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* JabbaTableManners: In the prequel comic.
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* JabbaTableManners: In the prequel comic.comic and WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: They [[AbusiveParents kind of deserved]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive it though]].
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Chris Cox (''Arkham City'', ''Arkham Origins''), Neal [=McDonough=] (''Assault on Arkham'')
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Chris Cox (''Arkham City'', ''Arkham Origins''), Neal [=McDonough=] Creator/NealMcDonough (''Assault on Arkham'')
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:By the Mad Hatter in ''Arkham Unhinged'']].
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[[folder:Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist
'''Jervis Tetch''' was an expert hypnotist and chemist who
* BunnyEarsLawyer: It's hard to find anything that he says that makes sense whatsoever, but according to Strange, his work in chemistry is unparalled.
* ChronicVillainy: Going hand-in-hand with ObliviouslyEvil, it actually seems that Tetch is entirely harmless (if insane) when kept away from anyone that fit his "Alice" victim archetype. When he sees one who matches, though...
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: His targeted Alices are, according to him, all blonde. However, as shown in a side story to Arkham City in ''Unhinged'', he's willing to take a great many women regardless of hair color.
* EvilGenius: He provided the mind control tech and chemicals that allowed Strange to come to power.
* EvilRedhead: Hard to tell due to the condition of his entire body, but his hair ''is'' red. Whether or not he can be considered [[ObliviouslyEvil legitimately evil, however]], is another thing altogether.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His chatting with Batman in ''Origins'' proves he's enjoying the mental struggle a great deal.
* FingerlessGloves: Wears them in both ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Origins''.
* FriendlessBackground: If you return to his hideout after beating him, he wonders why you resisted, since he had only wanted a friend.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Sharp had Tetch thrown into solitary confinement long enough to break his mind even worse than it was before.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Uses a hypnotic suggestion to lure Batman into taking his psychoactive chemicals. The method lures him in with what he most wants. Which at the time, is the cure to the TITAN poisoning]].
* MadScientist: See BunnyEarsLawyer above.
* MindControlDevice: How he controls his minions, and [[spoiler:how he attempts to control Batman]].
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Takes up this role for several non-story Predator maps in ''Origins'', and is arguably even less lucid than the Joker, to the point where some of his men comment that they can barely understand what he's saying.
* NiceHat: To the point he suffers a mental breakdown after Batman steps on it.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: His appearances in Arkham City, both in the game and in a side story, involve setting people and animals up in tea parties. In the interview tapes, he does this with rats, in the game proper, he does this with [[spoiler:Batman]], and in "Vicki in Wonderland", he does this with Vicki Vale, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, the Carpenter, and one other woman.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's one of the less threatening of Batman's Rogues Gallery, but ask one of his Alices how harmless he is...
* ObliviouslyEvil: Doesn't remember the Alices he goes through and doesn't seem to understand how what he does is wrong, and he's just as upset at what he is being "accused" of by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]].
* ReluctantPsycho: Ironically, since TheMadHatter is characterized by enjoying his own madness. However, he doesn't respond poorly to being called mad.
-->'''Tetch:''' As a hat. Yes, as a hat.
* SerialKiller: He's killed many an "Alice".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His actual appearance in the game is short-lived, and on the surface he doesn't seem very important to the main plot. [[spoiler:But it's his MindControlDevice that Hugo Strange used to take control of Quincy Sharp. Meaning that without him, Arkham City may not even exist at all.]]
* SpotOfTea: It's his "[[WorldOfPun special-tea]]".
* VillainousBSOD: Suffers one when confronted by Strange about his victims.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Strange used him and his MindControlDevice to gain control of Quincy Sharp, and later dumped him in Arkham City.]]
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[[folder:Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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* ChronicVillainy: Going hand-in-hand with ObliviouslyEvil, it actually seems that Tetch is entirely harmless (if insane) when kept away from anyone that fit his "Alice" victim archetype. When he sees one who matches, though...
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: His targeted Alices are, according to him, all blonde. However, as shown in a side story to Arkham City in ''Unhinged'', he's willing to take a great many women regardless of hair color.
* EvilGenius: He provided the mind control tech and chemicals that allowed Strange to come to power.
* EvilRedhead: Hard to tell due to the condition of his entire body, but his hair ''is'' red. Whether or not he can be considered [[ObliviouslyEvil legitimately evil, however]], is another thing altogether.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His chatting with Batman in ''Origins'' proves he's enjoying the mental struggle a great deal.
* FingerlessGloves: Wears them in both ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Origins''.
* FriendlessBackground: If you return to his hideout after beating him, he wonders why you resisted, since he had only wanted a friend.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Sharp had Tetch thrown into solitary confinement long enough to break his mind even worse than it was before.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Uses a hypnotic suggestion to lure Batman into taking his psychoactive chemicals. The method lures him in with what he most wants. Which at the time, is the cure to the TITAN poisoning]].
* MadScientist: See BunnyEarsLawyer above.
* MindControlDevice: How he controls his minions, and [[spoiler:how he attempts to control Batman]].
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Takes up this role for several non-story Predator maps in ''Origins'', and is arguably even less lucid than the Joker, to the point where some of his men comment that they can barely understand what he's saying.
* NiceHat: To the point he suffers a mental breakdown after Batman steps on it.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: His appearances in Arkham City, both in the game and in a side story, involve setting people and animals up in tea parties. In the interview tapes, he does this with rats, in the game proper, he does this with [[spoiler:Batman]], and in "Vicki in Wonderland", he does this with Vicki Vale, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, the Carpenter, and one other woman.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's one of the less threatening of Batman's Rogues Gallery, but ask one of his Alices how harmless he is...
* ObliviouslyEvil: Doesn't remember the Alices he goes through and doesn't seem to understand how what he does is wrong, and he's just as upset at what he is being "accused" of by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]].
* ReluctantPsycho: Ironically, since TheMadHatter is characterized by enjoying his own madness. However, he doesn't respond poorly to being called mad.
-->'''Tetch:''' As a hat. Yes, as a hat.
* SerialKiller: He's killed many an "Alice".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His actual appearance in the game is short-lived, and on the surface he doesn't seem very important to the main plot. [[spoiler:But it's his MindControlDevice that Hugo Strange used to take control of Quincy Sharp. Meaning that without him, Arkham City may not even exist at all.]]
* SpotOfTea: It's his "[[WorldOfPun special-tea]]".
* VillainousBSOD: Suffers one when confronted by Strange about his victims.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Strange used him and his MindControlDevice to gain control of Quincy Sharp, and later dumped him in Arkham City.]]
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[[folder:Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Have you ever seen a flower die? Watched something that was once so beautiful, so full of life, collapse and rot from within?"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Peter [=MacNicol=]
'''Jervis Tetch''' was an expert hypnotist and chemist who was obsessed with Literature/AliceInWonderland and came to believe that he was an incarnation of the '''Mad Hatter''' from the story. He became obsessed with finding Alice, and murders several blonde women before being caught by Batman and sent to Arkham Asylum. There, he was taken advantage of by Hugo Strange, who had him create mind control substances to help his domination of his TYGER guards. Once he was done with him, Strange threw Mad Hatter into Arkham City, where he gathered a small gang with his mind control devices and sought to add one more member to his gang: Batman.
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'''Jervis Tetch''' was an expert hypnotist and chemist who was obsessed with Literature/AliceInWonderland and came to believe that he was an incarnation of the '''Mad Hatter''' from the story. He became obsessed with finding Alice, and murders several blonde women before being caught by Batman and sent to Arkham Asylum. There, he was taken advantage of by Hugo Strange, who had him create mind control substances to help his domination of his TYGER guards. Once he was done with him, Strange threw Mad Hatter into Arkham City, where he gathered a small gang with his mind control devices and sought to add one more member to his gang: Batman.
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'''Jervis Tetch''' was an expert hypnotist and chemist who was obsessed
'''Oswald Cobblepot''' is the heir to the prestigious Cobblepot family, with
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: It's hard to find anything that he says that makes sense whatsoever, but according to Strange, his work in chemistry is unparalled.
* ChronicVillainy: Going hand-in-hand with ObliviouslyEvil, it actually seems that Tetch is entirely harmless (if insane) when kept away from anyone that fit his "Alice" victim archetype. When he sees one who matches, though...
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: His targeted Alices are, according to him, all blonde. However, as shown in a side story to Arkham City in ''Unhinged'', he's willing to take a great many women regardless of hair color.
* EvilGenius: He provided the mind control tech and chemicals that allowed Strange to come to power.
* EvilRedhead: Hard to tell due to the condition of his entire body, but his hair ''is'' red. Whether or not he can be considered [[ObliviouslyEvil legitimately evil, however]], is another thing altogether.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His chatting with Batman in ''Origins'' proves he's enjoying the mental struggle a great deal.
* FingerlessGloves: Wears them in both ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Origins''.
* FriendlessBackground: If you return to his hideout after beating him, he wonders why you resisted, since he had only wanted a friend.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Sharp had Tetch thrown into solitary confinement long enough to break his mind even worse than it was before.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Uses a hypnotic suggestion to lure Batman into taking his psychoactive chemicals. The method lures him in with what he most wants. Which at the time, is the cure to the TITAN poisoning]].
* MadScientist: See BunnyEarsLawyer above.
* MindControlDevice: How he controls his minions, and [[spoiler:how he attempts to control Batman]].
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Takes up this role for several non-story Predator maps in ''Origins'', and is arguably even less lucid than the Joker, to the point where some of his men comment that they can barely understand what he's saying.
* NiceHat: To the point he suffers a mental breakdown after Batman steps on it.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: His appearances in Arkham City, both in the game and in a side story, involve setting people and animals up in tea parties. In the interview tapes, he does this with rats, in the game proper, he does this with [[spoiler:Batman]], and in "Vicki in Wonderland", he does this with Vicki Vale, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, the Carpenter, and one other woman.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's one of the less threatening of Batman's Rogues Gallery, but ask one of his Alices how harmless he is...
* ObliviouslyEvil: Doesn't remember the Alices he goes through and doesn't seem to understand how what he does is wrong, and he's just as upset at what he is being "accused" of by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]].
* ReluctantPsycho: Ironically, since TheMadHatter is characterized by enjoying his own madness. However, he doesn't respond poorly to being called mad.
-->'''Tetch:''' As a hat. Yes, as a hat.
* SerialKiller: He's killed many an "Alice".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His actual appearance in the game is short-lived, and on the surface he doesn't seem very important to the main plot. [[spoiler:But it's his MindControlDevice that Hugo Strange used to take control of Quincy Sharp. Meaning that without him, Arkham City may not even exist at all.]]
* SpotOfTea: It's his "[[WorldOfPun special-tea]]".
* VillainousBSOD: Suffers one when confronted by Strange about his victims.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Strange used him and his MindControlDevice to gain control of Quincy Sharp, and later dumped him in Arkham City.]]
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[[folder:Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NolanNorth
'''Oswald Cobblepot''' is the heir to the prestigious Cobblepot family, with has a long rivalry with the Waynes. Educated in England, Cobblepot found more in common with thugs than the elite and returned to Gotham City to take over his family's businesses, take revenge on the Waynes for his family's fall from fortune, and take control of the criminal underworld. Basing his numerous operations out of the Cyrus Pinkney's Institute for Natural History and attached Iceberg Lounge, Cobblepot, known among some underworld circles as '''The Penguin''', ruthlessly began expanding his businesses while being able to avoid being confirmed as a criminal by the G.C.P.D. That situation ended when Arkham City was built and Cobblepot refused to be evicted, entering into a gun battle with the police and TYGER before being sealed into the prison. He controls the largest and best supplied gang within the walls of the prison, and is aiming to take out Two-Face and Joker's crews for complete control.
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* ChronicVillainy: Going hand-in-hand with ObliviouslyEvil, it actually seems that Tetch is entirely harmless (if insane) when kept away from anyone that fit his "Alice" victim archetype. When he sees one who matches, though...
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: His targeted Alices are, according to him, all blonde. However, as shown in a side story to Arkham City in ''Unhinged'', he's willing to take a great many women regardless of hair color.
* EvilGenius: He provided the mind control tech and chemicals that allowed Strange to come to power.
* EvilRedhead: Hard to tell due to the condition of his entire body, but his hair ''is'' red. Whether or not he can be considered [[ObliviouslyEvil legitimately evil, however]], is another thing altogether.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His chatting with Batman in ''Origins'' proves he's enjoying the mental struggle a great deal.
* FingerlessGloves: Wears them in both ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Origins''.
* FriendlessBackground: If you return to his hideout after beating him, he wonders why you resisted, since he had only wanted a friend.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Sharp had Tetch thrown into solitary confinement long enough to break his mind even worse than it was before.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Uses a hypnotic suggestion to lure Batman into taking his psychoactive chemicals. The method lures him in with what he most wants. Which at the time, is the cure to the TITAN poisoning]].
* MadScientist: See BunnyEarsLawyer above.
* MindControlDevice: How he controls his minions, and [[spoiler:how he attempts to control Batman]].
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Takes up this role for several non-story Predator maps in ''Origins'', and is arguably even less lucid than the Joker, to the point where some of his men comment that they can barely understand what he's saying.
* NiceHat: To the point he suffers a mental breakdown after Batman steps on it.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: His appearances in Arkham City, both in the game and in a side story, involve setting people and animals up in tea parties. In the interview tapes, he does this with rats, in the game proper, he does this with [[spoiler:Batman]], and in "Vicki in Wonderland", he does this with Vicki Vale, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, the Carpenter, and one other woman.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's one of the less threatening of Batman's Rogues Gallery, but ask one of his Alices how harmless he is...
* ObliviouslyEvil: Doesn't remember the Alices he goes through and doesn't seem to understand how what he does is wrong, and he's just as upset at what he is being "accused" of by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]].
* ReluctantPsycho: Ironically, since TheMadHatter is characterized by enjoying his own madness. However, he doesn't respond poorly to being called mad.
-->'''Tetch:''' As a hat. Yes, as a hat.
* SerialKiller: He's killed many an "Alice".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His actual appearance in the game is short-lived, and on the surface he doesn't seem very important to the main plot. [[spoiler:But it's his MindControlDevice that Hugo Strange used to take control of Quincy Sharp. Meaning that without him, Arkham City may not even exist at all.]]
* SpotOfTea: It's his "[[WorldOfPun special-tea]]".
* VillainousBSOD: Suffers one when confronted by Strange about his victims.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Strange used him and his MindControlDevice to gain control of Quincy Sharp, and later dumped him in Arkham City.]]
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[[folder:Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[WelcomeToHell Welcome to hell!]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NolanNorth
'''Oswald Cobblepot''' is the heir to the prestigious Cobblepot family, with has a long rivalry with the Waynes. Educated in England, Cobblepot found more in common with thugs than the elite and returned to Gotham City to take over his family's businesses, take revenge on the Waynes for his family's fall from fortune, and take control of the criminal underworld. Basing his numerous operations out of the Cyrus Pinkney's Institute for Natural History and attached Iceberg Lounge, Cobblepot, known among some underworld circles as '''The Penguin''', ruthlessly began expanding his businesses while being able to avoid being confirmed as a criminal by the G.C.P.D. That situation ended when Arkham City was built and Cobblepot refused to be evicted, entering into a gun battle with the police and TYGER before being sealed into the prison. He controls the largest and best supplied gang within the walls of the prison, and is aiming to take out Two-Face and Joker's crews for complete control.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:Played with. Deadshot is employed by Hugo Strange to tie up loose ends regarding Protocol 10. One of the targets on his list, right after Batman, is Bruce Wayne. Since Strange knows that Batman and Wayne are the same person, it is very likely that he sent Deadshot on a wild-goose chase to keep him inside Arkham City long enough for Protocol 10 to start [[spoiler:hoping that the killer would die during the bombing. It doesn't work.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:Played YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Played with. Deadshot is employed by Hugo Strange to tie up loose ends regarding Protocol 10. One of the targets on his list, right after Batman, is Bruce Wayne. Since Strange knows that Batman and Wayne are the same person, it is very likely that he sent Deadshot on a wild-goose chase to keep him inside Arkham City long enough for Protocol 10 to start [[spoiler:hoping that the killer would die during the bombing. It doesn't work.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Like her father, [[spoiler:her body disappears. Considering the short distance to the nearest Lazarus Pit, it's not a stretch to think that she'll be back.]]
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* HarmlessFreezing: It's mentioned in ''Cold, Cold Heart'' that the chemical composition of the cryofluid he uses in his gun can perfectly preserve living tissue without cellular degeneration; all of the victims that Batman quickly resuscitates are freezing afterwards, but otherwise perfectly healthy. It's only when Penguin uses the gun carelessly on a captive police officer that his hand becomes brittle enough to easily shatter with a hammer.
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* AntiVillain: He just wants to be reunited with his wife, Nora, like the comics and [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries cartoon]]. However, also like the comics, this doesn't stop him from trying to put Batman [[WorldOfPun on ice]]. Judging by Arkham City alone, he barely qualifies as a villain. Unlike others who go on the rampage, he was [[spoiler:kidnapped by Penguin and forced to create a Titan cure by Joker. He even let Batman borrow some of his technology]]. He's not exactly a pleasant person to be around and is too focused on revenge, but by the end of the game Batman at least considers him redeemable.
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* AntiVillain: He just wants to be reunited with his wife, Nora, like the comics and [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries cartoon]]. However, also like the comics, this doesn't stop him from trying to put Batman [[WorldOfPun on ice]]. Judging by Arkham City alone, he barely qualifies as a villain. Unlike In ''City'', unlike others who go on the rampage, he was [[spoiler:kidnapped by Penguin and forced to create a Titan cure by Joker. He even let Batman borrow some of his technology]]. He's not exactly a pleasant person In ''Cold, Cold Heart'' he appears to be around and is too focused on revenge, a revenge spree like in "Heart of Ice", but by the end of the game Batman at least considers [[spoiler: it turns out he just wants to rescue Nora.]] Granted, this doesn't stop him redeemable.from carelessly endangering hundreds of lives.
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* BerserkButton: Smashing one of the sculptures of Nora that are in the room during the boss fight is a good way to piss him off.
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* BerserkButton: Smashing one of the sculptures of Nora that are in the room during the ''City'' boss fight is a good way to piss him off.
** Kidnapping and torturing [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ferris Boyle]] in ''Cold, Cold Heart''.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Penguin freezes a cop's hand and smashed it with a hammer while using a P.A. system to let Batman hear the whole thing. It's heavily implied that he does this with the captive Precinct 13 policemen frequently, as well.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Penguin freezes a cop's hand and smashed it with a hammer while using a P.A. system to let Batman hear the whole thing. It's heavily implied that he does this with the captive Precinct 13 policemen frequently, as well. Puns aside, this is also what he did to Mr. Freeze by locking him in a hot museum display without his suit.
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* CompositeCharacter: While he's not disfigured (or at least in the same way) as he was in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', his clothes are similar to those worn by the Penguin there and looks a bit like Danny [=DeVito=], albeit how the actor normally looks. He has s savage and animalistic, but [[FauxAffablyEvil trying to pass off as refined]] personality (as seen in ''Returns'') instead of the actual refined personality of the comics version and has a similar backstory of his family having a grudge against the Waynes ala ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
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* CompositeCharacter: While he's not disfigured (or at least in the same way) as he was in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', his clothes are similar to those worn by the Penguin there and looks a bit like Danny [=DeVito=], albeit how the actor normally looks. He has s He's savage and animalistic, but [[FauxAffablyEvil trying to pass off as refined]] personality (as seen in ''Returns'') instead of the actual refined personality of the comics version and has a similar backstory of his family having a grudge against the Waynes ala ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
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* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: BiggerBad: In ''Origins'', he's indirectly referred to by Shiva multiple times as her master; one of her extortion tapes reveals that she, acting on his orders, gave Quincy Sharp the idea to restore Arkham Asylum as leverage to become mayor of Gotham.]]
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* [[spoiler: DeathSeeker: Wishes for either Hugo Strange or Batman to take his place as the Head of the Demon, and seems almost frightened of the idea of living longer. When Batman repeatedly refuses to kill him, Ra's goes so far as to put a knife to Talia's throat and ''demand'' that Batman kill him.]]
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* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Twice during the Wonder Tower climax. First by his own hand while trying to kill Batman. And shortly after landing on a gate structure. Ouch.]]
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:In ''Arkham Origins'', after Batman rescues him from the Joker's men and asks him about the Joker's whereabouts, he still tries to get Copperhead to kill Batman. Though Batman ''did'' pull a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on him.]]
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:In In ''Arkham Origins'', after Batman rescues [[spoiler:rescues him from the Joker's men and asks him about the Joker's whereabouts, whereabouts,]] he still tries to get Copperhead to kill Batman. Though Batman ''did'' pull a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on him.]]
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** He gets more prominence in ''Cold Cold Heart'', having teamed with Mr. Freeze to kidnap Boyle and tries to steal his "treasure" later on. [[spoiler: He winds up frozen in a block of ice for his trouble]].
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Sharp had Tetch thrown into soluntary confinement long enough to break his mind even worse than it was before.
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* UnexpectedCharacter: While he's [[ComicBook/TheLongHalloween fought the Bat before]], he's far from a mainstay villain, so his appearance came as something of a surprise.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: His obsession with ice and preservation led him to freeze several of his neighbors' pets, an act that landed him in reform school. Although he argues that they ''were'' sick and dying, and that he ''did'' plan to revive them later.
** Despite this, Freeze isn't completely insane like say, Poison Ivy, in that he believes living in subzero temperature is man's natural state or anything. He's just deeply depressed and obsessive.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: How exactly is "Ra's" supposed to be pronounced? That's not a possessive apostrophe; it's a glottal stop. Unlike the Nolan trilogy, this game opts for a "raysh" pronunciation. The trilogy is closer to correct, but still not quite there.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's one of the less threatening of Batman's Rogues Gallery, but ask one of his Alices how harmless he is...
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* FauxAffiablyEvil: His chatting with Batman in ''Origins'' proves he's enjoying the mental struggle a great deal.
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* ManInBlack: His outfit in ''Arkham Origins''.
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* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: After Batman starts investigating his killings, Deadshot comes after him behind schedule.
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[[folder:Calendar Man (Julian Gregory Day)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Thirty days has November. April, June, and September. Of twenty eight is but one. And all the rest are thirty one. Of course leap year comes and slays. Every four years got it right, and twenty eight is twenty nine."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
'''Julian Day''' was a man obsessed with dates and their meaning, becoming the infamous criminal '''Calendar Man''' and tormenting Gotham City every holiday with insane themed schemes that resulted in the loss of much life. After being imprisoned in Arkham City, Calendar Man took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. However, Two-Face soon arrived and captured the courthouse for himself, and locked Calendar Man in a cell in the building's basement.
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
'''Julian Day''' was a man obsessed with dates and their meaning, becoming the infamous criminal '''Calendar Man''' and tormenting Gotham City every holiday with insane themed schemes that resulted in the loss of much life. After being imprisoned in Arkham City, Calendar Man took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. However, Two-Face soon arrived and captured the courthouse for himself, and locked Calendar Man in a cell in the building's basement.
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'''Roman Sionis''' was
* AbusiveParents[=/=]ParentalNeglect: From the day he was born, Roman's parents cared nothing for him. They hadn't even left the hospital after his birth before he fell onto the ground and cracked his head open while they chatted away uncaring. After paying off the hospital to cover up the accident, they proceeded to ignore him for his entire life until they needed a scapegoat for Sionis Industries going under. He finally snapped and burned their house down with them in it.
* AdaptationalHeroism: More like Adaptational ''Softness'', as he is implied to have loved his girlfriend and didn't aim his sadism out against his mooks as much, to the point that at least a quarter of them were actually loyal. Black Mask in the comics... well, he disfigures his former fiancee's face for leaving him, and tortured Stephanie Brown brutally before fatally shooting her after she chose to not kill him. He's still a horribly sadistic monster, but appears to be not ''quite'' as bad.
* AscendedExtra: He goes from a brief cameo in ''Arkham City'' to becoming the main antagonist of ''Arkham Origins''. [[spoiler:Even though he actually isn't the BigBad after all, he still gets a lot more focus and screen time in ''Origins'' than he did in previous games.]]
* AssholeVictim: The brutal crimelord gets beaten up by a couple of TYGER mercs in ''City''.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Origins'', as while he is a real jerk, the Joker is far worse, and actually killed many of his men and some cops. By contrast, it is implied that he loves his girlfriends, and that he was nowhere near as brutal as the Joker is.]]
* BadBoss: The reveal trailer for ''Arkham Origins'' shows him kneeling over one of his own men injured in the warehouse explosion and pleading for help, picking up a smouldering board (with nails in it), and smashing his head in. [[spoiler:Actually, downplayed. His men don't seem to have a problem with him - provided they stay loyal. [[IdentityImpersonator The Joker]] on the other hand... And while Sionis is stated to be a brutal and sadistic crime lord, the game heavily emphasizes that the Joker is much worse.]]
* BigBad: Of ''Arkham Origins''. [[spoiler:Subverted; it's really the Joker, who took over his operation.]]
* BonusBoss: He shows up in a challenge map pack in ''Arkham City'', and the player gets to fight him on the Freight Train map. [[spoiler:He also serves this role as a Most Wanted villain in ''Origins''.]]
* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:Sionis ''really'' gets the short end of the stick in ''Arkham Origins''.]] His entire life has been one bad break after the next, barring his mob activities [[spoiler:for the most part]]. In ''City'' and his prequel story in ''Unhinged'', he seems to be ''really'' trying to get himself back on his feet regarding keeping up with the {{supervillain}}s around him, but spends the entire time either trying to run away from them or being beaten up by TYGER.
* TheCameo: The only time you see him in ''Arkham City'' is in the processing center at the beginning as he attacks a couple of TYGER guards with a folding chair before getting tasered and beaten down.
* CarnivalOfKillers: ''Arkham Origins'' revolves around Black Mask placing a bounty on Batman's head, which eight assassins are seeking to collect.
* [[spoiler:CastAsAMask]]: [[spoiler:Pun not intended.]]
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: He wields a chair to try and defend himself from Tyger goons at the beginning of ''Arkham City'', but gets tazed before being able to do anything.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He is well-known for employing this for intimidation and because it entertains him.
* ContractualBossImmunity: When you fight him in the Robin DLC, he's immune to all forms of instant knock outs, much like the Joker's boss fight.
* CoolMask: His black mask was made out of his father's coffin, and gets burned into his skin at some point.
* DemotedToExtra: In-universe, as he's the BigBad of ''Arkham Origins'', which is set several years before Asylum and City. In the former, he was only alluded to and in the latter, he only shows up as part of a background event and in a DLC challenge.
* {{Determinator}}: Even after [[spoiler:having his position usurped by The Joker, and enduring intense physical and emotional torment]], the first thing he does after he's set free is attempt to re-establish himself in Gotham's underworld. Sionis himself even remarks that a nigh-insane amount of perseverance is something both he and Batman seem to have in common.
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss]]: [[spoiler:In ''Arkham Origins''.]]
* DoomedByCanon: In ''Arkham Origins'', Black Mask is the undisputed ruler of Gotham's underworld and Roman Sionis is still a free man, his identity hidden behind his mask and with most Gotham criminals under his heel, including a corrupt police force and international assassins on the payroll. Come Arkham City, he's a lone FunnyBackgroundEvent.
* [[BadassInANiceSuit Dressed to Kill]]: Sports a ''damn'' fine suit in ''Arkham Origins''. He's not afraid of doing dirty work while wearing it, either.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: According to ''Origins'', he has several girlfriends, at least one of which he opts to MercyKill when he doesn't really have to give her the courtesy.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: By implication in ''Origins''. [[spoiler:The Joker is so brutal by comparison that almost a quarter of his men try to abandon him, and many others are too scared to do so, meaning that Sionis was nowhere near as bad.]]
* GreatEscape: He's the first and only inmate to ever escape from Arkham City [[spoiler:until Hush]]. He stole some explosives from Penguin, waited for a guard shift change, then blew a hole in the perimeter wall and ran off. He was recaptured soon after. Incidentally, his escape is what led to [[NiceJobFixingItVillain the installation of auto-turrets along the perimeter.]]
* GutturalGrowler: Courtesy of both Creator/NolanNorth and Creator/BrianBloom.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Surprisingly, ''Origins'' gives him this treatment, though he's also a crime boss. [[spoiler:Sionis is forced to MercyKill his girlfriend, kidnapped, has his identity stolen by the Joker, sees a quarter of his loyal men [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness massacred by the Joker as an example to the rest]], and loses his family's steel mill to become [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity "Joker's Funland"]].]] By the time the game ends, it's hard not to feel at least a little sorry for him.
* ManInWhite: In previews for ''Origins'', he appears in a white pinstripe suit.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: His reaction to the Joker. Over the course of ''Arkham Origins'', we see [[JustifiedTrope there is a very good reason for this]].
* {{Retcon}}: Kind of. We see Sionis' face in ''Origins'', meaning that Black Mask's...well, mask hasn't been burned into his face yet; a bit odd, considering it was established that this happened during his first personal encounter with Batman. And yet, when he meets Batman, no burning. A mystery.
* SelfMadeOrphan: They [[AbusiveParents kind of deserved]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive it though]].
* SkullForAHead: His black mask.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: And insanity. He believed that Joker was "no-one that matters", underestimating his abilities. [[spoiler:This led to him being overthrown and his life ruined.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:In ''Arkham Origins'', after Batman rescues him from the Joker's men and asks him about the Joker's whereabouts, he still tries to get Copperhead to kill Batman. Though Batman ''did'' pull a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on him.]]
* VillainousFriendship: With Firefly.
* TheWorfEffect: His profile tells of how he's a feared gang leader. TYGER makes swift work of him in the opening of ''Arkham City''.
* WholeCostumeReference[=/=]MythologyGag: His appearance in ''Arkham Origins'' recalls his design on ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Thirty days has November. April, June, and September. Of twenty eight is but one. And all the rest are thirty one. Of course leap year comes and slays. Every four years got it right, and twenty eight is twenty nine."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
'''Julian Day''' was a man obsessed with dates and their meaning, becoming the infamous criminal '''Calendar Man''' and tormenting Gotham City every holiday with insane themed schemes that resulted in the loss of much life. After being imprisoned in Arkham City, Calendar Man took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. However, Two-Face soon arrived and captured the courthouse for himself, and locked Calendar Man in a cell in the building's basement.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: More like Adaptational ''Softness'', as he is implied to have loved his girlfriend and didn't aim his sadism out against his mooks as much, to the point that at least a quarter of them were actually loyal. Black Mask in the comics... well, he disfigures his former fiancee's face for leaving him, and tortured Stephanie Brown brutally before fatally shooting her after she chose to not kill him. He's still a horribly sadistic monster, but appears to be not ''quite'' as bad.
* AscendedExtra: He goes from a brief cameo in ''Arkham City'' to becoming the main antagonist of ''Arkham Origins''. [[spoiler:Even though he actually isn't the BigBad after all, he still gets a lot more focus and screen time in ''Origins'' than he did in previous games.]]
* AssholeVictim: The brutal crimelord gets beaten up by a couple of TYGER mercs in ''City''.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Origins'', as while he is a real jerk, the Joker is far worse, and actually killed many of his men and some cops. By contrast, it is implied that he loves his girlfriends, and that he was nowhere near as brutal as the Joker is.]]
* BadBoss: The reveal trailer for ''Arkham Origins'' shows him kneeling over one of his own men injured in the warehouse explosion and pleading for help, picking up a smouldering board (with nails in it), and smashing his head in. [[spoiler:Actually, downplayed. His men don't seem to have a problem with him - provided they stay loyal. [[IdentityImpersonator The Joker]] on the other hand... And while Sionis is stated to be a brutal and sadistic crime lord, the game heavily emphasizes that the Joker is much worse.]]
* BigBad: Of ''Arkham Origins''. [[spoiler:Subverted; it's really the Joker, who took over his operation.]]
* BonusBoss: He shows up in a challenge map pack in ''Arkham City'', and the player gets to fight him on the Freight Train map. [[spoiler:He also serves this role as a Most Wanted villain in ''Origins''.]]
* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:Sionis ''really'' gets the short end of the stick in ''Arkham Origins''.]] His entire life has been one bad break after the next, barring his mob activities [[spoiler:for the most part]]. In ''City'' and his prequel story in ''Unhinged'', he seems to be ''really'' trying to get himself back on his feet regarding keeping up with the {{supervillain}}s around him, but spends the entire time either trying to run away from them or being beaten up by TYGER.
* TheCameo: The only time you see him in ''Arkham City'' is in the processing center at the beginning as he attacks a couple of TYGER guards with a folding chair before getting tasered and beaten down.
* CarnivalOfKillers: ''Arkham Origins'' revolves around Black Mask placing a bounty on Batman's head, which eight assassins are seeking to collect.
* [[spoiler:CastAsAMask]]: [[spoiler:Pun not intended.]]
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: He wields a chair to try and defend himself from Tyger goons at the beginning of ''Arkham City'', but gets tazed before being able to do anything.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He is well-known for employing this for intimidation and because it entertains him.
* ContractualBossImmunity: When you fight him in the Robin DLC, he's immune to all forms of instant knock outs, much like the Joker's boss fight.
* CoolMask: His black mask was made out of his father's coffin, and gets burned into his skin at some point.
* DemotedToExtra: In-universe, as he's the BigBad of ''Arkham Origins'', which is set several years before Asylum and City. In the former, he was only alluded to and in the latter, he only shows up as part of a background event and in a DLC challenge.
* {{Determinator}}: Even after [[spoiler:having his position usurped by The Joker, and enduring intense physical and emotional torment]], the first thing he does after he's set free is attempt to re-establish himself in Gotham's underworld. Sionis himself even remarks that a nigh-insane amount of perseverance is something both he and Batman seem to have in common.
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss]]: [[spoiler:In ''Arkham Origins''.]]
* DoomedByCanon: In ''Arkham Origins'', Black Mask is the undisputed ruler of Gotham's underworld and Roman Sionis is still a free man, his identity hidden behind his mask and with most Gotham criminals under his heel, including a corrupt police force and international assassins on the payroll. Come Arkham City, he's a lone FunnyBackgroundEvent.
* [[BadassInANiceSuit Dressed to Kill]]: Sports a ''damn'' fine suit in ''Arkham Origins''. He's not afraid of doing dirty work while wearing it, either.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: According to ''Origins'', he has several girlfriends, at least one of which he opts to MercyKill when he doesn't really have to give her the courtesy.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: By implication in ''Origins''. [[spoiler:The Joker is so brutal by comparison that almost a quarter of his men try to abandon him, and many others are too scared to do so, meaning that Sionis was nowhere near as bad.]]
* GreatEscape: He's the first and only inmate to ever escape from Arkham City [[spoiler:until Hush]]. He stole some explosives from Penguin, waited for a guard shift change, then blew a hole in the perimeter wall and ran off. He was recaptured soon after. Incidentally, his escape is what led to [[NiceJobFixingItVillain the installation of auto-turrets along the perimeter.]]
* GutturalGrowler: Courtesy of both Creator/NolanNorth and Creator/BrianBloom.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Surprisingly, ''Origins'' gives him this treatment, though he's also a crime boss. [[spoiler:Sionis is forced to MercyKill his girlfriend, kidnapped, has his identity stolen by the Joker, sees a quarter of his loyal men [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness massacred by the Joker as an example to the rest]], and loses his family's steel mill to become [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity "Joker's Funland"]].]] By the time the game ends, it's hard not to feel at least a little sorry for him.
* ManInWhite: In previews for ''Origins'', he appears in a white pinstripe suit.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: His reaction to the Joker. Over the course of ''Arkham Origins'', we see [[JustifiedTrope there is a very good reason for this]].
* {{Retcon}}: Kind of. We see Sionis' face in ''Origins'', meaning that Black Mask's...well, mask hasn't been burned into his face yet; a bit odd, considering it was established that this happened during his first personal encounter with Batman. And yet, when he meets Batman, no burning. A mystery.
* SelfMadeOrphan: They [[AbusiveParents kind of deserved]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive it though]].
* SkullForAHead: His black mask.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: And insanity. He believed that Joker was "no-one that matters", underestimating his abilities. [[spoiler:This led to him being overthrown and his life ruined.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:In ''Arkham Origins'', after Batman rescues him from the Joker's men and asks him about the Joker's whereabouts, he still tries to get Copperhead to kill Batman. Though Batman ''did'' pull a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on him.]]
* VillainousFriendship: With Firefly.
* TheWorfEffect: His profile tells of how he's a feared gang leader. TYGER makes swift work of him in the opening of ''Arkham City''.
* WholeCostumeReference[=/=]MythologyGag: His appearance in ''Arkham Origins'' recalls his design on ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
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[[folder:Calendar Man (Julian Gregory Day)]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
'''Julian Day''' was a man obsessed with dates and their meaning, becoming the infamous criminal '''Calendar Man''' and tormenting Gotham City every holiday with insane themed schemes that resulted in the loss of much life. After being imprisoned in Arkham City, Calendar Man took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. However, Two-Face soon arrived and captured the courthouse for himself, and locked Calendar Man in a cell in the building's basement.
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Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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* ArmCannon: He has a pair of silenced wrist-mounted 9mm cannons.
* BadBoss: In his battle in ''Origins'', he threatens his minions constantly by aiming his guns at them and telling them to not slack off. It serves the purpose of keeping them alert and making him somewhat unpredictable, as he can possibly spot Batman as he's doing so.
* BerserkButton: Causing him to miss his target.
** [[spoiler:He angrily destroys the spotlights during the fight against him in ''Blackgate'' as they throw off his aim. Batman needs to use this distraction to get close to him.]]
* BonusBoss: In both ''City'' and ''Origins'', Deadshot is dealt with in a sidequest storyline rather than in the main story.
* ChekhovsGunman: When playing as Bruce Wayne at the start of the game, Deadshot is seen in the line ahead of you as you enter Arkham City. He even says to Bruce "You're on my list" and mock shoots him with his finger. Unless the player is familiar with Deadshot or has already played the game, through, the player's unlikely to notice that it's Deadshot.
* CrosshairAware: Used during the first stage of the fight against him in ''Arkham Origins Blackgate''.
* DeathSeeker: His profile notes that he hates himself as much as he does his targets, with psychologists having diagnosed with "suicidal tendencies". In ''Origins'', upon his defeat and Batman's proclamation that his time of harming innocents is over, he translates that to him being about to kill him and shrugs it off, saying [[TheFatalist if that's how it's gonna be, that's how it's gonna be]].
* [[BeardOfEvil Goatee of Evil]]: He sports a classic "bad guy" beard.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: A staple for the character.
** [[spoiler:Evidenced with the third kill in the his side-quest, where he manages to kill the target by ricocheting the bullet off of a metal shutter before hitting him. This was proven physically impossible by ''Series/MythBusters'', so it's probable that he did it just to prove he's that good.]]
** And in ''Arkham Origins'', [[spoiler:he ricochets another shot to ''shoot through a SWAT sniper before taking out a helicopter's tail rotor'' and causing it to crash]]. Also in ''Origins'', not only does his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment single-shot murder of several cops at the same time]] cause even ''[[ServileSnarker Alfred]]'' to have a SarcasmFailure, but his LaserSight deflects off of corners in gameplay to hit Batman.
* MarkedBullet: He uses custom rounds with his moniker on them. It's one of several mistakes that eventually leads the Dark Knight straight to him.
* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: After Batman starts investigating his killings, Deadshot comes after him behind schedule.
* OneHitKill: Unlike other gun-toting enemies, he can kill Batman with one attack (if you listen when he fires, it sounds like 3 or 4 shots very rapidly) in ''Arkham City''.
* PornStache: As part of his BeardOfEvil.
* ProfessionalKiller: He doesn't call himself "the world's best assassin" for nothing.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His look in ''Origins''.
* TrojanPrisoner: Got into Arkham City disguised as a regular Blackgate transfer, had his weapons smuggled in separately, and then got to work. See ChekhovsGunman.
* [[spoiler:WeWillMeetAgain: After Batman defeats him and traps him in a monorail car.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Deadshot:''' This isn't over, Batman! I swear!]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:Played with. Deadshot is employed by Hugo Strange to tie up loose ends regarding Protocol 10. One of the targets on his list, right after Batman, is Bruce Wayne. Since Strange knows that Batman and Wayne are the same person, it is very likely that he sent Deadshot on a wild-goose chase to keep him inside Arkham City long enough for Protocol 10 to start [[spoiler:hoping that the killer would die during the bombing. It doesn't work.]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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* BadBoss: In his battle in ''Origins'', he threatens his minions constantly by aiming his guns at them and telling them to not slack off. It serves the purpose of keeping them alert and making him somewhat unpredictable, as he can possibly spot Batman as he's doing so.
* BerserkButton: Causing him to miss his target.
** [[spoiler:He angrily destroys the spotlights during the fight against him in ''Blackgate'' as they throw off his aim. Batman needs to use this distraction to get close to him.]]
* BonusBoss: In both ''City'' and ''Origins'', Deadshot is dealt with in a sidequest storyline rather than in the main story.
* ChekhovsGunman: When playing as Bruce Wayne at the start of the game, Deadshot is seen in the line ahead of you as you enter Arkham City. He even says to Bruce "You're on my list" and mock shoots him with his finger. Unless the player is familiar with Deadshot or has already played the game, through, the player's unlikely to notice that it's Deadshot.
* CrosshairAware: Used during the first stage of the fight against him in ''Arkham Origins Blackgate''.
* DeathSeeker: His profile notes that he hates himself as much as he does his targets, with psychologists having diagnosed with "suicidal tendencies". In ''Origins'', upon his defeat and Batman's proclamation that his time of harming innocents is over, he translates that to him being about to kill him and shrugs it off, saying [[TheFatalist if that's how it's gonna be, that's how it's gonna be]].
* [[BeardOfEvil Goatee of Evil]]: He sports a classic "bad guy" beard.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: A staple for the character.
** [[spoiler:Evidenced with the third kill in the his side-quest, where he manages to kill the target by ricocheting the bullet off of a metal shutter before hitting him. This was proven physically impossible by ''Series/MythBusters'', so it's probable that he did it just to prove he's that good.]]
** And in ''Arkham Origins'', [[spoiler:he ricochets another shot to ''shoot through a SWAT sniper before taking out a helicopter's tail rotor'' and causing it to crash]]. Also in ''Origins'', not only does his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment single-shot murder of several cops at the same time]] cause even ''[[ServileSnarker Alfred]]'' to have a SarcasmFailure, but his LaserSight deflects off of corners in gameplay to hit Batman.
* MarkedBullet: He uses custom rounds with his moniker on them. It's one of several mistakes that eventually leads the Dark Knight straight to him.
* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: After Batman starts investigating his killings, Deadshot comes after him behind schedule.
* OneHitKill: Unlike other gun-toting enemies, he can kill Batman with one attack (if you listen when he fires, it sounds like 3 or 4 shots very rapidly) in ''Arkham City''.
* PornStache: As part of his BeardOfEvil.
* ProfessionalKiller: He doesn't call himself "the world's best assassin" for nothing.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His look in ''Origins''.
* TrojanPrisoner: Got into Arkham City disguised as a regular Blackgate transfer, had his weapons smuggled in separately, and then got to work. See ChekhovsGunman.
* [[spoiler:WeWillMeetAgain: After Batman defeats him and traps him in a monorail car.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Deadshot:''' This isn't over, Batman! I swear!]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:Played with. Deadshot is employed by Hugo Strange to tie up loose ends regarding Protocol 10. One of the targets on his list, right after Batman, is Bruce Wayne. Since Strange knows that Batman and Wayne are the same person, it is very likely that he sent Deadshot on a wild-goose chase to keep him inside Arkham City long enough for Protocol 10 to start [[spoiler:hoping that the killer would die during the bombing. It doesn't work.]]
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[[folder:Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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[[folder:Calendar Man (Julian Gregory Day)]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
'''Julian Day''' was a man obsessed with dates and their meaning, becoming the infamous criminal '''Calendar Man''' and tormenting Gotham City every holiday with insane themed schemes that resulted in the loss of much life. After being imprisoned in Arkham City, Calendar Man took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. However, Two-Face soon arrived and captured the courthouse for himself, and locked Calendar Man in a cell in the building's basement.
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* AdaptationalBadass: By far the most dangerous and frightening incarnation of Calendar Man.
* BadBoss: One of his henchmen ratted him out to Batman, but he wasn't sure which. So on St. Patrick’s Day, he poisoned them all with green snake venom in their green beer.
* BaldOfEvil: As seen in the above image.
* EasterEgg: If you visit his cell in Arkham City in certain holidays (or mess with the system clock), he will tell you a story about a crime he committed on that particular day.
* EvilCripple: He wears a leg brace and elevated shoe and walks with a limp. It doesn't seem to get in the way of his plots.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very calm and polite when you speak to him. However, hearing about some of his crimes makes you wish you could break some of the other bones in his body.
* FatBastard: This incarnation of Calendar Man is a lot heftier than past incarnations.
* TheGhost: In ''Origins''. Strangely, he gets a character bio without actually appearing in the game.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: His M.O.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In every single piece of Batman-related media with the exception of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'', Calendar Man is the epitome of HarmlessVillain, a powerless loser with a bunch of ridiculous costumes and a silly date gimmick. In this game, not only are his stories of past crimes utterly horrifying, but [[spoiler:if you listen to them all and visit him again, you find his cell empty and a Two-Face thug hanging from the ceiling.]]
* RedRightHand: His right leg is shorter than the other, and he has to wear a custom-made platform shoe to stand. His tattoos of the months of the year is also a tip off.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: His cells at the various prisons.
* SelfMadeOrphan: It's implied that he killed his parents on their respective holidays.
* SerialKiller: He has an obsession with killing on holidays. When he was first locked in Arkham City, he would capture anyone entering the Solomon Wayne Courthouse and keep them prisoner until the next holiday, when he would kill them.
* SoftSpokenSadist: His voice is calm and oddly soothing, and he's quite polite when talking to Batman, even as he describes in detail the brutal murders he committed.
* StalkerWithACrush: Some of his crimes have this angle.
* TalkativeLoon: He's very chatty, to say the least.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Inverted, especially in comparison to his comics counterpart: All of his crimes are categorized under murder, murder, and murder alone.
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[[folder:Catwoman (Selina Kyle)]]
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'''Selina Kyle''', aka '''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''', is a master thief with a [[DatingCatwoman complicated]] relationship with Batman. When Arkham City was opened, Catwoman was one of the last two major criminals on the loose, with Two-Face being the other. After Two-Face sold her out and TYGER confiscated all of her stolen goods, she swore revenge on him and vowed to recover her treasures along with all of the other supervillains' personal belongings that Hugo Strange was keeping in a vault inside Arkham City.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: As can be seen in the above image.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Her alternate costumes include [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Animated]] and ComicBook/TheLongHalloween, with an armored version of her normal outfit featured in ''[[ColonCancer Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition]]''.
* AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain: Often skirts the line between the two.
* ArchEnemy: Two-Face, who sold her out in an effort to avoid being sent to Arkham City.
* BadassNormal: She has no abnormal skills, but can tear through dozens of goons [[spoiler:and survive a point blank explosion]].
* [[spoiler:BigBad: In a surprise twist, she fills this role for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOriginsBlackgate''. She works directly for the BiggerBad Amanda Waller and serves as the game's final and most personal antagonist, since she betrays Batman and tricks him into helping with her plan.]]
* {{Caltrops}}: One of her weapons, which she can use to slow down and distract enemies.
* CeilingCling: She can jump upwards and cling to grated surfaces with her claws.
* ClassyCatBurglar: As is tradition.
* CombatStilettos: A part of her costume.
* DanceBattler: As seen whenever she fights.
* DarkActionGirl: While she's still not evil, her actions show that her morals aren't that up to par yet. She even comments about when she started getting a conscience and actually hesitated whether to let Batman die or not.
* DatingCatwoman: She's certainly interested in Batman, to say the least.
* DeadpanSnarker: You thought Alfred was bad? Her whole dialogue oozes sass as well as her thoughts.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: There are secret doors in Wayne Manor that Catwoman can't use.
** Seemingly averted when it comes to Riddler Trophies. If The Cat tries to pickup one of The Bat's trophies, she can and will, despite the Riddler electrifying hers for Batman. While many are impossible for her to get to, some of the simpler ones can be grabbed with no issues, and a couple are trivialized due to her unique skills. Then again, one Batman trophy (in the Museum, by taking a left before the gladiator pit in the Museum) is impossible for Batman to reach without the Line Launcher and features a nearby Catwoman trophy.
* FemmeFatale: As one would expect from Catwoman.
* FemmeFatalons: Two-Face will no doubt [[EyeScream vouch for that]].
* [[spoiler:FinalBoss: Of ''Arkham Orgins: Blackgate''.]]
* FragileSpeedster: She is quicker than other playable characters, but can take less damage.
* FreudianExcuse: In an interesting conversation found on the interview tapes, Hugo Strange comes to the conclusion that Selina might suffer from this more than even she's aware of. From his analysis, she despises men because her father abandoned her, and this is the reason that she can't come to trust Batman. Still, she loves him and seeks his approval, and the way she goes about this is to get his attention by stealing and dressing seductively.
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: It might initially appear to a player that her GogglesDoNothing. But if you look at her face while you have Thief Vision turned on, you'll notice that they've been pulled down from their normal place on her forehead and are now covering her eyes.
* GreenEyes: The game made them particularly striking.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: During her interview tapes, Hugo Strange asks her if she's in love with Batman. She denies it, even stating that he'd have to already be committed to someone, otherwise he wouldn't be able to resist her. However, Strange delves deeper in his analysis, after which her denial seems a lot weaker.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's a thief, no doubt, but she's Batman's ally nonetheless.
* MamaBear: When Strange has her in custody and asks what she'd do if he sent his men after her adopted daughter Holly, Catwoman snarls "Touch her and you're ''dead''." The interview tape ends there. At the beginning of the next one, Strange asks Selina if she's calmed down yet. Exactly what Selina did to make Strange stop recording and wait a while before talking to her again is open to speculation. It's entirely possible that she tried to tear his throat out right then and there, guards or no guards.
* MoralDilemma[=/=]FriendOrIdolDecision: While Batman isn't exactly her ''friend'', she does meet this trope twice. The first one, subtly, consisted of helping/saving him when he was confronting the Joker or getting into the vault. It wasn't difficult. The second one was much more grave, and she either had to save Batman from the verge of death or get out of Arkham City with the loot she recently gained. She placed more consideration for this decision.
* MsFanservice: Skintight outfit? Check. AbsoluteCleavage? Check. Flirtatious nature? Check.
* MurderousThighs: Has a few different varieties of this, like wrapping her right leg around the left side of a Mook's neck and yanking him to the ground to strangle him or swinging down from the ceiling and choking them. Batman can also do the ceiling variant, though he holds their necks closer to his ankles.
* ParentalAbandonment: Mentioned by Hugo Strange. Additionally, if you visit Calendar Man in jail, she'll make a passing reference to the Falcone crime family, which leads to Calendar Man asking about her father; suggesting the plot point from ''Dark Victory'' and ''When in Rome'' (that she possibly is Carmine Falcone's illegitimate daughter) is canon in the ''Arkham'' games.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Holly Robinson. In her interview tapes, Hugo Strange draws parallels between her relationship with Holly to Batman's relationship with Robin.
* PungeonMaster: Cat puns a-plenty, "purrrfect" being one of them.
* SensualSpandex: Wears this kind of costume.
* SheFu: She's quite agile in combat.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:If you choose to leave Arkham City in her third episode, Batman dies, Joker escapes, and Gotham is doomed. Her intervention is what derails the EvilPlan.]]
* SpyCatsuit: Fitting that Catwoman wears a catsuit.
* TakeThatKiss: Before some of her knock-out moves.
* TheTease: Mainly towards Batman.
* ThirdPersonSeductress: Whenever you play as her.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Just like Batman, she never kills anyone in-game, which is how she usually is in the comics.
* VaporWear: She's obviously not wearing a bra.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Hides the palm pilot that she had stolen from Two-Face this way.
* VillainProtagonist: She has her own chapters in City that take place during Batman's. The two storylines crisscross at various points.
* WhipItGood: Her whip is her main weapon, which she can also use to swing between buildings.
* WolverinePublicity: Leading into the game, you'd think Catwoman would've actually been the {{Deuteragonist}} of the game. Her side of the story ended up being surprisingly short.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Most of her moves would fit right into Lucha Libre style matches, like her Frankensteiner takedown.
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[[folder:Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Have you ever seen a flower die? Watched something that was once so beautiful, so full of life, collapse and rot from within?"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AdaptiveArmor: In ''City'' he can reprogram his suit to avoid [[ItOnlyWorksOnce being hurt by the same attacks twice]], e.g., by setting his scanners to constantly watch his back after you attack him from behind, and altering his shields to resist Batman's explosive gel. His adaptations to other attacks are more the result of him just remembering how Batman hurt him and making sure he can't do it again, e.g., after you ambush him from a floor grate, he will freeze over every one he comes across to make sure you're not hiding in it. The original version in ''Origins'' is simply too massive to damage directly.
* AnIcePerson: Via a freak lab accident, his body temperature is below zero.
* AnIceSuit: Needs this to keep himself alive in warm environments due to his low body temperature. It also acts as Powered Armor, seemingly.
* AntiVillain: He just wants to be reunited with his wife, Nora, like the comics and [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries cartoon]]. However, also like the comics, this doesn't stop him from trying to put Batman [[WorldOfPun on ice]]. Judging by Arkham City alone, he barely qualifies as a villain. Unlike others who go on the rampage, he was [[spoiler:kidnapped by Penguin and forced to create a Titan cure by Joker. He even let Batman borrow some of his technology]]. He's not exactly a pleasant person to be around and is too focused on revenge, but by the end of the game Batman at least considers him redeemable.
* BadassBookworm: One of about three guys who can give Batman trouble in a straight fight by himself, and also the only one smart enough to come up with the cure for Joker's disease.
* BadBoss: During his FlunkyBoss fight in "Cold, Cold Heart" he demonstrates a severe lack of care regarding where he shoots his freeze ray, often hitting his own henchmen. In a later stage he freezes the entire room without a second thought to the men still inside who don't have high tech thermal gear.
* BaldOfEvil: For a given value of "evil".
* BeehiveBarrier: Can summon one to protect himself.
* BerserkButton: Smashing one of the sculptures of Nora that are in the room during the boss fight is a good way to piss him off.
* {{BFG}}: His Freeze Gun, especially the one from ''Cold, Cold Heart'' which needs to be attached to his armor for him to use it at all.
* BodyHorror: He can only survive in subzero temperatures, but at the same time it looks like the cold is taking its toll on his body. His fingers and toes are pitch black from frostbite and his ears are nearly ''gone''; only stubs remain.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Mildly in ''Arkham City'', where, after being rescued, he steps on the Penguin's broken hand with his extremely heavy boots (the ones with spikes for walking in ice). At least until Batman tells him to stop. More straightforward example in "Cold, Cold Heart" where he encases Ferris Boyle in ice until he'll tell him the codes to freeing Nora.
* CompositeCharacter: He's based on his ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' incarnation, including his origins, voice filter while he's in his armor, and seems to be undergoing deterioration like his ''B: TAS'' incarnation in ''The New Batman Adventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "[[NextSundayAD Artifacts]]". He also wears armor, ala ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''.
* CreepyMonotone: His voice becomes this during his boss fight, in part because of the way his suit filters it.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: He averts BossArenaIdiocy -- when you find a way to damage him, Freeze immediately neutralizes it. For example, if you jump on him from a railing, he'll not only freeze that particular railing, but all the other railings as well.
* EnemyMine: Makes it very clear to Batman that their working together is only a temporary thing:
-->'''Fries:''' Don't let this situation fool you. We are ''not'' friends.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Justified, as he needs to be in sub-zero temperatures in order to survive. One of his NonStandardGameOver quotes is literal:
--> ''"Death is cold, Batman."''
* FinalExamBoss: You have to know how to use Batman's gadgets and fighting techniques well, since after you hit him with one, [[ItOnlyWorksOnce it won't work a second time]].
* FlunkyBoss: For his boss fight in "Cold, Cold Heart".
* FreakLabAccident: Freeze became what he is after an accident in a cryogenics lab.
* FreezeRay: Though Penguin has it for a portion of ''City''.
* GenreSavvy: He's reluctant to tell Batman how to deactivate his gun [[spoiler:after Penguin steals it]], for obvious reasons. During his boss fight, he [[ItOnlyWorksOnce also adapts to Batman's fighting style]], freezing things over after Batman uses them to damage him. He'll even reprogram his gun so the trick he told Batman [[spoiler:to use on Penguin]] won't work a second time on him.
%%* HeartbrokenBadass
* TheHeavy: The ''Cold, Cold Heart'' DLC has him as the central threat, but he's not the BigBad.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: He can adapt to any takedown move that Batman uses on him once.
* JadedWashout: He is by any standards a brilliant scientist whose gifts can definitely contribute positively to mankind since he doesn't have any obsessive mania to build superweapons or anything like that. But his TraumaCongaLine and being an HeartbrokenBadass who suffered injustice has disillusioned him severely outside of a goal to rescue his wife.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: His love for Nora is what drives ''everything'' he does.
* MadScientist: Although a very tragic one.
* MightyGlacier: No [[AnIcePerson pun]] intended. He's slow, but attacking him head-on is suicide.
* NeverMyFault:
** Although his proposed "solution" isn't nearly so benign, Strange accurately points out in the interview tapes that while Mr. Freeze has good intentions, his unwillingness to admit his own flaws has made his life more difficult than it should have been.
** During the boss fight with him, he might accidentally destroy the statues of Nora while shooting at Batman. If this happens, he says that Batman made him do it.
** Again, during his origin story boss fight he blames Boyle and Batman for everything that he did over the course of the game, including but not limiting to freezing dozens of innocent people, causing untold amounts of property damage, and giving cryogenic weaponry to the Penguin.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Primary specialty is cryogenics, but he also designed his suit himself and can synthesize an antidote for Joker's Titan infected blood.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: After Batman defeats Penguin and gets Freeze his suit back, Freeze proceeds to stomp on Penguin's broken hand until Batman forces him to back off, after which he locks Penguin in one of the display cases in his museum -- the very same one he intended for Bruce Wayne.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Causes his fight with Batman]], though that wasn't entirely his fault.
* PoweredArmor: It's what keeps him alive outside of freezing environments.
* PuzzleBoss: In ''City''. A unique example in that he has several weaknesses, but each can only be targeted once.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His goggles go red when he's about to freeze things (or people).
** In his origin story DLC his goggles are red all of the time, and he is notably more caustic and violent than his subdued behaviors in ''City''.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Occasionally, such as a few lines while stalking Batman in his ''City'' boss fight. Also shows up in "Cold, Cold Heart", where he calmly and demurely explains to a frozen Ferris Boyle that his vital signs are dropping, and that if he doesn't give up the codes to getting Nora back Victor will let him die.
* StealthBasedMission: Oracle tells Batman when the fight begins not to take Freeze head-on, since Freeze can easily overpower him. The achievement for defeating him is even called "Hide and Seek".
** True to form, his final boss fight in "Cold, Cold Heart" is also predator style.
* TheStoic: He almost never shows any emotions.
** NotSoStoic: Reacts with either extreme anger or desperate love where Nora is concerned.
* TailorMadePrison: Has a unique prison cell to keep him alive without his suit and its assorted powers.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: His obsession with ice and preservation led him to freeze several of his neighbors' pets, an act that landed him in reform school. Although he argues that they ''were'' sick and dying, and that he ''did'' plan to revive them later.
** Despite this, Freeze isn't completely insane like say, Poison Ivy, in that he believes living in subzero temperature is man's natural state or anything. He's just deeply depressed and obsessive.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He's a very tragic character, to say the least. So much that in ''Cold, Cold Heart'', after finding out about his StartOfDarkness, Batman immediately changes his target to the one responsible for his condition.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: An optional conversation with Batman, after [[spoiler:the latter rescues and locates Nora]] has Freeze thanking Batman for saving her. His response is simple:
--> ''"Fix her and quit this life. You are better than this."''
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[[folder:Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You're late, Batman. Late, late, late."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Peter [=MacNicol=]
'''Jervis Tetch''' was an expert hypnotist and chemist who was obsessed with Literature/AliceInWonderland and came to believe that he was an incarnation of the '''Mad Hatter''' from the story. He became obsessed with finding Alice, and murders several blonde women before being caught by Batman and sent to Arkham Asylum. There, he was taken advantage of by Hugo Strange, who had him create mind control substances to help his domination of his TYGER guards. Once he was done with him, Strange threw Mad Hatter into Arkham City, where he gathered a small gang with his mind control devices and sought to add one more member to his gang: Batman.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BunnyEarsLawyer: It's hard to find anything that he says that makes sense whatsoever, but according to Strange, his work in chemistry is unparalled.
* ChronicVillainy: Going hand-in-hand with ObliviouslyEvil, it actually seems that Tetch is entirely harmless (if insane) when kept away from anyone that fit his "Alice" victim archetype. When he sees one who matches, though...
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: His targeted Alices are, according to him, all blonde. However, as shown in a side story to Arkham City in ''Unhinged'', he's willing to take a great many women regardless of hair color.
* EvilGenius: He provided the mind control tech and chemicals that allowed Strange to come to power.
* EvilRedhead: Hard to tell due to the condition of his entire body, but his hair ''is'' red. Whether or not he can be considered [[ObliviouslyEvil legitimately evil, however]], is another thing altogether.
* FingerlessGloves: Wears them in both ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Origins''.
* FriendlessBackground: If you return to his hideout after beating him, he wonders why you resisted, since he had only wanted a friend.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Uses a hypnotic suggestion to lure Batman into taking his psychoactive chemicals. The method lures him in with what he most wants. Which at the time, is the cure to the TITAN poisoning]].
* MadScientist: See BunnyEarsLawyer above.
* MindControlDevice: How he controls his minions, and [[spoiler:how he attempts to control Batman]].
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Takes up this role for several non-story Predator maps in ''Origins'', and is arguably even less lucid than the Joker, to the point where some of his men comment that they can barely understand what he's saying.
* NiceHat: To the point he suffers a mental breakdown after Batman steps on it.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: His appearances in Arkham City, both in the game and in a side story, involve setting people and animals up in tea parties. In the interview tapes, he does this with rats, in the game proper, he does this with [[spoiler:Batman]], and in "Vicki in Wonderland", he does this with Vicki Vale, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, the Carpenter, and one other woman.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Doesn't remember the Alices he goes through and doesn't seem to understand how what he does is wrong, and he's just as upset at what he is being "accused" of by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]].
* ReluctantPsycho: Ironically, since TheMadHatter is characterized by enjoying his own madness. However, he doesn't respond poorly to being called mad.
-->'''Tetch:''' As a hat. Yes, as a hat.
* SerialKiller: He's killed many an "Alice".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His actual appearance in the game is short-lived, and on the surface he doesn't seem very important to the main plot. [[spoiler:But it's his MindControlDevice that Hugo Strange used to take control of Quincy Sharp. Meaning that without him, Arkham City may not even exist at all.]]
* SpotOfTea: It's his "[[WorldOfPun special-tea]]".
* VillainousBSOD: Suffers one when confronted by Strange about his victims.
* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Strange used him and his MindControlDevice to gain control of Quincy Sharp, and later dumped him in Arkham City.]]
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[[folder:Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[WelcomeToHell Welcome to hell!]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NolanNorth
'''Oswald Cobblepot''' is the heir to the prestigious Cobblepot family, with has a long rivalry with the Waynes. Educated in England, Cobblepot found more in common with thugs than the elite and returned to Gotham City to take over his family's businesses, take revenge on the Waynes for his family's fall from fortune, and take control of the criminal underworld. Basing his numerous operations out of the Cyrus Pinkney's Institute for Natural History and attached Iceberg Lounge, Cobblepot, known among some underworld circles as '''The Penguin''', ruthlessly began expanding his businesses while being able to avoid being confirmed as a criminal by the G.C.P.D. That situation ended when Arkham City was built and Cobblepot refused to be evicted, entering into a gun battle with the police and TYGER before being sealed into the prison. He controls the largest and best supplied gang within the walls of the prison, and is aiming to take out Two-Face and Joker's crews for complete control.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BadBoss:
** In the GCPD, he lets some of his goons know that Batman is coming for them... and laughs about it. Shortly after, he has all the bridges detonated to cut off Joker's forces (not reckoning on the sewers), and doesn't give a crap that this puts several of his men at the mercy of the Joker's crew. In addition, one of the mooks says in the Penguin's debut trailer "You think the Joker's bad? Wait until Penguin deals with him! Penguin's an animal", which carries the implication that he's even worse of a boss than even SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, the latter of whom is definitely no saint in terms of being a boss.
** He's such a bad boss that one of his thugs actually calls him a bastard directly to him after he [[spoiler:blows up a bridge preventing his goons from leaving Joker's turf, effectively leaving them for dead]].
** Being this may have actually backfired on him at least once. [[spoiler:Listening in on a conversation with his henchmen after Batman leaves the museum reveals that Penguin had a guy spying on Joker with a sniper rifle. Not only does Penguin aggravate the goon with his constant badgering for information, but it's implied that the guy let Joker live just to spite Penguin.]]
** Unlike Joker's goons, who stick together even after [[spoiler:Joker's death]], or Two-Face's, who continue to support their boss despite him being dealt a severe blow early on in the game, as soon as Penguin is defeated, his mooks almost immediately abandon him; choosing to join up with the other gangs rather than free their leader.
*** This makes sense, since a thug said most of Penguin's thugs were mercenaries. Another even said "''we'' are professionals." Penguin may pay for a higher grade of mooks, but if Penguin, aka their paycheck is gone, then so are they.
* BaldOfEvil: As seen in the above image.
* UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: Speaks in a cockney accent.
* BreakTheHaughty: What he goes through when Batman beats him.
* BullyingADragon: ''City'' starts off with him capturing Bruce (in his civilian persona) and planning to torture him. No sooner then he tries to throw the first punch with his brass knuckles, Bruce grabs his hand and breaks it (even more embarrassingly, Bruce was ''handcuffed'' at that point). And, if the player wishes after finishing off his mooks, laying him out with an uppercut.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Penguin freezes a cop's hand and smashed it with a hammer while using a P.A. system to let Batman hear the whole thing. It's heavily implied that he does this with the captive Precinct 13 policemen frequently, as well.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: He's got a lot of strange stuff in that museum of his.
* CompositeCharacter: While he's not disfigured (or at least in the same way) as he was in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', his clothes are similar to those worn by the Penguin there and looks a bit like Danny [=DeVito=], albeit how the actor normally looks. He has s savage and animalistic, but [[FauxAffablyEvil trying to pass off as refined]] personality (as seen in ''Returns'') instead of the actual refined personality of the comics version and has a similar backstory of his family having a grudge against the Waynes ala ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
* DemotedToExtra: His role in ''Origins'', since his criminal activities are entirely unrelated to the plot, and he only gets Batman's attention due to having needed information; immediately after he confesses (most of) what he knows, their confrontation is interrupted by Deathstroke. He sticks around to watch the fight, then wisely locks himself in his office with his secretaries to prevent Batman from reaching him. The only other element of the game related to him is a side mission to find the weapon caches he's selling off.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Suppose the player decides to not knock out Penguin and leave him at the gate. The game has Penguin shout about how he always knew that Bruce was a coward just for that occasion. If the player decides to slide into him instead of uppercutting him, he'll slump onto the ground instead of flying off his feet.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The speech at the booth he has for Zsasz is played more seriously than the others. Whether it's guilt for [[spoiler:cheating him out his money at cards]] or general disgust for Zsasz's actions is unclear.
-->'''Penguin:''' Take a good look into the eyes of a monster. A deeply disturbed killer. A man, responsible for the murder and subsequent mutilation of over 100 men, women, and children. You're looking at Zsasz.
* EvilBrit: Played with. His bio says he ''grew up'' in London, but wasn't necessarily born there. His family has had a multi-generational feud with the Waynes. He's a Gothamite by breeding.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Well, it's [[WellIntentionedExtremist a relative measure of "good"]], but in the ''Cold, Cold Heart'' DLC, Penguin assumes that whatever Ferris Boyle has confiscated and locked away is extremely valuable if Mr. Freeze is fighting so hard to get it.
* EyeScream: That monocle of his? [[GrievousBottleyHarm It's the bottom half of a beer bottle shoved into his eye]]. According to Penguin, he got it in a bar fight, and aside from him liking it (giving him a "unique look"), he also implies that the doctors told him it was impossible to remove without killing him, even if he did try to pay for it.
* FatBastard: As is tradition.
* FeudingFamilies: The Cobblepots and the Waynes apparently did not get along very well (Dating back to Solomon Wayne and Henry Cobblepot, who were two of the three founding fathers of Gotham), and he also seems to blame the Waynes for his family being financially ruined. It would be more accurate to say that they ruined themselves by competing with the Waynes directly when they could have stayed prosperous by focusing in industries they were more suited to running.
* GlassCannon: The cannon part comes from him using Mr. Freeze's freeze gun. The glass part comes from him only taking two hits total (one before the Grundy fight, one afterwards) to be defeated.
* GroinAttack[=/=]FunnyBackgroundEvent: If you look closely when Penguin says to the psychopathic inmates "Come on out, lads! It's initiation time!", you'll notice that while gesturing, he whacks one of his mooks in the family jewels with his umbrella.
* HighClassGlass: Subverted. See EyeScream.
* JabbaTableManners: In the prequel comic.
* {{Jerkass}}: And that's one of the ''nicest'' terms to describe him.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:He killed and stuffed Joker's pet hyenas.]] Also, it's heavily implied in both a story and an interview tape that [[spoiler:he used the raving lunatics from the previous game as live targets for his mooks' weapons.]]
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Inverted: Aside from bios and a few mooks, he's referred to by his real name more often than to his nickname, most likely out of politeness or fear.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Penguin has a collection of people, with [[{{Irony}} separate display cases for Batman and Bruce Wayne]]. When Batman defeated him, Mr. Freeze locked Penguin up in one of his own display stands (more specifically, the Bruce Wayne exhibit), ''after'' adding more pain to his broken hand by stepping on it.]]
* LondonGangster: This Penguin is closer to a RayWinstone-style thug with delusions of grandeur, complete with an East-End accent, than his usual depiction.
* MisterBig: See TheNapoleon.
* MuggingTheMonster:
** This is the reason why Penguin's left hand is in a cast; Penguin, when meeting up with Bruce Wayne, tells him that Bruce's family destroyed his, and puts on brass knuckles, referring to them as "Good, old fashioned revenge" before trying to punch Bruce, only for Bruce to suddenly grab his hand and twist it behind Penguin's back, breaking it.
** On a citywide scale, it's revealed that Penguin and his gang were trapped in Arkham City because of his ego. When the plans for Arkham City were first displayed, Penguin wasn't supposed to be an inmate; the City was trying to take his property. Penguin refused to vacate the Iceberg Lounge, choosing to get into a gunfight with the GCPD when they tried to evict him.
* TheNapoleon: Strange even [[LampshadeHanging asks him if he's familiar with the term "Napoleon Complex"]].
* NeverMyFault: His interview tapes with Strange reveal that Penguin constantly blames the Waynes and Batman for the failures caused by the poor decisions of his ancestors and himself.
* PeopleZoo: He has a museum featuring several of Gotham's finest criminals, although most of them are either dead or have broken out by the time Batman gets there.
* PaidHarem: Has one in ''Origins'' in the form of Candy and Tracey, who also serve as his personal CoDragons.
* SinisterSchnoz: Not as much as other incarnations, but it's still there.
* SlaveToPR: Like in previous incarnations, he's always trying to play himself up as a gentleman socialite even though he clearly isn't. This is also the reason he and Joker went to war; Joker attacked one of his waitresses with acid in the Iceberg Lounge, which spoiled Penguin's reputation. When Joker later tried to bury the hatchet, Penguin refused to make amends.
* SmugSnake: Not as much as Riddler, but he's still pretty egotistical.
* StockBritishPhrases: His East End accent allows him free usage of a few of these terms, including calling Bats "wanker".
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His treatment of Zsasz, detailed in the payphone sidequest, is a key part of Zsasz's downfall into insanity.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: How he leaves the story in "Origins".
* WaxMuseumMorgue: Has this in his museum. He has a member of the League of Assassins, Mr. Freeze and Scarface on display, bodies of cops and members of Joker's and Two Face's gangs, and exhibits ready for Bruce Wayne and Batman. Some of them, such as police fed to sharks and Harley's hyenas killed and stuffed, show how utterly sadistic he is.
* WickedCultured:
** Subverted, since he's just as crude and nasty as his thugs, but he'd tell you otherwise.
** In a rather twisted inversion, he even destroyed the exhibits of a natural history museum just to accommodate his criminal headquarters.
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[[folder:Ra's al Ghul]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You disappoint me, Detective."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker
'''[[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]]''' is the head of the League of Assassins and a centuries old terrorist dedicated to cleansing the world in order to save it. One hundred years before the events of Arkham City, he attempted to transform Gotham with Wonder City, but the Lazarus Pit underneath it drove its citizens mad. In the present, he has become obsessed with finding a successor, and wants Batman to take his place.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: He's actually very polite and respectful of Batman.
* AffectionateNickname: Always refers to Batman as "Detective" as a sign of respect. Just like he did in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
* BackFromTheDead: Between ''Arkham Asylum'' and ''Arkham City'', and at least once beforehand, judging from Batman's comments.
* {{Badass}}: He's one of the few villains in the series who can challenge Batman in one-on-one combat.
** BadassBaritone: Has a very gruff voice combined well with some VoiceOfTheLegion at first.
** BadassBeard: Sports one with a soul patch.
** BadassGrandpa: He's at least half a millennium old and still a very formidable opponent.
** BadassInCharge: He leads the League of Assassins.
* BeardOfEvil: See the above image.
* [[spoiler: BiggerBad: In ''Origins'', he's indirectly referred to by Shiva multiple times as her master; one of her extortion tapes reveals that she, acting on his orders, gave Quincy Sharp the idea to restore Arkham Asylum as leverage to become mayor of Gotham.]]
** [[spoiler:He's also this for ''City'', where he is TheManBehindTheMan for Hugo Strange and everything the latter does is in order to win Ra's al Ghul's approval and become his heir.]]
** The backstory unearthed in ''Arkham City'' reveals that 100 years in the past, he created a failed utopian city called "Wonder City" powered with steampunk Lazarus-powered green energy that ended up driving its prisoners mad, many of whom were later sent to Arkham Asylum, which means that Gotham city's propensity for psychopathic criminals is likely a result of his chemical influence and he later justifies extreme measures to use against the same insanity that he's responsible for creating...
* BodyHorror: Before using the Lazarus Pit, Ra's appears withered, decayed and corpse-like, only returning to health by bathing in the Pit.
* DeathIsCheap: In ''Arkham Asylum'', Ra's was a corpse, but was quite alive (if in poor condition, at first) in ''Arkham City''. Earlier, Batman stated to Talia that if Ra's was "dead again", he needed her to "wake him up", indicating that this is not Ra's' first time rising from the dead in this continuity. [[spoiler: Later, after Ra's is killed, Batman is unconcerned, simply saying that Ra's was going to need another trip to a Lazarus Pit. Sure enough, in the PlayableEpilogue, Ra's' body is gone, hinting at another possible resurrection.]]
* [[spoiler: DeathSeeker: Wishes for either Hugo Strange or Batman to take his place as the Head of the Demon, and seems almost frightened of the idea of living longer. When Batman repeatedly refuses to kill him, Ra's goes so far as to put a knife to Talia's throat and ''demand'' that Batman kill him.]]
--> '''Ra's''': [[spoiler: I have used the Lazarus Pit too many times. My mind and body cannot take much more. Every time I enter the Pit, I am frightened of what will come out.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath[=/=]TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Batman tackles Ra's Al Ghul out of the tower before it explodes. Ra's attempts to kill Batman by stabbing himself when Batman grabs him and is on his back as the two of them are falling. The sword goes clean through him and almost through Batman as well, but Batman's able to evade it at the last second, letting Ra's continue to fall with the sword still impaled into him.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo. In Asylum, you can find his corpse. If you go check again after beating the game, [[SequelHook it's gone.]]
* EngagementChallenge: He actively ''wants'' Bruce with his daughter if it would mean he joins the League of Assassins.
* EvilOldFolks: He's an old man who leads the League of Assassins.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of Creator/DeeBradleyBaker.
* [[spoiler: FictionFiveHundred: He and the League of Assassins funded Hugo Strange and the Arkham City project.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Though only after [[spoiler: bathing in the Lazarus Pit]].
* [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]], after [[spoiler: a dive in the Lazarus pit]], he comes out quite handsome despite his extremely advanced age.
* GreenEyes: And they glow when he uses the Lazarus Pit.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Batman even says as much to his face.
--> '''Batman''': You're wrong, Ra's. You've become what you've always fought against, and I ''will'' stop you.
* HeirClubForMen: Despite having a daughter, he wants Batman as his heir.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Hugo Strange, either as a way to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem himself]] or [[TheDogBitesBack to exact revenge on Ra's for executing him]], activates [[TakingYouWithMe Protocol 11]], which was the self destruction of the primary tower of Arkham City. Ra's then tries to kill Batman by stabbing himself in the gut, but Batman evades the blade at the last second and lets him fall.]]
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Twice during the Wonder Tower climax. First by his own hand while trying to kill Batman. And shortly after landing on a gate structure. Ouch.]]
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: He claims that "this is only the beginning" [[spoiler:while watching Arkham City burning from the effects of Protocol 10]].
* KickTheDog: He takes a moment to add insult to injury by contemptuously telling [[spoiler:the mortally wounded Hugo Strange]] that "Batman is better than you".
* KnightTemplar: He's willing to let people die in order to bring about peace.
* LastDayToLive: Due to his usage of the Lazarus Pits for centuries, he's now withering away.
** SanitySlippage: It's also implied that he's also near-completely lost his sanity as a result.
* TheMagnificent: Ra's' followers, as well as Talia, and, at one point, an illusion of Ra's himself, refer to him as "the great Ra's al Ghul". The assassin Batman follows to Ra's' lair even refers to Batman as a "blasphemer" who is "not worthy to speak of the great Ra's al Ghul!"
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: Turns out to be the one who was pulling Hugo Strange's strings. It's also implied that he and his League of Assassins were also responsible for funding Sharp's campaign as part of his plot.]]
** [[spoiler:He is implied to be behind Shiva's presence in Gotham in ''Arkham Origins'' as well.]]
* MasterSwordsman: He's pretty good with that scimitar of his.
* MisanthropeSupreme: He's an insane and immortal eco-terrorist who believes that humanity must be eradicated, or greatly culled, to stop them from ruining the planet.
* MotiveRant: A rather [[NightmareFuel/BatmanArkhamCity unsettling]] one that plays over the old radios in Wonder City.
* {{Omniglot}}: According to the comics, He's able to speak Arabic, French, Greek, Latin, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Urdu, multiple Indian languages and possibly others.
* PowerTattoo: Ra's bears intricate dragon tattoos on both arms.
** PowerGlows: The tattoos glow for a brief while after Ra's takes his dip in the Lazarus Pit.
* RedemptionRejection: Ra's admits to Batman that the effects of the Lazarus Pit are wearing his body away as much as they replenish it, and seem to be causing him SanitySlippage. He expressed a genuine worry about what would happen to him should he continue using it, and Batman points out if his pit ever fell into the wrong hands, he'd be helpless to stop centuries of destruction. He gives him one chance for redemption, and to call off his [[KnightTemplar crusade]], or he'd be back for him. [[spoiler: His offer turns out to have been for nothing, since Ra's is behind everything in Arkham City, including Hugo Strange]]. It should be pointed out that Batman himself doubted that Ra's would actually take the offer, citing his belief that Ra's is addicted to the Pit.
* Really700YearsOld: He's ''much'' older than he appears to be.
* SinisterScimitar: His WeaponOfChoice.
* SkunkStripe: As always, he has a white stripe in his otherwise black hair.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: During the Demon Trials and his fight with Batman. Possibly justified by [[MushroomSamba the nature]] of both events.
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: We don't get to see it, but it happens in ''Asylum''; when you first visit the morgue, one of the bodies stored there is that of Ra's al Ghul (which you can find out by investigating). Knowing who Ra's is, when you come back later, he's long gone from the morgue.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Consistently offers Batman a chance to join the League, viewing him as a possible successor.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He thinks he is this. Whether or not he is could easily be up for discussion.
* [[spoiler:YouHaveFailedMe: He ends up stabbing Hugo Strange InTheBack when he failed to defeat Batman, even stating the trope word for word.]]
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[[folder:Solomon Grundy (Cyrus Gold)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Solomon Grundy... born on a Monday..."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' FredTatasciore
'''Cyrus Gold''' was a merchant in Old Gotham who fled into Slaughter Swamp to escape the law after committing murder, but was killed and left there. However, a storm mixed with the swamp gas reanimated Gold but left him with no memory of who he was, able to only recite the nursery rhyme '''"Solomon Grundy"'''. For more than a century he has been used and experimented on by various factions, with the latest criminal to use him being the Penguin as a means of execution and entertainment in the Iceberg Lounge.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: His body is eventually set on fire and burned by the electric currents powering him during the course of his boss fight. He's constantly releasing supernaturally huge maggots. By the final stage of his boss fight, his ribcage is exposed.]]
* TheDragon: To the Penguin in ''Arkham City''.
* EvilAlbino: Just look at how pale he is.
* FateWorseThanDeath: While Ra's al Ghul controlled Wonder City, he had Grundy imprisoned and ''repeatedly'' killed so as to experiment on him. By the end, Grundy was so broken by his suffering, that he stayed in the laboratory even after Wonder City was abandoned, waiting for Ra's to kill him yet again.
* FeedItWithFire: In addition to Penguin giving him a boost with the generator, if you try shooting him with your electrical charge, it'll restore some of his health.
* FrankensteinsMonster: Appears to have traits of this.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes have an unnatural golden hue.
* GodzillaThreshold: Aside from [[spoiler: Clayface]], he is the only opponent Batman uses lethal force on, and that does mean ''lethal.'' See ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill below for details. Justified, as he's virtually indestructible.
* HulkSpeak: When he speaks, it's in very few words.
* ImplacableMan: No matter what you throw at him, he'll keep coming back for more.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: In this case, he's an immortal, electrically powered revenant who recites a children's rhyme.
* RevivingEnemy: Twice even. Justified, as he's a zombie.
* ShockAndAwe: Like FrankensteinsMonster, he's brought to life by electric charges, and can channel them through his body and into his ball and chains.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: And they {{glow|ingEyesOfDoom}}, too.
* TragicMonster: When a troop of soldiers encountered his corpse [[spoiler:among the remains of Wonder City]], he awoke and killed them all in a fit of rage. However, this reincarnation had the ability to feel regret, and Grundy was so horrified by his actions that he stayed there for days, waiting for the scientists who had experimented on him to return and "murder" him again.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Grundy's body is eventually set on fire and burned by the electric currents powering him during the course of his boss fight. Then, Batman finishes Grundy by punching his heart out.
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[[folder:Talia al Ghul]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You must show you are willing to take a life to save the world."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Stana Katic
'''Talia al Ghul''' is Ra's al Ghul's daughter and the head of the League of Shadows legitimate business interests. She and Batman have a complicated history, being both lovers and enemies. She wants nothing more than for Batman to take up her fathers mantle as the Head of the Demon, but knows that one day she may have to chose between her father and Batman. Talia is currently residing under Arkham City, within the ruins of Wonder City where the League of Shadows is located.
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!!Provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: She's a member of the League of Assassins.
* AdaptationDyeJob: SubvertedTrope. She's normally a brunette in the comics and other adaptations, and shows up as a blonde here. However, as shown in "Arkham Unhinged", she's still a brunette, and the blonde hair is a dye.
* AntiVillain: Talia is loyal to her father's [[KnightTemplar ideals]] and shares his [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans beliefs]] [[MisanthropeSupreme about humanity]], but never actually goes against Batman in ''Arkham City''.
* BareYourMidriff:
* BodyguardBabes: Her personal guard.
* CombatPragmatist: Tries this against [[spoiler:the Joker. Unfortunately for her, she only stabbed the BodyDouble]].
* DaddysLittleVillain: For Ra's.
* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler: Batman's willing to put off saving a thousand people [[LoveMakesYouCrazy to rescue her]].]]
* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight: She dies in Batman's arms after being shot by Joker.]]
* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath: Possibly implied, as Talia's corpse is nowhere to be seen after her death. Her personal guard was still in the city, and her corpse wasn't exactly a great distance from the Lazarus Pit.]]
* FauxActionGirl: Although her bio says she's a well trained fighter, her skills in that regard don't really show up at all in ''Arkham City'' over the manipulative nature she learned from her father.
* HellBentForLeather: She almost looks like a biker.
* InkSuitActor: She bears a great physical resemblance to her voice actress, Stana Katic, only having darker skin.
* [[spoiler:InTheBack: She dies after being shot fom behind by ''Joker''.]]
* KnightTemplar: Talia shares her father's beliefs regarding humanity, and [[spoiler: was likely complicit in Ra's and Strange's plot to destroy Arkham City and slaughter thousands of criminals]]. She also had no problem [[spoiler: killing the Joker ([[BodyDouble or thinking she did]]) in a situation where it would have been easy to non-lethally overpower him]].
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Played darkly [[spoiler:[[InTheBack when Ra's makes a move of threatening Batman with her life]] if he does not kill him]]. This results her in leaving him [[spoiler:after Batman saves her]].
* MaleGaze: While she and Batman walk down the Chamber of the Demon, the camera has a pretty good view of her behind while walking down the stairs.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Much like her father.
* MsFanservice: Just ''look'' at her.
* NoodleIncident: She mentions a "night in Metropolis" between herself and Batman, and teases him that after that, he "could have just called." This is elaborated on in the [[ComicBook/BatmanArkhamUnhinged Arkham Unhinged]] arc "Beloved".
* NumberTwo: She acts as her father's second-in-command among the League of Assassins.
* SexyWalk
* SinisterScimitar: Subverted in personality. She's actually rather benevolent to Batman, though she's far more willing to kill than he is.
* SlapSlapKiss: Textbook example. First thing she does upon seeing Batman? Slap him. Second thing? Flirt and try and kiss him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:The last act would have gone down very differently had she not stolen back the cure.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: She explicitly mentions "cleansing the scum of humanity" and creating "a better world".
* VillainousRescue: After a fashion; [[spoiler:she steps in to stop the (fake) Joker from killing Batman, and ensures that Batman can track them once they leave, but she isn't a hero, and doesn't go so far as to actually free Batman from the rubble he's pinned under.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: She adamantly wants Bruce Wayne by her side, but only if he joins the League's crusade against humanity.
--> '''Talia''': [''to Batman''] Just imagine it: You... me... [''whispers as she leans in to kiss him''] ''A better world''...
* WomanScorned: She takes Bruce's refusals to join the League personally, which may to do with the fact that he lied to her face. She initially doubts his commitment to going evil and seems a little taken back by the idea of Bruce actually killing someone. When you realize she was operating from the idea that he was fully invested in becoming an assassin, her anger makes sense, as does her return when he needs help.
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[[folder:Two-Face (Harvey Dent)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[SplitPersonality The only way to get by in this place is to get ourselves some respect... Fear! That's how we get respect! Show them all how we do things!]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TroyBaker
'''Harvey Dent''' was a key ally of Batman as the District Attorney of Gotham City, until a criminal threw acid into his face in the courtroom, melting half his face. The psychological trauma of the incident turned him into the vicious schizophrenic criminal '''ComicBook/TwoFace''' and he became obsessed with duality, using a scarred trick silver dollar to decide upon his victims' fate. Upon being imprisoned in Arkham City, Two-Face took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse and began using campaign tactics to recruit inmates into his army, while also pursing a vendetta against Catwoman.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]].
* ArchEnemy: At least during the events of ''Arkham City'', he is this to Catwoman. The [[AllThereInTheManual Arkham City Stories]] reveal that this started from them competing over the riches stored in TYGER's vault. Things quickly escalated.
* {{Badass}}: Largely by reputation, but his mooks claim that when Harvey's face was burnt, he never stopped fighting.
** BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/TroyBaker.
** BadassInANiceSuit: Half of one, anyway.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: Although it's a subtle and non-depressing variation. Two-Face was the underdog of the game at the start, but by the end of the story, he's more or less seized control of at least Park Row and the Bowery. He's in hiding after Catwoman's story is finished, but that's better than Penguin and Joker are doing.]]
* BaldOfEvil: On the burned half of his face.
* BenevolentBoss: It's hinted that he legitimately cares for his troops, as he intended to bolster the morale of his troops after becoming leader.
** Likewise, when listening to the recruiters at the beginning. Two-Face's way of testing the recruits is simply having them fight each other until only some are left standing. Those who stand are in, those who aren't can come back later and try again. Joker and Penguin berate their own men harshly over the radio, have pretty brutal recruitment standards, and Joker in particular kills new recruits at random ForTheEvulz.
** Not only that, but even his henchmen seem to have much better attitudes with him as their boss. At the very beginning of the game if you listen to the mooks messing with Jack Ryder, they'll mention how lucky he is he ran into them, since Penguin or Joker's thugs would have probably tortured him to death, or worse, brought him before their boss. They just want to pick on the weak guy, which as far as normal prison behavior goes and compared to the sadistic behavior of the criminals under the other two super villains employ, isn't all that bad.
** This is all rather in keeping with his character. He has a split personality, and makes major decisions via coin flips. It figures he'd be relatively benign half the time, which is certainly more than you'd expect from Penguin or Joker.
** The Bat-Computer also notes that, Two-Face -- fittingly for a former politician -- is running his attempt to control Arkham City as if it were a political campaign, unlike the gang-warfare approaches of Penguin and Joker. A major part of politics is buttering up the people who you depend on to keep you in power.
* BigBad: Of Catwoman's story, anyway.
** BigBadWannabe: He's the first villain Batman "fights" (not counting Bruce Wayne's brief run-in with the Penguin) and his gang spends the aftermath on the backfoot against Penguin and Joker's goons. They only rise to prominence because Batman is forced to prioritize the other two villains first, so while Two-Face [[spoiler:wins the gang war and becomes the most powerful inmate in Arkham City by the end of the game]], it's only because he wasn't that big a threat in the first place.
* CompositeCharacter: The unscarred side of his face recalls [[Film/BatmanForever Tommy Lee Jones]], but otherwise, he mostly draws from his ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' incarnations.
** From ''Batman: The Animated Series'': The suit takes after the right half of Two-Face's suit in that series, Two-Face's entire left half being scarred, and Creator/TroyBaker admitted to emulating Creator/RichardMoll's Two-Face voice for the Two-Face personality.
** From ''The Dark Knight'': The level of scarring done to his face, the suit being a normal suit with the left half ruined, and his Harvey Dent persona's voice is reminiscent of Aaron Eckhart.
* {{Determinator}}:
** He doesn't give up trying to take over Arkham City despite being the leader of the weakest major gang, [[spoiler:which winds up paying off when he is last gang leader standing at the end]].
** His mooks even discuss this, noting he'll never give up ever, with one even stating that he was in the courtroom when Two-Face's face was scarred, and that he never stopped fighting back against his attacker even as the acid was burning his face.
* EvilIsHammy: His evil half is a lot less subdued than his good half.
* EvilSoundsDeep: As expected, given who his [[Creator/TroyBaker voice actor]] is.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Two-Face (or rather, his good half) is reluctant to kill Catwoman immediately, as they're in a courtroom, which is a place of justice. He also appears to be the nicest of the three super-criminal gang bosses.
* FacialHorror: The damage done to his face is particularly gruesome here, much like in Nolan's films.
* FallenHero: He used to be a well-respected attorney before the accident.
* GutturalGrowler: His evil half has a distinctive growling voice.
* JekyllAndHyde: The two sides of Harvey's personality occasionally argue about the best course of action, as they ([[PronounTrouble he]]?) did shortly before Catwoman's "trial".
* JokerJury: He subjects Catwoman to one at the start of the second game... With her tied up and hanging over a tank of acid. Ironically, he chose this because the good side of the coin went up.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His good and evil halves debate whether they should execute Catwoman immediately or hold a trial for her (the evil and good halves supporting the respective actions.)
* NobleDemon: As Harvey Dent. Technically speaking, as Two-Face as well, in that he's actually a far more BenevolentBoss than any of the other crime lords in the Arkham Gang War.
* NumerologicalMotif: As one would expect, he's obsessed with the concept of duality and the number two.
* RedOniBlueOni: His evil half is the red to his good half's blue.
* RedemptionRejection: Hugo Strange, of all people, [[SadisticChoice offers to do whatever he can to cure Two-Face if he simply refuses to catch his coin when Strange flips it into the air, or tell him where Catwoman is and what she is doing if he does catch it]]. Two-Face sounds torn over what to do, but ultimately catches the coin. Strange is rather disappointed by the choice.
* ShutUpKirk:
-->"[[ThatWasObjectionable OBJECTION!]] ''[shoots Batman]'' Overruled.
* SplitPersonality: His two personalities will even hold conversations with each other while trying to decide upon a course of action, with the evil half even insulting his good half a few times.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Two guns, bitch!" Really, 50% of his dialogue towards Catwoman invokes this.
* TwoFaced: The TropeNamer himself.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Considering his backstory.
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[[folder:Calendar Man (Julian Gregory Day)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Thirty days has November. April, June, and September. Of twenty eight is but one. And all the rest are thirty one. Of course leap year comes and slays. Every four years got it right, and twenty eight is twenty nine."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
'''Julian Day''' was a man obsessed with dates and their meaning, becoming the infamous criminal '''Calendar Man''' and tormenting Gotham City every holiday with insane themed schemes that resulted in the loss of much life. After being imprisoned in Arkham City, Calendar Man took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. However, Two-Face soon arrived and captured the courthouse for himself, and locked Calendar Man in a cell in the building's basement.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AdaptationalBadass: By far the most dangerous and frightening incarnation of Calendar Man.
* BadBoss: One of his henchmen ratted him out to Batman, but he wasn't sure which. So on St. Patrick’s Day, he poisoned them all with green snake venom in their green beer.
* BaldOfEvil: As seen in the above image.
* EasterEgg: If you visit his cell in Arkham City in certain holidays (or mess with the system clock), he will tell you a story about a crime he committed on that particular day.
* EvilCripple: He wears a leg brace and elevated shoe and walks with a limp. It doesn't seem to get in the way of his plots.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very calm and polite when you speak to him. However, hearing about some of his crimes makes you wish you could break some of the other bones in his body.
* FatBastard: This incarnation of Calendar Man is a lot heftier than past incarnations.
* TheGhost: In ''Origins''. Strangely, he gets a character bio without actually appearing in the game.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: His M.O.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In every single piece of Batman-related media with the exception of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'', Calendar Man is the epitome of HarmlessVillain, a powerless loser with a bunch of ridiculous costumes and a silly date gimmick. In this game, not only are his stories of past crimes utterly horrifying, but [[spoiler:if you listen to them all and visit him again, you find his cell empty and a Two-Face thug hanging from the ceiling.]]
* RedRightHand: His right leg is shorter than the other, and he has to wear a custom-made platform shoe to stand. His tattoos of the months of the year is also a tip off.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: His cells at the various prisons.
* SelfMadeOrphan: It's implied that he killed his parents on their respective holidays.
* SerialKiller: He has an obsession with killing on holidays. When he was first locked in Arkham City, he would capture anyone entering the Solomon Wayne Courthouse and keep them prisoner until the next holiday, when he would kill them.
* SoftSpokenSadist: His voice is calm and oddly soothing, and he's quite polite when talking to Batman, even as he describes in detail the brutal murders he committed.
* StalkerWithACrush: Some of his crimes have this angle.
* TalkativeLoon: He's very chatty, to say the least.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Inverted, especially in comparison to his comics counterpart: All of his crimes are categorized under murder, murder, and murder alone.
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[[folder:Catwoman (Selina Kyle)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This place is dangerous. I like it!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Music/GreyDeLisle
'''Selina Kyle''', aka '''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''', is a master thief with a [[DatingCatwoman complicated]] relationship with Batman. When Arkham City was opened, Catwoman was one of the last two major criminals on the loose, with Two-Face being the other. After Two-Face sold her out and TYGER confiscated all of her stolen goods, she swore revenge on him and vowed to recover her treasures along with all of the other supervillains' personal belongings that Hugo Strange was keeping in a vault inside Arkham City.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AbsoluteCleavage: As can be seen in the above image.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Her alternate costumes include [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Animated]] and ComicBook/TheLongHalloween, with an armored version of her normal outfit featured in ''[[ColonCancer Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition]]''.
* AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain: Often skirts the line between the two.
* ArchEnemy: Two-Face, who sold her out in an effort to avoid being sent to Arkham City.
* BadassNormal: She has no abnormal skills, but can tear through dozens of goons [[spoiler:and survive a point blank explosion]].
* [[spoiler:BigBad: In a surprise twist, she fills this role for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOriginsBlackgate''. She works directly for the BiggerBad Amanda Waller and serves as the game's final and most personal antagonist, since she betrays Batman and tricks him into helping with her plan.]]
* {{Caltrops}}: One of her weapons, which she can use to slow down and distract enemies.
* CeilingCling: She can jump upwards and cling to grated surfaces with her claws.
* ClassyCatBurglar: As is tradition.
* CombatStilettos: A part of her costume.
* DanceBattler: As seen whenever she fights.
* DarkActionGirl: While she's still not evil, her actions show that her morals aren't that up to par yet. She even comments about when she started getting a conscience and actually hesitated whether to let Batman die or not.
* DatingCatwoman: She's certainly interested in Batman, to say the least.
* DeadpanSnarker: You thought Alfred was bad? Her whole dialogue oozes sass as well as her thoughts.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: There are secret doors in Wayne Manor that Catwoman can't use.
** Seemingly averted when it comes to Riddler Trophies. If The Cat tries to pickup one of The Bat's trophies, she can and will, despite the Riddler electrifying hers for Batman. While many are impossible for her to get to, some of the simpler ones can be grabbed with no issues, and a couple are trivialized due to her unique skills. Then again, one Batman trophy (in the Museum, by taking a left before the gladiator pit in the Museum) is impossible for Batman to reach without the Line Launcher and features a nearby Catwoman trophy.
* FemmeFatale: As one would expect from Catwoman.
* FemmeFatalons: Two-Face will no doubt [[EyeScream vouch for that]].
* [[spoiler:FinalBoss: Of ''Arkham Orgins: Blackgate''.]]
* FragileSpeedster: She is quicker than other playable characters, but can take less damage.
* FreudianExcuse: In an interesting conversation found on the interview tapes, Hugo Strange comes to the conclusion that Selina might suffer from this more than even she's aware of. From his analysis, she despises men because her father abandoned her, and this is the reason that she can't come to trust Batman. Still, she loves him and seeks his approval, and the way she goes about this is to get his attention by stealing and dressing seductively.
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: It might initially appear to a player that her GogglesDoNothing. But if you look at her face while you have Thief Vision turned on, you'll notice that they've been pulled down from their normal place on her forehead and are now covering her eyes.
* GreenEyes: The game made them particularly striking.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: During her interview tapes, Hugo Strange asks her if she's in love with Batman. She denies it, even stating that he'd have to already be committed to someone, otherwise he wouldn't be able to resist her. However, Strange delves deeper in his analysis, after which her denial seems a lot weaker.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's a thief, no doubt, but she's Batman's ally nonetheless.
* MamaBear: When Strange has her in custody and asks what she'd do if he sent his men after her adopted daughter Holly, Catwoman snarls "Touch her and you're ''dead''." The interview tape ends there. At the beginning of the next one, Strange asks Selina if she's calmed down yet. Exactly what Selina did to make Strange stop recording and wait a while before talking to her again is open to speculation. It's entirely possible that she tried to tear his throat out right then and there, guards or no guards.
* MoralDilemma[=/=]FriendOrIdolDecision: While Batman isn't exactly her ''friend'', she does meet this trope twice. The first one, subtly, consisted of helping/saving him when he was confronting the Joker or getting into the vault. It wasn't difficult. The second one was much more grave, and she either had to save Batman from the verge of death or get out of Arkham City with the loot she recently gained. She placed more consideration for this decision.
* MsFanservice: Skintight outfit? Check. AbsoluteCleavage? Check. Flirtatious nature? Check.
* MurderousThighs: Has a few different varieties of this, like wrapping her right leg around the left side of a Mook's neck and yanking him to the ground to strangle him or swinging down from the ceiling and choking them. Batman can also do the ceiling variant, though he holds their necks closer to his ankles.
* ParentalAbandonment: Mentioned by Hugo Strange. Additionally, if you visit Calendar Man in jail, she'll make a passing reference to the Falcone crime family, which leads to Calendar Man asking about her father; suggesting the plot point from ''Dark Victory'' and ''When in Rome'' (that she possibly is Carmine Falcone's illegitimate daughter) is canon in the ''Arkham'' games.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Holly Robinson. In her interview tapes, Hugo Strange draws parallels between her relationship with Holly to Batman's relationship with Robin.
* PungeonMaster: Cat puns a-plenty, "purrrfect" being one of them.
* SensualSpandex: Wears this kind of costume.
* SheFu: She's quite agile in combat.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:If you choose to leave Arkham City in her third episode, Batman dies, Joker escapes, and Gotham is doomed. Her intervention is what derails the EvilPlan.]]
* SpyCatsuit: Fitting that Catwoman wears a catsuit.
* TakeThatKiss: Before some of her knock-out moves.
* TheTease: Mainly towards Batman.
* ThirdPersonSeductress: Whenever you play as her.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Just like Batman, she never kills anyone in-game, which is how she usually is in the comics.
* VaporWear: She's obviously not wearing a bra.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Hides the palm pilot that she had stolen from Two-Face this way.
* VillainProtagonist: She has her own chapters in City that take place during Batman's. The two storylines crisscross at various points.
* WhipItGood: Her whip is her main weapon, which she can also use to swing between buildings.
* WolverinePublicity: Leading into the game, you'd think Catwoman would've actually been the {{Deuteragonist}} of the game. Her side of the story ended up being surprisingly short.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Most of her moves would fit right into Lucha Libre style matches, like her Frankensteiner takedown.
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[[folder:Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Have you ever seen a flower die? Watched something that was once so beautiful, so full of life, collapse and rot from within?"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche
Doctor '''Victor Fries''' is a brilliant cryogenicist who placed his wife Nora into suspended animation as he desperately searched for a cure to her degenerative disease, but a lab accident when the company he worked for pulled the plug on his research led to him becoming cold-blooded and requiring sub-zero temperatures to survive. Donning a specialized suit and utilizing freeze based weapons, '''Mister Freeze''' does whatever he must to continue searching for a way to cure his wife. When Professor Hugo Strange arranged for Nora to be sent to Arkham City, Freeze willingly went to the prison to be with his wife and continue searching for a cure, setting up base in an old G.C.P.D. building. When the Joker kidnapped Nora, Freeze was forced to work on a cure to his TITAN poisoning in order to get his wife back.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AdaptiveArmor: In ''City'' he can reprogram his suit to avoid [[ItOnlyWorksOnce being hurt by the same attacks twice]], e.g., by setting his scanners to constantly watch his back after you attack him from behind, and altering his shields to resist Batman's explosive gel. His adaptations to other attacks are more the result of him just remembering how Batman hurt him and making sure he can't do it again, e.g., after you ambush him from a floor grate, he will freeze over every one he comes across to make sure you're not hiding in it. The original version in ''Origins'' is simply too massive to damage directly.
* AnIcePerson: Via a freak lab accident, his body temperature is below zero.
* AnIceSuit: Needs this to keep himself alive in warm environments due to his low body temperature. It also acts as Powered Armor, seemingly.
* AntiVillain: He just wants to be reunited with his wife, Nora, like the comics and [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries cartoon]]. However, also like the comics, this doesn't stop him from trying to put Batman [[WorldOfPun on ice]]. Judging by Arkham City alone, he barely qualifies as a villain. Unlike others who go on the rampage, he was [[spoiler:kidnapped by Penguin and forced to create a Titan cure by Joker. He even let Batman borrow some of his technology]]. He's not exactly a pleasant person to be around and is too focused on revenge, but by the end of the game Batman at least considers him redeemable.
* BadassBookworm: One of about three guys who can give Batman trouble in a straight fight by himself, and also the only one smart enough to come up with the cure for Joker's disease.
* BadBoss: During his FlunkyBoss fight in "Cold, Cold Heart" he demonstrates a severe lack of care regarding where he shoots his freeze ray, often hitting his own henchmen. In a later stage he freezes the entire room without a second thought to the men still inside who don't have high tech thermal gear.
* BaldOfEvil: For a given value of "evil".
* BeehiveBarrier: Can summon one to protect himself.
* BerserkButton: Smashing one of the sculptures of Nora that are in the room during the boss fight is a good way to piss him off.
* {{BFG}}: His Freeze Gun, especially the one from ''Cold, Cold Heart'' which needs to be attached to his armor for him to use it at all.
* BodyHorror: He can only survive in subzero temperatures, but at the same time it looks like the cold is taking its toll on his body. His fingers and toes are pitch black from frostbite and his ears are nearly ''gone''; only stubs remain.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Mildly in ''Arkham City'', where, after being rescued, he steps on the Penguin's broken hand with his extremely heavy boots (the ones with spikes for walking in ice). At least until Batman tells him to stop. More straightforward example in "Cold, Cold Heart" where he encases Ferris Boyle in ice until he'll tell him the codes to freeing Nora.
* CompositeCharacter: He's based on his ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' incarnation, including his origins, voice filter while he's in his armor, and seems to be undergoing deterioration like his ''B: TAS'' incarnation in ''The New Batman Adventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "[[NextSundayAD Artifacts]]". He also wears armor, ala ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''.
* CreepyMonotone: His voice becomes this during his boss fight, in part because of the way his suit filters it.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: He averts BossArenaIdiocy -- when you find a way to damage him, Freeze immediately neutralizes it. For example, if you jump on him from a railing, he'll not only freeze that particular railing, but all the other railings as well.
* EnemyMine: Makes it very clear to Batman that their working together is only a temporary thing:
-->'''Fries:''' Don't let this situation fool you. We are ''not'' friends.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Justified, as he needs to be in sub-zero temperatures in order to survive. One of his NonStandardGameOver quotes is literal:
--> ''"Death is cold, Batman."''
* FinalExamBoss: You have to know how to use Batman's gadgets and fighting techniques well, since after you hit him with one, [[ItOnlyWorksOnce it won't work a second time]].
* FlunkyBoss: For his boss fight in "Cold, Cold Heart".
* FreakLabAccident: Freeze became what he is after an accident in a cryogenics lab.
* FreezeRay: Though Penguin has it for a portion of ''City''.
* GenreSavvy: He's reluctant to tell Batman how to deactivate his gun [[spoiler:after Penguin steals it]], for obvious reasons. During his boss fight, he [[ItOnlyWorksOnce also adapts to Batman's fighting style]], freezing things over after Batman uses them to damage him. He'll even reprogram his gun so the trick he told Batman [[spoiler:to use on Penguin]] won't work a second time on him.
%%* HeartbrokenBadass
* TheHeavy: The ''Cold, Cold Heart'' DLC has him as the central threat, but he's not the BigBad.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: He can adapt to any takedown move that Batman uses on him once.
* JadedWashout: He is by any standards a brilliant scientist whose gifts can definitely contribute positively to mankind since he doesn't have any obsessive mania to build superweapons or anything like that. But his TraumaCongaLine and being an HeartbrokenBadass who suffered injustice has disillusioned him severely outside of a goal to rescue his wife.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: His love for Nora is what drives ''everything'' he does.
* MadScientist: Although a very tragic one.
* MightyGlacier: No [[AnIcePerson pun]] intended. He's slow, but attacking him head-on is suicide.
* NeverMyFault:
** Although his proposed "solution" isn't nearly so benign, Strange accurately points out in the interview tapes that while Mr. Freeze has good intentions, his unwillingness to admit his own flaws has made his life more difficult than it should have been.
** During the boss fight with him, he might accidentally destroy the statues of Nora while shooting at Batman. If this happens, he says that Batman made him do it.
** Again, during his origin story boss fight he blames Boyle and Batman for everything that he did over the course of the game, including but not limiting to freezing dozens of innocent people, causing untold amounts of property damage, and giving cryogenic weaponry to the Penguin.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Primary specialty is cryogenics, but he also designed his suit himself and can synthesize an antidote for Joker's Titan infected blood.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: After Batman defeats Penguin and gets Freeze his suit back, Freeze proceeds to stomp on Penguin's broken hand until Batman forces him to back off, after which he locks Penguin in one of the display cases in his museum -- the very same one he intended for Bruce Wayne.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Causes his fight with Batman]], though that wasn't entirely his fault.
* PoweredArmor: It's what keeps him alive outside of freezing environments.
* PuzzleBoss: In ''City''. A unique example in that he has several weaknesses, but each can only be targeted once.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His goggles go red when he's about to freeze things (or people).
** In his origin story DLC his goggles are red all of the time, and he is notably more caustic and violent than his subdued behaviors in ''City''.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Occasionally, such as a few lines while stalking Batman in his ''City'' boss fight. Also shows up in "Cold, Cold Heart", where he calmly and demurely explains to a frozen Ferris Boyle that his vital signs are dropping, and that if he doesn't give up the codes to getting Nora back Victor will let him die.
* StealthBasedMission: Oracle tells Batman when the fight begins not to take Freeze head-on, since Freeze can easily overpower him. The achievement for defeating him is even called "Hide and Seek".
** True to form, his final boss fight in "Cold, Cold Heart" is also predator style.
* TheStoic: He almost never shows any emotions.
** NotSoStoic: Reacts with either extreme anger or desperate love where Nora is concerned.
* TailorMadePrison: Has a unique prison cell to keep him alive without his suit and its assorted powers.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: His obsession with ice and preservation led him to freeze several of his neighbors' pets, an act that landed him in reform school. Although he argues that they ''were'' sick and dying, and that he ''did'' plan to revive them later.
** Despite this, Freeze isn't completely insane like say, Poison Ivy, in that he believes living in subzero temperature is man's natural state or anything. He's just deeply depressed and obsessive.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He's a very tragic character, to say the least. So much that in ''Cold, Cold Heart'', after finding out about his StartOfDarkness, Batman immediately changes his target to the one responsible for his condition.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: An optional conversation with Batman, after [[spoiler:the latter rescues and locates Nora]] has Freeze thanking Batman for saving her. His response is simple:
--> ''"Fix her and quit this life. You are better than this."''
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[[folder:Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You're late, Batman. Late, late, late."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Peter [=MacNicol=]
'''Jervis Tetch''' was an expert hypnotist and chemist who was obsessed with Literature/AliceInWonderland and came to believe that he was an incarnation of the '''Mad Hatter''' from the story. He became obsessed with finding Alice, and murders several blonde women before being caught by Batman and sent to Arkham Asylum. There, he was taken advantage of by Hugo Strange, who had him create mind control substances to help his domination of his TYGER guards. Once he was done with him, Strange threw Mad Hatter into Arkham City, where he gathered a small gang with his mind control devices and sought to add one more member to his gang: Batman.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BunnyEarsLawyer: It's hard to find anything that he says that makes sense whatsoever, but according to Strange, his work in chemistry is unparalled.
* ChronicVillainy: Going hand-in-hand with ObliviouslyEvil, it actually seems that Tetch is entirely harmless (if insane) when kept away from anyone that fit his "Alice" victim archetype. When he sees one who matches, though...
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: His targeted Alices are, according to him, all blonde. However, as shown in a side story to Arkham City in ''Unhinged'', he's willing to take a great many women regardless of hair color.
* EvilGenius: He provided the mind control tech and chemicals that allowed Strange to come to power.
* EvilRedhead: Hard to tell due to the condition of his entire body, but his hair ''is'' red. Whether or not he can be considered [[ObliviouslyEvil legitimately evil, however]], is another thing altogether.
* FingerlessGloves: Wears them in both ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Origins''.
* FriendlessBackground: If you return to his hideout after beating him, he wonders why you resisted, since he had only wanted a friend.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Uses a hypnotic suggestion to lure Batman into taking his psychoactive chemicals. The method lures him in with what he most wants. Which at the time, is the cure to the TITAN poisoning]].
* MadScientist: See BunnyEarsLawyer above.
* MindControlDevice: How he controls his minions, and [[spoiler:how he attempts to control Batman]].
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Takes up this role for several non-story Predator maps in ''Origins'', and is arguably even less lucid than the Joker, to the point where some of his men comment that they can barely understand what he's saying.
* NiceHat: To the point he suffers a mental breakdown after Batman steps on it.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: His appearances in Arkham City, both in the game and in a side story, involve setting people and animals up in tea parties. In the interview tapes, he does this with rats, in the game proper, he does this with [[spoiler:Batman]], and in "Vicki in Wonderland", he does this with Vicki Vale, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, the Carpenter, and one other woman.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Doesn't remember the Alices he goes through and doesn't seem to understand how what he does is wrong, and he's just as upset at what he is being "accused" of by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]].
* ReluctantPsycho: Ironically, since TheMadHatter is characterized by enjoying his own madness. However, he doesn't respond poorly to being called mad.
-->'''Tetch:''' As a hat. Yes, as a hat.
* SerialKiller: He's killed many an "Alice".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His actual appearance in the game is short-lived, and on the surface he doesn't seem very important to the main plot. [[spoiler:But it's his MindControlDevice that Hugo Strange used to take control of Quincy Sharp. Meaning that without him, Arkham City may not even exist at all.]]
* SpotOfTea: It's his "[[WorldOfPun special-tea]]".
* VillainousBSOD: Suffers one when confronted by Strange about his victims.
* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Strange used him and his MindControlDevice to gain control of Quincy Sharp, and later dumped him in Arkham City.]]
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[[folder:Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[WelcomeToHell Welcome to hell!]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NolanNorth
'''Oswald Cobblepot''' is the heir to the prestigious Cobblepot family, with has a long rivalry with the Waynes. Educated in England, Cobblepot found more in common with thugs than the elite and returned to Gotham City to take over his family's businesses, take revenge on the Waynes for his family's fall from fortune, and take control of the criminal underworld. Basing his numerous operations out of the Cyrus Pinkney's Institute for Natural History and attached Iceberg Lounge, Cobblepot, known among some underworld circles as '''The Penguin''', ruthlessly began expanding his businesses while being able to avoid being confirmed as a criminal by the G.C.P.D. That situation ended when Arkham City was built and Cobblepot refused to be evicted, entering into a gun battle with the police and TYGER before being sealed into the prison. He controls the largest and best supplied gang within the walls of the prison, and is aiming to take out Two-Face and Joker's crews for complete control.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BadBoss:
** In the GCPD, he lets some of his goons know that Batman is coming for them... and laughs about it. Shortly after, he has all the bridges detonated to cut off Joker's forces (not reckoning on the sewers), and doesn't give a crap that this puts several of his men at the mercy of the Joker's crew. In addition, one of the mooks says in the Penguin's debut trailer "You think the Joker's bad? Wait until Penguin deals with him! Penguin's an animal", which carries the implication that he's even worse of a boss than even SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, the latter of whom is definitely no saint in terms of being a boss.
** He's such a bad boss that one of his thugs actually calls him a bastard directly to him after he [[spoiler:blows up a bridge preventing his goons from leaving Joker's turf, effectively leaving them for dead]].
** Being this may have actually backfired on him at least once. [[spoiler:Listening in on a conversation with his henchmen after Batman leaves the museum reveals that Penguin had a guy spying on Joker with a sniper rifle. Not only does Penguin aggravate the goon with his constant badgering for information, but it's implied that the guy let Joker live just to spite Penguin.]]
** Unlike Joker's goons, who stick together even after [[spoiler:Joker's death]], or Two-Face's, who continue to support their boss despite him being dealt a severe blow early on in the game, as soon as Penguin is defeated, his mooks almost immediately abandon him; choosing to join up with the other gangs rather than free their leader.
*** This makes sense, since a thug said most of Penguin's thugs were mercenaries. Another even said "''we'' are professionals." Penguin may pay for a higher grade of mooks, but if Penguin, aka their paycheck is gone, then so are they.
* BaldOfEvil: As seen in the above image.
* UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: Speaks in a cockney accent.
* BreakTheHaughty: What he goes through when Batman beats him.
* BullyingADragon: ''City'' starts off with him capturing Bruce (in his civilian persona) and planning to torture him. No sooner then he tries to throw the first punch with his brass knuckles, Bruce grabs his hand and breaks it (even more embarrassingly, Bruce was ''handcuffed'' at that point). And, if the player wishes after finishing off his mooks, laying him out with an uppercut.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Penguin freezes a cop's hand and smashed it with a hammer while using a P.A. system to let Batman hear the whole thing. It's heavily implied that he does this with the captive Precinct 13 policemen frequently, as well.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: He's got a lot of strange stuff in that museum of his.
* CompositeCharacter: While he's not disfigured (or at least in the same way) as he was in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', his clothes are similar to those worn by the Penguin there and looks a bit like Danny [=DeVito=], albeit how the actor normally looks. He has s savage and animalistic, but [[FauxAffablyEvil trying to pass off as refined]] personality (as seen in ''Returns'') instead of the actual refined personality of the comics version and has a similar backstory of his family having a grudge against the Waynes ala ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
* DemotedToExtra: His role in ''Origins'', since his criminal activities are entirely unrelated to the plot, and he only gets Batman's attention due to having needed information; immediately after he confesses (most of) what he knows, their confrontation is interrupted by Deathstroke. He sticks around to watch the fight, then wisely locks himself in his office with his secretaries to prevent Batman from reaching him. The only other element of the game related to him is a side mission to find the weapon caches he's selling off.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Suppose the player decides to not knock out Penguin and leave him at the gate. The game has Penguin shout about how he always knew that Bruce was a coward just for that occasion. If the player decides to slide into him instead of uppercutting him, he'll slump onto the ground instead of flying off his feet.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The speech at the booth he has for Zsasz is played more seriously than the others. Whether it's guilt for [[spoiler:cheating him out his money at cards]] or general disgust for Zsasz's actions is unclear.
-->'''Penguin:''' Take a good look into the eyes of a monster. A deeply disturbed killer. A man, responsible for the murder and subsequent mutilation of over 100 men, women, and children. You're looking at Zsasz.
* EvilBrit: Played with. His bio says he ''grew up'' in London, but wasn't necessarily born there. His family has had a multi-generational feud with the Waynes. He's a Gothamite by breeding.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Well, it's [[WellIntentionedExtremist a relative measure of "good"]], but in the ''Cold, Cold Heart'' DLC, Penguin assumes that whatever Ferris Boyle has confiscated and locked away is extremely valuable if Mr. Freeze is fighting so hard to get it.
* EyeScream: That monocle of his? [[GrievousBottleyHarm It's the bottom half of a beer bottle shoved into his eye]]. According to Penguin, he got it in a bar fight, and aside from him liking it (giving him a "unique look"), he also implies that the doctors told him it was impossible to remove without killing him, even if he did try to pay for it.
* FatBastard: As is tradition.
* FeudingFamilies: The Cobblepots and the Waynes apparently did not get along very well (Dating back to Solomon Wayne and Henry Cobblepot, who were two of the three founding fathers of Gotham), and he also seems to blame the Waynes for his family being financially ruined. It would be more accurate to say that they ruined themselves by competing with the Waynes directly when they could have stayed prosperous by focusing in industries they were more suited to running.
* GlassCannon: The cannon part comes from him using Mr. Freeze's freeze gun. The glass part comes from him only taking two hits total (one before the Grundy fight, one afterwards) to be defeated.
* GroinAttack[=/=]FunnyBackgroundEvent: If you look closely when Penguin says to the psychopathic inmates "Come on out, lads! It's initiation time!", you'll notice that while gesturing, he whacks one of his mooks in the family jewels with his umbrella.
* HighClassGlass: Subverted. See EyeScream.
* JabbaTableManners: In the prequel comic.
* {{Jerkass}}: And that's one of the ''nicest'' terms to describe him.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:He killed and stuffed Joker's pet hyenas.]] Also, it's heavily implied in both a story and an interview tape that [[spoiler:he used the raving lunatics from the previous game as live targets for his mooks' weapons.]]
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Inverted: Aside from bios and a few mooks, he's referred to by his real name more often than to his nickname, most likely out of politeness or fear.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Penguin has a collection of people, with [[{{Irony}} separate display cases for Batman and Bruce Wayne]]. When Batman defeated him, Mr. Freeze locked Penguin up in one of his own display stands (more specifically, the Bruce Wayne exhibit), ''after'' adding more pain to his broken hand by stepping on it.]]
* LondonGangster: This Penguin is closer to a RayWinstone-style thug with delusions of grandeur, complete with an East-End accent, than his usual depiction.
* MisterBig: See TheNapoleon.
* MuggingTheMonster:
** This is the reason why Penguin's left hand is in a cast; Penguin, when meeting up with Bruce Wayne, tells him that Bruce's family destroyed his, and puts on brass knuckles, referring to them as "Good, old fashioned revenge" before trying to punch Bruce, only for Bruce to suddenly grab his hand and twist it behind Penguin's back, breaking it.
** On a citywide scale, it's revealed that Penguin and his gang were trapped in Arkham City because of his ego. When the plans for Arkham City were first displayed, Penguin wasn't supposed to be an inmate; the City was trying to take his property. Penguin refused to vacate the Iceberg Lounge, choosing to get into a gunfight with the GCPD when they tried to evict him.
* TheNapoleon: Strange even [[LampshadeHanging asks him if he's familiar with the term "Napoleon Complex"]].
* NeverMyFault: His interview tapes with Strange reveal that Penguin constantly blames the Waynes and Batman for the failures caused by the poor decisions of his ancestors and himself.
* PeopleZoo: He has a museum featuring several of Gotham's finest criminals, although most of them are either dead or have broken out by the time Batman gets there.
* PaidHarem: Has one in ''Origins'' in the form of Candy and Tracey, who also serve as his personal CoDragons.
* SinisterSchnoz: Not as much as other incarnations, but it's still there.
* SlaveToPR: Like in previous incarnations, he's always trying to play himself up as a gentleman socialite even though he clearly isn't. This is also the reason he and Joker went to war; Joker attacked one of his waitresses with acid in the Iceberg Lounge, which spoiled Penguin's reputation. When Joker later tried to bury the hatchet, Penguin refused to make amends.
* SmugSnake: Not as much as Riddler, but he's still pretty egotistical.
* StockBritishPhrases: His East End accent allows him free usage of a few of these terms, including calling Bats "wanker".
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His treatment of Zsasz, detailed in the payphone sidequest, is a key part of Zsasz's downfall into insanity.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: How he leaves the story in "Origins".
* WaxMuseumMorgue: Has this in his museum. He has a member of the League of Assassins, Mr. Freeze and Scarface on display, bodies of cops and members of Joker's and Two Face's gangs, and exhibits ready for Bruce Wayne and Batman. Some of them, such as police fed to sharks and Harley's hyenas killed and stuffed, show how utterly sadistic he is.
* WickedCultured:
** Subverted, since he's just as crude and nasty as his thugs, but he'd tell you otherwise.
** In a rather twisted inversion, he even destroyed the exhibits of a natural history museum just to accommodate his criminal headquarters.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ra's al Ghul]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You disappoint me, Detective."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker
'''[[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]]''' is the head of the League of Assassins and a centuries old terrorist dedicated to cleansing the world in order to save it. One hundred years before the events of Arkham City, he attempted to transform Gotham with Wonder City, but the Lazarus Pit underneath it drove its citizens mad. In the present, he has become obsessed with finding a successor, and wants Batman to take his place.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: He's actually very polite and respectful of Batman.
* AffectionateNickname: Always refers to Batman as "Detective" as a sign of respect. Just like he did in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
* BackFromTheDead: Between ''Arkham Asylum'' and ''Arkham City'', and at least once beforehand, judging from Batman's comments.
* {{Badass}}: He's one of the few villains in the series who can challenge Batman in one-on-one combat.
** BadassBaritone: Has a very gruff voice combined well with some VoiceOfTheLegion at first.
** BadassBeard: Sports one with a soul patch.
** BadassGrandpa: He's at least half a millennium old and still a very formidable opponent.
** BadassInCharge: He leads the League of Assassins.
* BeardOfEvil: See the above image.
* [[spoiler: BiggerBad: In ''Origins'', he's indirectly referred to by Shiva multiple times as her master; one of her extortion tapes reveals that she, acting on his orders, gave Quincy Sharp the idea to restore Arkham Asylum as leverage to become mayor of Gotham.]]
** [[spoiler:He's also this for ''City'', where he is TheManBehindTheMan for Hugo Strange and everything the latter does is in order to win Ra's al Ghul's approval and become his heir.]]
** The backstory unearthed in ''Arkham City'' reveals that 100 years in the past, he created a failed utopian city called "Wonder City" powered with steampunk Lazarus-powered green energy that ended up driving its prisoners mad, many of whom were later sent to Arkham Asylum, which means that Gotham city's propensity for psychopathic criminals is likely a result of his chemical influence and he later justifies extreme measures to use against the same insanity that he's responsible for creating...
* BodyHorror: Before using the Lazarus Pit, Ra's appears withered, decayed and corpse-like, only returning to health by bathing in the Pit.
* DeathIsCheap: In ''Arkham Asylum'', Ra's was a corpse, but was quite alive (if in poor condition, at first) in ''Arkham City''. Earlier, Batman stated to Talia that if Ra's was "dead again", he needed her to "wake him up", indicating that this is not Ra's' first time rising from the dead in this continuity. [[spoiler: Later, after Ra's is killed, Batman is unconcerned, simply saying that Ra's was going to need another trip to a Lazarus Pit. Sure enough, in the PlayableEpilogue, Ra's' body is gone, hinting at another possible resurrection.]]
* [[spoiler: DeathSeeker: Wishes for either Hugo Strange or Batman to take his place as the Head of the Demon, and seems almost frightened of the idea of living longer. When Batman repeatedly refuses to kill him, Ra's goes so far as to put a knife to Talia's throat and ''demand'' that Batman kill him.]]
--> '''Ra's''': [[spoiler: I have used the Lazarus Pit too many times. My mind and body cannot take much more. Every time I enter the Pit, I am frightened of what will come out.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath[=/=]TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Batman tackles Ra's Al Ghul out of the tower before it explodes. Ra's attempts to kill Batman by stabbing himself when Batman grabs him and is on his back as the two of them are falling. The sword goes clean through him and almost through Batman as well, but Batman's able to evade it at the last second, letting Ra's continue to fall with the sword still impaled into him.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo. In Asylum, you can find his corpse. If you go check again after beating the game, [[SequelHook it's gone.]]
* EngagementChallenge: He actively ''wants'' Bruce with his daughter if it would mean he joins the League of Assassins.
* EvilOldFolks: He's an old man who leads the League of Assassins.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of Creator/DeeBradleyBaker.
* [[spoiler: FictionFiveHundred: He and the League of Assassins funded Hugo Strange and the Arkham City project.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Though only after [[spoiler: bathing in the Lazarus Pit]].
* [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]], after [[spoiler: a dive in the Lazarus pit]], he comes out quite handsome despite his extremely advanced age.
* GreenEyes: And they glow when he uses the Lazarus Pit.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Batman even says as much to his face.
--> '''Batman''': You're wrong, Ra's. You've become what you've always fought against, and I ''will'' stop you.
* HeirClubForMen: Despite having a daughter, he wants Batman as his heir.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Hugo Strange, either as a way to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem himself]] or [[TheDogBitesBack to exact revenge on Ra's for executing him]], activates [[TakingYouWithMe Protocol 11]], which was the self destruction of the primary tower of Arkham City. Ra's then tries to kill Batman by stabbing himself in the gut, but Batman evades the blade at the last second and lets him fall.]]
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Twice during the Wonder Tower climax. First by his own hand while trying to kill Batman. And shortly after landing on a gate structure. Ouch.]]
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: He claims that "this is only the beginning" [[spoiler:while watching Arkham City burning from the effects of Protocol 10]].
* KickTheDog: He takes a moment to add insult to injury by contemptuously telling [[spoiler:the mortally wounded Hugo Strange]] that "Batman is better than you".
* KnightTemplar: He's willing to let people die in order to bring about peace.
* LastDayToLive: Due to his usage of the Lazarus Pits for centuries, he's now withering away.
** SanitySlippage: It's also implied that he's also near-completely lost his sanity as a result.
* TheMagnificent: Ra's' followers, as well as Talia, and, at one point, an illusion of Ra's himself, refer to him as "the great Ra's al Ghul". The assassin Batman follows to Ra's' lair even refers to Batman as a "blasphemer" who is "not worthy to speak of the great Ra's al Ghul!"
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: Turns out to be the one who was pulling Hugo Strange's strings. It's also implied that he and his League of Assassins were also responsible for funding Sharp's campaign as part of his plot.]]
** [[spoiler:He is implied to be behind Shiva's presence in Gotham in ''Arkham Origins'' as well.]]
* MasterSwordsman: He's pretty good with that scimitar of his.
* MisanthropeSupreme: He's an insane and immortal eco-terrorist who believes that humanity must be eradicated, or greatly culled, to stop them from ruining the planet.
* MotiveRant: A rather [[NightmareFuel/BatmanArkhamCity unsettling]] one that plays over the old radios in Wonder City.
* {{Omniglot}}: According to the comics, He's able to speak Arabic, French, Greek, Latin, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Urdu, multiple Indian languages and possibly others.
* PowerTattoo: Ra's bears intricate dragon tattoos on both arms.
** PowerGlows: The tattoos glow for a brief while after Ra's takes his dip in the Lazarus Pit.
* RedemptionRejection: Ra's admits to Batman that the effects of the Lazarus Pit are wearing his body away as much as they replenish it, and seem to be causing him SanitySlippage. He expressed a genuine worry about what would happen to him should he continue using it, and Batman points out if his pit ever fell into the wrong hands, he'd be helpless to stop centuries of destruction. He gives him one chance for redemption, and to call off his [[KnightTemplar crusade]], or he'd be back for him. [[spoiler: His offer turns out to have been for nothing, since Ra's is behind everything in Arkham City, including Hugo Strange]]. It should be pointed out that Batman himself doubted that Ra's would actually take the offer, citing his belief that Ra's is addicted to the Pit.
* Really700YearsOld: He's ''much'' older than he appears to be.
* SinisterScimitar: His WeaponOfChoice.
* SkunkStripe: As always, he has a white stripe in his otherwise black hair.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: During the Demon Trials and his fight with Batman. Possibly justified by [[MushroomSamba the nature]] of both events.
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: We don't get to see it, but it happens in ''Asylum''; when you first visit the morgue, one of the bodies stored there is that of Ra's al Ghul (which you can find out by investigating). Knowing who Ra's is, when you come back later, he's long gone from the morgue.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Consistently offers Batman a chance to join the League, viewing him as a possible successor.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He thinks he is this. Whether or not he is could easily be up for discussion.
* [[spoiler:YouHaveFailedMe: He ends up stabbing Hugo Strange InTheBack when he failed to defeat Batman, even stating the trope word for word.]]
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[[folder:Solomon Grundy (Cyrus Gold)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Solomon Grundy... born on a Monday..."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' FredTatasciore
'''Cyrus Gold''' was a merchant in Old Gotham who fled into Slaughter Swamp to escape the law after committing murder, but was killed and left there. However, a storm mixed with the swamp gas reanimated Gold but left him with no memory of who he was, able to only recite the nursery rhyme '''"Solomon Grundy"'''. For more than a century he has been used and experimented on by various factions, with the latest criminal to use him being the Penguin as a means of execution and entertainment in the Iceberg Lounge.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: His body is eventually set on fire and burned by the electric currents powering him during the course of his boss fight. He's constantly releasing supernaturally huge maggots. By the final stage of his boss fight, his ribcage is exposed.]]
* TheDragon: To the Penguin in ''Arkham City''.
* EvilAlbino: Just look at how pale he is.
* FateWorseThanDeath: While Ra's al Ghul controlled Wonder City, he had Grundy imprisoned and ''repeatedly'' killed so as to experiment on him. By the end, Grundy was so broken by his suffering, that he stayed in the laboratory even after Wonder City was abandoned, waiting for Ra's to kill him yet again.
* FeedItWithFire: In addition to Penguin giving him a boost with the generator, if you try shooting him with your electrical charge, it'll restore some of his health.
* FrankensteinsMonster: Appears to have traits of this.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes have an unnatural golden hue.
* GodzillaThreshold: Aside from [[spoiler: Clayface]], he is the only opponent Batman uses lethal force on, and that does mean ''lethal.'' See ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill below for details. Justified, as he's virtually indestructible.
* HulkSpeak: When he speaks, it's in very few words.
* ImplacableMan: No matter what you throw at him, he'll keep coming back for more.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: In this case, he's an immortal, electrically powered revenant who recites a children's rhyme.
* RevivingEnemy: Twice even. Justified, as he's a zombie.
* ShockAndAwe: Like FrankensteinsMonster, he's brought to life by electric charges, and can channel them through his body and into his ball and chains.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: And they {{glow|ingEyesOfDoom}}, too.
* TragicMonster: When a troop of soldiers encountered his corpse [[spoiler:among the remains of Wonder City]], he awoke and killed them all in a fit of rage. However, this reincarnation had the ability to feel regret, and Grundy was so horrified by his actions that he stayed there for days, waiting for the scientists who had experimented on him to return and "murder" him again.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Grundy's body is eventually set on fire and burned by the electric currents powering him during the course of his boss fight. Then, Batman finishes Grundy by punching his heart out.
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[[folder:Talia al Ghul]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You must show you are willing to take a life to save the world."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Stana Katic
'''Talia al Ghul''' is Ra's al Ghul's daughter and the head of the League of Shadows legitimate business interests. She and Batman have a complicated history, being both lovers and enemies. She wants nothing more than for Batman to take up her fathers mantle as the Head of the Demon, but knows that one day she may have to chose between her father and Batman. Talia is currently residing under Arkham City, within the ruins of Wonder City where the League of Shadows is located.
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!!Provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: She's a member of the League of Assassins.
* AdaptationDyeJob: SubvertedTrope. She's normally a brunette in the comics and other adaptations, and shows up as a blonde here. However, as shown in "Arkham Unhinged", she's still a brunette, and the blonde hair is a dye.
* AntiVillain: Talia is loyal to her father's [[KnightTemplar ideals]] and shares his [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans beliefs]] [[MisanthropeSupreme about humanity]], but never actually goes against Batman in ''Arkham City''.
* BareYourMidriff:
* BodyguardBabes: Her personal guard.
* CombatPragmatist: Tries this against [[spoiler:the Joker. Unfortunately for her, she only stabbed the BodyDouble]].
* DaddysLittleVillain: For Ra's.
* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler: Batman's willing to put off saving a thousand people [[LoveMakesYouCrazy to rescue her]].]]
* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight: She dies in Batman's arms after being shot by Joker.]]
* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath: Possibly implied, as Talia's corpse is nowhere to be seen after her death. Her personal guard was still in the city, and her corpse wasn't exactly a great distance from the Lazarus Pit.]]
* FauxActionGirl: Although her bio says she's a well trained fighter, her skills in that regard don't really show up at all in ''Arkham City'' over the manipulative nature she learned from her father.
* HellBentForLeather: She almost looks like a biker.
* InkSuitActor: She bears a great physical resemblance to her voice actress, Stana Katic, only having darker skin.
* [[spoiler:InTheBack: She dies after being shot fom behind by ''Joker''.]]
* KnightTemplar: Talia shares her father's beliefs regarding humanity, and [[spoiler: was likely complicit in Ra's and Strange's plot to destroy Arkham City and slaughter thousands of criminals]]. She also had no problem [[spoiler: killing the Joker ([[BodyDouble or thinking she did]]) in a situation where it would have been easy to non-lethally overpower him]].
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Played darkly [[spoiler:[[InTheBack when Ra's makes a move of threatening Batman with her life]] if he does not kill him]]. This results her in leaving him [[spoiler:after Batman saves her]].
* MaleGaze: While she and Batman walk down the Chamber of the Demon, the camera has a pretty good view of her behind while walking down the stairs.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Much like her father.
* MsFanservice: Just ''look'' at her.
* NoodleIncident: She mentions a "night in Metropolis" between herself and Batman, and teases him that after that, he "could have just called." This is elaborated on in the [[ComicBook/BatmanArkhamUnhinged Arkham Unhinged]] arc "Beloved".
* NumberTwo: She acts as her father's second-in-command among the League of Assassins.
* SexyWalk
* SinisterScimitar: Subverted in personality. She's actually rather benevolent to Batman, though she's far more willing to kill than he is.
* SlapSlapKiss: Textbook example. First thing she does upon seeing Batman? Slap him. Second thing? Flirt and try and kiss him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:The last act would have gone down very differently had she not stolen back the cure.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: She explicitly mentions "cleansing the scum of humanity" and creating "a better world".
* VillainousRescue: After a fashion; [[spoiler:she steps in to stop the (fake) Joker from killing Batman, and ensures that Batman can track them once they leave, but she isn't a hero, and doesn't go so far as to actually free Batman from the rubble he's pinned under.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: She adamantly wants Bruce Wayne by her side, but only if he joins the League's crusade against humanity.
--> '''Talia''': [''to Batman''] Just imagine it: You... me... [''whispers as she leans in to kiss him''] ''A better world''...
* WomanScorned: She takes Bruce's refusals to join the League personally, which may to do with the fact that he lied to her face. She initially doubts his commitment to going evil and seems a little taken back by the idea of Bruce actually killing someone. When you realize she was operating from the idea that he was fully invested in becoming an assassin, her anger makes sense, as does her return when he needs help.
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[[folder:Two-Face (Harvey Dent)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[SplitPersonality The only way to get by in this place is to get ourselves some respect... Fear! That's how we get respect! Show them all how we do things!]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TroyBaker
'''Harvey Dent''' was a key ally of Batman as the District Attorney of Gotham City, until a criminal threw acid into his face in the courtroom, melting half his face. The psychological trauma of the incident turned him into the vicious schizophrenic criminal '''ComicBook/TwoFace''' and he became obsessed with duality, using a scarred trick silver dollar to decide upon his victims' fate. Upon being imprisoned in Arkham City, Two-Face took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse and began using campaign tactics to recruit inmates into his army, while also pursing a vendetta against Catwoman.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]].
* ArchEnemy: At least during the events of ''Arkham City'', he is this to Catwoman. The [[AllThereInTheManual Arkham City Stories]] reveal that this started from them competing over the riches stored in TYGER's vault. Things quickly escalated.
* {{Badass}}: Largely by reputation, but his mooks claim that when Harvey's face was burnt, he never stopped fighting.
** BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/TroyBaker.
** BadassInANiceSuit: Half of one, anyway.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: Although it's a subtle and non-depressing variation. Two-Face was the underdog of the game at the start, but by the end of the story, he's more or less seized control of at least Park Row and the Bowery. He's in hiding after Catwoman's story is finished, but that's better than Penguin and Joker are doing.]]
* BaldOfEvil: On the burned half of his face.
* BenevolentBoss: It's hinted that he legitimately cares for his troops, as he intended to bolster the morale of his troops after becoming leader.
** Likewise, when listening to the recruiters at the beginning. Two-Face's way of testing the recruits is simply having them fight each other until only some are left standing. Those who stand are in, those who aren't can come back later and try again. Joker and Penguin berate their own men harshly over the radio, have pretty brutal recruitment standards, and Joker in particular kills new recruits at random ForTheEvulz.
** Not only that, but even his henchmen seem to have much better attitudes with him as their boss. At the very beginning of the game if you listen to the mooks messing with Jack Ryder, they'll mention how lucky he is he ran into them, since Penguin or Joker's thugs would have probably tortured him to death, or worse, brought him before their boss. They just want to pick on the weak guy, which as far as normal prison behavior goes and compared to the sadistic behavior of the criminals under the other two super villains employ, isn't all that bad.
** This is all rather in keeping with his character. He has a split personality, and makes major decisions via coin flips. It figures he'd be relatively benign half the time, which is certainly more than you'd expect from Penguin or Joker.
** The Bat-Computer also notes that, Two-Face -- fittingly for a former politician -- is running his attempt to control Arkham City as if it were a political campaign, unlike the gang-warfare approaches of Penguin and Joker. A major part of politics is buttering up the people who you depend on to keep you in power.
* BigBad: Of Catwoman's story, anyway.
** BigBadWannabe: He's the first villain Batman "fights" (not counting Bruce Wayne's brief run-in with the Penguin) and his gang spends the aftermath on the backfoot against Penguin and Joker's goons. They only rise to prominence because Batman is forced to prioritize the other two villains first, so while Two-Face [[spoiler:wins the gang war and becomes the most powerful inmate in Arkham City by the end of the game]], it's only because he wasn't that big a threat in the first place.
* CompositeCharacter: The unscarred side of his face recalls [[Film/BatmanForever Tommy Lee Jones]], but otherwise, he mostly draws from his ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' incarnations.
** From ''Batman: The Animated Series'': The suit takes after the right half of Two-Face's suit in that series, Two-Face's entire left half being scarred, and Creator/TroyBaker admitted to emulating Creator/RichardMoll's Two-Face voice for the Two-Face personality.
** From ''The Dark Knight'': The level of scarring done to his face, the suit being a normal suit with the left half ruined, and his Harvey Dent persona's voice is reminiscent of Aaron Eckhart.
* {{Determinator}}:
** He doesn't give up trying to take over Arkham City despite being the leader of the weakest major gang, [[spoiler:which winds up paying off when he is last gang leader standing at the end]].
** His mooks even discuss this, noting he'll never give up ever, with one even stating that he was in the courtroom when Two-Face's face was scarred, and that he never stopped fighting back against his attacker even as the acid was burning his face.
* EvilIsHammy: His evil half is a lot less subdued than his good half.
* EvilSoundsDeep: As expected, given who his [[Creator/TroyBaker voice actor]] is.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Two-Face (or rather, his good half) is reluctant to kill Catwoman immediately, as they're in a courtroom, which is a place of justice. He also appears to be the nicest of the three super-criminal gang bosses.
* FacialHorror: The damage done to his face is particularly gruesome here, much like in Nolan's films.
* FallenHero: He used to be a well-respected attorney before the accident.
* GutturalGrowler: His evil half has a distinctive growling voice.
* JekyllAndHyde: The two sides of Harvey's personality occasionally argue about the best course of action, as they ([[PronounTrouble he]]?) did shortly before Catwoman's "trial".
* JokerJury: He subjects Catwoman to one at the start of the second game... With her tied up and hanging over a tank of acid. Ironically, he chose this because the good side of the coin went up.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His good and evil halves debate whether they should execute Catwoman immediately or hold a trial for her (the evil and good halves supporting the respective actions.)
* NobleDemon: As Harvey Dent. Technically speaking, as Two-Face as well, in that he's actually a far more BenevolentBoss than any of the other crime lords in the Arkham Gang War.
* NumerologicalMotif: As one would expect, he's obsessed with the concept of duality and the number two.
* RedOniBlueOni: His evil half is the red to his good half's blue.
* RedemptionRejection: Hugo Strange, of all people, [[SadisticChoice offers to do whatever he can to cure Two-Face if he simply refuses to catch his coin when Strange flips it into the air, or tell him where Catwoman is and what she is doing if he does catch it]]. Two-Face sounds torn over what to do, but ultimately catches the coin. Strange is rather disappointed by the choice.
* ShutUpKirk:
-->"[[ThatWasObjectionable OBJECTION!]] ''[shoots Batman]'' Overruled.
* SplitPersonality: His two personalities will even hold conversations with each other while trying to decide upon a course of action, with the evil half even insulting his good half a few times.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Two guns, bitch!" Really, 50% of his dialogue towards Catwoman invokes this.
* TwoFaced: The TropeNamer himself.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Considering his backstory.
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