12/18/2023 0 Comments Arkham knight shadow war hospitalIn their climactic battle, Batman rips off his faux-bat mask to reveal a sub-helmet that looks quite a bit like the Red Hood mask, and obvious nod from Rocksteady. Joker reveals that he simply brainwashed Todd and didn’t kill him, and in the game, Todd wants quite literally nothing but to see Batman suffer and eventually die. The Arkham Knight is a twisted variant of the Red Hood. There’s also a variant of this tale told in the more recent Hush story, where Todd is a fake-out for another masked villain (who weirdly also shows up in Arkham Knight). He tries to kill Joker who murdered him the first time, and also has it in for Batman for leaving him to die. There too, his identity is a mystery until it’s revealed that Ra’s al Ghul resurrected Todd in a Lazarus Pit, but it didn’t take and he went insane. Joker’s hallucination would have been a big enough clue on its own, but I, like many Batman fans, am familiar with Under the Red Hood, a Batman story that has Jason Todd killed by the Joker (as occurred in a previous story, Death in the Family) and return from the grave to wreak havoc on both Batman and the Gotham underworld. At that point, I knew where things were headed, and I wasn’t wrong. During a main mission about two-thirds of the way through the story, the in-my-head Joker taunted Batman by showing him an elaborate flashback about when he executed Jason Todd, Batman’s second Robin. Ahead of launch, Rocksteady promised the Arkham Knight was a wholly original creation they cooked up in collaboration DC, so that had fans excited about the potential of the reveal.Īs it turns out, they weren’t being entirely truthful. The entire game is focused on a pair of villains, the familiar Scarecrow and the unfamiliar Arkham Knight, an armored Batman clone who has no problem using firearms and commands a drone/merc army that swarms Gotham as Scarecrow devises his plan to drown everyone in fear gas for the millionth time.įor the duration of the game, the Arkham Knight’s identity is a big mystery to everyone, Batman included, and no amount of Alfred’s research turns up anything even resembling a clue as to who he may be. The first and most obvious ending of Arkham Knight, the story ending, is bound to be controversial in its own right.
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