Batman: Arkham Shadow Foreshadows Suicide Squad: KtJL Boss Fight

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Batman's Arkhamverse is a continuity that is incredibly rich and complex, with beautiful characters from the DC mythos. That's not to say that the Arkhamverse has always been airless in its stories throughout the installments Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League It leaves a lot to be desired, as it leaves out a lot of what happens in it Arkham Plays games and spontaneously destroys a Task Force X and a Justice League together. Fortunately, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Tracks the final frames Batman: Arkham Knight Deeply explaining and exploring the concept of the Devil's Bat.

Part of the plot of the prequel entries in the Arkhamverse, viz Batman: Arkham Shadowis that they are committed to whatever comes next. For example, actions that are clearly set in stone cannot be undone, and must be paved for fixed events to occur. Batman: Arkham Shadow It's not the first entry in the franchise's timeline, but it's responsible for bricking a handful of characters. Now, coincidentally or not, it seems like a boss fight against Batman's “Shadow” is meant to herald a similarly demonic appearance after him.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Embraces Batman: Arkham Knight's Demon Bat

Batman: Arkham Knight Acted completely as if it would be the last Arkham This game has been imagined ever since, and so it tries to close as many doors as possible. The most obvious and damning of these efforts was staging Bruce Wayne's death at Wayne Manor and having a fear of demonic criminals caused by poisons.

It was deliberately not specified how much this figure was Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguewhere Rocksteady decided to explain that Bruce indulged in a brief stint as the Devil's Bat before conveniently joining the Justice League in his still-public Batman and Bruce Wayne identities, as if becoming the Devil's Bat It makes no sense at all. in any case, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League He was able to exploit the devil's bat for Batman's boss fight.

Batman: Arkham Shadow's Shadow Batman may be the intended forerunner to the evil bat

In an interesting event, Batman: Arkham ShadowShadow Batman boss fight basically imitates Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice LeagueBat boss fight (minus all the guns and crazy mobility of the latter). The similarities between them are obvious in such close proximity, and it makes sense that both are manifestations of Batman's “shadow” used as a tool to instill terror.

In a neat trick, the giant Shadow Batman exploits the game's unique batarang chest markings and literally detaches a bat-shaped projectile from his chest and hurls it at players, while players throw their batarangs. They take revenge from Batman's chest.

Because Batman's performance of the devil's bat at the end Batman: Arkham Knight and during Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League It was through Fear Poison, the same way Dr. Jonathan Crane cut through Batman's shadow Batman: Arkham Shadowthe connection between Shadow Batman and Demon Bat is not only logical but perhaps purposeful. Otherwise, it's both boss fights, at least as players stand on a platform in the middle of nowhere, going toe-to-toe with a massive, evil Batman in the distance.

The latter takes on a fiery, orange form and is devoured by swarms of bats, while the former spews black bile and is purple in color (almost like Derek Crane's take on Batman in Venom). Batman begins). However, they seem to show the same side of Batman that he constantly represses when arresting criminals, stopping short of breaking their bones, electrocuting them with shock gloves, or forcing them to swallow their teeth.