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The game became known for an unprecedented number of cinematic trailers outlining the different features. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYdACm1xEOY A Primary Trailer], a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V1ZF5cNYCs gameplay trailer], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMXFxug0DY the Riddler trailer], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g39nrY7Dks the Penguin trailer], the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqj0rpyD2c Mr. Freeze trailer], the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ozTAINpXbc Joker trailer].
The game became known for an unprecedented number of cinematic trailers outlining the different features. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYdACm1xEOY A Primary Trailer], a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V1ZF5cNYCs gameplay trailer], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMXFxug0DY the Riddler trailer], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g39nrY7Dks the Penguin trailer], the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqj0rpyD2c Mr. Freeze trailer], the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ozTAINpXbc Joker trailer].


An [[Updated Rerelease]] called ''Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition'' is being created for the [[Wii U]] that features unique controls specially patented for that system. All DLC for the original release will be featured in the game, and Catwoman's role as a character is to be expanded upon. Furthermore, Batman and Catwoman also sport armored costumes.
An [[Updated Rerelease]] called ''Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition'' was created for the [[Wii U]] that features unique controls specially patented for that system. All DLC for the original release is featured in the game, and Catwoman's role as a character is to be expanded upon. Furthermore, Batman and Catwoman also sport armored costumes.


The game also has several pieces of tie-in media:
The game also has several pieces of tie-in media:
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*** [[Improbable Aiming Skills|It's Deadshot]]. He probably did it because [[Myth Busters]] told him he couldn't.
*** [[Improbable Aiming Skills|It's Deadshot]]. He probably did it because [[Myth Busters]] told him he couldn't.
* [[Art Shift]]: The playable characters have alternate skins based on their designs from various comics and [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]].
* [[Art Shift]]: The playable characters have alternate skins based on their designs from various comics and [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]].
* [[Awesome, Dear Boy]]: In-universe, this is why {{spoiler|Clayface agreed to act as the Joker's body double. In his own words, this is "THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME!"}}
* [[Baby Got Back]]: Catwoman, Talia, and Harley all get quite a bit of focus on their rather ample butts, not helped at all by their clothing choices of a skintight jumpsuit and tight leather pants respectively.
* [[Baby Got Back]]: Catwoman, Talia, and Harley all get quite a bit of focus on their rather ample butts, not helped at all by their clothing choices of a skintight jumpsuit and tight leather pants respectively.
* [[Backstab Backfire]]: {{spoiler|What ultimately does the Joker in.}}
* [[Backstab Backfire]]: {{spoiler|What ultimately does the Joker in.}}
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* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Batman and {{spoiler|Bane}} pull this off.
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Batman and {{spoiler|Bane}} pull this off.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: One of the downloadable skins is 60+ year old Batman from ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]''. He is no less capable in combat than his younger iterations and, amusingly, his flirtatious banter with the now much younger Catwoman and Talia doesn't change - making him look like a [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: One of the downloadable skins is 60+ year old Batman from ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]''. He is no less capable in combat than his younger iterations and, amusingly, his flirtatious banter with the now much younger Catwoman and Talia doesn't change - making him look like a [[Dirty Old Man]].
** Which is kind of ironic since [[Older Than They Look|Talia's actually older]] than he is.
** Which is kind of ironic since [[Older Than They Look|Talia's actually older]] than he is.
** There's also Ra's al Ghul as usual, being a particularly old example as he's over 600 years old thanks to the Lazarus Pits.
* [[Badass in Distress]]: The game starts off with Catwoman being held hostage by Two-Face.
* [[Badass in Distress]]: The game starts off with Catwoman being held hostage by Two-Face.
** Later on, {{spoiler|Catwoman gets to return the favor by rescuing Batman when he's buried under rubble.}}
** Later on, {{spoiler|Catwoman gets to return the favor by rescuing Batman when he's buried under rubble.}}
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* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: When Bruce is first brought to Arkham City, a TYGER Guard shoots a black inmate.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: When Bruce is first brought to Arkham City, a TYGER Guard shoots a black inmate.
** Although you can see the man writhing around on the ground, clutching at his stomach and knee, making a "tap-out" motion with his hands, suggesting it may have been a rubber bullet that hit him.
** Although you can see the man writhing around on the ground, clutching at his stomach and knee, making a "tap-out" motion with his hands, suggesting it may have been a rubber bullet that hit him.
** Subverted with the Precinct 13 cops: Although the first (and only) death of the 10 man squad, Officer Best, was a black man, it really nullifies the trope when there are three other black men in the squad (Elvis Jones, Forrester, and Southwold).
** Subverted with the Precinct 13 cops: Although the first (and only) death of the 10 man squad, Officer Best, was a black man, it really nullifies the trope when there are three other black men in the squad (Elvis Jones, Forrester, and Southwold) who all make it out alive (With Officer Jones being the first one you meet).
* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: How the upgraded quick-fire Batclaw Disarm works (yanks weapons out of the hands of enemies).
* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: How the upgraded quick-fire Batclaw Disarm works (yanks weapons out of the hands of enemies).
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|Batman starts coughing up blood when the disease starts to affect him}}.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|Batman starts coughing up blood when the disease starts to affect him}}.
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** When playing the game with the Catwoman DLC, the opening shot is of a picture of Cain carrying Abel, titled "The Duality of Man."
** When playing the game with the Catwoman DLC, the opening shot is of a picture of Cain carrying Abel, titled "The Duality of Man."
*** In the same pose as when Batman carries {{spoiler|The Joker}} later on.
*** In the same pose as when Batman carries {{spoiler|The Joker}} later on.
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: In addition to Quincy Sharp returning from the first game, we get the Abramovici Twins.
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: In addition to Quincy Sharp returning from the first game, we get the Abramovici Twins, a pair of Russian Siamese twins who literally split up and joined the Joker and the Penguin respectively after a political falling-out.
* [[Cardboard Prison]]: The back-story for the game has Quincy Sharp recognizing this as the reason for moving the criminals to the new location. It also helps that the first game ends with both Blackgate and Arkham ravaged.
* [[Cardboard Prison]]: The back-story for the game has Quincy Sharp recognizing this as the reason for moving the criminals to the new location. It also helps that the first game ends with both Blackgate and Arkham ravaged.
** Arkham City itself, however, is anything but - the perimeter has turrets, and helicopters with guns patrol regularly. {{spoiler|It's all needed to keep them all in until Protocol 10, however.}}
** Arkham City itself, however, is anything but - the perimeter has turrets, and helicopters with guns patrol regularly. {{spoiler|It's all needed to keep them all in until Protocol 10, however.}}
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{{quote|"Because it's not like he has a reputation for breaking free of traps and then smashing people's face in. Oh wait! That's ''exactly'' what he does!"}}
{{quote|"Because it's not like he has a reputation for breaking free of traps and then smashing people's face in. Oh wait! That's ''exactly'' what he does!"}}
** Mr. Freeze also counts, though [[Anti-Villain|how much]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|of a villain]] he is is debatable. For one, he subverts [[Boss Arena Idiocy]] by learning from how you perform your takedowns.
** Mr. Freeze also counts, though [[Anti-Villain|how much]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|of a villain]] he is is debatable. For one, he subverts [[Boss Arena Idiocy]] by learning from how you perform your takedowns.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: They actually managed to trump Arkham Asylum. And that's saying something.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: They actually managed to trump Arkham Asylum, and that's saying something.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Interestingly, it's not just with Catwoman, but with Talia as well.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Interestingly, it's not just with Catwoman, but with Talia as well.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Catwoman and Alfred. Batman actually does it once to Catwoman in an [[Ironic Echo]], but Catwoman tells him to "stick to brooding".
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Catwoman and Alfred. Batman actually does it once to Catwoman in an [[Ironic Echo]], but Catwoman tells him to "stick to brooding".
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* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Averted twice. When you go down the elevator shaft in the steel mill. One of the mooks tells another that he killed his mother by forcing her to eat a poison birthday cake. And Calender Man tells Batman that he killed his mother on Mother's day.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Averted twice. When you go down the elevator shaft in the steel mill. One of the mooks tells another that he killed his mother by forcing her to eat a poison birthday cake. And Calender Man tells Batman that he killed his mother on Mother's day.
** In the Harley DLC, you run into a few [[Enemy Chatter|mooks talking]] about how they're unsatisfied with Harley's leadership. One of them claims he could become a supervillain, but the others tease him by pointing out that the only thing of note he's done was killing an entire family and stealing their Thanksgiving turkey to give to his own mother. They suggest the name "Turkey Man".
** In the Harley DLC, you run into a few [[Enemy Chatter|mooks talking]] about how they're unsatisfied with Harley's leadership. One of them claims he could become a supervillain, but the others tease him by pointing out that the only thing of note he's done was killing an entire family and stealing their Thanksgiving turkey to give to his own mother. They suggest the name "Turkey Man".
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Catwoman (who is, admittedly, more of an [[Anti-Hero]]) refuses to enter Zsasz's lair if you try it, saying he gives her the creeps. Penguin also refers to Zsasz as a vicious monster (though it's probably for dramatic effect as Penguin's hardly any better himself) in the prerecorded message found in his cage.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Catwoman (who is, admittedly, more of an [[Anti-Hero]]) refuses to enter Zsasz's lair if you try it, saying he gives her the creeps. There's also various criminals who hang around Arkham City, who despite being rather unpleasant themselves, are still quite disturbed by the behavior characters like [[Complete Monster|Joker, Penguin, and Zsasz]] indulge in.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: The museum features a rather large area filled with water, with a thin layer of ice at first that gradually melts down. The Penguin has let loose a huge shark in it that will attack from time to time and devour Batman if he falls in the water. If only he had some [[Batman: The Movie|shark repellent...]]
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: The museum features a rather large area filled with water, with a thin layer of ice at first that gradually melts down. The Penguin has let loose a huge shark in it that will attack from time to time and devour Batman if he falls in the water. If only he had some [[Batman: The Movie|shark repellent...]]
** Lampshaded in the last Riddler hostage room where you hear the Riddler musing on whether or not Batman would have a gadget to help, were he to steal Penguin's shark to use in a trap.
** Lampshaded in the last Riddler hostage room where you hear the Riddler musing on whether or not Batman would have a gadget to help, were he to steal Penguin's shark to use in a trap.
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** ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'' gets in on the act, too. {{spoiler|During a radio broadcast near the beginning, Commissioner Gordon cuts an interview with Vicki Vale short when she asks why no one has been allowed to see the Joker's body. In the flashback, when Batman is about to infiltrate the steel mill, talking to Gordon reveals that after the hostage situation is resolved, he needs Batman's help with, "that other problem," which is left ominously unexplained. Finally, when Batman enters Harley's hideout, he overhears her goons discussing the possibility that the corpse Batman carried out of the theater with him could have been Clayface pulling another body swap. Joker might not be as dead as everyone thinks, though this is highly unlikely due to how far apart Clayface and the Joker were from each other in the ending when the Joker died.}}
** ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'' gets in on the act, too. {{spoiler|During a radio broadcast near the beginning, Commissioner Gordon cuts an interview with Vicki Vale short when she asks why no one has been allowed to see the Joker's body. In the flashback, when Batman is about to infiltrate the steel mill, talking to Gordon reveals that after the hostage situation is resolved, he needs Batman's help with, "that other problem," which is left ominously unexplained. Finally, when Batman enters Harley's hideout, he overhears her goons discussing the possibility that the corpse Batman carried out of the theater with him could have been Clayface pulling another body swap. Joker might not be as dead as everyone thinks, though this is highly unlikely due to how far apart Clayface and the Joker were from each other in the ending when the Joker died.}}
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: This incarnation of the Riddler.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: This incarnation of the Riddler.
** Hugo Strange definitely comes off as this. Getting Catwoman to co-operate by ordering Tyger to shoot a 13 year old girl.
** Hugo Strange definitely comes off as this as well.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Catwoman is explicitly faster than Batman, but also not as heavily armed or armored, and requires more stealth tactics.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Catwoman is explicitly faster than Batman, but also not as heavily armed or armored, and requires more stealth tactics.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: When Penguin sends his goons after you in his "initiation" pit, he accidentally whacks one of his lieutenants in the groin with his umbrella.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: When Penguin sends his goons after you in his "initiation" pit, he accidentally whacks one of his lieutenants in the groin with his umbrella.
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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Ra's eliminates Strange after Protocol 10 is deactivated by Batman and their plan fails.}}
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Ra's eliminates Strange after Protocol 10 is deactivated by Batman and their plan fails.}}
** Sharp as well, who Strange throws into Arkham City and even announces his arrival to all the criminals to come kill him.
** Sharp as well, who Strange throws into Arkham City and even announces his arrival to all the criminals to come kill him.
* [[You Monster!]]: Catwoman growls at Hugo Strange, "You ''bastard''."
* [[You Monster!]]: Catwoman growls at Hugo Strange, "You ''bastard''." Fitting, as he reveals that he's willing to have Catwoman's 13 year old ward shot in order to get her to comply with his demands.
* [[Zeerust]]: Wonder City, a sort of steampunk concept for a 'green' Gotham built some time ago. Only instead of steam, it was secretly powered by chemical from the {{spoiler|Lazarus Pit}}, so unsurprisingly, the ones who built it turned out to be {{spoiler|Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins}}. Surprisingly for this trope, though, the technology actually worked. Batman even comments that it was far beyond what was possible at the time, but it isn't explained.
* [[Zeerust]]: Wonder City, a sort of steampunk concept for a 'green' Gotham built some time ago. Only instead of steam, it was secretly powered by chemical from the {{spoiler|Lazarus Pit}}, so unsurprisingly, the ones who built it turned out to be {{spoiler|Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins}}. Surprisingly for this trope, though, the technology actually worked. Batman even comments that it was far beyond what was possible at the time, but it isn't explained.
** Of course, that whole {{spoiler|slight madness}} thing might have had something to do with why it never caught on.
** Of course, that whole {{spoiler|slight madness}} thing might have had something to do with why it never caught on.
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