History Characters / BatmanArkhamSeriesBatman

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->''I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!''

* BatmanGrabsAGun: A literal example, as he tries to execute Harley Quinn using a gun.

--->'''Scarecrow''': You've ingested enough toxins to drive ten men insane! What are you?!

—> '''Scarecrow''': “What are you?!”

** Scarecrow: “What are you?!”

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: The "actual" boss battle with Batman isn't against him directly but instead a giant fear toxin-induced illusion of a bat monster.

* MasterOfIllusion: He's capable of creating bat-shaped shadows upon appearing out of thin air through advanced holographic technology, and his second boss fight involves using his own variation of Scarecrow's fear toxin to kill the Suicide Squad.

** The effort Batman put into sparing his enemies' lives. The series never actually says he's wrong for doing this, but it's made very clear that killing the big threats would've been for the best, since the premise of ''Knight'' is that crime dropped to record lows with Joker's death. To rub salt in the wound, [[spoiler:the GoldenEnding in ''Knight'' happens partially because several threats are killed off (Joker, Poison Ivy, Killer Moth, Hugo Strange, Rat Catcher, Black Mask, and Quincy Sharp). The list might potentially include Ra's Al Ghul (if captured), Bane (killed by the Arkham Knight in the tie-in comics, gave up and returned to Santa Prisca in the game), Mr. Freeze (implied that he leaves Gotham to be TogetherInDeath with Nora), and Clayface (the game never says what happened to him after ''City'').]]

* SinisterSurveillance: Before his second boss fight, Batman can be seen watching the Suicide Squad from afar. Attempting to get close to him, or simply staring at him for a while, will cause Batman to vanish.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Like the other members of the Justice League, the method that Brainiac used to brainwash him involves using advanced alien technology to ''literally drill into the back of his skull and restructure his brain''. It's also implied he was given other modifications to his body for better performance, but to what extent is unknown.

** Nearly every version of Batman DoesNotLikeGuns and has an aversion to lethal force due to how a common crook used a firearm to kill his parents. Not only does he commit mass murder as a brainwashed covert agent and tries to kill Harley Quinn with a gun, but he unceremoniously dies as a war criminal from a criminal, whose been sanctioned by the government, shooting him dead on a street.

* PuzzleBoss: Unlike The Flash and Green Lantern, Batman's boss fight requires the player to actively navigate through the fear toxin-induced hallucination of the Batcave to mix the vats up four times and eventually turn on the vents. All while keeping vigilance to where either Batman popping out of the statues, a "fiery hell bat" approaching from the air, and the explosive gel traps littered in the area.

** When the Suicide Squad realize Batman has also been brainwashed by Brainiac, they’re even more scared than when they face Superman.

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* PuzzleBoss: Unlike the The Flash and Green Lantern, Batman's boss fight requires the player to actively navigate through the fear toxin-induced hallucination of the Batcave to mix the vats up four times and eventually turn on the vents. All while keeping vigilance to where either Batman popping out of the statues, a "fiery hell bat" approaching from the air, and the explosive gel traps littered in the area.

* TookALevelInCheerfulness: [[DownplayedTrope To an extent]]. From what little can be seen and heard of Bruce in his holographic displays in the Hall of Justice and the ARGUS tapes, he's a bit more lighthearted in speech and somewhat friendly to his teammates.

* KnightTemplar: No {{pun}} intended, as Batman's original desire and goal to uphold justice and defeat crime is now twisted to serve Brainiac's goal of terraforming the Earth.

** Batman's usually well-known for his CrazyPrepared tendencies and [[MemeticMutation would always win due to prep time]]. He gets brainwashed by Brainiac due to ''not'' having a plan[[labelnote:Specifically]]Though it's {{downplayed|Trope}} as he wanted to make a plan before meeting Brainiac due to being ProperlyParanoid, after much prompting from Superman and Green Lantern, where the Man of Steel was practically ''begging'', he relents and unsurprisingly, it's a trap[[/labelnote]].

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Implied. After becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy by Brainiac, Batman's body is also possibly enhanced to a certain extent (at least not enough to endure a gunshot to the head by Harley Quinn) given that one of the things that Brainiac remarks of his limits is his "human body outpaced by its mind" beforehand in the ARGUS tapes. He's capable of seemingly breaking every bone in a grown man's body off-screen with ease, knocked out King Shark with a single attack, and by the time of his second boss fight, it's implied that the Suicide Squad has been peppering his actual body with their shots upon the "Demon Bat's" weak point and the only thing that came out of it by the end is his suit damage with plenty of cuts on his skin.

* WeakButSkilled: As the only member of the Justice League without superpowers, he relies on fear, gadgets, stealth, subterfuge, intellect, and his lifelong achieved peak physical and mental condition to neutralize his foes. While this might be subverted due to the implied enhancements done to his body by Brainiac, Batman notably still relies on his stealth skills and tactics more than brute force or direct combat.