10 Video Game Secrets That Tell HORRIFYING Stories

10. The Joker Gets Burned Alive - Batman: Arkham Knight

Despite being without question the worst of the Arkham games, Batman: Arkham Knight had a REALLY damn good opening screen, featuring the Joker being cremated after his death at the end of Batman: Arkham City.

The game literally refuses to begin until you physically press the buttons needed to ignite the furnace and roast the clown prince of crime to cinders. But of course, there is a second, more disturbing layer to this.

When you boot up a New Game +, when you ignite the furnace, the Joker's eyes will shoot open and he will begin screaming as his flesh burns off his bones and he is cooked like a Christmas turkey in the furnace.

This adds a whole new layer of horror to the end of Arkham City. the toxin didn't fully KILL the Joker, just put him into a deep coma resembling death. But he was in fact alive at the end of the story, and probably for the police autopsy that most likely followed Batman dropping him off on Gordon's car. Only to wake up just in time to be burned alive.

Gruesome.