User blog:Spider-Man101/Batman Isn't Dead At The End Of Arkham Knight

Sefton Hill said it on his Reddit AMA. I've always believed that he survived for several reasons.

1. Batman has faked his death many times (The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Rises, etc).

2. During the credits, you hear Joker (Who is stuck in Batman's head) singing. If Bruce was dead, that couldn't happen.

3. The Knightmare Batman at the end of the game is the same Knightmare Batman that Scarecrow sees right before he is locked up. And it's not a hallucination. In the Nightwing mission, some thugs mention that a new figure beats them up.

4. Bruce Wayne wouldn't kill Alfred with him. Alfred is his father figure and his closest ally.

5. If you read Jason Todd's Red Hood bio, it says that Jason's willingness to kill bad guys will forevver keep him and Batman at odds. Jason became Red Hood after the events of the game and Batman's disappearence.

6. The family the Knightmare Batman saves at the end looked just liked Bruce Wayne as a kid and his parents. Bruce doesn't want another kid to suffer like he did.

7. When Bruce started he career as Batman, he was a myth, a legend. A lot of bad and good guys didn't believe Batman was real. Bruce as this new Batman becomes a myth and a legend again.

8. The new Batman is not Gordon because he becomes mayor at the end and while narrating the end, he asks who will protect Gotham now. If he was the new Batman, I don't think we would hear him say that.

9. It's not Nightwing because he protects Bludhaven in honer of Batman and turned down Aaron Cash's offer to be Gotham's new hero.

10. It's not Robin because he said during his mission that he wants to become a better hero than Batman (With Oracle's help).

11. It's not Jason Todd because he becomes the violent Red Hood.

12. It's not Azreal because there are two different endings to his side mission. Either he gets locked up by Batman or he leaves to find the secret society. Plus, if he was the new Batman, he would've been part of the main story. Not a side mission.

13. It's not Damion Wayne because it's never been confirmed if he exists in the Arkhamverse and if he does, he would be just a little kid during the events of Arkham Knight.

14. Calender Man or some other theif did not sneak into Wayne manor and plant bombs in there because I imagine that Wayne Manor has high level secruity and some loser bad guy like Calender Man would never be able to break into Wayne Manor.

15. In one of the challenge maps set at Wayne Manor, there is a secret entrance to the Batcave. Bruce and Alfred easily hid in there before setting of the explosion.

16. Batman could've easily acuired Scarecrow's toxin after defeating him for his new career as a new Batman.

17. It makes sense for Bruce to become Batman full time because Bruce Wayne isn't who he really is. Batman is his true self.