History VideoGame / BatmanTheTelltaleSeries

*** During Harvey's fundraiser event at the beginning, Vicki is one of the few who doesn't applaud him.

** When Harvey finds Bruce and Selina and accuses them of having an affair, there are 2 of these:

*** The second one is optional, but if you didn't take the Bat Grapple back, Harvey will act as if it is not even there.

*** The first one is that Bruce's arm and shoulder are wrapped into a sling, an injury that would have raised a few questions from someone else.

** [[spoiler:Thomas and Martha Wayne]] are extremely ruthless in this version, with Bruce having remembered them fondly while not knowing much about them. In reality, they were part of a mob, with [[spoiler:Thomas]] being one of the triumvirate in charge of Gotham City, alongside [[TheDon Carmine Falcone]] and [[spoiler:[[MayorPain Hamilton Hill]], and [[DrivenToMadness drove Esther Cobblepot to insanity]] and threw her away in [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]] along with many others to punish them for not going along with deals he wanted made.]]

* AntiClimax: Invoked. [[spoiler:Due to the combined efforts of Batman, who destroys their weapons delivery system and incapacitates Oswald, and Mayor Dent, who extrajudicially takes out their remaining drugs and many of their personnel, the Children of Arkham meet this end -- going from a shadowy group of revolutionaries capable of attacking a mayoral debate head on, usurping Bruce Wayne from his own corporation, rallying the underclass to their cause, and threatening an entire city with their mind-altering chemical weapon, to a petty band of terrorists whose sole remaining option is to release all of the insane inmates of Arkham to cause short term chaos]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Agency manages to implant a shock collar onto Bane to keep him under their thumb. However, they send the agent who controls Bane ''out in the same battlefield as the berserk villain'' to keep an eye on him instead of having the controlling agent away at a safe distance where Bane can't reach him. Unsurprisingly, this leads to Bane breaking free from his control temporarily to rampage. Even worse? There’s an Agency helicopter that’s used to drop off Bane, meaning there’s zero justification for the collar controller being on the ground in the first place.

* HomoeroticSubtext: John Doe is canonically infatuated with Harley Quinn, but this doesn't stop him from hanging onto your every word and trying to convince the other members to let you in by saying "Bruce's smart - and handsome! He's really handsome, you guys! ({{Beat}}) [[ThatCameOutWrong Where was I going with this...]]" Basically, Bruce serves as his MoralityChain and Harley is, well, [[ToxicFriendInfluence the opposite]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: John Doe is a white skinned, green haired man who barely understands right from wrong and is incredibly naive. Not only that, but he had no education, barely any life skills, and the system is incredibly broken. He isn't assigned a therapist out of Arkham to keep him straight, isn't give a case worker to keep employed and housed, and he doesn't have any known family or support base outside of Arkham. He immediately falls through the cracks and becomes a easily controlled homeless criminal being manipulated by the first girl who ever showed him affection.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In episode 5, during the [[spoiler: Villainous Joker story arc, the clown is holding several people hostage at a sadistic dinner party, including Bruce and Alfred, Alfred making a tray of scones for the occasion. When the the tray is smashed over Bruce's face, one of the scones falls on the table, smashed open to reveal one of Batman's electronic shock weapons. Considering this is a black puck with electric bolts noisily flying around it, you would think it would be noticed. However, neither Joker, Harley Quinn, or any of their goons see it, despite the former two sitting down at the table with it right in front of them. Also, if any of the other two dinner guests see it, they don't show it.]]

*** You can try to [[spoiler:find the Ridder's location]] either by [[spoiler:talking to businessman Rumi Mori, but doing so will irritate Amanda Waller]], or by [[spoiler:talking to the Riddler's henchman Eli Knable, but doing so will irritate Commissioner Gordon.]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:if you go to Mori, he'll give you a flash drive with info on Riddler if you give him enough money to leave the country. You can choose to do so and allow him to get away with his crimes, or take the drive by force and earn Mori's wrath. On the other hand, if you go to interrogate Eli, you can play good cop and try to coerce and bluff him into giving Riddler up. Or you can beat a confession out of him, and the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique is ''played completely straight'', to a brutal and frightening degree if you do, leaving Eli a bloody, begging mess, likely with irreversible brain trauma.]]

** Niether Gordon nor the Wayne Board is told that Bruce is undercover. As a result, Gordon gets fired when he attempts to arrest Bruce for what he perceives is aiding a terrorist cell, while in the villain route, Bruce almost loses his job unless he says that he was undercover.

** [[spoiler:Succeeding in actually getting a RelationshipUpgrade with Selina in the Vigilante ending of Season 2 can be a real pain. The steps involved include picking the dialogue option for Waller to release Selina in exchange for your help, telling Selina you love her when she saves you from the rubble, then finally reminding Waller she owes you after you rescue her from Joker. It's such a hard-to-complete path that the end-of-episode statistics state that only three percent of players have managed it.]]

* GuideDangIt: As players may expect, earning Victor's trust requires that Bruce promise to cure his wife. What players may not expect is [[spoiler:it will only work if you make that promise in a certain way, by telling Victor that his wife deserves a chance at life or proposing that they mutually help each other out. If you make that promise by telling Victor that Bruce takes care of his "friends", this will actually ''cost'' you Victor's trust, as Victor will decide that Bruce is being "very vague" after Bruce says he takes care of his "people" when Victor says he doesn't have friends.]]

* SadClown: John Doe is this, and he only becomes worse when he becomes Joker. The main source of his anguish depends on whether you [[spoiler:pick the Vigilante or Villain route]].
** [[spoiler: In Episode 5, on the Vigilante path, Alfred will tell a joke about a man with shaky hands when Bruce comes to after having fallen several stories down a building and being impaled on a piece of debris. It is during this part of the story that Alfred is slightly more upbeat and funny, but is visibly fed up with the anxiety he gets from Bruce's stubborn crusade as Batman.]]

*** At the debate, Penguin chooses Vicki from among the hostages to administer the truth drug to the candidates [[spoiler:and if you're paying attention, you'll notice he doesn't have to give her any details on how to do so]].

** In the first episode, Bruce can suggest one of several slogans for Harvey's mayoral campaign. A couple ("Let's Put a Dent in Crime!", "A New Face for Gotham!", to which Harvey replies "that's not half bad.") foreshadow Harvey's transformation into Two-Face.

---->[[spoiler:'''John Doe''': Ooh boy, it's gonna be tough to top that! But I'll give it a shot...]]

---->[[spoiler:'''John Doe''': He sure does clean up well. See you soon, Brucie.]]

-->'''Scarface:''' You'd think [[spoiler:a freak with green hair]] would be pretty goddamn memorable, right?

''Batman: The Telltale Series'' is an episodic AdventureGame by Creator/TelltaleGames. The game is based on the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' character by Creator/DCComics, and takes place early in the Caped Crusader's career.

Early in the career of the Dark Knight, before having encountered many of the Rogues Gallery that would go on to define him, Batman waged a war against organised crime in Gotham City, his primary targets being suspected mob boss Carmine Falcone, and corrupt mayor Hamilton Hill. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne attempts to help Gotham City by funding the mayoral campaign of District Attorney Harvey Dent, while his old childhood friend Oswald Cobblepot comes back to Gotham after a near twenty-year absence. After a chance encounter with a certain feline-themed thief, Batman finds his dual identities colliding in ways he never could have foreseen, leading him to wonder if his parents were the pillars of Gotham he thought they were...

A second season, titled Batman: The Enemy Within, was later announced, with episode 1 released on August 8, 2017.

!!''Batman: The Telltale Series'' contains examples of:

* SpiritualSuccessor: A hard-boiled detective who's seen as a villain by the people he protects while desperately doing all he can to save his city from a corrupt secret society. This is the best sequel to ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' that never happened.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Given this has a more realistic take on Batman, this is to be expected.
** There are some injuries Batman gets that Bruce has to explain away, but Selina manages to figure out his identity almost immediately. Even solid excuses can be brushed aside when people make the connection, as Alfred warns Bruce.
** Batman cannot be in two places at once, unlike most Batman media where he is always able to save both people, the '''Arkham''' series especially used it. As a result, when Batman has to save someone and he has to choose, the other person he did not save winds up dead or maimed.
** Unlike most other incarnations of Batman, who strictly operate at night, Batman has very little trouble working during the day if he absolutely must.
** Batman's preferred method of interrogation, going into JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, suffers especially harsh treatment. While it will get answers, being too brutal with thugs will result in Batman's relationship with Gordon suffering, and even if Batman is relatively gentle, the technique can still hurt.
** If Batman decides to pay a visit to Mayor Hill, Batman suffers a major hit with Gordon. Despite the fact everyone knows Hill is corrupt, he is still the Mayor and even if Batman is very restrained, and never threatens Hill, he still is threatening the person who runs the city.

* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Averted. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Turns out]], when trained psychologist Harley Quinn meets unstable, erratic John Doe, she's a bit better at manipulating him than vice versa, even if he's smarter than he seems and she does have feelings for him. [[spoiler:Subverted later on; Joker's influence may not be what drives her insane, but Harley does have genetic mental problems that appear to be eroding her sense of self. When John starts asserting himself, there are signs of their traditional relationship being set up]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A lot, surprisingly.
** [[spoiler: John Doe's stint as Vigilante Joker rapidly goes south, as he goes from HeroicWannabe following Batman's lead to a KnightTemplar who Batman has to stop. It's made clear numerous times that the one thing keeping Bruce from becoming the criminals he hunts is his self-restraint and his strict adherence to his code and morality. Joker, being TheMentallyDisturbed, doesn't have either of those, and his crusade against the Agency quickly devolves from an effort to clean out corruption to essentially just lashing out at whoever he thinks wronged him.]]
** Much like in canon, Waller [[spoiler: gets to form her Suicide Squad from Bane, Harley Quinn, and Catwoman, who she tries to put to use against Batman and Joker in Episode 5. Given however that her squad is formed of a bunch of barely restrained supercriminals who hate both her and Batman, they can charitably be described as loose cannons: Bane quickly turns on and tries to kill his handler the first chance he gets, Harley ends up abusing her new authority in Waller's absence to try and intimidate Batman and the GCPD, leading to Gordon arresting her, and, depending on your choices, Batman uses the leverage he has on Waller to force her to release Catwoman.]]
** In order to successfully infiltrate the Pact, Bruce is forced to break into his own company at gunpoint. A security guard gets assaulted, and Alfred changes the footage to hide it. Unfortunately, the guard still goes to the police with the incident, and Gordon easily sees through the false footage. As a result, Bruce gets arrested before Waller steps in. In the Villain Route, Bruce nearly loses his job again, unless he tells the Board he was working undercover with the feds. Regardless of the fact he was made a fed sting operator, Bruce was still associated with evil criminals.
** Alfred still has PTSD from being kidnapped in the last season. [[spoiler:He later realizes this is actually not the case, but that being Batman's closest ally causes him so much stress that it causes him physical symptoms. He understandably decides to retire when he realizes that he's getting too old to withstand that amount of pressure, and that if he keeps watching over Bruce he is going to die from it]].