A fan favourite from Arkham Asylum - Scarecrow nightmares are set to come back in a big way for Arkham Knight, and there are huge calls from the community for Rocksteady to go all out before they bid their due to the Arkhamverse they created all those years ago. It's not as if the London-based devs are starved of inspiration to draw from. After all, Batman has some of the most frightening visuals of the entire comic medium, with multiple stories drawing from tragic elements very few comic books dare to follow. Anything from the death of Jason Todd to the death of The Joker is fair game to incorporate, and Rocksteady's developers could get very inventive with the ways in which Batman's mental barriers are broken down by Crane's toxin as the story progresses. Though it's true that Bruce has managed to overcome Scarecrow's chemical concoctions before, there is no doubt that he's refined his formulae to be its most potent strain yet - something that could make for some truly nightmarish imagery that features many a Batman villain in its duration. In a final confrontation between the two, Rocksteady would be mad not to include as many iconic moments from Batman's career as possible - each one enshrined in the tragedy that brought the vigilante into being in the first place. This image alone would define Arkham Knight as being not only the greatest Batman game ever created, but also as one of the finest sequences ever to be featured in a video game as well. Are there any other theories from the community that you think deserve a place in Knight? Or are they a little too outlandish for Rocksteady's Batman? Sound off below and remember to give that Facebook Page a 'like' for all the latest on Arkham's greatest!
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.
