History TearJerker / BatmanArkhamAsylum

* The sequence where under the influence of the Scarecrow's fear toxin, you relive the death of Bruce Wayne's parents. Including a point where you turn into Bruce Wayne as a child and stumble past the corpses of your parents. Eight-year-old Bruce overhears a police officer (presumbably Harvey Bullock) that is [[{{Jerkass}} a dick]]: ("Oh, he'll be fine. Kid like that, with all that money? Yeah, I'm sure he'll be ''just fine''... His butler's coming to pick him up... Hear that? He's got a ''butler''.") Comissioner Gordon's the only one who takes pity on Bruce, which makes it all the more SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}}.

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---> "Why did he do it, officer? Why?"

* Your first encounter with enemies with guns. An officer says "Please, I've got a kid! You don't have to do this!" After killing the officer, the goon says "You're right, I don't have to. I just want to!"

---> '''Security Officer:''' So, you're back. You killed three of my crew when you busted outta here.
---> '''Joker:''' Only three? I'll be sure to try harder next time. What say we aim for a hundred?

* Same as above, both this and horror. While saving Dr. Young from Zsasz, she's crying with her whole heart out, even with smeared make up. After the bomb blows up in her face, her body is left on the floor, with no one attending or taking it... just left there, all burned out and charred and bloodied. It would be normal if she just disappeared, like in any other game, but in this one, just the unconscious disappear, and because they left after waking up. But the dead stay there, even if they're cops or doctors or whoever else.

* Most of the Joker interviews are disturbing, but the third one is just sad. After the Joker plays the MultipleChoicePast card, Dr. Young tells him to focus on his real past. His response is one of the few times there's no manipulation or mockery in his voice: "What if... what if I'm too scared to remember? It hurts too much." It's still possible that he's just ballsing around again, but it's also possible that it's only just now he's finding out about the Titan Project - so maybe for once he is telling the truth?
** Taken even further in the ComicBook/EmperorJoker adaptation, from the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' animated series. It reveals that "Being sane and normal" is one of Joker's worst fears. So in a sense, these "Rehabilitation sessions" terrify him more than we would assume.
* So much happens in the Warden's office that you may miss this, but there's a plaque on the wall near his safe that has a dedication on it. "May this secret be as an oasis in a desert of insanity. --Daddy." It's not made clear who put this there, the Warden or Amadaeus, but it serves a sobering reminder that, for all their flaws, they've suffered through just as much loss as Batman has.

* Take a moment to look at one of the straightjacket clad maniacs Joker releases in the latter portion of the game with Detective Mode on. Their status is constantly listed as "terrified". They barely know where they are and what is going on, and are lashing out at what they think is a threat.

* Your first encounter with enemies with guns. An officer says "Please, I've got a wife and kids..." "You don't have to do this!" After killing the officer, the goon says "You're right, I don't have to. I just want to!"

* Both this and Nightmare Fuel. Seeing Bruce's parents after hearing them.

* Same as above, both this and horror. While saving Dr. Young from Zsasz, she's crying with her whole heart out, even with smeared make up. After the bomb blows out on her face, her body, left on the floor, with no one attending or taking it... just left there, all burned out and charred and bloodied. It'll be normal if she just disappears, like in any other game, but in this one, just the unconscious disappear, and because they left after waking up. But the dead stay there, even if they're cops or doctors or whatever other citizen.
* Doctor Young's death in general is pretty damn sad, as she was in the middle of [[TheAtoner atoning for]] inadvertently helping the joker make the Titan formula.

* As you leave the Medical Facility, you run into one of the distinct guards William North, you get a tearjerker laced with a sort of mournful heartwarming. After he tells you about the death of his fellow guards (which you heard earlier thanks to the Joker) he goes to one of the bodies, which he dragged in with him when he took cover and says:

* Seeing the dozens upon dozens of corpses of innocent guards and doctors throughout the game. Easily a hundred good men and women dead.

-->'''Officer North:''' Don't worry, I'll take care of Maria.

* Same as above, both this and horror. While saving [[spoiler: Dr. Young from Zsasz]], she's crying with her whole heart out, even with smeared make up. After the [[spoiler: bomb blows out on her face, her body, left on the floor, with no one attending or taking it... just left there, all burned out and charred and bloodied]]. It'll be normal if she just disappears, like in any other game, but in this one, just the unconscious disappear, and because they left after waking up. But [[spoiler: the dead]] stay there, even if they're cops or doctors or whatever other citizen.

* The first Scarecrow sequence has Batman entering the lower levels of medical seeing several people freak out, including one of the feral patients that Joker will release later on. This patient is screaming a plea for help before dying from fright. [[spoiler:Arkham City reveals that Strange experimented on these inmates to develop the mind control techniques he used on Mayor Sharp and his Tyger guards. That patient you see? He became sane enough for one last coherent thought, but only of sheer terror.]]