The Arkham Franchise is More Joker’s Story Than It is Batman’s

It’s easy to remember Batman as the lead of the Arkham franchise simply due to the fact that he is the stoic protagonist players follow in its entirety. Other characters and even a few antagonists become playable in some way or another throughout the tetralogy, though, and Arkham villains arguably make a much larger stamp on the franchise than Batman ever does. If anything, Batman is the necessary vessel in which Gotham and Arkham’s hive of scum and villainy can be perceived, and the criminals he pursues are all the more fleshed out and dynamic as a result.