How does arkham city end

So Batman believes Harley had lots of time to make it to the Joker, who now has the cure. Batman later finds Harley tied up in the Steel Mill but he does not realize she never made it to Joker, since everyone is talking about how Joker looks good now and is no longer sick. So how come, when Batman enters the Steel Mill everyone says the Joker looks well and has been cured? Joker knows morale is not good amongst his gang seeing that their leader is sick and could die.

So he uses Clayface again to be him, and make people thing that he got well and is no longer sick. Everyone, including Batman, thinks Joker drank from the cure, but that is not the case as the cure never made it to him. When he gets trapped under the Debris, Talia shows up and offers Joker the gift of immortality in exchange for sparing Batman which Joker accepts since that would save him from the disease.

Joker asks Batman for the cure, and Batman does not understand why because he thought Joker already had the cure. Then suddenly Talia stabs the Fake Joker and looks like she killed him.

Batman starts to piece the clues together in his mind, and suddenly realizes what is going on, but before he can warn Talia that the real joker is still alive and is probably inside the theater, the real Joker shoots Talia, at which point she drops the cure from her hand. He defeats him and takes the cure from him and drinks it, becoming healthy again.

The Real Joker stabs Batman in the arm, causing him to drop and break the vial, so the real Joker dies since there is no more cure. Batman tells him before his death, that even with everything that Joker has done to him, Batman would still have let him drink from the cure if he had asked.

Joker finds that funny. One last issue I would like to clarify: After rescuing Vicki Vale, Batman receives a message from Alfred that they have found a cure to the virus, and are sending him a dosage. Batman arrives to the drop off location and injects the cure, but then falls unconscious and wakes up in front of the Mad Hatter.

It was just an hallucination, a trick by Mad Hatter to lure Batman into an ambush. Spread The Word del. Definitely agree- To elab orate on the Mad Hatter p oint And my name actuall y is Alice, which made th at mission so, so, so cre epy when you go back to the rooftop you find the 'cure' Hatter dropped was tea and cookies.

A reall y excellent article. Reply to this comment. Cancel this reply. Wow, this helped. Puts al l the pieces together ver y nicely. One thing I noticed, that may be a mistake on the part of the development t eam, or could be intentio nal: When Batman passe s out with the cure in hi s hand in the last cutsce ne, it's in his left hand. When he wakes up, it's in his right. Make of that what you will, but i t's quite possible the Jo ker took the cure, gave B atman a fake vial, then f aked his own death, allow ing Batman to carry him r ight out of Arkham City.

Of course they have to ha ve some way of bringing J oker back. The Clown Prin ce has been Batman's arch enemy since the very firs t comic, Batman 1.

Great article. In respons e to Daniel and pelolep: Switching the cure with a placebo? Halving the do se in two vials? The only thing keeping Joker's de ath a "mystery" is the de speration of the fans. J oker died, and there's no evidence that points to his resurrection. If he does come back in any fut ure Arkham games if ever , I sure hope they use a more innovative story th an what you two suggested!

Even though you see that joker dies it is possible he's alive after all the creators of batman aren' t going to let the villai n since the first comic die that easily would the y? Oh and Critical Cricti c, Daniel and pelolep may have a point after all a nything is possible, well almost everything, but J oker could be alive for D aniel and peloep's respon ces could be true.

The article was clearly w ritten and accurate. It d oes it's job to the lette r. And about the Jo ker's return Perhaps t he team behind AC simply wasn't singleminded with what to do with the Joker 's death and left a backd oor to use in case they'd later find out they'd li ke to resurrect him. The fact of the matter is, th at the vial change from t he left hand before the e xplosion to the right aft er it, Batman's hand bloc k us from really seeing c learly how much exactly h e drank from it and in th e scene the picture makes a pritty underlining cut to a close-up of the via l, in his right hand and not in the left anymore.

Batman also just happens to be knocked out for a p eriod of time not clearly timed for us, with the J oker perhaps awake and Cl ayface falling into the L azarus pit. You can alway s say that the Joker shou ld have been cured faster , had he drank the cure, but remember, that Batman had been sick under a da y, where as the Joker had been sick for months.

The proposal was approved and Dr. Hugo Strange, a top psychiatrist, was selected to administrate the new Arkham. Due to the damage to the island, it was decided that the city would sell the rights to Arkham Island to the highest bidder. TYGER, a private security company quickly purchased the island and, soon after, was named as the primary contractor for security in Arkham City. Numerous people were involved in the new Asylum's creation, but by the time it was finished, most if not all of those involved were captured by Strange and imprisoned within the city walls as "loose ends.

As the new Asylum opened, Sharp, paranoid to end crime in Gotham, labeled everyone and anyone who even had the slightest criminal record to be inmates of Arkham City and had them imprisoned without trial or the right to objections. Strange furthered that by imprisoning anyone trying to investigate or speak out against the Asylum.

Commissioner James Gordon , suspicious of Strange's intentions and unaware of the abduction of political prisoners, sent in a ten-man squad of undercover cops from the 13th precinct to investigate what was really going on in Arkham City.

Unfortunately, in an interview, Strange tipped the Penguin off to the undercover cops. They weren't able to report back before their true status as cops were exposed, and resulted in their capture by the Penguin's gang.

After he believed that the new asylum was a ticking time bomb, Bruce Wayne began making public moves against the asylum's existence, which resulted in his own incarceration into Arkham City.

From within the asylum, as Batman , Bruce discovered the political climate within the city as well as the political prisoners and Strange's secret alliance with Ra's al Ghul. During Wayne's movements inside the city, Strange decided that Quincy Sharp had outlived his usefulness, had him stripped of his position as mayor, had him incarcerated into Arkham City, and personally used the intentionally corralled chaos within the asylum to convince the Gotham City Council Members to enact Protocol 10 : the destruction of the asylum and deaths of all the prisoners within.

The chaos within the asylum was finally quelled when the Joker and Batman confronted each other within the asylum one final time, which resulted in the Joker's death and the asylum's condemnation. With the decree that the entire asylum site be shut down as soon as possible, as a result, Sharp's martial law was overturned and Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department were given back full jurisdiction in Gotham City.

They were sent to arrest all TYGER forces, transferred all of the inmates away from the prison, rescued all the falsely imprisoned, and shut down the site once and for all. However, Harley and Joker's remaining gang attacked the officers and forced them to retreat, but the GCPD managed to knock out Quinn and took her to the ward.

As that was one of the last areas that were needed to be evacuated, the GCPD was forced to keep the site under lockdown and eventually summoned Batman. Quinn took various police officers hostage, Batman was lured into a trap by Harley, and subsequently went missing for two days. Worried, Oracle sent Robin in to investigate and locate Batman before Quinn could put her plans to kill Batman, Robin, and herself as vengeance for Joker's death into effect.

There were some villains that they didn't find: Hush and the Calendar Man. They also could not find Ra's or Talia al Ghul 's bodies. Unfortunately, as Hugo Strange had wrongfully imprisoned so many innocents and even those who had paid their debt to society, every last inmate was released. Commissioner Gordon was less than pleased, having to put up with parole hearings that were for formality's sake; Riddler was amused by this.

He even donated his R. Arkham City was a cordoned off section of Gotham City largely compromised of the area known as "Old Gotham", created after the events of Joker's takeover of Arkham Asylum. Administrated by Hugo Strange under the command of Quincy Sharp and staffed by TYGER as it's regular security forces, it was intended, in theory, to both serve as a more effective containment for criminals and to facilitate their gradual curing and rehabilitation.

In reality, it was effectively a lawless zone where aside from Strange's rule no one should attempt escape, no serious efforts were made to rehabilitate its population, token efforts by Strange who was more interested in various inmates for his own reasons than any desire to help them aside.

In fact, Strange deliberately encouraged the lawlessness, hoping it would reach a boiling point that would enable him to kill the population with legal sanction, thus ridding Gotham of much of its criminal element and would, as far as he was concerned, make him far more effective than the law or Batman at stopping crime.

Accordingly, while limited medical services were provided and food dropped by helicopters via supply crates were provided as token attempts to provide social services, it was little more than window dressing to disguise the fact Strange cared little to nothing for the long-term welfare of the imprisoned.

In reality, this led to prisoners fighting each other for the limited resources and simply helped Strange achieve the boiling point of chaos he needed to legally enact Protocol Ten. All prisoners who were transferred or wrongfully imprisoned in Arkham City were quickly processed and placed in the facility where they would have to fend for themselves in order to survive. New inmates would have to seek out shelter in one of several abandoned buildings or in the makeshift shanty town near the wall of the prison.

Freeze were able to use their powers or criminal assets in order to claim several key areas of Old Gotham that they used as their primary hideouts. The first three had transferred in along with their respective crews and quickly gained control of several areas of the old city. Unknown to them however, many of their own henchmen secretly worked for Riddler and were given the knowledge of several challenges he had set up for Batman.

These gangs typically seized most of the food drops that strange provided for the prison population and had access to firearms. Following his defeat at the hands of Batman and Catwoman, Two-Face went into hiding and seeming abandoned the courthouse, although several of his men continued to patrol the area around the building. As Arkham City was cordoned off from nearly all outside surveillance, Strange had nearly complete control over what the outside world knew of its workings, though enough information leaked out during the time of it's construction and via disenchanted former employees for the outside world to gain some idea of its true purpose.

Bruce Wayne, in particular, attempted to lead a peaceful protest and organize a movement against Arkham City to press for its closure, though Strange, knowing Wayne's alter-ego, realized this was an attempt to topple Arkham City's legitimacy and so he had TYGER operatives extralegally arrest Wayne on dubious charges.

As Batman, Wayne would become quite aware alongside others like Vicki Vale and Jack Ryder of the numerous innocent people who had been falsely imprisoned, the horrific lawlessness, and due to their survival of Protocol Ten, were able to effectively provide evidence that ensured Arkham City's status as a legally established detention center was permanently stripped and the entire facility permanently closed. Aside from the inmates, there were other people inside Arkham City.

Some were there voluntarily, while others like Vicki Vale came there by accident. Talia and Ra's al Ghul were also present in Arkham City voluntarily. Arkham City was actually a large part of the already built Gotham City that was turned into a lawless war zone for the criminals of Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison to run free and do whatever they pleased as long as they did not try to escape. The city was surrounded by high, impenetrable walls which could only be accessed via the various high security doors around the facility and presumably via the helicopters that patrolled the city around the clock.

TYGER patrolled the walls, doors, and skies via the helicopters, and kept all of the possessions of the inmates in a large vault in the western part of the city which Catwoman tried to break into at one point. The atmosphere in the city was hell, with most inmates being violent and involved in the mass gang war between Batman's greatest enemies.

The Political Prisoners hid and scurried around the backstreets of the city, and a small community had been established in the middle of the city under a bridge. Despite the lack of general rules, the inmates were under the thumb of Strange who had propaganda posters everywhere, and often issued commands and new authoritarian rules via the citywide intercom that originated from Wonder Tower, the tallest building in the city which the inmates could not access.

Numerous buildings in Gotham were part of Arkham City regardless of their previous importance in the city. Most of those buildings played a role in the game's main story and Gotham's Most Wanted Side Missions. Most of Batman's notable villains made their mark in the city, formed territories in their gang war against one another, and had numerous henchmen who wore masks or clothes that were related to their leader s.

The Joker developed a violent roller coaster ride for new recruits to try out on, and also built a Ferris Wheel on the site too. Two-Face, who was growing in power, took the Solomon Wayne Courthouse as his base, after he stole it from Calendar Man and imprisoned him in his cell below the courtroom.

In the style of Two-Face, half of the courthouse, inside and out, was damaged and scarred like his face. Penguin, who was the third member of the major gang war, commanded his henchmen from The Cyrus Pinkney Institute for Natural History , as well as the Iceberg Lounge.

He had his own makeshift museum which displayed numerous objects related to his enemies including the captured Mr. He also had a giant shark named Tiny living in the flooded atrium of the museum, and Solomon Grundy beneath the Iceberg Lounge.

Riddler did not participate in the gang war, and had no real control over the city, but he built five death traps to challenge Batman after he kidnapped Cash and the medical team. The Riddler also had numerous Thugs that were hidden around the city, and were identified by Batman as having a green tint to their clothes.

Riddler also has his lair in the Bowery. Among the other inmates were Mr. Freeze who operated in the old GCPD Building, Poison Ivy who operated from Gotham's park and occupied a lair in the north-east part of the city with her hypnotized thugs , Victor Zsasz hid out in a abandoned building near the Joker's lair and kidnapped victims to kill them, Killer Croc lurked in the city's sewers and the abandoned Subway tunnels, Bane appeared in the Krank co.

Toys building, the Mad Hatter's small, mind-controlled group lived in a tea shop like lair , and Hush's Hideout was found near the courthouse.