History NightmareFuel / BatmanArkhamOrigins

** Honestly, this is one of the most effective Joker introductions ever. It's creepy as hell, the way the bank manager starts giggling then laughing harder and harder, and the Joker is under the mask, then just completely loses it on Sionis... This is a thoroughly vicious, effective, and just plain scary Joker.

** When Bruce gets back to the Batcave it's near in ''ruins'' and his Detective Vision is down due to the Batcomputer being damaged. Frantically fixing it and searching for Alfred he finally finds him only for his stalwart butler and father figure to ''die in his arms'' In that moment, Bruce is no longer Batman. In that brief moment he's a scared young boy who just lost his parents again. While he does end up using Electrocutioner's gauntlets to defibrillate Alfred, the experience is so harrowing that he nearly quits being Batman ''[[DespairEventHorizon right then and there.]]''

** The fanservice is further ruined when she hisses and unveils her tongue. Compared to the rest of her human body (save her glowing eyes), that reptilian tongue is jarringly different and all kinds of wrong.

* "I am in your house, Bruce."
** "ALFRED!"

** Yet all of this is topped by the Crime Alley shootings. Batman's interrogating the man who killed his two closest friends... and he starts going on a rant against Joe Chill, aka THE MAN WHO KILLED HIS OWN PARENTS, and Alfred notes that his vitals are going erratic. Bruce was ONE STEP AWAY from actually killing this man! Sure, he would've deserved it, but still.

* As Batman carefully makes his way up to the very top of the Royal Hotel, ComicBook/{{Bane}} ambushes him and delivers him at the feet of a much more spry and over-enthusiastically insane [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]], who's revealed to have a table covered with detonators for [[ParanoiaFuel bombs in hidden locations all across the city]]. Not only does he threaten to activate the explosives within the hotel itself, sufficiently convincing Bane to give them some privacy, he even triggers one wired to a location right outside the window, destroying the building completely. It was an empty construction site, but even so...

** It's almost impossible to overstate the amount of nightmarish FoeYay present in the entire interview. Joker talks in a way that sounds like he's met his one true love, [[ArchEnemy someone that has given him a reason to live]]. Notably, Harleen is downright flattered because she thinks he's talking about her.

* In a shout-out to ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', Batman performs a HighAltitudeInterrogation on one of Penguin's thugs, Loose Lips, with the guy in question previously being unconscious beforehand. As he wakes up, we see things from his PointOfView, showing exactly just how frightening it would be to actually be caught by Batman. Imagine waking up dozens, if not '''hundreds''' of feet above the ground, upside down, with no idea how you got there. Then you look up and see this shadowy black figure that everyone else you know is terrified of, holding onto you.

* As Batman carefully makes his way up to the very top of the Royal Hotel, Bane ambushes him and delivers him at the feet of a much more spry and over-enthusiastically insane Joker, who's revealed to have a table covered with detonators for [[ParanoiaFuel bombs in hidden locations all across the city]]. Not only does he threaten to activate the explosives within the hotel itself, sufficiently convincing Bane to give them some privacy, he even triggers one wired to a location right outside the window, destroying the building completely. It was an empty construction site, but even so...

* One of Deathstroke's game over screens ends with him [[BoomHeadshot pointing a gun at you]].

* An extremely flexible woman contorting around Batman in [[{{Stripperific}} skimpy clothing]] might [[{{Fanservice}} sound sexy in theory]], but Copperhead's movements are reminiscent of basically every creature that could crawl on your body and fill you with venom while you're helpless with fear, from the obvious copperhead snake to a large poisonous spider. Her bio even states that she ''crushes'' some of her victims this way. And this is in addition to the hallucination sequence, with Copperhead lunging and taunting Batman about his impending death while previous failures jeer about his incompetence.

* Just like in ''Arkham City'', Penguin keeps lots of glass cases on his ship...cases containing the corpses of men who failed or betrayed him. The worst one is pinned to the wall by knives.

** One of Enigma's data handlers you have to interrogate initially refuses to talk, pointing out that he knows Batman [[ThouShaltNotKill won't kill him]].

* Ferris Boyle's AdaptationalVillainy. The original Boyle from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' was an opportunistic scumbag for sure, but he ''was'' [[VillainHasAPoint correct that Victor's work wasn't authorized]] and things didn't get out of hand until Victor pulled a gun on him. The Boyle here, in ''his'' version of the accident, takes Nora away, against his agreement, for the express purpose of experimenting on her and the process Victor used. He has his guards hold Victor back and pistol-whips him before kicking him into his equipment, and when that sets off the chain of events that causes Victor to become Mister Freeze? He just stands and watches for a moment, not trying to get help or intervene, before running off. When Batman finally rescues him, he freezes Batman with a broken cooling pipe and taunts a helpless Victor that he'll kill Nora before he kills him, just so he can see her slip away, all the while bashing him over the head with a piece of Victor's suit repeatedly. What's worse is that all of this, his vile personality, is wrapped up in a demeanor so kind and innocent that he had the World's Greatest Detective fooled.

* Joker himself, because he's just in it for himself this time and just sees Batman as a distraction. As such, he's particularly much more brutal in his methods and he just does not care ''at all'' if he lives or dies. He even gives Batman a WhatTheHellHero after he saves him from getting blown off the hotel, stating he ''deserves'' to die. But after Batman saves him again, this just fuels his fascination with him, like he's now ''found a purpose to live''.

* Joker throwing Electrocutioner out of the penthouse window. Just the fact that he falls such a long way so ''fast'', and you can hear him screaming.