History Characters / BatmanArkhamSeriesRoguesGalleryCity

'''Hugo Strange''': No.

** In the GCPD, he lets some of his goons know that Batman is coming for them... and laughs about it. Shortly after, he has all the bridges detonated to cut off Joker's forces (not reckoning on the sewers), and doesn't give a crap that this puts several of his men at the mercy of the Joker's crew. In addition, one of the mooks says in the Penguin's debut trailer "You think the Joker's bad? Wait until Penguin deals with him! Penguin's an animal", which carries the implication that he's even worse of a boss than even ComicBook/TheJoker, the latter of whom is definitely no saint in terms of being a boss.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: For years, Black Mask has harboured a significant grudge against ComicBook/TheJoker for taking over his criminal enterprise [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins way back when]]. Not only does Joker die before Black Mask can get his hands on him, but Roman is eventually killed by Jason Todd, aka the Arkham Knight, who is arguably the Joker's greatest creation.]]

* MoreDespicableMinion: [[spoiler: To Ra's al Ghul. For all of his faults and crimes, the former geniunly believes that he is doing the right thing, is polite and has respect for Batman. Hugo Strange, on the other hand, is a {{narcissist}}ic {{sociopath}}, primary interested in satisfying his ego.]]

* SignatureHeadgear: The Mad Hatter is very attached to his hat,to the point he suffers a mental breakdown after Batman steps on it.

* PetTheDog: Played with. He ''did'' try to help Two-Face get over his obsession with his coin and demonstrated to him that he could make decisions on his own if he really wanted to. Strange then presented him with the option to take his coin back and return to his criminal life in Arkham City, or remain with Strange and continue to work with him to try and be cured; Two-Face takes the coin, and Strange is audibly disappointed. However, while he was probably sincere in his offer, if he was it would be because he wanted to make an ally out of Two-face/Harvey Dent, not because he cared about actually helping him.

** When Batman places a tracking device on one of Penguin's trucks, Penguin's henchmen reveal that they only joined him because he's saner than Two Face and will, at least, pay you for your work. Unlike Two Face, whose mood swings and reliance on a coin toss will make him difficult to work with.

* BenevolentBoss: It's hinted that he legitimately cares for his troops, as he intended to bolster the morale of his troops after becoming leader and many of his troops comment on respecting him and seem less brutal than Penguin and Joker's. Given his personality, however, this is 50/50. A number of thugs comment of bad behavior occurring half the time, such as dumping their share from a heist and deciding via coin flip whether to send money as compensation to injured thugs' families or kill them ''and their families''. Thugs in ''Arkham Knight'' might even say that they side with Penguin because while he's vicious, Two-Face can be difficult to work with because of his mood swings; Penguin is at least consistent in his nastiness.

* {{Determinator}}: When half your face is melted and you subsequently decide to become a powerful criminal figure, it's a sign you don't let many things slow you down. He doesn't give up trying to take over Arkham City despite leading the weakest major gang, [[spoiler:which winds up paying off when he is the final gang leader standing at the end]]. His mooks even discuss this, noting he'll never give up, with one even stating that he was in the courtroom when Two-Face's face was scarred, and that he never stopped fighting back against his attacker even as the acid was burning his face.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Two-Face (or rather, his good half) is reluctant to kill Catwoman immediately, as they're in a courtroom, which is a place of justice. He also appears to be the nicest of the three super-criminal gang bosses.

* FallenHero: He used to be a well-respected attorney before the accident.

* FlunkyBoss: His bossfight in the end of ''City'' Catwoman's DLC is a predator room in the museum featuring him (as a boss with his own life meter) along a group of standard armed mooks.

Later developments would reveal that this Deadshot, in reality, [[spoiler: is not ''FROM'' this reality, being the Floyd Lawton hailing from, and some somehow dimensionally displaced from, ''Earth-2.'' It's implied, though not confirmed, that Lex Luthor is responsible for this.]]

-->'''Tetch:''' He can, he will; he just have to leave.
He can, he will; he just have to leave. He can, he will; he just have to leave.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: In ''Origins'' and ''City'', for a certain definition of sympathetic anyway. While he drops the sympathetic part in ''Knight'', in all three games he appears in Batman treats him more as an annoyance than as a real threat.

* RhymesOnADime: Begins speaking solely in 4-line rhyme in "Wonderland", as both a further sign of his worsening psychosis and belying his true intentions of mentally trapping Batman in a storybook of Tetch's own devising. Noticeably, he ''never'' drops out of it, even when Batman physically threatens him.

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[[folder: The Penguin]]

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* Obliviously Evil:Despite all his evil, Strange seems to truly believe that he is a hero and that his actions are truly right and noble. It never seems to have occurred to him that his actions (especially the fact that innocent people also suffer) make him no better than the criminals he hates so much. Even when Batman points out the scale of destruction he has wreaked on Arkham City, Strange seems genuinely unaware of how terrible his plan is:

** He seems to have toned down this trait of his come ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'', as he orders the squad to rescue his men trapped in the war-ridden Metropolis. While it can be chalked up to PragmaticVillainy, as he wants to avoid wasting resources on hiring new men, [[PetTheDog he admits that he feels relieved seeing "the stooges" safe and sound]].

* TheBrute: To the Penguin in ''Arkham City''. Penguin treats him as a glorified disposal by [[FedToTheBeast throwing traitorous or failure-prone minions down into his basement]], and later as a tool to try disposing of Batman. Grundy himself also tends toward being DumbMuscle, with [[HulkSpeak a heavily limited vocabulary]] and a single-minded focus on violence.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Grundy's body is eventually set on fire and burned by the electric currents powering him during the course of his boss fight. Then, Batman finishes Grundy by punching his heart out. Given how much punishment Grundy can endure, the overkill was quite justified.

* SerialKiller: Only kills people to make him similar to Bruce Wayne.

* ChainPain: He fights by swinging a pair of ball-and-chains around lime a pair of EpicFlails. And he can electrify them for some extra pain.
* TheDragon: To the Penguin in ''Arkham City''.

* FrankensteinsMonster: Appears to have traits of this.

* ImplacableMan: No matter what you throw at him, he'll keep coming back for more.

* MoreDespicableMinion: [[spoiler: To Ra's al Ghul. For all of his faults and crimes, the former geniunly believes that he is doing the right thing, is polite and geniunly respects Batman. Hugo Strange, on the other hand, is a {{narcissist}}ic {{sociopath}}, primary interested in satisfying his ego.]]

* MortonsFork: Interstingly, Protocol 10 [[spoiler: will always fail and he will die, whether Batman survives (where Batman stops him and Ra's kills him), or Batman dies (where Joker and his crew will somehow manage to overpower TYGER and kill everyone standing in their way).]]

** He continues this after Batman frees Mr Feeeze, trying to taunt Victor. He gets his hand stepped on and further humiliated for that.

* HateSink: One of the few villains in the game who lacks any kind of cool traits and is absolutely despicable, hateful and obnoxious. All we know about Penguin is an inelegant, tacky, {{narcissist}}ic, [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]], [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] {{sociopath}} [[SmugSnake who thinks he is way more sophisticated than he actually is]]. It certainly doesn't help the fact that he is the WickedPretentious trope incarnate.

* CostumeCopycat: A [[https://twitter.com/suicidesquadRS/status/1336310105042726914 promotional tweet]] for ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'' implies that the Deadshot from previous appearances is an imposter, in order to explain Deadshot's [[RaceLift different portrayal.]] Although [[VoodooShark this raises further questions.]] [[spoiler:It's revealed that the earlier Deadshot in from ''Earth 2''.]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:In the interum between ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League]]'', this Deadshot was found and seemingly killed in battle with the native Deadshot of Earth-1, though there are a few lines suggesting that he may still be alive.]]

* RaceLift: A unique case of this happening within the same continuity, sort of like an inversion of Harvey Dent's transition between ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanForever''. Deadshot is portrayed as a white man in ''City'' and ''Origins'', while ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'' has him as being African-American like his Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse actor, Creator/WillSmith. [[spoiler:In-game it's explained that this Deadshot is from Earth-2 and the other one is the Deadshot actually native to this universe.]]

Later developments would reveal that this Deadshot, in reality, [[spoiler: is not ''FROM'' this reality, being the Floyd Lawton hailing from, and some somehow dimensionally displaced from, ''Earth-2.'' Who is responsible, and how, is as of now unknown.]]

* CostumeCopycat: A [[https://twitter.com/suicidesquadRS/status/1336310105042726914 promotional tweet]] for ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'' implies that the Deadshot from previous appearances is an imposter, in order to explain Deadshot's [[RaceLift different portrayal.]] Although [[VoodooShark this raises further questions.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffscreen: In the interum between [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]] and [[VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League]], this Deadshot was found and seemingly killed in battle with the native Deadshot of Earth-1, though there are a few lines suggesting that he may still be alive.]]

* RaceLift: A unique case of this happening within the same continuity, sort of like an inversion of Harvey Dent's transition between ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanForever''. Deadshot is portrayed as a white man in ''City'' and ''Origins'', while ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'' has him as being African-American like his Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse actor, Creator/WillSmith.

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