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** This ties in with something I had noticed before. The inmates, no matter how you took them down, never die. Even if you tie them upside down for a few minutes, allowing all their blood to go to their brain, and then drop them down on their necks/heads 10 feet, they don't die! Then it hit me, Batman has gone beyond Genre Savvy, he KNOWS he's in a T game and that he can't kill, so he DOESN'T CARE! He knows that he's not allowed to kill, so he can do whatever he wants to take them down!
*** Better Fridge Brilliance, as I saw it, was that Batman already shut down the sewer to prevent Joker from dumping Titan down it. The only affected one would have been Croc!
* Why does Arkham Asylum oblige the Batman by having [[Air Vent Passageway|such big air ducts]]? Because Bruce Wayne is on the board of directors and is a major financial contributor to the asylum.
** Though it helps that it's a very old building and their ventilation systems tend to be unnecessarily large by modern standards, sometimes even big enough to actually allow people to crawl through.
* The Joker in this game combines features from every previous version of the character -- which is hilariously appropriate for Joker, who is not a man with a past but more a force of nature with a mercurial past and many names, none of which are truly his.
** A fun fridge horror game to play. Go attack some goons with Suicide Collars on, taking careful note of the mechanical laughing noise the collar alarms make. Now go watch the [[Batman: The Animated Series]] episode "The Joker's Wild" and listen to the mechanical laughter the giant Joker sign on the casino makes. Remember, [[Mark Hamill]] [[Hey, It's That Voice!|voices]] [[The Joker]] in both ''Arkham Asylum'' AND ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. Congratulations, you are now seeing the Animated Series' Joker doing everything that the Joker does in ''Arkham Asylum'', which is ''way'' creepier than anything the Scarecrow Nightmare segments could cook up.
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** Of course, there was that one armed guard on the police boat waiting for Gordon, whose helmet obscured his/her/its face, who said, 'Time to go, sir'. Armed mook? Harley? You decide...
* Two things about the puppet Scarface:
** One: Joker carved a smile on his face, [[The Dark Knight Saga|Heath Ledger]] style. I was wondering why he would do this to the puppet, until I remembered the puppet's name. SCAR-FACE.
** Two: One wonders where the Ventriloquist was during this whole ordeal,and why he wouldn't have Scarface with him. Then I remembered something in one of the Spirit Of Arkham Messages {{spoiler|saying that Quincy Sharp beat a paranoid schizophrenic man to death. That WAS the Ventriloquist. This would explain how Warden Sharp HAD the puppet in his office in the first place.}}
*** Actually, in the [[Black Mesa Commute]] of the game's start, Sharpe says that Two-Face and Ventriloquist were out and supposedly reformed. But since Two-Face is reported to be robbing a bank at the end that might be true for the above about ventriloquist.
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* A somewhat meta example. On this game's Headscratchers page, people wonder about Joker's 'marzipan and kitten' bombs, and others mention that it would be in-character of Joker to have 99 kitten bombs and one real one. And I realized something PROVES that, perhaps deliberately; think of the 'presents' Joker leaves at certain parts. Most of the time, they've got harmless (if annoying) chattering teeth...but some have a knife-wielding psycho.
* If you think about it, [[The Joker]] is right: Batman IS as crazy as the inmates incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. How else could he[[Crazy Prepared|be so well-prepared]] to battle the super-criminals of Gotham if he weren't just as crazy as them? And, on a certain level, Batman realizes this. His personal No Kill policy is so strict because he knows he's teetering on the edge. He also fights crime as hard as he does because he doesn't want anyone else to end up on that edge alongside him.
* At the end of the Scarecrow hallucination where Batman gets locked up by Joker, the game gives you a fake [[Nonstandard Game Over]] where you're told to "Use the middle stick to dodge the Joker's gunshot." There is no middle stick on either Xbox360 or [[
** This wouldn't work for the PC version, in which the player receives the instruction to "tilt the mouse" instead. Although that does sound strangely in-character for the Joker.
* [[The Stinger]] at the end of the game shows one of Batman's Rogues Gallery grabbing a crate of Titan. Bane on Titan? Meh. More of the same. But imagine what might happen if Croc gets the drug. [[Fridge Horror|Or Scarecrow]]. ~ Surgoshan
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== [[Fridge Horror]] ==
[[Fridge Horror]]: Joker was trying to drive Batman insane. [[Gone Horribly Right|If he did]] they would most likely have an [[Ax Crazy]] Batman loose on the island. Batman is already a [[One-Man Army]] in this game. Driven mad and hopped up on Titan, he would rip the mooks apart and hunt down Joker like nothing you've ever seen.
** '''Joker''': Guards! Guards, save me!
** '''Batman''': ([[Slasher Smile]]) What guards?
** And he's Batman. No way they're keeping him trapped in a room.
* I was trying to figure out why Maxie Zeus has his cell hidden behind a wall. Then I started to read the Ghost of Arkham's messages and about his treatment of the insane. HE'S LEAVING ZEUS TO STARVE TO DEATH!
** I noticed that. I found it very unsettling, let me tell you.
** Alternatively, consider that Maxie Zeus' cell is conveniently located right next to the electro-shock therapy treatment. Could it be that Warden Sharp or others decided to indulge Zeus' delusions with particularly extreme electro-shock therapy, and have tried to conceal any evidence that he was ever there [[Fridge Horror|for some nefarious reason]]?
*** "Even I was shocked when I saw how Maxie Zeus was treated." The Riddler already knows exactly what they're doing to the unfortunate Maxie Zeus. He spells it out for you.
* A mix of horror and brilliance: Poison Ivy said the plants were in pain, only to later realize they were "evolving", actually mutating, due to the Titan. There's no indication Joker caused that plant to grow before using Titan on Ivy, he even ''says'' he was expecting a 40 foot killer plant to appear. This means that: Joker knew that plant was there somehow and used Titan on Ivy to activate it, even giving her a ''second dose'' to speed things up, and that the plant was ''already'' growing from Dr. Young's experiments, suggesting that even if Joker didn't do anything, at some point, the plant would've gone nuts.
* How, you might ask, did Joker take over the Asylum if Frank Boles was the only free man he had inside? ''Note: The following is all in spoiler tags, because it deals with the [[Bonus Content]] you get from www.arkhamcare.com and thus might not be known to people who've played the game.'' {{spoiler|The Riddler helped him, that's how. By duping a person with arkhamcare login information (namely you), Riddler managed to take control of Arkham's entire computer network, thereby enabling Joker to turn the electronic security against the Asylum staff. Joker goes on with his mad scheme, Riddler walks out free and taunts Batman from an apartment back in Gotham proper, and Batman gets to suffer for your stupidity.}}
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