<b>Editor's Note: This article contains spoilers for Batman: Knight of Arkham. </b>
<h2>clown</h2>
Nine months ago the clown was cremated, and I pressed the button to burn the bastard with my own hands.
The Joker is dead, dying of side effects of Titan virus. Although Batman tried to save him, he passed away with one last smile. After losing the Prince of Crime, Gotham City is also on the right track... While this is somewhat inconceivable for the city of crime, the supposedly gang-for-power struggle has not arrived.
But Batman knows, Police Chief Gordon knows, even every criminal in Arkham's lunatic asylum knows that a storm is coming, and now it's only up to see who pulls the trigger.
<h2>scarecrow</h2>
The gunshots happened in a coffee shop, and it was the scarecrow, aka Jonathan Klein, who pulled the damn trigger.
A biochemical attack, Scarecrow's new fear gas in a matter of seconds sent the entire café from panic, to madness, and finally to cannibalism. The Scarecrow threatens the entire city on a screen in the square.
His threat succeeded, and Gotham went from a bustling city of 6.3 million citizens to a dead city in one day, with only sporadic criminals and death-defying detectives wandering the streets. Now is the best time for the Scarecrow to take over the city.
Thousands of armies and tanks marched into Gotham, led by a man who had never been seen before, <b>the Knight of Arkham</b>. In the face of this entire army, no righteous man dared to stop it. Tonight, the city can only be saved by one person.
<h2>Equalization probability</h2>
No matter how powerful the Scarecrow's army was, it was still a mortal in itself. Bringing down the Scarecrow will get everything back on track. Batman searches for every clue and finally succeeds in finding the Scarecrow.
Just as the iron fist of justice is about to fall, bad news follows, and Barbara, the oracle who has been assisting Batman, has been captured.
With just a moment's hesitation, the Scarecrow breaks free of Batman and locks him in the gas chamber. Although no culprit has been caught, there is still something that can be done. The poisonous gas of fear here will be released throughout the city, and now is the only chance to stop them.
Surrounded by exploding buildings, Batman doesn't back down, putting cans of neutralizer into the silo to minimize the range of the gas explosion — even if he's at the center of the explosion.
"See you in the next life, Alfred."
He made a final farewell to the butler who had been assisting him.
The gas gushed out, but there was still a jar of neutralizer unused. Batman picks up the neutralizer, endures the poison gas of fear, and staggers into a final effort. But at the last moment of his life, he saw the long-lost friend.
"Miss me?"
A gunshot rang out.
<h2>Deadly jokes</h2>
The explosion continued, and Batman struggled to get up. The clown next to him looked particularly happy.
"Oh little bat, don't be so surprised, you should have known there was such a day."
He already knew.
Despite his demise, the Joker is not gone— he distributes his virally infected blood to hospitals everywhere, hoping to use his own blood to create the next clown. Batman successfully intercepted most of them, but five people were infected one after another, four of whom were successfully taken into custody, and the last one was Batman himself.
Although he slowed down his transformation with his willpower, the Joker eventually reappeared in front of Batman's eyes - his mind was gradually being eroded by the Joker, and Batman was transforming into the new Joker.
But now is not the time to care about these things. Batman calls back to the Batmobile and escapes the factory at the moment of the explosion. Despite retrieving a life, the Scarecrow is at large, the oracle is taken away, life or death is unknown, and everything seems to have returned to its beginning.
Now that the Scarecrow's clue is broken, the last chance falls on another man—the Scarecrow's military commander, the mysterious Arkham Knight.
<h2>Knight of Arkham</h2>
Red Hood - Aka Jason Todd, Robin, Wonder Boy, Arkham Knight.
As the second generation robin, he was imprisoned and abused by the clown, and his face was branded with shame, symbolizing the clown's "J". At the same time, the Joker also deceived Batman, creating the illusion that Jason was dead, leaving Batman with an indelible sense of guilt and making Jason think that he was abandoned.
After a year in captivity, the surviving Jason became the vengeful Grim Reaper, the Red Hood. Unlike Batman, the Red Hood has no iron rules for killing, and will mercilessly kill all enemies. In order to return to revenge for abandoning batman, he became an Arkham knight, and as a knight against a knight, he launched a final duel with Batman.
Arkham Knights lost, but Batman's pain didn't abate by half a point. Only to blame himself more for all the suffering that Jason, who is like a son, has suffered. He held out his hand to Jason again, but got no response. But now there is no time to grieve, and there is still a city to save.
<h2>mortal</h2>
As Arkham Knight is defeated and the Scarecrow's remnants of the armed forces disintegrate, the final showdown arrives, and the Scarecrow reveals his hole card – Batman needs to go to his location alone and take off his mask, or kill Robin and Gordon, who have captured him.
Batman went alone, as usual. The Scarecrow got his wish and managed to capture the masked vigilante, a symbol of Gotham's hope, and the guardian of absolute justice. Now just undo his mask of hypocrisy and let everyone see what kind of garbage Batman is under the mask, then the despair brought to the citizens of Gotham is stronger than any fear gas.
In order to completely defeat the knight, the Scarecrow injected him with the last fear toxin. As the toxin spreads in the body, the Joker toxin in Batman's body also reaches its peak, and it seems that everything is too late...
<h2>Batman</h2>
Bruce Wayne's consciousness is waning.
It is an ordinary day, and the struggle for power and profit between criminals is being staged in the ordinary city of Gotham. But this time, the spoiler is a "fledgling" new criminal , the clown. The Joker easily defeated the incoming enemy, and it was not inevitable that he would lose some interest, after all, the joke without laughter was useless. He held his gun in search of the Dark Knight who was bound to arrive, killed everyone who stood in the way along the way, and watched gotham burning happily.
Eventually he found a statue of the cloaked fighter in an abandoned manor. The clown burst out laughing as usual, shattering the statue with excitement, as if it were the true figure of the world's greatest detective. And in the distance, there is another statue.
"Another statue, it seems that the city likes you!"
Another, another... Every time I looked back, the black statue kept growing, constantly towering, constantly approaching, as if to swallow up the world in the darkness. The Joker kept smashing the statue, losing the smile on his face and replacing it with an emotion he had never felt before—fear.
In the darkness, only one voice sounded.
"You're afraid of being forgotten, and you're going to be forgotten, Joker."
From the prison called Hell came a man who looked like a bat. He approached step by step, one punch, two punches, three punches... There are no props, no tricks, only the final contest of two wills.
After countless iron fists fell, Batman pushed the Joker into prison and sent him into eternal darkness. He turned around and didn't look back.
As Batman's green eyes infected by the Joker's poisonous blood turn clear blue again, the last Joker with his legacy dissipates. But there is still one man waiting for belated justice.
<h2>trial</h2>
For a moment, the Scarecrow saw the Shadow of the Joker in Bruce Wayne's face. Confusion and irritability led him to increase the dose of fear toxins. Under the mask is just a mortal, and it is easy to crush it.
But it backfired.
Batman, who has regained himself, is firmly facing the Scarecrow, and no amount of fear gas can affect him in the slightest. Now just a little help is needed... With a gunshot, the defeated Arkham Knight, the Red Hood, shatters the shackles that imprison Batman in the distance. The rest is simply left to the professionals.
Batman gives the Scarecrow the Scarecrow a backhand of the Dread Gas, and in front of the Scarecrow are countless bats eager for revenge.
<h2>Fall</h2>
The war is over, and with Batman's true identity revealed, the secrets of his family and companions are not guaranteed. There is only one thing that can be done now.
On the roof of the Gotham police station, Batman stands. He took off his helmet and looked at the bat searchlight next to him. Gotham still needs his last night.
"This requires sound confirmation"
"Martha"
At dawn, in countless spotlights, Batman, Bruce Wayne, returned to his estate. Every battle, every sacrifice is for the betterment of the city. Now that the final mission is complete, it's time to put an end to it all.
A loud explosion sounded, and the entire Wayne Manor fell into flames, engulfing Bruce and Alfred, and the soaring flames illuminated the entire sky.
<h2>spark</h2>
Months later, a couple with their young children prepared to pass through the crime alley, but were surrounded by two gunmen. The father tried to resist but was knocked down by a punch, and the mother had to protect the child and hide aside. The gangster stepped forward and grabbed the pearl necklace from his mother's neck, and the pearls scattered on the ground with the rain, clanging.
One of the gangsters seemed to instinctively perceive something, raised his gun and looked upwards, and on the beam of the room in the distance stood a bat-like figure. The fears of yesteryear welled up in their minds, and the gangsters hesitated to say the name.
"Stupid, didn't you watch the news, Batman is dead!" One of them shouted, "You can't scare us like this!" ”。
In an instant, the black shadows of the bats in the distance spread their wings, the blood-red flames engulfed the night, and the swarms of bats tore through the sky.
<h2>A hero's story</h2>
Batman: Arkham Knight is the finale of the Arkham series and the epitome of this iconic game series. Batman and the Joker in this game are also played by the most classic voice actors, Kevin Conray and Mark Hamill, which can also be seen as the ending of batman and the Joker.
As the uncrowned king of the american comic hero's popularity ranking for many years, Batman's intertwined characteristics of gods and mortals are vividly displayed in this game. Batman will be restless in the face of losing Barbara, and will let go of the culprit, but when he is at the center of the explosion, he still thinks about how to save more people and squeeze out the last fire of his life.
When the Scarecrow tried to unmask Batman, he didn't flinch— even if that meant "Batman" would no longer exist. Under the mask he has bruce Wayne's face, but everyone knows that he is Batman. As powerful as God, but also as fragile as man.
On the villain side, almost all the villains have returned, and the gang led by Two-Faced Man and Penguin Man, the League of Assassins of Lei Xiaogu, and the Angel of Death have all ushered in their final destination here. In addition to "Death of the Family" and "Under the Red Hood", this game also recreates the classic scene of the clown shooting Barbara in "Deadly Joke" in the form of a game.
At the same time, the jump scare and psychological horror elements of this work are also quite numerous, in addition to the fact that every time you go to the roof, you may be frightened by the clown's illusion, and the sudden appearance of the human bat is more comparable to a horror game.
Of course, the most exciting thing is the process of operating the clown in the first person, and its degree of surprise is difficult to present in the form of a carrier outside the game. When night falls, the apparitions of countless bats gradually engulf you, which may be the true psychological portrayal of criminals when they face Batman.
At this point, the "Batman: Arkham" series has come to an end, and the legend of Batman has come to a perfect end.
<h2>Batman: Arkham series game schedule:</h2>
August 25, 2009 Batman: Arkham Asylum was released
October 18, 2011 Batman: City of Arkham was released
October 26, 2013 Batman: Arkham Origins was released
On April 3, 2014, Batman: Origins of Arkham, Black Gate was released
June 23, 2015 Batman: Arkham Knight is released
Gotham Knight's new worldview will be released in 2021, but it will also tell the story of Batman's "afterlife".
Coming soon in 2022, Suicide Squad: Kill Justice League takes over the Arkham series of worldviews