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**** In another version, the killer thanks Arkham for his efforts by ''killing his entire family''. Arkham insists on continuing his treatment, and in a way does so -- by electro-shock therapying him to death. |
**** In another version, the killer thanks Arkham for his efforts by ''killing his entire family''. Arkham insists on continuing his treatment, and in a way does so -- by electro-shock therapying him to death. |
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** One [[Elseworld]], ''The Batman of Arkham'', had Bruce Wayne as a psychiatrist in an early 20th century Arkham... where, in a surprising subversion, he genuinely helps people; The story opens with a breakthrough therapy session with Killer Croc, who is nearly totally rehabilitated because Dr. Wayne simply treated him like a human being instead of chaining him like an animal. Later, Wayne says that before he came, Arkham was indeed "the old Bedlam." But, under the later direction of Dr. Crane, it reverts to the old ways immediately. Things got better. |
** One [[Elseworld]], ''The Batman of Arkham'', had Bruce Wayne as a psychiatrist in an early 20th century Arkham... where, in a surprising subversion, he genuinely helps people; The story opens with a breakthrough therapy session with Killer Croc, who is nearly totally rehabilitated because Dr. Wayne simply treated him like a human being instead of chaining him like an animal. Later, Wayne says that before he came, Arkham was indeed "the old Bedlam." But, under the later direction of Dr. Crane, it reverts to the old ways immediately. Things got better. |
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** Another mini, ''[[Arkham Asylum Living Hell]]'', had it show that even when a ''sane'' person goes in, there's little hope he comes out the [[Just for Pun|sane]]. This mini also showed us a side of Arkham rarely seen before, exploring the patients who were committed and never escaped but stayed as lunatic as can be, from ghastly cult leader Death Rattle to [[Mad Artist]] Doodlebug. |
** Another mini, ''[[Arkham Asylum: Living Hell]]'', had it show that even when a ''sane'' person goes in, there's little hope he comes out the [[Just for Pun|sane]]. This mini also showed us a side of Arkham rarely seen before, exploring the patients who were committed and never escaped but stayed as lunatic as can be, from ghastly cult leader Death Rattle to [[Mad Artist]] Doodlebug. |
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** It's a Bedlam House in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'', but the marketing (as evidenced in the tie-in Arkham Care website and some of the in-game PA announcements) ''desperately'' tries to make it seem like a pleasant, modern psychiatric institution. To utterly hilarious degrees; it's really something to stand in a dank, creepy and falling-apart Arkham corridor listening to a pleasant voice on a commercial witter on about how Arkham is 'the state's premier psychiatric therapeutic facility', how the famous supervillains who get locked up there 'are only half the story' and other such nonsense. |
** It's a Bedlam House in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'', but the marketing (as evidenced in the tie-in Arkham Care website and some of the in-game PA announcements) ''desperately'' tries to make it seem like a pleasant, modern psychiatric institution. To utterly hilarious degrees; it's really something to stand in a dank, creepy and falling-apart Arkham corridor listening to a pleasant voice on a commercial witter on about how Arkham is 'the state's premier psychiatric therapeutic facility', how the famous supervillains who get locked up there 'are only half the story' and other such nonsense. |
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*** The upcoming sequel features an ''even worse'' solution: [[Batman: Arkham City|Arkham City]], a ''walled off'' slum section of Gotham where former Arkham patients and Blackgate convicts alike are thrown in and left to their own devices. {{spoiler|Then hired mercs kill everyone in the place.}} How therapeutic. |
*** The upcoming sequel features an ''even worse'' solution: [[Batman: Arkham City|Arkham City]], a ''walled off'' slum section of Gotham where former Arkham patients and Blackgate convicts alike are thrown in and left to their own devices. {{spoiler|Then hired mercs kill everyone in the place.}} How therapeutic. |
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