Written by: Grant Morrison. Commissioner James Gordon. Specs U. Price: On Sale Date: Oct 5 Hidden from Mobile. Hidden from Full. Entering the Medical Facility, he encounters Harley and Gordon but cannot reach them due to one of the security fields, forcing him to find a different point of entry through the Maintenance Access on the roof. He then uses the ventilation system to gain access to the Sanatorium. Batman then defeats five gun-wielding Blackgate prisoners who are holding Dr.
Sarah Cassidy and three other doctors hostage. On his way through the facility Batman rescues several more doctors and staff, including Dr. Penelope Young , in whom the Joker's henchmen showed a particular interest. In the Patient Observation area Batman encounters security guard Aaron Cash and Doctor Kellerman, who are trapped by a trio of Blackgate convicts in a control room filling with toxic gas.
After filtering the gas out of the room via ventilation fans, Batman heads to the Surgery Area, where he rescues Doctor Chen from a large number of the Joker's thugs.
He proceeds back to the Sanatorium, pausing only briefly to halt a violent inmate armed with knives. Back at the Sanatorium Dr. Young insists on securing her research notes and is escorted back to the Arkham Mansion by Cash while Batman follows Gordon's abductors down to the Morgue level in an elevator. Upon entering the lower level Batman catches a glimpse of the Scarecrow and several unfortunate victims of his fear gas trapped in an operating room.
Soon he is affected by the gas himself, first subtly, then in increasingly surreal ways. He finds Gordon's dead body in an empty hallway and has a chilling encounter in the morgue with the reanimated corpses of his parents.
The Dark Knight finds himself in a nightmarish dreamscape set in the crumbling ruins of Arkham Asylum, controlled by a gigantic, monstrous Scarecrow, whose fiery gaze he must evade until he can defeat him with a symbolic bat-signal. Shaking off the effects of the fear gas, Batman awakes inside the Morgue. Batman leaves the Morgue and finds Scarecrow's gas had him believe something that wasn't real, finding a fallen security guard where he had seemingly found Gordon's corpse earlier.
Batman realizes that Gordon is still alive and follows a trail left for him by the Joker to the scene of a vicious little game set up for him. Harley is guarding Gordon and Joker challenges Batman to make it undetected past four of his henchmen patrolling the room; if he is spotted Harley will execute Gordon instantly. Once Batman succeeds the Joker directs his attention to a surprise left for him in a previously locked chamber in the middle of the room.
Inside, he finds Bane , strung up in restraints and hooked up to a pump that's draining his Venom. Young's "Titan" project which were playing on some monitors in the Upper Corridor of the Medical Facility.
The Joker triggers the pump, replacing Bane's Venom with Titan, which enables him to break free and attack Batman, hurling him through a wall and into the Medical Facility's Boiler Room.
After a fierce battle Batman flees the Boiler Room by means of his grappling gun as the ceiling, weakened by the fight, collapses on Bane and buries him under a pile of rubble. Bane rises, however, from the debris to face Batman again, only to have the Dark Knight summon the Batmobile to the scene, ramming it directly into Bane and knocking him into the murky waters of the Gotham Bay.
Batman takes Commissioner Gordon to the docks in Arkham West, where an emergency launch is waiting to take the police commissioner back to the mainland. Gordon and a security guard get on the boat, leaving Batman standing alone on the docks. After heading through a locked-up cave outside, Batman glides down to a secret Arkham-based sector of the Batcave which he installed beneath the island's surface years ago.
Using the computer there he learns that Young has been researching the Venom drug fueling Bane and has managed to develop Titan, a similar, yet more powerful drug based on Bane's Venom, ostensibly intended to help inmates withstand the more Realizing that Joker plans to use Titan for something sinister, Batman heads over to Arkham Mansion to reach Young's notes before the Joker gets there first.
With the help of the Batclaw, a gadget similar to the grappling gun that Batman assembled in the Arkham Batcave, Batman reaches the Old Sewer through the Arkham caves.
He discovers the Joker has seized the tunnels of the Old Sewer and has posted several Blackgate convicts there to prevent him from proceeding. After defeating them Batman enters the Main Sewer Junction, which is a massive, crumbling, chamber with a maze of decrepit columns, archways, and platforms. Here Batman finds that the Joker's men have gotten their hands on sniper rifles stolen from the guard armory.
After being forced to deal with several of the armed convicts, Batman enters Arkham East only to find that the Joker had taken over this part of the island as well.
Armed prisoners now guard the watch towers after having shot the security guards. After being forced to contend with more gun-wielding thugs, Batman enters the Arkham Mansion through the air ventilation system.
After defeating three of the Joker's men in the Entrance Hall, he fights his way through the Main Hall and enters the West Wing Corridor, where he rescues Arkham staff member Kevin Liew and an asylum guard. He notices 'Suicide Collars' worn by some of the Joker's henchmen, electronic devices that sound an alarm when they detect sudden heartbeat changes in the inmates.
Batman then rescues Aaron Cash and another Arkham guard being held captive by a group of armed Blackgate convicts in the Records Room. Batman eventually makes his way through the Mansion to Dr. Young's office, only to find that she has already retrieved the notes. He tracks a trail of her fingerprints to the mansion's library, where she hid the notes from the Joker. Briefly pausing to deal with several of the Joker's thugs and rescue Bill , a security guard, and an orderly being held captive, he destroys the notes.
Unfortunately Joker had Zsasz kidnap Dr. Young herself and intends to have him torture the Titan formula out of her. Throughout the game, Batman must work to free hostages from the villainous inmates of Arkham Asylum.
While venturing through the Mansion to rescue Dr. Young, Batman is drugged by Scarecrow again, this time being forced to relive his parents' death, and having to battle past another giant Scarecrow. After emerging from the gas unharmed once more, he finds Zsasz holding Young hostage in Warden Sharp's office with a knife. He uses his Batarang to defeat Zsasz and rescue Young. The shaken and harrowed Dr. Young reveals that Joker now has the Venom and her Titan formula.
She talks of a laboratory inside the Botanical Gardens, but when she goes over to Sharp's safe to retrieve the security codes, she finds that the Joker had gotten there first and has rigged the safe with explosives. The blast kills Young, and Harley taunts a barely-conscious Batman with Warden Sharp, whom she is still holding hostage. After waking up completely and taking out the thugs Harley left behind, Batman tracks Harley to the Penitentiary.
Batman chases Harley through the building. He finds Sharp in the control room, frees him, and takes Sharp's security codes, enabling him to disable the electric barriers blocking his way with his Cryptographic Sequencer.
At the same time, Harley releases Poison Ivy , whose cell Batman had passed earlier while she pleaded for his help, from captivity.
To make matters worse, the Joker frees the rest of the crazed Arkham inmates. Batman follows Harley to a large room with an electrified floor, which she uses to try to kill him. When she fails, she sends her thugs after him, whom fail too. The Joker, furious at her failure, crosses her off his 'party list' for some kind of celebration he is holding later that night. Harley tries to attack Batman herself, but is subdued in seconds and locked into a cell.
Through a slip of the tongue from Harley, Batman learns that the Joker has a secret Titan production facility inside the Botanical Gardens. Now in possession of the knowledge that Joker plans to build an army of Titan-fueled mutants effectively an enormous group of Banes , Batman heads over to the Gardens and reaches the hidden laboratory.
After battling two of the Joker's henchmen drugged with a now complete Titan serum, he destroys the facility and begins to search for an antidote to Titan. Since Titan is produced by genetically engineered plants hence the location of the secret lab , Batman believes Poison Ivy could help him find a cure. Ivy refuses to help Batman declaring that she'd rather watch him squirm until he threatens to make every plant on Arkham suffer unless she cooperates.
She informs him that the only way to create an antidote is to use some rare spores which can only be found in the sewers - directly inside the lair of Killer Croc. As Batman leaves the Botanical Gardens, Joker announces that he has supplied the angered Ivy with some of the Titan serum. This causes her plants to grow to gigantic proportions, slowly covering the island and entangling its buildings while large, bulbous flowers appear everywhere that exude deadly spores.
Batman can easily sneak up on thugs and perform silent takedowns even in a room full of armed enemies. At some point Martin also went to the Botanical Gardens on the island and desecrated the statue raised by Amadeus in memory of his family. These many tragedies pushed Amadeus over the edge, and during a session of electroshock therapy he murdered Martin.
Amadeus was later ruled insane and incarcerated in his own asylum where he died. His gravestone was located next to the Botanical Gardens. Over the years, the asylum gradually developed with new facilities such as the Penitentiary being established. However, it was eventually closed down soon before the Arkham Origins Incident - possibly because more criminals were instead sent to Blackgate Prison which later proved to be unfit for housing the criminally insane.
Once reopened, the facility was voted as the number one psychiatric and rehabilitation facility in the state. However, the infamous reputation remained as more high-profile criminals frequently managed to escape its walls. It developed to become a premium bed psychiatric facility holding a range of individuals deemed insane. For the past two years prior to the Arkham Asylum Incident, the facility offered internships to University Students to help them gain valuable experience for a career.
Arkham Asylum's own website called ArkhamCare was the online public face of the facility that was designed to inform potential patients about the institution. The institution gradually developed, but was eventually abandoned, possibly because more of Gotham's criminals were being sent to Blackgate Prison instead of Arkham Asylum.
Arkham Asylum could be seen in the distance from Gotham's mainland, but during that incident was not operational, so the criminally insane individuals were mostly treated within other institutions such as Blackgate. However, Quincy Sharp spoke about his intentions to renovate and reopen the asylum in the following months so it would function as a highly appropriate facility to house and treat those with severe mental illnesses. While Batman took down Mr.
Freeze and Ferris Boyle , Arkham was being redeveloped by Sharp into the psychiatric institution that it was formerly. At around the same time of this incident, Arkham Asylum had been fully renovated and was in a fit condition to house the criminally insane thanks to the efforts of Sharp who became the new Warden. Facilities such as the Intensive Treatment Center and Medical Facility were drastically developed so the asylum could also function as a hospital while the improved Penitentiary ensured that the growing number of super-criminals remained safely incarcerated.
Very soon, after the Arkham Origins Blackgate Incident, patients such as the the Joker were transferred to Arkham, so that they could receive the optimal level of treatment for psychological illnesses. Additionally, new staff were employed there. Over the years, Arkham Asylum further improved to become a leading institution for psychiatric research with new facilities such as laboratories being added, and with new cells such as Extreme Isolation being added to house a wider variety of insane patients.
The Riddler was incarcerated by Batman in the facility, after he attempted to interrogate him about a dirty bomb the Joker stole. Because of this, the Suicide Squad by that point composed of veterans Deadshot , Harley Quinn , and Captain Boomerang as well as newcomers Black Spider , King Shark , and Killer Frost were dispatched by Amanda Waller to infiltrate the asylum to find classified data the Riddler had allegedly stolen from their mainframes.
Although they ultimately managed to infiltrate the asylum with help from the Penguin, they ran into a few snags due to an unexpected encounter with the Joker, as well as a gas explosion causing a yellow alert, the latter of which forced them to swap security footage videos in a failed attempt at delaying Batman's interference.
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