10 Most Underrated Moments From The Batman: Arkham Video Games

4. Professor Pyg - Arkham Knight

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Batman has a whole plethora of mad and insane villains: The Joker, Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face, yet none of them are quite as unsettling as Professor Pyg. Not only does he not know how to spell farmyard animals, but he is the opera singing surgeon with a proclivity for wearing a pig mask to hide his twisted face. That, and his appearance in Arkham Knight was brilliant.

He is freaky. Mutilating bodies and turning them into his ‘dollotrons’ (humans with mannequin-like faces). He proclaims to make everyone 'all better' by forcing his perverse surgery on them, making them into emotionless, freakish mannequin-men. Not only that, he spends his time singing opera, which adds to his unsettling atmosphere. The faceless mannequins are terrifying in their own way, but Pyg’s demeanour and way of talking is so creepy.

And so begins a boss fight, that in which his dollotrons attack you, unable to be destroyed unless through specific attacks. All the while, Pyg is snorting in the background, singing his opera. The fight is simple, but the villain is so perfectly introduced and played that its hard not to look at him and wonder what went wrong in his life to make him so weird.

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