Batman: Arkham City: Difference between revisions

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* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: Joker's gang turns Arkham City's industrial district into one, complete with dilapidated carnival rides, bright painted wood facades, flashing colored lights and dissonant carnival music.

* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: Catwoman.

* [[Another Side Another Story]]: The Catwoman DLC campaign lets you see the story from her perspective.

* [[Another Side, Another Story]]: The Catwoman DLC campaign lets you see the story from her perspective.

* [[Anti-Climactic Unmasking]]: [[Defied Trope]]. The Joker tells Harley ''not'' to unmask Batman for ''exactly'' this reason.

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: The Penguin; despite threatening you for the first third of the game, the actual fights with him are very simple. Likewise, the Riddler is taken down in a single hit. Of course, these two have never been known for their physical prowess. It's ''getting to them'' that's the challenge.

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** The deadliest enemy Batman faces in ''Arkham City''? '''''[[Mook|The lowly mook]].''''' While at the beginning of the game they're pushovers, mooks get VERY formidable as the game moves along. They gradually get better equipment, take advantage of their numbers and fight much smarter. You'll see snipers taking high ground to be able to tag you easier, empty-handed mooks scrambling to pick up weapons another mook dropped([[Improvised Weapon|or even trash lying around to pelt you with]]), being surrounded to attack you from all sides(no [[Mook Chivalry]] here!), the placement of mines, use of thermal goggles, destroying gargoyles to avoid you stalking them from above, being smoked out by grenades, and much more. By the endgame, seeing a group of mooks carrying riot shields, stun batons, knives, guns and body armor will make you think twice before picking a fight. [[Badass|Of course, you'll pick the fight anyway, since you ARE Batman, after all, but it still won't be a picnic.]]

*** What makes it even better is that Batman's new and improved gadgets can thwart every single one of the new enemy tactics. For example, the mine-laying mooks? Batman can use his remote trigger to [[Hoist by His Own Petard|detonate the mine as it is being deployed or whenever someone walks over it.]] He can also use his stun gun to temporarily disable the jammers, and armored mooks are especially susceptible to it.

* [[Artistic License Physics]]: When Batman is hunting Deadshot, {{spoiler|his second victim is sniped ''through'' a full water tower. Even assuming there was a gun that could still be lethal after shooting through 6 feet of water (and [[~~Myth Busters~~]] confirmed there is not), the bullet's trajectory is completely unaffected.}}

* [[Artistic License Physics]]: When Batman is hunting Deadshot, {{spoiler|his second victim is sniped ''through'' a full water tower. Even assuming there was a gun that could still be lethal after shooting through 6 feet of water (and [[MythBusters]] confirmed there is not), the bullet's trajectory is completely unaffected.}}

** {{spoiler|One of the victims is killed by a bullet ricochet, something the [[~~Myth Busters~~]] also proved to be impossible.}}

** {{spoiler|One of the victims is killed by a bullet ricochet, something the [[MythBusters]] also proved to be impossible.}}

*** [[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 [[MythBusters]] 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]].

* [[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!"}}

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* [[Hijacked by Ganon]]: {{spoiler|Ra's al Ghul is the actual [[Big Bad]]. Also, Joker has to be dealt with after Strange and Ra's are defeated.}}

** Though, surprisingly, the actual [[Final Boss]] is {{spoiler|Clayface, who turns out to be [[The Dragon]] for The Joker.}}

* [[His Name Is]]: The first of Deadshot's victims is killed just as he's about to tell Batman the specifics of {{spoiler|his work during the construction of Arkham City}}. A particularly bad case of [[Bond Villain Stupidity]], as [[Improbable Aiming Skills|Deadshot]] had a clear line of sight and we're explicitly told later in the sidequest that Batman was one of his targets.

* [[His Name Is--]]: The first of Deadshot's victims is killed just as he's about to tell Batman the specifics of {{spoiler|his work during the construction of Arkham City}}. A particularly bad case of [[Bond Villain Stupidity]], as [[Improbable Aiming Skills|Deadshot]] had a clear line of sight and we're explicitly told later in the sidequest that Batman was one of his targets.

** This is likely because he was working on a specific time schedule, and Batman's time hadn't come up yet. Deadshot is very prideful in being the world's greatest assassin and in carrying out all of his hits to the letter of their request, so even though he probably knew it'd be better for both him and his client to just kill Batman then, doing so would be going against the terms of the deal, which he'd never allow himself to do. {{spoiler|And at the end of his sidequest, he is perfectly willing to move Batman up on the schedule, since it's the second time he thwarted him.}}

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Sal Maroni's Restaurant, where his people murdered their long-time rivals, the Falcones, has a note that the place is closed (possibly due to shootout and subsequent investigation). The date of the closure? [[wikipedia:Saint Valentines Day Massacre|February 14th]].

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* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]:

{{quote|'''Two-Face:''' [[That Was Objectionable|OBJECTION!]] ''(shoots Batman)'' Overruled.}}

* [[Silliness Switch]]: If you hold LT and RT (Xbox) or L1 and R1 ([[~~PlayStation~~ 3]]) and move the right joystick in circles, it will cause every character in the game to gain a giant head, hands and feet: this also works in menu screens, allowing you to do things like have the background of the level select screen in Riddler's Revenge to be taken up by his gigantic face.

* [[Silliness Switch]]: If you hold LT and RT (Xbox) or L1 and R1 ([[Play Station 3]]) and move the right joystick in circles, it will cause every character in the game to gain a giant head, hands and feet: this also works in menu screens, allowing you to do things like have the background of the level select screen in Riddler's Revenge to be taken up by his gigantic face.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: One of Catwoman's finishing moves - followed by a haymaker takeout.

** How {{spoiler|Talia}} greets you when you arrive to her hidden lair.

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* [[Stalker Without a Crush]]: {{spoiler|Azrael}} to Batman.

* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: When Batman first confronts Harley and the Joker, he grabs her by the elbow and throws her out of the way.

* [[Stealth Based Mission]]: Just like the first game, this is to be expected (Batman isn't bulletproof, of course). There's also a pair of stealth-based boss fights in Mr. Freeze and Two-Face (the latter only in Catwoman's DLC).

* [[Stealth-Based Mission]]: Just like the first game, this is to be expected (Batman isn't bulletproof, of course). There's also a pair of stealth-based boss fights in Mr. Freeze and Two-Face (the latter only in Catwoman's DLC).

* [[Stealth Pun]]: One of the Abramovici twins uses a hammer, and the other uses a sickle. They're Russian, and the hammer and sickle are on the former Russian (or as it was known at the time, the Soviet Union) flag.

** Semi Stealthy maybe, their backstory has them as a double act in a Russian circus under the moniker of ''Hammer and Sickle'', there's a poster in the museum advertising them {{spoiler|which is also the solution to a riddle}}.

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* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Batman invokes this after the final boss battle. Joker dodges the sword, but Batman wasn't aiming for him, but rather the device Joker was standing in front of.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: If you glide around near the water areas of the game and use Detective Mode, you may see some dead inmates in the water who possibly tried to jump in and swim out of Arkham City. Let it be known, that it is the middle of winter.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: In the first game, Victor Zsasz was a bit of a [[Butt Monkey]], serving as a tutorial boss and getting beaten up ''again'' later on. This time round he's the villain of one of the longer sidequests (admittedly he [[One-Hit Kill|still goes down real easy]], but hey). There's also {{spoiler|Clayface}}, who was an Easter egg in the first game and is the final boss this time round.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: In the first game, Victor Zsasz was a bit of a [[Butt Monkey]], serving as a tutorial boss and getting beaten up ''again'' later on. This time round he's the villain of one of the longer sidequests (admittedly he [[One-Hit Kill|still goes down real easy]], but hey). There's also {{spoiler|Clayface}}, who was an Easter egg in the first game and is the final boss this time round.

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]:

** While Batman wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs in [[Arkham Asylum]], in this one he's almost totally humorless, to the point of arguing with Oracle about Talia and outright torturing Mr. Freeze to gain his aid in developing a cure for his Titan poisoning.

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* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Poison Ivy gets this, for some reason.

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Quincy Sharp as well as Hugo Strange. Later in the game, Oracle expresses disbelief that someone like that could pull off the circumstances that started the game legally.

* [[Viral Marketing]]: Starting in early October 2011, major [[YouTube]] [[The Game Station]] affiliates [[Husky Starcraft]], [[~~OMF~~ ~~Gcata~~]], [[Total Halibut]], and the [[Yogscast]] left mysterious Riddler question marks in their daily videos: Each one linked to an unlisted [[YouTube]] video part of a four-part audio involving Professor Strange and Two-Face that promoted the game and its [[Facebook]] page.

* [[Viral Marketing]]: Starting in early October 2011, major [[YouTube]] [[The Game Station]] affiliates [[Husky Starcraft]], [[Jesse Cox]], [[Total Halibut]], and the [[Yogscast]] left mysterious Riddler question marks in their daily videos: Each one linked to an unlisted [[YouTube]] video part of a four-part audio involving Professor Strange and Two-Face that promoted the game and its [[Facebook]] page.

* [[Wasted Song]]: The piece of music used when Bruce pays respect to his dead parents is beautiful and powerful, but doesn't show up at all in the official score album.

** The Heavy's "Short Change Hero" (which provides this page's pic caption) plays in a trailer and is widely regarded as one of the best licensed songs promoting the game, but does not appear on the Arkham City Album.