History Funny / BatmanArkhamCity

* During a later visit to the steel mill, there's a Mook who's set up a bunch of mines in front of him in order to get an easy kill, bragging to an unseen buddy how it'll be an easy kill. [[FailedASpotCheck Now if only he had noticed the open assembly line]], letting you sneak past him and up on him by way of Solid Snake...

* In a [[BlackComedy very dark sense]], this line from SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker minutes after killing [[spoiler:Talia Al-Ghul]]:

* There is an instance of [[BlackComedy]] regarding [[spoiler:Hugo Strange's death]] by an inmate that survives Protocol 10.
-->'''Inmate:''' Hey, I think I just found a little piece of [[spoiler:Strange]]. Is that his ear? Nah. It's just some rotting piece of meat.

* Another gem from the Steel Mill, during your first time in there, two rooms before the smelting chamber, a few mooks are waiting for Batman to show up, and another one is in the next room behind a glass window, making it impossible to prevent him from seeing you take out his buddies. Rather than deal with the guy behind the window, Batman starts silently taking out the other mooks, while the guy behind the window tries to call out and alert his buddies, and while his voice isn't completely blocked by the windows (you can hear it), [[PoorCommunicationKills the other mooks are too engaged in their own conversations to notice.]] Cue one very annoyed guard trying to tell his buddies that Batman is right behind them while simultaneously insulting them. "Are you guys deaf?! HE'S RIGHT THERE!"

*** Not ''designed'' to be, no. But you ''can'' take one of them down this way if you swing to the third gargoyle on the left fast enough.

-->'''[[GenreSavvy Mook 2:]]''' What do we do? It's not like he breaks out of death traps...oh wait, he ''does!''

-->'''Mook 1''': No, [[AntiHero I heard she goes both ways.]]

-->'''Mook 1''': Not like ''that''!

* There's an unexpected one in the model viewer. If look closesly at Hugo Strange's clipboard you can see the word '''BATMAN''' [[VideoGame/{{BatmanArkhamAsylum}} scribbled in big, red letters]].

* [[Tropers/{{Sayer09}} This troper]] once created an [[unexpected and funny moment when first playing the game. After solving a few of Riddler's riddles and trophys, I received the usual "solve the box and find a new hostage" message, and stopped at ground level to do it. After solving it, I was returned to the city and found a giant question mark in front of me! This troper likes to believe that [[RefugeInAudacity Riddler managed to outsmart Batman]] and [[FailedASpotCheck sprayed his symbol in front of Batman while he was solving the riddle box]].

** Even funnier when you realize that the mook is voiced by JohnDiMaggio, who [[ActorAllusion played The Joker]] in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood''.

* One bit of mook chatter amusingly points out some FridgeLogic inherent in the Zsasz side-quest: Namely, that despite Arkham City being in such disrepair, someone made sure all the payphones worked perfectly.

* Normally what happens when Batman lands amid a group of mooks is that they put up their dukes and ready themselves for a fight. But in Amusement Mile in the aftermath of my game, Batman lands amid a large group of them and one chooses to jump over the side of the building into the water instead. Guess the stress of the game's events was just too much for him.

*** Goes into BlackComedy when you realize [[spoiler: that in the scenario in which Catwoman didn't save him, he dies and Gotham goes to hell]].

* You can try to unlock the Riddler security boxes before they are activated, and the Riddler will tell you wait a little while. Try three times, and he'll finally get annoyed enough to tell you piss off until he's activated them.

* If you go to the Iceberg Lounge early, or attempt to enter the front door where Nora Fries is being kept, Batman can knock on the door and a mook will peek out. Grumpily asking what you want [[OhCrap before realizing who he's talking to.]]

* When Batman and Hugo Strange finally meet face to face, Strange tries to [[BreakThemByTalking break him by talking]]. [[spoiler: Batman simply [[ShutUpHannibal headbutts him in mid-sentence]].]]

* After you have captured the Riddler, you can be a jerk by [[ItMakesSenseInContext standing in front of him]]. You can also gag/ungag [[spoiler: Harley]] later in the game to hear humorous results.

* Joker explains to his gang members [[spoiler: how he's been cured]], but then compares the whole thing to the revelation of the mystery on a TV show. Then he follows that up with, "[[Series/{{Lost}} How come it all ended in a church?]]"

* Solving Riddles in the game will reward you with little bits of backstory about what took place between Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. One of these stories reveals that Joker and Harley actually escaped before being transferred to Arkham City in an attempt to keep away from it. Instead, they stole a boat, and after being chased by Batman, wound up sinking said boat and having to swim to shore, winding up in Arkham City anyway.

-->(Freeze [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome step on Penguin's broken hand]], making a sickening crunching noise.)

* While taking out Joker's goons in a predator sequence he might comment that it's starting to look like a [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum re-run of last time]].

** The kicker is that Thugs 2 and 3 believe that the first thugs mother was extremely promiscuous on her prom night, which ultimately leads to the following exchange.

* When you enter the smelting chamber a second time [[spoiler: (before you encounter a tied up Harley Quinn)]] a mook will imitate Harley and Joker's voices mockingly, and he's pretty good at it.

* Upon visiting Museum after the end game, you can hear they discussing about what will come up next. One of them wandering if they are going to have ''Arkham County'' or ''Arkham Nation'' next. At the end they admit that both names sound stupid though.

* Some inmates can be heard giving tips on how to survive in Arkham City, some which imply an almost TooDumbToLive mentality among the general population:

** Of course, at the end you go enter the Mill through the cooling tunnels. On a boat of ice no less. Maybe they had a point.

* While holed up in Harley Quinn's base in the shipyards, a group of thugs start discussing whether or not Batman [[spoiler: really killed the Joker, or if he's still possibly alive]]. One of them breaks out some in-universe WildMassGuessing, postulating that [[spoiler: it [[FanWank could've actually been]] [[DoppelgangerAttack Clayface posing as the Joker]], [[MesACrowd in addition to playing himself]]]]. [[TakeThatAudience The others dismiss the notion as completely ridiculous]].

* In the {{DLC}} one of Harley's mooks is lampshading the fact that she just did an "IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou."

* During a later visit to the steel mill, there's a Mook who's set up a bunch of mines in front of him in order to get an easy kill, bragging to an unseen buddy how it'll be an easy kill. [[FailedASpotCheck Now if only he had noticed the open assembly line]], letting you sneak past him and up on him by way of Solid Snake.
* During the Harley Quinn DLC, one of her Mooks hits on her. [[spoiler: She's not very pleased.]]

* The prequel comic shows how Batman uses a nondescript boat to hide the Batboat, in order to come and go to Arkham city at will. Or so he planned - when he arrives the second time, the boat gets blown ''with him in it!'' As Batman's flying through the air from the explosion, he calmly notes that "...that worked a total of once."

* That brief moment after Batman pummels Tiny, in which you can practically hear the shark thinking that no meal's worth this kind of trouble.

-->'''Joker''': Dear, dear. I must be slipping.

** Of course, at the end you go enter the Mill through the cooling tunnels. One a boat of ice no less. Maybe they had a point.

-->'''Joker''': So sad...[[JerkassHasAPoint no one ever remembers the dead singles and divorcees.]]

-->'''[[{Beat} Stunned Silence]]'''

* During a later visit to the steel mill, there's a Mook who's set up a bunch of mines in front of him in order to get an easy kill, bragging to an unseen buddy how it'll be an easy kill. [[FailedASpotCheck Now if only he had noticed the open assembly line]], letting you sneak past him and up on him by way of Solid Snake.