8 Video Game Goons You Felt Awful For WASTING

Now I know what you're probably thinking "Jules you Egghead-sized stupid face, clearly the goons that roam the streets of Gotham are out and out bad people so why should we feel bad snapping the legs of a person who'd smack your nan with a sack of batteries just for a cheese toastie?"

Well, my very rude friend, the answer to that is actually in the reasoning you just provided, as while it's true that goons are rife within the Batman games, they only truly exist because Gotham City is an utter shitehole.

What other place on Earth would have the "good sense" to lock up all of it's criminals in a derelict part of the City and then hand over control of these areas to legitimate supervillains? Well, that's the situation we find ourselves in on the outset of Arkham City and boy howdy life inside these walls is rough. If you're not part of a gang chances are you've got a life expectancy shorter than sharing a lift ride with Victor Zsaz, and it's not like all the goons found in these games actually want to be doing what they're doing.

Sure there's some bad eggs, but you can overhear numerous chats between thugs about how they know fighting the Batman is akin to a death sentence but they have to do their job or risk being permanently laid off by their criminal employers. Plus I don't think that being a goon in this world pays all that well, and those medical bills that Batman doles out left right and center are going to mean a lot of amputations, permanent injuries, and of course a tonne of suffering.