#batman: the enemy within

[rambyol]

Plot hole ❌ Batjokes ✅

So Telltale’s Bruce Wayne has tech in his bat mask that can deduce precisely how Vicki killed her parents, how Alfred was kidnapped, how the agent was killed in Riddler’s water tower, but when John is covered in blood and surrounded by dead bodies, that tech is nowhere to be mentioned. Mind you Bruce has the ‘Batmobile’ parked outside likely with his bat-suit in there. I just love that at best he will cross his arms, look disappointed, believe John, accept John’s hug, and suggest they have a ‘talk’ about it.

[jokerheh]

[jasonsbruce]

[liizditto]

Got my partner to cosplay as Brucie with me, next I'm getting them to do full Batman 🥹

They wanna do Pattinson, tho, but it's fine, I'm working on classic Joker

[aspiringcorvidae]

society if telltale let you romance john doe in Batman: The Enemy Within

[unrestrainedbalderdash]

My favourite characters keep killing each other, I'm surprised Alfred didn't go on a rampage and kill Montoya and the surviving killer

[castle--art]

“I believed in you, Batman. I believed in you like never before in anything. But everything turned out to be a lie!”

[beauxjangles]

your honor....... they are my barbie dolls

inspo

[ralexsol]

I started Batman: The Enemy Within yesterday and I'm like halfway through Episode 4 now, just talked with John at the lair - I SWEAR. BRUCE N JOHN. THE ONLY TWO I WILL MAKE SURE COME OUT ALIVE AND HAPPY. and like Tiffany and Alfred but MAINLY BRUCE N JOHN. I will make John be Batman's new sidekick and they will smooch and be happy and I WILL NOT LET ANYONE TOUCH JOHN HE'S MY SILLY LITTLE GUY. I HAVE PUT ALL TRUST IN HIM SO FAR AND IT HAS PAID OFF DIVIDENDS. HE IS MY SPECIAL BOY. HE COULD NEVER TURN EVIL OR ANYTHING. Also him saying "I seriously thought you came to check up on me" I DID I LITERALLY DID. I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE YOU IN THERE AND I DID I WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE OKAY. ILY. NOW KISS

[attackjester]

this is a bad playlist to listen to on shuffle 🤠👍

@wings-of-angels

[alfiisha]

this is the rant i posted about john doe on twitter the other night

john doe as a character is so tragic because he has never known anything except from lunacy. he has only ever existed inside a literal madhouse, surrounded by the criminally insane, being told that his very nature is evil and wrong and something he needs to overcome all the while being harshly exposed to the realities of living with people who reflect your mental state so unapologetically. he had to watch people demonstrate behaviours he was told were forbidden, behaviours that HE yearned to act out and he didn’t even know why. he was never taught how to act around normal people. he was only taught to suppress his nature and be something he isn’t, and that’s why when he was let out, he couldn’t get a grip on the realities of a crime ridden city and had to turn to harley for security. he HAD to rely on other criminals because they did the things he was taught to be AFRAID of doing, without any consequences. and when he met bruce, who wanted to be like him, who wanted to help him, who had been in that SAME institution and yet was so successful and perfect, he fell into a bittersweet friendship. on the one hand, bruce cared about him and helped him with his problems and listened to him, things that no one had ever done before. on the other hand, bruce had ideas of justice and crime which contradicted john’s mental state and went against what his nature desired, with the added pressure of bruce’s secrets: being batman and being undercover as a ‘criminal’, getting close to the gang and john while actually working against them to bring them to his idea of justice. when john found out, not only did he instantly forgive bruce for keeping this secret, but he HELPED him to try to imprison those very criminals that helped him when he was released from arkham. and i think the reason he did this so easily was because arkham truly DID manage to break through to him, in some ways. they succeeded in internalising the idea that john had to be GOOD. he just didnt know what that ‘good’ meant, until bruce came along, a symbol of someone who had a black-and-white vision of right and wrong, good and bad, and who did the ‘right thing’ for others both in and out of costume, and he felt compelled to follow him in what he did: being his friend obviously influenced this decision too, because having a positive mindset about someone causes you to trust them as knowing better than you. and when he eventually goes on his murder spree under extreme stress and duress, he melts down because he thinks that not only has he let down bruce, he’s let down THE WORLD. he is reminded that he is NOT a functioning member of society, he is not NORMAL. he’s just like those other criminally insane people he was locked away with in arkham, he is no better than a crazed bloodthirsty lunatic, and nothing batman or bruce can say can change that. in that moment, john truly believes that he is doomed. if he can’t control his own actions, his own thoughts, his desires, his impulses, how the hell can he control himself while being batman’s accomplice? how can he keep a hold of himself when talking to his best friend, who makes him so excited and enthusiastic it’s hard to discern whether he’ll be able to control his violent tendencies whenever he feels strong emotion? john doe is uncontrollable. arkham can’t control him, harley can’t control him, the agency can’t control him, batman can’t control him, and he sure as hell can’t control himself. that’s what makes him so tragic. that’s what makes his story so sad, and so doomed. he was at a disadvantage from the start. he can’t function within the society that’s already built up around him and so he can’t function at all. so he chooses to let loose and do whatever the hell he wants, and where does it leave him? back where he started, in arkham, being taught the same lessons as last time, except now everyone treats him as though he’s stupider than he is and more dangerous than he ever wants to be.

[rambyol]

Pet Owners when their pet animal starts acting out at people:

[dextershomeforevilgays]

[jasonsbruce]

[hildrynprime]

[aspiringcorvidae]

i finished my first playthrough of batman: the enemy within today and oh my god that shit packs a punch. i’m still recovering from vigilante joker’s speech at the end it hit me HARD