History Characters / BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryCity

!!Deadshot (Floyd Lawton)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisCox (''Arkham City'', ''Arkham Origins'', ''Arkham Underworld''), Creator/NealMcDonough (''Assault on Arkham''), Creator/BumperRobinson (''Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League'') [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Franck Lorrain (Fr; games), Creator/PatrickBorg (Fr; ''Assault on Arkham''), Gianni Gaude (It), Walmir Barbosa (Br.Pt; ''Origins''), Rodrigo Oliveira (Br.Pt; ''Assault on Arkham'')[[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisCox (''Arkham City'', ''Arkham Origins'', ''Arkham Underworld''), Creator/NealMcDonough (''Assault on Arkham'') [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Franck Lorrain (Fr; games), Creator/PatrickBorg (Fr; ''Assault on Arkham''), Gianni Gaude (It), Walmir Barbosa (Br.Pt; ''Origins''), Rodrigo Oliveira (Br.Pt; ''Assault on Arkham'')[[/labelnote]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Strange in ''City''. Though he is clearly the one in charge.
* BigBadEnsemble: Alongside the Joker, he's the main antagonist of the entire Arkham series. The Joker is a more personal threat to Gotham and Batman's ArchEnemy. Ra's Al Ghul meanwhile is the reason Gotham is a WretchedHive in the first place.

* BigBad: Of Catwoman's story, anyway.

'''Rogues Gallery''': ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker The Joker]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheRiddler The Riddler]]) | '''''Arkham City''''' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesCatwoman Catwoman]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesThePenguin The Penguin]]) | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryKnight Arkham Knight]]'' | [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryMisc Miscellaneous Foes]]\\

[[folder:Ra's al Ghul]]
!!Ra's al Ghul
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You disappoint me, Detective."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Bruno Dubernat (Fr), Lorenzo Scattorin (It), Gileno Santoro (Br.Pt)[[/labelnote]]

'''[[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.

[[folder:Hugo Strange]]
!!Professor Hugo Strange
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"By the end of tonight, I will be a hero. Just like you... Batman."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Creator/PhilippeDumond (Fr), Mauro Pagani (It)[[/labelnote]]

'''Hugo Strange''' is a brilliant psychiatrist who is placed in charge of running Arkham City by Mayor Quincy Sharp. He rules the facility with an iron fist using his TYGER guards, and is extremely antagonistic towards Batman, who he has deduced to be Bruce Wayne. He throws Bruce into Arkham City at the beginning of the second game, and begins counting down to "Protocol Ten".

** Averted after you reunite him with Nora. He says that he's sorry, and Batman advices him to make a HeelFaceTurn and focus on Nora's curing, which he does.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference:
** Averted, as he uses his design from ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' to begin with. In the comics, Roman Sionis never wore a skull mask and instead had his face disfigured to resemble a black skull.
** His design in ''Arkham City'' is much different than how he'd look in the subsequent games. His mask was completely different and he lacked his trademark white suit, instead wearing a blue shirt and tie with the sleeves rolled up and black pants.

* ZeroEffortBoss: In ''Arkham City'', he goes down after a single takedown. Completely Averted in ''Arkham Origins'' though, being one of the more difficult bosses, with all direct attacks and most predator takedowns having absolutely no effect on him normally. Oh, [[FlunkyBoss and]] [[{{Mooks}} he has help.]]

'''Rogues Gallery''': ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker The Joker]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheRiddler The Riddler]]) | '''''Arkham City''''' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryKnight Arkham Knight]]'' | [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryMisc Miscellaneous Foes]]\\

'''Rogues Gallery''': ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker The Joker]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheRiddler The Riddler]]) | '''''Arkham City''''' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesThePenguin The Penguin]]) | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryKnight Arkham Knight]]'' | [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryMisc Miscellaneous Foes]]\\

[[folder:Catwoman]]
!!Catwoman (Selina Kyle)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This place is dangerous. I like it!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Catwoman in ''Arkham City'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeKyle_9207.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GreyDeLisle [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Agnès Manoury (Fr), Creator/CinziaMassironi (It), Creator/AdrianaTorres (Br.Pt)[[/labelnote]]

'''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.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is brown instead of black in ''Arkham Knight'', even though it's still listed as black in her character bio. It's possible that she dyed her hair, as she has been known to do in other continuities.
* AffablyEvil: For a criminal thief, Catwoman is a friendly woman who speaks with a polite and kind tone. She even speaks in a friendly banter with her {{Love Interest}}, Batman.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Acts this way towards Batman.
* AmazonianBeauty: Although this isn't usually part of her character design, her Long Halloween attire in Arkham City features tighter-than-tight purple spandex over muscles that wouldn't look out of place on the Miss Olympia stage.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Much like mainstream Catwoman at the time. She is almost insulted that Poison Ivy didn't use her mind control kiss on her.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent:
** Catwoman's DLC in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' has the player cut between her and Batman during the story.
** In ''Arkham Knight'', she's [[spoiler:kidnapped by the Riddler and fitted with a bomb collar and forced to take part in his games]]. During this storyline the game alternates between having Batman do one puzzle to reveal a hint for Catwoman, whom the player controls halfway across the city, and swapping between the two in the same location to work together to solve puzzles or even in the middle of a fight.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes:
** Her alternate costumes in ''City'' include [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Animated]] and ComicBook/TheLongHalloween, with an armored version of her normal outfit featured in ''[[ColonCancer Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition]]''.
** Her alternate costumes in ''Arkham Knight'' include her purple costume from the 1990s as well as her costume from the '60s ''Series/Batman1966'' show.
* AntiHero: Often skirts the line between this and AntiVillain. [[spoiler:Except in ''Arkham Origins Blackgate'', where she's still a [[BigBad straight-up villain]].]]
* ArchEnemy: Two-Face, who sold her out in an effort to avoid being sent to Arkham City. In ''Knight'' she sets her attentions on Riddler and in the DLC, ''Catwoman's Revenge'', she all but ensures that [[spoiler:Riddler is finished as a villain, with all his remaining savings and resources destroyed forever]].
* BadassNormal: She has no abnormal skills, but can tear through dozens of goons [[spoiler:and survive a point blank explosion]].
* BaitTheDog: She promised Ivy that she'd save her plant in return to creating an underground path to Strange's vault. After breaking into the vault, she smashed the plant and grinded it under her heel.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: She goes all the way to the end of the story unblemished, which contrasts heavily with the ever more worn Batman. [[spoiler: And then averted when she takes an explosion to the face and looks just as rugged. In the teaser for ''Knight'', her forehead and one of her cheeks is still scarred.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:In a surprise twist, she fills this role for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOriginsBlackgate''. She works directly for 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.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:By the Mad Hatter in ''Arkham Unhinged'']].
* {{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.
* CompositeCharacter: Catwoman's headgear and personality largely resemble her comic appearance but her suit has a patchwork look reminiscent of [[Film/BatmanReturns Michelle Pfeiffer's]], is black instead of purple, and she even has those infamous heels. Unless the player goes with the animated or Long Halloween skins.
* DanceBattler: As seen whenever she fights.
* DarkActionGirl: While she's 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. She even [[spoiler: gives up the loot she spent the whole time searching for in ''Arkham City'' to rescue him. Its quite clear in Knight that she cares a great deal for Batman and the other Rogues know this well enough that Scarecrow didn't even consider including her in his plan against him. The Riddler in fact used a promise for information on Scarecrow to trap her knowing that Batman will come and rescue her]].
* DeadpanSnarker: You thought Alfred was bad? Her whole dialogue oozes sass as well as her thoughts. Exaggerated in ''Arkham Knight.''
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She's the second main focus in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', after the Batman himself, being even the {{Villain Protagonist}} of her own story arc.
* DisappearedDad: In an interview with Strange, Selina casually mentions that she never knew her father. Strange theorizes that this informs her seductive behavior and attraction to Batman.
* TheDogBitesBack: After being Riddler's prisoner for the entirety of ''Arkham Knight'', her DLC has her getting payback by stealing every last cent of his millions of dollars and destroying his robot factory while he can only helplessly listen over the phone from jail, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty ending his career as a supervillain once and for all]].
* DoesNotLikeMen: An InformedAttribute. In his psychoanalysis of her, Strange claims she's a misandrist thanks to her DisappearedDad, but this misandry is never once shown.
* {{Dominatrix}}: Oh, yes. This aspect of Selina's personality has been played up to various degrees [[DependingOnTheWriter by different writers]], but it's particularly prominent here. In addition to wielding a whip and wearing [[CombatStilettos stilettos]] and [[ClassyCatBurglar skintight black latex]], at least one of the Arkham City inmates can be [[EnemyChatter overheard]] saying, "She could do whatever she wants to me! You wouldn't hear ''me'' complaining!" Apparently, even musclebound Gotham criminals dream of submitting to Catwoman.
* ExplosiveLeash: Riddler fits her with one in ''Arkham Knight''.
* FakeWeakness: In ''Blackgate'', Catwoman plays up the idea that she is just a timid thief and wants out of Blackgate as quick as possible. [[spoiler:She's actually the BigBad.]]
* FemmeFatale: As one would expect from Catwoman. Played more straight in ''Blackgate'' than ''City'', as [[spoiler: she betrays Batman and turns out to have been the main villain all along.]]
* FemmeFatalons: On her gloves. Two-Face will no doubt [[EyeScream vouch for that]]. The scratches they leave on her window sill are also the only physical sign of her presence in ''Origins.''
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: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.
* 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.
* 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.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Much like her history in the comics, she's gone from being an opposing factor to Batman, to one of his closest allies and back again across numerous points over the years the ''Arkham'' series takes place. As of ''Arkham Knight'' however, she's firmly considered one of Batman's allies, even by other criminals.
* InformedAttribute: Her misandry. Strange's focal point in his psychiatric interview of her is that she DoesNotLikeMen due to her DisappearedDad, but she's actually quite nice to most men she encounters if they're nice to her.
* InkSuitActor: Her redesigned ''Arkham Knight'' model makes her look a lot like Grey [=DeLisle=] in the face.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's a thief, no doubt, but she's Batman's ally nonetheless, in addition to taking care of Holly. [[spoiler: She was even willing to help Batman on protecting Gotham from Scarecrow and when rejected, she looks very disappointed.]]
* KickTheDog: Stomping on Ivy's plant to get back at her was admittedly just a dick move.
* KnowledgeBroker: Why Batman kind of lets her thieving slide, well [[DatingCatwoman one of the reasons]] at least. She apparently provides information to him on other hoods, a fact known to the Gotham Villains (so much so that Scarecrow flat out refused to involve her in his scheme).
* LovableRogue: She may be a criminal thief, but her heart is definitely full of gold, as well as being a charming woman. She may steal valuable items, but she doesn't kill innocents. And despite being a criminal, there are times where she can be a hero, [[spoiler: as seen when she decides to rescue Batman from the TYGER guards in loss of her loot, even admitting she would never forgive herself if he dies.]]
* MaleGaze: In ''City'', the "slide" maneuver used while playing Catwoman to move through very narrow, low obstacles involves Catwoman sliding on her knees and leaning back with her arms spread ''just so'', giving the player a perfect view of Catwoman's cleavage. Not to mention the camera positioning allows players to ogle her rear...
** Averted in ''Knight''. If Batman zooms in on her rear, there's a good chance that she'll turn around and give him a somewhat irritated glare.
* 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 possible that she tried to tear his throat out right then and there, guards or no guards.
* MasterOfNone: While Catwoman is decent in combat maps, in predator sections she has severe weaknesses that don't necessarily balance out her few useful gimmicks. This could be noticed in ''Arkham City'', but due to different level design and gameplay mechanics it's especially noteworthy in ''Arkham Knight'', where her gameplay hasn't really changed to match the changes between the two games and there are a ''lot'' more enemies in each map.
** She only has three gadgets; her whip, bolas, and caltrops. The first two are essentially the same thing and simply trip the target, while she only has three batches of caltrops that very briefly stun enemies as long as they don't see or hear them land.
** While she can jump into ceilings to hide, this can only be done if the ceiling supports it. That said, she does have two extra takedown opportunities while hanging from the ceiling, although both are still pretty situational and nothing too out of the ordinary.
** Her movement options are also split in the middle, as while her run is silent, she has difficulty reaching vantage points. This allows her to cover a lot of ground quickly and sneak up on enemies easier, but if you're trying to reach a vantage point while under fire, her climbing mechanics will likely result in a few extra hits that characters with a grappling hook wouldn't take.
** To top it off, she can only obtain half of the armor upgrades, meaning her health is at best only 75% of the other characters. With her difficult movement, lack of special moves effective against armored enemies and very situational gimmicks, extreme variants of challenge maps tend to involve a lot of waiting around and praying to the RandomNumberGod that the enemies don't all pack together.
** As mentioned above, all of this is exaggerated in ''Arkham Knight''. On one hand, her run remains silent, her armor now goes up to 100% and her caltrops regenerate, but on the other hand she cannot perform double takedowns, enemies quickly adapt to regular silent takedowns, and only three maps support her ceiling climb ability. Even compared to Harley Quinn and Red Hood, two characters with very limited movesets, she still sticks out as both Harley and Jason have something to compensate for their weaknesses (Harley is [[MechanicallyUnusualFighter intentionally awkward to play]] and thus balanced a bit better with her LimitBreak ability, while Jason has PurposelyOverpowered firearms that can take out anything with [[OneHitKO one hit]] from extreme distances and quicker silent takedowns).
* MoralityPet:
** Batman is one for her. She's otherwise a LoveableRogue who's OnlyInItForTheMoney but she goes out of her way for him much as she hates doing so.
** Holly Robinson also counts. When Strange mentions her name and threatens to harm harm, Catwoman gets really pissed and threatens to kill him if any harm comes to her.
* MsFanservice: Skintight outfit? Check. Slim-yet-muscular figure? Check. [[VaporWear Clearly not wearing anything underneath the outfit?]] Check. NavelDeepNeckline? Check. [[TheTease Flirtatious nature?]] ''Super'' 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 (while casually checking her nails/claws while waiting), dropping down from the ceiling to choke them with her ankles, or taking down a running mook from behind with a rolling headscissor. Really though it would be easier to list her takedowns where she ''doesn't'' use her legs as grappling weapons than to list those where she does.
* MusclesAreMeaningful: Played straight. Catwoman is strong for her size and pulls off some surprising feats of strength, but she's still a ''lot'' smaller than Batman and the mooks she beats up. Her smaller frame means she can't take as much punishment as Batman. She also can't pull off grate covers and lampshades it.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Says this to Strange in one of her interview tapes. He isn't particularly amused.
* NavelDeepNeckline: In ''Arkham City'', Catwoman's suit is zipped down to the point where her whole cleavage and her stomach can be seen at some angles. Downplayed in ''Knight'', her suit is still unzipped, but her cleavage is much less visible.
* OrgasmicCombat: Whenever she gets hit in ''Knight'' her shrieks and groans sound more like she's about to [[TheImmodestOrgasm climax]] than reacting to pain.
* 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.
** A GCPD board in ''Origins'' lists the descendants of Vincent Falcone through both his daughter Carla and son Carmine. Under Carmine's section, we see Alberto, Kitrina, and then "Selina???"
* ParentalSubstitute: To Holly Robinson. In her interview tapes, Hugo Strange draws parallels between her relationship with Holly to Batman's relationship with Robin.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: She's a cat burglar, in theory, but for most of her appearances in the Arkham games she doesn't do a great deal of stealing, presumably this is to make sure Batman doesn't feel too conflicted about enabling her. Her one attempt at a heist on Strange's locker in ''Arkham City'', ends with her being forced to abandon her loot to save Batman. She spends most of ''Knight'' a hostage. It's only in the DLC ''Catwoman's Revenge'', that we finally see Catwoman actually rob someone, and given that [[spoiler:it's Riddler who she wipes out financially, taking a loot of $2.7 million, with Batman no longer around to stop her or get in her way]]. Incidentally, one dialogue exchange between Bruce and Selina in ''Arkham Knight'' has Batman more or less confessing that he more or less tolerates her general thieving out of sentiment or because she's a useful KnowledgeBroker:
-->'''Catwoman''': Giving blood - no, wait, volunteering. Why?\\
'''Batman''': There was a break-in at the Museum of Gotham. A valuable gemstone was stolen.\\
'''Catwoman''': ''(gasps)'' [[BlatantLies What? No! Who could]] ''[[BlatantLies do]]'' [[BlatantLies such a thing?]]\\
'''Batman''': ...Just put it back.
* PungeonMaster: Cat puns a-plenty, "purrrfect" being one of them.
* {{Revenge}}: As Two-Face and Riddler will tell you, cross her, and you'll wind up with your money, and your pride, taken from you.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: She's the latter in her relationship with Batman. While not quite a ManicPixieDreamGirl, her more fun-loving style contrasts with his stern and focused demeanor, and yet she sparks more of his DeadpanSnarker tendencies than anyone else. Even in Arkham Knight, where his world is collapsing around him, she manages to get him to snark during the Riddler side quest.
* ScarsAreForever: In ''Knight'' her forehead and left cheek are scarred from the explosion in ''City.''
* SecretKeeper: While she doesn't know who he is at the time of ''Arkham City'', the final scene between her and Batman in ''Arkham Knight'' always has her address him as "Bruce" even if it takes place before the game's ending sequence, suggesting that Batman entrusted her with his secret at some point after City. ''Arkham VR'' which takes place prior to ''Knight'' seemingly confirms it, as she sends postcards of her various global heists directly to Wayne Manor, addressed to Bruce, [[TheTease signed with lipstick]].
* SensualSpandex: Wears this kind of costume.
* SheFu: She's quite agile in combat.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: 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. She gives the game away when she [[spoiler:drops the hard-thieved loot to save him]].
--> '''Catwoman''': Hang on handsome, I'm coming for you.
** The ''Arkham Knight'' Audio Logs for Riddler reveal that [[spoiler:she was trapped by the latter because he tricked her into a trap by offering information about Scarecrow's plan for Batman. She had wanted the information to help out and warn Batman, not to steal anything]].
** The ending of ''Arkham Knight'' shows once and for all that her earlier denial back in ''Arkham City'' was just that; a denial. As the rivalry with Riddler becomes more heated, she noticeably begins dropping less sass and genuinely tells Batman to be careful. Once freed, she suggests they celebrate by finding a vacant hotel room to spend the night together (he declines due to the current events) and once Batman fights Riddler, she comes back to assist him even when Batman himself tells her she didn't have to. The real kicker comes after Riddler is beaten, as Batman sadly tells her that their relationship can't go any further and she tenderly calls him "Bruce" before sharing a final kiss with him. She's visibly heartbroken as of the last moment her and Batman are seen together.
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:As Mad Hatter's Cheshire Cat]].
* 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.]]
** [[spoiler: She does this again in ''Arkham Knight'' by unexpectedly returning to help Batman take down Riddler during his boss battle.]]
* SupermodelStrut: Has a noticeable strut to her step and sway to her hips whilst moving, and walking at a slower speed whilst controlling her makes that all the more noticeable. It's also a part of her character animation when switching between playing as her or Batman post-story, where she [[TheTease seems to be putting it on more than usual because of his presence]].
* 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.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: [[spoiler: In ''Knight'', Batman ends up breaking up with her and says that he'll never see her again, breaking her heart.]]
* VaporWear: She's obviously not wearing a bra.
* VerbalTic: As a MythologyGag to her CatchPhrase in ''Series/Batman1966'', she emphasizes the first half whenever she says "perfect".
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Hides the palm pilot that she had stolen from Two-Face this way, as well as the key cards she steals from the goons in the "Catwoman's Revenge" DLC for ''Knight''.
* VillainProtagonist: She has her own chapters in City that take place during Batman's. The two storylines crisscross at various points. Though Catwoman is definitely not villainous in that story and [[spoiler:indeed comes to Batman's rescue]].
* WeakButSkilled: While playing as her, she has 50% less armor than Batman, it takes more hits to knock a mook out, her aerial attacks and ground takedowns take more time, she cannot break weapons or remove vent covers[[note]]In the predator challenge maps, all of the vent covers have been removed automatically[[/note]]. However, she can strike faster than Batman, run much faster (as well as quieter) and climb ceilings and take thugs out from there, so she has both pros and cons.
* WhipOfDominance: Catwoman's whip is a big part of her moveset and is the [[BuildingSwing tool she uses to move around]] Gotham and her {{Dominatrix}} overtones are played up in this adaptation, with her sultry and domineering attitude and her skintight black latex costume. You can even overhear {{Mooks}} talking about how they wouldn't mind getting whipped by her.
* WildCard: She's not trusted fully by Batman nor is she on good terms with most of the other rogues. In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight, majority of Batman's rogues considers her a hero for being one of Batman's allies, much to her chagrin.
* WolverinePublicity: Leading into City, 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:Hugo Strange]]
!!Professor Hugo Strange
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"By the end of tonight, I will be a hero. Just like you... Batman."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Creator/PhilippeDumond (Fr), Mauro Pagani (It)[[/labelnote]]

'''Hugo Strange''' is a brilliant psychiatrist who is placed in charge of running Arkham City by Mayor Quincy Sharp. He rules the facility with an iron fist using his TYGER guards, and is extremely antagonistic towards Batman, who he has deduced to be Bruce Wayne. He throws Bruce into Arkham City at the beginning of the second game, and begins counting down to "Protocol Ten".
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!!Provides examples of:

'''Rogues Gallery''': ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker The Joker]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheRiddler The Riddler]]) | '''''Arkham City''''' ([[CharactersBatmanArkhamSeriesThePenguin The Penguin]]) | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryKnight Arkham Knight]]'' | [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryMisc Miscellaneous Foes]]\\

'''Rogues Gallery''': ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker The Joker]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] • [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheRiddler The Riddler]]) | '''''Arkham City''''' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryKnight Arkham Knight]]'' | [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryMisc Miscellaneous Foes]]\\

[[folder:The Penguin]]
!!ComicBook/ThePenguin (Oswald Cobblepot)
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->'''Voiced By (En):''' Creator/NolanNorth (''Arkham City'', ''Arkham Origins'', ''Arkham Origins Blackgate'', ''Arkham Knight'', ''Assault on Arkham'', ''Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League''), Ian Redford (''Arkham VR'') [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Creator/PhilippePeythieu (Fr), Oliviero Corbetta (It), Ricardo Juarez (Br.Pt)[[/labelnote]]

'''Oswald Cobblepot''' is the heir to the prestigious Cobblepot family, which 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.

* AbsurdPhobia: You wouldn't expect a tough-talking crime boss to be [[spoiler: afraid of the dark]], would you?
* AbusiveParents: Implied, see DarkAndTroubledPast below.
* AdaptationalJerkass: While Penguin has always been a ruthless Mob boss, in the comics he's normally presented as an AffablyEvil [[WickedCultured sophisticated]] gentleman of crime, and one of the few comparatively sane villains in Batman's rogues gallery. Here, Penguin is clearly psychotic, a brutal AxCrazy {{sadist}}, and nothing but a thug at heart no matter how sophisticated he may attempt to be.
* ArchEnemy: He considers himself to be this to Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy and the last member of the Wayne family. While he does have a hatred for Batman, it's Bruce that he really wants to punish for his family's misfortune. [[spoiler:Upon finding out Bruce is Batman at the end of ''Knight'', his fury is intermingled with glee that he can now gain double the satisfaction from killing the two people he hates the most with one move.]]
* ArmsDealer: Running guns seems to be his favorite illicit activity. His Most Wanted missions in ''Arkham Knight'' in particular focus on stopping his gun running and it's implied he acquired weapons for the Arkham Knight's Militia this way.
* AxCrazy: Cobblepot's a gleeful, brutal, homicidal {{sadist}} who takes joy in actively torturing others and is very open to the idea of senseless violence. The fact that Penelope Young has diagnosed him with [[TheSociopath anti-social personality disorder]] certainly doesn't help as it should.
* 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 ComicBook/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, Penguin's mooks, as soon as he's defeated, 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." While Penguin may pay for a higher grade of mooks, if Penguin, aka their paycheck is gone, then so are they.
** When Batman places a tracking device on one of Penguin's trucks, Penguin's henchmen reveal that they only joined him because he's saner than Two Face and will, at least, pay you for your work. Unlike Two Face, whose mood swings and reliance on a coin toss will make him difficult to work with.
--->''"At least with Cobblepot you know where you stand. With Dent it's fifty-fifty at best."''
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: He killed and stuffed the Joker's pet hyenas.
* BaldOfEvil: As seen in the above image. His hairline recedes throughout the series till he shaves his head for ''Knight''.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Mr. Freeze in ''Cold, Cold Heart''. [[spoiler: Until he tries to steal whatever Freeze was looking for.]]
* BigBadWannabe: Of ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Knight''. In the first case he's involved in a brutal mob war with the Joker and plans to kill him take his territory, then turn his attention to Hugo Strange and Arkham City. In the second its more subtle, but he makes no secret to his henchmen his plan to betray the other villains and take over once he restores his funds. He never comes close to any of his aims. Penguin is undisputedly a serious threat in his own right, but he is simply out of his depth compared to the likes of the [[{{Archenemy}} Joker]], [[TheChessmaster Hugo Strange]] and the [[ManipulativeBastard Scarecrow]].
* BookEnds: The Cyrus Pinkney sub-quest in ''Origins'' reveals the Cobblepot family's decline began after Henry Cobblepot's more ambitious projects, including a munitions plant, were stopped by Cyrus and Solomon Wayne. In response, Henry tried to kill Cyrus but failed thanks to Amadeus Arkham swapping Henry's poisoned wine with a specially drugged wine he created. However, Cyrus, now quite vengeful, ran Henry over with a car. [[spoiler:Penguin destroyed what was left of the family reputation when Batman and Nightwing stopped his gun-running operation.]] On top of that, a Gotham City Story implies that Cobblepot Manor is being demolished as part of the redevelopment of Founder's Island.
* 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 than 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.
** He continues this after Batman frees Mr Feeeze, trying to taunt Victor. He gets his hand stepped on and further humiliated for that.
* 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.
* 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'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 hailing from England and his family having a grudge against the Waynes ala ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
* CopKiller: Cobblepot himself guns down one of the undercover cops he captured in ''City''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was locked in the closet as a child, whether this was because of AbusiveParents is yet to be known. In any case, it results in him being afraid of the dark, [[spoiler: which Nightwing uses to humiliate him by cutting the power to his elevator during his attempted escape from the GCPD.]]
* DemotedToExtra: His role in ''Origins'', since his criminal activities are 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. 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]].
* DirtyCoward: Sure he's high and mighty when he's safe or has the advantage, but just watch him collapse and beg when he's personally in danger. [[spoiler: Joker may even kill him because of this during Batman's nightmare at the end of ''Arkham Knight''.]]
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: While his body's fine during ''Origins'' and ''Blackgate'', during the events of ''City'', ''Knight'', and ''VR'', the Penguin features a vent in his neck from smoking and a beer bottle jammed into his left eye in place of his traditional monocle. The interquel film, ''Assault on Arkham'', shows that at least the bottle part happened before ''Asylum''.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The main antagonist of the first act of ''Arkham City'', kidnapping Freeze and the cops is what sets off the main plot.
* EntitledBastard: Yep. See LaserGuidedKarma.
* 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 of 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 and picked up the accent after he was shipped of to a boarding school in London.
* 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 the "unique look" it gave him, he also implies 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, he's grossly overweight and a mob boss.
* FatSlob: His clothes have food stains on them in ''Arkham Knight'', implying he's a messy eater.
* 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.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When he sends his goons after you in his "initiation" pit, he accidentally(?) whacks one of his lieutenants in the groin with his umbrella.
* GladiatorGames: Hosts some version of this in Arkham Origins, its sequel Blackgate, and Arkham City. He also makes use of these to provide higher caliber mooks; you have to win to join his gang in ''City,'' and his champion ([[ButtMonkey Electrocutioner]] in Origins, [[AntiVillain Bronze Tiger]] in Blackgate) is pitted against Batman in both of the other games.
* 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.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Rarely seen without [[CigarChomper a big fat stogie clamped between his lips]], cementing him as a sleazy character; interestingly, between ''Origins'' and ''City'', [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/1/19/Arkham_City_Penguin.jpg/revision/20110930181942 he now wears a voice box strapped around his neck]].
* GrievousBottleyHarm: On the receiving end as the character's traditional monocle has been replaced with the bottom end of a broken bottle stabbed into his face.
* GroinAttack: 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.
** When Batman tracks Penguin's arms caches in ''Knight'', he mockingly accepts an apology from one of his lackeys, before saying that if Batman destroys cache number three, [[FreudianThreat he'll cut off the mook's "family jewels".]]
* {{Greed}}: If it exists, it's his. If it isn't his, he wants it. And what he wants, he gets.
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow:
** Penguin has more hair in ''Origins'' than he did in the rest of the series, though it has already began to recede at this point.
** ''Kill the Justice League'', set five years after ''Knight'', shows how he's grown a long, stringy skullet and a combover in ARGUS captivity, suggesting that his shaved look in that game was him trying to age gracefully.
* HatedByAll: Penguin's JerkAss BadBoss nature earns him few friends. His own gang seems to dislike him and serves him more out of fear. Even [[AxCrazy Joker]] has a few minions who genuinely respect and admire him.
* HateSink: One of the few villains in the game who lacks any kind of cool traits and is absolutely despicable, hateful and obnoxious. All we know about Penguin is an inelegant, tacky, {{narcissist}}ic, [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]], [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] {{sociopath}} [[SmugSnake who thinks he is way more sophisticated than he actually is]]. It certainly doesn't help the fact that he is the WickedPretentious trope incarnate.
* HighClassGlass: Subverted. Though it may appear to be a monocle at first glance, that's actually a broken bottle that's been jammed into his face.
* HumiliationConga: Over the course of one night in ''City'': He has his hand broken by Bruce Wayne, Batman defeats him and his gang, Mr. Freeze steps on his hand, and he spends the rest of the night hiding in a display case from Two-Face and his mooks.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Cobblepots were once a wealthy and powerful dynasty instrumental in building Gotham, but their futile, ill-considered, one-sided rivalry with the Wayne family finally bankrupted them when Oswald's father sunk all their money into a failed hotel chain; despite this, Penguin, the last in line, still acts like his family name has influence and will rise to power again, even though he doesn't have a cent of inheritance and his own reputation was built up through ruthless criminal deeds.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: In ''Knight'', he has fallen on hard times and very few people are afraid of him or take him seriously anymore.
* InformedAbility: His in-game profiles always state that he's an expert hand-to-hand combatant (something the comics have zig-zagged on over the years; only ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' seems to consider it a must). However, he never demonstrates these skills at any point in the Arkhamverse, and in ''City'', Batman takes him out in a straight-up fight without effort.
* JabbaTableManners: In the prequel comic and especially in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'', in which Cobblepot is introduced noisily chowing down on whole, raw fish that he's eating with his hands with saliva dripping down his face and his napkin tucked in his shirt. In ''Arkham Knight'', his clothes are stained with food.
* {{Jerkass}}: The Riddler outright calls him a “vicious, inelegant, tacky bully”; and that's one of the ''nicest'' terms to describe him.
* KickTheDog: 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.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: As Batman is taking him to the GCPD lockup, in one conversation, after he pushes Batman's buttons, Batman responds with a [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness subtle death threat]], (which, considering all the SanitySlippage he has been through, is quite understandable.) A slightly nervous Penguin then proceeds to back off.]]
** When Nightwing foils his gang's attempt at freeing him from prison, he mimics one of Penguin's flunkies, and says that Nightwing has been dealt with. Penguin strides out of the elevator, to bump into Nightwing, surrounded by unconscious goons. Instead of fighting back, Penguin simply tells Nightwing to "sod off".
* 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. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'', it's clear that he hates being called "Penguin".
* 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.]]
** In ''Cold, Cold, Heart'', after plundering Wayne mansion with Freeze's weapons, Freeze leaves him trapped in a huge wall of ice, [[EntitledBastard begging (and threatening)]] Batman to let him out, who unsurprisingly refuses.
* LondonGangster: This Penguin is closer to a Creator/RayWinstone-style thug with delusions of grandeur, complete with an East-End accent, than his usual depiction.
* MissionControl: He functions as this to Harley Quinn in her playable campaign.
* MisterBig: A cruel, noisy, loutish kingpin of crime, who barely comes up to his men's shoulders and [[TheNapoleon does not want that fact remarked upon]]. His bio in ''Asylum'' originally gives his height as 5'2", but from ''City'' onward, he's 4'10", making him exactly as tall as [[Film/BatmanReturns Danny DeVito]].
* 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"]]. Hilariously, Penguin responds to him by saying he doesn't.
* 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.
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Penguin haughtily sniffs that he doesn't find Joker very funny when discussing him in ''City'' -- right after Batman has walked through his utter horror show of a museum, featuring the exact kind of sadistic humor that would be right at home in the Sionis Steel Mill across town. There's a lot of evidence throughout the series that he and Joker would probably be great friends if [[SourGrapes Penguin wasn't so self-important and committed to holding a grudge]].
* OhCrap: Penguin discovers that Black Mask's apartment has been broken into and that ''a lot of shit'' has gone down. He, quite rightly, has an OhCrap moment.
* PaidHarem: Has two in ''Origins'' in the form of Candy and Tracey, who also serve as his personal CoDragons.
** In Harley's DLC for ''Knight'', he tries to talk Harley Quinn into becoming this. She shuts him down as she's "spoken for" [[spoiler: even if her "Puddin" is dead]], showing even as crazy as Harley is she understands what his offer entails.
* 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.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's not particularly nice to ''anyone'', really, but he seems to go out of his way to be explicitly bigoted.
** He shows severe misogyny, referring to both Catwoman and Harley as either a "bitch" or a "harlot" various times, and when Harley fails her mission in her ''Arkham Knight'' DLC, Penguin remarks that they shouldn't have sent her "to do a man's job."
** Penguin occasionally shows an ugly homophobic streak, calling his own men "ponces" and Nightwing a "fairy".
** He calls a black cop "boy", implying racism as well.
** He also thanks Strange in an audio interview for sending the psychotic mental patients he'd requested, mentioning that the "dribbling monkeys" made for great moving targets in live fire exercises for his gang.
* TheResenter: Claims that the Waynes "destroyed" the Cobblepots[[note]]which they did, in a way; the Cobblepots squandered their own fortune by trying to top the Waynes with failed business ventures and living beyond their means[[/note]], and utterly despises Bruce Wayne, who he considers a spoiled little rich boy; after learning in advance from Strange that Bruce would be arrested and thrown into Arkham City, Oswald takes sadistic pleasure in waiting for him at the gates and getting ready to pound his face in with brass knuckles, calling it "good old-fashioned revenge".
* {{Sadist}}: The Penguin is a sadist to the very core. He's cruel, petty and takes genuine joy in hurting others.
* SecretIdentityApathy: Averted. Alone among Batman's RoguesGallery, [[spoiler:the Penguin is truly livid once Batman is outed as Bruce Wayne. To him, Bruce deliberately became Batman to personally ruin Cobblepot's fortune, and thus he sees Bruce Wayne as the true face and Batman as the mask because [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he cannot see any selfless agenda]] behind Batman or Bruce.]]
* SinisterSchnoz: Not as much as other incarnations, but it's still there.
* SirSwearsALot: While not really extreme (as there are no F-bombs in the games), he still uses vulgar language more frequently than the rest of the cast (though many of them are [[ForeignCussWord British-exclusive swears]] like "wanker" and "sod.")
* 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.
* TheSociopath: Penelope Young diagnosed him as such in one of her notes, and she's certainly not wrong. He lacks any kind of remorse, enjoys committing heinous crimes, is incredibly smug, violent, petty, overbearing, ruthless, [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]], and has no loyalty to anyone but himself.
* StockBritishPhrases: His East End accent allows him free usage of a few of these terms, including calling Bats "wanker". Hilariously, when Harley does a BriefAccentImitation of Penguin in ''Knight'', Cobblepot takes offense to her use of Britishisms that he himself doesn't use.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His treatment of Zsasz, detailed in the payphone sidequest, is a key part of Zsasz's downfall into insanity. He also had the a sniper trained on Joker at one point before the game, but he never had the guy fire.]]
* 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.
* WickedPretentious: Though he'd never deny how vicious he is, Oswald is just as crude as any of his thugs, even destroying the exhibits of a natural history museum just to accommodate his criminal headquarters. Interestingly, unlike most versions of the character that came from wealth or faded glory and now try to keep up appearances, Penguin refused to better himself when he had the opportunity -- sent to England by his parents to receive private schooling, he didn't fit in with his classmates and spent most of his time there with various gangs in London, coming back with virtually no formal education, even worse etiquette, and a superiority complex as broad as his accent. Between ''Origins'' and ''Asylum'', he did make a sincere attempt to at least be admired by Gotham's wealthy elite when he unveiled the Iceberg Lounge, but Joker disfiguring a waitress the night of the grand opening humiliated Oswald and sparked their long-running feud.
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[[folder:Ra's al Ghul]]
!!Ra's al Ghul
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You disappoint me, Detective."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Bruno Dubernat (Fr), Lorenzo Scattorin (It), Gileno Santoro (Br.Pt)[[/labelnote]]

'''[[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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* DropTheHammer and SinisterScythe: The Joker Brother ("Hammer") uses the hammer and the Penguin Brother ("Sickle") uses the sickle. Attacks from either will blur Batman's vision.

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Neither of their first names are revealed. Whenever someone does not call either of them by their aliases, they always refer to them as [[LastNameBasis Abramovici]].

'''Rogues Gallery''': ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryAsylum Arkham Asylum]]'' ([[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker The Joker]], [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheRiddler The Riddler]], [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]]) | '''''Arkham City''''' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' | ''[[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryKnight Arkham Knight]]'' | [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryMisc Miscellaneous Foes]]\\

* 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. Not helping him with Nora or threatening her also work, considering he fought Batman and Ferris Boyle over both, respectively.

* AdaptationalWimp: Talia in the comics, and most adaptations, is one of DC's best martial artists, being trained by Ra's al Ghul [[TykeBomb since birth]] and usually being able to, at the very least, trade blows with Batman (If not overpower him). Here, she is more of a FauxActionGirl, and her status as a superb fighter is more of an InformedAttribute. Notably, during ''Arkham City'''s climax [[spoiler: she is subdued and held at gunpoint by Joker and later ungloriously shot down with barely putting a fight, something comic book Talia definetely wouldn't go through.]]

** In his Arkham Origins encounter, Deadshot is wearing body armor, meaning only a Cape Stun/Beatdown combo works on him until he takes the bank employee hostage.

* CapeBusters: In addition to acting as guards for Arkham City, they're made specifically to fight the Batman. [[ForegoneConclusion It's not a very successful effort]], especially considering they trained for months and Batman had trained and been active for years.

* WeHaveReserves: Strange isn't too hesitant at sacrificing a few of them himself if he feels he has to. Such as the TYGER captain who he sent out to gain combat information on Batman and who had all of his men defeated and beaten. Strange interrogates and tortures the man about the encounter until he eventually dies from it.
* WellTrainedButInexperienced: While trained specifically to fight Batman, said training was only for a few months, whereas Batman has trained and been active for nearly a decade.

* GutturalGrowler: His evil half has a distinctive growling voice.

* GutturalGrowler: Not surprisingly, given who their [[Creator/FredTatasciore voice]] [[Creator/SteveBlum actors]] are.

* GutturalGrowler: Courtesy of both Creator/NolanNorth and Creator/BrianBloom.

* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Hatter has a full head of hair in ''Origins'', and is balding by the time of ''City'' and ''Origins''.

** [[spoiler:Evidenced with the third kill in the his side-quest in ''City'', where he manages to kill the target by ricocheting the bullet off of a metal shutter before hitting him.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In his interview tapes, Strange is very cruel and manipulative to his subjects, occasionally insulting them to their face. However, given that his subjects are the members of Batman's Rogues Gallery, the sympathy they ellicit from being treated this way is dubious. This is most pronounced with [[SmallNameBigEgo the Riddler]], when Strange taunts him over his inability to figure out Batman's identity despite his supposed intellectual superiority over Strange, who ''does'' know.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:While adding a contemptuous taunt was a step too far, fatally stabbing Hugo Strange is far from Ra's' worst deed, especially considering the scope and heinousness of Strange's crimes.]]

* 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, who is a reckless imbecile, uses the gun carelessly on a captive police officer that his hand becomes brittle enough to easily shatter with a hammer. Apparently, it's only harmless if you're ''experienced'' with using it.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: His design in ''Arkham City'' is much different than how he'd look in the subsequent games. His mask was completely different and he lacked his trademark white suit, instead wearing a blue shirt and tie with the sleeves rolled up and black pants.

* FacialHorror: As usual, Black Mask gets his skull mask burned onto his face. In ''Arkham Unhinged'', Roman experienced this misfortune after having magma splashed on his face, but ''Arkham Origins Blackgate'' seemingly retcons this so Sionis instead is disfigured after having a generator explode in his face.

* SkullForAHead: His black mask.