#batman akrham origins

[danthepest]

Character trophies of the League of Assassins and the TYGER unit from Arkham Origins, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight

[sweetlikehoneystingslikeabee]

Where does the riddler even get that outfit with all the question marks on it? Did he have the whole outfit custom made? Did he just have it customized to have the embellishments? Did he do it himself? Is his CANE custom made? Inquiring minds DEMAND TO know.

"Custom-Made" Riddler Party Ask

Jokes on you, I know who this is from, and I'm going to make you listen to me talk about all of them and their outfits. Also pardon there will be a fair amount of photos.

Gonna include Gotham, 60s, Telltale on a reblog.

General

Hi I have no pictures for general but I wanted to say my personal interpretation absolutely has his shit custom made. There's a real good amount of it that he has made by Jervis (Mad Hatter) because Edward knows his friend genuinely does good work. Plus if no one is going to judge his weird requests...

Capullo/Zero Year

I actually took a picture of the issue 21 script in the back of my Zero Year comic. This explains multiple things about him outside of story such as: "He admits to wearing green because in nature, it attracts the female eye." That's it buddy that's the kicker.

His whole look, the costume... it's all a peacock showing its feathers. It's why his suit is one of the brighter greens of all the riddlers (also note matching his eyes. I would say that's intentional.)

He absolutely had this shit custom made. It's way too matching to his eyes, he even says himself it was expensive- The cane is up for debate but I don't remember him using it for any devices, so I'd say custom made by someone else as well.

BTAS

Okay so for a fact I know he made this cane himself because it has buttons he presses that activates devices in the show. Was it a cane he made completely from scratch or did he hollow out one he found? Unsure. At minimum he made heavy modifications.

I think you could argue either way that he either genuinely found a lot of his outfit himself OR had it made. One thing that was custom if nothing else is that tie. Make sure it matched the gloves and mask.

Arkham Games

So it depends. The Riddler goes through a very gradual clothing and design change throughout the games. We go from very well kept to grease monkey within the three games. We never physically see Riddler in Arkaham Asylum so we only have the picture to go off of. (Not counting origins because he's literally in plains clothes.)

In the first game, Arkham Asylum, everything is glitz and pretty high fashion- I think it's safe to say this is the high point of his criminal career so he can afford some really nice custom digs. More of a headcanon, but I'd like to say he asks Jervis (Mad Hatter) to do some of his tailoring. The cane here I'd say is also custom.

The middle, Akrham City, is where we start seeing the shift between high end to grease. Still a really nice suit and shit is definitely custom. He starts using the bulkier metal question mark cane here and I'm gonna say he made that himself. The question mark tie clip is definitely reminiscent to the first. This look also made an appearance in the comics:

You can see that the outfit is fairly normal work clothing besides his green goggles. At this point he is at the full point of his obsessions and being straight up unkempt. He is hand painting everything himself. As far as we know, expensive custom-made outfits are a thing of the past.

Batman 2022

This is all from the army surplus store. Online sales. Estate sales. Wherever he could find and put the right outfit together. He's going to war with the world.

His outfit is the darkest which... makes sense because he's the one hiding in the dark. Taking advantage of it. Painting his symbol to make the outfit truly his.

[ara-ri]

the greek tragedy that is also known as jason todd

thinking about jason todd as a character and what a genuinely tragic character he is.

jason is a character that can never know peace nor justice because the narrative itself will never let him have that peace. the moment DC made the decision to have the joker kill him is the moment his fate was sealed.

joker as a character can't be killed or stopped permanently in any meaningful way, because out of all the batman villains that exist, such an iconic figure could never truly leave the story behind whether it be through death or irrelevance outside the story.

so what then?

batman will continue to stop the joker, continue to put him back in akrham asylum, all the the joker will continue to break out.

but if the joker can't be stopped, then what does this mean for jason?

imagine, your tormentor, your murderer continuing to commit the same atrocities over and over again...and for what? where is the justice in this? how could jason ever move on, if the narrative won't move on from the joker himself?

i know plenty of characters "die" in about every other comic run followed by some type of revival but i cannot emphasis enough that jason todd was not originally intended to come back. death in the family released sometime in 1988 while under the red hood began its publication in 2005

that's roughly 17 years that jason was no longer present in new comic runs, almost a generation or two of comic readers not getting any content that involved him.

nothing to show except sentiment like "oh he was an angry kid", or "he was reckless, bruce shouldn't have taken him in".

jason didn't just die within the narrative, he died from the apathy of phone callers despite outcry. he died of irrelevance because for more than a decade, he had faded from comic relevance aside from some mentions in comic runs (at least until winick resurrected his character).

i honestly don't think there's another character quite like jason who miserably gets all the short end of the sticks. his time spent dead gets treated by such a joke because, wow jason, you're not the only one who's died!

but none have died quite like jason. he can't get any peace or justice from the narrative because dc comics would have the balls to retire an iconic character from the batman comics. and he can't forget because if he forgets, who will remember for him?

coupled with all of that together... wouldn't you get angry?

[louthegothartist]

Remember my female Bane AU? Well I wanted to draw her in all the outfits of Bane I could find.

These ones I'm the most proud of are the Arkham Origins, Injustice 2 and Telltale.

For TDKR one it was painful for me to draw her white!

Who's your favorite? And if you have any suggestions for another version of her from a different movie or game, then ask me in the ask box!

[grimsdottir]

I failed you. I wish there were another way for me to say it. I cannot. I can only beg your forgiveness, and pray you hear me somehow, someplace... someplace where a warm hand waits for mine.

[gorillageek27]

Oh yeah, Knight was a good game but at times it felt like it was trying too hard. Origins felt more natural and allowed us a greater look into the early years for the Batman. City was still the best one for me though.

Knight had boring boss fights, the map is too big, the batmobile segments sucked. And the batmobile had no reason to be there at all. And the akrham knight reveal was not surprising at all, everyone knew it was jason todd. I did enjoy the combat for the most part. However the worst part for me was deathstroke. THEY BROUGHT IN ONE OF THE GREATEST MARTIAL ARTIST IN DC UNIVERSE, THE PERSON WHO IS TO BE CONSIDERED THE GREATEST TACTICIAN, AND WHAT DO THEY DO WITH HIM? DO THEY LET YOU FIGHT HIM IN AN EPIC MAN ON MAN FIGHT?

NOPE. THEY PUT HIM IN A TANK AND HE GETS KNOCKED OUT WITH A SINGLE PUNCH.

[mythical-song-wolf]

Robin The Movie Pt 2

Part 1           Part 3

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In another part of the world, a boy gasps for air as he emerges from a Lazarus pit.

After crawling out, he coughs as several figures watch on.

“Where... who am I?” Jason asks.

It zooms in on Ra’s Al Ghul’s smirking face before it cuts to black.

Batman and Nightwing are sneaking through the shadows, bringing justice to Gotham like how they did as Batman and Robin.

But then it cuts to them fighting, screaming at each other in the Batcave while Tim is behind the corner hearing it all.

Tim is insistent. Batman needs a Robin. He needs someone to the his light so that he doesn’t fall too deep into the darkness of the city and the darkness in himself.

Dick considers his reasoning for a moment, but he’s not going to be Robin again. He gave up that mantle when he left Bruce. Dick snaps his fingers before pointing to Tim and then the scene cuts off.

It cuts back to Tim training, before shifting to his initiation as Robin with Dick’s blessing.

Soon enough, Batman and Robin patrol the streets of Gotham once more.

Then Tim’s mother dies and his father paralyzed. Tim is forced to retire as Robin and Stephanie takes the title in his stead.

Stephanie leaves not long after.

Batman is left without a Robin for a while.

During that, the Joker is found to have been beaten by a crowbar. Several criminals of all levels are found dead or brutalized.

Batman follows the lead and Nightwing aids him. They are lead to the Red Hood.

The dynamic duo face the Red Hood on the ledge of Wayne Enterprises. The whirling of helicopter blades hovers between them before the lights from the copper blind the camera and the scene switches to Jason and Bruce, masks off.

Jason’s Red Hood.

An explosion happens in a building and then Jason and Bruce are on opposite ends of the city.

Red Hood is nowhere to be seen after that, but his name is whispered between cities and always makes its way back home, to Gotham.

Tim comes back to being Robin the next day and is very confused.

Then Tim’s father dies and Dick and Jason now have a new brother.

But life goes on for the Bats.

The scenes switch between the two previous Robins and the current one.

One moment it’s Nightwing in the Cave, then next he’s in the Watchtower, the people he’s with shifting and unfocused like before, but someone with red hair always peeks through. Dick’s laughter and voice echoing. At some point, Dick looks out and mutters Jason’s name.

Then it’s onto Jason sneezing, before a female voice tells her, “Bless you.” Then next it’s Jason and another friend aiming to strike on the roof of a building. Next it’s Red Hood and two others brawling off some goons. The sound of explosions, gun shot, arrows flying, and things breaking echo in most scenes, but as does Jason’s hollering.

Tim’s moments are mostly with the Bat, investigating a case, defusing a bomb, fighting the Joker, etc. But there are brief moments where Robin is fighting beside younger heroes, their faces blurred or they’re too far to see amidst the chaos of battle. A boy says some slang that’s very out of date in one scene and then it cuts to the laughter of several teens and then to their chatter and whispers.

Nightwing visits Gotham often, so that he can be a better brother to Tim than he was to Jason, so that he can help mentor this boy in handling the Bat’s emotional incapability and teach him how to read Bruce’s micro-expressions.

Everything goes on well enough for them.

But then Br- Batman dies and Gotham is left without her Dark Knight, and all he’s left her is his blood son, a Robin, and his first son.

Jason steals the mantle and leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake before he and Dick duke it out in a battle for the cowl. The battle is fierce and leaves plenty of bruises and scars on both brothers.

In the end, Dick wins. He is the first son, the Dark Heir. He’s the only one who could be Batman right now.

Dick makes Damian his Robin.

Why?

“Because you’re not my Robin, Tim, you’re my brother.”

With that, Tim dons the mantle of Red Robin and travels the world, believing that Bruce is alive and that he needs to find him. Dick wants to believe him but he doesn’t risk hoping.

Batman and Robin defend Gotham once more, but whoever is behind the mask of the dynamic duo now, it’s different from who they were previously. Everyone can see it. How the Robin is dark and brooding, violent and angry while Batman is kind and almost cheery, willing to talk and willing to listen. (Whispers go around some of Gotham’s Rogues, that the current Batman is the first Robin)

Red Hood appears a handful of times, sometimes as a foe, nuisance, or ally (one day tossing Damian into a river and blowing up a building, the next he’s beating the same human traffickers that they’ve been tracking and almost kills one of them, then that Friday he tackles Dick away from gunfire). During one of the moment’s their goals meet (the Joker’s being pushed into a van headed for Akrham as Batman and Red Hood stand in front of an orphanage, Robin is speaking to the GCPD), Dick tells his brother Bruce’s message for him in his will.

Jason leaves and isn’t seen for a few weeks, even by his Outlaws. But before he left, he wondered aloud if a Lazarus pit could revive him, couldn’t it revive Bruce?

Dick tests this theory out with Batwoman supervising him. In the end, that Batman is not this Gotham’s original Batman. Tim is right, Bruce is alive.

Dick tells him that as soon as he gets back and the two investigate Bruce’s disappearance further. Dick trying to get Tim to talk to people again, he’s basically been isolating himself since he left to travel.

Tim does after much prodding and also goes back to the mansion and helps with cases during the many dead ends he encounters.

After one too many close calls and and situations, plus some reflection, Jason stays in the mansion again with the rest of the family until Bruce is found and Gotham has her Bat again.

Eventually she does have her original Bat again, and Dick goes back to being Nightwing.

Batman and Robin patrol the streets of Gotham once more. Both are dark and brooding, but their edges aren’t as sharp as they originally were and they aren’t letting the change in partners change that.

Nightwing goes back to Bludhaven and his teams, Red Robin returns to his teams and his own missions, Red Hood goes back to the Outlaws.

Dick comes by Gotham often enough for Damian’s sake, and Tim passes by to see Bruce and Alfred. Jason sometimes sneaks into the mansion, only Alfred knows and the few times that Dick and Tim are they, they’ve caught Jason.

The Bats aren’t always together, other times they’re scattered. But all of them still do well enough on their own and with their allies and family.

A scene of Nightwing and a speedster taking out some wannabe villain.

Red Hood fighting off a swarm of Mafia grunts. While some of them are being flung across the room by two other people.

Red Robin standing calmly while surrounded by various large goons, outside a bomb is thrown up into the sky and blows, Red Robin doesn’t flinch at the sound and instead moves to beat the guards.

Robin fighting off a robot with the Justice League’s powers, behind him is a small crater where a boy donning Superman’s S stands up from the rubble. The Superboy and Robin launch for the robot together.

Tragedy finds the family once more, like it always does.

Talia Al Ghul brings Heretic, an evil adult clone of Damian, to challenge the boy. Which cost him his life.

In a fit of irony and cruel poetic justice, Damian is impaled by his own sword and bleeds out next to the skeleton of the bat he killed when he first came into the cave. The memory plays back in slow motion while the rest his life flashes before him.

Damian is gifted the chance to speak to Dick as he’s dying, and he leaves a message for his other siblings and his father before he passes.

The funeral is quiet as the rain beats down on the Earth. Jason watches from a distance. Dick sobs into the chest of his friend. Tim has a hand on his shoulder in comfort. Bruce stands tall and strong, but the pain can be seen in by those who know him. Some kids around Damian’s age all sob, the same boy from before falls to his knees before his mother and father come in to hold him.

Time passes and they can’t hope that Damian’s not dead because Dick saw him die. He saw him bleed out in his arms as his life faded away.

But then one day Damian’s grave has been dug up. His body’s missing.

[theheavymetalmama]

If the speculations/rumors are true and Rocksteady Studios is going to unveil a Superman game next week at E3 (along with a more in-depth reveal in July's "Game Informer"), how would you like the studio to handle it? Would you want them to adapt/borrow from any particular storyline or create an entirely new one? Make it a trilogy like they did with Batman? And do you think Supes will be the more bright, optimistic Man of Steel we both prefer or be Arkham-like dark? *great big squishy hugs*

If the rumors are true, then I hope they do the Arkham thing where they tell their own story with bits and elements borrowed from the comics rather than do a full-on adaptation of a story from the comics.

I kind of hope it isn’t a trilogy. Oh, I hope it’s successful, and I hope it gets a sequel, but I’m worried about the game following in Arkham’s footsteps. See, the Arkham games kind of mirror the Alien movies in that the first two installment told all the story that needed to be told. First one is people fighting a scary monster and the second one is people fighting lots of those scary monsters and one of them is bigger. Arkham Asylum was a game about Batman fighting his greatest enemies all in one place, and Arkham City was that again but the area was bigger, some mechanics had been refined, and you had one last showdown with the Joker. Origins was dull, buggy as hell, and wearyingly predictable and Akrham Knight was just a miserable slog. I’d rather not see Superman follow suit.

As for the tone of the game, here’s what I’d want. Flawed as Man of Steel was, it had the right idea. If Superman did show up in today’s rampantly xenophobic post 9/11 world, the world as a whole wouldn’t trust him. BUT, while Superman can work in darker stories, and he has, he still needs to act like Superman. So while I’d want Superman himself to be the bright and optimistic Superman we all know and love, I’m perfectly fine with the game having darker, considerably less pleasant elements to it. Maybe there’s a rundown and derelict area of Metropolis, or there’s a segment of the game where you have to fly to Gotham, things like that.

Hell, it could even serve for some game mechanics and gameplay elements. Have a mission where you talk someone out of committing suicide like that famous page in All Star Superman, or have you stop and immigration raid or pre-emptively stop a mass shooting. Say what you will of that Superman Returns game, but there was one thing it understood about Superman that nobody making movies about him not named Richard Donner can seem to wrap their heads around. Superman’s greatest weakness isn’t Kryptonite or magic; it’s people. Superman loves and cares about the people of Earth as if they were his own children, and he’ll do everything he can to help them no matter what.

Remember when Superman in the comics stopped a gunman from shooting up a family and Fox News, Breitbart, and a bunch of other shitheels screamed about how Superman was somehow a traitor because he saved the Mexicans instead of letting the white dude shoot them to pieces? Have that play a part in the game. Have your actions reflect upon the world and the people in it. Remember the immigration raid I brought up? Maybe after using your super-hearing, you fly in and confront some ICE-like government stooges and are given a variety of choices to save the family. You can use your heat-vision to render their guns worthless and force them to surrender, you can smash their prison bus to shit or throw it into the ocean before they have the chance to load them up, or you can just go full-Arkham and beat the snot out of them. Regardless of what you do, the outcome of how the world sees your actions is the same. Lois and the Daily Planet praise your actions for valuing human life and doing the right thing whereas some Sean Hannity-esque jackass from a rival news company is screaming about how Superman destroyed government property and favored illegals over red blooded Americans and all that crap.

Not that Superman would care, of course, because all he cares about is doing the right thing and-holy crap, this is getting long.

But yeah, Rocksteady making a Superman game? I’m totally down with it. And regardless of what they do, I hope it’s good. If I can’t see one more good Superman movie before I die, I’ll settle for a good Superman game.

Thanks for the question, Jenni!