History Headscratchers / BatmanArkhamCity

* So the Joker donated a bunch of his now-toxic blood to hospitals across Gotham to make Batman find a cure. Did they not ''test'' it?

* Maybe the tech Freeze gave him wasn't the grenade itself, but some kind of miniature freeze grenade produced?

** Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Superman's "hesitancy to interfere in official government ideas" doesn't extend to ideas that revolve around walling off entire city boroughs, stuffing them full of prisoners, and machine-gunning the prisoners from the air. His hesitancy generally stems from interfering in the democratic process and stifling free-will, not passively tolerating state-sanctioned genocide.

** You ever heard of the trope KneelBeforeZod?

** The obvious problem with that being that Gotham City ''is'' a city in the united states. In every continuity it is. In fact, in the comics they even establish it's in New Jersey. They had to pay taxes to US President Lex Luthor like everyone else.

** "The Batcave isn't exactly well hidden". Ummm... what? [[Film/{{Fargo}} I'm not sure I agree with you a hunnerd percent on your logic there, Lou]]. It's a ''cave''; it's ''very'' well hidden, by simple virtue of the fact that it's, well, underground as part of a complex of hidden passageways, chasms and voids in the Earth. And if you think Bruce Wayne hasn't spent a lot of time, money and effort making the entrance(s) to what is in a very real and literal sense his secret lair ''very'' difficult to locate and access and ''very'' well protected, then [[ProperlyParanoid you don't know Bruce Wayne]].

** Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Superman's "hesitancy to interfere in official government ideas" doesn't extend to ideas that revolve around walling off entire city boroughs, stuffing them full of prisoners, and machine-gunning the prisoners from the air.
** The problem is, that Arkham City is a human rights violation. Prisoners are executed en masse without trial and regardless of their sentence, not to mention the fact that they were locked up and (were Strange's plan to work) ''executed billionaire Bruce Wayne''. Imagine the outrage if Bill Gates was locked up and executed without a trial. You're 100% correct about everything you said regarding Metropolis and Keystone City. There would be no future for the Arkham City program and I took Strange ranting about it otherwise as a sign of him undergoing SanitySlippage.

** A bit of a Wild Mass Guess, but it's possible that Strange was ''planning'' to use Crime Alley and the Monarch Theater for some kind of final little bit of smug gloating after his final triumph over Batman -- for example, displaying his body along with the chalk outline of his parents to mock how Batman's quest has, after everything, ended in humiliating failure. This would also work because Strange presumably also knows about the Lazarus Pit and would particularly enjoy his first little immortality bath as the new boss of the League of Assassins knowing that Batman was just above acting as his trophy. He seems like the kind of nasty little prick who'd do something like that.

*** Assuming the theory about a separate women's prison is true, Catwoman and Ivy are high-profile supervillains that Strange would take an interest in. It's possible he pulled strings to get them shipped into Arkham City so that he could wipe them out at one stroke, but was less interested in other female convicts (or just didn't have enough space to throw in all the inmates of Arkham, Blackgate ''and'' Hypothetical Ladies Prison).

** [[ComicallySerious "I brought him a]] [[ToTheBatNoun Bat-]]mobile."

* Why did Strange's 'political prisoners' include the people who helped build the wall and tower? Near as I can tell, there was nothing special about them. It was just a wall and a fancy guardhouse, with seemingly nothing to implicate that it was all designed to kill off the inmates, so it can't even qualify as a RevealingCoverup, since there was nothing to cover up. Did we just need a KickTheDog moment for Strange, since the EnemyChatter and cutscenes (added to the [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum the previous game's demonstration]] that [[CardboardPrison imprisonment]] nor therapy work on Gotham's criminals) do [[RootingForTheEmpire a bit too good a job]] of justifying Strange's KillEmAll solution otherwise?

** Also... ''Arkham City '''is''' Gotham City''. "Arkham City" is, when you get down to it, just rebranding designed to conceal a sadistic death trap that a psychopath has carved out of an entire section of Gotham. Alfred is merely reminding Batman that he has a higher duty to Gotham City than his own personal wishes... and that, for all they are notorious criminals for the most part, for all Strange's efforts to dehumanise and debase them, the inhabitants of Arkham City are as much a part of Gotham City as anyone else.

** Hugo Strange is, without being too delicate, two plates short of a picnic. He either doesn't know or, more likely, doesn't care about being efficient. He's trying to prove he's more worthy than Batman of being Ra's successor, and batman doesn't kill criminals. Any amount of deaths would make him better, in his twisted views.