Batman: Arkham City: Difference between revisions

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Ivy, as fitting her character. She tries to kill Catwoman, and then later pledges to go on a homicidal rampage throughout Gotham. Why? Apparently because Catwoman was housesitting for her and forgot to water her flowers, all of which died except one (which Catwoman later destroys and blames on Strange). Granted, [[Blue and Orange Morality|from]] ''[[Blue and Orange Morality|her]]'' [[Blue and Orange Morality|perspective, Catwoman just let her children starve to death]].

** Joker also has his moments. The Arkham City Stories detail an [[Escalating War]] between him and Penguin, Joker's side is rife with this. Spraying a waitress with acid when she spilt a drink on him was just the start.

** {{spoiler|Talia}} is taken captive by Joker and used as a motivator to lure Batman into the final battle, {{spoiler|but given how easily she breaks free of his hold and disarms him it's likely she was just leading him on. The women in this game do not mess around.}}

* [[Doing It for the Art]]: {{spoiler|Clayface, who apparently has been using every trick up his sleeve to avoid being put in Arkham City, eventually willingly enters when given the opportunity to play "The role of a lifetime."}}

* [[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.

** 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.

** Harley's perkiness from the last game is gone, and she takes over the Joker's [[Bad Boss]] traits, openly mocking and berating the Joker's mooks.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: {{spoiler|When The Joker takes Talia al Ghul away, Batman tries to race directly after her, disregarding that Protocol 10 is in effect and that hundreds of inmates, both criminals and innocents, are being slaughtered. Alfred and Oracle both call him on it, and Alfred even goes as far as to deny Batman satellite assistance to find her in order to make him save the inmates. Certainly a sign that the night in Arkham City, the disease attacking him, and Batman's all-too-human emotions are taking their toll on him.}}

** Before that, when {{spoiler|[[I Lied|Batman manipulated Talia's affection for him to get her to do what he wanted.]] Ordinarily, it would just be chalked up to [[Batman Gambit|Batman's usual M.O. for using people]], if he didn't attempt to smooth talk her over afterwards. Justified, since according to Oracle he was mere minutes from death at that point.}}

**** Well considering he HAD done all of that, was still gonna die and all in all was having a pretty bad night its understandable that he felt he needed to take a stand somewhere

* [[Where It All Began]]: While the game doesn't end at the same place gameplay began, the trope still qualifies. {{spoiler|The final boss fight occurs in the same movie theatre that that Bruce Wayne went to on the night of his parent's murder.}}