At some point, the Arkham Knight confronted several of Penguin's Henchmen at the docks and murdered all but one of them, broke his arm, and proceeding to threaten him with a gun to the mouth, which the surviving thug then relayed to Penguin, which caused the latter to break his other arm in anger. The Arkham Knight also reached out and hired those who had various reasons for wanting to kill Batman such as the highly skilled assassin and super-soldier, Deathstroke, to be a back up commander and consultant for the militia forces, and told the one-eyed assassin that he was the toughest combatant that Batman had ever gone up against, and who knew full well the reputation that Deathstroke had for hunting down and killing fellow warriors whom he respected.
The Arkham Knight first made himself known to Batman at Ace Chemicals while Batman was searching for Scarecrow there and found the hostages.
The Knight used an attack chopper to provide protection while Scarecrow finished perfecting his new toxin. The Knight abandoned it temporarily to face off with the Dark Knight while he was attempting to rescue the trapped workers, and instructed his men to aim at the less armored sections of Batman's Batsuit. As Batman attempted to leave with the last worker, the Knight forced a showdown between his chopper and the new Batmobile.
Batman managed to overcome them and located Scarecrow who managed to escape from his clutches. The Knight kidnapped Oracle and brought her to Scarecrow as leverage in his plan to destroy Batman. Batman attempted to track Oracle, but the Arkham Knight outsmarted him and shot and injured him in his side by using a weak spot in his armor. After taking the Cloudburst, the Knight ordered his army to retrieve Mr.
Freeze 's wife at the freighter, Nora. If he failed, the Knight had other people to lead the campaign. Working together with Poison Ivy, Batman located and freed two ancient trees that could neutralize the toxin, which allowed Ivy to heal and empower them. Batman then destroyed the Cloudburst, which allowed Ivy and the trees to neutralize the toxin, thus saving Gotham from the Cloudburst, but lost her life. The Arkham Knight tried one more time to kill Batman with his personal excavator, and managed to trap him underground in the Batmobile.
Batman was able to escape once again, but not before the Arkham Knight had admitted his role in revealing Oracle's location to Scarecrow. The Batmobile, on the other hand, was destroyed. The Arkham Knight finally revealed his true identity when Batman attempted to rescue Commissioner Gordon from the HQ of the militia at a construction site.
The Knight raised his helmet to show his face with the brand, "J" that Joker had left on him during his torture. Jason revealed that during the torture, Joker had convinced him to hate Batman for giving up and abandoning him only after six months while Joker was showing him "tough love" and that it was Batman whom he should truly hate. Jason confronted Batman using his actual name, and demanded that he tell him how long he actually searched before he gave up on him. Batman attempted to explain that he saw the tape that Joker had sent to him of him killing Jason.
The Knight bitterly yelled at Batman and told him that the only thing he wanted was Bruce dead, right before he engaged with Batman who managed to hit and damage a part of his helmet.
However, Batman finally managed to get through to Jason after a long and difficult fight. After he finally realized that Batman had never wanted to abandon him, and was willing to help him after apologizing, Jason abandoned his persona and become a violent vigilante who was known as the Red Hood. Some time following Batman's initiation of the Knightfall Protocol , Jason restarted his career as a vigilante.
Seeking to eliminate crime lord Black Mask , he attacked his thugs during an arms deal, then proceeded to eliminate his weapon storage unit's security detail.
Interrogating a survivor for his location, Red Hood dueled Black Mask in person at his downtown office, proving victorious. However, instead of granting Sionis mercy, Todd kicked the mob boss out of a window to his death several stories below. Alluding to his personal hatred of the Joker, Red Hood told Sionis to greet the clown for him in hell. The Arkham Knight seemed vengeful, but patient and calculating as well. He seemed to exploit opportunities as they were presented to him, such as discovering the Joker's diary or taking advantage of Batman's presence at Ace Chemicals to instruct his men to avoid aiming at the armored sections of his suit.
He also seemed psychopathic, and displayed no regard for the "weak" that Batman protected, and was contemptuous of the Dark Knight's principles and mercilessly killed those he deemed deserving, such as the second Electrocutioner and remaining members of Joker's gang, in cold blood. When Scarecrow asked him why he hated Batman to such a degree, the Knight coldly responded that he could never understand. However, Jason became an emotional wreck by the time Batman had defeated him, evidently scarred by Joker's physical and emotional torture.
This was made clear by several militia soldiers, who claimed that Todd was "crying" and screaming at Batman "like [he] had been going through a divorce" before his redemption. Owing to his emotional and psychological instability caused by Joker's torture of him, the Arkham Knight also was shown to change his emotions at random.
This is best demonstrated during when he unveiled his true identity to Batman, where he calmly and somewhat sarcastically commented he was "hurt" that Batman couldn't give much of a response to his being Jason Todd, only to furiously shout at Batman to not lie to him in an erratic manner, then adopt the calm persona shortly afterwards when making clear he intends to kill Batman.
This display of emotion drove him to realize his mentor's efforts to rescue him, a favor he returned by assisting Bruce in defeating Scarecrow. While he continued to ruthlessly kill criminals as the Red Hood, Todd was ultimately driven by justice. The Arkham Knight donned a militaristic version of the Batsuit that mocked Batman's appearance. The inside of his helmet and the tactical visor that covered it gave him a heads up display of his troops throughout Gotham and the ears relayed his commands to his troops.
The visor also appeared to mask his voice as his main means of concealing his identity. In stark contrast to most versions of Bane, he is depicted as a massive hulking monster that keeps the player on edge on the first playthrough.
There is also an element of body horror as Joker fills him with Titan, forcing the player to watch as Bane's muscles and bones break and reform into the monster. However, of all the many different boss fights of the series, Bane is one of the weaker ones. After the initial shock of his first appearance, he's easy to defeat. This is a shame because Bane is one of the most capable fighters in Batman's villain roster.
Serial killer Victor Zsasz does not have a large role in Arkham Asylum but he does stand out. In general, the entire concept of the character is unnerving since the tally marks on his skin represent a victim he's killed. Since there are dozens, if not hundreds of marks, the amount of killing makes him inherently scary.
In the actual Arkham Asylum campaign, however, he only makes two appearances. He takes hostages and threatens to kill them with Batman quickly dispatching him. The character is creepier than any of the actions he takes in the story.
The jovial and iconic performance of Mark Hamill as the Joker can provide many laughs and smiles but he is still an evil mastermind with a sadistic sense of humor. From beginning to end, Joker is constantly taunting and mocking Batman through the intercoms, and for every funny one-liner, he'll provide a humorous yet sinister one.
From his evil giggles to quiet threats, Mark Hamill goes all out with this more mature version of Joker. Even the design of him is less than comforting with an unnaturally skinny figure, long pointed chin, and other features that make him look almost inhuman.
Batman cannot fight him, but Clayface does make an appearance in Batman: Arkham Asylum as a disturbing cameo. In a way, I guess being faithful to the comics has its own merits, and it shows how much passion the studio clearly has for every part of the Dark Knight's source material.
Rocksteady does the entirety of the Jason Todd arc within Arkham Knight. Honestly, in the torture scenes, I'm certain that everyone who predicted Jason Todd before the game came out went, "Yeah, it's definitely him," in that moment. But then the game also gives non-Batman comics fans a very easy way to figure it out. If you'd never heard of Jason, but had played the previous Arkham games, it would surely be clear as to why these torture scenes with the Joker and Jason would pop up in the story now.
That history with the reader is why Jason Todd returning was such a big moment in comics - it was the Robin that Batman failed to save, back from the dead after 17 years, not just four or five hours.
It's why the Hush side-quest in Knight is so effective: almost four years ago, I saw Tommy Elliott escape Arkham City wearing Bruce Wayne's face, and confronting him now as a player, years later felt fantastic.
Not that I blame Rocksteady, or anything - planning that far in advance is too much to ask, but the choice to have the Arkham Knight be the main thread of the story means a lot rests on that reveal. Logically, if you cycle through all the characters who have appeared in the Arkham series to date, who else could it have been? I think they could've barely gotten away with Hush, but it would still feel out of character - with him stealing Bruce Wayne's identity in City, him reappearing in a costume that parallels Batman's would've had some narrative logic.
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