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A digital exclusive comic series set in the VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries, following various characters' actions both during and before the plot of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. It is written by Derek Fridolfs. Earlier arcs dealt with events alluded to in the ''Arkham City Stories'' database entries in ''Arkham City'', but eventually this led to original stories which often contradicted the game, giving it LooseCanon status at best.

#Inside Job (Issues 1-3): This story arc follows Hugo Strange trying to capture ComicBook/TwoFace, ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, and then send them to Arkham City. It also is a prologue to Catwoman's DLC in the game.

#Ruffled Feathers (Issues 7-9): This story arc follows [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]], [[ComicBook/ThePenguin Penguin]] and inmates stories.

#Theatre of Violence (Issues 14-16): ComicBook/{{Robin}} enters Penguin's Iceberg Lounge disguised, in search of an underground fight club.
#Arkham City Sirens (Issues 17-19): Tells the story of how Catwoman, ComicBook/PoisonIvy and ComicBook/HarleyQuinn worked together. When Batman arrives, his presence splits the team.
#Crocodile Tears (Issues 20-22): Killer Croc's OriginStory, explains where he came from and how he ended up in Arkham City.

#Operation: Kill Joker (Issues 26-28): When Penguin's assassin fails to kill Joker, the bird is looking for someone to finish the job. ComicBook/{{Deadshot}} is ready to fill that position...
#Clown Court (Issues 29-31): The streets of Arkham City are empty, silent. What will happen when Batman learns everyone's flocked to the courthouse to witness a very peculiar court case...presided over by none other than Harvey Dent, and a jury of some of the greatest villains in Gotham history?

#Beloved (Issues 38-40): Batman flashes back to an early encounter with ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, and her father, ComicBook/RasAlGhul. When she and her father save Batman's life, will the three be able to forge a partnership to save the world? And what happened [[NoodleIncident that night in Metropolis]] between Talia and her beloved?
#Uninvited Guests (Issues 41-43): Wayne Manor is under siege by Tyger Soldiers, as Robin and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} try to fend off the attack. With their mentor in Arkham City, is there any way they can stop Hugo Strange's last-ditch effort to destroy Batman's world?

* VillainHasAPoint: When reminded of all the husbands and fathers [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum he killed on Arkham Island]], ComicBook/TheJoker points out how "no one ever remembers the dead singles and divorcees".

* PeekABangs: Talia has this hairstyle in the {{flashback}} where she and Bruce first meets, reminiscent of her ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' appearance. In the present, she looks just as she did in ''Arkham City'', but shorter.

* AbusiveParents: Killer Croc's mother was a physically abusive [[AlcoholicParent drunkard]] that treated him like a rabid animal. [[BullyingADragon One day he snaps and she ends up being the first person he devours]].

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#Inside Job (Issues 1-3): This story arc follows Hugo Strange trying to capture Two-Face, Batman and Catwoman, and then send them to Arkham City. It also is a prologue to Catwoman's DLC in the game.

#Ruffled Feathers (Issues 7-9): This story arc follows Joker, Penguin and inmates stories.

#Theatre of Violence (Issues 14-16): Robin enters Penguin's Iceberg Lounge disguised, in search of an underground fight club.
#Arkham City Sirens (Issues 17-19): Tells the story of how Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn worked together. When Batman arrives, his presence splits the team.

#Operation: Kill Joker (Issues 26-28): When Penguin's assassin fails to kill Joker, the bird is looking for someone to finish the job. Deadshot is ready to fill that position...

#Beloved (Issues 38-40): Batman flashes back to an early encounter with Talia, and her father, Ra's al Ghul. When she and her father save Batman's life, will the three be able to forge a partnership to save the world? And what happened [[NoodleIncident that night in Metropolis]] between Talia and her beloved?
#Uninvited Guests (Issues 41-43): Wayne Manor is under siege by Tyger Soldiers, as Robin and Nightwing try to fend off the attack. With their mentor in Arkham City, is there any way they can stop Hugo Strange's last-ditch effort to destroy Batman's world?

* BroadStrokes: Some of the stories don't fit very well with the game's chronology. In particular when "Arkham City Sirens" takes place [[spoiler: Joker should be long dead, but he makes a brief appearance]]. There are other smaller oddities, such as the fact that in the original prequel comic even Batman has trouble getting in and out of Arkham City, while in the story archs he and his allies are able to come and go as they please. Furthermore, "Vicki in Wonderland" appears to take place during the events of the game itself, but is not present in gameplay.

** [[spoiler:Azrael doesn't have the slightest bit of problem fighting Bane, simply slicing open his Venom tubes with his swords.]]

* OldFlameFizzle: Bruce and Talia's reunion in issue #40 oozes with this. It culminates in the two sleeping together. The next morning [[spoiler: the heart-warming moment is broken when Talia goes KnightTemplar mode and suggests Bruce killing her father]]

* VillainDecay: As depicted in "Repentance", Bane seems to have suffered from an extreme competency breakdown. Whereas he is heavily implied to be as smart as he was in ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} at his peak, and it is mentioned in-universe in the bios of him, he has gone from a GeniusBruiser who is fully capable of bringing about Batman's defeat and back breaking to a nearly mindless DumbMuscle who can be manipulated by common {{mooks}} with the slightest hint that [[PsychoSerum Titan]] might be where he is wanted to go. The mooks even seem to ridicule him behind his back for being able to do so. While his plot in the main "City" game wasn't particularly complicated, it was at least somewhat thought out, unlike this post-"City" incarnation who is also able to be defeated very easily by a bladed weapon (albeit a possibly magical one). That said, this could be a JustifiedTrope owing to his dependency on Titan (and the comparative strength increase higher than Venom) leading to a converse intelligence decrease.
* VillainHasAPoint: When reminded of all the husbands and fathers [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum he killed on Arkham Island]], ComicBook/TheJoker points out how "no one ever remembers the dead singles and divorcees".

* VillainHasAPoint: When reminded of all the husbands and fathers [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum he killed on Arkham Island]], TheJoker points out how "no one ever remembers the dead singles and divorcees".

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In the main story in "Repentance", Cash is able to tell who Azrael is [[spoiler:when he calls him "Rookie"]].

* MysteriousProtector: The term is even outright stated in the solicit for "Repentance". [[spoiler:It's {{Azrael}}.]]

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A digital exclusive comic series set in the VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries, following various characters' actions both during and before the plot of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. It is written by Derek Fridolfs.

* ShoutOut: In Surgeon's General, the stories told by the inmates include appearances by TheDarkKnightReturns Batman, BatmanBeyond Batman, 70s Batman, and [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Animated Batman]].

** While most of the Wonderland Gang (barring the Unicorn) is pretty much no problem for Batman, March Harriet gets taken out without him even bothering to look in her direction.

* AllThereInTheManual: This series is the manual. Most of the stories are based off of the Arkham City Stories that are unlocked in the main game by scanning parts of the environment that are part of Riddler's challenges. Some, however, are separate, including events Batman took part in during the events of the game itself (though not shown in gameplay) and post-game content. Several characters, including the Wonderland Gang (March Harriet, the Unicorn, the Walrus, and the Lion) and Tweedledee and Tweedledum are also shown only in this comic.

* TheSiege: After the events of the game, the people you rescued are holed up in the church. Every remaining inmate, including Bane (who had been manipulated into believing the church held more Titan), attack the building in an attempt to get to Sharp.

#Crocodile Tears (Issues 20-22): Killer Croc OriginStory, explains where he came from and how he ended up in Arkham City.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Azrael saving the Riddler, Sharp, Vale, and the other GCPD cops from Bane in the church in "Repentance".]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:All of Hatter's captives in the third issue of "Vicki in Wonderland", including the Vicki Vale, Catwoman, the Carpenter, and Poison Ivy.]]

** [[spoiler:Azrael does not have the slightest bit of problem fighting Bane, simply slicing open his drug tubes with his swords.]]

* TheSiege: After the events of the game, the people you rescued are holed up in the church. Every remaining inmate, including Bane (who had been manipulated into believing the church held more Titan), attack the building in an attempt to get to Sharpe.

* AllThereInTheManual: This series is the manual. Most of the stories are based off of the Arkham City Stories that are unlocked in the main game by scanning parts of the environment that are part of Riddler's challenges.

* BroadStrokes: Some of the stories don't fit very well with the game's chronology. In particular when "Arkham City Sirens" takes place [[spoiler: Joker should be long dead, but he makes a brief appearance]]. There are other smaller oddities, such as the fact that in the original prequel comic even Batman has trouble getting in and out of Arkham City, while in the story archs he and his allies are able to come and go as they please.

* TheSiege: After the events of the game, the people you rescued are holed up in the church. Every remaining inmate, led by Bane, attack the building in an attempt to get to Sharpe.

* AllThereInTheManual: This series is the manual. Most of the stories are based off of the Arkham City Stories that are unlocked in the main game by scanning parts of the environment that are part of Riddler's challenged.

* BroadStrokes: Some of the stories don't fit very well with the game's chronology. In particular when "Vicki In Wonderland" takes place [[spoiler: Joker should be long dead, but he makes a brief appearance]]. There are other smaller oddities, such as the fact that in the original prequel comic even Batman has trouble getting in and out of Arkham City, while in the story archs he and his allies are able to come and go as they please.
* DangerRoomColdOpen: "Uninvited Guests" opens with a group of commandos lurking through the Bat Cave, being picked off one by one by Robin. Eventually it's revealed that it was a holographic training sequence set up for the cave. Then the real hired guns show up.

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#Inside Job (Issues 1-3)
#Observations (Issues 4-6)
#Ruffled Feathers (Issues 7-9)
#Surgeon's General (Issue 10)
#Separation Anxiety (Issues 11-13)
#Theatre of Violence (Issues 14-16)
#Arkham City Sirens (Issues 17-19)
#Crocodile Tears (Issues 20-22)
#Vicki in Wonderland (Issues 23-25)
#Operation: Kill Joker (Issues 26-28)
#Clown Court (Issues 29-31)
#Repentance (Issues 32-34)
#Eviction Notice (Issues 35-37)
#Beloved (Issues 38-40)
#Uninvited Guests (Issues 41-43)