History VideoGame / LegoBatman

** This is the only game in the series to feature [[AnotherSideAnotherStory two stories]], with the second story entirely centered around playing as the main villains. By contrast, the sequels only have one storyline.

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%%* GunsAkimbo: Joker, Two-Face, and Hush.

* SolveTheSoupCans / GuideDangIt:
** The puzzles to find the hidden minikit canisters, Power Bricks, and various other collectibles. You won't know something in the area will make those items appear until you've already done it. A good example is constructing the dollar sign in "The Face-Off". Finding these items without a guide (or the Minikit/Power Brick detector cheat) can be difficult.
** There's a Power Brick in "The Riddler Makes a Withdrawal" level that requires you to park a car into a trash compactor, crushing it into an object you can break to get the item to appear, though because of the ambiguous eye candy, it could've been hard to tell it was a compactor at all.
** Several parts of levels are confusing since the typical ColorCodedForYourConvenience mechanics are difficult to identify due to lighting. Other puzzles are easily overlooked, since they involve repeating an action which granted you something important to the level and give you a minikit the next time, or recreating a condition of the level which goes against the player's instincts to move on (since the games are normally very linear). One that falls under both types of this confusion is in the fourth level of ''Batman 2'', in ComicBook/MrFreeze's section of the level. A frozen wall needs to be climbed over the cell to reach a switch that will turn off the electricity on the ladder leading to it. This will melt the ice wall, however, and the player has to use Robin's Ice Suit to refreeze said water. However, the lighting makes it difficult to see the bouncing blue studs indicating freezable water, and it's easy to forget that you can do so at all, since the cutscene emphasizes it melting.
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%%* VillainTeamUp: Several.

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* YouDontLookLikeYou: Mentioned when Batman and Robin confront Killer Croc and he's much bigger than before. This was because Croc's LEGO form in ''LEGO Batman 1 and 2'' was that of a normal-sized LEGO figure, before ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes'' introduced the larger LEGO figures, which Croc turned into once it was introduced.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: In one level you can use a museum's dinosaur skeletons as your personal HumongousMecha.

* BadHumorTruck: Taken UpToEleven by Mr. Freeze's ice cream ''[[NoOshaCompliance factory]]'' of death. The Joker has a more traditional one as his "personal" vehicle, but it's not particularly remarkable and has no role in the actual story.

* PercussiveMaintenance: Taken UpToEleven when Green Lantern gets malfunctioning machinery to behave by using his ring to form a boot the size of a van to kick it.

** You can find the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' version of the Batmobile in the Batcave hub. Destroying it and rebuilding it makes it the Burton batmobile, so it's unfortunately not usable.

** Hilariously, you get to destroy the Arkham Knight Batmobile and build the Batmobile from its pieces, ''before'' it got its famous negative reception.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In a cutscene for the opening level "Theatrical Pursuits" has a news reporter call Bruce Wayne a playboy. Years later, [[VideoGame/LegoMarvelsAvengers another billionaire in another comics property]] had his line edited to remove the word "playboy" even though both games are rated E10+.

* NiceHat: The Mad Hatter has one. Even his description, at the beginning of the level "Joker's Home Turf", mentions his "large and fantastic hat".

** In ''Lego Batman 2'', a cutscene for the opening level "Theatrical Pursuits" has a news reporter call Bruce Wayne a playboy. Years later, [[VideoGame/LegoMarvelsAvengers another billionaire in another comics property]] had his line edited to remove the word "playboy" even though both games are rated E10+.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Every time a subtertanean passage of any sort pops up in the games, whether it's sewers or subways, it will be much more elaborate and spacious than in real life.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The first two games feature bat-suit powerups with different abilities (one set for Batman and Batgirl; another for Robin and Nightwing). The third game gives such suits to Joker, Lex Luthor, and Cyborg in addition to Batman and Robin, but Nightwing and Batgirl no longer have access to them, and alternate versions of Batman and Robin -- Batman (Zur-En-Arrh), Robin (1966), etc. -- only have one suit with a mixture of powers.

* GlassShatteringSound: Every game gives Batman a suit with this ability. ''DC Superheroes'' and ''Beyond Gotham'' add characters who have this ability innately.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the actual movies. ''Especially'' compared to ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''.
* {{Nerf}}: ComicBook/TheRiddler, Mad Hatter and Scarecrow lost all special abilities in ''Batman 2'', save for the puzzle boxes only Riddler could open. This is amended in ''Batman 3'' where Hatter and Riddler regain their mind control, and Riddler has a throwable cane and super senses, while Hatter gains playing cards to throw. Scarecrow makes no appearance at all outside of the Nolanverse DLC character, though that version has explosives. Fully subverted, and in fact more along the lines of BalanceBuff, in ''DC Super-Villains'', where Scarecrow gains some new abilities more in line with his skillset, such as Fear powers almost on par with a Yellow Lantern (though without the building ability), while Riddler and Mad Hatter

* TeamworkPuzzleGame

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* TheAce: Batman.
* BaldOfEvil: Penguin and Mad Hatter, under their {{Nice Hat}}s.
** And of course, Lex Luthor.
* CastingGag:
** In ''Beyond Gotham'' Ike Amadi voices [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 a green alien who is the last of his kind]].
** In ''Beyond Gotham'', the Green Loontern (Voiced by Joe Alaskey) expresses disappointment that Kevin Smith is in the game, which is amusing [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers since he's appeared alongside Smith before.]]

* {{Nerf}}: ComicBook/TheRiddler, Mad Hatter and Scarecrow lost all special abilities in ''Batman 2'', save for the puzzle boxes only Riddler could open. This is amended in ''Batman 3'' where Hatter and Riddler regain their mind control, and Riddler has a throwable cane and super senses, while Hatter gains playing cards to throw. Scarecrow makes no appearance at all outside of the Nolanverse DLC character, though that version has explosives.

* RummageFail: Solomon Grundy and Swamp Thing will toss various items like boulders and bicycles out of swamp pits before finding the item needed in the level.
* RunningGag: Killer Moth's obsession with lightbulbs pops up in all three games.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: While the first ''LEGO Batman'' played this trope straight by featuring only Gotham characters, ''LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes'' averts this by having other members of the Justice League come into play. In fact, a major part of the story is Batman's unwillingness to call for help when he needs to until the end.

* WallCrawl: Every game gives Robin a suit that can walk up magnetic surfaces. ''DC Superheroes'' and ''Beyond Gotham'' expand the suit's abilities to full MagnetismManipulation and give the functionality to other characters as well.

** In ''Lego Batman 2'', a cutscene for the opening level "Theatrical Pursuits" has a news reporter call Bruce Wayne a playboy. Years later, [[LegoMarvelsAvengers another billionaire in another comics property]] had his line edited to remove the word "playboy" even though both games are rated E10+.

* GetBackHereBoss: You chase ComicBook/PoisonIvy through the Gotham Botanic Gardens in order to defeat and unlock her.
%%** ComicBook/HarleyQuinn.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Scarecrow's fear gas ''seems'' like it would be useful, since it temporarily freezes all enemy actions... except it only works on one {{Mook}} at a time, casting it on another immediately returns the first one to normal, casting it leaves him wide open to attacks, and it lasts for a ridiculously short time anyhow.

** The BigBad for every game in the series get increasingly larger in scope for their goals, with the first having a BigBadEnsemble of Riddler, Penguin, and Joker simply terrorising Gotham, the second having the BigBadDuumvirate of Joker and Lex Luthor trying to take over America, the third having Brainiac threaten to capture all of Earth for his collection, and ''DC Supervillains'' having Darkseid potentially enthrall all life in the universe to his will through the Anti-Life Equation. [[spoiler:If a potential fifth game follows from the SequelHook in TheStinger involving the Anti-Monitor, then the threat would escalate even further into the ''multi-verse''.]]

** The BigBad for every game in the series get increasingly larger in scope for their goals, with the first having a BigBadEnsemble of Riddler, Pengui, and Joker simply terrorising Gotham, the second having the BigBadDuumvirate of Joker and Lex Luthor trying to take over America, the third having Brainiac threaten to capture all of Earth for his collection, and ''DC Supervillains'' having Darkseid potentially enthrall all life in the universe to his will through the Anti-Life Equation. [[spoiler:If a potential fifth game follows from the SequelHook in TheStinger involving the Anti-Monitor, then the threat would escalate even further into the ''multi-verse''.]]

* TheStoic: Batman.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Some characters who were morally-ambiguous in the comics get made into straight-up villains.
** Sinestro, Atrocitus, and Larfleeze were generally villainous in the comics, but they each had noble qualities and could be heroic when faced with a worse threat (such as Braniac, for instance). Here, they’re just villains who refuse to help save Earth from Braniac.
** As bad as the Crime Syndicate may have been in the comics, they would never have sold Earth out to Darkseid.

** It's normally only possible to get into the southern-most part of Gotham City after unlocking Superman and then either flying in or using his heat vision to burn the locks off the gates blocking your path. However there is a tall building near the eastern bridge with a Batsuit which you can use to glide over the barrier. This gives you access to the southern section of the city and air vehicles much sooner than normally possible.

* {{Nerf}}: ComicBook/TheRiddler, Mad Hatter and ComicBook/{{Scarecrow}} lost all special abilities in ''Batman 2'', save for the puzzle boxes only Riddler could open. This is amended in ''Batman 3'' where Hatter and Riddler regain their mind control, and Riddler has a throwable cane and super senses, while Hatter gains playing cards to throw. Scarecrow makes no appearance at all outside of the Nolanverse DLC character, though that version has explosives.

** Prior to ''3'' and ''DC Supervillains'' (the former of which forced an EnemyMine and the latter being based upon playing the villains), this was the only game in the series that had levels entirely centered around playing as the main villains.

* UnwinnableByMistake: Reportedly it is not possible to get OneHundredPercentCompletion in the UsefulNotes/{{PS2}} version because some of the minikits are missing.

* SuddenlyVoiced: This is the first VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame where the characters have intelligible dialogue instead of being {{Heroic Mime}}s or SpeakingSimlish.