''them'' for a kick, not vice versa for a punch.
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==== [[Nightwing]]/Dick Grayson ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Quinton Flynn (Only grunts in Arkham City), Josh Keaton in ''Origins'' (As Robin)}}
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* [[Baby Got Back]]: This being [[Memetic Sex God|Dick Grayson]] we're talking about, having a rather ample ass is no surprise.
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* [[Downloadable Content]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Escrima sticks.
* [[Flash Step]]: An odd quirk in his attack animations coupled with the speed of his combos will have him, when fighting multiple enemies in Free-flow combat, occasionally hit an enemy, then take a single step that transports him across the room (sometimes up to 30
* [[Grappling Hook Gun]]
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
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==== [[Harley Quinn]]/Harleen Quinzel ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Arleen Sorkin in Arkham Asylum, [[Tara Strong]] in Arkham City, Arkham Origins, and Arkham Knight}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy]]: Following the end of Arkham City, a psychiatrist says, in his professional opinion, that she has [[Sophisticated As Hell|"completely lost it"]] following [[The Joker]]'s death. [[Even Evil Has Standards|Her own mooks agree.]] Her [[Stalker Shrine]] to him kind of proves them right.}}
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==== Killer Croc/Waylon Jones ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Steve Blum]] in ''Asylum'' and ''City'', Khary Payton in ''Origins''.}}
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: His "cell" in Arkham is one of these, located deep underneath the Asylum. Of course, given how ''big'' Croc is, it'd have to be. He also lurks in Arkham City's humongous sewer during the time that game takes place.
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==== Victor Zsasz ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Danny Jacobs}}
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Dear GOD.
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* [[Dirty Coward]]: His behavior during the story of the first game definitely has shades of this, as he absolutely refuses to confront Batman physically on his own, opting to take a hostage during both of their encounters. Given that he seems capable of killing guards with relative ease, though, it's more likely that [[Know When to Fold'Em|he's aware of his limitations]].
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: He starts [[The Immodest Orgasm|moaning in anticipation]] when {{spoiler|preparing to kill Dr. Young.}} He also behaves this way in ''Arkham City'' to his captives when you're sneaking around in his hideout.
* [[Evil Phone]]: His [[Sidequest]] involves a number of them, through which he delivers his sick [[Motive Rant
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Averted, as he tries to invoke this during his phone calls with Batman by trying to make him appear pitiable and that he needs to kill due to his insanity. However, a quick visit in his lair proves that the psycho ''enjoys'' what he does to people as he's boasting to his captives about how slowly and painfully he's going to kill them, showing that at heart he's a just a monster who kills for fun.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Just like his comics counterpart, he has a collection of tally scorings, that ''he carved into his own skin'', that cover almost his ''entire body''. His design in the game seems to be intended to show this off as much as possible.
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==== The Riddler/Edward Nigma ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Wally Wingert}}
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: He mentions that his dad was an abusive asshole who would beat him regularly.
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==== The Scarecrow/Jonathan Crane ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Dino Andrade in ''Asylum'', John Noble in ''Knight''}}
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* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: Appears as a building-sized version of himself during Batman's hallucinations. Getting seen by him ends badly.
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==== Bane ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Fred Tatasciore]] in ''Asylum'' and ''City'', J.B. Blanc in ''Origins''}}
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* [[Badass]]: Made clear in ''Origins'' where he isn't quite hopped up on Venom and Titan as he proves to be quite the deadly adversary for Batman.
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==== Poison Ivy/Pamela Isley ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Tasia Valenza}}
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Wears a mostly unbuttoned prisoner's shirt which exposes this and a whole lot of cleavage.
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==== Clayface/Basil Karlo ====
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{{quote|Voiced by: Rick D. Wasserman (as Clayface), [[Tom Kane]] (as Commissioner Gordon and Quincy Sharp), Duane R. Shepard Sr. (as Aaron Cash), {{spoiler|[[Mark Hamill]] (as Joker)}}}}
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* {{spoiler|[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Over the course of his boss fight, he gets blown up several times, frozen and chopped into small pieces, ripped apart from the inside out, and then finally thrown into the molten Lazarus Pit. It's still unknown if he died or not.}}
* {{spoiler|[[True Final Boss]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Unexpected]]: We go from Joker's machinations, [[Gambit Pileup
* [[Up to Eleven]]: {{spoiler|The largest humanoid boss in the series, and a candidate for the fastest. Also necessitates the most extensive beatdown.}}
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: His whole gimmick focuses on this.
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==== Two-Face/Harvey Dent ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Troy Baker]]}}
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: He's been shown to be teaming up with Harley Quinn and Penguin in the upcoming ''Arkham Knight'', as most of Batman's enemies are confirmed to be teaming up to take him down which means that he could end up with a bigger role than before.
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==== Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot ====
{{quote|Voiced by [[Nolan North]]}}
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: He suffers a ''lot'' of violence at the hands of Batman, whether it's having his hand broken and getting punched out right after that, being uppercut off of a balcony, having the tar beaten out of him by Batman at Mach ten, having Mr. Freeze stomp on his broken hand (And keep in mind, Freeze's boot had ''spikes'' on it), and end up shoved into one of his display cases. And all of it is completely deserved.
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==== Talia al Ghul ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Stana Katic}}
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Hoo boy.
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* [[Easter Egg]]: If you visit Day's cell in Arkham City in certain holidays (or mess with the system clock), he will tell you a story about a crime he committed on that particular day.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Subverted: Although he's killed people (including his own parents), he's overall somewhat of a nice guy, as he doesn't antagonize anyone, much less Batman.
** Until you find out why he's actually in that cell in the first
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: He's very calm and polite when you speak to him. However, hearing about some of his crimes makes you wish you could break his other leg.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: His cell at Arkham Asylum and Arkham City.
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==== Mr. Freeze/Victor Fries ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Maurice LaMarche]]}}
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* [[An Ice Person]]
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==== Ra's Al Ghul ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Dee Bradley Baker]]}}
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* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Always refers to Batman as "Detective" as a sign of respect.
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==== Mad Hatter/Jervis Tetch ====
{{quote|Voiced by: Peter MacNicol}}
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* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: His targeted Alices are, according to him, all blonde.
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Fred Tatasciore]] (Hammer) and [[Steve Blum]] (Sickle)}}
* [[The Brute
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Like Quincy Sharp.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: A unique case, as both are criminials, but under different kinds of bosses.
* [[Conjoined Twins]]: They used to be, but had themselves separated over political differences. The Communist brother went to work for Joker, the Capitalist brother joined up with Penguin.
* [[Drop the Hammer]] / [[Sinister Scythe|Sinister Sickle]]: The Joker Brother ("Mister Hammer") uses the hammer and the Penguin Brother ("Sickle") uses the sickle.
* [[Elite Mook
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Handicapped Badass
* [[Husky Russkie
* [[Tattooed Crook
== Arkham Asylum/City Staff ==
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==== Quincy Sharp/{{spoiler|The Spirit of Arkham}} ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tom Kane]]}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy]]}}: {{spoiler|He wishes to kill and/or torure all of the inmates at Arkham. And while this may seem understandable, even pragmatic, with the likes of [[Complete Monster|The Joker]] and [[Omnicidal Maniac|Poison Ivy]], he also beat a random inmate to death just to vent some frustration.}}
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==== Professor Hugo Strange ====
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Corey Burton]]}}
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* [[A God Am I]]: The comic makes it clear that he has a God Complex. At one point in the game, he goes on to rant about how he'll rain fire and brimstone upon all criminals.
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Cree Summer]]}}
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Her notes on the Ratcatcher show that she doesn't believe that Otis Flannegan can control
* [[The Atoner]]
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Or at least referred to as such in-universe.
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* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Not only is she a psychiatrist, apparently she's also a highly qualified biochemist capable of reverse engineering Bane's Venom and then refining it to create TITAN.
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}
* [[The Shrink]]: Dr Young wavers on the line between Type 1 and Type 2; though her experiments might classify her as a harmful shrink, she's predominantly well-intentioned in other instances. Judging by her patient notes, she's also remarkably ineffectual at treating the inmates, and even worse at performing basic diagnoses: the most [[Egregious]] example of this can be found in Scarecrow, who successfully convinced her that he was
** For that matter, she thought Batman's "multiple disorders" were driven by, as detailed from bonus material in the collector's edition of the first game, genetic predisposition and substance abuse. It doesn't help she's getting her info from the inmates themselves.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: She thinks very highly of herself as a psychiatrist, and thinks only she is capable of curing most of the big- name patients at Arkham. For good measure, her notes reveal that she's more than happy to ignore Batman's reports.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Batman Arkham Series]]
[[Category:Characters]]
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