Batman: 80 Greatest Ever Moments
56. The Talons Descend - Batman: Court Of Owls
The New 52 remains a divisive part of DC's history, but Batman managed to weather it better than most. Thanks to the efforts of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, the Dark Knight retained a consistently brilliant main series that boasted a newfound focus on horror. Snyder had previously done the same thing in The Black Mirror, but perhaps his most significant contribution to Batman occurred in his opening arc on the character's main comic.
Today, the Court of Owls are a well-known aspect of Gotham's history, but there were a new and exciting threat when the duo introduced them in 2011. Here, the moment Batman uncovers the hidden society ushered in a whole new aspect of Gotham's past for readers to delve into. Simply brilliant.
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55. The First Scarecrow Mission - Batman: Arkham
Batman ought to be a little scary and it's a real shame that we never got to see Nic Cage's take on a Scarecrow in the cancelled Batman Unchained that would have seen him poisoning Batman's brain with visions of his own ghosts to take him out.
We did, however, get to see the same idea as that reused in the Arkham games thanks to that series' take on the Scarecrow and it all began with the first Nightmare mission in Arkham Asylum that was one of those real "holy sh*t!" moments in gaming.
Having spent most of the game stalking enemies in a traditional stealth sort of set-up, Scarecrow's appearance and the imaginative design of those sequences was just astonishing.
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