History Characters / BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryKnight

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I’ve waited long enough. Batman dies. Tonight."'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Johnny C's big comeback tour just got bigger, bolder, bloodier!"'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"You think you can police me?! Nobody polices the Goliath!"'']]

* AndIMustScream: They don't (and likely ''can't'') speak, but examining them in Detective Mode reveals that they're always terrified.

* SerialKiller: Killed about six people he considered too defective to work with in Gotham before Batman stopped him, and is implied to have traveled across the country doing much the same. It should be noted Lazlo isn’t looking to kill people, and most of the deaths were a result of not surviving the surgery.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Pyg is like clay! Pyg is like God! Pyg is here to fix us all."'']]

* AdaptationalWimp: In [[ComicBook/BatmanTheCult his famous story]], he and his followers captured and brainwashed Batman, and completely took over Gotham, with Batman left so [[BreakTheBadass broken]] by the experience he seriously considered hanging up the cowl and leaving the city to him. In this one, he's taken out in a few minutes and comes across more as a raving lunatic than a conniving schemer.

* AdaptationalWimp: In [[ComicBook/BatmanTheCult his famous story]], he and his followers captured and brainwashed Batman, completely took over Gotham, and left Batman so [[BreakTheBadass broken]] he seriously considered hanging up the cowl and leaving the city to him. In this one, he's taken out in a few minutes and comes across more as a raving lunatic than a conniving schemer.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's no perfection without a little pain!"'']]

-->''"It's not too late for you, Batman. Pyg is an artist. I can make a maiden from a monkey. A model from a miscreant. A beauty from a bat."''

* AdaptationalWimp: In [[ComicBook/BatmanTheCult his famous story]], he was such a threat that Batman [[BreakTheBadass nearly completely quit being Batman]] and left Gotham to him. In this one, he's taken out in a few minutes and comes across more as a raving lunatic than a conniving schemer.

* MoodSwinger: '''''Oh Good God''''', this can swing from calm, to relaxed, to arrogant, to sad, ''all in one sentence''.

* SerialKiller: Killed about six people he considered too defective to work with in Gotham before Batman stopped him, and is implied to have traveled across the country doing much the same.

* EliteMooks: Their Combat Experts, who fight similarly to the League of Assassins. The final pair of Brutes you fight [[spoiler:at GCPD]] have all the equipment Brutes have had so far: shields, blades, and electro-gauntlets. And in several predator encounters, minigunners, who can't be taken down silently.

* CopKiller: The first pair of them you see blow up a GCPD cruiser killing the men inside. They later [[spoiler:launch an all out assault on GCPD intent on killing every cop and civilian inside.]] A few express a desire to start sniping cops from the watchtowers, and even make it a competition to see who can kill the most.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"As they run scared, we emerge. Take over his habitat. Every rooftop, road, and back alley. We draw him out of the shadows, chip away until he has nowhere left to hide and no one left to hide behind."'']]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Far nobler and more reasonable than her comics counterpart.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: In comparison to Scarecrow. The Arkham Knight doesn't care what Batman's legacy will be after he's gone or about [[DontCreateAMartyr creating a martyr]]; he just wants Batman dead, plain and simple. Early on in the game, he tries to gun down Batman in a helicopter, but Scarecrow disables the guns, and he repeatedly chews Scarecrow out over his BondVillainStupidity, insisting they should just [[KillHimAlready kill Batman and be done with it]]. Near the end, he's finally sick of it and outright disregards Scarecrow's orders, coming after Batman with a massive excavating machine with full intent to kill.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, [[spoiler:Jason Todd, after his death and resurrection,]] started out as an [[spoiler:acolyte of the League of Assassins who took over Gotham's criminal underground, leading up to his plan to force Batman into killing the Joker]]. Subsequent appearances inconsistently depicted him as either a fundamentally good guy or a fundamentally bad guy, sane or insane, differing from writer to writer. His goals are never clearly stated. Here, most of his dirty work is under orders from Scarecrow. As for his mental state, he's clearly suffering from textbook psychosis, and whereas in the comics [[spoiler:Jason]] is angry because [[spoiler:Batman didn't kill the Joker to avenge his death and then replaced him as Robin within months, here he honestly believes Batman abandoned him to his fate]]. He also still cares for [[spoiler:both Barbara and Alfred a great deal.]]

* VillainRespect: [[spoiler:The Joker, or at least Batman's (very accurate) hallucination of Joker, considers the other Joker-Infected to be washed-out inferiors compared to him. Not Henry, though; in fact, once he had revealed himself as the mastermind that hacked the defence systems, killed off the other Infected, and even taking Harley hostage to influence Batman, Joker briefly considers rooting for ''him'' instead of Batman as to which one would succeed him]].

* KnifeNut: You'd think killing ten people at a Board of Director's meeting would require some sort of firearm, but according to the police report, she somehow managed to kill them with just a sharp object. And if that's not nutty enough, she proceeded to walk out the building with blood on her hands, while giving advise to some co-workers as if she didn't just murder a room full of people!

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Dollotrons end up being placed in a jail cell after Batman apprehends Pyg, but they're all completely absent in the post-game. Presumably, they were [[KilledOffscreen euthanized off-screen]] to end their suffering.

* DarthVaderClone: He's an armor and mask-wearing [[TheDragon Dragon]] to the actual BigBad whose true identity constitutes a major reveal in the story, and who has a personal connection to the hero. He commands an army and repeatedly [[YouHaveFailedMe berates his inferiors for failing him and their supposed incompetence.]] [[spoiler: He is also a FallenHero corrupted by an even greater force of evil, but by end of the story undergoes a HeelFaceTurn just in time to save Batman.]]

-->'''Batman:''' [[Understatement You've got problems, Valentin.]]

-->'''Batman:''' You've got problems, Valentin.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:His identity as the Arkham Knight ends up as this for Batman; he's sure that the Knight is someone connected to Arkham Asylum or Arkham City in some way, and he spends much of the game focused on that possibility and never picks up the hints it could someone else. It's unknown if Jason picked the name for this on purpose, though.]]

* SecretKeeper: Played with. The Knight never told Scarecrow who his own secret identity nor did he reveal Batman's identity to him. He did however tell Scarecrow Batman's strategies, his key allies, and the people Batman really cared about, all before personally kidnapping Oracle for Scarecrow. [[spoiler:In the backstory, Joker's torture broke him to the point that he was going to reveal Bruce's identity but Joker shot him, seemingly, before he revealed it. In the game, he ''does'' finally call Batman "Bruce" within earshot of Commissioner Gordon, finally outing Batman's identity to him.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the Militia express disgust at Stagg's greed causing him to going behind Crane's back and sell his fear toxin. Additionally, some are horrified to hear that the Scarecrow intentionally invoked a NightmareFace with the plastic surgery he did to make himself look scarier.

* BadBoss: While he's never seen physically harming his soldiers, his obsession with Batman causes him to care very little for their safety. He frequently berates them when they fail to kill Batman, and should there be one soldier left alive in a predator mission, the Knight will simply tell Batman to finish him off, saying [[WeHaveReserves he has plenty more]]. He'll also threaten that while Batman can break bones, he knows ''true'' pain.

* PsychopathicManchild: If his ranting about his "mother" not being pleased with him during his VillainousBreakdown is any indication. [[note]]Said mother, whom he mentions showing to people before operations and is never seen in-game, is [[CargoCult a gigantic wooden frame covered in nails and barbed wire, topped with a blank staring mask]] in the comics.[[/note]] He also makes mention of a "Mother Goat" who destroys beauty as well, which is possibly Pyg's warped understanding of how the nature of Gotham wears people down.

* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers a massive one when captured, crying about how his mother won't be pleased, and how he was so close to perfecting the dollotrons when Batman stopped him.