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The Game in General

• This exchange in one of the Riddler's Challenge room.

Hostage: Why doesn't he just tell you what he wants? Batman: [flatly] ...Because he's INSANE.

• Also, in one of the Riddler's interview tapes, Nigma receives a magnificent Take That from Strange, who is explaining the strategy he used to learn Batman's identity.

Riddler: I know you were lying, Strange. There's no way that you could have figured it out! It's some kind of trick. It must be! Strange: Oh, I use no tricks, no childish puzzles. I simply created a psychological profile of the man most likely to be the Batman, and then matched it against the most logical candidate. I was right, of course. Riddler: Well, who is he?! Strange: Ah, but that would spoil the game for you, wouldn't it? Riddler: You must tell me! I implore you Strange! I- Strange: Really, Edward? If I could figure it out, it must be child's play for you. Riddler: But I... I... Strange: Interesting. Tell me Edward, how is the Riddler like a blank dictionary? Riddler: ... Strange: You're both at a loss for words.

• Batman saves Jack Ryder from some inmates.

Jack Ryder: The name's Ryder, Jack Ryder. Batman: The T.V. reporter. Jack Ryder: Yeah, you a fan? Batman: No.

• This video, matching gameplay footage from the trailers with 60s Batman music and effects to hilarious effect.
• Joker's interview tape with Hugo Strange gives us this gem:

Strange: My name is Professor Hugo Strange. And you are...? Joker: Two-Face. ...Catwoman? *giggles* Batman!

• Two-Face shooting Batman in the courtroom and shouting "Objection... overruled!" Way funnier than the last time he shot Batman...
• "Two guns, bitch!"
• This exchange:

Batman: I figured you could use my help, Selina. Catwoman: You're right. I think I chipped a nail back there.

• • That's funny enough, but much later in the game the lines are reversed between the two after Catwoman helps Batman. Batman delivers it pretty poorly, however, and Catwoman calls him on it.
• When Batman confronts The Penguin at the museum, the Penguin accidentally (presumably) hits one of his own Mooks with his umbrella in the crotch.
  • Better yet, if you die in that room (and on harder difficulties you probably will), you get to watch it over and over - and it gets funnier every time.
• Batman punching the (significantly-shorter) Penguin off his feet and into a pit while a dramatic chord swells is great for unintentional hilarity.
  • Even better when you truly defeat him. It's hilarious to just see Batman wail on the little guy at super speed.
  • Even before those moments, at the beginning of the game you not only get to break Penguin's hand, but you can also walk over to him after K.O'ing his Mooks and punch him out in a way that causes him to hilariously spill onto the floor out cold. This just isn't Penguin's night.
• This line from the first Riddler Room:

Riddler: Well done, Dark Knight! You figured out how to open a door!

• The first time you encounter Harley, she's cartwheeling and back-flipping down to you. She's actually trying to ATTACK YOU. If you counter her kick, you fling her to the side. If you don't? You get hit in the face, and it seems like you're about to have a fight with Harley...until you take her down in one punch anyway.
  • After she leaves, four of the mooks with her are pointing guns at Batman. The following exchange is priceless.

Mook 1: Just walk away, and everything will end okay. Mook 2: End OK? She. Left us. Alone. With. Batman.

• • And then they start giving Batman ideas:

Mook 2: What do we do? It's not like he breaks out of death traps...oh wait, he does! Mook 1: Relax, we've got guns. What's he gonna do? Throw a smoke bomb, knock you out and hang me from the ceiling? *Tutorial: Throw Smoke Pellet.

• • Tragically, none of the four thugs in the following predator tutorial are designed to be taken out with an inverted takedown (which hangs them from the ceiling).
    • Not designed to be, no. But you can take one of them down this way if you swing to the third gargoyle on the left fast enough.
• If you go to the Iceberg Lounge early, Batman can knock on the door and a mook will peek out. Grumpily asking what you want before realising who he's talking to.
• When Vicki Vale reports on Bruce getting involved with Arkham City, she introduces him as "millionaire Bruce Wayne", only to have him interrupt with "It's billionaire, Vicki. Millionaires are so last year."
• In the epilogue, Catwoman can talk to various villains/characters. A highlight among them is her conversation with Mr. Freeze.

Catwoman: Well, isn't this nice. I guess Batman found your wife after all. Mr. Freeze: Yes. My beautiful Nora is now safe. Catwoman: So is now a good time to talk to you about an idea I had to steal the Pharaoh's diamond from the Egyptian museum? It's really hot there and, well, all this latex really makes a girl sweat... Mr. Freeze: (Deadpan) Leave me with my wife, Catwoman.

• • Her exchanges with Ivy before, during, and after her boss fight in Episode 2 are hilarious, but the one commenting on how she's controlling some of the inmates with pheromones takes the cake.

Catwoman: Hey, Pammy, here's an idea! If you want a boyfriend, how about trying the dating route? Beats this voodoo crap. Catwoman: Well, what do we have here? Weird, out of place plants...check. Mindless, hypnotized henchman...check. The oh so subtle odor of rotten pumpkin...check. Looks like I've found the entrance to Ivy's lair.

• When Batman and Hugo Strange finally meet face to face, Strange gives him a Hannibal Lecture. Batman simply headbutts him in mid-sentence.
• Any fight with one of the Abramovici twins becomes this if you use the stun gun, which makes enemies flail around with their weapon when hit. Couple this with their size in a room crowded with goons, and Hilarity Ensues.
• After you have capture the Riddler, you can be a jerk by standing in front of him. You can also gag/ungag Harley later in the game to hear humorous result.
• When the enemies start pulling out sniper rifles, complete with laser sights, upon your return approach to the Steel Mill:

Mook: Nothin's gettin' past me. cue Batman sneaking up behind them and knocking them out, or just plain pulling them off the ledge.

• After you rescued Aaron Cash, you can ask him about Protocol 10.

Cash: Is that some kind of hemmorhoid cream? Batman: I doubt it.

• When you pursue a side mission in the Steel Mill, you come across a powerless elevator with some mooks trapped inside, trying to get it to work. Have fun listening to their panic when you use the Remote Electrical Charge to make the elevator go up and down.
• The Joker phone calls. Especially when he gets mad that you won't pick up. Even better is the fact that during his fourth phone message, he flat out spams Batman with phone calls over and over again.
• When rescuing the 5th Riddler hostage, one of the taunts the Riddler throws is this gem:

Riddler: Oh come now. Surely "the great Batman" can progress without cheating and looking for answers online.

• In a very dark sense, this line from The Joker literally minutes after killing Talia Al-Ghul:

Joker: You're making me late for my spa treatment! I mean, it's not like you've got a girl to save anymore, is it? ...oh, I'm sorry! Too soon?

• Another Black Comedy line:

Joker: He's tearing you guys to pieces like a puppy in a blender! PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER!

• Batman threatening Riddler informants is pretty hilarious, this line, for example:

Batman: Please don't lie to me. I just cleaned the last informant's blood on my face.

• Joker explains to his gang members how he's been cured, but then compares the whole thing to the revelation of the mystery on a TV show. Then he follows that up with, "How come it all ended in a church?"
• Solving Riddles in the game will reward you with little bits of backstory about what took place between Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. One of these stories reveals that Joker and Harley actually escaped before being transferred to Arkham City in an attempt to keep away from it. Instead, they stole a boat, and after being chased by Batman, wound up sinking said boat and having to swim to shore, winding up in Arkham City anyway.
• Batman's dying, surrounded by assassins, but still manages to crack wise when he get's slapped in the face by Talia Al Gul.

"Hello, Talia."

• At the conclusion of the "Fragile Alliance" sidequest to destroy the Titan containers with Bane, this happens:

Batman: I've destroyed the containers, Bane. Bane: Good. TYGER Mook: Hand over the Titan! Bane: Help me, Batman! We must not allow these puppets to take the Titan! [at least fifteen TYGER guards attack; Bane and Batman take them out in short order.] Batman: [not even out of breath] As I was saying--

• • While you can complete the quest in the Playable Epilogue, it's funnier as well as awesome if you do it before the finale, because it means that Batman is at death's door and still easily kicks the crap out of over a dozen trained guards.
  • Even better than that is that after you've trapped Bane in an elevator and destroyed the Titan he was stockpiling, he'll beg for Batman to let him out. Batman's response? "No." bluntly delivered in a tone one would usually reserve for a disobedient child. And if you've played Batman: Arkham Origins and gone back to this game, it's hilariously jarring to see Bane go from a calculating brutish genius who quickly deduced Batman's identity and almost killed Alfred by setting Wayne Manor ablaze to being a druggie in need of a quick fix who is trapped behind a mere elevator grate.
• Even after being punched off a balcony and knocked senseless by Batman, Penguin still can't resist gloating as he's thrown at the feet of Mr. Freeze. Victor isn't in the mood to listen.

Penguin: Welllll, look who it is. Mr Fr... (Freeze stamps his boot onto Cobblepot's broken hand, making a sickening crunching noise.) Penguin: AAAAAAIIIIGH! AAAAIIIIGGHHH!!

• • Also, note that Freeze's boot has spikes for walking on ice.
• Alfred brings his A game in his role of Servile Snarker. Some of his comments are absolute gems.

Batman: How can I get into the steel mill? Alfred: I suppose you had tried the front door.

• While not in the main game, the Iceberg Lounge VIP Room Challenge Map has Killer Croc in the background, smoking a cigar or delicately handling a drink. See it here.
• Whenever you're out looking for Nora Fries so you can reunite Mr. Freeze with her, your hunt takes you to a secure warehouse where Joker's men are stationed at. When you knock, one of the henchmen will answer and glare at you while asking what the hell you want... before the identity of who he's talking to sinks in. The horrified look on his face makes it perfect.

Mook: *gasp* Uh... nothing to see here! Go away!

Funny Mook Conversations

• A lot of Enemy Chatter is made of the mooks complaining how cold it is. At one point, someone points out that winters have been getting progressively colder with each consecutive year. They conclude that only one thing can be to blame...MR. FREEZE!
• In the mission to rescue Nora Fries, if you wait to listen to the Enemy Chatter before jumping the mooks, you can see them playing rock paper scissors, introducing things like guns and dynamite and getting called on it.
  • It's not only that: they're trying to have a three person game of rock, paper, scissors, and none of them seem to know how to play.

Mook 1: Huh. All paper. What are the odds? Mook 2: Do I look like I graduated high school?

• At one point in the game, some of Two-Face's goons discuss a rumor that Catwoman tore the skin off of Harvey's good-looking side, and wonder if they'll have to start calling him One-Face.
• After taking the door on a balcony out of the Courthouse with mooks holding the main door shut...

Mook 1: Just hold the door shut and we'll be fine out here! Mook 2: What if he goes out the back? Mook 3: There's a back?! Mook 2: Yeah, Two-Face showed me it... Mook 3: And you didn't think to mention it until now?!

• And another, when approaching the church for the first time...

Mook 1: So do ya think the rumors are true? Mook 2: What, that Harley used to be a dude?

• • This may be a Development Gag, as her mocap movements were those of a dude.
• When entering the subway to find Penguin's last jammer. Two of his henchmen are discussing if it works underground. One comments that he read the manual which states that it doesn't:

Mook 1: Since when have you been all about reading? Mook 2: [offended] I read. Mook 1: Porn don't count. Mook 2: Screw you.

• One of them was apparently a Heath Ledger wannabe, intimidating hostages:

Mook 1 Me, I prefer the hammer. More personal, you know. You can feel every blow. Understand the complexity of the human body as it's deconstructed into a primordial sludge. Mook 2 That's deep man. I had you all wrong. I was told you just liked hitting people with hammers.

• When you enter the smelting chamber a second time (before you encounter a tied up Harley Quinn) a mook will imitate Harley and Joker's voices mockingly, and he's pretty good at it.

Mook 1 (imitates Harley): Oh, Mistah J, please hurt me some more. Mook 1 (imitates Joker): OK, my dear. Why don't you go out and fight Batman while I make a daring escape...

• After the boss fight with Mr. Freeze, you can hear two mooks discussing his kidnapped wife Nora:

Mook 1 Did you see what she looked like? Is she hot? Mook 2 She's in a block of ice. Mook 1 If you thawed her out, would she be hot? Mook 2 Way I understand it, if she thaws out, she's dead. But, to answer your question, yes, she's kind of good looking. In a near dead frozen sort of way I guess. Mook 1 Nice. Mook 2 What's wrong with you?

• Upon visiting Museum after the end game, you can hear they discussing about what will come up next. One of them wandering if they are going to have Arkham County or Arkham Nation next. At the end they admit that both names sound stupid though.
• When talking about Catwoman...

Mook 1: No, I heard she goes both ways. Mook 2: I bet she does. Mook 1: Not like that you idiot!

• An Enemy Chatter gem from later in the game:

Mook: What is wrong with the Riddler freak? Doesn't he have anything better to do than leave green question marks all over Arkham City?

• • It's even better when the Mook saying that is one of Riddler's "undercover" henchmen.
• After the Penguin's been defeated, you come across a crowd of his mooks in the subway, getting a recruitment speech from one of the Joker's men. For maximum levels of irony, you can pop out of the grates and K.O. the speaker just as he goes on about how 'invincible' they are.
  • Even better. One of them, who is playing around with a mask talks about how he will always join the stronger faction, having no loyality beyond that. Said mook is actualy a Riddler henchman.
• There's actually a group of unaffiliated (haven't joined any of the gangs) criminals camped out on the roof with a frozen over swimming pool who comment on various story developments as the game goes on. They even manage to survive Protocol 10. Some highlights include them debating which gang they should join up with, and joking with one another about resorting to cannibalism with one saying to another how he's starting to look like a big tasty pork chop...
• Apparently one mook didn't listen to Penguin's speech on how they'll be taking over Arkham City because he was on the can.
• Hearing mooks talking about their experince in Arkham Asylum during the events of the first game are always a nice call back. Especially when other inmates refuse to listen to their warnings about Batman.
• Some inmates can be heard giving tips on how to survive in Arkham City, some which imply an almost Too Dumb to Live mentality among the general population:

Inmate: If you see some strange flowers or plants, it means they belong to Poison Ivy. Beat Same Inmate: That means it's bad and you should stay away from them.

• • When Batman is breaking into the Steel Mill for the first time, we get a true glimpse of just how stupid the Joker's thugs really are, along with one guy who simply can't believe what he's hearing.

Mook #1: (staring over the wall) How the hell are we supposed to get in there? Mook #2: There's gotta be a way. What would Batman do? Mook #1: Do I look like Batman? Mook #2: No, I mean he could get in. How'd you think he'd do it? Mook #3: He'd use his grapple thing. I guess he could go in through the main tower. Mook #1: Great! Have you got one? Mook #3: ...Nah. Mook #1: Okay, let's get this straight. The only way in is through one of the main cooling tunnels. Mook #2: S'pose. Mook #1: The tunnel full of boiling water and poisonous gas? Mook #2: Yeah, we could build a boat! Mook #1: And the gas? Mook #3: Gas masks? Mook #1: So... let's get this straight. You geniuses think that the best way in is to build a boat and sail across a boiling ocean wearing gas masks to stop us getting killed? Mook #2: Yeah! Let's do it.

• One of the mooks in the Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC is thinking of making a name for himself on the Gotham crime scene, only for his friends to make fun of him:

Mook #2: That I'd like to see. Mook #1: You think I can't do it? Mook #2: Well, what's your gimmick? Mr. Freeze is a crazy scientist who's got that freezer gun, Two-Face has got that burnt thing goin' on... what's yours? Mook #1: I'll figure somethin' out. Mook #3: Yeah, right. Best you've got is you killed all that family on Thanksgiving Day 'cause your mommy burnt the turkey and you promised to get her a new one. Mook #2: "The Turkey Man"... I like it. Mook #1: [seething with anger] You wanna shut your mouth, or do you want me to do it for ya? Mook #3: What's up, Tuuurkey Maaan? Mook #2: [gobbles]

• While holed up in Harley Quinn's base in the shipyards, a group of thugs start discussing whether or not Batman really killed the Joker, or if he's still possibly alive. One of them breaks out some in-universe Wild Mass Guessing, postulating that it could've actually been Clayface posing as the Joker, in addition to playing himself. The others dismiss the notion as completely ridiculous.
• At one point, as Robin in Harley Quinn's Revenge, when you start a fight, one of the mooks yell "It's the Batman's bitch!"

The Comics

• The prequel comic shows how Batman uses a nondescript boat to hide the Batboat, in order to come and go to Arkham city at will. Or so he planned - when he arrives the second time, the boat gets blown to hell with him in it! As Batman's flying through the air from the explosion, he calmly notes that "...that worked a total of once."
• The Joker receives a house call at the smelting plant from one of Strange's doctors, who informs him that they've isolated the toxin in his blood and gives him a sample of it. Joker, in response, tells the doctor that he won't be held accountable for the pain that the illness is causing him, and that he's free to go.

Joker: That car will carry you safely to the exit. *beat* Or was that the car that runs to the incinerator? Off-panel: WHOOM Joker: Dear, dear. I must be slipping.