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Harvey Dent

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

Voiced By: Travis Willingham

"I'm finally starting to understand. To see just how sick Gotham really is."

Gotham's DA. He is running for Mayor with Bruce's support on an anti-crime and anti-corruption platform.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Depending on the choices made, he can potentially never receive the infamous scars other Two-Faces are known for.
• Adaptational Curves: This is one of the most muscular versions of Harvey Dent ever seen. He makes Bruce Wayne look like a toothpick by comparison.
• A Fool for a Client: After tossing out a number of attorneys in Season 2, he decides to represent himself on trial.
• Alas, Poor Villain: If you confront him at the beginning of Episode 5. If you choose to snatch and pocket his coin, denying him the result, Harvey will completely break down, curl up in a fetal position and starts sobbing because he can't make any decisions and it breaks him. Throwing the coin away causes him to leap after it in a panic, falling several feet onto the stairs below. It's even sadder if you tried to talk him down and watched him struggle with his other personality.
• Alternate Identity Amnesia: It becomes clear that while Two-Face may be aware of what Harvey does, Harvey is shocked and horrified when he has to figure out what Two-Face had done in one case or another.
• Amoral Attorney: A more sympathetic case than most. Harvey genuinely wants to help Gotham, he's just not above dealing the mob to do so.
• Ax-Crazy: He starts developing and having severe problems with his signature Split Personality in Episode 3. By Episode 4 and 5, he's a dangerous, violent lunatic in charge of the city.
• Bad Boss: He blows up a building with countless innocent police officers loyal to him trapped inside. His response to it is calling the incident "unfortunate," but necessary.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Takes on Batman with high military equipment while still wearing his dapper suit.
• BFG: In episode 4, when Harvey barges into Wayne Manor, he fights Batman with an AA-12 automatic shotgun loaded with explosive shells.
• Big Bad Ensemble: His more extreme measures to combat the Children of Arkham since becoming mayor has devolved him into taking this role with Lady Arkham.
• Big Brother Bully: In a way, "Two-Face" has this dynamic with "Harvey Dent" as the former has no qualms with trash-talking the latter without objections, as best seen in Episode 3.
• Body Horror: Can get hit with this in Episode 2 if you save Selina over him to which Penguin will burn his face with a stage light and disfigures it into the iconic Two Face look. If confronted in Episode 4, the remaining left half of his body gains a matching appearance to his burnt face as well, completing the image.
• Boisterous Weakling: He may be built like a tank, but without any support to back him up, he goes down like a house of cards whenever things gets violent. Deconstructed as this inability to defend himself and others is a major catalyst for the emergence of his darker personality.
• Break the Cutie: In the beginning of the game, Harvey is a jovial, friendly man who is running as an incorruptable mayor. Episode 2 has him potentially becoming Two-Face. Episode 3 has really taken its toll on Harvey's sanity. ^note between the stress of dealing with the Children of Arkham, his injuries from the debate, the Psycho Serum's latent effects, and potentially Selina cheating on him with Bruce.
• The Caligula: Not by any real willing choice mind you, but as mayor he starts tearing the city apart when he finally starts being overtaken by his Split Personality.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Dent is only referred to as "Two-Face" once, by Jack Ryder after he's been locked up, and only used as the perjorative adjective. However, the in-game diary does call him "Two-Face".
• Composite Character: He resembles a younger Tommy Lee Jones due to Comic-Book Fantasy Casting, but he can get the facial scarring of Aaron Eckhart's portrayal of the character. His split personality also manifests much like how it does in Batman: The Animated Series, emerging when he's under stress.
• Cop Killer: A major mark of how far he has fallen is his brutal willingness to have police officers and his own enforcers killed when it suits him. He kills a bunch of his own men in an explosion towards the end of Episode 4, and if Penguin is confronted in Episode 4, he orders Grogan's arrest and gets a lot of cops killed. When confronted by Bruce, regardless of dialogue options, Dent will personally execute a cop anyway despite sparing the cop earlier in the episode.
• Crusading Lawyer: The other half of Harvey's characterization, as per usual.
• Dating Catwoman: Literally, though he has no idea what her actual occupation is, or that she broke into City Hall.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • If you didn't pursue your affair with Selina, then his vendetta against Bruce becomes this when he assumes that they've been having an affair behind his back. Though even had Bruce pursued an affair with Selina, burning down Wayne's manor (if you went after Cobblepot) is way too extreme just for that reason.
  • Likewise tries to have Gordon secretly killed for not going along with his program.
  • If you went as Bruce to talk with Harvey in episode 4, he sends two of his military to murder Bruce in Crime Alley, again for the fact he caught him in Selena's apartment.
• Driven to Suicide: The good side of Harvey Dent is driven to do this to protect the world from his evil side if Bruce is successful in drawing him out. Bruce will stop him from pulling the trigger.
• Dying as Yourself: In Episode 5 if Harvey destroyed Bruce's home then during the episode's confrontation Harvey can be Driven to Suicide if Bruce successfully gets through to him beneath his Two-Face persona.
• Entitled to Have You: After he catches Bruce in Selina's apartment, regardless if they were having an affair or not, his split personality and insanity causes him to believe that Selina belongs to him and him alone. When Bruce tries to bring this up at the beginning of Episode 4, Harvey is completely dismissive of it.
• Et Tu, Brute?: He feels deeply betrayed when he believes Selina and Bruce to be in an affair, and it makes him even worse. When Vicki drugs Bruce and goads him into attacking the Penguin, that is apparently the last straw, as Dent has no qualms about sending Bruce to Arkham.
• Evil Is Petty: Attacks Wayne Manor and attempts to kill his former best friend Bruce all because he ruined his relationship with Selina.
• Evil Me Scares Me: When his Split Personality comes out, Good Harvey is as terrified of Evil Harvey as Bruce and Selina are.
• Evil Overlord: Episode 4 has Dent becoming a corrupt ruler of Gotham using extremist methods to change his city the way he wants it.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Whenever Harvey's evil personality is speaking, his voice becomes deeper and more gravelly.
• Extreme Doormat: In a really weird way, "Harvey Dent" is one, as seen multiple times, rather follow the suggestions of others than standing up for his own. When combined with his other problems, he might have created "Two-Face" for the sole purpose of defying this trait and try gaining some backbone.
• Face–Heel Turn: Episode 4 officially solidifies him as the villainous Two-Face when he assaults Wayne Manor out of petty vengeance against Bruce, even going so far as to have Bruce executed in a fake suicide to justify the fact that he's committing murder.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: It's actually possible to prevent him from getting his iconic facial mutilations, but the Children of Arkham's poison still gives life to his Split Personality, causing him to act the part of Two-Face despite still appearing as handsome and photogenic as ever.
• Facial Horror: His burnt face looks like it's right out of The Dark Knight.
• Fallen Hero: Episode 4 solidifies him as a monster who outright despises Bruce Wayne and nearly destroying Gotham City.
• Fighting from the Inside: In Episode 3, he is actively struggling to control his evil side. When he picks up a knife to use on Bruce and Selina, he temporarily regains control and tosses it at a wall. If confronted in Episode 5 Bruce can get Harvey's good side to reawaken and struggle against his evil side, to the point that he even tries to kill himself.
• Forced into Evil: Bruce and Alfred say, but downplay, this. Alfred remarks in Episode 4 that the drugs injected into Harvey in Episode 2 pushed him into becoming the paranoid wreck that he is, and after Harvey is defeated, Bruce can remark that Harvey was forced into his later actions.
• Foregone Conclusion: While there are several points in which Bruce can try to befriend and protect Harvey, events inevitably drive him to becoming Two-Face whether or not he has his scars.
• Funny Schizophrenia: Averted. Harvey's Split Personality is treated as dead serious and terrifying. Especially for Harvey himself.
• Good All Along: Ep. 2 proves that Dent really is a good guy since he speaks truthfully at his campaign rally while under a Hate Plague. Subverted by episode 4 where he still becomes Two-Face in the end. However, if he's confronted in Episode 5 Bruce can potentially talk him down and get him to spare hostages by appealing to the good in him.
• Green-Eyed Monster: No matter what you do, Dent will hate Bruce Wayne anyway since he views him as the reason his relationship with Selina fell apart.
• Heel Realization: If talked down in Episode 5, Harvey tells Bruce that he should have let him kill himself, believing that he's beyond saving at this point.
• He Who Fights Monsters: He promised to clean up Gotham by removing sadistic monsters like the Penguin from power in a peaceful regime only to become a deranged dictator using violent methods to kill his enemies exactly like Penguin and Lady Arkham, thanks to mental illness exacerbated by the Children of Arkham’s drug.
• Hello, Attorney!: D.A. Dent is quite the Hunk. He appears to be taller and even more muscular than Bruce.
• Heroic Build: Makes Bruce look like a toothpick by comparison. This had lead to some interesting reactions by players.
• I Am the Noun: If the right option is chosen and if he's confronted in Episode 4, he answers Batman with one of these.
  Batman: You're going to turn yourself into the authorities.
  Harvey/Two-Face: (laughing) I am the authorities!
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: What appears to be the root of all his mental issues, judging from his words, actions and reactions to both praise and disapproval from others.
• In Spite of a Nail: His descent into madness and villainy can be fought, but not prevented. Even if Batman manages to keep him from being burned, he still develops a Split Personality and intense paranoia due to a combination of the attack on the debate and the Psycho Serum that he was forcibly injected with.
• Ink-Suit Actor: This incarnation of Harvey Dent is noticeably tall and well-built, as is Travis Willingham.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite the fact that he repeatedly talks to Bruce about how he needs his money (almost treating his friendship as merely a means to get said money), after being dosed with the weaponized Hate Plague, the first thing he says is that he loves Gotham City, in contrast to Mayor Hill saying that he wants to incinerate the poor At the start of Episode 3, he can apologize to Bruce about denouncing him publicly, showing that Harvey also does legitimately value Bruce as a friend and wasn't using him altruistically. Sadly, his jerk part gets worst in episode 3 and 4 when Harvey assumes Selina whom he date was in a love affair with Bruce and becomes hostile towards him and worse of all he can burn Bruce's mansion to the ground if Bruce decides to chase The Penguin/Cobblepot ending their friendship.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: The stress of the problems in Arkham wear on him greatly, and he's slowly losing his mind in the process. By episode 4, even if Harvey hasn't become Two-Face, he goes so far as to blow up an entire city block just to destroy the Children of Arkham's drug stockpile, and even seeks to take over Wayne Estate. While Alfred is quick to remark that he's still under the influence of the Psycho Serum from Episode 2, Harvey's paranoia just makes things worse.
• Knight Templar: If Batman saves Harvey from being disfigured, then Harvey becomes paranoid and ponders turning Gotham into a police state to prevent another tragedy like the debate attack. By episode 4, he actually does this, but it gets shut down after his failed invasion of Wayne Manor.
• Large and in Charge: Harvey is tall and broad-shouldered in addition to holding a high position of authority and trying to become mayor.
• Laser-Guided Karma: If the player chooses to stop him first, then you have the choice to send Dent to Arkham Asylum; where he sent Bruce to at the beginning of episode 4.
• Love Makes You Evil: The event that fully sets him off the deep end and straight into villany is when he catches Bruce in Selina's apartment and assumes they are having an affair. Regaining Selina's affection (although he never really had them in the first place) becomes a major goal.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: Orders his men to execute Bruce Wayne and make it look like a suicide so nobody can see that the mayor is a sociopathic monster with a petty grudge against Bruce.
• Manipulative Bastard: "Two-Face", using "Harvey" as a means to manipulate the GPCD into following him through raw charisma and convictions alone to make his police state and eliminate anyone who doesn´t listen to him.
• The Mentally Disturbed: Ultimately, Harvey is defined this way: as a sick man who is developing a homicidal Split Personality that terrifies him.
• A Million Is a Statistic: When Harvey allows the warehouse where the Children of Arkham's drugs are located get destroyed, Bruce is furious that he allowed both a nearby apartment complex and a number of other officers to get killed in the destruction due to using too much explosives. Harvey justifies this because he needs to show that he isn't playing around anymore.
• Mood-Swinger: Once Two-Face emerges, he becomes increasingly erratic and difficult to talk down.
• Morton's Fork: On two separate events, depending on player choice, Two-Face's coin toss becomes this. Instead of a live or die choice, the flip in these cases determines if he'll shoot his victim in the head or the heart.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: He views killing Bruce as a way to somehow salvage his chances of getting back with Selina, despite the fact that Selina made it clear that they're over and done with.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In Episode 5 his good side can be reawakened and be absolutely horrified at what he's done under the influence of his other half. It leads him to try and blow his own brains out.
• Non-Action Guy: Particularly when compared to his girlfriend, Catwoman. However, he can handle himself when push comes to shove. If Batman goes to rescue Montoya, Harvey kills a man in self-defense with his bare hands. This lack of ability to defend himself is part of what brings out the dark side of Harvey's Split Personality.
• Not Good with Rejection: Once Selina breaks up with him, Dent loses it and begins a crusade to kill his former best friend Bruce out of petty jealousy.
• Not His Sled: It's possible to stop Harvey's disfigurement in Episode 2, although Harvey still develops the Split Personality due to effects of the drugs he's taking as pain medication bringing previous issues to the surface.
• Not What It Looks Like: If Bruce refuses Selina's advances Harvey will still find him recovering in her apartment and be convinced she's cheating on him when Bruce and Selina are both telling him the truth that nothing happened.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: A news article in Season 2 states that he's regained enough of his sanity that he believes himself capable of acting as his own defense when facing his crimes in court, though we never get a follow-up on how the results play out.
• Realpolitik: He is willing to cooperate with Falcone if he thinks it will get him into office.
• Sanity Slippage: The nerve toxin he received in Episode 2, as well as the many problems Harvey faces in Episode 3, quickly erode his sanity.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: When dosed with truth serum, Dent reveals that he really is a good guy deep down who genuinely cares for his city. However, he still becomes an unhinged villain in the end, losing all nobility he once had.
• Slave to PR: As the Waynes' reputation begins to go down the gutter, Harvey tells Bruce that he'll be forced to publicly denounce him while also still relying on him to fund his campaign. He does however make it clear that it's Nothing Personal and that he still sees him as a friend. It's up to you how Bruce responds to this. In Episode 3, Harvey will tell Bruce how much he regretted doing it, and wants to make it up to him.
• Split Personality: Episode 3 shows that Harvey, whether or not he is scarred as Two-Face is struggling with one of these. It is implied that Harvey have struggled with these issues in the past and the recent events have caused them to resurface.
• Start of Darkness: At the start of the game, Harvey is a well-intentioned mayoral candidate and a friend of Bruce. As the series progresses, various factors (including a heavy dosage of the Children of Arkham's Hate Plague and possibly gaining his infamous disfigurement) ends up causing him to relapse on his split personality disorder and become Two-Face.
• Stepford Smiler: Harvey's natural charm is genuine, but he often uses joviality to cover up his deep insecurities, fears, self-doubt, and instability; Bruce's codex entry for him after the hospital visit even discusses this, commenting that his discomfort to get back to work was "typical Harvey, showing off his smile to ease everyone's minds".
• Storming the Castle: In episode 4, Harvey leads a group of police to seize Wayne Manor. Alfred and Batman has to stop him.
• Symbolism: If the player saves Harvey in Episode 2, the Penguin still gives Harvey a black eye and bruises his face; these injuries stick with him after the Episode and are both on the same side of his face, indicating that he's become Two-Face despite the player's efforts.
• Talking to Themself: Starts doing this after his Split Personality surfaces.
• Third-Person Person: When his darker personality takes hold, he often refers to "Harvey" in the third person, to indicate his other self.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Throughout Episode 3 and 4, Harvey loses the battle against his worst impulses and becomes a mentally unstable monster with an immature hatred against Bruce. By Episode 5, he's threatening to murder innocent people just to get a rise out of his former friend.
• Tragic Villain: Harvey was a good man with Gotham's best interests at heart but his potential disfigurement, the lingering effects of the mind-altering chemicals still in his system, and all the stress drives him over the edge and ultimately causes him to become a monster.
• Two-Faced: Penguin gives him a gruesome, disfiguring burn by throwing a kleig light down on his head if Batman chooses instead to try and save Catwoman from being shot. Ironically for Harvey Dent, this is inverted if he is saved in Episode 2 but burned in Episode 4 as his face is the only thing not half scarred.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: An unintentional example but thanks to the Penguin injecting him with the toxin, this brings out his darker side just as he's inducted as the Mayor of Gotham due to Hill's death. Due to a combination of (potentially) losing half his face and finding Bruce in Selena's apartment and the attacks by the Children of Arkham, he ends up turning Gotham into a police state.
• Unscrupulous Hero: His intentions are good, but he still throws his lot in with Carmine Falcone in what he terms a, "necessary evil".
• Unwitting Pawn: In another bizarre example, "Harvey" turns into this to "Two-Face", as the latter plays "Harvey´s" good intentions like a puppet to get what he wants. They both are also this, ironically, to the Children of Arkham, as a roadblock and distraction for Batman, hampering his progress in fighting them.
• Vigilante Man: If rescued by Batman in Episode 3, he wants to become one, thinking it's the only way to take out crime in Gotham. He even does this in Episode 4, as he kicks down the door of Wayne Manor brandishing an assault rifle.
• Villainous Breakdown: If you confront Harvey in Episode 5, you can snatch away his coin and pocket it, causing him to curl up into a fetal position and start sobbing because he can't make any decisions and it breaks him.
  • Alternatively, you can choose to throw the coin away, prompting Harvey to leap after it and plummet (non-lethally) onto the stairs below. Even after hitting the ground, he keeps trying to reach for the coin, whimpering that he needs it.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: In the Episode 5 confrontation, saying the correct things will make Harvey put a gun to his head. If Bruce doesn't stop him from dying then Game Over.
• We Used to Be Friends: After Episode 3, he feels utterly betrayed by Bruce after catching him in Selina's apartment nude and assuming the worst (if he's justified or not depends on the player). Once Episode 4 hits, he's more than willing to throw Bruce under the bus without a hint of remorse. If there's any chance at reconciliation remains to be seen.
• Weaksauce Weakness: His psychosis gets so severe by the end of the Season that stealing his coin renders him incapable of making any major decisions.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: He has high hopes of changing Gotham City for the better.
• Yandere: Episodes 3 and 4 are all about Harvey unjustifiably attempting to murder Bruce because he thinks that his former best friend was the one who ruined his chances with Selina and killing him will somehow save his relationship. If the player tells him off by stating that it's Selina's decision to date whoever she wants, he completely ignores that concept. Though this could be his split personality doing the talking.
• You Are in Command Now: After Hill's death, Harvey wins the election by default. He's not especially proud of the circumstances of how he becomes mayor.
• You Are What You Hate: He's elected mayor due to Hamilton's death but due to either his face being scarred (if you saved Selina) or stress from the the schemes of the Children of Arkham (if you saved him), he starts becoming just as corrupt as Hamilton, only in his case using his newfound power to enforce his will on the city. Heck if you go after Cobblepot in ep 4, he'll succeed in setting Wayne Manor ablaze and plans to say that Bruce forced his hand.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Having given into his insanity, Harvey actually pulls this on Bruce at the start of Chapter 4 where he has a drugged up Bruce committed into Arkham Asylum with no chance at contacting his attorney. Regardless of whether Bruce betrayed Harvey's trust or not, he justifies vilifying Bruce as a sacrifice needed for both the peace and to further his career as the Mayor.

Vicki Vale

Vicki Vale

Voiced By: Erin Yvette

A reporter for the Gotham Gazette and Bruce's main ally in the press. She is actually the leader of the Children of Arkham and a False Friend to Bruce.

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• Abusive Parents: Between the particularly brutal methods she used to kill them (particularly how she beat her father with a metal belt buckle) as well as what their other foster child says about not wanting to be taken to "punishment" (meaning the Torture Cellar that Bruce finds in episode 5), it's shown that the Vales were extremely abusive. Methods in there include a concrete cell with the only way out being a rope ladder that can be only let down from above, metal shackles caked in blood, and a collection of three belts also caked in blood. There are even bloody scratches on the wall that indicate that Vicki or another child around her time attempted and failed to climb out of the pit by hand.
• Adaptational Badass: In all other continuities she is a mere reporter. In this continuity, she is able to lead the Children of Arkham, create a massive chemical, and beat the daylights out of the freakin Batman. All under the guise of a simple reporter.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's a brunette here, despite normally being either a blonde or a redhead, depending on the continuity.
• Adaptational Name Change: Her birth name is Victoria Arkham and she was adopted by the Vales.
• Adaptational Villainy: In this adaptation, she is the leader of the Children of Arkham.
• Ax-Crazy: When she decides she doesn't need her identity as Vicki Vale anymore, she goes back to the Vale house, injects her adoptive mother with a lethal dose of her Psycho Serum, and stabs out her eyes. Upon her adoptive father finding this out, she beats him with his own belt and hangs him in a closet. As Batman later finds out (see above), there's a good explanation for her rage, and the methods she used.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Her abuse at the hands of the Vales was a big contributer to her becoming Lady Arkham.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Looks like a reporter who wants the truth. Is a terrorist leader for real.
• …But He Sounds Handsome: When questioned by Bruce regarding her story on the leader of the Children of Arkham, she asserts that the Children of Arkham are fighting for the noble cause of exposing Gotham's corruption and gets defensive when Bruce brings up their acts of terrorism. It honestly shouldn't have been that surprising that she'd be part of them, though most probably wouldn't make the connection that she was actually their leader.
• Composite Character:
  • Her existence as the last Arkham makes her one with Jeremiah Arkham, the second Black Mask in the comics.
  • Her status as a (possible) Love Interest and an Evil Counterpart to Bruce along with the Samus Is a Girl reveal makes her one with Andrea Beaumont/The Phantasm.
• Damsel in Distress: She is chosen by Penguin to inject Hill and Dent. But when Batman shows up, she elbows her captor in the chest and runs away from the fighting. Of course, since she is his boss, it was probably part of the show.
• Dark Action Girl: As Lady Arkham, she is Batman's deadliest opponent and puts up a good fight.
• Death by Adaptation: After an intense fight with Batman during the climax of Episode 5, she gets crushed by falling rubble when the room starts to collapse. Can double as Death by Secret Identity if Bruce revealed himself. A possible subversion, as, according to The Enemy Within, her body was never found.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: She is the true Big Bad of the game, despite not appearing to be that important to the story for about half of the plot.
• Evil Counterpart: To Bruce. Like him, her parents were murdered at a young age and in her quest to avenge them, she became a masked crusader who sought to cleanse Gotham of corruption. The difference is Bruce became a protector of the innocent and a fighter against crime. Vicki was not so lucky, being raised in an abusive household instead of by a loving guardian like Alfred. Inevitably, she goes down the dark path and becomes a fanatical terrorist leader.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: When unmasked as Lady Arkham in Episode 5 she's shown with a crew cut, likely due to having had a chunk cut off by her adoptive mother during their fight.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She's very pretty and approachable, but she's the real mastermind of the Children of Arkham.
• False Friend: Was really manipulating Bruce the whole time until she betrayed him.
• Faux Affably Evil: Fully capable of putting on a polite façade when in her civilian disguise, but is a brutal and ruthless terrorist.
• Freudian Excuse: Her birth parents were murdered and her foster parents were Abusive Parents who locked her up in a small room as punishment. It's no wonder she snapped.
  Batman: No wonder Vicki's consumed with hate. It's all she's ever known.
• I Am the Noun: In Episode 3, after Vicki drugs Bruce, Bruce can accuse her of being one of the Children of Arkham. Vicki responds with "I am the Children of Arkham!" and proceeds to reveal herself as Lady Arkham.
• Important Haircut: In Episode 5, she's cropped her hair.
• Intrepid Reporter: Unlike most Gothamite reporters, only out for fame and fortune, Vicki wants the truth, and is willing to tread dangerous water to get it. Only not really, as she is the leader of the Children of Arkham.
• Mask of Sanity: Vicki is friendly, honest and a dedicated reporter, but it's all a lie. Lady Arkham, her true self, is Psychopathic Man Child for whom bloody revenge is her sole reason to live.
• Master Actor: The fact she is capable of fooling The World's Greatest Detective shows she has some serious acting chops.
• Never Found the Body: Bruce notes her body was never found after the end of the first season.
• Nice Girl: She wishes Bruce the best even if he doesn't give her a quote for her story. Until she drugs him and reveals that she is a terrorist.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Her abusive adoptive parents would lock her up and beat her up with belts. In Episode 4 Batman finds them dead in their house after Vicki dished out some pretty brutal revenge, and for extra karma points he discovers that she fractured her father's head with one of his belt before hanging him with it. She also stabbed her mother's eyes out after giving her a lethal injection of the children of Arkham's drug.
• The Power of Hate: The reason she survived her years of abusive torment by her family is that she kept thinking of the revenge she would inflict upon them.
• Related in the Adaptation: In this continuity, she's a member of the Arkham family. After her parents were killed by Thomas Wayne, she was eventually adopted by the Vales.
• Room Full of Crazy: In the room where she was tormented by her family, she could do nothing but draw on the wall with chalk.
• Ship Sinking: She and Bruce can have a fair amount of Ship Tease in the first two episodes. The reveal that she's Lady Arkham puts a stop to that idea.
• Villain Has a Point: During her final battle, if Batman argues that Falcone and Hill should've been tried fairly, she retorts that 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 her — in fact, even Batman himself remains silent about it afterward.
• Villainous Breakdown: In her 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.
• Walking Spoiler: Her true role in the story spoils a great deal about the plot well in advance.
• You Killed My Father: According to John Doe, her parents, the Arkhams, were killed by Thomas Wayne.

Hamilton Hill

Mayor Hamilton Hill

Voiced By: Bob Pescovitz

The highly corrupt mayor of Gotham.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: In this continuity, he hired Joe Chill to kill the Waynes.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Completely averted; despite his very public and gruesome death, Hill was such an awful human being that nobody in Gotham is shown to mourn, and the news shies away from memorializing him. Bruce, who has the option to express a small amount of compassion for even Falcone, can only remark that he should've been tried in court instead, or that he deserved what he got.
• Asshole Victim: He's fatally and repeatedly shot by Penguin at the end of Episode 2 after admitting he was the one who ordered the hit on the Waynes.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: In the past. Was in a triumvirate alongside Falcone and Thomas Wayne.
• Character Death: Shot dead by the Penguin.
• Composite Character: Much like Lew Moxon in certain interpretations, he hired Joe Chill to assassinate the Waynes.
• Corrupt Politician: He's very much in the pocket of Carmine Falcone and doesn't hesitate to abuse his power for personal or political gain. In Episode 2, it turns out he's not just in his pocket; he's his partner and was so alongside Thomas Wayne.
• Devil in Plain Sight: Many people throughout Gotham are aware of something rotten at City Hall, but his influence makes him hard to fight, let alone pin down, and most of the city is too worn down and cynical to care much about his corruption.
• Dirty Coward: More than willing to throw others under the bus to save his own skin such as pleading with Penguin about putting the hit on Thomas Wayne when he felt he was going too far and giving the Children of Arkham access to WayneTech when they threaten him. Ultimately it doesn't save him from being gunned down.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted. Before his death in episode 2 he claims, while under a nerve agent that prevents him from lying, that he arranged for the death of the Waynes, because he thought that Thomas was going too far. And in Episode 3, Penguin reveals that Hill actually wanted Martha dead since she was going to expose them.
• Greater-Scope Villain: As Gotham's mayor, he's responsible over the Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! for the three-man team of himself, Falcone, and Bruce's father. Furthermore, he's also the one who hired Joe Chill to assassinate Bruce's parents, thus being this to Batman's entire career as well. Fat lot of good it ultimately does him, though (see Asshole Victim, Dirty Coward, and Villains Want Mercy).
• Hate Sink: Hill is the corrupt mayor of Gotham City. Back in the day, Hill was in a partnership with Carmine Falcone and Thomas Wayne, and was complicit in having innocent citizens committed to Arkham Asylum in order to steal their land and riches. Among Hill and Wayne's victims were Esther Cobblepot, the mother of Oswald. When Martha, Thomas's wife, threatened to expose her husband and Hill's activities, Hill hired Joe Chill to assassinate both Thomas and Martha. In the present day, Harvey Dent, backed by Bruce Wayne, is running for mayor against Hill. Hill, teaming up with Oswald Cobblepot, gathers incriminating evidence against the Waynes to hurt Harvey's chances of mayorhood. If Bruce chooses to visit Hill as himself after discovering his partnership with Cobblepot, Hill will try to convince Bruce to stop supporting Harvey in exchange for information, angrily throwing him out if he refuses. During a live debate with Harvey, Hill, under the influence of a drug by the Children of Arkham, reveals his desire to incinerate the city's poor. Under the mercy of Cobblepot, Hill pathetically begs for his life, before Cobblepot shoots him to death, avenging his mother.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Even if you don't count his role in killing the Waynes, thereby motivating the existence of Batman, his ordering of the search warrant of Wayne Manor helped draw public attention to issues that were ultimately used against him.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Should you visit him as Bruce, he'll state that the criminal actions of himself, Falcone, and Thomas Wayne were because Gotham was "chaos" prior. Whether that’s true or not is debatable and even if it was true, it’s just as likely that Hill used it as an excuse and that his real motives were worse, especially since his foremost secret desire was to Kill the Poor.
• Kill the Poor: Hill's secret obsession. Doesn't give him any favors when he's exposed of this at the debate and it would’ve probably cost him the election had he not been killed.
• Mayor Pain: Hill has helped keep Gotham the crime-ridden hellhole it is through his self-serving tenure as Mayor.
• Pet the Dog: Can give Bruce Thomas' cufflinks if you speak to him as a civilian.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: His foremost secret desire is to immolate Gotham's poor and homeless and use their ashes to fertilize the city parks.
• Power Corrupts: Gives a speech about how power corrupts, and states the thickest of them lead to Arkham.
• The Reveal: He is revealed to be the one, not Falcone, who ordered the Waynes' murder.
• Villains Want Mercy: Pleads with Penguin not to kill him, insisting he has made amends. Since he had Penguin’s mother drugged and thrown into Arkham, it naturally doesn't work.

Jack Ryder

Jack Ryder

Voiced By: Robert Clotworthy

A newscaster critical of Gotham's corrupt government.

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• Adapted Out: Obviously not him, but his Creeper persona. There's no indication that he's the Creeper in this story, so he's simply a normal newscaster.
• Greek Chorus: Bruce can watch his show on the Batcomputer.
• Kent Brockman News: Despite supposedly being the anchor of a straight news feed, Ryder will often start to editorialize during his segments (which, for any incarnation of the character, is pretty much par for the course).
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looks quite similar to John Oliver.
• Sincerity Mode: If you go to stop Harvey at the start of Episode 5, Jack graciously thanks Bruce for saving him and promises to make sure that the rest of Gotham know he's a good person.

Thomas and Martha Wayne

Thomas and Martha Wayne

Voiced By: Troy Baker (Thomas) and Lorri Holt (Martha)

Bruce's parents. They were philanthropists beloved by the entire city. They were murdered by a mugger twenty years before the start of the story.

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• Adaptational Villainy: In this continuity, Thomas and Martha Wayne were both mobsters, with the former being a mob boss.
• Asshole Victim: Thomas, definitely. Martha is more debatable.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Thomas was in a crime syndicate alongside Mayor Hill and Falcone. He was considered the worst of the group.
• Broken Pedestal: Thomas Wayne to all of Gotham once his history as a mob boss and his malpractice on his patients is exposed. Thomas is hated for the remainder of the series and until episode 5 the people Gotham hate Bruce for being his son. Bruce most of all takes this very hard, questioning why he even started his mission in the first place.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: As opposed to his usual portrayal, Thomas Wayne is suggested to have been this.
• Deadly Doctor: Thomas used his medical knowledge and resources to his advantage, such as drugging Esther Cobblepot into insanity.
• Death by Origin Story: They were killed when Bruce was a child, motivating Bruce's eventual life as Batman.
• Didn't Think This Through: Thomas's Control Freak obsession and arrogance left him oblivious to the consequences of his villainous actions or what it was costing him. This would ultimately get himself and his wife killed and lead to Bruce's reputation being shattered.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They loved their son and did their best to keep Bruce separate from their crime business.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: They may be mobsters, but they always wanted their son to grow up in a happy life. Alfred even implies that they'd be proud of Bruce for what he's doing with his life.
• Fatal Flaw: Two for Thomas Wayne.
  • His Control Freak tendencies. His obsession of controlling Gotham led him to make dark and villainous decisions with consequences he didn't take into consideration. This included allying himself with corrupt mayor Hamilton Hill and crime lord Carmine Falcone, drugging Esther Cobblepot to steal her fortune and killing the Arkhams when they opposed his amoral practices. Because of his obsession with being in control, Thomas ultimately ended up destroying himself along with everything he loved.
  • Arrogance. Thomas believed himself invincible due to his name, status and wealth, so he paid no heed to the consequences of his actions or how his criminal activities were affecting him. Not only did his crimes lead to him and Martha getting gunned down, but also to the creation of the Children of Arkham and Bruce being accused of being just as evil as his father after his criminal nature is exposed.
  Alfred: Your father was driven by an obsession. By a need to control. He rushed headlong into the darkness. Thinking himself invincible, oblivious to the cost.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Thomas may be long dead, but his actions have a large impact on the events of the plot — his partnership with Hill and Falcone led to massive systemic corruption in Gotham, while his murder of the Arkhams and committal of Esther Cobblepot to Arkham Asylum led to Vicki becoming the terrorist leader "Lady Arkham" and Penguin one of her lieutenants, respectively. The revelation of his family's hidden criminal past to the public causes huge problems for Bruce, including turning public opinion against him and forcing him to defend himself from accusations that he's continuing his father's legacy. Even inside Arkham, Bruce has to deal with patients sent there by Thomas.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: If Oswald wasn't lying, Martha wanted to quit being a mobster and to expose Thomas, Hill and Falcone, but she was killed under Hill's orders before she could do it. In Episode 5, Alfred confirms that she wanted to stop Thomas.
• It's All About Me: The reason why Thomas sent Mrs. Cobblepot to Arkham was because she owned land that Thomas wanted for himself.
• Moe Greene Special: A flashback to the mugging (which was actually an assassination) that got Thomas and Martha killed showed that Thomas was shot through his left eye.
• Papa Wolf: Thomas dies trying to fight off Chill in order to protect Bruce and Martha.
  Bruce: It's hard to picture him as a criminal.
  Alfred: In that moment he was simply your father.
• Posthumous Character: This is one of the few stories to feature the deceased Wayne parents gaining more background on who they were and how it impacts their son on a more personal level than before.
• Predecessor Villain: It turned out Thomas Wayne was the third member of the partnership between Falcone and Hill before his death and may have been the worst of the trio. At the very least, he was just as bad as Hill.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Martha becomes this to Bruce if you get Oswald to tell Bruce the real reason the Waynes were killed was that she wanted to turn Thomas in for his crimes. If you check the codex about Martha in Season 2, it shows that Bruce now sees her as the unsung hero of Gotham and the place (other than Alfred) were the good in him comes from.
• Token Good Teammate: It's implied by Falcone that Martha was one for her husband's organization. If Oswald wasn't lying, she may even have tried to expose Thomas, Hill and Falcone when she learned how far her husband went, meaning that she was kept in the dark about some of Thomas' actions. Confirmed by Alfred in Episode 5.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Prior to the public reveal of Thomas Wayne's dark dealings at Arkham Asylum, Jack Ryder said on a newscast that the W of the Wayne Enterprises Tower was a "reassuring sight" symbolizing "something pure in the heart of Gotham" for "generations".

Joan Leland

Head of Psychiatry and Arkham Asylum.

• Confirmation Bias: Granted, as far as the public knew at the time, Bruce had just beaten Oswald Cobblepot within an inch of his life. Nevertheless, Dr. Leland seems deadset on keeping a man institutionalized longterm, before she's confirmed it to be necessary.
  • She also seems oddly quick to assume that because there aren't normally fights in the rec room it’s Bruce's fault- without much, if any cause.
• Horrible Judgeof Character: John is possibly the nicest version of the Joker to date, but he doesn't seem to truly understand the finer points of what "good" is. Leland releases him on the grounds he demonstrated the basic decency of not attacking during the riot.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While she can start to grate on the players nerves by the end, she does take Bruce's safety very seriously & treats him with respect if he shows her the same curtesy.
• Unwitting Instigatorof Doom: She lets John out of Arkham... not the best idea, no matter which Joker he turns into.

Arkham Asylum Residents

Victor Zsasz

Victor Zsasz

Voiced By: Kiff Vanden Heuvel

A murderer committed to Arkham Asylum. Zsasz gives himself a scar for each person he kills.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Most incarnations of Zsasz are so Ax-Crazy that all he talks about is killing people and how it gives him a rush, but the game version seems to almost be a normal, approachable guy who only kills whenever paid to do so or if his Berserk Button is pushed. He's his normal psychotic self in Episode 5.
• Bald of Evil: Is completely hairless and a Professional Killer.
• Berserk Button: Having a tally mark without killing someone drives him berserk about not "matching".
• Covered in Scars: As usual for Zsasz, one tally mark for each victim.
• Faux Affably Evil: Is usually just a normal guy until he needs to kill. He's happy to tell you about his murders, though.
• Laser-Guided Karma: If you decided to protect the orderly staff rather than go for the phone in Ep 4. Zsasz will manage to knock out Bruce during their scuffle. Come Ep 5, during the Arkham riot caused by Lady Arkham, you confront him again as Batman and return the favor with the extra interest of slamming him through a table.
• Mask of Sanity: He's relatively calm for the most part, even having a rather civil discussion at one point, but if his compulsion hits, run.
• Professional Killer: His talk about John Doe's technique gives the impression he is, when outside of the asylum, a career assassin, or in the very least very professional about killing; when discussing his scars, he also speaks of each victim as if he was contacted to off them, whether as voluntary suicide or by a maligned third party. That said, he could just as easily be a delusional Serial Killer.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Zsasz doesn't seem to like wearing a shirt at all.

Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker

Voiced By: Larry Brisbowitz

A mild-mannered man committed to Arkham. He is inseparable from his much-less mild-mannered sock puppet, Socko.

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• Adapted Out: Scarface is replaced by Socko in this incarnation, though he may just be confiscated by the Arkham staff as usual, and Wesker can't use him.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Never referred to as "Ventriloquist".
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Unlike most in Wesker's line of puppets, Socko appears to genuinely care for Arnold, albeit in a way that's rude and confrontational to others.
• Mr. Exposition: Exists solely to dole out some Back Story of John Doe, or lack thereof, to Bruce.
• Mythology Gag: Since Scarface is unavailable, Arnold's "companion" is Socko, a nod to Knightfall.

The Agency

Amanda Waller

Amanda Waller

Voiced By: Debra Wilson

"Thunderbolt? I'm the whole Goddamn hurricane!"

East Coast Regional Director of the Agency, Waller comes to Gotham to clean up Gotham after the Riddler reappears.

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• Adaptational Heroism: She actually cares about the lives of the people who work for her and tries to protect them as best as she can, which makes her a saint compared to her other modern portrayals.
  • It can also be seen as Character Rerailment as in the original Ostrander comics she didn't consider her people to be fully disposable, not even the Squad.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While nice is overstating it, she's a few shades more tolerable here than usual.
• Big Good: Becomes Batman's strongest ally after Gordon becomes overwhelmed by the threat that the Pact poses and starts to mistrust him.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: Admits to Batman that the difference between right and wrong can be blurry sometimes but also asserts that getting the job done is all that matters.
  Waller: "Let's say everything goes pear-shaped and you get stuck in there longer than you'd like. Then what's right, what's wrong? It all gets... blurry. And guess what? That's ok. Because you're gonna have to do some blurry things that you're not proud of before this is done.
  Batman (If you choose to answer this way): "Whatever it takes to put these scum away, I'm sure I'll get over it."
  Waller (Smiling): "That's the spirit!"
• Black Boss Lady: As usual, she is the director of the Agency.
• Control Freak: As usual; the best way to get in her good graces is to let her call the shots.
• Defiant Captive: In the Vigilante route, the Joker takes Waller to Ace Chemicals to get her to confess that she killed the Riddler. Not only does she refuse, she even snarks at and insults him.
• Disc-One Final Boss: She is this for the Vigilante route of Season 2 Episode 5, as she puts both Batman and Joker on the top of the Agency's most wanted list, forcing Batman to team up with The Joker just to survive. She even assembles a task force dedicated to hunting them down comprised of Bane, Harley, and Catwoman and attempts to force Batman to join the Squad. But despite this grand showing, Waller is forced into a stalemate once Batman reveals he has information on Waller's dirty dealings and is captured by the Joker once the Squad is defeated.
• Exalted Torturer: It's strongly implied by both Gordon and Riddler that her department employs rather brutal methods when it comes to extracting information. Seeing the state Eli Knable is in when you arrive at the holding cells pretty much confirms it.
• Fatal Flaw: Her ruthlessness and cynicism. Her willingness to do whatever it takes to secure the virus leads to her pulling a gun on John right after he saved all her agent's lives in the vigilante route. This results in him having a Freak Out and stabbing her in the gut before escaping, vowing to destroy the agency for good.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: In Episode 5 of the Vigilante route, Batman can choose not to deflect Joker's Jokerang when he throws it at Waller. The result leaves a noticable slash-like scar on her left cheek.
• Hypocrite: If Bruce chooses to interrogate Mori and take his drive by force via strangling him, Waller will complain that the Agency had to give Mori a neck bracelet and demote Gordon for that reason, even though she's perfectly willing to use Cold-Blooded Torture and other unscrupulous methods on her prisoners when she deems it necessary. The aforementioned complaining also makes her saying that Gordon and the GCPD should be "doers, not complainers", if Batman interrogates Eli instead and told Waller she's being unfair to Gordon after the Riddler's death, a rather hypocritical statement, as well as in other instances when things don't go her way.
• Jerkass: As usual, she's not exactly a nice lady.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She does have something of a point about some of the methods used by the GCPD not being enough or being inefficiently used, especially when her people have better equipment.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As of episode 3 of Season Two, when Gordon goes off the rails and Bruce has no-one left to turn to, Waller shows that, sure, she's an abrasive bitch, but she is someone that Bruce can trust and that, ultimately, she does want what is right for Gotham, she just walks a wobblier moral ground than Bruce does.
• Karma Houdini: At the end of the season she leaves Gotham with the rest of the Agency, with no repercussions for any of her crimes.
• Large and in Charge: Downplayed. She's basically Viola Davis' version, so she's not as heavy as her original comic counterpart, but also not the New 52 version.
• A Mother to Her Men: She genuinely holds the safety of her agents as a top priority.
• The Mentor: She clearly wants to fill this role to Batman, though it's up to the player to determine how much (if at all) Batman is willing to go along with that idea.
• Mythology Gag: If she gets her hands on Selina, she'll have an Explosive Leash strapped on her, a nod to the Suicide Squad. Bane also has one, though his handler doesn't get a chance to use it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Season 2 Episode 4, in the "good" ending John succeeds in talking Harley down but refuses to turn over the Lotus Virus, not trusting the Agency with it. Waller promptly tries to kill him, causing John to snap and trigger the C4 that Harley had been using to hold the bridge hostage. He then vows to take the Agency down as a vigilante.
• Not Me This Time: Waller is willing to do ruthless things for the greater good, but in Season 2 Episode 5, she swears she didn't kill the Riddler back in episode 1. It turns out she's telling the truth; it really wasn't her.
• Oh, Crap!: Visibly panics when Batman sends her a file detailing all of her insubordinate and illegal actions as director of the agency.
• Pet the Dog: At the end of the Villain route, she's impressed enough with Bruce's efforts throughout the episode in stopping the Joker that she genuinely promises to keep his identity secret, and offers to pull some strings for Bruce's allies if he requests, namely: letting Avesta work for him, releasing Catwoman, and/or reinstating Gordon with high honors despite her own personal hatred of him. In the Vigilante route, she actually helps Batman out during the climax of the fight, and even takes care of Tiffany so Batman can focus on the Joker. She'll even (in her own way) try to apologize for letting things get out of control, and even lets Catwoman off the leash or promises not to punish Avesta for leaking files and destroying the serum if Batman pushes the issue.
• Psychotic Smirk: Lets a satisfied smirk slip if you decide to torture Eli for information, clearing approving of his suffering. ^noteShe even does it twice if you start early.
• Red Baron: She's nicknamed "The Wall" because of how notoriously difficult it is to steer her away from her goals.
• Secret-Keeper: She is fully aware of Batman's identity as Bruce Wayne and uses this to blackmail him into working with her.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She has connections to the governor, so James Gordon asks Batman to toe the line around her.
• Shipper on Deck: If Bruce is on good terms with Waller at the end of Season 2, he can persuade her to not punish Agent Avesta for her betrayal and let her come work for him. Waller then notes that for reasons unknown to her, Agent Avesta is fond of Gotham... and of Bruce — mentioning one of Avesta's favorite restaurants and that he should take her there.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: In Episode 4 of Season 2, Avesta notes how she's become more hostile and less willing to accept others' opinions since coming to Gotham. Whether or not she actually did become worse is up for debate, since she seemed to be trying to engineer the "cure" serum from Lotus in order to get the Pact to become her version of the Suicide Squad.
• Smug Smiler: Definitely has a habit of pulling self-satisfied smirks.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Forces both Batman and Gordon to work with her.
• The Unfettered: She claims that she got the nickname "the wall" because she's unbreakable and non-negotiable when people try to blackmail her or try to deter her from her goals.
• Unscrupulous Hero: She does want to make the world a safer place and greatly values her agents' lives but she is willing to cross many lines to finish the job and can be quite the Jerkass when pushed. She also takes sadistic pleasure in the suffering of criminals, as evidenced by her reaction to the torture of Eli Knable. Waller is shown on Episode 3's relationship screen to approve of blaming Catwoman and therefore allowing her to have an arm frozen so that Bruce's cover isn't blown. In Season 2 Episode 4 Agent Avesta remarks that Waller has become far more ruthless since coming to Gotham, causing her to question her allegiances. In Season 2 Episode 5, Waller admits that she's crossed moral boundaries and done a lot of bad things, but insists she's done so for the greater good.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: A staple for the Wall; Amanda works under an "ends justify the means" philosophy.

Agent Avesta

Agent Iman Avesta

Voiced by: Emily O'Brien

"The criminally insane... you're drawn to them, aren't you?"

A field agent of the Agency and a Gotham native who is fascinated by the Dark Knight as she becomes one of his Right-Hands.

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• Canon Foreigner: An original creation for the game.
• Damsel in Distress: In "The Enigma", the Riddler places Avesta and two male agents in death traps. Batman spends most of the conflict trying to protect Avesta in particular.
• Foreign Curse Word: She occasionally speaks and swears in Farsi, indicating she has Persian descent, much like her voice actress.
• Foil: She easily becomes one to Lady Arkham. Like her, Avesta appears to be Batman's ally despite having some shady motivations, along with having an admiration of Batman, and a dislike of Bruce Wayne, along with being set up as a second love interest. However, the difference is that Avesta begins to have feelings for Bruce himself and actually becomes to respect him for the caring he has for others, and when push comes to shove, is not afraid to defy Waller if it means doing the right thing. In the Vigilante Route, Avesta is shown having a good relationship with her parents, which is the exact opposite of what Vicki had with hers.
• Hates My Secret Identity: She seems to have a crush on Batman, but harbors a grudge for Bruce Wayne, both owing to her being a native of Gotham City. Depending on Bruce's actions in the previous season to repay his family's crimes, this can be mitigated somewhat; at the very least, she's quite suspicious. Subverted in episode 2, as it is revealed that she knows the true identity of Batman and was the person who informed Waller. Later, it is heavily implied she develops a crush on Bruce Wayne himself.
• Handicapped Badass: If Batman allows her to go deaf by playing Riddler's game, she will receive a pair of hearing aids to restore her hearing.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When forced to choose between her own life and those of two of her fellow agents, she asks Batman to sacrifice her. If Batman goes along with it, Avesta survives, but she is rendered deaf by Riddler's sonic blast machine.
• Innocently Insensitive: Although her profiling of Bruce Wayne is clearly meant to rankle him, when she does the same to Batman, it's a result of her getting flustered around him. If Batman pointedly stays quiet, she's embarrassed and quickly apologizes; if he chides her for overstepping her bounds, she's ashamed.
• It's All My Fault: If she was the one who destroyed the serum, she'll state We Could Have Avoided All This if she hadn't. Batman can either agree or tell her it was Stupidity By Committee.
• Number Two: Acts as this to Director Waller, being the agent in charge of the investigation into the Pact and is seen by her side at all times. But later becomes Bruce's in the Agency.
• Rank Up: If she blows her career with the Agency by helping provide Bruce blackmail material on Waller, he can offer for her to come work for him. According to her End-Game Results Screen, she'll land the position of Chief Operating Officer of Wayne Enterprises, a significant promotion compared to her field agent job.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She will do the right thing if push comes to shove, even if it puts her at odds with Director Waller.
• Secret-Keeper: Confirms in Episode 4 of Season 2 that she knows Bruce is Batman, leading to him realizing that she was the one who told Waller his identity in the first place.^note Though Waller can tell Batman this in Episode 2, if he asks her if Avesta knows.
• Ship Tease: It's implied that she has a crush on Batman. She later develops feelings for Bruce himself.
• Token Good Teammate: She's the one Agency agent that Batman unreservedly respects, and the only one who sides with him. She can become a target of Vigilante Joker if Batman doesn't mention she's an ally.

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