The game is presented from the third-person perspective with a primary focus on Batman's combat and stealth abilities, detective skills, and gadgets that can be used in combat and exploration. In the game's main storyline, Batman battles his archenemy, the Joker, who instigates an elaborate plot to seize control of Arkham Asylum, trap Batman inside with many of his incarcerated foes, and threaten Gotham City with hidden bombs. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman and written by veteran Batman writer Paul Dini, Arkham Asylum was inspired by the long-running comic book mythos.

This one is just wrong on so many levels.Batman: Arkham Asylum is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in conjunction with Warner Bros. The ethnic henchman, by Lee Bermejo: Joker Wait until Ellen Ripley gets a load of this… Interestingly, though, in the comic inside Croc is more of the strong, silent type. The raging dinosaur/alien hybrid, by Francesco Mattina: Joker’s Asylum: Killer Croc The cannibalistic pimp, by Eduardo Risso: Batman #620Ĭheetah pattern! Boy, it’s a shame Killer Croc doesn’t wear shirts more often. Is it just me, or with that trenchcoat Killer Croc looks like a total pervert at large? The mutated mercenary, by Jim Lee: Batman #610 The terror of Arkham Asylum, by Ryan Sook: Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #4

The eccentric brute, by John McCrea: Hitman #3 The heartbroken robber, by Bo Hampton: Batman & Robin Adventures #23 (I wonder if Neil Gaiman also served as a visual model in this scene, like he did earlier in the book…) The dragon-like apparition, by Dave McKean: Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious EarthĪccording to the annotated script, Killer Croc is meant to represent unreason, mindless strength, the brute appetites of nature and man, the Old Dragon of Revelations, the marlin in Old Man and the Sea, the Serpent, Jesus Christ, and Moby Dick, as well as ‘our evolutionary past rising up to threaten us with destruction,’ because Grant Morrison was not afraid of sounding too pretentious. Also, as far as I know, this is the only reference to his monarchist tendencies. This was the first time we saw Killer Croc’s semi-naked body. The underworld crime boss, by Dan Jurgens: Batman #359 Just check out these 10 different spins on the concept of a guy who looks like a crocodile…

Amusingly enough, Killer Croc’s appearance has also been all over the place. He has been written as a street smart thug with a skin disease, as a dumb superhuman monster, and even as a freaky version of Clyde Barrow dating a woman trapped in the body of a child (you know, the kind of thing that happens when you let Steve Gerber write for a kids show). Of all the members of Batman’s rogues gallery, Killer Croc has got to be one of the most inconsistent.

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