Batman Arkham theories from the past 12 years

Hello people, I've compiled 5 theories from some of the Arkham games that have grown in popularity in the community. Enjoy!
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[@sirkingjames4656]

I love videos like these that dive into the lore and history of the Batman Arkham games.

[@DEMO_TESTERS]

Same especially the old ones before they could get debunked like the Batman Arkham city man bat theory

[@jamesdent9057]

About the pregnancy test theory, the box in the carriage with Scarface has a warning that said it could produce false positives. I think the implication is that Harley wasn’t pregnant at any point and the first test was a false positive. The bundle of false pregnancy tests were most likely her in denial that she was never pregnant

[@Slyrock-1000]

No Paul Dini got replaced and they went another direction he had nothing to do with the Harley DLC that's what he stated

[@jamesdent9057]

@@Slyrock-1000 how does Paul Dini getting replaced contradict what I said?

[@Slyrock-1000]

@jamesdent9057 because that wasn't the intention that was Paul Dini's intention for her to be pregnant they then came and changed it actually Arkham Knight is the brain child of different writers so nothing in Arkham City that we see was set up for anything in Arkham Knight

[@jamesdent9057]

@@Slyrock-1000 it doesn’t matter what Dini originally had planned, the fact is that what I said with the pregnancy is currently canon in the Arkham lore. They may have originally intended her to be pregnant, but then retconned it so that she never was.

[@TristenSarelvun]

@@Slyrock-1000 I've never heard this before, but honestly it _feels_ so true. Any plotline City set up, like with Hush or Azrael, felt really undercooked in Arkham Knight, like the developers didn't really want to use them but felt like they had to. Has Paul Dini, or any developers, talked about their original sequel ideas?

[@Jaques20]

About the Croc timeline, They say on iron heights that they found him in the lighthouse, so it’s totally plausible that he’d been not only hiding out there, but had hunted down Anarchy at some stage from there

[@kacpernowak1535]

Isn't there literally a riddle about Croc in the lighthouse or am I remembering it wrong?

[@Biting_bullets25]

ngl i thought this theory was was cannon

[@SpookyDude69]

The Joker being alive and faking his own death theory I remember floating around back then, I genuinely believe that's what Rocksteady had planned. Maybe one day someone will ask Sefton Hill about it all. 🃏🦇

[@nonameman7114]

Same I was big believer in this theory and the comics at the time (now known to be not canon) only fueled that concept.

[@CainG2005]

Man, the nostalgia from this video. I remember all these from back in the day, especially the joker one

[@superherochestsymbol1032]

Same, I remember the man-bat theory back in 2011.

[@snakeeyesraw]

2:02 Harley singing is perhaps a call back to Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, where she eerily sings the normal version of that song to a plant in Arkham Asylum as though it were her child.

[@WinstonPoptart]

My favorite was the one where Batman spits up blood in Arkham City when he's under ground in first person, that blood he spat out was actually the blood used to clone Terry who was rumored to be the Arkham Knight around the same time. A very interesting theory and would explain some of the things we saw in the promotional materials for the game before its release.

[@MrJAG]

There was a theory going around before Knight came out that the Arkham Knight is actually Bruce's clone, hence the inclusion of the Cadmus sign in the steel mill in HQR.

[@WinstonPoptart]

So basically Terry from Batman Beyond, cool lol

[@DishonoredSkull]

I remember being a kid and consuming any and all Arkham theories. Honestly loved them a lot when people were thinking about all the possible ideas for Knight.

[@davidpescitelli8004]

I remember seeing the Joker theory passed around at times before Arkham Knight. It was interesting, but I don't think I ever bought it. Though I did always think it was weird that Clayface falling into the Lazarus pit didn't get any follow up.

[@carbonneau5630]

Apparently in Knight, it said that he lose the capacity to reform himself, the police took most of it but some people like hush took it too for their own use (hush use it for hide is scars)

[@levisantos874]

In Arkham knight you can hear some of the militia talk about anarchy , they say “he would have loved this”

[@erosrodriguez538]

Maybe they said that 'cause he would do something interesting since they don't know where is he neither

[@WBCmate]

People say killer croc got him sometime between Asylum and Arkham Knight. Think there’s a hidden secret in the Arkham Knight map to support this theory…

[@sadplatinum6786]

I don’t think Batman caused a miscarriage, I just think Harley got a false positive which convinced her she was pregnant, but over time it became clear she wasn’t, but wanted to be, so she kept testing even after getting negative after negative. If she had a miscarriage, she’d know. She wouldn’t keep testing. It feels much more like a false positive she refused to accept was false because she wanted to really have Joker’s baby.

[@zahramunir2176]

Yeah if u look closely at the test boxes it said that it may be false positive

[@jimjr9846]

joker surviving could have made an awesome reveal in knight but im glad(?) he died at the end if city, ir was amazing

[@mysterycupofjoe2670]

He did. Remember he messed with Cadmus stuff. His plan was to inhabit Gotham like a disease and control them. Unfortunately for him, it was not a hive mind deal. That is why the old infected person killed himself and the others. They banked on only being in Batman. Batman was able to imprison Joker in his body thus making him a living prison and the dark knight. Or, the actual Arkham Knight. Overall this was a huge gamble from the Joker.

[@Iqballer]

Batman killing Harley’s baby can be debunked pretty quick, if you don’t counter her when she attacks you, you don’t toss her

[@Icup200169]

True but I think in canon he would have successfully countered her there

[@runsoncaffeine]

On the Anarchy theory, it’s believable that Croc swam to that area for something but that doesn’t necessarily mean he was there to kill Anarchy since there are multiples Anarchy symbols throughout Gotham.

[@jd.cd2493]

And His followers most likely help him with the markings

[@KmartNotWalmart]

1:46 Alternate title: Batman yeetus’d the Fetus

[@TheHeroHaven]

I’ve been waiting for a video like this

[@ellbent]

God, I just remember beating Arkham City, its side missions, and DLC back in 2013… Then immediately overwhelm myself, getting haunted by all these mysteries because I was just a kid (nine/ten years old). Then it amplified when Arkham Knight got announced. But I was no longer staying up at night anticipating Hush to kill me in my sleep. Now I’m an adult, thinking that all these theories we had are just missed opportunities because of how scrambled Arkham Knight’s story is.

[@CarlosOrtiz-wf8ob]

Thank you for all the work you put into your videos goat! I always look forward to them :)

[@blxckking73]

These theories take me back to my childhood. Before Origins was even announced. 😭

[@sad_cheese67]

I think Anarky being eaten by Croc makes sense. Along with the evidence shown in this video, thug dialogue references him when they say "Anyone seen that Anarky guy? This kid would love this"(or something similar to that) so I think he was still active, just not as powerful as he was in Origins, because otherwise who would reference someone that was only around 10+ years ago?

[@charleslee8313]

I've had that Joker theory in my mind for a while (at least the first version; I didn't know about the second version) My version went a bit further: it not only cured him of that disease, he was no longer Joker. He was just a regular looking guy again.

[@3flavourscornetto237]

like he didn’t wear makeup?

[@charleslee8313]

@@3flavourscornetto237 Yeah. Just brown/black hair, white skin (as in Caucasian), and he's not dying.

[@3flavourscornetto237]

@@charleslee8313 so he just stops putting make up on is ur theory

[@charleslee8313]

@@3flavourscornetto237 He would be cured, so the skin wouldn't be bleached anymore, and he'd have some sense of rationality, so... no need to go back to being Joker. Yeah -- no more makeup.

[@3flavourscornetto237]

@@charleslee8313 that theory sucks so much balls tho

[@wsgattrad2417]

honestly torn between the croc theory and clown puncher's theory that he is the guy in the red jacket at the start cause despite the model name he can't be Jason Todd as he is reported to have died

[@Montagne1234]

I remember when it was either minecraft, fnaf or arkham theories

[@orangebrot9]

Great video, really good explainations aswell! Would love to see a second part for sure.

[@Sir-Rodrigo]

Lovely vid mate. Always great to see some good ol’ Arkham content 👍🏻

[@stutudi4881]

They had different writers since the Arkham City DLC So Harley being pregnanr was probably scrapped by the new Writers

[@ghoullwitatool3014]

Currently replaying the Arkham series. Thanks for this!!

[@WickedShmegma]

Great videos bro keep doin ur thing

[@hiteshkaringula6798]

Yo I love videos like this man would love to see more keep up the great work 🙌🏽💯

[@aaronthebot]

I remember all these theories from years ago its so nostalgic seeing them again.

[@Zakcary_Kaiser]

I honestly don't know why Joker decided to try and scoop it up with his hands instead of just licking the floor

[@happygamer9504]

The baby one can be easily explained by reading the box/test(forgot which). It says that there is a chance for it to show a false positive, which is likely what happened

[@BenjaminNaman]

Is there a theory about the bombs payload being exposed, and why Batman uses the power whench to trigger a controlled explosion?

[@pierre7729]

You’re intro is fire🔥🔥🔥🦇🐐

[@crayonmet5961]

been here since like 1k or something maybe even less congrats on the growth

[@GothamPaladin]

Means a lot to me, appreciate you! Glad you still enjoy my videos 🫡

[@Sundowner13]

For the croc one: the warden said they tracked him back to his lair, maybe he ate anarky but then was spotted by iron heights guards where they followed him to the lighthouse and captured him

[@jemndeye]

I love this video its like the old style of old stuff like this nostolga and its just a good video..

[@RTBelk-tv7rc]

I think when croc attacked anarky it sparked the attention of the iron heights prison and they found his hiding place so maybe croc spoil his hiding spot when he presumingly ate anarky

[@doctorfrosty3546]

Good video. I wonder if any theories back in the day came true.

[@x.gotham.x]

i wish they would’ve made damian wayne the arkham knight, him setting revenge for the death of his mother and father ( arkham city ) would’ve been so dope. jason still should’ve been involved as red hood.

[@WinstonPoptart]

Yeah or a clone of Wayne.

[@x.gotham.x]

@@WinstonPoptart nah

[@Berserk_96]

​@@WinstonPoptartlazy and unorginal. We keep seeing "Clone" stuff everywere and it is annoying The only clone i want to see here is Joker but even so im still cool with the story as it is

[@WinstonPoptart]

​@@x.gotham.xwhy not

[@WinstonPoptart]

​@@Berserk_96isn't Terry from Beyond technically a clone?

[@sailorlarz]

Love how clayface is just everyone's punching bag dummy to throw into places

[@Pseudo_Notfound]

At the start of a game of Batman Arkham Knight in New game+, instead of the Joker simply burning, he wakes up and starts laughing. Perhaps this can confirm the Joker survival theory.

[@jackfroien3479]

Part 2 on who was the Arkham knight. Great video

[@NightmareproductionsOFFICIAL]

I love all these theories they’re so sick.

[@George_vv]

I just realized that the pregnacy thing could have also been a small hint for a possible sequel Jojo style. They could have been planning to involve Harley giving birth to a new Joker in Arkham Knight which could be where the idea for the Joker clones (I don't remember what they're called) came from. Then they could have scrapped the idea by the time the Arkham City DLC was being made. Most likely not true but fun to think about.

[@zeuskidkash8845]

Banger video idea holy fuck let’s go

[@Negativespeedforce633]

I think sick joker was actually clay face because when you save oracle joker said “remember the old o days when u just to hold me like that even though I was dead” in Arkham knight

[@Berserk_96]

Good point

[@henrymusic350]

I didn't know about the man-bat or the mad hatter theory. Please do this more

[@adrizzle7179]

Agreed. The man bat theory doesn’t seem too far fetched at all. If they really added that in the cutscene specifically and the rat details then it is not unlikely that it was all on purpose. We know rocksteady has plans for future games years before they make them. The Arkham city blueprints is Arkham asylum and now this 😮

[@julianportilla493]

@@adrizzle7179yeah but there was dead rats scattered around the asylum as well so I doubt it was Man-Bat or anything in that nature

[@adrizzle7179]

@@julianportilla493 with the posters around the city they hint at his existence in the universe. Hiding in the clock tower makes sense if he’s tryna hide from society. And the fact that they added that specific bat in the corner of that cutscene makes me think that rocksteady completely knew what they were doing

[@mediamanjamessmith251]

Even in the Harley Quinn DLC, some thugs discuss whether dead Joker was actually Clayface

[@kalymmatthews9178]

Keep up the gd work man love your videos

[@RonanStreamkiller]

I feel old, I remember all of these. 😅

[@CW-xn1ot]

Isnt Man-Bat actually in City? It's an easter egg for if you play the game on Halloween, i think.

[@2gredvisions8560]

The only time a special occasion or event happens in the Arkhamverse that's related to Man-Bat and is set on Halloween is in Arkham Knight 😅.

[@jessy1652]

@@2gredvisions8560dude you’re so wrong 😅

[@2gredvisions8560]

@@jessy1652 Do you mind explaining it to me? Because based on what I've been able to learn, Rocksteady never had plans of implementing Man-Bat in Arkham City by any shape or form. The developers even confirmed it as not being the case as well. The only event I'm aware of in the Arkhamverse that has something related to Man-Bat if you reset the date to Halloween happens in Arkham Knight (the game that actually introduces the character). If you set your system's date to October 31st, or I suppose next Halloween (seeing how the game's story is already set on the holiday), and if you had already captured Kirk Langstrom and locked him away in the GCPD, Batman will discover that he had escaped and has transformed back into Man-Bat. This is initiated when you undergo the same jumpscare with Man-Bat on Miagani Island. And if you were to head back to the GCPD afterwards, you'll find his cell having been broken out of.

[@edgeworth097]

@@jessy1652 No, he's exactly correct. There is no reference to Man-Bat before Knight, and while City DOES have a Calendar Man Easter egg involving changing the date, there is nothing related to Man-Bat

[@jessy1652]

@@edgeworth097 embarrassing for you guys

[@The_Joker8000]

My favourite therapy’s where the Harley’s baby being killed and Joker faking his death the joker faking his death was so mind boggling due to the thugs saying he isn’t dead

[@nnnnmhughuuhhjiijj9457]

You do realise that thugs aren't the most reliable, when it comes to information on story events, right?

[@The_Joker8000]

@@nnnnmhughuuhhjiijj9457 it was a theory and I was quite young when playing city

[@The_Alien_Himself]

The demon in the dinner at the beginning of AK could be a fear replica of anarchy’s dead corpse do to him having a red hoodie and also having a face that looks like it’s been eaten

[@grantnewmark718]

One of my personal favorites is that joker actually wanted to die in City. He seems to purposefully go for the arm which has the vial, which he knows Batman will drop. I think there are a couple reasons he would do this as well, but one sort of alluded to in the game is the joke at the end. Batman doing his best to try to save the joker is funny to him, but perhaps that humor was more so due to the fact that Batman wanted him to live while the joker himself wanted to die. I also think another reason was that joker had already undergone such a level of mutation that it may have not been able to work (while is unlikely). Another potential reason is that joker has a fear of being forgotten, especially by the person he loves most, the batman. By having this situation unfold the way it did, Batman will never forgive himself and will live with the idea of the joker forever (which we see play out in Knight)

[@SpyGaming2005]

If I had to guess the last theory with croc eating anarky, we don't know how long the symbol has been there and right after the beginning in the diner the guy who was spreading fear toxin did look like anarky even though people theorized it was Jason which would make no sense since in the picture there was no j on his cheek so maybe the person that croc ate near the studios was one of his followers and not anarky himself

[@justinvanveenar2953]

Hopefully there can be another video of this ❤❤

[@kingjb554]

Theres actually a theory that Anarky is the smoking person in the diner at the beginning of AK

[@robertsmarr-ez3kg]

There's only one problem with the joker clone theory He wouldn't be a joker Without that 1 terrible day

[@user-zh7es6lc6j]

He may be dead but jokers legacy still lives on even after Arkham knight, the victims he used his blood on suffered hallucinations of him, all the people he’s tortured will still remember him, Jason Todd still carries his hate for joker etc etc

[@darylcaldwell3737]

I think we should remember that joker also beats up Harley from time to time so maybe it was him that killed the baby, or perhaps the stress and heart break Harley felt after losing joker could have something to do with it

[@zsh010]

More videos like this please

[@sandwichmosley4885]

I noticed the second one during my last play through

[@samuelj5890]

That Harley's baby theory is savage, I'm never gonna watch that cutscene the same way again.

[@Jordan-_--gn4nn]

The Man-Bat part reminded me of rat man from GTA4

[@Deadeye.Marston]

I hope for the next one that was announced they interpret joker somehow or just straight up being him back

[@DarkTalion]

Clayface as madhater dosen't make sense becuse he has a heartbeat while clay joker dosen't

[@imperialproductions3060]

For the clayface being madhatter i think that madhatter made a deal with clayface so that mad hatter could escape

[@Bocal]

The theory of the surviving joker could have been true if joker wasnt burnt. Yesterday i lunched the game, started a new game plus, and while i was burning the joker, he woke up and started laughin before getting totally burnt, i dont know if you had this too, but i was shocked tho.

[@SpyGaming2005]

It was intentional by the devs cause when you played it through on a normal game you would know that batman has hallucinations of joker

[@OvertheHedge06]

I remember when Arkham Knight was being marketed and everyone was guessing the Knight's identity with some saying it's Joker and others saying it was Damien Wayne but mostly everyone was saying it was Jason Then they announced the Red Hood DLC so everyone stopped saying it was Jason lol

[@Nickdabom8]

For the mad hatter, it’s just a glitch. You can see a heartbeat on Jervis vs Joker in City where it’s labeled as “???”

[@julianportilla493]

Yeah exactly I noticed that in the video

[@detectiveshoe279]

Joker theory sounds interesting but that fact that joker faked his death with clayfaces body doesn’t make sense how can he do that when clayface was dropped in the lazurate pit I know that he might have survived but still as dumb as it might sound joker cloning himself makes more sense to this theory

[@jaychaney684]

Odd theory, but i think and have always thought Cadmus may have had something to do with Harley's pregnancy. Joker doesn't seem like the type to do the thing that produces life, but Cadmus is known for doing things like this. Harley went to Cadmus and was artificially inseminated. Bruce throwing her like a ragdoll, is what caused her to lose it.

[@llrvfs]

I actually quite like this one

[@HMNCLunar]

When hearing Harley singing "Hush, little baby", I immediately thought about Hush. That is the song that makes up his namesake in the comic, and given he is in this game, maybe it was a mid-credits foreshadowing for something else with him in the sequel... Before Arkham Knight came and gave us that lame excuse for a side-quest.

[@studiowater963]

I think it’s cause of the Titan in Joker’s DNA which is causing Harley to not get pregnant?🤔

[@Samuel152]

No, the on the box, it said it could lead to false positives.

[@Matewithmeinthesink]

I think since Harley was so desperate to bring back the joker all off the negative tests was her hoping that the joker got her pregnant so she can have someone that reminds her off him

[@lordbeerus5931]

Crock swam over there just to eat anarchy 😂😂😂😂😂. Now that's funny 😂😂😂😂😂

[@connorsheridan3755]

There was theory that killer moth escaped ice burge lounge because theres a gate open with fake bugs in it

[@lord_egg]

I’m still really curious by the whole Zazz (I can’t remember how to spell it), Anarky, Clayface stuff in that area. Docked at that area is one of the boats from Arkham City and if you walk on the dockside there’s a room you can enter to do with Panessa Studios. There’s a lot of brown looking stuff which could be clay. I’m not sure what Zasz has to do with it but I remember someone talking about that area and him. I’m really curious if it there was a huge DLC idea set up in this area that never came to fruition.

[@user-wk5rn5rx1j]

I think knerd proved that it was cut content for zsasz's final boss fight

[@lord_egg]

@@user-wk5rn5rx1j As that was all cut the possibility of it being Clayface or Anarky involved is a possibility.

[@NightmareproductionsOFFICIAL]

Croc could’ve eaten Anarchy years ago I guess.

[@beauregardheer]

Joker could definitely still be alive, and Batman just believes he's dead. I kind of like this Clayface theory

[@byzzledyzzle2342]

Lmao the thing at the explosion looks like a bat because it is a bat, there’s other bats clearly flying from the church in the same cutscene

[@RexStyles]

I never knew that there was a lighthouse in Arkham Origins.

[@szefuncio826]

Template made me go nuts, how tf would he survive we literally burn his body as jim gordon in the intro

[@user-cj8bq7pe1r]

in arkham aslyum when your looking for doctor youngs files for the cure for titan in the room before her office theres a morgue section and ra’s al ghuls dead body’s there

[@nate-x2383]

The man bat theory in Arkham city was a good theory

[@user-cv8om6qu9x]

Those mice can be killed by ratcacther too and Man-Bat was transformed after Arkham City events already.that cure wasn't drank when Batman woke up and I think Joker knived batman because he is obsesed with making Batman kill someone as we see in some other scenes.goverment killed anarky after locking him up.

[@SpyGaming2005]

Could be a complete accident for the devs to put the cure in the wrong hand after the explosion

[@cody3504]

I guess I’m crazy but I thought Man-Bat was both in City and Knight on Halloween on your consoles clock time

[@zahramunir2176]

In Iron Heights Gorilla Grodd wrote his name on his cell. Did he die from experiments or did he escape when the ship crashed?

[@khornelordofskulls7090]

i feel like the "smoker at Paulies diner in AK is Anarky" theory is better than the "Anarky was eaten by Croc in AK"

[@eznf98]

Isnt Joker alive though? The comics brought him back?

[@Samuel152]

Not canon until confirmed. I don't think Rocksteady will bring him back in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.

[@mysterycupofjoe2670]

He is. He is trapped in Batman's body as a prisoner. And Batman does not do parole.

[@dibbage]

I’m about to make a video of my own theory that actually also holds some truth and if you want to make a reaction video to my theory feel free paladin!

[@Welding12A]

2:43 Officer “someone help me” Batman “let’s see how many negative pregnancy tests are here”

[@yukeitor]

I think that in Arhkam Knight the Joker is the manifestation of Batman's ego (fear) according to the enneagram theory.

[@anamethename3327]

"Killer croc fats anarchy"

[@SithDestroyerVideoProductions]

I think Cadmus Labs being put in HQR was definitively a mislead by Rocksteady, put intentionally to spark theories.

[@gamervet4760]

People put way too much into trying to figure out what's next instead of enjoying what is. Still, it's fun to hear about them. Croc really let himself go, though. 😝

[@blistow3519]

First I know I’m very late to the part what if anarky was taken by the government/iron heights and was used as bait to lure out croc. Combining both storys

[@bensxbd]

I remember the theory that joker was cloned and he was the arkham knight lol