10 Massive Video Game Spoilers The Internet Totally Ruined
10. Batman: Arkham Origins
The major spoiler: Black Mask was the Joker
This one blindsided pretty much everyone when Arkham Origins released at the end of 2013, and it's easy to see why.
In the run up to the game's release, Canadian developers Warner Bros. Montreal had remained adamant throughout the marketing period that it would be Black Mask, not Joker, who would occupy the role of the game's primary antagonist. So, when that premise was shifted totally on its head about three hours into the title's story by revealing that it was Joker, not Roman Sionis as we thought, who had in fact orchestrated the bounty on Batman's head, it proved to be a bit of a shocking moment.
With the spoiler taking place so early on in the game, it gave plenty of time for trolls to play through and begin a merciless campaign on message boards informing people of the twist. Black Mask ended up being little more than a distraction to the main events of the story, and whilst that may have benefitted the narrative superbly, it only provided ammunition for people hoping to spoil the title's story for others.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
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