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The ORIGINAL Batman Arkham Knight we NEVER got

GothamPaladin

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What's up people! Today I'm discussing Paul Dini's ORIGINAL idea for Batman Arkham Knight. Hope you enjoy!

0:00 Intro
0:30 Premise for the original game
2:11 Why it would have potentially worked better than the game we got
5:39 Why Scarecrow and Hush would have worked better
7:10 What the STORY could have been
10:23 Azrael potential story role
11:08 Endless questions on what could have been
13:38 Conclusion

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20 Comments

@jackmeyers3919 1 year ago

What if Hush found Hugo Strange's logs in Arkham City, revealing Bruce's identity. After that he approaches Crane to destroy Batman together from both identities, with Hush tarnishing Bruce's reputation while Crane tarnishes Batman's. Maybe that was Dini's way of connecting Hush and Crane?

@DarkSeraph95 1 year ago

To this day, I'm still angry Azreal never got a DLC chapter

@empty_melodies 1 year ago

Imagine having Paul freakin Dini write for your two insanely successful games and for the third you go “Nah, we don’t need him”

@mrl2h2 1 year ago

Tossing Dini aside is absolutely ludicrous and Knight would definitely have been better with him writing it

@randomguy1033 1 year ago

Hush and Scarecrow had teamed up in the comic Heart of Hush. Crane was actually Hush’s therapist when Hush was a kid.

@MrAnt728 1 year ago

The Hush story would've been SOOOO PERFECT because it'd be both personal for Bruce and Batman

@tomjaff 1 year ago

I always wondered what the original city sequel would have been. Hush, Azrael, calendar man, scarecrow, Harley...

@oppenheimer6321 1 year ago

In Heart of Hush (Written by Dini) it is revealed that Crane was a psychiatrist to young Thomas Elliot and in the present he kind of helps Hush with his plan against Batman, I think this could have been a way to unite them in the game.

@TheAzulmagia 1 year ago (edited)

It's wild to me that Hush killed six people just so he could walk past Bruce's receptionist.

Hush could always impersonate Bruce to funnel his money into Scarecrow's plans, only for it to become gradually apparent this is affecting Batman somehow.

@Sterlingl3591 1 year ago

I think that Jason could’ve made a great side character. You get reports from Cash on how someone is killing criminals. How people who witnessed it saw Jason move like someone who was trained by Batman. You build up Jason and see that Bruce discovers it’s Jason. They have a huge boss fight and by the end Jason helps the Batfamily.

@CJSopranoYT 1 year ago

I imagine them doing a bait and switch where you start the game as Bruce Wayne and then slowly realize you’re actually playing as Hush. Having the game make you kill people and say things that don’t quite match up and then reveal that you’re Elliot in disguise. He could have figured out his identity through Lucious Fox and then gained access to his Batman equipment. Makes way more sense how he would be an “Arkham Knight” type of character. There’s so much to play off of from their childhood too

@larryfoot3894 1 year ago

Them abandoning so much of Arkham city’s cliffhangers proves this game was cursed

@shadowtrap2109 1 year ago

Hush could've fixed Crane's face. Considering they were both in Arkham City together, Crane could've come to him for help, and they could've both found the message Hugo had left for Batman in crime alley, and figured out his identity that way. The one problem with this is that Scarecrow would look less cool and scary in Arkham Knight, since Hush is an incredible surgeon and probably would've fixed his face completely.

@Joe_Kerr_9797 1 year ago

Knight is a good game but I wish the story could have been better, Rocksteady getting rid of Paul Dini as the writer was a big mistake.

@davidchittick6783 1 year ago (edited)

They should do a Paul Dini's Cut of Batman: Arkham Knight.

@reputationselinasversion1606 1 year ago

Harley’s child is also a remnant of Dini’s plans for Arkham Knight. The positive test was in the main Arkham city game when he was still working with rocksteady but then in Harley Quinn’s revenge, which Dini did not work on they placed a bunch of negative tests and a “may result in false positive” warning on the box, basically retconning the test as a false positive. Most people think Batman made Harley “miscarriage” when he fought her in the church but the story line was just abandoned and rocksteady reconned the test.

@b1ackspid3r43 1 year ago

I would love to see Paul Dini’s script for Arkham Knight to see what the game could’ve been

@MrJAG 1 year ago

I remember reading "a leak" just before Knight came out, which was the Knight was a clone of Bruce Wayne, which is why he knows Batman's techniques.

They "hinted" at this, by the Cadmus sign in the steel mill in Arkham City's HQ DLC, which is not there in the main game.

@pandafluffynut 1 year ago

Getting rid of Dini was the biggest mistake

@enard1989 1 year ago

I think the theme of Arkham Knight, which worked well by having it be Jason Todd, is in Bruce's guilt in having to, as the Joker said, "drag your friends in this crazy, little game of ours."
Jason Todd is the product of Bruce's fear. The cost of allowing allies to work along side him but being powerless to protect them. Just like what almost happened to barbara for the most of the game, and to tim drake at the end so you can see how it all ties together.
That being said, wish they didn't lie about arkham knight being an original character and just have the villain be straight up red hood