10 Reasons Rocksteady's Next Arkham Game Should Be Batwoman
8. Arkham Knight's DLC Broached Some Really Interesting Questions
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Despite the mixed response to Arkham Knight's finale, some of the post-game DLC did approach it in an interesting way. There was GCPD Lockdown - a segment where you played Nightwing to reclaim the GCPD building from criminals - Catwoman's Revenge, which followed the eponymous character as she settled her feud with Riddler; and A Flip of a Coin, which centred around Robin's efforts to apprehend Two-Face.
Out of these, there were only two that really tried to address the implications of Arkham Knight's ending, and those were the two that revolved around Robin and Nightwing. GCPD Lockdown saw Dick Grayson try to put out the fires left behind by the events of the main story, while the latter gave players a view into how Tim Drake was dealing with the Dark Knight's apparent death.
Bear in mind that Bruce Wayne kept his true fate a secret from his own family, and it's easy to see how Rocksteady could centre a story around them uncovering what really happened to Batman.
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.
