7. The Joker's Poem
As the credits roll following the completion of the story mission, the souring score (which sounds suspiciously like the music from Home Alone) is replaced by atmospheric sounds of doors being locked as the Joker is presumably welcomed to his cell in Blackgate. Naturally, he doesn't go quietly, and from the cell he starts to recite a poem with occasional musical flourishes, exploring his relationship with Batman, and offering his view of the vigilante. The poem/song gives some wonderful insight into how the Joker sees Batman, and crucially how he sees the dynamic between the two, which also somewhat explains exactly why he feels so drawn to the caped crusader. There are repeated references to a devastating event in Batman's past, which rather engagingly the Joker appears to be jealous of, because of how much it drives Batman, when he wants to be more important. And the poem continually repeats the taunting refrain: "Why can't I free your doubtful mind, and melt your cold, cold heart?" There's also a vocal cameo by Quincy Sharp, future head of Arkham Asylum, who responds to a radio talk-in to decry the dangers of Blackgate Prison as a "ticking time bomb" and announce his plans to lobby the government to reopen Arkham Asylum as an elite institution for the upper echelons of the criminal world of Gotham.