10 Reasons Rocksteady's Next Arkham Game Should Be Batwoman

Forget Superman. Rocksteady should stay in Gotham for the next adventure...

by Ewan Paterson
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Despite there being rumours surrounding both Rocksteady and Warner Bros. Montreal's next projects, the Arkham series has effectively been on ice for the past four years. There was Arkham VR, sure - and even Return to Arkham - but the point still stands that this is probably way longer than anyone initially envisioned they'd have to wait for another main entry in the franchise.

Over at Montreal, it's become clear that the studio's planned Suicide Squad game was scrapped around 2016. A project focused on Damian Wayne quickly followed, but it now looks as though the studio have shifted development to work on a sequel to 2013's underrated Batman: Arkham Origins, with the Court of Owls as the principle antagonists.

If you thought details were relatively hard to come by as far as Montreal are concerned however, then Rocksteady have practically gone silent. The studio remain tight-lipped and while there's been talk of games centred around Superman and the Justice League, those with insider knowledge refuse to budge.

While that might be the case, there's a character no one's brought up that would provide the perfect platform to further explore the Arkhamverse, and her name is Batwoman. So here's why Rocksteady should seriously contemplate a Batwoman title, even if they said they're done with Batman...

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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. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.