History NightmareFuel / BatmanArkhamCity

* Take too long to complete the disarm the bombs mission in ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'', and you get to see [[spoiler:Gordon watching the building that Batman, Robin and Harley are in]] explode.

* Regardless of how horrifying Two-Face was in TheDarkKnight, Arkhamverse's Two-Face is somehow even worse.

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* The Penguin, previously not a villain to be taken seriously (''BatmanReturns'' aside), is now, all of a sudden, enough of a CompleteMonster to rival TheJoker, with his unpleasant mannerisms and the way he [[ColdBloodedTorture brutally tortures the cops he holds hostage]].

-->'''Calendar Man:''' "I wasn't real close to my dad, and after my first internment at Arkham we never spoke at all. Seems he wrote me off as a wacko, a loser. So after I was released, I wanted to clear the air between us. The next Father's Day I dropped by his place and suggested we go fishing. You ever go fishing with your pop? Well, it's some fun, let me tell you. The two of us, out on the water, pulling in one whopper after another. [[spoiler: Of course, I was doing the actual pulling. Dad was baiting the hooks. [[CompleteMonster You know, with a finger, a foot, an eye... whatever I had left of him. Even today, whenever I eat a nice piece of fish, I feel closer to my dear old dad]]]]."
* Exploring Gotham City tunnels for a long period of time searching for Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assassins can be creepy as well, when, after finding him and head back to the surface near the subway: you are greeted with a crapload of bodies piled on top of each other, Holocaust-style. Each of these men were Penguin's soldiers and after Batman took down Penguin and started searching for Ra's, a gang, presumably the Joker's, offed the leaderless clan and executed them all. It was a disturbing sight to behold.

** Hostage number 5 is the worst, as he's constantly electrocuting her while you take time trying to solve his puzzles.

* Riddler's [[spoiler: final]] challenge room, where you must save Anne Bishop. As you progress through the room, [[spoiler: you will hear Riddler shocking her at regular intervals while she screams in agony. And every time, once the electricity stops, she gasps in pain and begs you to save her]]. And all this while he's taunting you about how stupid you are for not solving it faster when you're probably feeling guilty as it is for not having already saved her.

* As Batman pays his respects at the spot where the Waynes had died in Crime Alley, you hear tearjerking music... and the gunshots that killed him, over and over again until you get up. Not only that there is Strange's message before hand.

* As Batman pays his respects at the spot where the Waynes had died in Crime Alley, you hear tearjerking music... and the gunshots that killed him, over and over again until you get up. Not only that there is Strange's message before hand.

* Hugo Strange and Catwoman, in order to give the above-seen page image context. If you get seen during Catwoman’s StealthBasedMission, Hugo Strange appears in the [[GameOverMan game over screen]]. One of them is him holding a scalpel with a SlasherSmile on his face and smugly saying: "I will enjoy dissecting your brain, Miss Kyle!", in a [[CoreyBurton totally not]]-ChristopherLee voice. The way he said it makes it sound like he was eager to slice Catwoman's head open while she was still alive.

* [[spoiler:Azrael]]. He follows Batman literally everywhere, and if you throw Batarangs at him, he will simply catch them. Yes: [[ParanoiaFuel someone who can stalk]] [[MemeticMutation the Goddamn Batman]]. [[spoiler: Curiously swinging to the top of a Ferris wheel results in finding some guy in a hood calmly staring you down.]]

** Let's not forget this gem: "I hope you're breathing through fractured ribs and punctured lungs! And if you're not, then you'd better summon up all your energy and run, because after I finish with the Bat, ''you're all next!''". Sure, slight paraphrasing, but take a [[IncrediblyLamePun chill pill,]] Penguin.

* When fighting Mr Freeze, you can briefly scan him in Detective Mode before his jammer blocks your vision. The creepy part is that while most human characters show up as x-ray skeletons in Detective Mode, Freeze is only a skeleton from the neck up. Just a skull and stump of spinal cord in a robotic suit. Of course, this only means that other than the head, the suit can't be penetrated by Detective Mode's x-ray vision. Another detail some people might find unnerving that unlike other enemies, his heart rate drops to single digits while you're fighting him, but climbs back to normal when outside the fight.
* Pretty much the whole ending of the main game can be seen this way. "Highlights" include [[spoiler: Hugo Strange being stabbed through the chest in a bloody fashion, Ra's being impaled, Talia getting shot and you face off with [[HumanoidAbomination Clayface]] before watching as the Joker dies in a messed up version of GoOutWithASmile.]]

** His story about his father takes the cake. It starts out actually kind of nice, although the player is likely [[GenreSavvy wary about what's coming next]] because this is probably not the first time they've heard one of his stories. If it is, players are in for one hell of a WhamLine at the end of the monologue.

* Pretty much all of the villains used in the Arkhamverse are made worse than most other adaptations, possibly because they're portrayed less like [[CardCarryingVillain crazy costumed villains]] and more like AxCrazy, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], [[AxCrazy dangerously insane]] [[SerialKiller murderers]].

* As a sorta-{{deconstruction}} of HolidayMode, there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57K0vG0cfTM&list=FLConvpVrr9mBnunMj19Sq6Q&index=1&feature= Calendar Man's disturbing monologues:]] while in the main canon he very rarely kills anyone, in Arkham City that's all he does, and each fits the theme of the month in a very grisly way. Each murder is also described in a CreepyMonotone.

* In Catwoman's mission she can choose to walk off with the loot or save Batman. Walk off with the loot and the game ends, with the credits rolling and horrifying radio messages of how everyone in Arkham and Gotham had been killed because Catwoman didn't save Batman. After a while the scene rewinds back so she can make the right choice.

** If you zoom in on the Joker television-mannequins, they start laughing quietly. It's unnerving to a first-time player. Add that to the background music and the fact Harley ''sounds'' more insane than she did the first time and you've got a damned effective opening.

* Harley's RoomFullOfCrazy in the DLC: a shrine to Joker with incredibly depressing and incredibly disturbing graffiti all over the walls.

* Pretty much all of the villains used in the Arkhamverse are made worse than most other adaptations, possibly because they're portrayed less like [[CardCarryingVillain crazy costumed villains]] and more like AxCrazy, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], [[AxCrazy dangerously insane]] [[SerialKiller murderers]].

** One of Zsasz's [[HaveANiceDeath game over screens]] has him delivering a chilling "WhatTheHellHero": "I'm going to [[ColdBloodedTorture take my time]], Batman... after all, [[YouBastard you took yours...]]".

** [[spoiler: After the Stealth Tutorial on the church, you can see Hush being treated by another doctor. Said doctor promptly starts to narrate how Thomas Elliot ripped off his own face.]]

** Said [[spoiler: bunny mask]] is shown as a JumpScare when you struggle to take it off Not helped by the eerie similarities between the [[spoiler: bunny mask]] and the one seen in ''DonnieDarko''.

** The Penguin isn't a FatherToHisMen either, instead opting for being a BadBoss at its worst.

--> '''Thug:''' ''"But Mr. Cobblepot, we're stuck too!"''
--> '''Penguin:''' ''"So?"''
--> '''Thug:''' ''"We can't get back!"''
--> '''Penguin:''' ''"And your point ''is''?"''
--> '''Thug:''' ''"You've left us here with Joker's crew!"''
--> '''Penguin:''' ''"Try an' take some of 'em down before ya die, son!"'' [disconnects]

* The Joker's always looked creepier than usual in the Arkhamverse, but this time around his appearance borders on BodyHorror: his disease has taken an obvious and terrible toll. After encountering him at the steel mill the loading screen his white face and expression make him look like a decaying skull.

* While he doesn't make an actual appearance beyond a quick cameo, Killer Croc's name is mentioned by the prisoners throughout Arkham City, some even saying that they've seen him in the sewers, thus providing ParanoiaFuel that eventually culminates in [[spoiler: that JumpScare of a cameo of his, in the sewers. He can smell Batman dying and decides to wait until the Titan kills him and then eat the corpse.]]

* For another JumpScare, there's the [[spoiler: mechanical and]] skeletal T-Rex randomly [[spoiler: roaring and bursting into flames]]; even better, [[EnemyChatter one of the Penguin's mooks]] remarks [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "I love it when they scream"]] shortly afterwards.

* As a sorta-{{deconstruction}} of HolidayMode, there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57K0vG0cfTM&list=FLConvpVrr9mBnunMj19Sq6Q&index=1&feature= Calendar Man's disturbing monologues:]] while in the main canon he very rarely kills anyone, in Arkham City that's all he does, and each fits the theme of the month in a very grisly way. Each murder is also described in CreepyMonotone.

-->'''Calendar Man:''' ''"I wasn't real close to my dad, and after my first internment at Arkham we never spoke at all. Seems he wrote me off as a wacko, a loser. So after I was released, I wanted to clear the air between us. The next Father's Day I dropped by his place and suggested we go fishing. You ever go fishing with your pop? Well, it's some fun, let me tell you. The two of us, out on the water, pulling in one whopper after another. [[spoiler: Of course, I was doing the actual pulling. Dad was baiting the hooks. [[CompleteMonster You know, with a finger, a foot, an eye... whatever I had left of him. Even today, whenever I eat a nice piece of fish, I feel closer to my dear old dad]]]]."''

* In Wonder City, when you enter the second room upon nearing Ra's Al Ghul's lair, you're presented with a roomful of hanged inmates, and a still living one with a sword in his back saying "T-They're everywhere!" before expiring.

* During (or after) your journey through Zsasz's hideout, if you stop near the floating rafter and turn on Detective mode, you can spot four skeletal figures: one belonging to Zsasz, two are his hostages, and there's a third sitting in the bottom of the flooding and draining room. How it got there in the first place isn't addressed, but then again, knowing Zsasz, it would be almost redundant.

** What makes it [[FridgeHorror subtly more disturbing]] is the fact that none of the inmates seem to have any problem with this. Given that in RealLife, people who commit matricide are second only to child molesters as the lowest of the low in prison hierarchy, one wonders just how screwed up the Joker's ''entire gang'' is.

* Pretty much all of the villains used in the Arkhamverse are made worse than most other adaptations, possibly because they're portrayed less like [[CardCarryingVillain crazy costumed villains]] and more like AxCrazy, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], [[PlayedForDrama dangerously insane]] [[SerialKiller murderers]].

* Hugo Strange and Catwoman, in order to give the above-seen page image context. If you get seen during Catwoman’s StealthBasedMission, Hugo Strange appears in the [[GameOverMan game over screen]]. One of them is him holding a scalpel with a SlasherSmile on his face and smugly saying: "I will enjoy dissecting your brain, Miss Kyle!", in a totally not-ChristopherLee voice. The way he said it makes it sound like he was eager to slice Catwoman's head open while she was still alive.

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** Flaming, ball and chain-swinging [[spoiler: Solomon Grundy]] that fires [[spoiler: positively stupid amounts of electricity]] at you.

** Let's not forget this gem: "I hope you're breathing through fractured ribs and punctured lungs! And by God, if you can still move, you better summon up all your energy and run, because I'm coming for you.". Sure, slight paraphrasing, but take a [[IncrediblyLamePun chill pill,]] Penguin.

* The Riddler in general is pretty nightmare-inducing in this game: he started as harmless in the previous game, even a little silly, only to turn out to be NotSoHarmless in the sequel: in Arkham City, [[FromNobodyToNightmare he's putting hostages in equally disturbing death traps.]]

* The Joker's always looked creepier than usual in the Arkhamverse, but this time around his appearance borders on BodyHorror: his disease has taken an obvious and terrible toll.

** Also, [[spoiler:Strange was planning to do this over in [[{{Superman}} Metropolis]] and [[TheFlash Keystone City]] once he was done eradicating everyone in Gotham. While the plan might not have flown quite as well as it did in Gotham, the thought of having the likes of Metallo, Captain Cold, Parasite, Zoom and the like locked up in an isolated part of each city then blasted to smithereens...]]
** The above can be a High Octane FridgeHorror for those who have read the Superman / Batman arc "Absolute Power". [[spoiler: In that storyline, there were many alternate universes...including one where Batman did not exist (due to Bruce's parents living) and in that one, Ra's Al Ghul ''killed the entire Justice League'' (including Superman and The Flash). Oh, and Ra's took over the world in secret. So, if Ra's can do that when Batman is gone...[[FridgeHorror what happens if Protocol 10 succeeded and Batman died?]] That's not even getting into the NonStandardGameOver with Joker seemingly taking over Gotham if Batman dies.]]

* In the area before the fight with Mr. Hammer, if you wait around in the area where you can see the majority of the crowd, and not much of Mr. Hammer, one of the inmates will look back to stare at you. Sure, he doesn't do anything, but the longer you wait around, the more he'll look back.

* This one is easily overlooked, considering the conditions, but during (or after) your journey through Zsasz's hideout, if you stop near the floating rafter and turn on Detective mode, you can spot four skeletal figures: one belonging to Zsasz, two are his hostages... but there's a third sitting in the bottom of the flooding and draining room. No mention of how it got there in the first place, but knowing Zsasz....
** Keep in mind that Zsasz also mentioned that he had three hostages the first or second time you talk to him. It's possible that he just got impatient between phone calls, and just offed one of them.
* During the first trip to the Steel Mill, we see Harley berating a terrified doctor who failed to cure the Joker, before throwing her to a baying crowd of henchman and calling for Mr. Hammer. The sight of the doctor cowering in terror and the metallic clang of the hammer on the ground as the crowd chants "Hammer! Hammer!" is pretty chilling.
** And realizing that ''you aren't going to get there in time''. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Harley calls Hammer off, but if she hadn't, Stacy would have been brutally murdered with Batman less than ten feet away.]]
* While searching for the stolen Freeze tech, one thug calmly talks about how he once force-fed his own mother to the point of suffocating after she refused to eat it herself. These would have been the guys who went to Blackgate because they weren't insane. Yet they kill family members because of not liking them. Know what makes it worse? The other goon he is talking to is in disbelief about the whole thing, but to this troper, sounds impressed about what this guy did. That enemy chatter still scares this troper.
** Also? [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill The cake was poisoned]].
* Riddler's [[spoiler:final]] challenge room, where you must save Anne Bishop. As you progress through the room, [[spoiler:you will hear ''Riddler shocking her'' at regular intervals while she screams in agony. And every time, once the electricity stops, she gasps in pain and begs you to save her]]. And all this while he's taunting you about how stupid you are for not solving it faster when you're probably feeling guilty as it is for not having already saved her.
* Really, all of the villains used in the Arkhamverse are ''much'' more terrifying than most other adaptations, possibly because they're portrayed less like [[CardCarryingVillain crazy costumed villains]] and more like [[AxCrazy dangerously]] [[TheSociopath insane]] [[SerialKiller murderers]].

* Reading some of the Arkham City Stories you unlock by completing Riddler Challenges (specifically the actual riddles you have to scan) can be nightmare-fueling. One particular one concerned the obscure villain Ratcatcher. When Arkham City opened he decided to use his rats to smuggle in whatever goods Penguin didn't (mainly necessities like hygiene products, clothing, maybe food. Penguin pretty much had a monopoly on arms and other nasty things a criminal would want). Eventually the Penguin decided he wanted to meet his "rival" in the "selling stuff" business. The Ratcatcher was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Museum that Penguin operates out of and was never heard from again. You're not going to find him when you explore the place, either.

* During the final battle with [[spoiler: Clayface, one of his attacks involves morphing into a ball and rolling right at you - and said ball has a huge, terrifying face with a gaping black mouth, ''coming right towards you''.]]
** Was I the only one who had a flashback to {{Sinistar}} during this phase of the fight? RUN COWARD!
** Not to mention those... [[BodyHorror THINGS]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57K0vG0cfTM&list=FLConvpVrr9mBnunMj19Sq6Q&index=1&feature= Calendar Man's disturbing monologues]], particularly since in the main canon he very rarely kills anyone, but in Arkham City that's all he does and each fits the theme of the month in a very grisly way. The complete and utter calmness in his voice doesn't help at all.
** Yep, Rocksteady has managed to make CALENDAR MAN creepy.
** Hell, reading what he did ''BEFORE'' he was locked up is terrifying. Anyone who went into the courthouse, he would capture and lock in the cell, keeping them alive only until the next holiday.
** His story about his father takes the cake. It starts out actually kind of nice, although the player is likely [[GenreSavvy wary about what's coming next]] because this is ''probably'' not the first time they've heard one of his stories. If it is... well, his last few lines are likely to render you completely speechless, just staring at the screen.
-->'''Calendar Man: '''I wasn't real close to my dad, and after my first internment at Arkham we never spoke at all. Seems he wrote me off as a wacko, a loser. So after I was released, I wanted to clear the air between us. The next Father's Day I dropped by his place and suggested we go fishing. You ever go fishing with your pop? Well, it's some fun, let me tell you. The two of us, out on the water, pulling in one whopper after another. [[spoiler:Of course, I was doing the actual pulling. Dad was baiting the hooks. [[CompleteMonster You know, with a finger, a foot, an eye... whatever I had left of him. Even today, whenever I eat a nice piece of fish, I feel closer to my dear old dad]].]]
* How about when you are under Gotham City tunnels for a long period of time searching for Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assassins? After you find him and head back to the surface near the subway, you are greeted with a crapload of bodies piled on top of each other, Holocaust style. Each of these men were Penguin's soldiers and after Batman took down Penguin and started searching for Ra's, a gang, presumably the Joker's, offed the leaderless clan and executed them all. It was a disturbing sight to behold.
* In Wonder City, when you enter the second room upon nearing Ra's Al Ghul's lair, you're presented with ''a roomful of hanged inmates''. Not to mention the still living inmate with a sword in his back saying "T-They're everywhere!" before expiring.
** Dude, '''Wonder City itself''' manages to give this troper the chills. The place is a 19th century ghost town that rivals Pripyat in sheer creep factor. Worse, [[spoiler: Ra's pretty much built the place and left it to rot after it was essentially condemned.]]
** [[ItGotWorse Even worse]], [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul]] eventually left its citizens [[spoiler: to go insane due to radiation from the Lazarus Pit based technology as their civilization collapsed]]. If that doesn't make you lose sleep and sympathy for [[spoiler: Ra's]] then [[FridgeHorror think about this]]; if [[spoiler: radiation from a Lazarus Pit can make people go insane and there is one located right under Gotham and has been there for centuries...]] then there is now a possible reason for why Gotham is the insane CrapsackWorld that Gotham is.
** Was I the only one expecting those robot guardians littered around to wake up and attack at any second?
*** No, no you were not.

* During [[spoiler:the second visit to Joker's hideout]], two Joker thugs can be seen hanging a Two-Face mook over acid, demanding information on his boss. Granted, it's just a horrible situation, but waiting around long enough will prompt one of the Joker goons to recall the last guy they did it to - complete with disgusting explanations on how his skin started to burn before he even touched the acid, including a description of how melting flesh smells. Wait around long enough and you get the delightful experience of [[spoiler:seeing them lowering him into it, only for them to stop and raise him up again (in a "why the hell aren't you stopping this, you monster?!" kind of way).]]
** However, once you do rescue him, [[UngratefulBastard he decides to]] [[SuicidalOverconfidence attack Batman]].

* Thought [[spoiler: Scarecrow's reign of terror was over from not being in the game? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFA0zuArg8U&feature=related Well....]]]] '''THINK AGAIN.'''
** Allow me to set the scene[[spoiler: there is a hidden section inside a boat, it functions very similar to the visitors center in arkham asylum; it is ''the only'' part in the game where you are force into first person mode. Second, it is very dim and low lit with flickering lights, bugs are crawling all over the place, infront of you is a passed out inmate who is...more than likely completely fucked up by nightmare gas, when you approach he will at one point twitch and scream before promptly passing out again, next to him is a letter to a Dr. Crane]] Just...buuuuuh
* While he doesn't make an actual appearance beyond a quick cameo, Killer Croc's name is mentioned by the prisoners throughout Arkham City, some even saying that they've seen him in the sewers. . . .*shudders*
** [[spoiler:His cameo is a JumpScare in the sewers. He can smell Batman dying and decides to wait until the Titan kills him and then eat the corpse.]]
* If you fail to save the Riddler's second hostage, [[spoiler: you get to watch him being roasted alive...onscreen. You can still hear his screams as the screen fades to black.]]

* I did not expect, upon entering the museum area, for a Tyranosaurus Rex head to burst through the display in front of you and roar. Sure, afterwards, it was just a mechanical dinosaur, but it gave this trooper a good old jump.
** Even better, one of the Penguin's mooks says after the T-Rex roars, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "I love it when they scream."]]
* Hell, the Riddler in general is pretty nightmare-inducing in this game. Just the fact that he was so harmless last game, even a little silly; and now in Arkham City, he's putting hostages in death traps. (Most of which are terrifying as well.)

* You know what, Rocksteady has turned pretty much every villain into High Octane Nightmare Fuel incarnate! Even the villains who most thought of as a joke (Riddler, Mad Hatter, Penguin etc) have been turned into complete psychos!

** Now that I think about it, there was a destroyed skeleton in a case who Penguin said had messed with him or something...
* When fighting Mr Freeze, you can briefly scan him in Detective Mode before his jammer blocks your vision. The creepy part is that while most human characters show up as x-ray skeletons in Detective Mode, Freeze is only a skeleton from the neck up. Just a skull and stump of spinal cord in a robotic suit.
** Of course, this only means that other than the head, the suit can't be penetrated by Detective Mode's x-ray vision. Another detail some people might find unnerving that unlike other enemies, his heart rate drops to single digits while you're fighting him, but climbs back to normal when outside the fight.
* To give the page image context. If you get seen during Catwoman’s StealthBasedMission, Hugo Strange appears in the [[GameOverMan game over screen]]. One of them is him holding a scalpel with a SlasherSmile on his face and smugly saying: “I will enjoy dissecting your brain, Miss Kyle!” in that totally not ChristopherLee voice of his. But the way he said it makes it sound like he was eager to ''slice Catwoman's head open'' while she was still alive.
* Prety much the whole ending of the main game can be seen this way. "Highlights" include [[spoiler: Hugo Strange being stabbed through the chest in a bloody fashion, Ra's being impaled...but if you don't find this scary due to them being both basically {{AssholeVictim}}s. Then Talia gets shot and you face off with [[HumanoidAbomination Clayface]] before watching as the Joker dies in a messed up version of GoOutWithASmile.]] Good luck with sleep afterwards.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9gAAMP1_Q Listening to Zsasz ramble on about his life before he became a murderer. The gradual anger in his voice and the sudden breaks in his monotone make it extremely disturbing.]]
** [[FridgeHorror Even worse,]] [[NintendoHard Zsasz's side missions.]] You're trying to go save Mr. Freeze, and all of a sudden, you hear a phone ringing off in the distance. Pick it up, and Zsasz taunts you with a challenge of finding him within a certain amount of time. The stakes? You have to find out where he's calling from by going to every phone in the city (within a extremely small time limit), pick it up, and try to triangulate the source, rinse lather, repeat, until you find him. If you fail the side mission, or if you choose to ignore or miss the first several phones, he threatens kills countless scores of people. A rather unnerving deviation from the storyline, especially if you choose to go back to the main trail.
** One of Zsasz's [[HaveANiceDeath game over screens]] is bone chilling: "I'm going to [[ColdBloodedTorture take my time]], Batman... after all, ''[[YouBastard you took yours...]]''"
* [[spoiler: Hush/Thomas Elliot's]] hideout, and his gradual transformation into [[spoiler:"Bruce Wayne".]]
** [[spoiler: Special notice goes to KevinConroy for taking the voice that we all know, grew up with, and associate with being a voice of justice and good...and making it UTTERLY TERRIFYING.]]
** [[spoiler:After the Stealth Tutorial on the church, you can see Hush being treated by another doctor. Said doctor promptly starts to narrate how Thomas Elliot ripped off his own face.]]
* [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrM7l8Em4Y8 Penguin's shark, Tiny.]]]]
** Remember Croc in the last game? Try walking on ice as it cracks.
* [[spoiler:Azrael]]. He follows Batman EVERYWHERE, and if you throw Batarangs at him, he will simply catch them. Of course this is a VERY strong YMMV.
** Yes, [[ParanoiaFuel someone who can stalk]] [[MemeticMutation the Goddamn Batman]]. [[spoiler: Curiously swinging to the top of a Ferris wheel, and finding some guy in a hood calmly staring you down? Not fun.]]
* When fighting [[spoiler:Solomon Grundy, he's constantly shedding supernaturally huge maggots that attack you. Maggots the size of Batman's foot. Eek.]]
** Flaming, ball and chain-swinging [[spoiler:Solomon Grundy]] that fires [[spoiler:positively stupid amounts of electricity]] at you, because God hates [[CosmicPlaything Batman.]]
* [[spoiler:Mad Hatter's]] mission is twenty shades of disturbing.
** Especially because it ''shouldn't'' be. The [[spoiler:hats, the tea party, the Alice references, putting a ''bunny mask'' on Batman, Hatter himself]]... it should be ridiculous. Laughable. Lame. But it isn't. Dear God, it isn't.
** Oh God, [[spoiler:the bunny mask]]...the way it's shown as a jump-scare when you struggle to take it off is nightmare-worthy. The first time I saw it I dropped the control and my mind screamed "Holyfuckwhatisthatabomination?!" Then I woke up in the middle of the night, and the image of Batman standing next to me wearing it popped to my mind...I didn't sleep well.
** ''Imagine you are falling...''
** Is this troper the only one who thought [[spoiler:Batman with the bunny mask on looked liked Frank from ''DonnieDarko''?]] Which only made things a thousand times worse...
*** No, good God, you are not. I was hoping I wasn't the only one with that impression.
** His interview tapes could freak you the fuck out too. Hugo Strange giving him free reign to MindRape several test subjects who "Nobody will miss" is a pretty horrifying idea.
* [[spoiler:Harley Quinn has a pregnancy test that says 'positive' in Joker's hideout]]. '''''Be scared for the third game.'''''
** If you find it before the credits, [[spoiler:she sings to the baby at the end of the credits. "Hush little baby, don't say a word...''Momma's gonna kill, for you, the whole damn world''..."]]
*** Becomes especially creepy when you consider that KevinConroy compared this game to ReturnOfTheJoker. [[spoiler:We never did find out who the Dee Dees' parents were....]]
**** IIRC, WordOfGod says that [[spoiler: they are not descended from the Joker.]]
**** Not to mention that ReturnOfTheJoker showed us what their idea of [[spoiler: [[MindRape raising a child]] was]].
* The NonStandardGameOver.
* Only yooooouuuuu...
** Though it's sort of funny in a black comedy sort of way. Which was probably the point.
*** Of course it was, it's TheJoker. What a way to retire a character you've been voicing since 1992.
* I never took the Penguin too seriously as a villain but this game managed to make him into a [[CompleteMonster monster]] who rivals ''[[TheJoker THE JOKER]]''! Whether it be his unpleasant mannerisms or the way he [[ColdBloodedTorture brutally tortures the cops he holds hostage]], this is one version of the Penguin I won't be forgetting.
** Let's not forget this gem:
-->"I hope you're breathing through fractured ribs and punctured lungs! And by God, if you can still move, you better summon up all your energy and run, because I'm coming for you."
*** Sure, slight paraphrasing, but JESUS Penguin, take a [[IncrediblyLamePun chill pill!]]
** Another moment that demonstrates just ''why'' the Penguin is a horrible boss.
-->Penguin: [blows up a bridge] See, I told you it would work. Blow up the bridges and cut off the clown's forces. Easy.
-->Thug: But Mr. Cobblepot, we're stuck too!
-->Penguin: ''So?''
-->Thug: We can't get back!
-->Penguin: And your point ''is?''
-->Thug: You've left us here with Joker's crew!
-->Penguin: Try an' take some of 'em down before ya die, son! [disconnects]
* Remember how horrifying Two-Face was in TheDarkKnight? Arkhamverse's Two-Face is somehow ''even worse.''
* The Joker's always looked creepier than usual in the Arkhamverse, but this time around his appearance might just make you physically ill. His disease has taken an obvious and terrible toll...
** [[spoiler: Solomon Grundy's]] partially-rotted face also freaked this troper out a little.
*** [[FalseReassurance Don't Worry]]. [[SarcasmMode He only gets more "handsome" when Penguin decides to turn up the voltage.]]
* During the fight with Mr. Freeze, there's a part where Batman is punching him and Victor is suddenly replaced by the Joker, who reaches out and grabs his face. It's a hallucination, but still freaky as hell.
* The glowing bloodlines in Bane's Venom-fueled body.

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* Let's start with the obvious: The idea of a city (or a large portion thereof), being turned into what is, for all intents and purposes, a ''free range concentration/extermination camp.''

** Even more, [[spoiler:Strange was planning to do this over in [[{{Superman}} Metropolis]] and [[TheFlash Keystone City]] once he was done eradicating everyone in Gotham. While the plan might not have flown quite as well as it did in Gotham, the thought of having the likes of Metallo, Captain Cold, Parasite, Zoom and the like locked up in an isolated part of each city then blasted to smithereens...]]