History Fridge / BatmanArkhamOrigins

** This only works if one ignores all the good Bruce Wayne does to reform criminals like the low-level thugs by getting them jobs, healthcare & money for their children's education. The game doesn't highlight his efforts but they are definitely a part of the story. Bruce knows why many turn to crime and he works in a more official and legal compacity to eliminate those conditions.

** [[BadBadActing Why is she talking in her "Harley" voice, as opposed to a more professional tone]], during the Arkham interview? She's already fallen for the Joker by this point, which he's taking advantage of (which might also explain why his dialogue towards her is more flirtatious than normal when [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexuality}} he's usually not interested in that sort of thing]]).

* Late in the game, Killer Croc just up and leaves after he gets hit in the neck by a stray bullet, even though he already got caught in three explosions a few hours earlier and came out just fine. Fast forward to ''Asylum'' where the shock collar is around his neck, and it's strongly implied that Croc's neck is a weak spot. It may also jump to FridgeHorror; Croc may have tried to hang himself to escape the torment he received due to his appearance.

* Bane may not have necessarily figured out that Batman is Bruce Wayne; nonetheless, the clue he picked up with Batman's/Bruce's apparent catchphrase "you've just ran out of time" is enough for Baneto at least suspect him and storm his manor. After all, what's stopping him? A search warrant?

*** On of the goons roaming the city in "Arkham Knight" says he was part of Bane's gang, so some of the did leave. Since this goon doesn't have the accent used by Bane's men in this game, this means what Batman fought that night were Bane's top agents.

** This may also explain why when Bane performs his signature "Bat Breaker" on Batman, he ''couldn't'' break his back. Bruce's later batsuits in ''Asylum'' and ''City'' probably would not save from this move, but the more padded and dense suit here provides his spine with just enough protection.

*** In the WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review for the game, Yahtzee even jokes that Black Mask taking out an assassination contract on Batman is, at this point in the mythos, like hiring assassins to go after Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, since nobody really believes Batman is real... except this all makes perfect sense when you remember Black Mask is actually the Joker. It's entirely possible, even very likely, that Joker too didn't really believe in Batman, and really was just putting out a bogus assassination hit on someone who didn't even exist. It'd be like hiring someone to kill the Ghost of Christmas Future, and it's EXACTLY what the Joker would do

** [[BadBadActing Why is she talking in her "Harley" voice, as opposed to a more professional tone]], during the Arkham interview? She's already fallen for the Joker by this point, which he's taking advantage of (which might also explain why his dialogue towards her is more flirtatious than normal when [[{{Asexuality}} he's usually not interested in that sort of thing]]).

* [[BookEnds Joker was wearing a white suit both the first]] [[ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns and last]] [[BookEnds time he and Batman met.]]

*** In the WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review for the game, Yahtzee even jokes that Black Mask taking out an assassination contract on Batman is, at this point in the mythos, like hiring assassins to go after Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, since nobody really believes Batman is real... except this all makes perfect sense when you remember Black Mask is actually the Joker. It's entirely possible, even very likely, that Joker too didn't really believe in Batman, and really was just putting out a bogus assassination hit on someone who didn't even exist. It'd be like hiring someone to kill the Ghost of Christmas Future, and it's EXACTLY what the Joker would do

** There's also the ludicrous amount of explosives under the police station and the bank, when the GCPD is mostly on his payroll and actively working for him, and far too much to just rob a bank. And why would Black Mask even rob a bank by himself, or at all, let alone one that he ''legally owns''? But remember the trailers: Joker set up explosives across various buildings, just to mess with Batman.

*** There are way less mooks around in the chronically later games in the series, of course - since Batman proved capable of beating the hell of them all in ''Origins'', a lot of them probably just packed it in and left the city. Not mention the newly risen super villains dominating the Gotham underground would have started killing the remaining thugs off from time to time, either for failing to stop the Batman or to keep the rest in line. This also explains why the mooks in ''Asylum'' and ''City'' aren't as tough, too - they're either comparatively newbies or suffering a few years' worth of bad road.

*** The plot of ''Arkham Asylum'' has Batman ''under''prepared and forced to improvise the entire game with his gadgets because he is caught off guard by Joker and isolated from his resources. The only reason he has any supplies at all is because he established a Batcave on Arkham Island well in advance, and even that gets destroyed by Ivy's plants.
*** In ''Arkham City'', Bruce is thrown into the mega prison without any of his gear, and has to have it all flown in, even making extra requests when the situation called for it.

*** The Accelerator was designed to work with the ''Origins'' suit, which is much more bulky and more like PoweredArmor. The force of it is against the suit rather than Batman's arm. The Boost was designed to work with the much lighter high tech fabric suits Batman had switched to (for more mobility and less noise), where the force of it would be against Batman's arm. Different tech. Notice that he switched back to an Accelerator type thing (but more powerful) when he switched to the super armored suit in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''.

* During "Cold, Cold Heart," when Penguin declares that he's going to freeze to death and Batman says that's not his problem, it was initially a bit confusing considering his general stance on saving the lives of the people he fights. It is possible to explain it with him thinking he would have enough to time to go back and save him after the ordeal with Freeze. There's another explanation though; Penguin was frozen with Victor's brand of cryogenic weaponry, which Batman states puts its victims into cryostasis. Even if Batman doesn't save him, he's not going to die from the ice.

* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' Firefly, one of the world's greatest assassins, isn't present despite the game saying that all of Gotham's criminals are imprisoned in Arkham City. Like the Joker entry above, ''Origins'' provides some answers: he's either used his contacts to flee the country after escaping from prison (in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' there's a newspaper stating as such in the medical center) or he's been recruited into the Suicide Squad.

* Here's a double header for the Lacey Towers case:

** The Bat-Cave seems to be designed with just the Bat-Wing in mind, since there's no bridge in the cave for the Bat-Mobile to exit out of. It's likely the Bat-Wing was Bruce's primary vehicle at that time, and the Bat-Mobile was stored in an area of the Bat-Cave that we don't have access to during the game.
** Wherever the Bat-Mobile is stored, it must be somewhere that can lead to the wine cellar, otherwise Bane wouldn't have gone through the tunnel as mentioned in Cold, Cold Heart.

* Some details of Penguin's involvement of the Lacey Towers murder seem odd at first glance. When he first discovers the scene, he reveals a small part of (fake) Black Mask's chest and becomes visibly upset. When he's later interrogated by Batman, he refers to Black Mask as "having", not "had", problems, as if he knew that Sionis was still alive. Even Batman couldn't positively deduce that from his initial sweep of the crime scene. This all makes sense after the player learns that Sionis had a pacemaker implanted; Penguin knows practically everything that happens in Gotham, so he definitely knew about Sionis' procedure. He was checking the dead Black Mask for the surgery scar, and when he didn't find it, he knew that it was a fake.

* Some of the criminals you beat up say they have kids. So why would they turn to crime? Because it's the only way they can provide for them. Once Batman foils their attempts at robbery or muggings, more often than not leaving them with a criminal record and injuries that require medical treatment, then they'll be saddled with healthcare debts they can't repay because they can't find work due to their record, forcing them to go back to crime again. In essence, [[CrapsackWorld crime in Gotham is a never-ending cycle]], and Batman is the catalyst for it. Since the reality of the endless cycle is outright stated by the game during a gang conversation you can overhear, that aspect of this isn't Fridge, but realizing that Batman is a serious catalyst for it is Fridge.

*** In the WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review for the game, Yahtzee even jokes that Black Mask taking out an assassination contract on Batman is, at this point in the mythos, like hiring assassins to go after Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, since nobody really believes Batman is real... except this all makes perfect sense when you remember Black Mask is actually the Joker. It's entirely possible, even very likely, that Joker too didn't really believe in Batman, and really was just putting out a bogus assassination hit on someone who didn't even exist. It'd be like hiring someone to kill the Ghost of Christmas Futrue, and it's EXACTLY what the Joker would do

** There's also the ludicrous amount of explosives under the police station and the bank, when the GCPD is mostly on his payroll and actively working for him, and far too much to just rob a bank. And why would Black Mask even rob a bank by himself, or at all? But remember the trailers: Joker set up explosives across various buildings, just to mess with Batman.

** There's also the ludicrous amount of explosives under the bank, too much to just rob a bank. And why would Black Mask even rob a bank by himself, or at all? But remember the trailers: Joker set up explosives across various buildings, just to mess with Batman.
** Black Mask wouldn't kill Loeb, but Joker only cares about spreading chaos. He wants to kill Batman out of RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and only Joker would be crazy enough to throw the prize of 50 million dollars into the criminal underworld to cause mayhem through Gotham.
** This game also explains some of Joker's alliances in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. Why's he so friendly to Killer Croc? Because Croc worked for him before. It's unclear if he knew that Joker had traded places with Black Mask, though.

** He considered offing Calendar Man just because it was Christmas Eve. That really sounds like something ComicBook/TheJoker would find funny.

*** There are way less mooks around in the chronically later games in the series, of course - since Batman proved capable of beating the hell of them all in Origins, a lot of them probably just packed it in and left the city. Not mention the newly risen super villains dominating the Gotham underground would have started killing the remaining thugs off from time to time. This also explains why the mooks in Asylum and City aren't as tough, too - they're either comparatively newbies or suffering a few years' worth of bad road.

*** The plot of ''Arkham Asylum'' has Batman ''under''prepared and forced to improvise the entire game with his gadgets because he is caught off guard by Joker and isolated from his resources.

*** The Accelerator was designed to work with the Origins suit, which is much more bulky and more like PoweredArmor. The force of it is against the suit rather than Batman's arm. The Boost was designed to work with the much lighter high tech fabric suits Batman had switched to (for more mobility and less noise), where the force of it would be against Batman's arm. Different tech. Notice that he switched back to an Accelerator type thing (but more powerful) when he switched to the super armored suit in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''.

* People have complained how Batman can get punched through a concrete wall by a TN-1 infused Bane and get back up. By let's remember that the bat-suit allows Batman to drop from high altitudes and land without a parachute, perfectly safe. When he was getting punched, the force was enough to trigger the shock absorbers in the suit, mitigating the actual damage Batman took.

** It's undergoing maintenance during the game because the storm has blocked off the city roadways, so there's no point in having it ready.

* The Deadshot encounter likely explains why Batman takes him down so easily in ''Arkham City''. While the setting and the presence of henchmen make the Origins encounter tougher, otherwise the encounter is the same. Therefore Bruce has experience in Deadshot's tactics by the time they face each other again he knows how to deal with him.

*** Additionally it appears that, for the most part, upon completion, the Batmobile supplants the Batwing as Batman's primary method of transport, with the Batwing only being used to reach locations nor accessible by car, or used to supply Batman with gadgets while in the field, thus reducing the time it's in the ar to ''be'' tracked.

* Even before you know [[spoiler: Joker was actually Black Mask]], there are some things that tip you off.

** [[spoiler: There's also the ludicrous amount of explosives under the bank, too much to just rob a bank. And why would Black Mask even rob a bank by himself, or at all? But remember the trailers: Joker set up explosives across various buildings, just to mess with Batman]].
** [[spoiler:Black Mask wouldn't kill Loeb, but Joker only cares about spreading chaos. He wants to kill Batman out of RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and only Joker would be crazy enough to throw the prize of 50 million dollars into the criminal underworld to cause mayhem through Gotham]].
** This game also explains some of [[spoiler:Joker's alliances in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. Why's he so friendly to Killer Croc? Because Croc worked for him before. It's unclear if he knew that Joker had traded places with Black Mask, though.]]
*** Given that one of [[spoiler: Croc's natural abilities is [[TheNoseKnows enhanced smell]]]], it wouldn't be a huge jump to assume that he did know. That raises a different point of FridgeHorror, though: if he can [[spoiler: tell that Batman is behind him just by scent, it stands to reason that he might be able to guess his identity if he ever meets Bruce Wayne in person.]]
** He considered offing Calendar Man just because it was Christmas Eve. That really sounds like something [[spoiler: ComicBook/TheJoker]] would find funny.

* Joker's MultipleChoicePast has a single constant, as Strange pointed out: Batman was always responsible in some way. Then ''Origins'' came out, and [[spoiler:it's revealed that Joker found his purpose in life: fighting Batman. That was when Joker was really "born"]].
* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' Firefly, one of the world's greatest assassins, isn't present despite the game saying that all of Gotham's criminals are imprisoned in Arkham City. Like the Joker entry above, ''Origins'' provides some answers: [[spoiler:he's either used his contacts to flee the country after escaping from prison (in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' there's a newspaper stating as such in the medical center) or he's been recruited into the Suicide Squad.]]

* Late in the game, [[spoiler:Killer Croc just up and leaves after he gets hit in the neck by a stray bullet, even though he already got caught in three explosions a few hours earlier and came out just fine. Fast forward to ''Asylum'' where the shock collar is around his neck, and it's strongly implied that Croc's neck is a weak spot.]] It may also jump to FridgeHorror; Croc may have tried to hang himself to escape the torment he received due to his appearance.
* [[spoiler: [[BookEnds Joker was wearing a white suit both the first]] [[ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns and last]] [[BookEnds time he and Batman met.]]]]
* People have complained how Batman can get [[spoiler:punched through a concrete wall by a TN-1 infused Bane]] and get back up. By let's remember that the bat-suit allows Batman to drop from high altitudes and land without a parachute, perfectly safe. When he was getting punched, the force was enough to trigger the shock absorbers in the suit, mitigating the actual damage Batman took.

** [[spoiler: Dr. Young basically lives next door to Black Mask's safe-house. Given that the Enigma data located there would have been planted after the murders, it wasn't damaged by the fire or Joker just for kicks, someone busted into the safe-house after the murders. Since Young's door was taped off, ''she'' was the one who called the cops over after investigating the noise, and was moved by the cops for questioning.]]

* In ''Cold, Cold Heart'' the Remote Claw [[spoiler:lost its zip-line function. In ''Origins Blackgate'' the Line Launcher has gone from a prototype to a mass-produced gadget. Batman removed the zip-line to perfect the Line Launcher prototype.]]
* A small but very neat detail in ''Cold, Cold Heart'': throughout the DLC, Batman is on a FirstNameBasis with his apparent friend, Ferris Boyle, and refers to Victor Fries exclusively by his supervillain moniker, Mister Freeze. [[spoiler: Upon finding out exactly what happened to Victor, what he wants, and the sort of man Boyle actually is, Batman immediately switches to FirstNameBasis with Victor and LastNameBasis with Boyle, showing exactly how far his opinion of the CorruptCorporateExecutive has fallen.]]

** Wherever the Bat-Mobile is stored, it must be somewhere that can lead to the [[spoiler:wine cellar, otherwise Bane wouldn't have gone through the tunnel as mentioned in Cold, Cold Heart.]]

* In 2015, it was revealed on a cryptic Website/YouTube channel that there was an undiscovered Easter Egg in ''Batman: Arkham City'' where Calendar Man tells Batman he was there at the beginning and will be there at the end. Surely enough, at the beginning of ''Arkham Origins'', Calendar Man is present. [[spoiler: And at the end of ''Arkham Knight'' too.]]

** Listen closely when Bane shouts in his last boss battle. [[spoiler:It's a distorted scream of "[[SayMyName WAYNE!]]". Even as a rabid animal, he ''still'' remembered that Batman is Wayne until he was electrocuted into unconsciousness. What if Bane had been just a little more resistant to TN-1 and started shouting "WAYNE!" intelligibly?]]

* [[spoiler:As mentioned above, Bane was able to find Batman's secret identity through something as simple as air radar, technology that's high-tech but hardly impossible to procure. The horror sets in when you realize that if the GCPD had thought to try this, Bruce would've been in jail/dead long before the game.]] It may also explain why the Batwings of the earlier games are smaller than the one here: [[spoiler:a smaller plane would be harder to pick up on radar.]]

*** Given that one of [[spoiler: Croc's natural abilities is [[TheNoseKnows enhanced smell]] ]], it wouldn't be a huge jump to assume that he did know. That raises a different point of FridgeHorror, though: if he can [[spoiler: tell that Batman is behind him just by scent, it stands to reason that he might be able to guess his identity if he ever meets Bruce Wayne in person.]]
*** This troper recalls a comic where Catwoman mentions that Batman uses some kind of ointment to protect his exposed jaw, which could presumably also mask his scent. He thinks of everything, remember?

*** The Accelerator was designed to work with the Origins suit, which is much more bulky and more like PoweredArmor. The force of it is against the suit rather than Batman's arm. The Boost was designed to work with the much lighter high tech fabric suits Batman had switched to (for more mobility and less noise), where the force of it would be against Batman's arm. Different tech. Notice that he switched back to an Accelerator type thing (but more powerful) when he switched to the super armored suit in VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight.

* Late in the game, [[spoiler:Killer Croc just up and leaves after he gets hit in the neck by a stray bullet, even though he already got caught in three explosions a few hours earlier and came out just fine. Fast forward to ''Asylum'' where the his shock collar is around his neck, and it's strongly implied that Croc's neck is a weak spot.]] It may also jump to FridgeHorror; Croc may have tried to hang himself to escape the torment he received due to his appearance.

** Secondly, the bounty is EXTREMELY exaggerated, and Batman isn't that intimidating yet; he's been in the game for just two years, and most thugs don't even believe he exists, plus Gotham is still pretty much in Black Mask's pocket. Black Mask wouldn't waste that much money when he's still on top of the game.

** [[spoiler:Black Mask wouldn't kill Loeb, but Joker only cares about spreading chaos. He wants to kill Batman out of RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and only Joker would be crazy enough to throw in 50 million dollars to cause mayhem through Gotham]].

*** I recall a comic where Catwoman mentions that Batman uses some kind of ointment to protect his exposed jaw, which could presumably also mask his scent. He thinks of everything, remember?

* Penguin claims that all arms deals taking place aboard the Final Offer are completely legal, due to the vessel technically being property of the Somali government, and thus a small bastion of lawless foreign territory. While he is correct on that count, the police are still able to go after any of his customers for ''smuggling'' weapons into the United States. [[HonestJohnsDealership Not that he cares]].

*** There are way less mooks around in the chronically later games in the series, of course - since Batman proved capable of beating the hell of them all in Origins, a lot of them probably just packed it in. Not mention the newly risen super villains dominating the Gotham underground would have started killing them off from time to time. This also explains why the mooks in Asylum and City aren't as tough, too - they're either comparatively newbies or suffering a few years' worth of bad road.

*** The plot of ''Arkham Asylum'' has Batman ''under''prepared and forced to improvise the entire game with his gadgets because he is caught off guard by Joker.

*** The Accelerator was designed to work with the Origins suit, which is much more bulky and more like PoweredArmor. The force of it is against the suit rather than Batman's arm. The Boost was designed to work with the much lighter high tech fabric suits Batman had switched to (for more mobility and less noise), where the force of it would be against Batman's arm. Different tech. Notice he switched back to an Accelerator type thing (but more powerful) when he switched to the super armored suit in ArkhamKnight.

* During "Cold, Cold Heart," when Penguin declares that he's going to freeze to death and Batman says that's not his problem, it was initially a bit confusing considering his general stance on saving the lives of the people he fights. It is possible to explain it with him thinking he would have enough to time to go back and save him after the ordeal with Freeze. There's another explanation though; Penguin was frozen with Victor's brand of cryogenic weaponry, which Batman states puts its victims into cryostasis. Even if Batman doesn't save him, he's not going to die.
* Joker's MultipleChoicePast has a constant, as Strange pointed out: Batman was always responsible in some way. Then ''Origins'' came out, and [[spoiler:it's revealed that Joker found his purpose in life: fighting Batman. That was when Joker was really "born"]].

* In this game, it's revealed that there's a hidden drug lab in the east part of the Steel Mill. In ''City'' that whole section is on fire. Until this game, one would think that it caught fire because of the dilapidated furnace, but it's also possible that Joker first used this place to create a cure, only to torch it out of frustration. It certainly explains why Joker would let Freeze use the old police lab.
* Late in the game, [[spoiler:Killer Croc just up and leaves after he gets hit in the neck by a stray bullet, even though he got caught in three explosions a few hours earlier and came out just fine. Fast forward to ''Asylum'' where the his shock collar is around his neck, and it's strongly implied that Croc's neck is a weak spot.]] It may also jump to FridgeHorror; Croc may have tried to hang himself to escape the torment he received due to his appearance.

* The fact that Deathstroke is [[{{DLC}} playable]] in Challenge Maps seems odd, given that previous characters have either been Batman's allies (Catwoman, Robin and Nightwing in ArkhamCity) or the Joker in a (somewhat canonical) prequel to the events of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''. However, given that the Challenge Maps in this game are a simulation (being accessed from a computer in the Batcave), we can see the Deathstroke maps as a way for Batman to study him in preparation for a fight (since he knows Deathstroke is after him, but not when he'll attack). It also neatly explains how Batman is able to counter everything Deathstroke throws at him - [[CrazyPrepared he's already prepared]].

* [[spoiler: [[BookEnds Joker was wearing a white suit both the first]] [[ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns and last]] [[BookEnds time he and Batman met.]]]]

* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' Firefly, one of the world's greatest assassins, isn't present despite the game saying that all of Gotham's criminals are imprisoned in Arkham City. Like the Joker entry above, ''Origins'' provides some answers: [[spoiler:he's either used his contacts to flee the country after the escaping from prison, in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' there's a newspaper stating as such in the medical center, or he's been recruited into the Suicide Squad.]]

* Late in the game, [[spoiler:Killer Croc just up and leaves after he gets hit in the neck by a stray bullet, even though he got caught in three explosions just a few hours earlier just fine. Fast forward to ''Asylum'' where the his shock collar is around his neck, and it's strongly implied that Croc's neck is a weak spot.]] It may also jump to FridgeHorror; Croc may have tried to hang himself to escape the torment he received due to his appearance.
* [[spoiler: [[BookEnds So Joker was wearing a white suit both the first]] [[ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns and last]] [[BookEnds time he and Batman met.]]]]

** Whoever planted the Enigma data must've been from Penguin's gang because how else would Penguin know about the murders.
* In ''Cold, Cold, Heart'' the Remote Claw [[spoiler:lost its zip-line function. In ''Origins Blackgate'' the Line Launcher has gone from a prototype to a mass-produced gadget. Batman removed the zip-line to perfect the Line Launcher prototype.]]
* A small but very neat detail in ''Cold, Cold Heart'', throughout the DLC, Batman is on a FirstNameBasis with his apparent friend, Ferris Boyle, and refers to Victor Fries exclusively by his supervillain moniker, Mister Freeze. [[spoiler: Upon finding out exactly what happened to Victor, what he wants, and the sort of man Boyle actually is, Batman immediately switches to FirstNameBasis with Victor and LastNameBasis with Boyle, showing exactly how far his opinion of the CorruptCorporateExecutive has fallen.]]

** Wherever the Bat-Mobile is stored, it must be somewhere that can lead to the [[spoiler:wine cellar, otherwise Bane wouldn't have gone through the tunnel as mentioned in Cold, Cold, Heart.]]
*** If this is all true, than it's possible that the Bat-Mobile was also meant as an escape device for Alfred.

** Bane's gang isn't around in the other games. Did they all give up on Bane and leave, get captured, or killed in the interim?

* Firefly is too distracted causing fires and explosions on the bridge to keep track of his men until Batman's on the road way fighting them. While there's FridgeBrilliance in that the henchmen in the bridge don't want to give Firefly a reason to set off the bombs, explaining why no one contacts him, if Firefly had been paying more attention to them, he'd have set off the bombs before you could even get to him.
* This game shows that Penguin had Candy and Tracey helping him in the past, and both have disappeared by the time of ''Asylum''. The Arkham Stories in ''City'' say that Joker and Penguin have been enemies since Joker squirted acid in a waitresses' face. Could that waitress have been one of the girls?
* [[spoiler:As mentioned above, Bane was able to find Batman's secret identity through something as simple as air radar, technology that's high-tech but hardly impossible to procure. The horror sets in when you realize that if the GCPD had thought to try this, Bruce would've been in jail/dead long before the game.]]. It may also explain why the Batwings of the earlier games are smaller than the one here: [[spoiler:a smaller plane would be harder to pick up on radar.]]
** It's all but stated that the Batwing is the same vehicle throughout all the games, that Batman is just continually modifying and upgrading it. It started out as a prototype stealth aircraft with very few modifications. So Batman likely figured out how it was tracked and corrected it.

* Some of the criminals you beat up say they have kids. So why would they turn to crime? Because it's the only way they can provide for them. Once Batman foils their attempts at robbery or muggings, more often than not leaving them with injuries that require medical treatment, then they'll be saddled with healthcare debts they can't repay, forcing them to go back to crime again. In essence, [[CrapsackWorld crime in Gotham is a never-ending cycle]], and Batman is the catalyst for it.

** Why would Arkham's staff let a an inexperienced intern provide therapy for the inmates? Harley wasn't completely inexperienced at the time, having worked for Hugo Strange's clinic and Blackgate Prison (which justified her interviewing the patients), but she was still hopelessly naive, which the Joker took advantage of.

** [[BadBadActing Why is she talking in her "Harley" voice, as opposed to a more professional tone]], during the Arkham interview? She's already fallen for the Joker by this point, which he's taking advantage of. (which might also explain why his dialogue towards her is more flirtatious than normal when [[{{Asexuality}} he's usually not interested in that sort of thing]])

** This could also explain why Deathstroke and Tim have similar movesets; As Jason was killed after getting the same Robin training as Dick did, why shouldn't Batman try to teach the next Robin a different fighting style. And Batman just happens to have a simulation of the world's deadliest assassin.
* During "Cold, Cold Heart", when Penguin declares that he's going to freeze to death and Batman says that's not his problem, it was initially a bit confusing considering his general stance on saving the lives of the people he fights. It is possible to explain it with him thinking he would have enough to time to go back and save him after the ordeal with Freeze. There's another explanation though; Penguin was frozen with Victor's brand of cryogenic weaponry, which Batman states puts its victims into cryostasis. Even if Batman doesn't save him, he's not going to die.