History Characters / BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryAsylum

* PetTheDog: In the prequel comic to ''Arkham City,'' he gets along rather well with Hammer, given that they were both in a circus at a previous point, even agreeing not to eat any of his gang's men should he encounter them.

* ScaryBlackMan: Well, formerly black (and from a certain point of view, formerly a man), but definitely scary. That said, throughout most of the games, he's voiced by the white Steve Blum, apart from ''Origins'' and ''Underworld'' where he's voiced by the black Khary Payton.

* HealingFactor: Croc can recover from anything that doesn't out right kill him. Little injuries supposedly heal near instantly and he can even grow back lost limbs. To make matters worse trauma just triggers his adaptive mutations making him stronger in reponse. He's essentially a literal and monstrous take on the old "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" line.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Is rather polite to Batman, but still won't hesitate to lie or attempt to kill him.

* AffablyEvil: In ''Arkham Knight''. So affable, in fact, that she [[NominalHero isn't even evil this time]].

* FauxAffablyEvil: He's an AxCrazy psychopath, but often speaks politely to Batman and his potential victims.

* SomeoneHasToDie: Before his final boss battle, he drops this line to decide which of the 3 subjects will die: [[spoiler:if Batman does not kill Bane (or so he says anyway), Joker (and by extension Gordon) dies by electric chair powered by the heart monitor on Bane's chest. Batman circumvents this with the [[MagicalDefibrillator Shock Gloves]], much to the Joker's annoyance when he finds out Batman really didn't kill Bane.]]

* TimedMission: The FinalBattle against Bane in Origins; if you take too long Bane will gain the ability to [[OneHitKill kill Batman in one hit]].

* CoveredInScars: Has nasty scars on his face when he's seen without his mask. The ones around his eyes resemble the eye holes of his mask.

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'''Basil Karlo''' is an iconic horror film actor who starred in the classic film "The Terror". When he discovered that it was being remade, Karlo went insane and murdered several people involved with the new film before being stopped by Batman and Robin. He later stole and injected himself with an experimental compound that turned him into a mass of living clay, allowing him to mimic anything or anyone, and he became the monstrous '''Clayface'''. When Joker took over Arkham Asylum, Clayface eventually escaped by impersonating Warden Quincy Sharp and stayed on the run in Gotham City, constantly changing his identity to avoid being thrown into Arkham City.

'''Dr. Harleen F. Quinzel''' is a former psychiatrist turned criminal after becoming obsessed with the Joker and becoming his right-hand girl, becoming '''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'''. She is obsessed with gaining Joker's approval at any cost, but is just as violent and unpredictable as him. She was vital to his takeover of Arkham Asylum, and later busted him out while he was weakened by TITAN illness, taking him to set up base in Arkham City. Due to Joker's illness, she ran most operations for their gang herself, with her mental state deteriorating significantly as he got worse.

** [[spoiler:She gives Batman a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague and brings up how he severely physically and mentally damages his enemies, but that's ironic coming from her. Since she has done a lot of terrible things throughout the Arkham games.]]

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* ButtMonkey: Poor Zsasz. He's no joke to ordinary Gothamites, Blackgate mooks, and Arkham guards, as his [[GoodScarsEvilScars tally marks]] can attest, but Batman dispatches him more easily than any of his other villains. In each appearance, he goes down in one hit. [[spoiler: And then King Shark bites off his head.]]

* RunningGag: Of a fashion. Each of Batman's encounters with him [[spoiler: results in him being taken down in one hit. Whether with [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum a batarang]], [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum a takedown]] [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity from behind]], or [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham just plain getting hit in the back of the head with a piece of wall]]!]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Jumping the Scarecrow was actually helpful to Batman. Also taking Warden Ranken captive, once you learn that he was experimenting on Croc.

* SquareCubeLaw: Does not work out in his favor in his boss fight in ''Knight'' -- now larger than ever, he's shown to have significant mobility problems and a shorter reach, and can only dash forward when crouched on all fours, all of which means Batman and Nightwing can now tag-team him more easily.
* TailorMadePrison: He is kept in the deepest, darkest depths of Arkham, where the guards occasionally drop down some food for him and try to forget he even exists. This is because physically, Croc is the most dangerous inmate, and his [[IAmAHumanitarian feeding habits]] make him even worse. Obviously this attitude of treating him like an animal isn't going to improve his mental state.

* FauxActionGirl: Surprisingly so for someone shown to be a capable fighter throughout the franchise. Harley is shown to be the Joker’s [[TheDragon right hand woman]] and leads his gang in his place after his death with many of the goons shown to fear her. However, every time she has faced against Batman has had her posterior handed to her with minimal effort and easily incapacitated. It’s averted in VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague where she’s as competent and capable as the rest of the squad.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's one of the very few villains who isn't referenced in any way, shape or form in ''Arkham Knight'', except [[spoiler:Batman's Joker hallucination]] mentioning him once. [[spoiler:The tie-in comics reveal that while Batman removed the Joker from his simulations after his death, he didn't remove Clayface, meaning he likely doesn’'t know what happened to him either.]]

* AdaptationalWimp: Of a sort, and oddly for this series. While the Joker trusts her with more than he usually does in other media, including being his main agent and controlling his gang, she's on the whole far less intelligent or [[FauxActionGirl capable a combatant than most other incarnations]]. Likewise, she lacks the (admittedly mild) super-strength and agility of her comics counterpart. Though it should be noted that she was capable of defeating ''Nightwing'' in her DLC (with some help from Ivy), so the wimp part seems to be more due to Batman being on a whole other level compared to his apprentices.

* MsFanservice: Played up with her NaughtyNurseOutfit in ''Arkham Asylum'' and her HellBentForLeather number in ''Arkham City''. She gets many a MaleGaze (and also PantyShot in Asylum). It’s downplayed in Suicide Squad: Kill the Nustice League where she’s a gorgeous woman whose default outfit displays her midriff, but aside from that she isn’t heavily sexualized in design and the camera never really gazes at her body.