History Fridge / BatmanArkhamAsylum

** Also, each one deals with or represents death in some way. The first one has the death of Comissioner Gordon. The second one has the deaths of Bruce's parents. The third one has the death of [[GameBreakingBug your game.]]

** With the above's consideration it adds fuel to the FridgeHorror element as well since when one thinks back to ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' on the experimental Venom concoction that Bane discovered called "TN-1" actually induces the aforementioned users into deadly brutes. Bane's slight resilience to TITAN is a bit of an upgrade with less effect on his mind due to his extreme intelligence. A SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for him since he can actually control it's mere power!

* 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 broken the trunk and get it.
* [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham Assault On Arkham]] gives a good justification for Batman's paranoia at the beginning of the game. Harley Quinn pulled a similar stunt to Joker's, which at the same time explains her position in the beginning as well.
* A possibility. But random tips in the loading screen after you die, usually give a hint to pass that area. But if you die during the second scarecrow sequence, the 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 bit of Brilliance to be had about the final boss: why is Titan!Joker so easy to beat? Joker is used to using weapons or plans to fight his enemies; unlike the inmates or Bane who transform, The Joker is very unused to fighting hand to hand, especially with so much power that and his Ego, he doesn't so much fight as take easily dodgable swipes and then goes to showboating for the news heli.
* Joker’s choice of weapon in this universe may seem somewhat odd at first glance, a gigantic .44 magnum that would be a challenge even for someone who wasn’t basically skin and bones. One might reasonably doubt he could use it with any accuracy, but remember, he’s the Joker! For the clown prince of crime, a weapon so hard for him to control that he could empty the cylinder at batman and miss every shot while causing incredibly tragic collateral damage would likely be a positive, rather than a negative. Batman’s alive to keep the sick game going and he has to live with the fact your stray shots meant for him might have killed innocent bystanders as well.

* A more humorous example: When Batman talks to people, he has a tendency to move his head back and forth, side to side, or nod forward. This is a [[JustForPun nod]] to George Clooney's "smile/head bob" acting.

* Joker's teeth aren't shown on the Riddler's secrets maps. The other collectibles are things the Riddler could logically have planted himself before Arkham Asylum descended into chaos, but the Joker's teeth are left by the Joker at various times during the current night while the plan is already on (new sets of teeth appear on various places when you progress the storyline). The teeth aren't on the maps because the Riddler completed those maps before the Joker started to put them on Arkham Island. The Spirit of Arkham tablets haven't either put there by the Riddler, but they appear on the maps because the Riddler could plausibly find them while scouring the island to place his own collectibles.

* Joker's teeth aren't shown on the Riddler's secrets maps. The other collectibles are things the Riddler could logically have planted himself before Arkham Asylum descended into chaos, but the Joker's teeth are left by the Joker at various times during the current night while the plan is already on (new sets of teeth appear on various places when you progress the storyline). The teeth aren't on the maps because the Riddler completed those maps before the Joker started to put them on Arkham Island.

** '''Joker''': Guards! Guards, save me!
** '''Batman''': (SlasherSmile) What guards?
*** Seems a little out-of-character for Joker. They're pointed out many times that Joker ''wants'' Batman to kill him.
** And he's Batman. No way they're keeping him trapped in a room.
** There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.
* I was trying to figure out why Maxie Zeus has his cell hidden behind a wall. Then I started to read the Ghost of Arkham's messages and about his treatment of the insane. HE'S LEAVING ZEUS TO STARVE TO DEATH!
** I noticed that. I found it very unsettling, let me tell you.
** Alternatively, consider that Maxie Zeus' cell is conveniently located right next to the electro-shock therapy treatment. Could it be that Warden Sharp or others decided to indulge Zeus' delusions with particularly extreme electro-shock therapy, and have tried to conceal any evidence that he was ever there [[FridgeHorror for some nefarious reason]]?
*** "Even I was shocked when I saw how Maxie Zeus was treated." The Riddler already knows exactly what they're doing to the unfortunate Maxie Zeus. He spells it out for you.

* How, you might ask, did Joker take over the Asylum if Frank Boles was the only free man he had inside? ''The following deals with the BonusContent you get from www.arkhamcare.com and thus might not be known to people who've played the game.'' The Riddler helped him, that's how. By duping a person with arkhamcare login information (namely you), Riddler managed to take control of Arkham's entire computer network, thereby enabling Joker to turn the electronic security against the Asylum staff. Joker goes on with his mad scheme, Riddler walks out free and taunts Batman from an apartment back in Gotham proper, and Batman gets to suffer for your stupidity.

* A more humorous example: When Batman talks to people, he has a tendency to move his head back and forth, side to side, or nod forward. This is a nod to George Clooney's "smile/head bob" acting.

** There was that one armed guard on the police boat waiting for Gordon, whose helmet obscured his/her/its face, who said, 'Time to go, sir'. Armed mook? Harley? You decide...

** Considering how Joker loves to mess with his henchmen- even Harley, Harley genuinely did it on accident and Joker didn't care.

* A bit of Brilliance to be had about the final boss: why is Titan!Joker so easy to beat? Joker is used to using weapons or plans to fight his enemies; unlike the inmates or Bane who transform, The Joker is very unused to fighting hand to hand, especially with so much power that and his Ego, he doesn't so much fight as take easily dodgable swipes and the goes to showboating for the news heli.

* The Asylum is falling apart. Yeah, Joker's people did a number on it, but there is a LOT of weak walls, broken tile, crumbling supports, blood, probably illegal operations outside of Titan stuff, a graveyard with open caskets, and so on. There is no way that building was up to code. Who knows how many of the doctors were certified. An environment like that does not endear itself to helping non supervillains improve. So WHY DID NO ONE DO ANYTHING? We KNOW the Wayne Foundation contributed money, it's a Riddler answer. And yeah Wayne Foundation money can't fix all of it. But no one from OHSA came in and ordered it shut down? It was never brought up to code? No one talks about demolishing it and building a new place with modern mental health standards and a building that is actually clean? Maybe the supervillains can't stare there, but the people of Gotham who need help don't have options. And, quite frankly, the supervillains didn't really either. If no one cared about the building, they cared about the patients even less.

* The stinger at the end of the credits shows one of three characters (randomly selected) reaching out of the water to grasp a floating crate of Titan serum. Each of the three characters was last seen falling into water.

* Detective Mode could easily have been named [[spoiler: Knight Vision]]. In-universe though, Batman probably named this function, so the pun would've been out of character for him.
* After talking to the people you meet during the ScenicTourLevel, you learn that [[spoiler: Killer Croc is pumped full of tranquilizers before he's moved. That means Croc was sedated when you go into his lair, explaining his performance as a boss.]]
* During the intro, every time the Blackgate inmates or Joker start talking too much, Boles quickly shuts them up. [[spoiler:Because he's taking a big enough risk throwing his lot in with Joker to begin with without their blabbing ruining it all.]]
* Riddler's last interview tape reveals [[spoiler:he knew about Joker's plan. That means that Riddler had partnered with Joker. What was Riddler's role in this venture? Why to slow Batman down with the FetchQuest!]]
** A follow-up to the above one is that [[spoiler: Riddler gloated about his involvement to Dr. Young. In fact the last two Joker tapes reveal she figured out Joker funded her research, and Joker warned her that he was coming back. She never reported this to the police, Warden Sharp, or even Batman in the Medical building because she knew she'd either be arrested for working with a psycho (and experimenting on Bane has to break a few laws) or even committed to Arkham herself.]]

* A truly wonderful piece of this is realized when [[spoiler: if you go back to the transfer areas of Intensive Treatment, you will see posters bearing Quincy Sharp's image with the text "Quincy Sharp's Arkham." This is supposed to show possession, but that can also be taken to mean "Quincy Sharp IS Arkham." Which he turns out to be, in spirit anyway.]]
** The posters that describe Sharp as the [[spoiler:Voice Of Arkham fit with this as well.]]
* After fighting [[spoiler:skeletons in Scarecrow's nightmare world, you might realise that thanks to detective mode, you've seen just everybody you've fought so far as a skeleton]].
** [[spoiler: The skeletons are also noticeably more aggressive than the regular enemies, but also go down much more quickly. Joker's thugs wouldn't be so frightened to engage a drugged, hallucinating Batman. And the reason they get KO'd so quickly? Batman is less concerned about avoiding lethal force when fighting skeletons, so he's not holding back.]]
*** [[spoiler: However, this also means, since they fall apart and shatter, Batman may have accidentally killed them.]]
*** [[spoiler: Not necessarily; the ones you can check after the toxin wears off are still breathing.]]
*** [[spoiler:True. But still, the fact that Batman could so easily have killed them ''without even knowing what he was doing'' is FridgeHorror in and of itself. The near-lethal force he uses when under Scarecrow's influence proves just how much he ''does'' hold back against your average criminal... and just how utterly terrifying he would be if he didn't. ...Well. More terrifying than usual, anyway.]]
* [[spoiler: Why did Joker let Batman win so easily? This whole game was a charade to make Batman as insane as Joker!]]
** [[spoiler: Joker hints at this when he tries to poison Gordon and before the final fight.]]
** It explains how the Batmobile got through the doors to [[spoiler:take out Bane.]] He was probably expecting Bats to use it to get Gordon out, then Bane popped up and messed things up.

* After seeing Scarecrow threaten to dump his fear toxin into the Arkham Reservoir to drug all of Gotham, I realized just why Batman was so nonchalant towards Crane, even walking up to him. [[spoiler:He knew that Croc had his scent when they met at the start of the game, would rush up to attack him, and could knock him back with a Batarang to the collar. ]]This does go right to FridgeHorror though, as it suggests Batman planned to [[spoiler:let Croc possibly ''kill and eat'' Crane to stop him. He didn't bother to rescue or look for Crane.]]

** 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. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight At least for now]]]]. 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.

* It was weird how Joker somehow [[spoiler:captured Gordon a second time.]] However, Warden Sharp is [[spoiler:not on the island once you get all the Arkham Chronicles, and Gordon took the only boat on the island. At some point, he called for a ride out(reaching Gordon's boat, which came back), got spotted by henchmen, and fled while Gordon was being captured.]]

** Two: One wonders where the Ventriloquist was during this whole ordeal,and why he wouldn't have Scarface with him. Then I remembered something in one of the Spirit Of Arkham Messages [[spoiler:saying that Quincy Sharp beat a paranoid schizophrenic man to death. That WAS the Ventriloquist. This would explain how Warden Sharp HAD the puppet in his office in the first place.]]

* The health meter we see in the [[spoiler:Titan Joker]] fight isn't for [[spoiler:Titan Joker]], it's for ''the area of the floor he lands on.'' Since [[spoiler:Titan Joker]] is invincible, the only thing related to him that can be given a meter ''is'' the floor. The meter only goes down after he falls and yanks himself out, damaging it until it can't take the third impact.

* 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]].]]
* All of the Titan-infected thugs Batman fights during this game have had their minds erased by the drug, so that all they can do is lash out blindly and roar like animals. Not so for [[spoiler:the Joker]]. Why? [[spoiler:he's already too damn crazy for ''anything'' to affect his mind any further.]]
** That or, as noted on the Funny Moments page, [[spoiler:acting like a murderous savage is what the Joker is like '''all the time'''.]] Okay, it's not that hard to believe, but it does put some perspective on it when you think about it.

* It was real stupid for the guards to handcuff Joker with his hands in front, right? Then realize who cuffed him: [[spoiler: [[TheMole Frank Boles]]]]: ''That was his escape plan.''

* [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham Assault On Arkham]] 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.]]

* A bit of Brillance to b had about the final boss, why is [[spoiler: Titan!]]Joker so easy to beat?, Joker is used to using weapons or plans to fight his enemies, unlike the inmates or Bane who [[spoiler: Transform, The Joker is very unused to fighting hand to hand, especially with so much power]] that and his Ego, he doesn't so much fight as take easily dodgable swipes and the goes to showboating for the news heli.

* How, you might ask, did Joker take over the Asylum if Frank Boles was the only free man he had inside? ''The following is all in spoiler tags, because it deals with the BonusContent you get from www.arkhamcare.com and thus might not be known to people who've played the game.'' [[spoiler: The Riddler helped him, that's how. By duping a person with arkhamcare login information (namely you), Riddler managed to take control of Arkham's entire computer network, thereby enabling Joker to turn the electronic security against the Asylum staff. Joker goes on with his mad scheme, Riddler walks out free and taunts Batman from an apartment back in Gotham proper, and Batman gets to suffer for your stupidity.]]
* Going through some of the ducts in the asylum, you'll sometimes come across human skulls and filthy bones. They're clearly too old and decomposed to have been done by Joker's men, so how did they get there? [[spoiler: Then you remember what Amadeus Arkham did to inmates]].

*** Then again, seeing the levels of sanity that [[spoiler: Warden Sharp]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Young]], [[MadDoctor Hugo Strange]] and multiple orderlies that followed [[spoiler: Sharp's]] orders . Arkham probably wasn't that far off prior to Joker's takeover.

* During a playthrough, I realized that the Detective Mode could easily have been named "[[Franchise/AssassinsCreed 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.

*** Plus, after the player defeats Harley Quinn, her last (easily escapable) trap is baited with a riddler trophy.

* I was playing the [[spoiler:Titan Joker]] fight and realized that the health meter we see isn't for [[spoiler:Titan Joker]] it's for ''the area of the floor he lands on.'' Since [[spoiler:Titan Joker]] is invincible, the only thing related to him that can be given a meter ''is'' the floor. The meter only goes down after he falls onto, and yanks himself out, damaging it until it can't take the third impact.

** A follow-up to the above one is that [[spoiler: Riddler gloated about his involvement to Dr. Young. In fact the last two Joker tapes reveal she figured out Joker funded her research, and Joker warned her that he was coming back. She never reported this to the police, Warden Sharpe, or even Batman in the Medical building because she knew she'd either be arrested for working with a psycho (and experimenting on Bane has to break a few laws) or even committed to Arkham herself.]]

* A truly wonderful piece of this is realized when [[spoiler: if you go back to the transfer areas of Intensive Treatment, you will see posters bearing Quincy Sharp's image with the text "Quincy Sharpe's Arkham." This is supposed to show possession, but that can also be taken to mean "Quincy Sharpe IS Arkham." Which he turns out to be, in spirit anyway.]]
** The posters that describe Sharpe as the [[spoiler:Voice Of Arkham fit with this as well.]]

*** Actually, in the ScenicTourLevel of the game's start, Sharpe says that Two-Face and Ventriloquist were out and supposedly reformed. But since Two-Face is reported to be robbing a bank at the end that might be true for the above about ventriloquist.

** With the above's consideration it adds fuel to the FridgeHorror element as well since when one thinks back to ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' on the experimental Venom concoction that Bane discovered called "TN-1" actually induces the aforementioned users into deadly brutes. Bane's slight resilience to TITAN is a bit of an upgrade with less effect on his mind due to his extreme intelligence. A CrowningMomentofAwesome for him since he can actually control it's mere power!

** 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.

* 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 his goddamn rocker''. [[UnreliableNarrator How can we trust anything we experience from his point of view?]]

** With the above's consideration it adds fuel to the FridgeHorror element as well since when one thinks back to [[BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham Origins]] on the experimental Venom concoction that Bane discovered called "TN-1" actually induces the aforementioned users into deadly brutes. Bane's slight resilience to TITAN is a bit of an upgrade with less effect on his mind due to his extreme intelligence. A CrowningMomentofAwesome for him since he can actually control it's mere power!