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Batman will then proceed to [[ResidentEvil5 punch it until it moves]]

[[WMG: Batman will make at least one AssassinsCreed ShoutOut]]

[[AllThereInTheManual The Arkham City Stories and the Mad Hatter tapes]] in ''Arkham City'' revealed Strange used the Mad Hatter's techniques to the Spirit of Arkham persona in Quincy Sharp and brainwash the TYGER guards. We also know from the extortion tapes that Alberto Falcone, who publicly claimed to be Holiday in the comics, [[spoiler: and at least killed Sal Maroni, if you believe the theory that Gilda and Harvey Dent committed the other murders and Alberto took credit for them, as opposed to the "Gilda committed the first murders and Alberto usurped the identity by faking his own death" or "Alberto did them all and Gilda snapped from the stress caused by Harvey becoming Two-Face" ones]], was seeing him and [[spoiler: he called up Black Mask in the middle of the night in a very different-sounding voice]]. Ergo, it's possible Strange was already trying to brainwash people before meeting the Mad Hatter and Holiday was the result.

** News in real life has been known to make mistakes like this, so this really isn't as unusual as you might think. One news station reported that when Columbia was destroyed on reentry that its speed was "18 times the speed of light" (should've been speed of sound). I just assume that whoever printed up the newspaper had their 0 key get stuck and noone noticed it.

* The Grapnel Accelerator is fundamentally different from the Boost used in Arkham City. In the chronologically later games, Batman is using a much lighter suit that is mostly made of high tech fabrics. So when using the Boost in City, it's actually yanking on his arm. Much care had to go into designing this so it didn't yank Batman's arm out of the socket every time he grappled. In this, the Accelerator can be more powerful, because the Batsuit in this game is more like PoweredArmor than just a suit. The grapple yanks on the SUIT, not Batman's arm. Notice, that the grapnel got a lot more powerful when he switched back to a more PoweredArmor type of suit in ArkhamKnight.

[[AllThereInTheManual The Arkham City Stories]] in ''Arkham City'' revealed Strange used the Mad Hatter's techniques to the Spirit of Arkham persona in Quincy Sharp and brainwash the TYGER guards. We also know from the extortion tapes that Alberto Falcone, who publicly claimed to be Holiday in the comics, [[spoiler: and at least killed Sal Maroni, if you believe the theory that Gilda and Harvey Dent committed the other murders and Alberto took credit for them, as opposed to the "Gilda committed the first murders and Alberto usurped the identity by faking his own death" or "Alberto did them all and Gilda snapped from the stress caused by Harvey becoming Two-Face" ones]], was seeing him and [[spoiler: he called up Black Mask in the middle of the night in a very different-sounding voice]]. Ergo, it's possible Strange was already trying to brainwash people before meeting the Mad Hatter and Holiday was the result.

[[AllThereInTheManual The Arkham City Stories]] in ''Arkham City'' revealed Strange used the Mad Hatter's techniques to the Spirit of Arkham persona in Quincy Sharp and brainwash the TYGER guards. We also know from the extortion tapes that Alberto Falcone, who publicly claimed to be Holiday in the comics, [[spoiler: and at least killed Sal Maroni, if you believe the theory that Gilda and Harvey Dent committed the other murders, as opposed to the "Gilda committed the first murders and Alberto usurped the identity by faking his own death" and "Alberto did them all and Gilda snapped from the stress caused by Harvey becoming Two-Face" ones]], was seeing him and [[spoiler: he called up Black Mask in the middle of the night in a very different-sounding voice]]. Ergo, it's possible Strange was already trying to brainwash people before meeting the Mad Hatter and Holiday was the result.

[[AllThereInTheManual The Arkham City Stories]] in ''Arkham City'' revealed Strange used the Mad Hatter's techniques to the Spirit of Arkham persona in Quincy Sharp and brainiwash the TYGER guards. We also know from the extortion tapes that Alberto Falcone, who publicly claimed to be Holiday in the comics, [[spoiler: and at least killed Sal Maroni, if you believe the theory that Gilda and Harvey Dent committed the other murders, as opposed to the "Alberto did them all and Gilda snapped from the stress caused by Harvey becoming Two-Face" one]], was seeing him and [[spoiler: he called up Black Mask in the middle of the night in a very different-sounding voice]]. Ergo, it's possible Strange was already trying to brainwash people before meeting the Mad Hatter and Holiday was the result.

[[AllThereInTheManual The Arkham City Stories]] in ''Arkham City'' revealed Strange used the Mad Hatter's techniques to the Spirit of Arkham persona in Quincy Sharp and brainiwash the TYGER guards. We also know from the extortion tapes that Alberto Falcone, who publicly claimed to be Holiday in the comics, [[spoiler: and at least killed Sal Maroni, if you believe the theory that Gilda and Harvey Dent committed the other murders, as opposed to the "Alberto did them all and Gilda snapped from stress from Harvey becoming Two-Face" one]], was seeing him and [[spoiler: he called up Black Mask in the middle of the night in a very different-sounding voice]]. Ergo, it's possible Strange was already trying to brainwash people before meeting the Mad Hatter and Holiday was the result.

[[AllThereInTheManual The Arkham City Stories]] in ''Arkham City'' revealed Strange used the Mad Hatter's techniques to the Spirit of Arkham persona in Quincy Sharp and brainiwash the TYGER guards. We also know from the extortion tapes that Alberto Falcone, who publicly claimed to be Holiday in the comics, [[spoiler: and at least killed Sal Maroni, if you believe the theory that Gilda and Harvey Dent committed the other murders, as opposed to the "Alberto did them all and Gilda snapped from stress from Harvey becoming Two-Face]], was seeing him and [[spoiler: he called up Black Mask in the middle of the night in a very different-sounding voice]]. Ergo, it's possible Strange was already trying to brainwash people before meeting the Mad Hatter and Holiday was the result.

* Branden is more likely. During the first run through the GCPD he explicitly states that Black Mask had agreed to treat his SWAT team as a ninth assassin and give them the 50 million if they killed Batman.

As a CastingGag based on the fact RogerCraigSmith (voice of Ezio from the abovementioned series) is voicing him, such as commenting "I am no assassin" or suchlike.

[[WMG: Possible identity of the remaining assassin]]
[[note: Deleting. Game is out.)

[[WMG: GreenArrow will be playable]]
The Queen industries box in the trailer shows that Ollie Exists in this continuity, and including him would be a good way to introduce a larger Justice League to the series, as he is the ''other'' superpower-less millionaire vigilante. His archery-based play style would work well on Predator maps. He would plan ably be voiced by [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Alan]] [[InjusticeGodsAmongUs Tudyk]] and his alternate skins would be [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague animated]] and [[Series/Arrow Arrow]].

Doesn't it seem off that the police never really try to stop any CIP even when Batman knocks out two or three attackers? Or how about how many thugs have knives, police shields and body armour readily available? It could be that Commissioner Loeb had secret intentions to knock off the Bat before any problems with him could arise...

* RuleOfCool. She just waited to use it until she had already poisoned Batman to gain the element of surprise. I don't think she ever actually said that they were a hallucination, only that Batman was hallucinating, (which he clearly was,) and if she did, it was probably just a lie to make him underestimate them and believe that they weren't a danger. After a while, she gets too weak to create more of them - and making copies of herself won't help her get out of that container - but those polceman sent there to arrest her - expecting to find one woman - may be in for a nasty surprise.

* Jossed. You play as Batman the entire time.

Batgirl's origin story typically involves her saving a ballroom of people from Killer Moth. Here, that gets adapted as her getting her start stopping Mr. Freeze from killing Ferris Boyle.

** Jossed

*** Barbara ({{Batgirl}}) Gordon ''does'', however.

It has been stated that the player will not be able to directly control the Batwing in gameplay. However, this doesn't preclude it being used in other ways- perhaps Batman could call it in to deliver an automated bombardment to larger groups of enemies, possibly as a late-game EleventhHourSuperpower. This could result in a nice DarkKnightReturns shout out.

Possibly done after his defeat in Asylum or in his failing moments in City. In his re-memories, he brings in female ninja assassins and armored thugs like in City. He brings in proximity mines for the gargoyles like from Asylum, which he arguably shouldn't realize this guy he's never met uses. Some of his dialogue towards Batman slips and makes it sound like they've already been enemies for over 70 years. Game-wise, it would explain the almost psychic-at-times snipers, stalked enemies suddenly turning around, and general effectiveness of the mooks. Even the weather is amped up in Joker's dramatic self-re-write. The original scenario was rough, and a lot of mistakes were made on all fronts, Bats being a relative newbie and his foes unsure how to handle him yet. But Joker likes drama, so he did a mental re-edit of the night he met the one who gave his life meaning.

[[WMG: TheCreeper will appear as a playable or supporting character.]]

Possibly done after his defeat in Asylum or in his failing moments in City. In his re-memories, he brings in female ninja assassins and armored thugs like in City. He brings in proximity mines for the gargoyles like from Asylum, which he arguably shouldn't realize this guy he's never met uses. Some of his dialogue towards Batman slips and makes it sound like they've already been enemies for over 70 years. Game-wise, it would explain the almost psychic-at-times snipers, stalked enemies suddenly turning around, and general effectiveness of the mooks. Even the weather is amped up in Joker's dramatic self-re-write. The original scenario was rough, and a lot of mistakes were made on all fronts, Bats being a relative newbie and his foes unsure how to handle him yet.

* A newspaper in the Batcave claims that the storm hitting Gotham is expected to drop 400 inches of snow. One problem with that: The all-time record for a one-day snowfall in the contiguous United States is roughly 4 feet, and that was in the Rockies, not the East Coast, where the record is closer to 2 feet. It is not possible for weather patterns to change so dramatically as to break a historical record by a factor of eight (16 locally) naturally. Thus, some artificial factor is responsible for the extreme storm.

* Batman's suit and equipment is functionally similar to his load out in ''City'', just bulkier and less sophisticated. Since we don't know when he streamlines it all to what we've seen in the first games, it's possible that ''Asylum'' is the first appearance of those versions, and as such they haven't had all the kinks worked out by then. The batsuit's missing separate bars for melee and bullet protection and the batclaw can't disarm foes? He fixes it all by ''City.'' The sequencer's not as versatile? Arkham Asylum has custom made security panels, unlike Arkham City.

* If so, let's hope stealth challenges are easier this time around.