What were the most PIVOTAL moments from EACH Arkham game?

Leave a comment on what your favorite moment was from any game!

"The bomb's payload is exposed, I can use the Power Winch to trigger a controlled explosion." The first time the player is exposed to this line in Batman Arkham Knight is truly the most pivotal point in the entire franchise or maybe the history of gaming as a whole. The crisp enunciation of Man's delivery, combined with the triumphant and atmospheric tone, conveyed by the soundtrack, sends shivers down the spine of anyone who hears it. Truly an unforgettable moment. Dare I say, rivaled only by the Jonkler's shocking dialogue upon hearing "Officer Balls" in the Aslume, or perhaps, even the Bone and Killer Cock boss battles. No other moments in gaming before, or since, have had such a long lasting impact on the state of media or our modern society.

I would actually argue that in Arkham Asylum, its most pivotal scene was when Joker infected himself with the Titan formula as it became a catalyst for the events that followed in the next games. Sure the Titan already existed, but had Joker not infected himself what he did in Arkham Asylum would have just been a regular night for him.

23:28 in the novel batman knew jason was the arkham knight but voluntarily ignored the signs in hopes he was wrong, thats why in the scene he isn't too shocked but more like disappointed

For Arkham Asylum, I feel like they are two more pivotal scene: Scarecrow is kidnapped by Waylon Jones, leading to Crane wanting revenge on Batman, leading to Arkham Knight and the fall of Batman and the rise of The Nightmare. And the other scene is Joker shooting himself with the Titan, leading to his poisoning, the four jokers, the tiring of Bruce during the night of City of Fear, leading to him making the mistake of not activating the damn tracker like he did with Nightwing

Does anybody else love that he didn't even talk or mention anything about Suicide Squad? 🤣😭

My favourite scenes include final confrontation with bane. Where they dive deep into Batman’s no kill rule and Batman has to overcome with shock gloves. It really ties up everything that Batman learned in the game. Alfred resurrection, medics in black gate and electrocutioners words in beginning. In that fight there are so many stakes. Joker, Batman, Bane and Gordon’s life. Kinda sad that it wasn’t included in video. Great video nonetheless

16:05 you forgetting that talia literally died for batman, plus she is the only one that bruce uses his normal voice to talk to as batman later in knight bruce does start speaking to selina that way too but imo its talia she's constantly in batman's mind to a degree that even oracle thought it was a problem

Rha's, Mr Freeze and Croc's missions on AK were pretty pivotal for me since they showed a side of those characters that you dont see that much outside of comics. But I'll keep the the ending of Rha's as the most important one

There is two major and pivotal scenes I love The first is Batman finding out about, meeting and saving The Joker for the first time. “…Someone named, The Joker “ and “Who forces a man to kill the ones he loves? The Joker” those two sentences sent chills down my spine. Like at this point in the series The Joker is only a shadow or phantom and you can here how uneasy Batman is when he finds out why Joker killed Tiffany, not because she was in his way but because he wanted to, he wanted Roman to suffer. The Joker is a new type of enemy he hasn’t dealt with yet and I think it scared him a bit. And then Batman saving him, twice might I add, instead of letting him fall and stopping him from killing himself, that set them both on a path that defy the both of their journeys as archenemies, it would also seal the fates of so many innocent people but at the same time Batman can’t betray his code. It’s such great writing The second is The Joker’s death. “You wanna know something funny? Even after everything you’ve done, I would’ve saved you”. That is one of the best moments in the series, deep, deep down Batman does care about The Joker, I think he’s the one villain who he wants to save but can’t, he can’t change him. He even CARRIES his lifeless body out of Arkham City, The Joker’s death changed him it left a gaping hole Im that couldn’t be filled. . Idk if I’m crazy but I cried when Joker died, am I wrong to feel that way?

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The thing with Batman and his love life, in my opinion as a long time comic book reader, is that his love life is and always has been the least interesting thing about him as a character and just drags immeasurably and only just bogs down his stories. The reason why in my opinion Andrea Beaumont is the best love interest for Batman is because in the film it ends with them accepting they can never be together and in my opinion even if they did, Batman is not completely able to accept something like that. Or at least I don't think there has ever been something in the comics so far that would convince me otherwise.

19:20 the Jonkler 😂

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These games existence is pivotal

scarecrow getting slayed by croc is literally a pivotal moment js.

I think the reason why batman was upset about jokers death is because he knows that the joker is a crazy guy with mental issues and a obsession with batman and batman wanted to fix him and the joker dying hit batman hard because he thought he could redeem the joker and help him

Great video BUT, you missed one MASSIVE MASSIVE thing in Arkham Asylum. The most pivotal moment in that game is Croc capturing and mauling Scarecrow. Without that scene, Arkham Knight would never have happened the way it did, the entire Scarecrow plot of that game wouldn’t have happened. It would only have been a Jason revenge story, thus, Batman wouldn’t have actually been able to use Scarecrows fear toxin to fake out the Joker by letting him take over and then locking him away from the inside of his mind by letting Scarecrow accidentally exploit the Jokers fear of being forgotten. Batman would have actually succumbed to being the Joker if not for Scarecrow. Let me elaborate. Scarecrow perceives what happened to him in Asylum as Batmans fault for not backing off and letting him go when he asked him to, leading him to feel that Batman backed him into Croc who then obviously mauled him greatly. Scarecrow touches on it briefly in Knight but you can tell by how Scarecrow returns that the Croc event made him snap. He went from being a scrawny B list scientist with an obsession with fear and its power to control and torment to prove a point; to someone who had to dropped the silly crazed scientist persona and take himself and his scientific talents seriously, and to really focus on making an example of Batman in a serious and impactful manner, and in a way, he actually won. He successfully exposed ‘Batman’ as just a man and causes Batman to activate nightfall. But back to Scarecrow, had he not felt that Batman caused his mauling by Croc, he wouldn’t have had a reason to gain that sense of grander purpose and go from just spaffing Batman with scary gas now and then to making the entirety of central Gotham a hellhole not only to expose Batman but to spread fear and terror on a city wide scale for the whole world to watch. (which originally was supposed to be literally the entire East coast of the USA but Batman managed to reduce it to just central Gotham) The fact that Scarecrow managed to pull himself together enough and be resourceful enough to be literal seconds away from completely caking the entire Eastern coast of the USA in gas says something about how much he had to reevaluate himself, his persona, his methods and goals after Croc almost killed him because of Batman. No hate on the video of course, this is just my personal opinion

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