10 Times Video Game Developers Lied Straight To Your Face

5. Arkham Knight's Two Villains

Arkham Knight wasn't only a hugely anticipated game because it was the finale to Rocksteady's Batman trilogy, but for the first time, the developers were going to have to create a story that didn't rely solely on The Joker.

With the Clown Prince of Crime definitively killed off in the first sequel, the mantle of "big bad" was passed onto the titular Knight, with the studio heads insisting that Batman's arch nemesis wouldn't be appearing at all, and that the new villain would be an entirely original creation.

Of course, both of those promises were well and truly broken when players booted the game up. Despite the prologue literally showing The Joker's corpse being cremated, it didn't take long for the character to reappear as a figment of Batman's imagination, with his presence still being the driving force of the narrative.

The Arkham Knight, on the other hand, turned out to not be a new character at all, but the oft-guessed Red Hood, with the devs lying to preserve a twist everybody already figured out anyway.