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12	* How did Sharp get the public to accept the idea of Arkham City? Well, Blackgate was gutted by an electrical fire shortly before the events of ''Arkham Asylum''. And during the events of that game, Batman blows up numerous walls and every force field generator in the complex, plus Ivy wrecked a lot of buildings with her out-of-control plants. In addition, most of the guards and staff were killed by Joker's thugs in the chaos. Between the wrecked infrastructure and the understaffed security force, Sharp can honestly state that Arkham isn't secure enough to hold dangerous criminals at the moment. ''Something'' has to be done to create a new holding facility for Gotham's criminal population while both of its primary jails are out of action. Additionally, in one of the comics, Sharp tells the public that Arkham City will have its own social services and health care. Technically it's true. They are just in incredibly poor shape.
13	* The two Russian henchmen wield a [[DirtyCommunists sickle and hammer]] when you fight them. Though amusingly, the guy with the sickle is in fact a capitalist, and he and his brother who used to be conjoined got themselves separated due to their political differences.
14	* Why are all of Gotham's most notable locations as noted in the comics such as the Iceberg Lounge and Crime Alley all conveniently located in close proximity to each other? Because they are in the slums, where almost all of the street crime takes place. Batman mainly beats down on street crime, so the places he'd frequent most are in the slum, now made into Arkham City. The fact that most crime takes place in the slums explains how Batman manages to patrol all of Gotham every night, and why the criminals keep saying Batman can be 'everywhere at once'.
15	** Possibly that when they were built, the Iceberg Lounge and the Monarch Theater were considered an upscale, safe area. Park Row at least SEEMS like it was nicer when created. The deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne are usually considered the turning point for Gotham's criminal boom.
16	* How does a weak, clearly unstable and untrustworthy guy like the Mad Hatter manage to catch so many criminals from various powerful gangs under his hypnotism? Check the sign outside the room you fight him in: It says "Live Nudes". That's right, criminals came into the Mad Hatter's room looking for nude girls in the middle of a lawless prison, and when you're that stupid and desperate for girls, your mind tends to be extremely weak. Also, you can overhear mook banters where thugs lust over Harley, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and even ''Norah Fries'', another clue Arkham City's thugs could plausibly be attracted by such a bait.
17	* Mad Hatter usually targets blonde girls and women as part of his ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]]'' mania; you first see him when Batman rescues Vicki Vale, a blonde. It's a hint that he's going to abduct her, so it's even more surprising when he manages to kidnap ''you'', on top of the pretty damn impressive way he accomplished it.
18	* Why would Talia, a member of the League of Assassins, not kill Harley and instead tie her up? She probably was going to, until Harley told her she was pregnant.
19	* Ra's and his tool:
20	** Arkham City reveals that Gotham has a naturally occurring Lazarus Pit right underneath it, and has had for at least a century, probably longer. Gotham also has a long history of darkness and insanity. What is one of the known side effects of Lazarus Pit exposure? Insanity. So, why does Gotham have the problems it does? Because the whole populace, for centuries, has been suffering low level uncontrolled Lazarus exposure. Not enough to induce clinically detectable effects, but enough that Gotham has a freakish number of madmen.
21	*** This all but confirmed in the DLC in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' where Batman tracks down another Lazarus Pit by ''using the Lazarus chemical in the water supply.'' See Penguin's joke below for added horror/hilarity.
22	** This also shows just how misguided Ra's is; for all his talk, he fails to realize that the real cause of Gotham's problems could very well be the Lazarus pit itself.
23	** So, all of those people Batman is hitting in the throat with metal car doors have had low-level Lazarus exposure for years. No wonder they somehow manage to survive.
24	** People who watched ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'' will remember Penguin's joke. [[HilariousInHindsight Hilarious]] AND HarsherInHindsight, as it really IS something in the water.
25	* Penguin's rather [[FakeBrit lame Cockney accent]] is actually rather brilliant when you think about it. He's an American native, but his wealthy family shipped him overseas to Britain for schooling. Due to a fair amount of teasing due to his "homely appearance", Oswald would often skip class to run around on the streets of London with other delinquents and thieves. Now, would [[LondonGangster East End thugs]] really be seen dead with some kid with a snooty American accent? Not likely. It's rather easy to see why he might try (and fail) to affect some sort of English accent.
26	* Hints that Joker is occasionally being impersonated by Clayface:
27	** You know the cutscenes before and after Batman fights Joker in the Steel Mill? The ones where he's sick in the mirror, but turns around and he's well again? There's no mirror there. The window visible above the "sick" Joker, on the far side of the "mirror", has several broken panes. The one visible during the cutscene after the fight, at the other end of the room, is both unbroken, and should have several objects, including the roller coasters, in front of it if Joker had really been looking into a "mirror". Also, if you look carefully at the mirror scene, you can see that the real Joker (the sick one in the "mirror") is wearing his flower on the viewer's left, while Clayface is wearing his on the viewer's right (looking at him from behind in the beginning). In a real mirror, they'd both be on the viewer's right. The sick Joker's little smile with his eyes while he's putting on his makeup? He's secretly telling Clayface "It's showtime!"
28	** The first time Batman is in the Steel Mill, when he’s returning to Joker’s office with the REC in tow, Harley can be heard over the intercom saying “Oh Mr. J, it’s a miracle! You look perfect! Oh, that’s not you, is it?”, followed by Joker telling her to be quiet. The first time around, it makes no sense, but it’s perfect foreshadowing the second time.
29	** In the fight scene where you fight the Joker and his crew, no matter how often you whale into him the Joker just keeps getting back up. It's often established that the Joker, while formidable in a fight, is usually by himself no match for Batman at all, so how come he keeps taking so much punishment? Clayface can withstand Batman's attacks much better than the Joker.
30	** If the player turns on the Detective Mode during the Joker fight, Joker will have no visible skeleton. A player can do the same in ''Arkham Asylum'' near Clayface's cell, and sure enough he has no visible skeleton.
31	** Another hint is how well he fights compared to his DLC combat challenge maps in "''Asylum''."
32	** He rarely calls Batman by his usual affectionate nicknames "Bats", "Batsy", etc. when he looks "well," meaning that he's Clayface.
33	** Another subtle one: When you re-enter the Steel Mill to recover the cure, a recording from a healthy-looking Joker plays on the TV. At one point, the camera shakes and you hear a soft cough, indicating that the real, still very sick Joker is behind the camera.
34	** In the final approach to the Monarch Theatre, the Joker keeps taunting you with references to watching films. On one hand, this is because the Joker is holed in up in a movie theatre. On the other, it's because the 'Joker' is actually Clayface, who was formerly a movie actor; either Clayface is subtly cluing you in on who he really is or he's letting his act slip a bit by focusing too much on the movie references where the real Joker might vary it up a bit. Similarly, Clayface Joker does tend to go on about ''Series/{{Lost}}'' for quite a while during his video in the steel mill...
35	** When you approach the Monarch Theatre, you see on the sign outside (and the screen inside) that the movie playing is "The Terror", which was the film that Basil Karlo a.k.a. Clayface starred in.
36	** Watch the mirror scene again. It's subtle, but it's there: you'll need to actually rewind and study it but there is a slight mismatch between the two images in how they move.
37	* Just before the final battle, Clayface explains his motive for working with the Joker was "the role of a lifetime." Basil Karlo, Clayface's alter-ego, had a serial killer as his most famous and prized role. Now he gets to play arguably Gotham's worst.
38	* Maxie Zeus's Olympus club is partially submerged, its owner missing, and yet it is still completely lit up. How? Maxie Zeus is obsessed with electricity - the place probably has automatic backup generators capable of lighting it up for years at a time.
39	* In the intro of the game, Hugo Strange gloats about how no one is untouchable. At the end of the game, he claims that ''he'' is untouchable. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Batman proves him wrong]].
40	* There is a brilliant (albeit possibly unintentional) piece of foreshadowing to Ra's al Ghul's appearance in this game in ''Arkham Asylum'': The riddle that involves Ra's' corpse reads "It'll be a cold day in hell when this Ghul rises again". ''Arkham City'' takes place on a cold winter's night in Arkham City (the metaphorical "hell"). During this night, an ill and weakened Ra's al Ghul replenishes himself by bathing in a Lazarus Pit, returning to full strength and "rising again", as it were. Therefore, the Ghul really ''did'' rise again on a cold day in hell. Alternatively, it could be referring to how Ra's' body disappeared after his fall from Wonder Tower, presumably claimed by the League of Assassins to again resurrect him, which would be a far more literal "rising", and a hint at Ra's returning for a third game. The "Arkham City as hell" metaphor is helped along by Azrael's claim that Batman would be "the warrior who will close the gates of hell". By defeating the Strange's plot, Batman started the process of Arkham City being closed down (the loading screens after beating the game and side-missions state that Arkham City is ready for shutdown), essentially "closing the gates of hell". Which, if true, adds credence to Azrael's claims of prophecy, and suddenly makes his claim of a fire rising from the ashes of Arkham that will burn Gotham, and Batman as well seem a lot more plausible.
41	* Batman is noticeably kind to Mr. Freeze throughout the entire game, noted mostly by the fact that he mostly refers to him as “Victor”, seemingly suggesting that he at least respects Mr. Freeze and doesn’t see him as a complete villain. The only time he calls him by his villainous name? Right when Freeze attacks him in the GCPD, and thus (briefly) becomes a villain.
42	* Deadshot:
43	** Deadshot is contracted by Strange to kill both Bruce Wayne and Batman, in that order, at the end of a list of targets. Strange knows that Bruce is Batman, so if Deadshot took out Bruce, he'd never find Batman, certainly not on his timetable. On the other hand, if Bruce is running around as Batman, Deadshot won't find Bruce in time to kill him. That's why those two are last, Strange thinks of Deadshot as one more criminal to dispose of. He wanted Deadshot to finish off the political prisoners, then be unable to finish his task, and then get killed in Protocol Ten as he fruitlessly hunts either the Batman or Wayne, instead of him attempting to extract after completing his contract. The whole contract was a setup to get the "world's deadliest assassin" to enter his deathtrap prison ''voluntarily''.
44	** Another bit of brilliance related to this is the criminal that tells Bruce Wayne that he's "on his list". That's actually Deadshot, which only the most astute of players would have connected at the time.
45	* Riddler trophies are apparently never taken by anyone except Batman and Catwoman. Batman can show why if he tries to take a Catwoman trophy: the trophies are electrified. Catwoman, however, can take Batman trophies, which is fitting for the world's greatest thief.
46	* Joker's last words are a mirror opposite of his last words in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' movie, a death scene also voiced by Creator/MarkHamill.
47	* A thug in "Harley Quinn's Revenge" wonders if it was Clayface that Batman carried out, and not the then deceased Joker. This is shot down by another thug, and with good reason. In order for Batman to carry the body from the theater to the entrance, he'd have to walk there. The Riddler rooms show he can't carry someone while gliding, the ending does not have the Batwing this time, and he's nursing a stab wound to the shoulder so no grappling. The path to the main gate is blocked at several points by cars and vans, which are there even in the post game, to say nothing of other Joker thugs in the vicinity given the circumstances. Batman would have to walk through all that while carrying the body. If that was Clayface, he'd have more than enough time and opportunities to attack Batman. Also, from ''Arkham Asylum'' to that point in ''Arkham City'', Joker had fooled Batman about three times with the "fake Joker gag." If you notice, before Joker catches and injects him with his blood, Batman is smart enough to immediately scan the body to make sure that Joker's truly dead. After Joker's apparent final death, and everything the clown's put him through, you can bet Batman would make sure that it's really him, and not another body double.
48	* In his trailer, the Riddler challenges Batman, telling him that he will fail: for that, he uses the words "lie blabbering like an ignorant child on the floor". Now, looking at his background, don't those words get some deeper meaning?
49	* The Joker's line "So, how do you keep a secret from the world's greatest detective? Well, do you know? It's easy! You stick it right in front of him, right under his long, pointy nose... and wait!" - Yes, it's {{foreshadowing}} the Clayface reveal at the end of the game, but think about it - What did Joker do in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]]''? He went & stuck a TV on his head, before pretending to be a mannequin in the Visiting Room for the majority of the game. He's outright ''mocking'' Batman for falling for it once, and then not seeing through it again!
50	* The removal of the throw move from ''Arkham Asylum'' seems odd at first since you get to keep most of the gadgets from the original game out the gate, but it makes sense when taking into account the invisible walls set up to keep thugs from flying off into freezing waters or from clearly lethal heights during fights. Batman is limiting himself on purpose in order to ensure he doesn't kill anyone by throwing them to their deaths.
51	* At the beginning of the game, Bruce Wayne is knocked out and kidnapped. He then wakes up in a dark room with a villain taunting him. This parallels the game-over screens.
52	* A small one, but during the Hush side quest, Thomas Elliot mentions in his journal that looking in the mirror, he feels the same way he imagined Leonardo [=DaVinci=] felt when he completed the Mona Lisa. Plenty of people know this, but Leo never considered the painting finished, even to his dying day. A bit of a genius bonus considering Hush isn't nearly as intelligent as he would have us believe despite his medical proficiency, which is also a reference to the Batman story he's most famous for being the main antagonist of.
53	* Catwoman can access the same Waynetech grid that Batman can, even seeing Riddler challenges, even though she's not working with Batman. While it's possible she stole some Waynetech that lets her do this, it's also possible that Batman ''gave'' her the equipment to help her survive Arkham City. The Armored Edition suggests the latter, because why else would Batman build a female version of his BAT suit?
54	* The mask Mad Hatter puts on Batman resembles the Jabberwock; a monster from the novel ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' by Lewis Carroll - the sequel to ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''.
55	* If you fall into the water at the museum after dealing with Penguin, Tiny the giant shark doesn't attack you. Also, when you return to the Ice Berg Lounge, the floor is fixed up and the room for Grundy's boss fight is flooded. Regarding the floor, Penguin had a retractable one installed so he could use the lounge floor for social events, or showcase his illegal weapons for customers in big sales, without the ice berg getting in the way. For the shark, Batman flooded the room after capturing Penguin, relocating Tiny into it either intentionally or coincidentally, to further damage the electrical equipment and keep Grundy harmless. The equipment would be water-cooled since North Gotham was originally Ra's al Ghul' test bed for his Lazarus experiments. Though it all raises some questions about Tiny: did it eat Grundy's corpse? If so, what would happen given Grundy's nature?
56	* [[CardboardPrison Arkham Asylum has a notoriously poor track record for keeping Gotham's worst villains locked away]], [[BedlamHouse let alone for curing them.]] This despite the best efforts of Batman and a reformed Gotham PD. But with the revelation that Hugo Strange, one of the most prominent doctors at Arkham, had been working for years for Ra's al Ghul, and that he had Quincy Sharp, warden of Arkham Asylum, under his thrall, it's made clear from Batman's encounter with Shiva in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' that Ra's doesn't want to try and save Gotham; he wants it destroyed and its criminals as well. So naturally, Strange and Sharp not only made villains such as Joker, Two-Face, Mr. Freeze, and others even worse, but they are likely also responsible for the incredible ease with which these criminals escape, all to help fuel Ra's al Ghul's long term plans!
57	* The only time where dying doesn't result in a final taunt by the villain is the Demon Trials, even though it's explained that failing results in death. This is also where Ra's and Talia are trying to convince Batman to succeed Ra's as Head of the Demon. All their talk of dying is just a bluff until the Ra's fight, and the supposed failure really just knocks Batman unconscious for a little bit. Even if failing does actually kill him, the recently ingested Lazarus is potent enough to bring him back to life so fast the he's still effectively getting knocked out.
58	* The real reason(s) Ivy's behind a locked door? If Batman could meet with Ivy, he'd bargain with her for a cure, saying that he overheard Joker's gang planning to kill Harley and he'd bring her over for protection in exchange. Or, Ivy locked herself away so that Harley doesn't have that option for curing Joker; if Ivy's like her ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' self, she doesn't want Harley living under Joker's thumb, but doesn't want to take direct action since Harley would be angry at her.
59	* While it seems needlessly cruel for Ra's to boast that Batman is better than Hugo Strange as the latter's dying, it makes sense when you remember that ''every'' lock in Arkham City is from Waynetech- the company that Batman owns. [[TooDumbToLive Including the locks to AC's command areas.]] When the equipment that Strange ''can't'' risk Batman tampering with is the kind he'd most likely be able to tamper with, despite the good doctor being one of the few villains who ''knows that Bruce Wayne is the Batman'', he set himself up to fail without even thinking about it. Ra's caught that and let things play out.
60	* In his phone monologues, Zsasz recalls preparing to play poker with Penguin and hoping "he'd play fair," but the manner in which Zsasz recalls their final hand reveals that Penguin did indeed cheat. Zsasz had four sixes, while Penguin had a straight flush, three through seven. Because Zsasz describes the way that Penguin triumphantly lays each card down on the table from his hand, we know that they're not playing with communal cards. Penguin's hand included a fifth six that could not have come from the deck. Zsasz says nothing about the fifth six, so he has apparently never noticed after all these years.
61	** Well, unless ''Zsasz'' was cheating, in which case there could have been at least one more six undealt.
62	* At first, Joker poisoning Batman seems ''incredibly'' stupid, especially since poisoning Gotham alone would've been enough, but remember the final fight in the previous game- Joker wants to drag Batman down to his level and can't stand Batman being better than him. If he has to do die, so does Batman.
63	* It seems strange at first that the way Batman tracks Mr. Freeze is by finding the place of the coldest point in Arkham City. This logic seemed flawed, because it appears to assume that Mr. Freeze would, without doubt, have to be wherever it's coldest, and as long as he has his freeze-suit, which allows him to stay at a constant temperature anywhere he goes, he is not required to seek out cold places, let alone the coldest places, to survive. So why is Batman assuming he would go where it's cold anyway? He's not. He's actually assuming the reverse, that wherever Freeze is, is where the cold will be. In other words: The place being the coldest point doesn't mean Mr. Freeze will be there. Mr. Freeze being there means that the place will be the coldest point.
64	* In the ending, Joker assumes the worst of Batman, and destroys the cure because of it, but he sees the irony before he goes. He thinks it's ActuallyPrettyFunny. A Killing Joke, you might say.
65	* At first, it might seem strange that Penguin never wears his signature top-hat at any point during the game ([[NeverTrustATrailer despite the fact that he's wearing it in all the promotional material]]). However, it make sense if you remember that in [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum the previous game]], in which Penguin's hat -- along with many of his trick umbrellas -- is on display in a plexiglass case in the South Corridor at Arkham Mansion. The hat is probably still there, and Cobblepot either never found it or didn't bother to look for it when he broke out of the asylum.
66	* Joker's voicemails. How exactly did the Joker of all people managed to hack into Batman's communications, without Oracle being aware of it? True, early in the game we see the Joker leave Batman with a mobile phone, but Batman breaks it and throws it away, and unlike Riddler who talks in real-time with Batman, Joker is just leaving messages as if on an answering machine. So how is he doing it? Simple: [[spoiler: he isn't. He's talking to Batman in his head, just like in ''Arkham Knight'', because the voicemails only appear after Batman has been injected with Joker's tainted blood. He manages to get the cure at the end of the game, and is fine... until the fear gas exposure in ''Arkham Knight'' brings Joker back.]]
67	** Batman took the SIM card from the cell phone and put it in his left gauntlet. He’s actively letting Joker call him. One of the voicemails has Joker attempt to call Batman roughly seven times before he finally reaches him; said voicemail isn’t available until after Batman leaves Wonder City, where he was completely underground with no cell reception.
68	* Why is 'MOCKINGBIRD' the password to Hush's hideout? Mockingbirds take their name from the ability to mimic the calls of other birds, which is almost exactly what Hush has done to [[spoiler: Bruce Wayne]].
69	* Also with Hush: near the beginning of the game when he's sedated after cutting off his face, he will grumble and turn his head a bit when the news on the radio next to him mentions Bruce Wayne.
70	* During the sword-fight against Ra's Al Ghul, he claims that 'only one of us can leave this chamber alive'. It's technically just a BadassBoast, except there's three people in the room... Ra's, Batman, and Talia. First, Ra's tries to kill Batman, then threatens to kill Talia, only for Batman to spare them both, seemingly proving him wrong... until the end-game, where Ra's impales himself with his own sword, and Talia is killed by the Joker. Ra's was technically right, only one of the people in that room actually made it out alive by the end, even if Ra's was going to come back in ''Arkham Knight'' anyway.
71	* One of the thugs in the post game suggests that, after learning Clayface was Joker's double, that there could be a third. While this was likely a nod to Harley being pregnant with Joker's kid, until the DLC retconned it, it can be reinterpreted as [[spoiler: foreshadowing the Joker Hallucination in ''Arkham Knight.'']]
72	* After defeating Penguin, you find some thugs discussing about annoying he is, one of them bringing up the time Penguin sent him to kill Joker. The story ends before the guy can explain why Penguin never gave the order to fire, but we have three possibilities:
73	** It was to spite [[BadBoss Penguin]], who in-setting is a complete JerkAss and constantly badgered the guy for intel for two days straight. He probably lied that Joker went into hiding just so he had a reason to come back and stop Penguin being in his ear any longer.
74	** He was stationed on "one of the tall buildings near Sionis." This puts him in Amusement Mile, which is partially sunk because Ra's had to uncover the Lazarus Pit in Wonder City. The collapse may have happened before he could fire, forcing him to extract before he fell in a sinkhole.
75	** He mentioned Harley doing "things" to Joker that disgusted the would-be sniper. He saw the ''real'', sickly Joker and told Penguin. Joker's health was already the subject of InUniverse rumor, but this was proof the clown was on his way out. Given all the MookChatter we hear of Joker's henchmen changing sides after he goes, Penguin decided to wait until the remaining gang was at its weakest before conquering their territory.
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79	* ''Batman Beyond'' shows that Harley Quinn has a much better chance of reforming after the Joker dies. He's dead by the end of the game... but she's carrying his baby, and it definitely sounds like she's on the verge of a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge breakdown]] while singing to it. It's a common tactic for abusers to get their victims pregnant so that they stay in the relationship. Did the Joker do this on purpose so that she'd be trapped by MadLove, even after he died? It's also shown that when one of the people she is devoted to isn't taking her in she just goes to the other, she is probably just going to become obsessively devoted to the next person who is nice to her, or Ivy. Which in turn makes it even more horrific, as you realize that Harley now suffers from a Co-dependency disorder, unable to function without someone telling her what to do, which also derives from abusive relationships.
80	* Here's a worse one. Remember during the start of the game, Harley attacked Batman in the game and if you counter it, he tossed her on the floor? Pretty good ShoutOut to the last game huh? Now do it again knowing that she's carrying a baby. This also applies to Batman tossing her aside during the "fake Joker gag" scene, and whatever it was that Talia did that led to her being BoundAndGagged.
81	** It's possible that all the negative pregnancy tests littering the floor in "Harley Quinn's Revenge" might not have been the result of a false positive, but rather the result of a subsequent miscarriage with all the aforementioned "throwing Harley around" issue. Given credence in that the negative tests don't appear in the main game, but rather after.
82	* As has been mentioned other places, there are no women in the city except named characters and some medical personnel. Maybe there are some and considering the comments some of the men make about what they would do with a woman...
83	* Hugo Strange and the Joker are dead. Arkham City will certainly be shut down, but there's still extensive damage to both Arkham Asylum and Blackgate. The TYGER mercenaries are now jobless in a Gotham where a huge power vacuum will exist because of the Joker's death. Those same TYGER mercenaries indirectly led to the weakening and marginalization of the GCPD. If things were bad in Arkham, it will be nothing compared to the hell that's going to break out in Gotham City with thousands of angry former inmates looking to release their pent-up fury on the rest of the city, fighting to fill Joker's hole in the traditional power set-up, and well-trained mercenaries stuck in Gotham who will have no other way to fill their coffers than likely offering their services to the highest bidder or going into the business themselves (a la the notorious Zetas cartel in Mexico). Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Hush, Calendar Man, Mad Hatter, Two-Face, and eventually Bane remain at large, and Harley Quinn, pregnant and all, is almost certainly going to be even more dangerous and unpredictable than ever before while battling to keep herself and the Joker's gang in the mix. Though Two Face is still around, so at least there is someone to take over the criminal world and bring a semblance of order.
84	* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', Batman does not kill. All well and good, until you realize that in fight scenes, he's snapping arms, legs, ankles, and possibly backs and just leaving the thugs he mutilates in a Darwinist anarchistic society with multiple serial killers running around (one of them Zsasz, who is an independent player and allied to no one). He may not kill, but a snapped neck might be a mercy compared to being vulnerable in Arkham City... It's also possible that while thugs that just got a broken arm or leg got off easy, the guys with broken backs or snapped arms got [[MercyKill mercy killed]] off-screen because the prison just doesn't have the means to treat those kinds of wounds.
85	* It is currently winter in Arkham City, and temperatures are around the freezing point. A person moderately clothed will have little problems with even extended exposure to the elements, but when they are wearing nothing but sleeveless prison uniforms and are laying unconscious on the cold, wet pavement, it would not take long for hypothermia or exposure to set in... Although Penguin's thugs are probably fine, since they are the only ones actually wearing any form of insulated clothing.
86	* Following the end of the Identity Thief subplot, it's revealed that Hush has managed to give himself Bruce Wayne's face by stealing facial tissue from at least six Arkham inmates, and he's a good enough impersonator to be voiced by Creator/KevinConroy. Now, after this revelation Hush does a runner and Batman promises to hunt him down and bring him to justice before he can start framing Bruce Wayne; trouble is, he's already started: Hush was seen by dozens of people while collecting the faces, and they bought the half-finished disguise hook line and sinker. True, these people are Arkham inmates and not likely to be believed, but at least one of them was a political prisoner- IE, somebody who might have quite a bit to say to the media once it's revealed just how many innocent people went to Arkham.
87	* Here's a new one about Clayface as well as Talia. People have noticed that Talia's body goes missing for the final fight. However, we never saw just ''where'' Clayface was putting his feet when he was getting up. Given that the Arkham Clayface can absorb flesh, it's possible that he stepped on and absorbed Taila's corpse.
88	* Here's one: Recall what Titan did to Joker, the fact that we don't see any of the thugs that took Titan in the last game, and that one of the Arkham Stories states that Ivy nearly died from Titan as well. While it's a good bet what happened to the thugs, remember that this was meant to be used on the supervillians as part of their treatments in Arkham Asylum. If Titan was somehow used on them as intended, they would've died. In fact, given what Sharp was like then, he may have dosed them all anyway and locked them into a room just to fight each other to death.
89	* Zsasz's sidequest: he begins by saying that he has three people that he's holding hostage. When he tells his story, Batman tells him that he should've avoided becoming a nihilistic serial killer. He responds with a noticeable amount of anger in his voice, and abruptly stops. When you finally get to his lair and save the hostages, there are only two. This implies that Batman was indirectly responsible for one of the hostages' deaths. It's made even worse if you look around the area. You can find said victim floating around in the water.
90	** On another level, the way Batman leaves Zsasz in a cage and ''Zsasz's intended victims'' there with the guy has some potential for horror, too. Yes, Zsasz is one of the nastiest of the minor Rogues and a murderer many, many times over... but Batman doesn't actually know squat about the two men he left the serial killer alone with. Who's to say the pair of them wouldn't have decided to shove that cage into the icy water with Zsasz inside as payback for how he'd abducted and terrorized them, the minute Batman left?
91	* In ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'', notice how Harley is supposedly not pregnant anymore. The false positive boxes aside, think about the physicality of what Harley went through. Considering she and Joker probably had sex before ''Arkham City'', she ended up attacked by Batman (the opening counter scene), and Talia (luckily she was spared and gagged). Who's to say that she would end up getting a miscarriage because of what she's gone through? More horror inducing when you realize that Batman -- someone who despite appearances would not kill anyone -- indirectly ended a kid's life (granted they would probably cause trouble when they got older).
92	* Play through ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'', and pay real close attention to Batman's behavior. His fragile mental state appears to have been snapped. First off, when interrogating the third informant, he says 'nighty night' in the creepiest voice. Then, he fails to comment on the 'You're next, B-man!' poster, which he would have done under normal circumstances. Also, his normally stoic tone appears to go downright angry at some points, eg. "We're done here", "I'm running out of time", "I'll handle the bombs".
93	* Smaller than some examples, but during the "Heart of Ice" mission, Batman leaves a warehouse full of unconscious mooks. It depends on the timing of the player, but if you immediately report back to Mr. Freeze and then let him get Nora, you can go back and find him there with all of the henchmen gone. It hasn't been enough time for them to wake up at that point. What do you want to bet that he just tossed all of them in the water to drown?
94	* A small yet surprisingly chilling example is one of Batman's Game Over screens featuring Harley Quinn. As opposed to her usual kiddish insults she asks "If you're dead, who's going to save poor Mister J?". At the end of the game, Joker dies regardless thanks to his own selfishness and carelessness which results in Batman dropping the remaining antidote he was going to give Joker regardless of everything. This game over screen pretty much reveals that Harley, despite baiting and attacking Batman, was probably just acting out of her usual madness and secretly fully counted on him to save Joker from his sickness. Post-Game, you're treated to a new game-over screen featuring Harley-Quinn that confirms all this. She says (in a noticeably frustrated and saddened tone) "You were supposed to save Mister J, Bat-Brain.” In essence, Batman unintentionally and unwittingly crushed Harley's hopes of Joker making a full recovery.
95	* After the events of the game, do the Tyger mooks have anybody who doesn't want their blood, on any side of the law? Even the deal-makers like Penguin would sooner watch them die than anything else. Not to mention that they'd be a loose end to the League of Assassins.
96	* Strange suggests that Batman's presence has made things worse for Gotham by causing a new group of criminals to arise. At first you'd ignore this or come up with some stock argument. But just as Batman's spot on the characters page suggest he's actually developed an ego because he doesn't call in for extra equipment that would be extremely useful (like the Ultra-Batclaw) the Mad Hatter side-quest might also reinforce this: Mad Hatter says that his technique allowed Batman to see what he wanted most: a cure for his infection. While that makes sense given the situation, there isn't a hint of anything else: not a crime free Gotham, not having his parents back, not sharing a hot tub with Catwoman, but something to let him keep fighting crime. Strange's arguments might have a bit more weight to them after all.
97	** On the other hand, considering that he's still just hours away from dying, even after ingesting the drug from the Demon Trials, wanting a cure that didn't require all the things he'd gone through at that point gets to be pretty understandable. Also, if Lucius ''had'' found a cure that didn't need the enzyme Freeze required, it would make treating all the people that Joker had poisoned a lot easier, and since Harley getting the cure to Joker means that problem's solved, Batman can go back to dealing with Strange and Protocol 10.
98	* The Deadshot entry in the FridgeBrilliance folder notes that Strange was playing Deadshot for a fool by giving him both Bruce Wayne and Batman as scheduled targets, but there is one detail that the entry does not account for. That detail is that the Identity Thief Hush is impersonating Bruce Wayne to the point of perfectly replicating Bruce's face while all of this is happening. This clears up the paradox because all Deadshot would need to do is kill Hush in Bruce's place and the list could have been completed without the paradox trapping Deadshot.
99	* Remember how Strange had a political prisoner at syringe-point when he started taunting Batman, but never showed up again? Likely killed right away, hopefully by poison since the alternatives are being shot or tossed off of a Wonder Tower balcony.
100	* Riddler's trophies and puzzles are placed around Arkham City by his extensive amount of informants and associates. Thus, he has people working for him in Joker, Penguin and Two-Face's gangs so they can place these things within each gangs' territory. However, he also has trophies in Wonder City and Wonder Tower, which implies one of two things: either some of the goons working for Riddler are so scared of him they'd rather delve into a creepy underground city populated by murderous ninjas, or scale a nigh-impenetrable tower patrolled by trigger-happy mercenaries... or Riddler has people working for him within the League of Assassins and Tyger. Which truly does bring up the question of how far his grip extends.
101	* At every electrified TYGER gate, floor, or TYGER sentry gun location Batman will inevitably discover dead inmates lying beyond the warning lines. There are a few possibilities: first, Arkham City has driven these inmates insane to the point that they fail to recognize the danger, and this gets them killed. Second, they [[DrivenToSuicide deliberately chose to kill themselves]] by walking into an electrified area/gate or getting shot by a sentry; or third, other inmates have intentionally pushed them into these zones--either [[ForTheEvulz deliberately]] or to test to see if they have any weaknesses that can be overcome as potential escape routes.
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