History Fridge / BatmanArkhamAsylum

** A fun fridge horror game to play. Go attack some goons with Suicide Collars on, taking careful note of the mechanical laughing noise the collar alarms make. Now go watch the WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries episode "The Joker's Wild" and listen to the mechanical laughter the giant Joker sign on the casino makes. Remember, Creator/MarkHamill voices SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in both ''Arkham Asylum'' AND ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. Congratulations, you are now seeing the Animated Series' Joker doing everything that the Joker does in ''Arkham Asylum'', which is ''way'' creepier than anything the Scarecrow Nightmare segments could cook up.

** A fun fridge horror game to play. Go attack some goons with Suicide Collars on, taking careful note of the mechanical laughing noise the collar alarms make. Now go watch the WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries episode "The Joker's Wild" and listen to the mechanical laughter the giant Joker sign on the casino makes. Remember, MarkHamill [[HeyItsThatVoice voices]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in both ''Arkham Asylum'' AND ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. Congratulations, you are now seeing the Animated Series' Joker doing everything that the Joker does in ''Arkham Asylum'', which is ''way'' creepier than anything the Scarecrow Nightmare segments could cook up.

* This troper was bothered by the fact that sometimes Batman [=KOs=] enemies with a shot to the groin. Yes, it hurts; yes, it will end the fight; no, it won't stop the guy from walking away. Then this troper learned about a self-defense technique that involves striking ''the pelvis''. The pelvis is a ring that, at the front, is held together by a cartilaginous joint. A strong blow to the pubic symphsis (the bony spot just above the male junk) can break that cartilage. This makes it painful simply to stand and almost impossible to walk. The Batman isn't just going for the obvious target we all know about; he's a master of combat and is, in fact, truly disabling the bad guys.
** ...well, it's actually a [[GoodBadBugs pretty funny bug]], completely unintentional on the creators' part, but that's a pretty sweet headcanon you just gave me.

* TheStinger at the end of the game [[spoiler:shows one of Batman's Rogues Gallery grabbing a crate of Titan. Bane on Titan? Meh. More of the same. But imagine what might happen if Croc gets the drug. [[FridgeHorror Or Scarecrow]].]] ~ Surgoshan

* Clayface's cameo. You never see him in his normal form, but when he's imitating others take a look at him with your Detective Vision. See something missing? Something that every other person in the game has, even the ones whose characters models are being reused right now? TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything.

** In fact, according to the "Hush" story arc from the comic, The Riddler [[spoiler:has already deduced Batman's secret identity, but he don't want to reveal it because because "a riddle which everyone knows the answer to would be worthless".]]
*** Please don't forget that these are different canons. Arkhamverse Riddler has been proven to not know Batman's identity.

* In the PS3-Exclusive Joker Character Pack, there are brand new game over screens with Aaron Cash and Batman. In them, Batman seems [[LargeHam unusually hammy]]. Then I realized, Joker's ''off is goddamn rocker''. [[UnreliableNarrator How can we trust anything we experience from his point of view?]]

** TruthInTelevision (literally) There was an episode of BatmanTheAnimatedSeries where Batman was temporarily driven insane by The Scarecrow and taken to Arkham while raving that he had to stop Scarecrow from poisoning all of Gotham. He escaped all too easily.

* A possibility. But random tips in the loading screen after you die, usually give a hint to pass that area. The second scarecrow sequence loading screen sometimes suggests going into detective mode. Despite you can't. One could easily just say that it is "obviously a random tip that means nothing" or... being a scarecrow scenario, the game is trying to MindScrew/mock you by giving you information that is useless, to hammer in that you're helpless to stop Scarecrow. After all, being completely helpless is one of Batman's worst fears.

* A possibility. But random tips in the loading screen after you die, usually give a hint to pass that area. The second scarecrow sequence loading screen sometimes suggests going into detective mode. Despite you can't. One could easily just say that it is "obviously just a random tip that means nothing" or... being a scarecrow scenario, the game is trying to MindScrew/mock you by giving you information that is useless, to hammer in that you're helpless to stop Scarecrow. After all, being completely helpless is one of Batman's worst fears.

* A possibility. But random tips in the loading screen after you die, usually give a hint to pass that area. The second scarecrow sequence loading screen sometimes suggests going into detective mode. Despite you can't. One could easily just say that it is "sometimes random" or, perhaps, being a scarecrow scenario, the game is trying to MindScrew/mock you by giving you information that is useless, to hammer in that you're helpless to stop Scarecrow. After all, being completely helpless is one of Batman's worst fears.

* A possibility. But random tips in the loading screen after you die, usually give a hint to past that area. The second scarecrow sequence loading screen sometimes suggests going into detective mode. Despite you can't. One could easily just say that it is "sometimes random" or, perhaps, being a scarecrow scenario, the game is trying to MindScrew/mock you by giving you information that is useless, to hammer in that you're helpless to stop Scarecrow. After all, being completely helpless is one of Batman's worst fears.

* A possibility. But random tips in the loading screen after you die, usually give a hint to past that area. The second scarecrow sequence loading screen sometimes suggests going into detective mode. Despite you can't. One could easily just say that it is "sometimes random" or, perhaps, being a scarecrow scenario, the game is trying to MindScrew/mock you by giving you information that is useless. After all, isn't that one of Batman's worst fears?

* A possibility. But random tips in the loading screen after you die, usually give a hint to past that area. The second scarecrow sequence loading screen sometimes suggests going into detective mode. Despite you can't. One could easily just say that it is "sometimes random" or, perhaps, being a scarecrow scenario, the game is trying to MindScrew/mock you by giving you information that
is useless. After all, isn't that one of Batman's worst fears?

* In the psychopath cell room, you enter one cell. Written on the wall it says "Welcome to my humble abode" if you think about it, that has to be Mr. Zsasz's cell as he's the only complete psychopath in the game who tries to come off as polite and eloquent (At least in his interviews)

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* In the psychopath cell room, you enter one cell. Written on the wall it says "Welcome to my humble abode" if you think about it, that has to be Mr. Zsasz's cell as he's the only complete psychopath in the game who tries to come off as polite and eloquent (At least in his interviews)

*** One episode of BatmanTheAnimatedSeries uses the above comment as a major plot point, as a mild mannered family man whom Joker forced against his will to help him kill the entire police force, finally gets one up, and threatens to kill Joker with his own bomb [[spoiler: the bomb was a dud and he merely wanted to see Joker squirm]] stating that anyone besides Batman killing him would be his ultimate worst fear. And yes, Joker is beyond terrified even screaming for Batman to save him.

** Alternately, each Nightmare wave represents a deeper, more repressed fear of Batman. The first one is obvious- failing to save Gordon, his parents' death haunting him. The second one goes deeper, putting him/you back in that feeling of helplessness he had as a child, the very night his parents were murdered (add to that Joe Chill's monster voice). The third and final nightmare deals with Batman's deepesed, most repressed fear- that he IS crazy.

** Batman doesn't ''have'' to look for Crane. By the time the spores are collected and he's made it back to his UnspokenPlanGuarantee, he's wandered through every part of the sewer that Croc would have visited since Crane was dragged into the water. No sign of Crane. Granted, depending on the ending, [[spoiler:Crane might just be okay]]. Which begs the question of whether or not Croc dragged Crane back to his lair to play checkers and have tea until Batman found the first spore, since Croc doesn't try to kill Batman until about then.

* [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham]] gives a good justification for Batman's paranoia at the beginning of the game. [[spoiler:Harley Quinn pulled a similar stunt to Joker's, which at the same time explains her position in the beginning as well.]]

* During a playthrough, I realized that the Detective Mode could easily have been named "Knight Vision" instead. I wondered why the game didn't go this route and realized that, in-universe, Batman named this function, meaning that the pun name would've been out of character for him.

* Regarding the NewPowersAsThePlotDemands / StrongAsTheyNeedToBe entries in the main page: the Sonic Batarangs are only useful if they attract ''one'' mook, which is only possible if said mook has a suicide collar that can resonate with the Batarang. The Sequencer needed the Warden's codes. As for everything else, unless he really needs it, they're extra weight that would slow him in a fight. In the case of the Explosive Gel, the Batmobile was in the open and trashed, so anyone could've breaked the trunk and get it.

*** Something about his gloves struck me as off but i thought nothing of it.

* If you think about it, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is right: Batman IS as crazy as the inmates incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. How else could he[[CrazyPrepared be so well-prepared]] to battle the super-criminals of Gotham if he weren't just as crazy as them? And, on a certain level, Batman realizes this. His personal No Kill policy is so strict because he knows he's teetering on the edge. He also fights crime as hard as he does because he doesn't want anyone else to end up on that edge alongside him.

* in the PS3-Exclusive Joker Character Pack, there are brand new game over screens with Aaron Cash and Batman. In them, Batman seems [[LargeHam unusually hammy]]. Then I realized, Joker's ''off is goddamn rocker''. [[UnreliableNarrator How can we trust anything we experience from his point of view?]]