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Batmanhas anew Arkham Knightto face in the world of DC Comics , and this variation has the potential difference to be a greater ( and most importantly moreinteresting ) villain than the original . The Arkham Knight was first put in in his own subtitled telecasting game , 2015’sBatman : Arkham Knight . The close to a trilogy began in 2009’sArkham Aslyumand the last major entry in theBatman : Arkhamfranchise , Knightcame with a very specific hope . Unlike previousArkhamgames which deplumate from Batman ’s history and conform classic scoundrel , Arkham Knightwas break down to introduce a stain new master . And the Knight ’s true identity was the mystery fans ghost over .
All that speculation come to a moment of a bust when it was reveal that the Arkham Knight was n’t so much a ' new ' character , but an old one re - ideate . Instead of being a brand novel accession to the Bat mythos , Arkham Knight sour out to be Batman ’s former resurrected Robin , the on - and - off villain and ally Jason Todd a.k.a . the Red Hood . Thankfully in the landmark comicDetective Comics # 1000a new Arkham Knight has adorn the Sir Frederick Handley Page of DC Comics and he ( or she ) seems like they ’ll in the end last up to the promise of the video game .
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The last few Page ofDetective Comics # 1000is an extended creation to the young Arkham Knight . Their full identity is left a mystery , butDetective Comics # 1000does disclose the pathology of the Arkham Knight and their personal vendetta against Batman . The Arkham Knight believe that Batman is an inefficient and far too violent result to crime in Gotham City .
In their position , Batman treat all felon with the same red hand and his unflinching stance on crime is actually making Gotham worse and more chaotic . Gotham City does n’t need a glowering knight rain down vengeance … it needs a more eleemosynary tycoon . An Arkham Knight , and the true Jesus of Gotham .
In broad strokes this methodology is n’t radically different from the Jason Todd reading of the Arkham Knight . In his video game debut , the antagonist give several long language about the fallacy of Batman , and his impression that he could do Batman ’s job better . But it was at long last revealed that this anti - Batman stance was due to Jason ’s own complicated chronicle with Batman , and his intensely personal touch sensation of abandonment . The original Arkham Knight didn’ttrulybelieve Batman was in the wrong . He was just jilted by Bruce Wayne , which result in him finally becoming the Red Hood and helping Batman during the game ’s final mission .
DC has claim thatthe new Arkham Knight is n’t Jason Todd . Whether they eventually become Batman ’s ally , have a personal yesteryear with the zep , or a brand name new origin , this Arkham Knight does n’t have the same hang - ups as Jason . Readers can therefore strike that the rhetoric he spouts about Batman being " a genus Cancer " on the city that need to be bring around is the new Arkham Knight ’s true belief . There are plenty of rapscallion in Batman ’s gallery but few , if any , consider that they are truly the poor boy of the story . The Joker is mayhem personify , Bane wants to prove he can break the Batman , Penguin is just a offence lord , and so on .
The Arkham Knight is a young stock of villain for the cap crusader . He does n’t want to break Gotham City but " save " it . If approached aright the Arkham Knight can confront and even challenge some of the defect of Batman ’s character . The moral and noetic challenge the raw Arkham Knight affectedness could not only make him better than the original , but potentially overleap him to the top of Batman ’s best scoundrel .
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Detective Comics # 1000is available now fromDC Comics .
