Batman Arkham Timeline - The Complete Story of the Arkhamverse (What You Need to Know!)
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With TWO new Batman-related games coming soon, what better time than to take a trip through the ENTIRE Batman Arkham Story, including supplementary materials like comics, movies, and books. Take a trip back through Bruce Wayne's life as vigilante Batman, from his unfortunate origins, to his untimely end.
Sorry about "Assault on Arkham" in advance. I, like Batman, had to fight my own supervillain creating this video: Content ID.
Video Chapters (More Detailed Timestamps to Come
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:07 Year ?
0:01:32 Year 1
0:01:53 Year 2
0:19:40 Year 3
0:23:23 Year 4
0:24:23 Year 6
0:25:48 Year 7
0:36:00 Year 8
0:36:28 Year 9
0:37:52 Year 11
1:22:19 Year 12
2:03:15 Outro
All game footage captured and edited by Suggestive Gaming (with the exception of the stage plays, credit below); please do not use without expressed permission.
Special thanks to the Batman Arkham City Wiki for their work in laying out the groundwork of the timeline:
arkhamcity.fandom.com/wiki/Ti...
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Thanks for having me on this one! You're a beast!
You guys did such a great job, thanks for giving us the best timeline batman video ever, you guys are amazing
🥲
I didn't know captain boomerang is dead wtf
Period
Awesome job from both! Loved this. Thank you!
"A few months later" Dang no wonder Jason was pissed he was replaced in a couple months.
No wonder he's always mad
It's not just the fact he was replaced it was also the fact batman didn't kill joker after he did what he did
@@talonthejuggalo1067 well he’ll won’t kill him
But he doesn’t have to save him
That's why he became the Arkham Knight
(soz for the spoiler)
Never liked how Jason was treated
*I love how the Riddler invests all of his crime funds, to set up intricate puzzles in obscure places, places where he knows only Batman has a chance of finding. That's dedication*
Ikr
Or obsession
i always gave him crap about that. the whole 'notice me' thing lol
And everyone still ignores him
Yeah he’s honestly one of my favorite Batman villains and I think one of the most overlooked
Rest in peace Kevin Conroy. You will always be THE Batman.
🦇
Arkhamverse is pretty much BTAS, only darker, more adult-themed, modern, and with a bit of influence from Nolan’s trilogy. That’s why I love it so much. One of the best depictions of Batman-and his rogues gallery-ever.
what is btas
@@user-io1hx1zx7d Batman the animated series I think
That’s so true I loved this game I hope rocksteady makes a game about blade or spawn
I saw a nine year old play the whole trilogy lol
Dont forget asylum being based quite a bit off of the graphic novel a serious house on serious earth. So much cooler once youve read it too, just adds a whole other layer of appreciation
Main theme of each of the games
Origins: obsession
Asylum: insanity
City: futility
Knight: fear
Care to elaborate how City’s main theme is futility?
@@jacobsabastian3871
I’d say because almost the entire game is about finding a cure for you and joker. In the end, you don’t even get the cure for him, thus meaning that for joker the entire night was a futile attempt to cling to life
@@Lolpy. True man.
@@AownAli-xi8jq exactly the point there will never be a winner, no matter what level of evil and good fight there will always be both
@@freshsmart3672 i would have to say origins is obsession since Batman is obsessed with being alone and not relaying on others but this is wrong since several times Batman almost died several times and only survived thanks to others. But who knows maybe is just pulling at strings
The Arkhamverse is the best portrayal of Batman. Change my mind
Can’t, your absolutely right
The DCAU, namely batman the animated series, justice league, JLU, and batman beyond.
@@booploops22 Literally what I was going to say
Lego Batman, obviously.
The dark knight
1:23:08
Literally thought robin deadass just dove head first into a tv
He's still practicing his gliding
Same
This is great
Lmao
So let's see Deadshot killed Boomerang, King shark is dead, and Deadshot is white. Did the writers of suicide squad kill the Justice League even know the arkhamverse lore?
Considering that almost all of the original team left during the development of SSKTJL, most of the old crew probably knew, the new people who replaced then, probably didn’t or didn’t care.
@@Theframeinator or right the leaks about brianiac cloning the justice league and imprisoning the real ones then we have nothing to complain about we gotta be better detectives lie batman
It's in the Arkhamverse, but deadshot in these games is from a different Earth. Earth-2 is where he is from. And I'm not 100% but I belive even tho basically every thing lines up with the Arkham games I think suicide squad is also a different Earth as well. In the game, they call it elseworlds. Think in season 1 when it drops next month it will have joker in it that looks nothing g like the ones in past games because he is from another Earth as well
@@Theframeinator And that’s why it fucking sucked.
boomerang in the comics has regenerative abilities (since the arkhamverse takes ispirations from both the comics and the DCAU we can say that boomerang has this ability even in the arkhamverse), Penguin refers to have worked with king shark's cousin. The game explain it already.
1:23:11 bruh I thought robin jumped, tripped somehow and hit his head lmfaoo
🤣 🤣 🤣
Lmao same bro
Ong
I'M DYING.
That’s what I was gonna comment lmao
Who else remembers thinking that their arkham asylum game crashed when it was just scarecrow all along
Oh yes
Yep
John McManus That got me and i closed my app
That shit got me good
Yeah
Arkham Batman is an absolute unit. His fighting prowess, strength, speed, tech, and strategic mind make him the most capable Batman outside of comics.
I love the Arkhamverse, I always see it as a realistic take on the Animated Series between the voices, the designs, architecture etc. Most the portrayals of the characters (Joker, Riddler, Freeze, Hugo Strange, Scarecrow, Croc etc) are my favorite interpretations of the villains! I loved the Bane we got in Origins however they dumbed him down for the rest of the series
I guess we could put that down to Bane's memory being damaged at the end of Origins, would be a good reason to why he feels more dumbed down in the rest of the games
It's a good origin for a more traditional Bane
One injection of Venom will do that. Say no to drugs kids
@@Danziiiit's apparently his Venom addiction rotting his mind
So basically...
Arkham Origins prequel comic
Arkham Origins
Cold, Cold Heart
Blackgate
Assault on Arkham
Arkham Knight Genesis
Batgirl: A Matter of Family
The Road to Arkham
Arkham Asylum
Arkham City prequel comic
Arkham City
Harley Quinn's Revenge
Arkham City End Game
The Riddler's Gambit
Robin Special
Arkham Knight prequel comic
Arkham Knight Annual
Arkham Knight Harley Quinn Story Pack
Arkham VR
Arkham Knight
Catwoman's Revenge
Arkham Knight Red Hood Story Pack
GCPD Lockdown
A Flip of a Coin
And there you have it, the entire Arkham series timeline
We can add Suicide Squad: KILL The Justice
Not bad kid ,Not bad
Hm i believe move batgirl mater of family after blackgate other then that I believe corect
What about redhood
And Batman Arkham Origins: Initiation Dlc's
Riddler calls himself Enigma during Arkham Origins and only after the end of the story and the Enigma side mission can Batman talk to Alfred, who reveals Enigma's real name is Edward Nashton. He presumably changes it later to Edward Nigma
And, still a loser....
@@Blaklyon0 Sounds like someone gave up on finding all the Riddler Trophies.
he's the origin of the batman so he absolutely need to be in this video
Nah, I assume Edward Nigma is just another pseudonym he uses. No way he legally changed his name.
@@ultrabigfella No actually he did. Reason given for it was simply because his father "Mr.Nashton" was a piece of shit to him.
I played most of the games including the DLC but never connected everything this way. This is really a terrific compendium and hats off to RockSteady for creating one of the most coherent and brilliant story arcs ever. I do love the Arkham series and version of the Batman.
1:32:18 batman throatin that burrito 💀💀
This video probably took a lot of time to make, deserves more views honestly.
Totally I was done eating my whole food when done watching this video
@@nailaviqar6712 wtf was you eating that it took you 2 hours
@@nexus8516 I was eating with my family and we had dinner
@@nexus8516 lmao
Yeah. With a video over 2 hours long and research for the video being longer(more than likely), so much support should go to this
Deathstroke was the best boss fight in Origins.
And the worst in *Knight*
Atleast we fought killer croc in the dlc
😁😁😁😁😁 thank you for 14 like that’s a record for me
ZSheedX agreed
I thought it was the best one overall
Astro STRING origins or knight
1:23:10 - i love the editing to make it seem like Robin did a nosedive into a TV😂
I’ll be honest, the death of Oracle was the one that actually got me during Arkham Knight. When that trigger got pulled i non-ironically screamed “NOOOO” at the tv screen
Batman doesn’t kill he just beats his enemy’s until they can’t walk anymore
Getting criminals on that Wayne insurance policy one broken bone at a time
or gives them brain damage
Or just knock them out😂
good, most of them are serial killers, rapists, and psychopaths
@@legolife5911 4k is a 😉😄 Power Rangers call Winger
1:23:09 Tim had a pretty rough landing
I'M DYINGGGG
Haha
23:27 It's a shame we didn't get to see Killer Moth in the Arkham games.
Man, it's a shame the most attention Killer Moth ever got was in the Teen Titans, and it's a totally different version of him too
Had to come back to this after the dumpster fire Suicide Squad game
Same here
Mid game
@@batb2911trash game*
Thank you, rocksteady. For proving that super hero games CAN be awesome.
yeah, good batman games, previous batman games like batman dark tomorrow which suck
@@edgemaxxer1573 ewww... I hate to remember of that abomination even existing...
There was an awesome superhero game before this, Spiderman web of shadows.
Batman had quite a few good games prior to arkham asylum it's just these games took the number one spot.
*Spiderman 2
I came here after I learned Kevin Conroy has just PASSED away. 😭
R.I.P. Kevin Conroy, you always be our Batman. ♥️🙏🕊️
Kevin will always be our dark knight R.I.P you great man
Arkhamverse one of the best Batman storylines of all time
46:52 got me just like the game did
Me too
What happened? I never beat the game so I'm not getting the reference
@@a_donut the game “crashes” to scare the player
@@a_donut the game did what it did on the video and everyone thought the game was glitched but it was actually apart of the game
Batman clearly has PTSD and parent issue, always seeing them in his hallucinations poor kid
No kidding. That is what happens when your parents are gunned down right in front of you.
@@sofiyanali2489 I feel for him, he never got the help or therapy he needed. He just coped by doing what he always does for that long.
@@ineedzemedic5810 Technically Batman was the most insane out of all of them. If not on the same level as Joker.
ok this is splitting hairs but i really recommend anyone who thinks he has PTSD read the book
"Batman and phycology" in it it goes into detail about batman and his rouges gallery and there mental state and batman actually does NOT qualify for PTSD... he cannot be diagnosed as such from his symptoms
@@subzerozac6312 From curiosity, does he qualify for any type of mental disease. A man who never got therapy for the murder of his parents that copes with doing crimefighting in a costume that represents an animal he was scared of. A man whois willing to do everything except he is scared of doing so and thus creating a "rule" to keep himself in check essentially confirming that if he does in fact not do that he wont stop, i also remember him saying that if he jumps from the cliff (the cliff being the metaphor for his last moral keeping him from killing) he will never stop falling. I am really interest in what exactly does Bruce suffer from.
This was a great timeline of the entire Arkham City backstory. thank you for the work you put into these long comprehensive videos. just know that the effort you put into them is well worth it. 👍👌
arkhamverse*
The fact they actually spent all this time for this is pretty impressive
I can't get enough of the Arkhamverse, it's definitely my favorite version of Batman
Also, this reminds how great Origins is as well
Great video
@Amritansh Mishra I guess we just got lucky. Games allow for things like having the *perfect* cast of characters, by that i mean you can literally copy paste a comic book to a game, a live action would have a lot of things that make things harder to produce. Also about the lucky part, Rocksteady and Insomniac were truly a one of a kind (or two in this case) to have made superhero games, you can see the heart that went into both games giving a faithful adaptation. Believe me when i say most superhero games don't give a good representation of the characters, take The Avengers game, Amazing spiderman 2 game or other Batman, Supes and Aquaman games.
It's not a common opinion but Origins is my favorite of the Arkham games.
I just love the assassins bounty aspect of it
Origins is grossly underrated. People exaggerate its flaws while ignoring the flaws of the other ones, and then pretend like small details are big deals. It's crazy how much undeserved hate it gets.
Orgins was a phenomenal game plus the story was really great to me somehow
@@uchihabomber1296 story was the best bit of it I reckon.
Wild how Bruce Wayne rage quit Life like that.
at least we have a new game coming out :)
E
He has the money
@@aidenfischer4454 hopefully
Ur 69th like good sir :)
46:52 love the callback to the crashing gag from that level
I'm surprised they didn't mention calender man being in the audience when Wayne manor explodes. But this was awesome, I don't read comics and I'm behind on the dcau so I didn't know half of this stuff. Puts a lot into perspective and answer some questions that I had.
Langtrom's wife is alive. When you go back to crime scene, her body is gone.
Bodies disappear in Arkham Games all the time. They’re supposed to represent time passing by saying the cops came to pick up the body. Happens in Asylum, City and Origins.
@@shadowofdread7018 yeah but in her case its different because she actually destroys a tv an leaves a message for kirk langstrom
Because she is infected by the blood from the man bat then over time she becomes she bat
@@shadowofdread7018 it was in a episode the Animated Series. I can't remember the title right at this moment.
@@larrydarnellrembertiii6258 Terror in the Sky
2:00:57
*WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME!?!?*
How nightwing is alive when he was dead by penguin thug and murdered ?
@@Sealth-6y9 thats a dream in Arkham vr
@@Sealth-6y9 a arkham vr takes place after arkham Knight and b that's a dream
@@brainkiller7503 Wrong. It takes place before arkham knight
@@Sealth-6y9 he isn’t dead lol. It was a dream
amazing vid. ive been a fan of the arkham series for YEARS and this cleared up a lot of stuff for me. thank you
The fact that Batman was able to stop these super villains in 1 night each game is absolutely phenomenal
I like how batgirl stays the same age as she watches three robins grow up
Well she is paralyzed .... jkjk
Because nothing helps women's self-esteem like making all of the good women forever young and pretty while their female readers are forced to age like normal people.
@@vergilsonofsparda3019 why? barbara's is paralyzed so she can't compare her height to the other robins but she was still growing up.
Tbf, I think that in the Arkham games the Robins aren’t as young as they are in things like comics and the Animated shows. They’re more like late teens to young adults, hence why it makes sense that she and Tim Drake might be the same age, since Tim maybe 5 years younger than her or less. Which would have him be recruited when he was like seventeen.
@@thephoenix4093 Oookay? By Arkham Knight the Bat family is on their third Robin and she still looks like she's in her 20s
46:54 that was a very clever way to break the fourth wall, I love it and Love this entire video. Is incredible how long has this franchise has got and even more to know how this is still growing.
Thank you very much for making this video the arkham games are some of my favorite games of all times, right now I don't have enough money to support you guys on patreon so for now I can only leave a like. Hopefully when the situation gets better I will do it.
edit: 1:15:10 YOU DID IT AGAIN!!!
I just got to that part and thought my computer crashed for real cuz I was half paying attention. Still don't get the joke :/
@@grab2win982 if you played the arkham asylum game, you get to a part where the game starts to look glitched, the screen freezes and the game starts all over again. it looks like your game is failing but is actually a cut scene induced by the scarecrow's toxin... it was pretty scary the first time I played it because I thought that my game was broken for real
@@CarlosHernandez-xo7js oh cool. It's been a hot minute. Thanks for the explanation
since arkham asylum take place in 2009 so the event of arkham origins take place in 2007
@@badreedinedjellali1328 no they don't where did you get that from lmao
This was so enjoyable and well made. Like taking a trip down memory lane. Great work
Watched the WHOLE thing last night when it had 996 thousand views. Now, it has a million. Congratulations!
Wait, 2 hours ? 2 whole hours ?! HELL YEAH !!!!
Thank you, rocksteady. For proving that super hero games CAN be awesome.
"A bald man in a large suit." - Best description of Mr. Freeze ever!
Got to give this guy his props, he put this together beautifully, Kudos to you.
I rly like the switching between narrators, makes such a long video a lot easier to watch in a single sitting
This is what I been looking for, I always been curious about Batman career and his rise in Gotham we never knew how deep his feud with the Gotham villains was until this video shows us everything, Dick Grayson , Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd , and Tim Drake timeline explained
"How many lives did you just take!"
-Batman
How many breads have you eaten in your life?
“NONE ...I think...”
-Joker
“How many dead eyes can you look into?”
@@gmo3686 “That was just a little stocking stuffer! A construction site blocking my view. But this one isn’t!”
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One thing that was missed that should have been mentioned is when Gordon seemingly betrays Batman and shoots him, Batman reveals later after saving Barbara that Gordon was just pretending to betray him and he intentionally aimed at the symbol on Batman's chest when he shot, which is the most protected part of his armor.
Thank you so much for the video. I'm sure A LOT of time went into this with this production value. GREATLY appreciated.
That part at the 46:51 got me. TOTALLY forgot that happened in the game, and thought my pc was dying lmao!!
Yo, i can tell that a SHITTON of work hours went into editing all this footage. Great summary of a huge timeline.
I love that everyone is coming back to this series. What a genre-defining set of games
This was phenomenal. Thank you guys so much!!
fun fact the unknown location where joker was holding hostage jason todd is amadeys arkham cell is inside the arkham asylum in the north corridor area y can have acces only through a vent and a laundry chute
@Mutahar Roleplayer if y have play arkham asylum t know where is Amadeus arkham cell aka the abandoned wing where Jason Todd was
@Mutahar Roleplayer btw y can go/visit the abandoned wing where jason was kept there by joker also y can visit the iron doors were jason push back and go inside the laundry chute where was caught by jokers net tumbling in the granite floor of the amdeus cell and got beat down its insiide the asylum
I like to think that after the games ended that Jason took on the mantle of Batman by force and the Battle for the Cowl storyline played out and that Red Hood was the fear toxin induced Batman at the end of the game
Definitely better than what supposedly happens in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. That rubbish doesn't make any sense to me.
Shame even we didn't get that cancelled 5th game. I'd take that right about now.
It's interesting to see that there's so much backstory seeing as how Arkham Asylum and Arkham City take place back to back
Replaying the games currently, City actually takes place a couple months after Asylum
@@marbell6353 18 months*
@@rjthehoodlum1914 how do you know
@@Jc_313 look it up
This video was amazing and so well made. Deserves more likes
Just remembered the extreme environment suit from cold cold heart.
Would’ve been awesome to have more of those in Arkham. Alternative useful suits for certain missions. It was rlly cool to have.
Arkham Knight has a bunch of different suits you can choose from
Ryan Pulliam yes ofc Ik thst I mean suits with a different purpose.
that would’ve been really cool
@@ryanpulliam8987 over rated.
@@KadenHartley 3 years late on that one bud
Arkham origins is way too underrated, I personally enjoy it more than Arkham Asylum
Incredible job. This was so much fun to watch
AWESOME VIDEO!!! GREAT WORK
man you seriously don´t know how much I appreciate this lmao. I started to get into the arkhamverse back in March and stopped playing them since i dont have time but im starting again. And this video helped me clarify a lot of things.
Best two hours of my shift right here
Bro I have just found your channel and I already love it. No joke same day I found you I’m writing this. Keep it up my man!!!
This is so awesome, thank you!
This is amazing. Just finished the whole thing. Now I’m obsessed with the Batman Arkham universe again 🥴 Great video
Nice, Josh! Respect for the daily hard work you put into these! ❤️ It doesn’t go unnoticed!
I watched all of it. Great job guys.
Excellent job on this video.
16:37 that dude's definitely dead
I respect you for making this, I've been a big Batman fan since 2008 so thank you both, I have just entered a job, this is the best video I've seen all day, you made me understand how much I love arkham but you made me love it more than I already did, I watched all 2 hours. Great work!
I felt so much anxiety right there at 46:54 thinking my PC just got jacked. Rofl. Great video though. Very well put together.
Yeah it was so unexpected lol
I like how Calendar Man's greatest fear is a Calendar with wrong dates
By far the best summary u got all the character beats in the games as well
Thank you so much for these, I just started replaying asylum and city, masterpieces!!
Best Batman Arkham video I've seen so far!
This is awesome dont yall ever stop
This video is amazing!
so much effort was put into this 5/5!
5/5? It’s usually 10/10 or 5 stars but 5/5? But hey...who am I to question brucey bruce
This is so well done. Surprised how little Catwoman and Nightwing are in it.
This is awesome! Thank you all for taking the time to create this masterpiece! 👏🏾
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for doing a video of one of my favorite DC Games
Amazing videoo, as a lover of the Arkham franchise, I can say that you guys nailed every single aspect of this video. I would personally really like to see a video of the inconsistencies between the Arkhamverse, specially with the Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League game coming out.
I remember months ago you mention doing a timeline of batman on one of your live streams. I'm so happy this came out. :)
I’ve been working on it since then! This was a huge undertaking
1:23:34
We gonna pretend we didn't just see where that keycard came from
Want to let you know I have subscribed to you because of this 1/2 hour long video which caught me by surprise and showed up on my feet and yet I couldn't put the damn thing down you guys did an amazing job and you got to subscriber because of it keep up the good work
Batman Arkham asylum is one of my favorite games of all time because it was the first ever video game I’ve ever played and it is so amazing
no one touches this timeline, no updates, no nothing. ignore ssktjl
What do you mean? SSKTJL doesn't exist, what are you talking about bro?
@@damired exactly...
Thnx a lot for this video 🔥
I'm so glad you made this because I'm making a Batman series and I didn't know how much story there was in the Arkhamverse
I’m so glad that u didn’t forget about assault on Arkham
Dariush Namazi he didn’t die his face went blue and he ran off but u might be right about the rest
This deserves way more views
I love timeline videos goos
d to listen to on walks and boredom you have a very happy subscriber hope you cover more and more games i cant imagine the amount of hours need to make one of these but really really appreciate it you will grow fast!
When i was a kid i thought that batman was a light story,like he just crime fights and beat joker and others but these comics are so deep and “dark” that it makes so much sense
Dude, assault on arkham would have been an amazing dlc.
The Arkham origins prequel comic was actually a cyoa. They simply used information from different choices. In fact about Andrea Dent. Two will lead you there, but only one will allow you to know who she is. In the other path, she's unknown.
The art work and proper explanation ✨✨very nice very nice
Amazing work as always from suggestive gaming team, thank you guys. Could you also consider getting round to the Dead Space series when you get the chance!
Such an amazing storyline