20 Most Powerful Gaming Moments Of All Time

15. Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) €“- Scarecrow Showdown

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The Moment: A series of encounters with Scarecrow and more importantly the villain€™'s nightmare-inducing toxins leads to Batman being forced to fight through his deepest nightmares. Scarecrow is the one criminal capable of figuratively damasking Batman and making him confront these terrors as the decidedly more vulnerable Bruce Wayne. It seems deeply fitting that you are battling for Bruce'€™s sanity in the dark corridors of an asylum.

How Is It Powerful? Time and time again in films, television, and video games, Batman has proven that he is nigh on impossible to best in physical combat €“- the Caped Crusader€™'s physical strength, bat-like speed and martial arts expertise make him an incredibly tough hand-to-hand opponent.

The physically unimposing Scarecrow would certainly be mauled by the Dark Knight were it not for the help of his neurotoxins. The guys over at Rocksteady followed all the lore laid down in the Batman comic books when creating the series of hellacious nightmares endured by Wayne, including a sequence seeing his murdered parents reanimated. In a franchise defined by its amazing, varied boss-fights, this is certainly the greatest, depicting the psychological unsettling of a figure who is normally mentally unshakable.

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