Batman: Arkham Knight - 10 Things DLC Must Include To Be Worth It
3. New Villains
A staple of any fine Batman DLC - the season pass presents a fantastic opportunity to give some old Batman villains their well deserved Arkham début. Hidden within the three games so far has been a database comprised of huge amounts of Batman's rogues. Each and every last one has their own place in the Arkham canon, so it's only a simple matter of implementing them that Rocksteady need to do now. Maxie Zeus (having been teased since the first game) comes to mind as being a villain that would rock in his own Arkham makeover, and the Ventriloquist himself would be a perfect villain to introduce to a series largely devoid of sympathetic antagonists. There really isn't a villain out there that Rocksteady couldn't make their own - even Killer Moth could undergo a threatening transformation to the grotesque Charax, and an Arkhamverse Gearhead would make even more sense considering the threequel's focus on vehicular combat. Taking place outside of the main Arkham Knight storyline, the DLC enables Rocksteady to really invest in some lesser known rogues whose presence wouldn't make sense from within the confines of the main narrative.
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.
