Hugo Strange's Storage Vault - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

On the perimeter wall of Arkham City is the TYGER confiscated goods vault. This high-security facility houses all the items confiscated from criminals upon their admittance to the prison. A special vault is used to protect the equipment and ill-gotten gains of the various super-criminals and it is guarded 24/7 by a squad of TYGER guards.

Upon her arrest, Hugo Strange placed all Catwoman's belongings there, and she has vowed to get them back and leave Arkham City for good.

Arkham City Medical Team - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Cash chose the abandoned church building near the Solomon Wayne Courthouse to situate his medical team at. Knowing that Strange was only providing the minimal amount of medical assistance to placate those campaigning against Arkham City. Cash was forced to beg for equipment and additional medical supplies.

The first donations came from Bruce Wayne himself, who supplied a series of security shutters to keep the people within the building safe, along with cutting-edge body armour and supplies.

On hearing about Wayne's donations, Strange was furious and locked down all supply routes between the medical team and the outside world.

Arkham Island Sold - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Once the decision to create Arkham City had been approved, Mayor Sharp ordered that Arkham Island be put up for sale. In a press conference, he claimed, “This is a fantastic revenue opportunity for Gotham City.”

Although a number of prominent Gotham companies entered bids for the land, the winning bid came from a previously unknown security company named TYGER.

Within weeks of the sale, TYGER was also awarded the contract to police Arkham City and instantly began using the island to launch its fleet of helicopter gunships to patrol the new prison facility.

Aaron Cash (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Aaron Cash recalled that night back at Arkham Asylum when, watching from a security monitor, he saw Quincy Sharp scrawl an elaborate message on the floor of the cell block control room using a rusty nail and blood from his fingertips before forcing his way out of the cell, only to disappear into the chaos.

He didn't know where Sharp had gone, but he was sure that there was something seriously wrong with the future mayor of Gotham City.

With no other career options available and a nagging feeling that he had seen Hugo Strange before, he reluctantly accepted the job of running a small medical team charged with providing assistance to any resident of Arkham City who needed it.

Tygers in the City - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

After disagreeing with Commissioner Gordon over the policing of Arkham City, Quincy Sharp announced that a private firm had been commissioned to provide a total security solution: TYGER.

Unknown to everyone but Hugo Strange, each TYGER operative was profiled and implanted with a posthypnotic suggestion that made them unquestionably loyal to him and him alone.

Vicki Vale (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

When Vicki Vale first interviewed Quincy Sharp, just days after the events of Arkham Asylum, she felt something was wrong. Sharp's later appearance on the Gotham Nightliner show that she co-hosts confirmed her suspicions. Convinced that Sharp was not the hero he made himself out to be, Vale pressed him for answers and he became confused, struggling with the facts.

As she moved in for the journalist kill, she was shocked when Sharp suddenly regained his composure, answering all her questions with authority. It was as if he suddenly spoke with someone else's voice.

Whatever was going on, Vale became even more determined to uncover the truth.

The Abramovici Twins (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Andrei Abramovici was a respected man in the small Siberian village where he lived with his pregnant wife. When word reached Andrei that his wife was in labour, he rushed home, excited to be at her side, but was met only by the midwife. His wife had not survived the birth; complications due to the special nature of his newborn sons were to blame.

Pushing into the room, he found his twin sons, joined at the shoulder, screaming for their mother.

He took the twins and left town. Crying, he stood on a bridge over the freezing cold river and contemplated throwing them to their deaths, but he could not do it. Leaving his sons outside the tent of a travelling freak show, Andrei returned home to his village a broken man.

The Joker heard tales of the conjoined Abramovici twins, now widely known as Hammer and Sickle, and their reputation for brutality, and he wanted them for himself. Sending Harley on a desperate mission to retrieve them, she passed on the message to the circus owner that her puddin' would pay big for the twins.

Of course, the owner refused to sell his headlining act. He promptly vanished, only to be found three months later with a new smile carved on his face.

A New Robin - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Richard “Dick” Grayson was the youngest in a family of acrobats known as the Flying Graysons. Their death-defying act was all that kept the circus where they performed in business. As the people of Gotham clamoured for tickets to the show, the mob came looking for their cut. After the circus owner refused them, mobsters killed Dick's parents during a packed performance attended by Bruce Wayne.

Wanting to protect the devastated orphan, Bruce took Dick under his wing and became his legal guardian, eventually entrusting the boy with the greatest secret. Desperate to help his friend and mentor, Dick trained hard to become Robin, patrolling Gotham at Batman's side.

Now an adult, Dick fights crime on his own as the vigilante called Nightwing.

Titan on the Streets - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Having no love for his fellow prisoners in Arkham City, Bane set up and presided over an underground fighting contest where inmates fought in vain for the privilege of trying to take him down.

Word of these fights spread throughout Arkham, and the Joker sent Bane a little surprise. As Bane moved in for the kill, the Joker's henchman triggered a TITAN injection that ripped through his body, transforming him into a monstrous TITAN.

Barely surviving the fight, Bane had a new problem. Somehow, TITAN had found its way into Arkham City, and it was up to him to stop it from falling into the wrong hands.

Bane (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

After being hit by the Batmobile and knocked into the dark waters surrounding Arkham Island, Bane swam to shore but was quickly recaptured and taken back to the asylum.

Weakened by his injuries and the experiments performed upon him by Doctor Young, he patiently waited, plotting this revenge.

Forced into keeping a low profile as he recovered, Bane searched Arkham City for a suitable location to act as a hideout and found just what he needed in the form of the Krank Toys building.

There, surrounded by toys, he waited, recuperating, until the time was right to make his move.

Strange Goings On - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Working at Arkham Asylum, Professor Hugo Strange used a series of complicated psychological profiling techniques to identify the man behind Batman's mask as Bruce Wayne.

Planning to become both the rich and famous, he plotted to sell the secret of Batman's identity to the highest bidder. Word spread throughout the criminal underworld that Batman's greatest secret was for sale, but before anyone could act on it, Hugo Strange vanished.

Hugo Strange's Experiments - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Now in charge of Arkham City, Strange continues his radical experiments into the workings of the human mind. During processing, Strange personally selects inmates that fit his criteria and has them taken away to his inmate Behavioral Analysis Unit.

No one knows what happens to the missing prisoners in that room except Strange himself. Sometimes they emerge lobotomized to roam the streets, but more often they are never heard from again. Some people believe that Strange brainwashes the missing thugs and turns them into his TYGER guards whereas others believe he has a deal with the Penguin and hands him them to use as target practice.

The Mad Hatter (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Disgusted at the crimes Jervis Tetch committed in the guise of the Mad Hatter, Quincy Sharp decreed that Tetch should never see the outside world again.

For months, Tetch was locked in solitary confinement, deep in the bowels of Arkham Asylum's Maximum Security wing. Locked up in the dark without his hats, his tea, and, most importantly, his Alice, Tetch's mind crumbled. Professor Hugo Strange became fascinated by Tetch's case, taking particular interest in Tetch's mind control experiments.

Strange manipulated security procedures, allowing him full access to Tetch behind the warden's back.

If Hugo Strange's plans were going to work, he needed a way to control Quincy Sharp. Having worked with Tetch for months, he had refined and perfected a psychoactive compound that would make anyone who ingested it more malleable and open to suggestion.

The next day, Strange invited Sharp to join him for tea at his office in the Administration Building

A Sick Plan - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

After Batman stopped him from escaping Arkham Asylum, the Joker sat alone in his padded cell, knowing something was wrong.

The first sign was an unusual, lump on his shoulder. He felt... tainted. Weeks went by and ten more unusual lumps appeared.

The TITAN had done something to him, something bad, something that wasn't funny at all.

The Joker was dying. He knew it and soon so would anyone who saw him. The last thing he needed was to appear weak before his rivals.
So one day at lunch, the Joker took a spoon and dug out another inmate's eyes, knowing this would get him solitary confinement. He could keep out of sights, at least until his transfer to Arkham City.

The Joker needed an escape plan, and on the night of his transfer, Harley Quinn provided one. Disguised as an Arkham guard, she overpowered the Joker's escorts and stole her puddin' away to a boat waiting on the island's quayside.

As the boat carrying the twisted pair sped off towards Gotham, it was joined by a second. A secret alarm placed by Batman had alerted him to the Joker's escape, and here he was in the Batboat, pursuing the fugitives.

They ignored his orders to stop, so Batman opened fire. As Harley steered the boat to shore, missiles ripped the hull to pieces.

They swam, the weakened Joker being pulled through the water by a distraught Harley, desperate to save her puddin'. She pulled the Joker out of the water to safety, somehow avoiding Batman's searchlight. She and the Joker sat there, gasping for breath when they suddenly realized where they were: Arkham City.

Holding Grudges - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Soon after his arrival in Gotham City, the Penguin decided to make an impression on the underworld elite with a gala opening for his nightclub, the Iceberg Lounge. He included the notorious Joker, whose appearance would surely impress the crowd.

When the Joker arrived, Harley Quinn on his arm and a dainty flower in his lapel, the Penguin was thrilled. He was hosting the sinister soiree of the century-until a clumsy waitress spilt a drink on the Joker.

The laughing Joker aimed his flower and an acid spray melted the girl's face. As alarmed patrons fled the scene, a cold, dark rage at the Joker curled inside Penguin.

The Joker eagerly returned to the Iceberg Lounge a few weeks later but was insulted to find his name was not on the guest list. Willing to overlook this obvious mistake, he shot the doorman on his way in, kicked his feet up at a table, and ordered a glass of warm milk.

He was pleased when alongside the milk was a summons to the club's VIP section.

Led to a back room—past a tank where Tiny the Shark circled—the Joker happily greeted the Penguin, who promptly pushed him out of a door onto the street. The Penguin squawked out that the club had a new "no clowns" policy before slamming the door.

After arriving at Arkham City, the Joker and Harley Quinn were eager to explore their new stomping ground.

Reflecting that years had passed since the Penguin banned Joker from the club, they sought out the blue neon lights of the Iceberg Lounge. Harley pounded on the door, certain that Cobblepot would let bygones be bygones.

The Penguin answered, a hulking guard at his side, and immediately reminded them of his "no clowns” policy. He just managed to close the door before the acid from Joker's flower shot out at his face.

Scarface (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

The original Scarface puppet was carved from the old gallows tree at Blackgate prison and eventually fell into the hands of the meek Arnold Wesker, who'd disappointed his mafia family by showing more interest in ventriloquism than gunplay.

Scarface became an unlikely mob boss in Wesker's hands—until Wesker was locked up in Arkham Asylum without his precious puppet. Forced to improvise, he scrounged up materials for a new Scarface—one left mute upon Wesker's departure from the asylum.

When the Joker took over Arkham, he discovered Scarface in lock-up and took a liking to the puppet. Scarface quickly received a garish repaint and a new voice, complete with a demented laugh and a twisted sense of humour.

When Batman shut down the Joker's riot at Arkham Asylum, it seemed the relationship between the newly demented Scarface puppet and the Clown Prince had ended—until one of the Joker's old henchmen, Mugsy Binks, showed up at the Steel Mill in Arkham City. He'd rescued Scarface from the old asylum, knowing it would buy him favour with Joker. And Mugsy was skilful enough to make a dozen more copies, freeing the Joker to mutilate any puppet that failed to amuse him.

After all, another Scarface could quickly be built up for him to laugh with, abuse, and then break into pieces. Joker's only regret is that people aren't so easily toyed with and replaced. Or are they?

Studying the Bat - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Hugo Strange's obsession with Bruce Wayne and Batman was unbearable. He needed to know every small detail of how this man functioned, to understand exactly what made him tick so that he could finally destroy him.

Strange manipulated the mayor into allowing squads of TYGER officers to be deployed into Gotham City under the pretence of aiding the police. However, unknown to the people of Gotham, the TYGER guards had only one target: The Batman.

Strange knew his men would initially fail, but he studied every defeat meticulously, analyzing the techniques and the strategies of his opponent. It would be only a matter of time before he had the necessary data to defeat the Bat.

Illegal Operations - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

While in residence at Arkham Asylum, Hugo Strange experimented on prisoners as part of the process leading to him unlocking the workings of the mind in order to control it. In order to cover up his experiments, he arranged for these poor individuals to be lobotomized, locked in the cells and forgotten.

It was during these experiments that Strange perfected his ability to place posthypnotic suggestions in the minds of his victims; a technique he used to guarantee absolute loyalty from his handpicked TYGER guards.

After escaping from custody, the Joker released the lunatics and allowed them to roam free across Arkham Island in an attempt to stop Batman.

Black Mask (Gotham City) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Roman Sionis, a.k.a. Black Mask, is the first and only inmate to have escaped from Arkham City.

Using explosives stolen from the Penguin, he waited until the TYGER shift change, blasted his way through the containment wall, and went on the run in Gotham City.

Furious, Hugo Strange ordered his TYGER operatives onto the streets, to focus all their attention on finding Black Mask, who was finally recaptured after a violent siege at the meatpacking plant he owned.

Promising that no one else would ever escape again, Strange fitted a series of automated machine guns to the walls of Arkham City, designed to kill anyone else who dared to try.

A Cold Start - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

When Hugo Strange arranged for Nora Fries to be moved to Arkham City, her husband Victor Fries, a.k.a. Mister Freeze, escaped from his refrigerated containment cell to find her. But Strange was waiting for him, and he calmly informed Victor that Nora had been transported for her own safety and that if Victor wished to see her again, he should move quietly into his new home in Arkham City.

To motivate Victor further, Strange promised him full access to laboratory facilities in the old GCPD building, now abandoned within the high-
security walls of Arkham City, stocked with all the tools required to seek a cure for Nora.

Mister Freeze stood alone in his new laboratory. Everything Strange had promised was true. Everything except his frozen wife, Nora, who was nowhere to be seen.

Furious, Freeze upgraded his suit's weapon systems, arming himself to force Strange to give him back his wife. Waiting until dark, he marched out of the GCPD, only to be ambushed by a squad of TYGER operatives with orders to take him to Professor Strange.

Buried on a Sunday - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

On a dark and stormy night, in the late 19th century, a merchant named Cyrus Gold was murdered and dumped in the swamps near the emerging Gotham City. As the body sunk into the pit, it was exposed to an unusual chemical in the swamp which miraculously reanimated the merchant. He set out wandering the streets of Old Gotham, unable to remember his name and only able to recite the nursery rhyme “Solomon Grundy.”

Seemingly able to cheat death, the undead man, now called Solomon Grundy, was captured and ruthlessly experimented on. Determined to discover what had brought Grundy back to life, it became apparent that the creature was now immortal, due to a combination of the swamp chemicals and the storm that raged on the night of his death.

As the army moved through the condemned Wonder City searching for stragglers, no one expected what lay in Ra's al Ghul's private medical laboratory. For months, Solomon Grundy had been exposed to the Lazarus chemical and then repeatedly electrocuted.

He had died dozens of times, but each time he was brought back for more. While the soldiers debated what he even was, Grundy revived again—and killed everyone nearby.

Mentally broken by his ordeal, he waited at the lab for the doctors to return and murder him again.

Wonder City (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Over a century ago, the mysterious Ra's al Ghul arrived in Gotham City and met with the Gotham elders. Even then, Gotham was a crime-ridden, lawless place. Ra's promised a brighter future for all in exchange for a deed to the north end of the city. The Gothamites laughed at this strange man until he produced more gold than they had ever seen.

The deed in hand, Ra's began construction of a new city, a utopian vision powered by clean, free energy. With no crime, the future would be bright, and as the last brick was laid by the slaves he had shipped in from his homeland, Ra's presented the future of Gotham: Wonder City.

Mechanical guardians watched over the population of Wonder City while behind the scenes, lawbreakers were removed and executed. Wonder Tower stood above it all, a monument to prosperity. But for Ra's, the real reason for choosing this location was simple. Beneath the streets, he had located a chemical source that he called Lazarus. In small doses it would rejuvenate a person, but Ra's believed that with enough power the Lazarus could be super-charged to defeat any aliment... even death itself!

Unknown to all but Ra's and his engineers, Wonder Tower was actually a giant lightning rod. When the time was right, he would test his theory.

Wonder City continued to operate for months before the effect of prolonged exposure to the Lazarus chemical became clear; it was driving the city's inhabitants insane. When Ra's al Ghul failed to act, the newly formed Gotham City Hall did. Wonder City was declared a public health hazard and quarantined.

Troops dragged the screaming citizens out of their homes, straight to Arkham Asylum. Ra's al Ghul disappeared. As Gotham reached into the sky, new neighbourhoods were built over Wonder City, until the site was all but forgotten. Some years later, Ra's returned in need of his old Lazarus Pit. As his forces began the mining process, the streets above collapsed, but Ra's forced them to keep digging.

The Payphone Killer - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

At first, it was just missing people, last seen near payphones, but then the bodies started to appear, mutilated and posed. Stories of a payphone killer spread fast.

As the sound of ringing phones haunted the streets, Mr Zsasz smiled. Hiding in a lair he's purchased from the Broker, he monitored an array of surveillance cameras pointing at each payphone in Arkham City.

As each victim answered his call, he acted fast, following them, tracking their movements, and then, when the time was right, killing them. It was perfect. He knew one day he would see Batman holding that phone, and then he would be able to carve his final mark.

The Ratcatcher (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Otis Flannegan, a.k.a. The Ratcatcher, looked out through the cellar window on the opening day of Arkham City. He had kept out of trouble so far, but he would need a plan to survive. Arkham City claimed to be escape-proof and the Penguin had the illicit goods market sewn up so Ratcatcher would sell small comforts.

Fine soap. Breath mints. Extra buttons. He sent his rats out to collect such items from the outside world. It worked, business was brisk, and he felt safe until the Penguin came looking for his rival vendor.

Flannegan was dragged screaming through the streets of Arkham City, followed by a trail of rats, into the museum and never to be seen again.

Election Time - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Quincy Sharp claimed to have been instrumental in stopping the riot at Arkham Asylum, stirring a tide of public admiration. Throughout his mayoral campaign, Sharp repeatedly told voters that he would never allow their safety to be threatened by criminal scum.

His victory was assured when he announced that he would create a new, high-security prison that would forever separate the good people of Gotham City from the bad. One elected, his first move was to put the relatively unknown psychiatrist, Professor Hugo Strange, in charge of the whole facility.

The Cobblepot Feud - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

At the opening of the Cobblepot Towers, Henry Cobblepot, print magnate turned hotelier, looked at his latest hotel, determined to outclass the also newly opened Grand Wayne Plaza.

Desperate to ruin his rival, Judge Solomon Wayne, Henry laughed at reports that the people of Gotham preferred the restrained splendour of the Wayne Hotel to his own location’s. He swore that the Cobblepot hotels would be the premier destinations of the world.

He was wrong, and it cost him both his fortune and his health. On his deathbed, Henry left the remains of his fortune to his son, Stanley Cobblepot. Stanley vowed to outdo the Wayne family and their empire, now headed by Alan Wayne.

Stanley Cobblepot instigated a very public feud with the Wayne family. As the Wayne business empire extended to include hotels and other public buildings, Stanly was determined to outdo them, pouring more and more money into his fledgeling hotel business, to the detriment of the newspaper business and his relationship with his son, Oswald.

As Stanly’s business crumbled around him, he sent Oswald to school in England. Feeling abandoned and picked on by his peers for his homely appearance, Oswald skipped class after class, preferring the company of thieves and scoundrels he met on the streets.

By the time his father’s empire collapsed, Oswald had vanished.

When the council decided to shut down the Pinkney Natural History Museum, they sold this historic structure to the highest bidder. Located in a deteriorating part of the city many investors passed up on the opportunity but for Oswald Cobbleepot this was exactly what he wanted.

He purchased the building and established this as his base of operations, converting the attached theme restaurant, the Iceberg Lounge, into a high profile nightclub. To the public, the Iceberg Lounge was a reputable establishment. But below the surface was a den of inequity, a go-to place for illicit and illegal wares.

The adjacent museum exhibit halls were repurposed as the Penguin’s storage facility, housing everything from his torture room, his weapon cache and a gladiator pit. Illegal fights to the death occurred nightly, with the victors earning a job on Penguin’s crew.

The Penguin’s operation was run on fear and pain. One night, a guest at the Iceberg Lounge was caught cheating at poker. The Penguin tortured this man in full view of everyone. A friend of the man grabbed a beer bottle, smashed it on a table, and attacked, driving the bottle hard into the Penguin’s face.

As the Penguin screamed, the attacker and his friend were dragged away to a private torture room. Cobblepot was examined by the friend doctors in Gotham City but the prognosis was always the same, removing the bottle could be fatal.

When the Penguin received the eminent domain seizure from City Hall ordering him to vacate the Iceberg Lounge he replied with a letter telling Mayor Sharp that no one tells Oswald Cobblepot what to do. He’d bought his property legally and the city could find somewhere else to stick their prison.

On the day that the perimeter wall was due to be completed, the GCPD were dispatched with backup from TYGER Guards to forcibly reclaim the building. The Penguin ordered his men to fire at the police, killing three veteran officers.

With the Penguin’s criminal nature no longer in dispute, Mayor Sharp ordered the wall closed, trapping the Penguin and the gang in Arkham City.

A Family Business - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

As Hugo Strange’s Tyger guards’ grip on the city tightened, a Falcone family meeting was called. The choice was simple. Stay in Gotham and face arrest and imprisonment in Arkham City, or leave.

The younger members of the family argued that “The Falcones run from no one”, but in the end, it was the Roman’s decision.

The next day the entire family packed up and left Gotham, heading to the relative safety of Blüdhaven.

The Maroni Family (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

The Maroni Family has long been at war with their archrivals, the Falcones. In a constant game of one-upmanship, each family has been hurt. Sons and daughters have been killed, businesses have burnt to the ground, and still, it goes on.

Determined to win the war once and for all, the Maronis met in their family restaurant and talked into the night.

Little did they know that as they talked, they were surrounded by Carmine Falcone’s men who opened fire, killing almost everyone within. With their leadership gone, the surviving Maronis have all been incarcerated in Arkham City.

The Falcone Family (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

The Falcones are America’s oldest surviving crime family. Generation after generation has ruled the underworld with iron fists, preferring to stay away from more colourful super-villain activities. They maintain legitimate business interests, including garbage collection and shipping companies.

The current head of the family. Carmine “The Roman” Falcone is feared by all and until recently had the city in his pocket. But something has changed.

Quincey Sharp, the newly elected mayor, and a man who should be afraid of him was not. Carmine attempts to intimidate Sharp had resulted in his henchmen mysteriously disappearing, and Sharp has struck back, with the Tyger guards closing down Falcone’s operations all over the city.

Clayface (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Basil Karlo, a.k.a Clayface used his ability to mimic the exact appearance of anyone, to impersonate Quincey Sharp and escape from Arkham Asylum.

On the run in Gotham City, Clayface has been forced to constantly change his appearance in order to stay one step ahead of Hugo Strange and his guards.

His current whereabouts are unknown.

Maxie Zeus (Gotham Stories) - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Not every building in Arkham City was in disrepair before the mega-prison was constructed. One operating building was the Gotham City Olympus Nightclub, originally owned by Maxie Zeus.

Although Maxie disappeared in Arkham Asylum after one too many rounds of electroshock therapy, the club kept running in his absence, leading some to think Maxie hasn't gone far.

Mr. Freeze Audio Tapes - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Tape One:

TYGER Guard: Prisoner's here, sir.

Strange: Very good. Send him in.

TYGER GUARD: But we haven't got the suit off him yet. He's dangerous. Are you sure?

Hugo Strange: Of course. Victor Fries and I have much in common. We will be fine. Welcome to my facility. Please, take a seat.

Mister Freeze: I prefer to stand. Why am I here?

Hugo Strange: Oh, Victor, there will be plenty of time for that later. Right now I wish to get to know you. Discover how you came to have such a... frosty outlook on life.

Mister Freeze: I have nothing to say to you. You may have taken my weapons, but my suit still has considerable offensive capabilities. I will freeze the marrow in your legs. Each bone will shatter and fracture while you remain aware of your impending paralysis, begging me to end you.

Hugo Strange: I don't think that you will do that, Victor.

Mister Freeze: Really? Why not?

Hugo Strange: Simple. If you hurt me, your wife will die.


Tape Two:

Mister Freeze: Where is she? Where is my wife??

Hugo Strange: Nora is in safe hands. Now, let's discuss an incident from your childhood...

Mister Freeze: No.

Hugo Strange: Then this is over. Guard!

Mister Freeze: Wait! What do you wish to learn?

Hugo Strange: Your early years were troubled.

Mister Freeze: I was not a sociable child, but that is all.

Hugo Strange: Even your parents disowned you. They sent you away to a reform school, correct?

Mister Freeze: They did not understand my work.

Hugo Strange: Your work? According to a police report, you froze over a dozen of your neighbours' pets.

Mister Freeze: I have always had an interest in cryonic preservation. I didn't understand why my parents allowed our sick pets to die instead of attempting to save them. So I set about finding my own way. I intended to revive all those creatures.

Hugo Strange: But you didn't. Which brings us to Nora.


Tape Three:

Mister Freeze: Have you ever seen a flower die? Watched something that was once so beautiful, so full of life, collapse, and rot from within...

Hugo Strange: You refer to Nora's illness?

Mister Freeze: It seems like yesterday when I first found her. It all happened so quickly. Suddenly, I was losing her.

Hugo Strange: Did you seek help? What about your employer, GothCorp?

Mister Freeze: I hid it from them, diverting resources from GothCorp's research in an attempt to find the cure, but in the end, I failed. Time was running out. I knew that if I was discovered, Nora would die.

Hugo Strange: Why take that risk?

Mister Freeze: Do you know what it is to love someone? To really love them?

Hugo Strange: No.

Mister Freeze: Nora was all I could think of. I re-ran the diagnostics, re-examined every detail from every angle, certain that I had missed something. I cursed myself for being so blind, so stupid. Surely there was a cure, I just needed more time. Then I realized what I had to do.


Tape Four:

Mister Freeze: I had worked without sleep for a week. My needs didn't seem important. Sleep didn't matter. Food didn't matter. There was only her. I looked at Nora and told her that I loved her. She said there was nothing I could do, that I... we should just accept fate. She smiled her beautiful smile as she said it. I promised to cure her. and then I pressed the button.

Hugo Strange: You cryogenically froze her. Keeping her on ice, so to speak, while you worked on a cure. It broke your heart but now you had all the time in the world. Did you feel relieved?

Mister Freeze: I went home and fell into a deep sleep. For the first time since we discovered Nora's illness, I dared to dream. But... for weeks I had ignored my superiors' attempts to contact me. The next morning, I overslept. And by the time I got to the lab, Ferris Boyle, the CEO, was there waiting.

Hugo Strange: What did he do?

Mister Freeze: He accused me of industrial espionage, which I denied, but then his guards found Nora. Boyle told me that, like all of my "research," she belonged to him. I was enraged. I attacked him, but his guards beat me back and in the struggle, I was drenched in by the cryogenic chemical I had created. I lay on the floor helpless watching the guards steal Nora away. Boyle told me it was such a tragedy for a promising mind to perish in a lab accident. Then he left me to die.

Hugo Strange: But you survived.

Mister Freeze: The chemicals absorbed into my body and... transformed my metabolism. My body went numb. I felt a strange tingling, then searing pain all over... Each breath ignited my lungs. I clawed my way back to a refrigeration unit and as I closed the door behind me, I felt the icy chill calm my aching body. Things suddenly seemed clear.

Hugo Strange: What seemed clear? Finding a cure for Nora?

Mister Freeze: No. Revenge. Boyle would pay.


Tape Five:

Hugo Strange: You failed to kill Ferris Boyle, though, didn't you?

Mister Freeze: Yes.

Hugo Strange: Why?

Mister Freeze: You know why. Batman. Though he did return Nora to safety - until you got her.

Hugo Strange: See, there you go. Blame me. Blame your parents because you failed to revive your neighbours' pets. Blame Ferris Boyle for spoiling your plans to cure Nora. Blame Batman for stopping your revenge against Boyle. And now your Nora is in danger...

Mister Freeze: Because of you.

Hugo Strange: No, Victor. Because of you. You have always had a heart of ice. You stole peoples' pets, you stole GothCorp resources, and since then you've stolen so much for your own selfish, scientific inquiries. If you had shared your genius with others, devoted your energy to medicine instead of crime, perhaps your ice princess would be at home now, preparing you a hot meal - instead of being delivered to the Joker.

Mister Freeze: No...

Hugo Strange: You could have saved Nora a long time ago, Victor.

Mister Freeze: It's all for her. Everything. I will get her back. And when I do, I'm coming for you.

Hugo Strange: Thank you. We are done now.

Mister Freeze: Nora...

Mad Hatter Audio Tapes - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Tape One:

Strange: Patient interview one. Subject's name, Jervis Tetch A.K.A. The Mad Hatter. Brought to Arkham Asylum by Batman six months ago. Patient exhibits signs of obsessive compulsion and paranoid schizophrenia. Sit down Mr Tetch.

Hatter: No time to sit. I need Alice. Where is my Alice?

Strange: Please.

Hatter: No time to sit, no time to chat. I'm searching for Alice and I've lost my hat.

Strange: Guard. Restrain Mr Tetch.

Hatter: (struggling) Get off me! I'm late. I'm running out of time, Alice. Where are you?

Strange: Alice isn't here yet. Just relax, Jervis. She will be here soon.

Hatter: But ---

Strange: I promise. Now. Would you like some tea?


Tape Two:

Hatter: Is Alice here yet?

Strange: No, I'm afraid not. Let us talk while we wait. You and I have much in common, Jervis.

Hatter: Really? Do you know Alice too?

Strange: Unfortunately not. You and I share an interest in the mind, do we not? I studied your papers, Jervis. You were quite brilliant. Truly, an extraordinary mind.

Hatter: Oh, it doesn't matter. It's all just chemicals, and synapses and rabbits and --- oh, where is Alice?

Strange: You need to focus. Think about your work for a minute. You theorized that there is no such thing as free will. That you can change a man's allegiances, his motives, emotions, all what we believe makes a man, with chemicals. Your formula was really quite brilliant. That's why I used it.

Hatter: ... How did you get it? Did Alice give it to you? Wicked girl! Nasty little thing! Is she here yet?

Strange: Soon, Jervis. Soon.


Tape Three: 

Hatter: Where is she? Oh, you told me that Alice would be here.

Strange: She is, Jervis. She's right here.

Hatter: Alice? Alice come out. Don't pout. Don't make me shout. Alice come out. Where are you?

Strange: Take a look at the pictures, Jervis.

Hatter: Who are these people?

Strange: Look again.

Hatter: I don't know who they are! Oh, please, is Alice here or not?

Strange: Look at the first picture. Look at the dress she's wearing. Look at the hair. It's Alice, isn't it?

Hatter: No, no, no, it can't be Alice. Alice has nice yellow hair and...(starts crying) and isn't covered in blood.

Strange: I think you know exactly who this is, Mr Tetch. I think you remember the night you lured Stephanie Williams back to your research lab. How you offered her tea. What happened to her then?

Hatter: No, no. No!

Strange: You killed her, didn't you? She was the first. It's okay, Jervis. It's alright to remember. How many Alices were there?

Hatter: I can't remember.


Tape Four:

Hatter: Alice isn't coming, is she?

Strange: That all depends on how you cooperate. I have a little...side project that I am working on. I could use your help.

Hatter: My help? I can't help; I'll be late!

Strange: Stay focused, Jervis. This facility is old, tired. Full of ghosts.

Hatter: --- Ghosts?

Strange: A figure of speech. Do not worry. Arkham Asylum will not exist forever. Its techniques are old, its mission outdated. I intend to create a new Arkham, an Arkham that will rise phoenix-like from the ashes of this one.

Hatter: Is there a fire? We should get out of here!

Strange: I have arranged for some documents to be left in your cell. They outline a technique I propose to control the mind of, shall we just say, weaker souls.

Hatter: I cannot do it without rabbits. I need rabbits for my research. And tea. And-

Strange: And Alice. I know. I have arranged for a number of test subjects to be at your disposal. They have been here at Arkham for so many years that no one will miss them. Shall we meet again next week? Oh, and I've taken the liberty of having your hats returned. I assume that will provide all the encouragement you require.

Tape Five: 

Strange: Well done, well done. I must say, you have outperformed even my wildest expectations.

Hatter: Yes. Did you see the people at my tea party? They all behaved themselves.

Strange: Yes they did, Jervis. I am very pleased. I have one request to make of you. You must keep it a secret. Can you keep a secret, Jervis?

Hatter: With enough hats, I can stop people from remembering secrets. Does that count?

Strange: It will have to. I need you to pay a visit to Warden Sharp. He needs to come around to my way of thinking.

Hatter: To join our tea party?

Strange: Exactly.

Hatter:  I don't want to.

Strange: Of course you do. How else would you get to play with Alice?

Hatter: Wh-wh-what?

Strange: I have a new assistant for you, Jervis. I had her brought in specially. Look at her. She's just through there.

Hatter: It's Alice. She's here! No, no, what are you doing? I need to see her!

Strange: And you can, as soon as you do what I asked.

Hatter: Can I keep her?

Strange: Of course. She'll be all yours. She's Alice.

Professor Hugo Strange Audio Tape #1 - Batman: Arkham City (2011)

As a means of trying to psychologically break Bruce Wayne, Hugo Strange had operatives leave flowers and the tape at the scene of his parent's death in the back alley behind the Monarch Theatre.


"How does it feel Wayne? To stand on the very stones that ran with your parents' blood. Do you feel sad? Full of rage? Or does that outfit help bury your feelings. Hiding your true self.

Oh, you are a truly extraordinary specimen. I look forward to breaking you."

Deathstroke's Ending - Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013)

With Superman's Regime toppled, new governments formed to take its place. New governments meant new customers for Deathstroke, and business was booming. Soon, there were more assassinations to carry out, revolutions to aid, and unrest to create than he could manage on his own.

The One Earth Regime's Elite Troopers having committed atrocities in Superman's name had gone into hiding from a populus bent on revenge. Impossible for most to find, but not for Deathstroke. Recruiting these renegades, he formed the new Titans, the world's premier political assassins.

Doomsday's Ending - Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013)

Free of Superman's control, Doomsday eradicated the remaining meta-humans.

He then manipulated technology in the abandoned Fortress of Solitude to terraform the Earth. It soon resembled prehistoric Krypton. At last, it felt like home.

After a few years of exterminating humanity at his leisure, however, Doomsday needed a challenge. Having assimilated Superman's ability to fly, he headed for a nearby space sector.

He had heard rumours of an opponent worthy of his attention: a Czarnian mercenary with a taste for violence. Doomsday was eager to meet this "Lobo" in battle.