User blog:The Arrival/Arkham Knight

So, we all know about the next Batman Arkham game, but the one question is, who is the Arkham Knight? Is he a new villain, or someone old being a new villain? We're testing out the most likely possibilities for the second theory.

(These ideas are not mine. Thanks to the Arkhamverse fan community for coming up with them, and Batman Arkham Videos for sharing them! Though some of the evidence collected and the Thug theory is mine)

Hush- Thomas Elliot hates Bruce Wayne because his father let Tommy's mother survive. If he wants to get revenge, Batman would stop him, yes? if he became a twisted version of him, then he could kill Batman AND get revenge on Bruce Wayne. Now remember, Rocksteady doesn't like leaving loose ends, and it's possible that he is the Arkham Knight. Although, if you've seen the Evening the Odds Arkham Knight Gameplay Trailer, then you saw those cool flips and fighting moves the Arkham Knight did, and Hush isn't known for acrobatics. Also, on the Arkham City Identity Thief side mission he keeps on adjusting his new Bruce Wayne face, like it isn't in place. When he left Arkham City, he left all of his equipment. Now, if Arkham Kinght is set one year after Arkham City, and Arkham Origins is set six years before Arkham City, and you saw Identity Thief newspaper articles in Bane's Hideout in Arkham Origins, then it took him six years to make the new face. One year wouldn't be enough to improve the face to stand flips and full on fighting, so this theory is unlikely. Also, when Batman Arkham Videos did an analysis on the Gameplay Demo at E3, he spotted a hospital called the 'Elliot Memorial Hospital', which means that he may be dead.Though, that could just mean his parents.

Red Hood-  Jason Todd wants revenge on Batman, so this would be the perfect chance. Remember, it has already been proven that he is in the Arkhamverse, like in the Joker funhouse challenge map in Arkham City, if you're Robin, Joker will say; "Hang on. Didn't I kill you already? Oh, well, there's always time for that", and the missing tyres of the Batmobile in the Batcave challenge map of Arkham City when Jason was stealing the tyres of the Batmobile when he and Batman first met, and the presence of Tim Drake, the third Robin. Also,a Lazarus Pit was in Gotham or Wonder City, as I may say, and is pretty close for someone like Hugo Strange to recover Jason's body and use it on a Lazurus Pit, then got a better weapon against Batman (Protocal 10) and disposed of him, but then Jason got his own plans to kill Batman. When he heard of Scarecrow's plan for revenge against Batman, he thought that it was a great time to begin revenge. I thought that this theory was the most likely because the Under the Red Hood story arc is such a big moment in Batman's career as a hero,and the fact that Rocksteady hadn't  touched this story is quite strange. Although this is now wrong, as he has been confirmed to be in the game, but as Red Hood.

Anarky- Thanks to the Wiki Contributor for sharing this with us. Just take a look at the comment he/she wrote. It's actually pretty good. But, just in case in some bad cases that someone can't view comments or anything, here's the theory: The Arkham Knight is younger than Batman, fights similarly to Batman, etc. He also only thinks that Gotham can't be rebuilt, only cleansed. Also, Anarky had his own army in Arkham Origins, and the Arkham Knight has his own army too. There are also Anarchist tags hidden in the E3 Gameplay Demo.

A Thug- This theory has been in my head for quite a while, and only now have I come to think of it as a possibility.

So, in every Arkham game, mostly Arkham City, there is at least one thug saying how much he hates Batman, apart from Arkham Origins since most of them thought Batman just as a myth. But anyway, here are some quotes, such as:

"I'm not doing this for you, Riddler. I'm getting back at the Bat for what he did to me back at the Asylum"

"Because Back at the Asylum, Batman broke three of my ribs and gave me a concussion!" (Or something like that)

But that's not all. The Arkham Knight is pretty good with melee comat, with skills that match Batman's. In Arkham Origins, we see the 'martial artists', people who can counter Batman. In the time period in between Origins and Knight, at least one martial artist who hates Batman enough will go around the world and improve his skills enough to match Batman in a one-on-one battle. And, in the ACE Chemicals gameplay trailer, there are some pretty skilled people with swords that got quite close to hitting Batman.

But there's still more. We know that the Arkham Knight and Scarecrow had this converstation:

Scarecrow: Why do you hate him so much?

Arkham Knight: You wouldn't understand.

So, by that, I think the Arkham Knight meant that there are lots of thugs who hate Batman, and Scarecrow wouldn't understand why he hated him more. Oh, and, don't forget, that Rocksteady said that the Arkham Knight was a whole new character made from scratch in the Arkham series. Well, those thugs were entirely original, so...

But, still, there's more.

So, you know in the ACE Chemicals Infiltration Part One trailer had the Arkham Knight doing quite a few things. Two, to be precise. Now this may sound a little far-fetched, but here we go.

So, just before the Arkham Knight says 'Keep your guns trained on him", he laughs a bit? Well, that was clearly a laugh meaning 'Yes, I have finally got him where I want him". Still, that could be anyone, right?

Well, one more tiny bit of evidence is Scarecrow giving him orders at the beginning of Part One. With someone as powerful as the Arkham Knight, you're bound to object and say, 'No, Scarecrow. My venegence will come now'. But he didn't. So, he was clearly used to taking orders. In all of the Arkham Series, these people were always used to taking orders:

Black Mask Mobsters

Joker Vandals

Bane Elites

Penguin Gang

Joker Gang

Two-Face Gang

Anarky Supporters

Deadshot's Men

Merceanaries

Perhaps somebody from these groups got so angry with Batman injuring him. Or, somebody who just got so irritated with what Batman had done to him once. Now, with playing all of the Arkham games released so far, including Arkham City Lockdown and Arkham Origins Blackgate, and watching Assault on Arkham, I couldn't find anyone whom Batman had done more damage to than any other thug, apart from random who hate Batman who are dead or are already confirmed to be in the game but not the Arkham Knight. So let's go with somebody who has encountered Batman more than ten times or so.

Now, it's actually possible that it's somebody from Joker's Chaos Empire (his Vandals and his Gang), as Batman seemed to encounter the Joker and his 'minions' quite often. So when Joker died, this thug saw his oppourtunity and departed from Harley Quinn's new group and trained himself to become the Arkham Knight, making a suit and gathering an army. Where did this army come from? So, remember in Arkham Origins and City whith the enemies that weren't in any groups? Well, the Arkham Knight basically told them to join him if they wanted to get revenge on Batman.

Frank Boles- Now, I don't have really any evidence to back this up, apart from that maybe he didn't die from what Joker gave him, but something else altogether which stopped his heart, brought him back giving him excellent fighting skills. And, he was an original character in the Arkham series. But this is just a hunch I have, nothing more.

So, yeah, now we all know who it is, and we were all expecting the face behind the mask to be that person. And everyone was disappointed, it would seem. You know, I was hoping it to be ol' Frankie boy...

Thanks for reading!