11 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Batman: Arkham
4. Arkham Knight Fixed One Of The New 52's Biggest Mistakes
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Kate Kane's Batwoman may not make a physical appearance in any of the Arkham titles, but Batwoman fans were given an Easter egg to latch onto with Arkham Knight.
The third entry in Rocksteady's trilogy released about four years into DC's New 52 experiment. The whole thing was a needlessly controversial reboot, and one of its biggest controversies occurred on the main Batwoman title, when DC forbid creative duo Haden Blackman and J.H. Williams III's plan for Kane to marry longtime girlfriend Maggie Sawyer. Blackman and Williams soon left the title, and the story they had planned went untold. An appalling example of editorial interference if there ever was one.
Perhaps in a clap-back at DC's bonkers decision, if you head to Wayne Tower and listen to Wayne's voicemail you can hear a message left by Kate asking Bruce about his availability for her "engagement thing", a subtle reference to her upcoming marriage with Sawyer.
Will Batwoman and Maggie appear in a future Arkham title? One can only hope.
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.
