Batman: Arkham City: Difference between revisions

* [[Actor Allusion]]: A subtle one: [[The Joker]] attempts to force Mr. Freeze to develop a cure for him by holding his wife hostage. [[The Joker]] is voiced by [[Mark Hamill]], whose first voice in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' was Ferris Boyle, the guy responsible for Mr. Freeze, and Hamill's performance as him also landed him with his voicing [[The Joker]] in that series.

* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]:

'''Joker:''' "That actually is... pretty ''funny''!" }}

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: When you first meet Harley Quinn in the church, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y9shmzLoAs she implies] [[Squick|the Joker had one recently.]]

** {{spoiler|Ra's al Ghul's initial appearance. That trip to the Lazarus Pit looked like it was ''long'' overdue for him.}}

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Near the end, after {{spoiler|Ra's falls from Wonder Tower, impales himself and smashes onto an iron fence}}:

'''Batman''': Let's just say he's gonna need another trip to the Lazarus Pit.]] }}

* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: {{spoiler|Hugo Strange captures Bruce (whom he knows is Batman), then just dumps him into the City. No part of his plan required Batman to do anything, and indeed he hires Deadshot to kill Batman, which means he could and should have killed Bruce when he was unconscious and shackled.}}

* [[Break the Haughty]]: After mortally wounding him, {{spoiler|Ra's takes a second to casually dash Strange's dreams and crap on an entire game's worth of boasting, coldly stating that he's once and for all proven himself inferior to Batman.}}

** On a less extreme level, this is usually what happens to the [[Mooks]] during [[Mook Horror Show|predator gameplay]]. Before:

** After:

* [[Break Them by Talking]]:

** Hugo Strange makes a lot of these.

** Nightwing is another example, having once been an acrobatic himself.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: At one point Harley Quinn leaves Batman held at gunpoint by four goons. Only one of them realizes the gravity of the situation.

** 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.

* [[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]].

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The Riddler's final deathtrap for his hostages involves {{spoiler|[[Explosive Leash|exploding helmets]] wired to a track in the floor. They have to keep walking or...[ [[[Your Head Asplode]] well...}} When Batman finally beats him, he [[Laser-Guided Karma|wires Riddler into a helmet and starts the track up]]. Riddler says [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|he knows Batman won't kill him]], to which Batman replies that Aaron Cash and the other hostages will be holding the detonator]]. After he walks away, miserably following the track, we get this exchange:

'''Batman:''' I'm sure. But there's no need to let him know that. }}

** Even better, just {{spoiler|get in the way of the Riddler on the track and watch him squirm.}}

** Batman can overhear crooks talking about how they're surprised various villains are in Arkham City (the prison), going on to lampshade their return in Arkham City (the game).

** Also:

** One dialogue among three thugs inside the museum during the epilogue initially sounds like they're just discussing what's going to happen to the inmates now that the Arkham City experiment has failed. But considering that players never hear who the 'they' they're talking about are, it sounds an awful lot like they're talking about where the sequel will take place. Here's the exchange, with a bit of paraphrasing.

'''Thug 3''': Yes, they are. }}

** It's also lampshaded by Joker in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiIHA453YE&feature=related his video for winning the Spike Video Games Awards for Best Character,] where he tosses out a script book titled "Batman: Arkham World Script" before saying "Whoops, ''[[Foreshadowing|spoilers...]]''"

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Joker's {{spoiler|pose during his "final death"}} is virtually the same pose as Jack Nicholson's Joker's death pose in [[Batman (film)|Batman]]. Likewise, the church appears to modeled similarly to the cathedral from the same film.

** {{spoiler|Also, Joker's last words were slightly similar to Joker's last words in [[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]].}}

{{spoiler|'''Joker:''' "That's not funny... that's not..." (Return of the Joker)}} }}

** Even though the person who says it is different, the game ends with {{spoiler|Batman telling Joker a joke that the two both find funny}}, much like the rather open-ended ending of [[The Killing Joke]].

* [[Shows Damage]]: Some bosses, but also Batman and Catwoman look more and more roughed up as the storyline advances. By the end, Batman's cape in particular has dozens of cuts in it.

* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]:

* [[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.

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

* [[The Stool Pigeon]]: Batman can single out the Riddler's agents and slap them around for info, as well as Harley's in the DLC.

* [[Take That]]:

** Funnily enough, [[Paul Dini|the game's writer]] has actually worked on ''Lost''.

** Blink-and-you'll-miss-it dialogue from one random inmate has him asking, "Wait--did they ever explain what the island was?"

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: Subverted. One of the first Trailer spots has Dr. Strange interrogating a guard with electric shocks and truth serum in order to learn everything about the encounter (as well as being implied to be already aware of what happened anyways), with the guard eventually expiring at the end of the torture. While this isn't actually seen in the game itself, an easter egg in the Wonder Tower area late into the game implies that the event in the trailer did happen.<ref>More specifically, one of the rooms has a dead guard on an interrogation bed.</ref>

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: When Penguin kills and tortures the cops Batman is clearly livid with rage but his voice never raises at all.

'''Batman:''' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|(quietly) You're about to find out.]] }}

** When Batman has reason to believe {{spoiler|Robin might be dead}} in ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'', he softly whispers "What have you done?" to Harley {{spoiler|as he turns away from the flaming wreckage of the warehouse}}. It's absolutely terrifying.