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Catwoman

Selina Kyle

In-Costume

Out-of-Costume: Season 1

Out-of-Costume: Season 2

Voiced By: Laura Bailey

"Don't you know not to corner a wild animal? It's dangerous."

A thrill-loving cat-themed burglar. After Batman thwarts her robbery at City Hall, Bruce winds up in a rather complicated relationship with her.

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws: Her gloves have razor sharp claws that cut through flesh and stone alike.
• Apologetic Attacker: If you gave yourself up for Selina, then in the Vigilante route, Waller has her rigged with a suicide collar to force her cooperation. She makes it clear to Batman that she does not want to fight him, but has no interest in gambling that Waller is bluffing.
• An Arm and a Leg: In Season 2 Episode 3, if Catwoman is blamed for stealing the Riddler's laptop — which she can do — she'll try to make a break for it only to have one of her arms frozen solid from the elbow down. She recovers, but needless to say she is not happy about it.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: In Episode 2, Selina and Bruce stand back to back while engaging in a brawl with the Penguin's goons.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted.
  • Selina sports a black eye after her first fight with Batman, which takes quite a while to heal.
  • In Season 2, if Bruce doesn't warn her about the GCPD coming after her, she'll get multiple bruises and wounds all over her body.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Batman, of course. Becomes one-sided if she's kept as just a friend and more of a case of Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?.
• Beneath the Mask: On the surface, Selina can be arrogant and selfish. However, underneath it all, Selina does seem to care about others (including Bruce) and, to some degree, can be self-loathing.
• Bound and Gagged: By Harley in both endings of Season 2 Episode 3.
• Broken Pedestal: Choosing to save Harvey over her in episode two seems to cause this in her feelings for Bruce.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She starts out as a mercenary working for the Children of Arkham, but betrays them to Bruce to save her own skin. Then she goes back to working for the Children of Arkham in the hopes that they'll help her escape Gotham. When Lady Arkham decides that Catwoman has outlived her usefulness, Catwoman helps Batman foil the Children's latest plan. It eventually turns out that she was using everyone so she could steal a skeleton key for Wayne Tech security systems. In the second season, if Selina is treated well, and especially if they start to genuinely bond, she begins to turn around and try to do right by Bruce and in a climactic moment in Episode 5, she will justify his trust by not taking a death trap escape key and running, but freeing Bruce before leaving, telling him, "I told you — you can trust me."
• Classy Cat-Burglar: She's a highly-skilled thief with a number of sophisticated gadgets.
• The Cynic: She can express some comfort in a response Bruce can give that he's Batman just because he can be, and expresses some disdain for the idea of him having altruistic motives.
• Dark Action Girl: Catwoman is an agile and formidable fighter, as seen when she's able to go toe-to-toe with Batman and escape. More apparent when seen in the bar fight in Episode 2, proving Selina doesn't need her equipment to be formidable.
• Dating Catwoman: Can finally form a relationship with Bruce in season 2, episode 3 if the player has shown her loyalty.
• Deadpan Snarker: Selina is sarcastic and witty, engaging in banter with Bruce during their cafe-table discussion.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: If Bruce continually supports her, she'll go from making constant snide comments at his expense to being genuinely concerned for his well-being and embracing his Good Feels Good philosophy.
• The Dulcinea Effect: Averted on Selina's end. If Bruce tells Selina when she plans to leave in episode 5 of season 1 that she shouldn't go because he loves her, she will rebuke him, telling him that he's only known her for a few days and that he shouldn't be so dramatic and clingy considering they've known each other for such a short amount of time.
• Explosive Leash: She'll be wearing one if captured by Amanda Waller. Villain Joker and Harley claim the control for themselves.
• Eye Scream: Penguin shoots her in the goggles, nearly avoiding killing her or blinding her. And this is after Batman punched her in the same eye hard enough to fracture those goggles.
• Friendly Enemy: She and Batman both emerge from their initial confrontation worse for the wear and have a tense conversation when they become each others' Secret Keepers, but do cooperate against Selina's dangerous employers.
• Good Feels Good: Can be encouraged to admit that helping Bruce save some lives during their brief team-up was nice, but it's not enough to override either her cynicism or selfishness.
• Grappling-Hook Gun: She steals a grapple gun from Batman in Episode 1 to make her escape. Batman can take it back in Episode 3.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Much like her characterization, Selina switches from hero to villain every time she considers her favored options. By Episode 3 of Season 2 she can have a more genuine Heel–Face Turn if Bruce has been loyal and supportive of her up to that point.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: She wears a Spy Catsuit made of black leather.
• Hidden Depths: A conversation with her in he apartment can reveal that she's an avid bookreader, which Bruce can confirm by examining her book case in the morning. Turns out she both enjoys swashbucklers like Bruce himself but even more academic works like the Gita Govinda, which manages to impress Bruce. In their final conversation in Season 1, the one dialog option that doesn't cause her to dismiss Bruce is to tell her that she's capable of heroism for all of her cynicism.
• I Know You Know I Know: Bruce and Selina noticing their wounds will instantly tip each other off of their true identities, and will give coded speech around Harvey confirming to each other their suspicions.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: The last conversation Bruce has with her in season 1 has her state that she's not a hero or a good person and has never wanted to be one. She's just a thief. Bruce can argue that she's wrong, stating either that they made a good team and were able to save lives together or that she saved his life which is something a good person would do, a hero. Selina will even admit that Good Feels Good.
• It's All About Me: While Selina does have good qualities, almost all of her decisions are motivated by an acute sense of self-preservation. Her motivation for helping Batman deal with the hostage situation at the Monarch Theatre is less out of altruism than a desire not to 'owe' him anything. This culminates in her decision in Episode Four to leave Gotham before either Harvey Dent or the Children of Arkham come looking for revenge.
• It's All My Fault: Blames herself for Harvey's disfigurement, should it happen in Episode 2. When she sees his face in her apartment, realizing the extent, she is utterly horrified. She also had this reaction to Lucius' death at Riddler's hands as she knew him, but didn't know that he was capable such things, and blames herself for not having realised it in time to stop him.
• It's Personal: In Enemy Within, Selina has a personal stake in the situation with the Pact. Namely, that the Riddler was a friend of hers and she wants to find out what turned him into a monster and who killed him. Interestingly, she seems to take this personally not only because it affected her, but also because it got one of Bruce's friends killed.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be a bit selfish and self-serving at times, but Selina is ultimately a good person at heart.
• Just Friends: If Bruce is kind to her but rejects her advances.
• Karma Houdini: In Season 1 she gets away completely scot-free in the end despite assisting a terrorist organization and backstabbing everyone she worked with.
• Kick Chick: Averted. Unlike many action females, Catwoman is more or less a straight up puncher.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Selina is a thief with a Hidden Heart of Gold, and she has pet Siamese cat she spoils.
• Let's You and Him Fight: After investigating the Riddler's hideout with John, Catwoman backstabs Bruce to steal the de-incryption for herself. Batman can call her out on not trusting him to help, and offer to work together as a team.
• Long Game: Selina reveals that dating Harvey and switching to Bruce was all part of a long con. However, several factors came into play. One, finding out Bruce was Batman, and, potentially, developing real feelings for Bruce. Bruce can ask her Was It All a Lie?, and her answer depends on how they interacted. Either way, she'll claim yes it was, but if romanced she will admit that it 'started out that way', and yes, she does care for him. Doesn't stop her from fleeing Gotham, though she returns a year later. She legitimately surprised if Bruce refuses to go along with her seduction attempts.
• Ms. Fanservice: It's Catwoman, what did you expect?
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the Vigilante route of Season 2 Episode 5, if Bruce turned her over to the Pact in Episode 3 she willingly joins Waller's Suicide Squad for a shot at revenge against him.
• Relationship Upgrade: The player can choose to form a relationship with her in Season 1 Episode 3, and again in Season 2 Episode 3. The former is merely an act on her part albeit one which causes her to start to develop feelings for him, the latter is more genuine.
• Reused Character Design: This Catwoman is based on the version seen in the Batman: Arkham Asylum design, complete with bangs peeking out of her cowl.
• Out of Focus: In the Vigilante version of Season 2 Episode 5, she's reduced to a short segment where she's either forcibly or willingly part of Waller's Suicide Squad. If Bruce doesn't betray her, she's also shown saving him from the rubble of the collapsed roof, but even if Bruce confesses his love and gets Waller to let her go, she still doesn't make an appearance beyond this.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • Upon seeing Harvey turn Gotham into a police state, she decides to get out of the city while she can, rightly fearing that Harvey will be gunning for her for the (supposed) betrayal with Bruce, which could compromise her Catwoman persona in the process. She returns in Season 2 Episode 2, helping Bruce from the shadows and offering to work for the Pact.
• Secret-Keeper: Determines that Bruce Wayne is Batman after seeing her scratch marks still on his face. Since her goggles fell off and she still has a black eye from the fight, he does the same to her.
• Sensual Spandex: Her trademark Spy Catsuit costume really shows her great form.
• She Knows Too Much: Penguin orders her murder when she doesn't deliver the disk drive that was in Mayor Hill's office.
• Ship Tease: Naturally, she and Bruce hit it off, and their relationship can develop to the point where they sleep together in Episode 3. You are given the choice to turn her down early on however, which makes Selina very confused.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: For such a cynical woman she expresses a lot of interest in Wide-Eyed Idealist Harvey Dent and the noble hero Bruce Wayne. The player can choose to form a relationship with her if Bruce expresses interest in her. It turns out to merely be an act on her part, but one which starts to lead to a more real attachment.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: As usual, she and Bruce share sarcastic banter at the others expense.
• The Tease: After fighting alongside Bruce against some of Penguin's goons, you're given the option to kiss her, but if you try to she'll playfully push Bruce away when he goes for it. She also acknowledges that she's just toying with Harvey rather than stating if her relationship with him is serious. Deconstructed in episode 3, where Harvey loses his mind when he learns that their relationship wasn't serious and he lashes out at her and Bruce.
• Tsundere: She acts very cold towards Bruce, even if he's kind to her, but can admit that she loves him deep down if the player plays their cards right. To the point where she considers a serious relationship with him.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Batman, as usual, provided the player makes Bruce interested. ^note At least until Episode 3 of Season 1.
• Villainous Friendship: Had an off-screen one with Riddler, prior to his death. And before the serum started warping his mind. When she gets a glimpse of what he became in his hideout's videos, she's visibly disturbed. Nevertheless, she still cares about him enough to try to choke Tiffany for killing him before realizing she's Lucius Fox's daughter.
• Wall Crawl: Her Cat Claw gadgets let her do this. Batman tries it out when Catwoman helps him escape from the Children of Arkham's leader. Batman may optionally choose to swipe it in Episode 3.
• Warts and All: Catwoman has this attitude about herself, and believes it's not good for anyone, hero or not, to pretend they are anything that they are not. Bruce can tell her she tells herself that, and she's better than she thinks.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In the Vigilante route of Season 2, her last onscreen appearance is her saving Bruce from the debris of a partially collapsed building, assuming you didn't betray her. Her end-of-episode stat card states that she's either still working for Waller or free if you manage to convince Waller to release her, but there's never any visually definitive conclusion to her arc.
• Worthy Opponent: According to a bio displayed in the Batcave trophy hall in Season 2, Bruce views her, at the very least, as a challenging opponent in combat.
• When She Smiles: Shows a few genuine moments of happiness when Bruce flirts with her.
• Will They or Won't They?: As usual, she has this dynamic with Bruce.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Bruce can encourage her that she's more than just a thief who has no future, which gains a bit of interest in him thanks to his concern for her safety.

Mobsters

Carmine Falcone

Carmine Falcone

Voiced By: Richard McGonagle

"I can get Harvey the Mayor's seat... Or I can pull it out from under him."

The most powerful mob boss in Gotham.

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• Actor Allusion: When angry, he says "goddamn" a lot, not unlike another criminal voiced by Richard McGonagle.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Even though the game never takes its eye off the ball about him being a bad man, his final moments, potentially reminiscing with Bruce about his parents and his family from a hospital bed, are oddly sad and tragic, and serve to humanize him a bit.
• Bad Boss: While firing at Batman, he guns down his own goons without batting an eye.
• Bald of Evil: Balding, anyway and definitely evil.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: In the past. He was in a three man crime syndicate with Mayor Hill and Thomas Wayne.
• Boom, Headshot!: He gets shot twice - first in the chest, then in the head.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He knows he's the "bad guy", calling himself a "mean old bastard". He strongly hints his Mafioso personality was crafted to intimidate the upper crust.
• Character Death: Gets shot dead at the hospital in episode 2 courtesy of Renee Montoya, who was drugged with a Psycho Serum.
• Crazy-Prepared: Being the top criminal in the city has led him to make his penthouse office a veritable fortress, complete with bulletproof lockdown shutters on the windows, an arsenal of guns, and a button-activated turret that descends from the ceiling. Unfortunately for him, it doesn’t stop Batman from capturing him.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's the main antagonist of Episode 1, but he's defeated at the end of the Episode and dies at the beginning of the second Episode. True to this trope, the extent of the real antagonists' menace is revealed after his defeat.
• The Don: He's the reigning mob boss in Gotham.
• Establishing Character Moment: Falcone strides into Wayne Manor, making everyone uneasy and flaunting his power by giving orders.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He mentions having a wife and it's implied during his scene in the infirmary that he genuinely got along rather well with his friend Thomas Wayne and with Martha Wayne. At the very least, he seems to remember them fondly and claims that he didn't kill them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He outright states that even a jerkass like him despised his former friend Thomas's cruelty.
• Faux Affably Evil: He likes to pretend he's high society, but he can't keep his polite facade up for the space of a conversation.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a noticeable scar on his forehead.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: One option for how Batman deals with him at the end of "Realm of Shadows" is to slam him through a piece of rebar.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Falcone shares the likeness of his voice actor, Richard McGonagle.
• Jerkass: Even being threatened by a black-clad vigilante who just took out a whole room of his boys can't make him be civil.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: "You can't trust anyone in Gotham, least of all those you call friend. Your parents learned that the har—" (shot twice)
• Made of Iron: For a Non-Action Big Bad, he sure can take a surprising amount of punishment during his Disc-One Final Boss battle: You can wound him with up to two Batarangs, slam him into various furniture, burn his arm in his own fireplace, detonate Crazy-Prepared explosives right next to him, and even drive him backfirst through a piece of rebar... and he'll still survive, albeit heavily hospitalized, in accordance with Batman's Thou Shalt Not Kill rule.
• Not Me This Time:
  • He's a mob boss, but Falcone claims that he's not responsible for the chemical theft during which a bunch of cops and mercenaries died, as he claims those were his chemicals. After all, as Falcone explains, does Batman really think Falcone wanted to lure Batman on his trail? He’s right: the Children of Arkham were responsible.
  • He also claims that he didn't hire Joe Chill to kill the Waynes, but was killed before he could say any more. We later learn that Mayor Hill was responsible.
• Pet the Dog: During the scene where Bruce visits him in the infirmary, he talks to Bruce in a rather nice way, compared to the Jerkass he usually is. When talking about Thomas and Martha, he seems to remember them fondly, saying that Thomas was close to him, "more like a cousin" and that Bruce and him are practically family. He even claims to have a closet full of birthday presents he was never able to give to Bruce. And if Bruce agrees to ease his pain with morphine, he's genuinely thankful, and says that Bruce reminds him of Martha's kindness.
• Recovered Addict: When taking his morphine, he hints that he was a heroin user in his youth, but kept clean for forty years while he ran the business.
• Red Herring: He didn't steal the chemicals. Also, given the fact that he's partially responsible of Two-Face's birth in the comics, his involvement in Dent's campaign would lead you to believe that he would have a hand in Two-Face's birth here too. He doesn't. It's also hinted that that he had the Wayne's killed, but he didn't. On top of that, he is coincidentally killed when he's about to reveal who the real killer was.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Gets shot while Bruce talks to him at the hospital.
• Starter Villain: He is detained by Batman in Episode 1 and killed in the beginning of Episode 2 during interrogation.
• Token Good Teammate : Was by far the least evil in the trio of him, Hill and Thomas Wayne.
• Undignified Death: Falcone unceremoniously gets his brains blasted out by a cop whacked out on Psycho Serum, while lying wounded in the GCPD's infirmary.
• Villain in a White Suit: Falcone wears a white business suit that's complemented with a black shirt as well as a gold necktie and handkerchief, making him more distinguishable as a villain who is the head of the mob in Gotham.
• You Got Guts: Falcone will admit he respects Bruce insisting Harvey be present for their conversation, saying that it's his house and he's got a right to set the terms. He then demands that Harvey be "seen and not heard", and rudely tells him to shut up when he objects.

Joe Chill

Joe Chill

Voiced By: Jarion Monroe

The mugger who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne. He's long dead, but Bruce is still haunted by his actions.

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• Adaptational Karma: Unlike most versions, he's arrested after the deaths of the Waynes and killed in prison.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Traditionally, Joe Chill was a simple crook, and only killed Thomas and Martha when things got out of hand, and spared Bruce afterwards. In The Telltale Series, Chill was hired by Hamilton Hill to assassinate the Waynes, and was going to kill Bruce too, only sparing him because the police were coming.
• Asshole Victim: As Alfred put it, no one mourned for Joe Chill.
• Death by Adaptation: In this continuity, he was stabbed to death in prison.
• Nothing Personal: Said verbatim with "just business" before shooting the Waynes.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: The nicest thing that can be said about him is that one of his victims really had it coming.
• Professional Killer: He's an assassin for the mob.
• Would Hit a Girl: He also guns down Martha after killing Thomas.
• Would Hurt a Child: He was prepared to shoot Bruce as well, but fled after hearing approaching sirens.

Rumi Mori

Rumi Mori

Voiced By: Keone Young

A beloved philanthropist and biotech innovator who is secretly an illegal arms dealer. Season 2 begins with Bruce attempting to expose Mori.

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• Arms Dealer: His real job, which he has been involved in for decades; he managed to turn enough profit running guns during the Arab Spring to diversify his assets and present himself as legitimate.
• Canon Foreigner: An original creation for the game.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Mori is an amoral arms dealer, but he stopped selling weapons to the Riddler when it became clear that the Riddler was going to use them for indiscriminate destruction.
• Fingore: He loses two fingers to the Riddler's torture machine.
• Gender-Blender Name: In Japanese, "Rumi" is normally a feminine name.
• Karma Houdini: Depending on player choice in episode 1. If Bruce chooses to interrogate Mori instead of Knable, there are two ways to get Mori to give up the information on Riddler's whereabouts: you can either take his drive by force, or you can agree to Mori's request to transfer funds to get him out of the city. If you choose to transfer the funds, then depending on how events play out in future episodes, Mori may get away with his illegal arms dealing.
• Noble Demon: Played with. He expresses sympathy for Bruce, but it's due to Mori's admiration of his father's criminal activities, and his offer to give up the data drive in return for a huge cash exchange is shady at best (even though he does keep his word if you accept). He can, however, offer a sincere apology for what happened if Bruce asserts Mori's connection to the death of Lucius Fox.
• Villain Has a Point: When he is placed in the Riddlers death trap at the start of episode one, he calls out the villain for being insane. Given the circumstances, it`s pretty spot on.

The Children of Arkham

Children of Arkham's Leader

Lady Arkham

^Spoiler

Voiced By: Steve Blum (Masked), Erin Yvette (Unmasked)

"We are the Children of Arkham, and we have opened your eyes."

The mysterious leader of the terrorist group known as the Children of Arkham.

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• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: As if having her birth parents murdered by Thomas Wayne wasn't bad enough, her foster parents' constant physical, mental, and emotional abuse drove her to such despair that she can only see humanity as being nothing but corrupt and self-serving at its core, using her Psycho Serum to "expose each person's inner darkness."
• Big Bad: As the leader of the Children of Arkham, the major villain within the game.
• Black-and-White Insanity: Adamantly convinced they are justified in their actions. And no matter what evidence is shown to the contrary, they refuse to believe that Bruce Wayne is anything other than an evil coward who is just as bad as his father.
• Book Ends: Was created by Vicki when the Vales trapped her in an inescapable hole and dies with her as she tries to flee the collapsing catacombs of Arkham Asylum.
• Boom Stick: Fights with a staff that can fire concussive blasts.
• Canon Character All Along: The Children of Arkham were created for the game but many people theorized that the leader would secretly be a canon Batman character and were proven right. What they probably didn't expect was that she was actually Vicki Vale.
• Canon Foreigner: Not in their true identity, but the Children of Arkham Leader is revealed to be an entirely new villain persona titled "Lady Arkham".
• Cast as a Mask: Using a male voice actor for the leader's voice helps to disguise their true identity further.
• Combat Pragmatist: As good a fighter as Batman is but also has some extra advantage in the form of a staff capable of emitting shockwaves strong enough to send Batman flying a good twenty feet through the air.
• Composite Character: Their faceless nature, considerable tactical skill, and grudge against Bruce Wayne, Arkham Asylum, and the whole of Gotham seem to deliberately invoke the Arkham Knight, while their plan to rig the city's rail transit as a poison-gas delivery system is lifted from the Dark Knight Trilogy's Scarecrow.
  • Her admiration of Batman is very similar to Anarky, in that while both see him as a force outside the system and try to get him to join their side, both will eventually dismiss him as using his strength to prey upon the weak, afraid, and helpless, and protect those in power, when he turns them down.
  • A fellow vigilante whose methods are too extreme for Batman, who's eventually revealed as a woman in Bruce's life? Sounds like there's a dose of Phantasm in there, too.
• Dance Battler: Downplayed. The twirling battle staff really gives it this sort of vibe.
• Death by Looking Up: Tries to limp to an exit in the crumbling cathedral, only for rocks to block her path followed shortly by being crushed.
• Death by Secret Identity: Bruce has the option to reveal himself to her. She doesn't survive Episode 5.
• Dramatic Unmask: During their fight in Episode 5, Batman shatters Vicki's mask, forcing her to confront him with her true face for the rest of the encounter.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: If Bruce unmasks himself in their final battle, Vicki is stunned at the revelation that Bruce is not some coward hiding in his ivory tower and is the city's protector and forces herself to rationalize this as him using Batman as his way of preying upon the weak...despite the fact that he only attacks amoral people and criminals. It’s easier than admitting that she was wrong about Bruce being as bad as his father.
• Evil Counterpart: The leader is one to Bruce as Batman. Both of them were motivated by the murder of their parents, and both want to take down the corruption of Gotham by adopting a masked persona, but the leader is willing to take it even further by creating an extremist revolution. Plus, while Bruce had Alfred to help him out after his tragedy, Vicki was brutally abused by the Vales.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Their voice is distorted by their mask, making them sound very deep. It also helps hide the fact that she's a woman.
• Expy: Of Arkham Knight.
  • Both are thought to be Canon Foreigners of their respective games before The Reveal that they are actually already existing characters taking new antagonistic identities.
  • Both were heavily tortured in the past which led to their hatred for Bruce Wayne. Interestingly, they actually shift their hatred over to Bruce as the actual person who caused their suffering was already dead at the time of their respective games.
  • Both enlist an army of mercenaries to kill Batman.
  • Both had a connection to Arkham Asylum (the Knight was tortured at Arkham in his youth while Lady Arkham's family own said mental hospital).
  • In some twist of irony the Arkham Knight becomes her expy after being a Canon Immigrant.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Pulls one at the end of Episode 2, by making a broadcast to warn the audience that they are not safe from the Children of Arkham.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Batman defeats the leader by using their own staff against them.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: By Episode 5, their three-way war with Batman and Harvey has resulted in the loss of most of her army, the destruction of her Hate Plague drug supply, and the detainment of her top lieutenant. When the climax comes around, they're down to releasing the inmates of Arkham Asylum (though most of them outside of the Joker are caught) and trying to blackmail Batman into bringing Bruce Wayne (as she no longer has the resources to do so herself) to her by threatening to kill Alfred when, by her own logic, Bruce wouldn't be the kind of person who would care all that much about her killing his butler.
• Humans Are Bastards: She embraces this mindset so vehemently that even if Bruce reveals his true identity to her, she simply rationalizes his actions as Batman as being him using the persona to attack the weak.
• I Reject Your Reality: If Batman chooses to unmask himself as Bruce Wayne in Episode 5, Vicki cannot comprehend that Bruce Wayne, the man she sees as an evil and selfish coward, is the same person as the vilgilante she admired, leading her to justify it as Bruce using Batman as his way of preying upon the weak.
• Jet Pack: In the final battle, they're revealed to have jet boots that let them fly around and deliver powerful kicks.
• Karmic Death: When the chapel under Arkham begins to cave in during their final battle, the leader will state that Batman belongs there, buried and forgotten in the darkness. Not two minutes later, she gets crushed by falling debris while trying to escape. It gains an extra layer if Bruce removes his cowl, as she will refuse his offer of help, saying she knows his "true face" and can never trust him.
• Lean and Mean: Much thinner than the heavily built Batman but no less dangerous. It turns out to be the quite petite Vicki Vale.
• Load-Bearing Boss: Justified, as they're wielding a sonic staff and their fight destroys most of the pillars holding up the old basement chapel.
• Loony Fan: The leader states that they admire Batman before their final battle for working outside the system, hoping to potentially win him to the cause if he isn't killed; part of what triggers their breakdown is potentially seeing Bruce without his mask and being unable to reconcile it with her conception of Bruce Wayne as heartless and selfish.
• The Man Behind the Man: The person Penguin is working for.
• Meta Origin: Responsible for the origins of most of the major rogues in this continuity; the Leader is the benefactor/employer of Penguin and Catwoman, sends Harvey Dent down the road to becoming Two-Face, and has some as-yet unspecified connection to Joker.
• Never Found the Body: Is mentioned in the second season that her body was never found.
• Never My Fault: Has an insanely (due to actually being absolutely crazy) high degree of self-righteousness.
• "Not So Different" Remark: 'John Doe' notes that Bruce and Vicki are motivated by the death of their parents and Bruce can admit that tragedy can lead to motivation.
• Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: It is unclear where they get all the resources, including high-tech weaponry. It's also unclear where they learned to fight well enough to be a challenge for Batman, especially considering Vicki's seemingly humble origins.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Her foster parents are among the list of people she has viciously murdered. Being that they were horribly abusive, however, one can't begrudge her for that particular act of violence.
• Pet the Dog: It's a Freeze-Frame Bonus, but a photo of Vicki and the Vales' other foster child is on the altar in Arkham Asylum's underground chapel. This implies, at the very least, that she sympathized with the boy as a fellow victim of the Vales' cruelty.
• Power Floats: The leader's boots allow them to hover in the air and fly for brief periods.
• Psychopathic Manchild: While the leader initially appears calm and composed, towards the end of the game it becomes apparent that she is acting out her childhood revenge fantasy.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The Children can't even touch Batman in a fight. The leader, on the other hand, is capable of going toe to toe with him as an equal and even manages to significantly injure him after their first fight in Episode 3.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tells Batman he can't save Gotham from itself.
• Revenge Before Reason: Is completely consumed by revenge for their upbringing and the city that enabled it. Even if you try to have Bruce reason with her, apologize for what his parents did to her family, and give into her demands to take off the mask, she is so far gone in her crusade that all pleas fall on deaf ears; to her, all the Waynes are evil regardless of their actions, and she won't quit until Bruce is dead and Gotham burns.
  Arkham: This must be some kind of... trick. Bruce Wayne he'd— he'd never be the man Batman is. He only looks out for himself. Ah, but of course... now I understand. As Batman, you can prey on the weak, the defenseless. Just like your father did! A true Wayne! There's nothing heroic about you!
• Revenge by Proxy: It's implied they target Bruce so ferociously because he's the closest they can get to exacting revenge on Thomas Wayne, who being long dead is out off their reach.
• The Reveal: The Leader's identity is revealed at the very end of Episode 3.
  Vicki Vale: I AM the Children of Arkham.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: More or less their mission statement: a revolution is coming to Gotham, no matter who has to die.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Leader's true plan is to avenge the Arkhams and all those unfairly put into Arkham Asylum by Thomas Wayne by releasing all the inmates of the Asylum.
• Samus Is a Girl: Her mask gives them a distorted if somewhat masculine voice, though her identity is ultimately revealed at the end of Episode 3. As of Episode 4 however, she is now publicly known as Lady Arkham, meaning that everyone knows that she's at least female.
• Self-Disposing Villain: Vicki accidentally collapses the underground cathedral where they have their final battle with Batman, causing them to be crushed to death. This allows Batman to stop them for good and (if he revealed himself to them) keep his secret identity secret without breaking his no-kill rule.
• Self-Made Orphan: Has no qualms gruesomely killing both of her foster parents to further their agenda. Of course, as abusive monsters, they more or less had it coming. Batman can express amazement that they survived as long as they did.
  Arkham: You want to know how I survived? I survived because every night, I dreamed of the revenge I'd take on them... Them and the rest of this forsaken city.
• Shadow Archetype: In many ways Lady Arkham is what Batman might've become without Alfred's love and support: A ruthless masked vigilante consumed by revenge who doesn't care how many are caught in the crossfire if it means the corrupt are eliminated.
• Statuesque Stunner: Played with. Bruce/Batman is really One Head Taller than Vicki, but Lady Arkham's special boots visibly let her stand eye-level with him.
• Villain Has a Point: During their final battle, if Batman argues that Falcone and Hill should've been tried fairly, she retorts that both of their sheer Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! made them untouchable — so outright killing them was actually a favor to Gotham. Given how they were The Dreaded to virtually every authority figure around, it's actually very hard to fault them; in fact, even Batman himself remains silent about it afterward.
  • Earlier, when Vicki was confronted by Batman before her true identity as Lady Arkham is revealed, she points out that Batman was defending Bruce Wayne as much as she was defending the leader of the Children of Arkham. And that should have made her realize that Batman might be Bruce Wayne, but she was absolutely convinced that Bruce was just as bad as his father, when that was far from the case.
• Villainous Breakdown: In their final confrontation with Batman, should the player choose to reveal his identity, Vicki is unable to cope with the truth that the man she pegged for a selfish coward and the masked hero are one and the same, and she battles him in a Laughing Mad rage.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Genuinely believes that the Children of Arkham are doing the harsh work that is necessary to purge Gotham of corruption.
• Where Does She Get All Those Wonderful Toys: It's never revealed where got her high-tech staff, suit, and hover boots from, nor where she got the training to become someone almost on-par with Batman, as it's unlikely someone on a reporter's salary could afford such advanced equipment and training. As pointed out in Headscratchers, even if she had access to money from her family's old mental hospital, it's questionable as to who would build her equipment.
• White Mask of Doom: Sports a very intimidating one that resembles a skull as well as a gag mask.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Birth parents killed by Thomas Wayne, adopted parents abusive to the Nth degree... yeah, the leader's had an utterly horrible life. Doesn't even begin to justify the actions taken by the Children of Arkham, though.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Has all and even takes note of, all the clues necessary to determine Batman's true identity, but is so stubborn in her opinion of Bruce's supposed wickedness that it never comes to pass.

Penguin

Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot

Voiced By: Jason Spisak

"A revolution is knockin' on Gotham's door!"

A childhood friend of Bruce whose family fell on hard times when he was a child. Oswald has since become a criminal and has returned to Gotham after twenty years, intent on inciting a revolution.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the comics, Cobblepot hates the Waynes as he feels the family drove his to ruin. Here, Oswald's mother was driven insane and committed to Arkham by Thomas Wayne, who desired her land to build Wayne Tower on, making his grudge against them much more understandable.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Oswald is portrayed as a younger, slimmer, and much more charming character than his bald, portly comic book counterpart, which is used for Theodore Cobblepot, Oswald's father.
• Adaptational Badass: This Oswald has had a history in illegal boxing matches and can hold his own against street thugs. He's also capable of going toe-to-toe with Batman in a fight, albeit by disabling most of his gadgets while armed with Power Fists.
• Adaptational Origin Connection: This time around, he's the one who burns half of Harvey's face (unless the player chooses to save him in an in-game decision). This version is also an old childhood friend of Bruce.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Most versions of Penguin like to present themselves as members of high society; in an inversion of the norm, this Penguin sees himself as a champion of the oppressed who specifically targets the corrupt upper class of Gotham (though he still enjoys living large after taking over Wayne Enterprises).
• Adaptational Villainy: One particular thing as in this version he is the who turns Harvey into Two-Face courtesy of smashing a stage light against his face. But Batman can stop from doing so.
• Affectionate Nickname: He's one of Bruce's childhood friends in this continuity, and as such, the latter mainly refers to him as just "Oz".
• Age Lift: While he's typically older than Bruce in the comics, here, the two are roughly the same age, and they grew up together.
• And This Is for...: He executes Hill claiming it is for his mother. Episode 3 hints that he also did it for his father, who died mysteriously before Hill won the election.
• Animal Motif: Oz retains the moniker of Penguin but it isn't initially clear why until his attack on the mayoral debate between Hill and Dent wherein he wears a penguin-like gas mask and a suit.
  • More subtly, he wears a black suit with a white shirt and a yellow tie, alluding to the coloration of an Emperor Penguin.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: For his attack on the mayoral debate between Hill and Dent, Oz wears a suit that complements the penguin-like gas mask he dons as he proves to be a serious threat. Episode 3 has him dress much more conservatively when He becomes the new CEO of Wayne Enterprises.
• Badass Longcoat: Oswald wears quite a nice coat.
• Blood Knight: It's obvious that he gains a bit of a kick punching a couple of thugs into the dirt.
• Canon Immigrant: Sort of. Batgirl (Rebirth) introduced a son for the Penguin named Ethan, who (aside from being blond) was pretty much this version of the Penguin transplanted into the DC Universe.
• Cigar Chomper: The splash page for Episode 3 shows him enjoying a cigar.
• Composite Character:
  • Due to his Adaptation Origin Connection with Bruce, he has the "troubled, orphaned childhood friend" aspect normally associated with Tommy Elliot AKA Hush or Roman Sionis AKA Black Mask. Like Hush, he also manages to gain control of Bruce's finances and company, and his motivation is an inversion of Elliot's — while Hush resented Thomas Wayne for saving his mother, Oswald is determined to destroy the Waynes for Thomas forcibly committing his mother to Arkham.
  • Arguably, he's also a hybrid of various other Penguins, as he has a similar appearance to the one in Gotham, a Cockney accent like in the Batman: Arkham Series, and is the same age as Bruce as in The Batman. He also is the field leader for the Children of Arkham, similar to the Arkham Knight.
  • He can potentially take Sal Maroni's role as the one who scars Harvey's face, should the player decide to save Selina over him.
• Crazy-Prepared: Give the guy credit, in ep 4 he manages to figure out that Batman uses his tech to plan his attacks and wore a device to counter it.
• Defiant to the End: If you go after him in Ep 4, Batman beats him in a fight and tries to wring information out of him. But he completely refuses to reveal Lady Arkham's plans.
  • Deconstructed if he's fought in Episode 5 where his petulant attempts at defiance after he's pinned under the Cobblepot bust is depicted as being rather undignified and largely pathetic.
  • Subverted in Enemy Within, where it's mentioned in the Gotham media feed that he plead guilty at his trial and he's a model prisoner in Blackgate, seemingly resigned to his imprisonment.
• Delusions of Eloquence: He wouldn't be the Penguin if he wasn't a brash thug in a monkey suit.
• Did Not See That Coming: He knows how Bruce's mom was involved in the conspiracy that killed the Waynes, and tries to get a reaction from Bruce with it. Bruce can just say "It doesn't matter.", which causes Oz to say the trope name almost word to word.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": He yells at one of Falcone's Mooks for calling him "Mr. Cobblepot" instead of his preferred title of "Penguin".
• The Dragon: To the leader of the Children of Arkham. Penguin commands the Children of Arkham's field operations and becomes Lady Arkham's greatest asset once he becomes CEO of Wayne Enterprises and gains access to all of that juicy Wayne Tech.
• The Dreaded: Upon learning that she was hired by the Penguin, Catwoman tells Bruce that she'd probably be better off dead than letting him get his hands on her.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Probably his reaction when he found out what happened to his mother's betrayal.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Oz loves his mother dearly, to the point of avenging her unjust fate by Thomas Wayne.
• Evil Brit: Of the Cockney variety, just like his Arkham counterpart. He uses a more refined accent when in public.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • In Episode 2, When Penguin drugs him into complete honesty, Harvey admits that while Gotham is not perfect by any means, he loves the city and genuinely wants to save it. Cobblepot proceeds to vehemently berate the DA for lying.
  • In Episode 3, if Bruce punches Oswald and then apologizes to him about it later in the episode, Oswald finds himself at a loss for words.
  • In Episode 5, if Bruce apologizes for what his family did to the Cobblepots, Penguin flies into a rage because he refuses to accept that Bruce could genuinely feel sorry for him.
• Evil Former Friend: He was Bruce's friend when they were kids, but by the events of the game he now blames Bruce and his whole family for what happened to his mother and does everything he can to ruin both Bruce Wayne and Batman.
• Evil Is Petty: During his brief time as CEO of Wayne Enterprises, Cobblepot changed the format of Wayne Tech's website, and is implied that he added some STDs to Bruce's medical records.
• Evil Virtues: Honor, loyalty and patience, in that order.
• Facial Horror: In episode 4, a drugged Bruce beaten his face in so badly that he has two black eyes and huge stitches all across his face.
• False Friend: Encounters Bruce in the park, promising that they're still good friends who'll take on Gotham together. Episode 2 naturally proves that this was a bunch of bull and by 3, he makes it all but clear he just sees Bruce as an object of his revenge.
• Faux Affably Evil: Oz is hammy and downright jovial 80% of the time, but he's still every bit a remorseless criminal and murderer, and his pleasant attitude never changes this fact.
• Foregone Conclusion: Despite being good friends with Bruce in this version, he's still the infamous Penguin, so it's no surprise that he would go bad eventually.
• Freudian Excuse: His reason for revolution is because Thomas Wayne and Mayor Hill drugged his mother and declared her insane to get her land. While it doesn't justify what he does, his motivations are pretty understandable.
• Graceful Loser: A news article in Season 2 states that he pled guilty to all charges in court, and he seems to actually be enjoying prison life. The guards and other prisoners have nothing but kind things to say about him, and he's apparently rather smart and personable when he's not being fueled by angry vengeance.
• High-Class Glass: Finally dons a sophisticated eyepiece resembling his traditional monocle in Episode 4. As he himself shows, it has the added benefit of targeting, then shorting out Bruce's cowl's connection to the Batcomputer, forcing Batman to fight blind and think on his feet. It gets knocked off during the struggle however.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Had a habit of smacking the bust in Cobblepot Park to vent out his frustrations. Depending on your choices, he winds up pinned under it after Bruce tosses a drone at him.
• I Gave My Word: Make no mistake, Penguin might be a crook, a thief, a murderer and a con-man, but he is not a backstabber and he will honor every single deal he makes and stand by his word, no matter what.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He looks a lot like an animated Jason Spisak.
• Impoverished Patrician: The Cobblepots were once as wealthy as the Waynes. Their family fortune hasn't fared as well.
• Kick the Dog: After taking over as CEO of Wayne Industries, he hands Bruce a watch he got from Alfred only to drop it on the floor at the last moment. One of Bruce's options is to simply slug him in the face.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: In Season Two, it's mentioned in the Gotham news feed that he pled guilty at his trial and is behaving like a model prisoner at Blackgate, even being courteous to the staff and other prisoners.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Back in episode 2 he burns off/ almost burns off half of Harvey Dent's face. In Episode 4, his own face has been so beaten in by a deranged Bruce that he now has his own facial scars.
• Lean and Mean: In contrast to usual portrayals of the Penguin. And he can actaully put up a decent fight too.
• Made of Iron: Say whatever one wants about the Penguin, but the amount of punishment he tanked during his potential final fight with Batman in episode 4, would have been enough to put entire squads of soldiers down, with ease. Penguin kept going regardless. It took having his leg broken to finally stop him.
• Mythology Gag: The bust found at the center of Cobblepot Park shares the likeness of the original comic book Penguin. However, this is not Oswald himself, but rather his father.
  • Oswald's device that allows him to control Waynetech resembles his iconic monocle. Additionally, he previously used that same device in Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts.
  • In Episode 4, he now has two black eyes after getting assaulted by a Brainwashed and Crazy Bruce at the end of Episode 3, thus making Oswald resemble his Batman Returns counterpart.
  • If confronted in Episode 5 instead, Oz will be out in the rain and finally be seen carrying an umbrella.
  • He wants revenge against high society, like in Batman Returns and one memorable episode of the animated series. He resents the Waynes for usurping his family's influential position, like in The Batman (although it's more justified here), is an East End thug like in the Arkham games, and is more slender and attractive like in Gotham.
• Obviously Evil: Just look at the page image and say that he looks like a guy you can trust.
• Plague Doctor: His "Penguin" mask resembles a plague doctor's bird-like mask.
• Power Fist: If Batman confronts him in Episode 4, Penguin eventually dons a pair of mechanical gauntlets that lets him overpower Batman.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: He uses conventional weapons instead of the umbrella weapons he is known for, and this was likely done for realism.
  • His nickname "Penguin" also comes from the mask he wears, rather than because of his short and pudgy appearance in other incarnations.
• The Resenter: During his introduction, it is heavily implied that Oz envies how Bruce has retained his wealth and good family name, while he has been rendered bankrupt and disgraced. Ep 3 pretty much confirms it.
• The Reveal: He is revealed to be the employer of Selina Kyle, and is the field commander of the Children of Arkham.
• Revenge by Proxy: He wants Bruce dead because of what his father did to his mother.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Penguin's goal is to get revenge on everyone responsible for his family's downfall, which is to say Falcone, Hill, and the Wayne family, and he doesn't care how many innocents he has to kill in the process.
• Secret Identity: Unusually for the character, he's not publicly known as Penguin, and uses a mask (and fake accent) when using the persona. However, his criminal connections DO know who he is, and his identity will be exposed to the public by Episode 5.
• Sinister Schnoz: He has a prominent nose, though not quite the beak-like appendage of his usual portrayals. He makes up for it with his Penguin mask.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In the second season, Harley learns about Bruce's secret lab from her time spent working as a psychiatrist at Blackgate. Apparently, he never shut up about all the secrets he learned while as the Wayne Enterprises CEO.
• Smug Snake: Once he's voted in as the new CEO of Wayne Enterprises. He gloats to Bruce about how he'll make sure the Wayne name is all but forgotten.
  • And, despite his grand talk, he's nothing more than a pawn (or in his eyes, a soldier) to the real villain. Vicki Vale.
• Surrounded by Idiots: His attitude to his mooks during his Villainous Breakdown, if the player chooses to go after him in Episode 4
• Tragic Villain: He was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne until he discovered the truth. Thomas Wayne drove Oswald's mother to madness in order to steal their land and fortune. Oswald's father also committed suicide in grief and depression, leaving Os a homeless and penniless orphan. It's hard to blame him for his rage and hate towards the Waynes.
• Troll: When Bruce regains control of the Wayne Enterprises server, he finds file folders with a penguin emblazoned on them, the company's logo rewritten in Comic Sans, and his own medical records defaced with what's implied to be a long history of venereal disease. Bruce dryly notes that Oz has a "peculiar sense of humor".
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: In Episode 3, Wayne Enterprise's board of directors fires Bruce and names Oz interim CEO as an apology for what Thomas Wayne did to his parents. Oz makes it clear to Bruce that he intends to use his new found authority to further his quest for revenge.
• Underestimating Badassery: Yes Oz, surely Batman, a guy who manages to bypass the Childern of Arkham's forces and Wayne Security is gonna be easy picking if you disable his equipment. He isn't and for an added kick to the teeth, Batman beats him while he's using the Wayne Tech equipment to boot.
• Unwitting Pawn: Averted. Both Bruce and Batman can call him this at the press conference and if you invade Wayne Enterprises, respectively, stating that he's nothing more than a pawn in the Children of Arkham's plans. He rebuffs it, stating he's "not a pawn, but a soldier", meaning that he knew what he signed up to and is willing to go down for the cause without any regrets if that´s what it takes. He even reasons that if they should find fault with him someday and destroy him as well, at least he got to see Bruce go down first.
• Vagueness Is Coming: After meeting up with Bruce after two decades apart, Oswald forewarns his boyhood chum about a revolution coming to Gotham, not too subtly suggests that he will be leading it, and warns Bruce to either join him or stay out of his way.
• Villain Has a Point: As with the Children of Arkham's leader's criticism of the actions of Bruce's parents, Oswald's rise to power within Wayne Enterprises is justified as making up for his family's land being taken and his mother being wrongly committed to Arkham Asylum and Bruce can admit as much shortly before the end of the third episode.
• Villain with Good Publicity: In Episode 3, the Children of Arkham erase Oz's criminal record, making most of Gotham think of him as a noble victim of the Wayne family's cruelty.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • In Episode 4, if the player chooses to go after him, Penguin's frustration with his men being unable to stop Batman culminates in a brief, screaming rant at them while hurling a framed picture at their heads.
    Cobblepot: Does anyone have him!? (Children of Arkham soldiers exchange blank stares) Useless, useless! YOU'RE ALL BLOODY USELESS!!
  • If confronted in Episode 5, Bruce can say Esther Cobblepot belonged in Arkham to keep Oz distracted, causing him to lose his cool, relatively collected demeanor and try to kill Bruce with his bare hands.
    Cobblepot: I'LL KILL YOU!!
• We Used to Be Friends: Bruce's codex entries for Oz first express concern that he didn't see anything of the boy he grew up with when meeting him again, and slowly become more pessimistic as the game progresses, with Bruce later amending it to note that, in hindsight, there was only "Penguin" left. After the end of "Children of Arkham", his file photo is replaced with him wearing the Penguin mask at the auditorium, showing that there's no longer any hope for reconciliation between the two.
  Codex: There's nothing left of the best friend I once had.
• You Don't Look Like You: At first glance, he's pretty unrecognizable as the (future) Penguin, due to his leaner body, full head of hair, and lack of any birdlike mannerisms.

Blockbuster

"Blockbuster" Roland

Voiced By: Steve Blum

A blue-skinned, very muscular henchman of Penguin's.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: He has blue skin.
• Bald of Evil: He has no hair, not even eyebrows.
• The Brute: To Oswald.
• Composite Character: Has the name of Roland Desmond, but the Dumb Muscle personality of his brother Mark.
• The Dreaded: Due to his sheer size and power, Blockbuster is the only directly observed patient in the Arkham rec room, a form of treatment that not even confirmed dangerous murderers like Zsasz and Ventriloquist get.
• No-Sell: He takes a barstool across the face without flinching.
• Not Wearing Tights: He doesn't wear a costume, just ordinary street clothes.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Implied by The Quiet One below.
• The Quiet One: While he's as brutish as you'd expect when working for Penguin, when staying in Arkham he's strangely quiet and mostly just stares off into space, with the orderly cryptically commenting that Batman "really messed him up" during the fight at the debate. He doesn't even take part in the riot caused by Lady Arkham in Episode 5 and is simply seen playing around with a door. It's implied that Batman shoving what was basically a taser in his mouth gave him brain damage.
• Secret Identity: Averted. He doesn't wear a mask, he lets people use his real name, and there wouldn't be many ways to hide the identity of the two meter tall blue man anyways.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Doesn't hesitate to show off his muscles.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: He vanishes from a penthouse in the time it takes Batman to grapple up.
• Super-Strength: He's significantly stronger than a human.
• Volcanic Veins: He has glowing red/pink veins all over his right arm.

The Pact

The Riddler

"Eddie"

Voiced By: Robin Atkin Downes

"Let me show you how it was done back in the day!"

A criminal known for his obsession with riddles and deathtraps. He operated in Gotham City before Bruce became Batman, eventually disappearing for so long that everyone in Gotham thought he was dead, and returning a year after the events of Season One.

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• Adaptational Badass:
  • Most versions of the Riddler tend to avoid direct combat with Batman. Here, he is a Genius Bruiser who can go toe-to-toe with the Dark Knight, putting up a pretty decent fight and taking a surprising amount of damage, especially for an older man.
  • The Riddler gets established as the Big Bad of Gotham, who predates Batman and was the inspiration for Costumed Criminals in the city.
  • While Riddler is at least usually depicted as a recognized criminal, this iteration is an international terrorist being globally tracked by Interpol and the Agency. He even got sentenced to life in Peña Duro (the prison Bane was born in), which he broke out of almost immediately. This may be what earned Bane's respect, as shown in the next episode.
  • Also, this version of the Riddler is the leader of the current rogue gallery, commanding the respect of Bane, Harley and Mr. Freeze. Pretty impressive for the guy who is an outcast even among other criminals in most portrayals.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: In this continuity, he was the Riddler long before Batman was on the scene; when Hamilton Hill, Carmine Falcone, and the Waynes were still alive and running Gotham.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Well... not to Batman. But he has the sincere respect of Harley Quinn, Catwoman, and even Bane; they're even shocked by news of his death and pretty vindictive about avenging him. Compare other incarnations where his colleagues find him too annoying to work with.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Riddler is generally one of Batman's less violent enemies, more interested in the game than a body-count. This version, on the other hand, is outright vicious. It's mentioned in-universe that this behavior is new for him, as he's never been this vicious in the past; it turns out that SANCTUS' experiments on him fractured his psyche and destroyed whatever sense of ethics he once had.
  "You should see your face. Its confusion is delightful. I think I'll take it with me!"
• Age Lift: In "Fractured Mask", Waller says he's 60.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: John doesn't think too highly of him, to put it one way, saying that Riddler is "a thief, a killer, and he's rude."
• Asshole Victim: He's killed with a toxic dart by an unknown assailant (who's revealed to be Tiffany in the finale) after Batman defeats him. Considering all the horrific things he did, it's hard to shed a tear for him. The only reason anyone is even angry about him being dead is that they wanted him to be The Stool Pigeon to others in his group.
• Ax-Crazy: For someone who prefers his battles intellectual, the Riddler enjoys hurting people in the worst ways. This is very clearly established in a video where he eagerly carves a Peña Duro guard's face off as a souvenir. Alfred actually changes his mind from believing Riddler is in need of professional help to him being far beyond that with that one video.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a dark green suit with a lapel pin shaped like a question mark.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Played With. He was first introduced as a serious menace to Gotham, but he ended up being the first member of the Pact taken out before any of the other members were officially revealed, in spite of being the actual leader of the group.
• Break the Haughty: When Batman finally turns his last death trap back around on him, saves the Agents, and stops him from killing hundreds, maybe even thousands of Gothamites with his missiles, Riddler breaks down and tries desperately to scramble away. It hits him even harder if Batman managed to keep all the captives from getting killed; even though he still tries to twist the knife in the end, he has to contend with his failure and his associates abandoning (or even betraying) him as well.
• Cane Fu: His signature question mark cane doubles as both a grappling hook and a bladed weapon, as seen when he slashes a guard's throat open with it during his Establishing Character Moment.
• Combat Pragmatist: While reeling from a kick to the face, he has the presence of mind to hook a whiskey glass from a nearby roulette table and then spin around to sling it at Batman's head. His main henchman Eli Knable also tends to use the environment in tandem with his boss, tossing a drink cart at Batman as Riddler quickly ducks.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: You can tell that when Batman managed to take control of his missiles, at the end of the day, he’s just no match for the Gotham Knight, physically and intellectually.
• Deader than Dead: By the time that the Pact prepares to invade the SANCTUS facility, they required samples of his DNA in order to access it and the secrets within his laptop. As if Riddler's body wasn't desecrated enough, Waller and the Agency invaded the Pact's hideout while they were absent to procure his blood (which was seemingly immune to the virus the villains planned to release), only for that to be destroyed by Agent Avesta at Bruce's behest. Needless to say, if there was any doubt he was dead, this definitely cements it.
• Death by Adaptation: One of Batman's most prominent villains in the comics doesn't even survive past his second confrontation with the Dark Knight here.
• Death Trap: Dabbles in these, even having portable tubes that work as these when on the move.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Much like Falcone before him, he's the main antagonist of Episode One, only to be defeated in the climax. Unlike Falcone however, he doesn't even survive past the first episode.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Considering how violently dangerous this version of the Riddler is, the fact that he wears a hooded trench coat and uses a hook-shaped blade as a weapon makes him resemble The Grim Reaper.
• Domino Mask: Wears one under his hood.
• The Dreaded: Alfred mentions how he was so feared back in the day that even Hill, Falcone and Thomas Wayne — an unstoppable triumvirate of political and criminal power in Gotham — knew to keep their distance from him.
• Dying Clue: Just as he's dying, he reveals that he was a member of the Pact, alongside "that white-faced prick".
• Easy-Mode Mockery: An In-Universe example. The riddles he tells Batman at the end of episode one are insultingly easy, and even then Riddler is willing to give hints. This is just to taunt Batman, and to make sure he has to choose between letting members of the Agency die or exposing him and Agent Avesta to his sonic blasts instead of accidentally getting one wrong.
• Empowered Badass Normal: He was a genius before, but the Lotus Virus made him vastly more intelligent and physically powerful, able to keep up with the Batman and take a licking even in late middle age.
• Establishing Character Moment: He walks right up to Rumi Mori inside his own casino, slits a guard's throat when he tries to kick Riddler out, then takes everyone in the casino hostage and shoves Mori inside a trap, telling him all he has to do is answer a riddle and he'll let him out. When Mori fails to do so, the trap cuts two of his fingers off and almost takes his head off before Batman disables it. He even puts up a solid fight with Batman, unlike most versions of himself, and when it looks like he might lose, he detonates explosives attached to the statue he and Batman are fighting on and uses the confusion to escape while leaving Batman a puzzle box to solve. All this proves that this version of the Riddler is not someone to be taken lightly.
• Evil Brit: It's understated, but an English accent can be heard in the Riddler's vowels.
• Evil Old Folks: He's 60 years old and a complete psychopath.
• Faux Affably Evil: For somebody who enjoys having a good intellectual conversation, the Riddler also has a taste for blood.
• Fingore: Really seems have a thing for cutting off fingers. His first target ends up losing two of them before Batman saves him and one of the Agency agents loses his while trying to solve one of his puzzles.
• Green and Mean: Dresses in an all green suit and is very mean.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The missiles he had planned to use to target important figures in Gotham are hacked by Batman and used to free him from the cage he trapped him in and the rest harmlessly falling into the ocean. This forces Riddler to confront Batman directly and...well, you can see the outcome there.
• Hooks and Crooks: The question-mark-shaped handle on his can is used as a bladed weapon.
• I Shall Taunt You: Despite his boasting and righteous anger, he's incredibly petty at times.
  Batman: I save people. It's what I do.
  Riddler: Your naivete is just embarrassing. (Putting on a gruff voice) "I SAVE PEOPLE."
• In the Hood: Has a hood incorporated into his own suit jacket, which looks more menacing than it sounds.
• Jerkass: As John puts it “He’s a thief. He’s a killer. And worst of all, he’s…he’s rude.”
• Kick the Dog: Riddler thrives on this, taking any chance he can to "go too far" and force Batman into a moral compromise.
  • When investigating his hideout, he not only decides to use the death of Lucius Fox as a means of driving a wedge between Batman and Gordon, but blithely comments on how there wasn't enough left of Lucius after the explosion for an open-casket funeral. The player even has the option to lose Batman's typical stoicism and threaten to make him pay.
  • His "final quiz" gives Batman a sadistic ultimatum — refuse to play along and watch three top Agency operatives be beheaded, or comply and let Agent Avesta get internally torn apart with UHF sonic bombardment, while being saved from that horrible death himself by the Batsuit's protection.
• Lack of Empathy: Views his victims as little more than players of his sadistic games.
• Lightning Bruiser: Able to strike quickly and with great force, even after taking multiple direct blows.
• Made of Iron: While he's still bloodied and bruised by the end of his first confrontation with Batman, he certainly took a lot of heavy hits and dished out some good licks of his own.
• Manipulative Bastard: At every turn, even in defeat, Riddler manages to somehow hurt and strain Batman's relationships with his allies (Alfred included). It comes back to bite him when he is seemingly abandoned by his own allies.
• Morality Pet: It's strongly implied that Catwoman was this to him, as he acted more kindly towards her.
  Catwoman: The man I knew was flawed, but he could still muster a little warmth.
  John Doe: Huh. Sounds like you knew a very different Riddler than the one I met.
• Mythology Gag: Coming on the heels of Gotham, Riddler is again portrayed as a villain before Batman even shows up.
• Narcissist: A staple for the character; he's highly theatrical and showy — even, as Tiffany notes, when designing his tech — and reacts poorly to Batman stealing his spotlight, calling him an upstart.
• No Name Given: Or rather, no secret identity given. Throughout "The Enigma", Riddler is only referred to as his supervillain alias, and never as either Edward Nigma or Edward Nashton. Not even the case files provided by the Agency give anything away, and the Vigilante path of "Same Stitch" reveals that all existing SANCTUS documentation with his real name was destroyed to cover up his involvement. Catwoman referring to him once as "Eddie" in "Fractured Mask" is the closest anybody gets.
• Old Soldier: According to Waller, he's in his 60s but fully capable of giving Batman a struggle in a fight.
• Older Than They Look: He's in his 60s, but fights and looks no older than a man in his early 40s.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: London actor Robin Atkin Downes portrays Riddler with an American accent, but his natural British accent does seep in every so often, resulting in a bizarre back-and-forth between American and Evil Brit.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: This version of the Riddler is unusually brutal and it's noted that he was a lot less ruthless during his original crime wave decades ago. This is why Catwoman continues investigating the Pact after the Riddler's death: the man she knew wasn't a monster and she wants to know what changed him. As of Episode 4, Bruce finds out what that was; exposure to an experimental virus created by SANCTUS (a subsidiary of the Agency), which had the ability to increase mental capacity at the cost of sanity.
• Remember the New Guy?: Justified — although intensely feared, he just wasn't as prominent a figure as the mafiosi and fixers who once ran Gotham, and he suddenly disappeared so long ago that most of the city simply assumed he was dead.
• Sanity Slippage: As a result of the virus treatments, Riddler began slowly mentally unwinding; even when Catwoman met him after he escaped from SANCTUS, he was still a somewhat friendly and charming man who could keep up a professional relationship. By the time he broke out of Peña Duro and carved off the warden's face, he was a self-absorbed, sadistic monster who alienated almost everyone around him, and who nearly destroyed the Pact with his grudges and compulsive desire to test Batman.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Though Riddler dies at the end of his debut, his actions can still be felt by Bruce (since he indirectly killed one of his closest allies) and it also cost Waller a valuable connection to the Pact. In Episode 2, the Pact goes out of its way to retrieve his corpse as part of their twisted plan, and Episode 3 reveals why—his eyes are needed to pass a "retinal scan" in order to break the encryption on his laptop, so the Pact can discover where a "blacksite" is.
  • An In-Universe example as well; though his return to Gotham's limelight (and presumably, leadership of the Pact) is relatively short-lived, the origins of his formidable intellect (and degrading sanity) were revealed as part of a SANCTUS experiment, of which he was the sole survivor. Not only is this a lead to a SANCTUS facility Waller wants to take down hard, it's also a target for the rest of the Pact; Harley wants to use the resulting virus to cure herself of a hereditary mental condition, Freeze wants to use it to cure his wife, and Bane wants to use it to cure his Venom addiction.
• Smug Snake: As is tradition, the Riddler is quite overconfident in his intellectual abilities and doesn't hesitate to brag about this to Batman.
• The Sociopath: Lack of Empathy? Manipulative nature? Sadistic tendencies? Grandiose Sense of Self-Worth? Yep, he fits the disorder to a T.
• Starter Villain: He is dealt with by the first episode of The Enemy Within and serves to set up the rest of The Pact.
• Trojan Prisoner: He let himself get caught in Peña Duro so he could break open the prison from the inside.
• Villainous Breakdown: True to form, his confident demeanor completely falls apart when Batman takes apart his carefully engineered trap at the end of his episode. However, this is in part due to the fact that his associates didn't come to back him up, something he blames on that white-faced prick.
• Villainous Friendship: If anything, Riddler has this with Bane and Selina, since Bane outright calls himself Riddler's friend when confronting Bruce Wayne after Riddler's death and Selina flies into a rage and attacks Tiffany when she confesses she killed Riddler.
• Who Murdered the Asshole: The question of who killed him is one that drives much of season 2 and leaves everyone involved blaming each other by the end of it. Eventually, no matter which path you choose, Tiffany is revealed to have been the one to do it out of vengeance for her father's death.
• Wild Card: Ironically, even though he seems to be the most intelligent member of the Pact as far as puzzles and tech expertise go, his obsessive vendetta and narcissistic grandstanding lead him to gain greater attention from GCPD and the Agency, unlike his low-profile colleagues; Batman can even find an e-mail from Harley in his lair, telling him off for screwing around. Ultimately, it ends up being the deciding factor in why they betray him and cut their losses.

Harley Quinn

Dr. Harleen Quinzel

Voiced By: Laura Post

"You got that look in your eye. The kind that says you're trouble."

A former psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum. According to information Waller gives Batman after Riddler's death, she's working together with other criminals, Riddler having been one of them.

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• Accent Slip-Up: Her Brooklyn accent is fake and part of her bad girl front. John will even mention her tendency to slip out of it when she's angry as one of the things he likes about her.
• Actually Pretty Funny: In the Vigilante path, she'll laugh at Waller's monologue about how untouchable she is getting cut short by Bruce forwarding her the blackmail file.
• Adaptational Badass: In most versions, Harley is largely subservient to Joker. Here, their roles are reversed, with Harley being the dominant one in their relationship and John being the one desperate for her approval. She's also the de-facto leader of The Pact rather than a lackey. In addition, this version is more perceptive and manipulative as befitting the increased emphasis on her psychotherapy background, whereas most versions tend to portray her as The Ditz. Even in the Villain Joker path, their relationship is portrayed more equally as a Big Bad Duumvirate or Unholy Matrimony, and she strangles Joker in a rage either for trying to protect Bruce from being killed by her, or sabotaging the bombs, ruining her chance to cure her mental illness. It doesn't stop her from being the one left behind in the final fight leaving Joker as the final antagonist.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Zigzagged. She is more ruthless than usual, but also less actively malevolent.
  • Her relationship reversal with John is also this. Whereas the various Jokers usually treat their Harleys as tools at worst and favorite henchmen at best, this Harley seems to put John's legitimate best interest at some sort of priority and takes his input seriously, even if she doesn't always treat him with the respect she should. If he becomes a villain she still is the dominant one in the relationship shown by her strangling him once she gets mad. But she does at least seem to love a little bit shown by the Big Damn Kiss they share at the end of episode 4 and their very aggresive but loving make out scene on the table in episode 5 and in the end of the day he ends up being the one to leave her behind.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: She's a known criminal before John Doe becomes the Joker, though it's safe to assume they still met each other while both were still at Arkham. Waller confirms that John Doe was a patient of hers at the asylum.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Harley typically considers Catwoman to be one of her best friends, alongside Poison Ivy. Here, she acts largely cold and indifferent towards Selina, and if Bruce decides to frame Selina as the mole in the Pact, Harley has her thrown into one of the Riddler's death traps.
• Adaptational Villainy: Appears to have been a villain even before meeting the Joker. However, she seems to have kept her MO of aiding criminals whom she feels have been exploited by the prison system as it's hinted SANCTUS may have experimented on members of the Pact or extorted them using a virus that could cure their various ailments.
• Affectionate Nickname: Much like other versions of herself, Harley calls John "Puddin'".
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She'll fawn all over a villainous John in Episode 4.
• Ax-Crazy: She rivals the Arkhamverse version in how vicious and unstable she is.
• Badass Normal: Questionably so given the ease with which she carries that sledgehammer around, but while Bane has Super Serum and a squad of gun-toting mooks to carry out his robbery and Mr. Freeze has his cryo technology, she carries out her own mission to break into a bank vault by herself with no apparent powers or enhancements.
• Bad Boss:
  • In Episode 4, after collecting a sample of the Lotus virus, she leaves the rest of the Pact to be arrested by the Agency.
  • In the Villain Route of Episode 5, after unleashing a bomb full of the Lotus virus at Wayne Tower, she removes one of her men's gas masks, exposing him to the toxin.
• Belated Love Epiphany: In the Vigilante Route of Episode 5, she'll angrily ask where John is when Waller has her and the rest of the Pact working as her Suicide Squad. If the player responds that John's gotten over her, she'll be visibly disappointed at having lost his respect.
• Beneath the Mask: She claims to give Bruce a glimpse of the real Harley when meeting with him in her office, and that her Ax-Crazy persona is a tool she uses to keep her male colleagues on their toes and at bay. Even if that were the case, it does not make her any less brutal or dangerous, just more calculating.
• Berserk Button: Do not bring up her late father.
• Big Bad: As the leader of the Pact, she serves this role in The Enemy Within. However, it's ultimately subverted when she loses the spot in vigilante route of Episode 5 as she's reduced to one of Waller disposable agents and upstaged by the Joker. It is however double subverted in the villain path where it becomes more of a Big Bad Duumvirate as it's her plan to gas Gotham and she's the one listing the demands on the TV, and The Joker has to keep his sabotage a secret instead of ordering her not to detonate the rest of the bombs until he's had his fun with Bruce unlike the other Joker incarnations. And Harley strangles the Joker once she finds out or learns about him being unwilling to kill Bruce. They do try kill and make up after that argument... until Joker ultimately abandons her to have a final boss fight with Bruce.
• Big Bad Wannabe: By contrast she's ultimately reduced to this in the vigilante route. Despite managing to get take advantage of the disorder that the Agency is in once Joker hijacks the plot and holds Waller hostage, enough to be able to assume a position of power in the Agency to order a helicopter to shoot at Gordon and Batman (and optionally Tiffany), it's made clear Joker is the real threat and the one causing more damage to Gotham. Harley is also deluded enough to assume she still has hold over the newly formed Joker that she can easily talk him into surrendering despite the entire fact that she's in custody in the first place was John talking her down at the bridge. Naturally Batman has the option to mock this notion and after a quick fight where her shock collar is hacked by Tiffany (further showing how far she's fallen and doubles as Laser-Guided Karma if she threatened Tiffany back in ep 2) can further rub salt in the wound by pointing out despite all her grandstanding she's ultimately Waller's puppet. A far cry from her original position as the leader of the pact. For the most part subverted in the villain route at least until Joker abandons her to face Catwoman.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: If she encounters Tiffany, the latter will accuse her of killing her father. Harley tells her that, while she can't remember killing him, she's killed so many people that she may have forgotten.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Tells Bruce that he's rotten like her and the rest of the Pact.
• Carry a Big Stick: She carries around a sledgehammer as her main weapon. In the Vigilante version of Season 2 Episode 5, the Agency gives her a new high-tech hammer with an electrified head to use against Batman and the Joker.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: A trained psychotherapist who became a deranged criminal due to being unable to handle the trauma of her father's suicide.
• Dark Action Girl: According to her criminal profile, Harley killed everyone in a bank - including security guards - during a robbery.
• Demoted to Dragon: After being the main antagonist for most of Season 2, she is either forced into Waller's Suicide Squad or willingly becomes Joker's Number Two.
• Depraved Bisexual: Makes several advances on Bruce - which he can either accept or reject - shares a Big Damn Kiss and gets an aggressive make out scene with Joker if he becomes a villain, and makes some rather suggestive comments toward Tiffany should she encounter her.
• Designated Girl Fight: At least twice with Catwoman, depending on the player's choices. If Bruce took the fall for Catwoman in Episode 3, she will fight Harley at the start of Episode 4. In the Villain Route of Episode 5, depending on if you still have a good relationship with Selina, she will stay behind and subdue Harley rather quickly.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Batman can find an e-mail from her in Riddler's hideout, telling Riddler that his actions are drawing too much attention to the Pact.
• Females Are More Innocent: Zigzagged. She more-or-less became a villain because her father died, and the grief drove her insane, and she's less willing to kill her own minions than Bane or Freeze. Still, she's an unrepentant murderer, a willing leader to a terrorist group, and it's her influence that corrupts the Joker.
• Freudian Excuse: Her father committed suicide, the trauma sending her into a mental breakdown.
• Hidden Depths: If Bruce earns enough trust with Harley, she starts to let her guard down around him, revealing that she's more vulnerable than she lets on and eventually admits that her Ax-Crazy, ruthless demeanor is an intentional front in order to deal with brutish criminals and psychopaths.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Despite being the Big Bad for much of Season 2, she is usurped from this position in the season finale by John Doe, who ends up becoming the Joker. Though it's downplayed in the villain route where unlike most portrayals of their relationship where The Joker is clearly in charge, Harley still calls a majority of the shots and it's her that drives the plan to gas Gotham, while The Joker has to keep his attempts to sabotage the plan by giving away the map a secret, despite the idea to gas Gotham to find someone immune was his plan in the first place, so he can play with Bruce more.
• In Love with Your Carnage: In the ending of Season 2 Episode 4 where John Doe gives in to his madness and sets off the bombs around the bridge, Harley kisses him passionately and tells "Mistah J" she's proud of him.
• Ironic Nursery Tune: An original one her father used to sing to her, made all the creepier for not being given any explanation or context. If left behind at the heist, she sings it in the hallway before breaking down the door and shooting two of Bane's goons; later, she sings it while doing her makeup as she's about to have Bruce interrogated. There's a dialogue option specifically to say how unnerving it is.
  And they all fell down, / To the deep to drown,
  To the dark to drown...
• It Runs in the Family: Avesta theorizes that since her father killed himself, mental illness likely runs in her family and that she wants the SANCTUS serum to cure herself of any potential insanity she has.
• Kick the Dog: When she first meets Bruce, she may make a rather cruel dig about his parents' murder. She also uses Tiffany to pressure John into admitting either Bruce or Catwoman stole Riddler's laptop. She also assaults a guard in Wayne Tower even after Bruce is able to talk his way past him for no other reason than she felt like it.
• Monster Clown: She seems to have her evil clown look already, along with her position as a high-profile terrorist.
• Mythology Gag: If John is able to disarm Harley at the bridge, her reaction is a paraphrased version of her rant from the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Trial" when she learns from Van Dorne that Joker snitched on her to get some time off his sentence. She's even dragged away like in the episode.
• No-Sell: It takes all of about 3 seconds for her to see through John's attempt to manipulate her (if you had advised him to at the cafe), it's later averted in Episode 4 where John can potentially talk her down if Bruce trusts him. It's also implied her worsening mental state will prevent any No Sells if the Villain ending is picked.
• The Nicknamer: Calls John Doe "Puddin" - she sometimes shortens it to Pud - and Bruce "Moneybags".
• Pragmatic Villainy: According to an e-mail in Riddler's hideout, Harley didn't approve of Riddler playing his twisted games. Not out of any compassion for Riddler's victims, but because Riddler was attracting Batman's attention with his showy theatrics and was too fixated on his "beef" with Batman. She's also disgusted by Bane's love of combat and bloodshed — because it's too reckless when there's work to do (even someone as Ax-Crazy as her knows when to tone it down, evidently).
• Sanity Slippage: Justified, as she suffers from a genetic disorder that causes people in her family to slowly go insane as they age. Her main motivation is to find a cure to her illness before she completely succumbs to it.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: After her father committed suicide as a result of her family's genetic mental illness, she became obsessed with finding a cure before it affected her. However, in her desperate bid to do so, she ended up only succumbing to her mental instability even sooner, committing violent acts of larceny and murder all in an ironic attempt to stop herself from being seen as a madwoman.
• Swapped Roles: In this universe, she is the subject of John Doe's affection in the Mad Love relationship, rather than vice versa, and is the one who seeks to corrupt him. However, one potential ending of Episode 4 seems to have them stepping into their traditional roles as John slowly begins to assert himself more and Harley starts succumbing to her hereditary mental illness. In episode 5 they are more equal as partners in the villain path.
• The Tease: Makes several obvious come-ons to Bruce throughout "The Pact", though hers tend to be more aggressive than Catwoman's. Also like Catwoman, it's deconstructed, as John and Harley are two deeply unstable people; if Bruce plays along, John starts to feel jealous, and politely turning her down causes some serious friction with Harley.Though she does fall for John in the villain route of episode 4.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: She openly flirts with Bruce in Season 2 Episode 2, making John jealous. She also doesn't take rejection well: If Bruce turns her down, she'll snap at John to shut up and smash her hammer into the wall of the elevator while growling in rage. It's exaggerated, in the sense that she still flirts with Bruce even if he turns her down. Until episode 4 villain route where she falls for John if he becomes Villain Joker.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: In-universe — she seems to have her typical heavy Brooklyn accent, but it comes across as more of an affectation, and John can lovingly point out that it wavers in and out, particularly when she gets angry.
• Yandere: Has shades of this for Bruce, especially shown when Bruce rejects her. Eventually becomes Joker's girlfriend though in episode 4's villain path.

John Doe/The Joker

See his page for more information.

Bane

Bane

Voiced By: JB Blanc

"Stand up. This has only just begun."

A lifelong inmate of Santa Prisca's Peña Duro penitentiary turned international terrorist; already trained to peak physical ability, he augments his strength to superhuman levels with Venom, a powerful steroidal drug compound. Fiercely intelligent, but still the Pact's primary muscle.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed. While he is shown to be incredibly intelligent, he never discovers Bruce is Batman in this continuity.
• A Father to His Men: This version of Bane is respectful towards his henchmen, ushering them out of the way when fighting Batman and imploring them to be safe and careful when travelling to their base. If Batman throws one of his men at Bane, then Bane will gently put him down before resuming the fight. It's later shown that this is only to the men that deserve his respect; he uses a treacherous member as an initiation for Bruce by commanding him to beat him senseless with a pipe, and you will get his disapproval if you show any mercy.
• Affably Evil: He is very respectful and polite towards Batman and his own thugs.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In Season 2, Episode 5, Bane will plead for mercy in the Vigilante route when Joker jumps on his back and goes into a stabbing frenzy.
• Badass Boast: A staple of the character; Bane knows how strong he is and just what horrific things that strength can do. If Bruce thanks him for his warning before being interrogated by John and Harley, he wishes him good luck, then responds with a pretty severe threat:
  "I hope [the mole isn't] you, Wayne. But if it is... I'll kill everyone that shows up for your funeral."
• Beard of Evil: Unlike his clean-shaven comics counterpart, this Bane has a mustache and anchor goatee that add to his sinister appearance.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: In Season 2 Episode 5, he has black sclera and green irises to accompany his Tainted Veins as a result of the upgraded Venom serum, and is prone to fits of menacing laughter.
• Blood Knight: He relishes a good fight against a strong opponent and delights in bloodshed, which Harley derides as brutal machismo ("people gettin' killed just makes his day"). This leads to his downfall — he can get so distracted by fighting the police that Harley is forced to leave him behind.
• Boxed Crook: If Joker becomes a vigilante, Bane is fitted with a potentially-deadly shock collar and forced to hunt him down for Amanda Waller. He's not too averse to it, though, as he wants revenge and believes that Joker murdered the Riddler.
• The Brute: He prefers resolving things with violence and lots of murder, and goes out of his way to make even innocent bystanders suffer, while the other members typically attack only when threatened.
• Co-Dragons: With Harley and Catwoman as part of Waller's Boxed Crook hit squad, in the Vigilante version of Season 2 Episode 5.
• Composite Character: In Season 2 Episode 5, if under the Agency's control, Bane's costume is augmented with technological parts to improve his Psycho Serum intake, giving him a spine-mounted injector more in line with many comic counterparts, as well as an armored mouth-mask that gives him the muffled, metallic voice of Tom Hardy's Bane from The Dark Knight Rises.
• Dragon with an Agenda: He absolutely despises Waller and attempts to kill one of her agents when the opportunity presents itself. The only reason he works for her is because he is forced to and because she gives him an opportunity for revenge against Batman when she upgrades him with the super serum.
• Explosive Leash: Has one on him once captured by Walker, as part of "the team." It doesn't help them, as he ultimately destroys the control device.
• Genius Bruiser: Despite being the main muscle of the Pact, Bane is also insanely clever.
• Hoist Hero over Head: Naturally, although he'll only deliver the iconic back-breaker if you wait for him to finish his monologue. If you interrupt him, he just picks Batman up again and throws him into a brick wall.
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Doubting that "the aristocrat" is capable of "dirtying his hands", Bane throws down a lead pipe and forces Bruce to either pummel a thug he suspects of treachery, or be pummeled himself. He's quite impressed with you if you brutalize him, while mercy disappoints him; it ends up being the deciding factor in his vote.
• Made of Iron: He shrugs off being stabbed in the throat and shot!
• Manly Facial Hair: He's the most powerful and masculine member of the Pact, and he's got the mustache and goatee to show for it.
• Masked Luchador: His mask evokes this even more than most of his other incarnations, complete with laces on the back and his nose and mouth (and mustache and goatee) fully visible.
• Properly Paranoid: When Bruce is infiltrating the Pact, he is the one who treats him with the most suspicion.
• Psycho Serum: Venom, a green chemical that gives him glowing green veins, immensely boosts his strength and durability, and turns him into a vicious berserker. Unlike most versions that use a series of gauntlet-controlled cables connected to his brain and spine, here he uses individual vials loaded into an applicator gun to shoot it into his bloodstream.
• The Starscream: He doesn't hesitate to complain about Harley's leadership and, if you decide to go with Bane, he doesn't wait very long after calling out to her, whereas Harley will wait much longer before being forced to leave. When they return to the base, he makes it clear that he doesn't want to rescue Harley and is quick to say that she's dead or in jail. When Harley returns Bane still tries to get her killed but she quickly asserts leadership by shooting two of his men.
• Tattooed Crook: Sports an assortment of prison tattoos all over his arms, chest, and neck.
• Villain Respect: Bane has this towards Riddler for breaking him out of prison, and believes Riddler was a better leader than Harley. Bruce can also earn this if he plays his cards right.
• Villainous Friendship: Claims to have had this with Riddler, as he mentions when he confronts Bruce.
• Villainous Valor: Subverted. Bane values loyalty and honesty most in others, and demands that both his fellow Pact members and his underlings remain true to him and the cause — but his desire for power and control means he's all too willing to throw nominal leader Harley under the bus.
• Volcanic Veins: When using Venom, his body is covered in massive green veins.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: In Season 2 Episode 4, there is a Game Over that results specifically in his death.

Mr. Freeze

Victor Fries

Voiced By: Matthew Mercer

A brilliant scientist who cryonically suspended his terminally ill wife, Nora, and lost everything trying to cure her disease, eventually turning to crime. A lab accident altered his physiology and turned him into a cold-blooded lifeform unable to survive in above-freezing temperatures, and he must wear a protective suit to operate in warmer environments.

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• Affably Evil: He's quite polite to Bruce for the most part.
• An Ice Person: Rather than use a Freeze Ray, this version of Fries can freeze people simply by touching others with his gauntlet.
• Devoted to You: Nora is the center of Victor's universe. Everything he does, good or bad, is to ensure her survival. It's revealed that he Failed a Spot Check in regards to a possible cure for her illness, as the SANCTUS virus he wishes to procure for the Pact increases mental capacity while decreasing mental stability; then again, no one outside of SANCTUS and probably Riddler himself (proven to possibly be immune to the virus) knew about this aspect, so it's justified.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Just like nearly every interpretation of his character, Victor's criminal career is all in the name of finding a cure for his beloved wife, Nora, no matter the cost, and harming or threatening her in any way is a very good way to piss him off; when John disrupts her cryopod by activating the EMP, a terrified Victor flies into a rage and demands that Bruce fix it or he'll kill them both. Even mentioning her after the incident is enough to provoke him to lunge at Bruce with his gauntlet activated.
• Inside Job: When the Pact pulls off their first co-ordinated heist on multiple targets, due to his knowledge as a former high-level employee (and his considerable grudge against the company), Victor is the one who robs Gothcorp of sensitive biotech.
• Literally Shattered Lives: Inflicts this on several people as a way to 'test' his ice grenades.
• Mythology Gag: The fact that Victor freezes his victims unarmed comes from his fellow incarnations in Batman Beyond and The Batman, though he has the goggles of the former here. The lack of a helmet on his high-tech suit comes from the 60's Batman TV show's later two incarnations and Gotham.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Shows a degree of sympathy if Bruce mentioned his parents during his attempt to earn his trust.
  • If Bruce left Harley behind at the end of Episode 2, he kindly asks Selina to go easy on Bruce, as it is his first foray into the criminal underworld (at least as far as he knows), and that if Harley fails to return, she can pester John as he has the code to get Catwoman's payment out of her safe.
• Pragmatic Villainy: If the player chooses to tell Freeze that he does expect something in return for helping him with Nora, he responds with, "Practical. I respect that.".
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Sports his iconic red goggles.
• Shock and Awe: This incarnation of Freeze also wields an electrified baton.
• The Smart Guy: His role in the Pact, with their ultimate goal being to steal a virus from SANCTUS and bioengineer a cure for the members' various ailments, his medical and engineering expertise is likely the reason for his recruitment.
• Tricked-Out Gloves: Instead of blasting people with a Freeze Ray like most incarnations of the character, this version of Freeze uses a high-tech gauntlet that freezes with a Touch of Death.
• Villainous Friendship: Although Bruce and Victor initially get off on the wrong foot thanks to John's mishaps, their relationship can come to this if Bruce rubs him the right way, as he earns Victor's vote in pulling off the heist with the rest of the Pact.

Eli Knable

Voiced By: Alex Hernandez

A high-level thug in the Pact who serves as Riddler's right hand man.

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• Beard of Evil: Has a small beard, though it's often covered by a balaclava.
• Canon Foreigner: Unlike the others in the Pact, Eli is not based on an existing character.
• Mook Lieutenant: His role in a nutshell, first for the Riddler, then for Bane.
• Punny Name: Much like Riddler's real name being a play on "enigma", Eli's full name is a play on "enable"; when he's in police custody, he refuses to tell anyone what Riddler's plan is, and is more afraid of him than he is of Batman. In other words, Eli is enabling Riddler to get away with killing people unless you bluff or beat a confession out of him.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Riddler and Bane are, indeed, frightening villains, but Knable’s just... weak. He already gets his ass kicked in the first 5 minutes of the first episode and was begging to Batman to not hurt him and refused to spill anything about Riddler because he knows that the madman would slit his throat if he did.

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