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THE BADDIES OF BATMAN
Superheroes; everyone wants to be one - or
saved by one*insert typical swooning here*.
But, in this article we’re going to spin around
and appreciate the villains, the bad guys, the
crooks, the nasties; whatever you call them,
the world of the superhero wouldn’t exist
without them. Gotham’s black knight has
experienced his fair share of nutjobs who’ve
been out to either get him directly for their
own seething revenge, or to attack Gotham
City and its civilians with a crazy idea thought
up during a month of “bad guy PMT.”
Having been born from the comic book world,
Batman has quickly risen to become one of
the most loved superheroes of the last 74
years, fighting through a variety of criminal
masterminds with the aim to keep his beloved
Gotham City safe from the gangs who roam
the streets. The villains paying him visits
thick and fast, including the most famous
one of all, The Joker - a supervillain whose
stories of origin vary across the wide variety
of media in which he is presented, but always
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with the same typical style - the green haired,
white faced, red lipped psycho who loves
nothing more than to get on “Bat’s” good side
and knows exactly which buttons to press.
Over the last two games that have been
released in the Arkham franchise to date,
‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ and ‘Batman:
Arkham City’, there has been a focus on the
Joker as the main supervillain for Batman
to face off against. Others feature, showing
their own traits and personalities as you play
through the game; such as The Riddler and
his trophies which are collected during game
play by completing certain puzzles that have
been left for you - one of the features of the
game which I personally became hooked upon
attempting to gather to 100% completion.
There’s still one alluding me, though I’ve
sworn myself to not cheat so it may forever
stay as unknown, my personal “supervillain”.
With the success of the two previous games
it came as no surprise that the publishers of
Batman Arkham Special Edition