User blog:Fireworks888/Timeline

The Arkhamverse Batman is one of the best incarnations of not only Batman, but the entire universe he's in ever, in my opinion. However, just how much do we know? When you think about it, we've only seen 4 DAYS (Origins, Asylum, City, and Knight) of Batman's decade long career as the Caped Crusader. It's not like the Nolanverse where we see most of his career, no, there are HUNDREDS of game-worthy events following the Arkhamverse Batman that we never see. So I'm making a timeline of all of Batman's adventures, whether they be entire 7-hour long games or sentence-long references in one of those games. Also, this goes without say, but SPOILERS. Make sure to tell me what I missed!

Note: I'm not counting the super obscure villains like Killer Moth and the Ratcatcher since they're so minor. Also, haven't seen Assault on Arkham, butwhoreallycaresaboutthatfilm.

Pre-Arkham Origins
Despite being in action for 2 years, pre-Origins Batman hasn't really had anything happen to him. No major situations or criminals faced/known about rather than Black Mask, and to my knowledge, they never really fought. He also brought the Calender Man to justice, so I'm going to assume Mr. Day is the first villain Batman ever faced. So pre-Origins Batman probably just beat up common street thugs and maybe some unimportant mob-bosses. Apparently he was so inactive those 2 years even Gordon announced he was just a myth at the beginning of Origins.

2 years

Batman: Arkham Origins w/ DLC
This Christmas Eve, Batman meets all the biggies. In Origins, Batman meets So it's important to note that, on this single night, Bruce Wayne evolved from an advanced vigilante into THE GODDAMNED BATMAN. Also, just to note, some Knightfall stuff occurs, what with Bane finding out Batman's identity and trashing the cave (also nearly killing Alfred). Also in the DLC, he has his first encounter with Mr. Freeze.
 * Killer Croc
 * Deathstroke
 * Bane
 * The Electrocutioner
 * The Penguin
 * The Joker
 * The Riddler/Enigma
 * Deadshot
 * Mad Hatter
 * Shiva
 * Mad Hatter
 * Copperhead
 * Firefly
 * Anarky

Barely 2 days, plus a 7 day timeskip to day long DLC

Between Origins and Asylum
Apparently, A LOT OF STUFF HAPPENS IN THIS TIMESPAN. It's unbelievable. I mean, I know it's 5 years but geez. Offscreen,


 * Arkham Asylum is opened
 * Joker seduces an Arkham psychiatrist into Harley Quinn (this either happened after a second encounter w/ Batman after Origins or the first time he was put into the asylum)


 * Batman befriends Harvey Dent and Gordon


 * Dent is turned into Two-Face

Batman meets and apprehends (possibly several times) Event wise:
 * Harley Quinn
 * Scarecrow (one of Scarecrow's encounters w/ Batman is audio recorded and found in Asylum)
 * Zsasz
 * Poison Ivy
 * Clayface
 * Blackfire
 * Ventriloquist
 * Ra's, and by extention, Talia
 * Catwoman


 * Ivy tries to destroy Batman and is put into Arkham. It's possible this was their first encounter, and while in Arkham tries to seduce the doctors into letting her out.


 * Joker also runs for president somewhere in these 5 years.


 * Zsasz stalks and nearly kills an Arkham Doctor.


 * Batman gets Dick as a side-kick.
 * Barbara becomes Batgirl
 * The Killing Joke happens, crippling Barbara into Oracle


 * Around the time of Asylum, Dick left to become Nightwing and Batman quickly replaces him with Jason.


 * Jason tries to kill the Joker and is tortured and "killed" himself.

Also, it's implied more Knightfall happens around here, ei Batman getting his spine broken by Bane and replaced with someone temporarily. However, Batman doesn't know what the Order is, which means he probably wasn't replaced by the original Azrael. However, the original Azrael DOES exist, as he was killed by the current Azrael before he was in the Order. The Joker gets interested in Dr. Young and her TITAN, and finally gets himself caught after nearly bombing city hall to be sent to Arkham, setting up Asylum.
 * During Jason's torture, he's replaced with Tim.

5 years

Batman: Arkham Asylum
Joker takes over the island, blah blah, Batman fights Croc, Harley, Scarecrow, Zsasz, Bane, Scarecrow is nearly killed by Croc and driven mad, we all know this. The most important event of all of this is the Joker's fatal poisoning of himself and Scarecrow's mutilation.

1 day

Between Asylum and City
1 year
 * Two-Face tries to rob a bank
 * Hugo Strange finds out Batman is Bruce Wayne
 * A couple of TITAN enhanced terrorists suicide bomb city hall
 * Arkham City is built

Batman: Arkham City
Yet again, yeah yeah, you know. Talia dies, Joker dies, Hugo dies, Arkham City incident, Scarecrow's revenge is in the makings.

1 day

Between City and Knight
This time-span is possibly the most mysterious. Absolutely no events are even referenced to besides the Batmobile getting jacked up and Scarecrow's and Jason's (Arkham Knight) revenge boiling.

1 year

Batman: Arkham Knight
More blahs. Scarecrow and Jason strike back, Batman encounters the Arkham Knight, they're both apprehended and Batman apparently kills himself, only to come back as an ambigious crime fighter.

1 day

9 years  as Batman. Really interesting. While I think it's best for the Arkham series to stay closed, I have to admit, with all of these mysterious noodle-incidents I couldn't help but, deep down, wish they made a game following them. Besides the obvious Knightfall, which unseen event listed in this timeline would you like to see as an Arkham game?