Batman: Arkham Asylum - 10 Coolest Easter Eggs, Secrets And References Explained

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00:00:03.560walk studies Batman Arkham Asylum turned

00:00:06.75010 years old last year but that hasn't

00:00:09.389taken anything off its shine the first

00:00:12.300entry in these Studios Arkham trilogy is

00:00:14.880considered worn the finest and most

00:00:16.350influential games of the last console

00:00:18.660generation blending together action

00:00:21.000stealth and gorgeous visuals to create

00:00:23.580the definitive Batman experience in

00:00:25.380video games undoubtedly one of rock's of

00:00:27.779these best skills is environmental

00:00:29.789storytelling do you saw of Easter eggs

00:00:31.830riddles and other references in Arkham

00:00:33.989Asylum fleshed out the world in great

00:00:35.880detail if help lived in it felt like an

00:00:39.300our converse but which Easter eggs were

00:00:42.059the best there are some seriously cool

00:00:44.520secrets in a solemn that Arkham fans

00:00:46.350will be aware of but some that they may

00:00:48.360have missed too so yes that's why folks

00:00:50.640are new from our culture gaming this is

00:00:52.530another Batman video and here are the 10

00:00:54.750coolest Easter eggs secrets and

00:00:56.550references from Arkham Asylum explained

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00:01:00.270Thomas Elliot working the Arkham night

00:01:02.460shift long before he was revealed as the

00:01:04.890identity thief in Arkham City and even

00:01:07.229longer before he enacted his admittedly

00:01:09.590anticlimactic scheme in Arkham Knight

00:01:11.610dr. Thomas Tommy Elliott better known as

00:01:14.640Hersh to the heroes and villains of

00:01:16.350Gotham was busy working in Arkham Asylum

00:01:18.689this particular Easter egg doubles as a

00:01:21.150riddle which can be found as Batman

00:01:22.890rescues dr. shed in the asylums medical

00:01:25.320facility Elliott's schedule has him

00:01:27.390working long into the early hours of the

00:01:29.430morning although one can imagine that

00:01:31.350wasn't all that he was doing Elliott's

00:01:33.750are Converse origin was flashed out

00:01:35.520further in Arkham City and Knight and he

00:01:37.650can even be seen in the church clutching

00:01:39.659a medical box in Arkham City presumably

00:01:41.909containing all the faces of his victims

00:01:44.040that he used to piece together his own

00:01:45.780version of Bruce's face Oh Doe number 9

00:01:49.229the injustice gang strikes again one of

00:01:52.049the best locations for Easter eggs in

00:01:54.000Arkham Asylum is Harley Quinn's old

00:01:55.860office of course Quinn herself had once

00:01:58.619been a psychologist and the facility

00:02:00.509before she felt the Joker and her

00:02:02.700infatuation with the Clown Prince is

00:02:04.649clear for all to see

00:02:05.850once you enter also cool to note is that

00:02:08.220the various tapes relating to Harley in

00:02:10.229Asylum service and need a nap tation

00:02:12.330pauldini and bruce tim's model of comic

00:02:14.850which told the character's origin the

00:02:16.830comic was adapted into an episode of the

00:02:18.990new Batman benches which means Arleen

00:02:21.150Sorkin the voice behind Harley Quinn

00:02:23.070does technically starred in two

00:02:24.810adaptations of that particular story for

00:02:27.750all that the Harley room offers loads of

00:02:29.970cool insight into our origins including

00:02:32.220her famous jester hat there's another

00:02:34.410secret in the room that instantly made

00:02:36.270the our converse feels so much bigger

00:02:38.130than it initially seemed take a look at

00:02:40.440the various newspaper printouts that

00:02:42.150adorn Quinn's wall and you can spot a

00:02:44.340couple of references to the injustice

00:02:46.140gang the second most famous DC

00:02:48.270supervillain team in the comics the

00:02:50.310first being the Legion of Doom duh

00:02:52.260number 8 Rachele ghouls wandering corpse

00:02:55.830Rachele ghoul is the principal

00:02:57.959antagonist of Batman Arkham City and it

00:03:00.570even has a key part to play in arkham

00:03:02.670knight season of infamy dlc factor in

00:03:05.250the League of Assassins his presence in

00:03:06.900Arkham origins and his little easter egg

00:03:08.670in Arkham Asylum and you could actually

00:03:10.860describe the undying ecological

00:03:12.690terrorists as a series staple phones

00:03:15.060first of all the cross race in this

00:03:16.860series while on their way to dr. Young's

00:03:19.019office in Arkham Asylum before they turn

00:03:21.600the corner there's a sort of mini morgue

00:03:23.340along the wall water bodies poking out

00:03:25.560has a toe tag with rageous name on it

00:03:27.720sure than that the head of the demon was

00:03:29.370now the head of the deceased in it made

00:03:32.820sense in my head there's actually a

00:03:34.470whole backstory to this with a bigger

00:03:36.120confirm that bats personally escorted

00:03:38.010braziers body to walk him before the

00:03:39.750ends of the game however should the

00:03:41.610player leave the scene and come back

00:03:43.110later rom they'll find al Ghul's body

00:03:45.180missing pay even the way there his

00:03:46.709return in Arkham City two years later

00:03:48.860number seven the ventriloquist and

00:03:51.540Scarface it's always been something of a

00:03:54.000wish of mine to see the ventriloquist in

00:03:55.830the Arkham series it was one of the most

00:03:57.959sympathetic villains in Batman the

00:03:59.610Animated Series but he didn't make the

00:04:01.110curve for the games only being

00:04:02.580referenced by name in Arkham City and

00:04:04.350Arkham Knight at which point he had been

00:04:06.330replaced by Payton Reilly

00:04:07.950however while Arnold Wesker himself

00:04:10.200wasn't able to have a physical

00:04:11.730appearance in the Arkham series his

00:04:13.530other half the mastermind gangster

00:04:15.690puppet known as Scarface certainly did

00:04:17.910he could be seen in warden sharps office

00:04:19.919in the game before being nabbed by Joker

00:04:22.080for the climax

00:04:23.160is also a key figure in one of the many

00:04:25.380scarecrow nightmare segments where he's

00:04:27.690the new warden of the asylum and it's

00:04:29.520being voiced by mark hamil still though

00:04:31.560Jukka grabbing a scar face before he

00:04:33.660chooses himself up with sienten is more

00:04:35.700than just a throwaway reference the game

00:04:37.860is actually explained that the Harlequin

00:04:39.570of hate it's somewhat obsessed with the

00:04:41.850puppet this looks even going out there

00:04:43.950way to procure multiple versions of the

00:04:45.630doll in Arkham City number six

00:04:48.120wait was Jason Todd in the game all

00:04:50.580along irrespective of whether or not

00:04:52.860this plot twist in Arkham Knight kind of

00:04:55.080sort of makes no sense and especially

00:04:57.780know if you believe what the tie-in

00:04:59.100comics tell you it was a pretty cool

00:05:01.440revelation to discover that Joker had

00:05:03.090faked Jason Todd's death and had been

00:05:05.160keeping him hostage in a walled-off

00:05:06.540heart the asylum for years

00:05:08.550Joker's torture of Todd in the arkham

00:05:10.680games borrows from both death in the

00:05:12.630family and the batman beyond return the

00:05:14.820Joker animated film and even though

00:05:17.040asylums writer Paul Dini wasn't involved

00:05:19.380in the story for Arkham Knight if you go

00:05:21.570back to Arkham Asylum with the twist in

00:05:23.340mind it almost seems like rock city were

00:05:25.260planning it all along

00:05:26.370almost first off Joker does Ashley

00:05:29.400reference Robin in Arkham Asylum saying

00:05:31.590what's it like in your organization do

00:05:33.900you punish your hide help when they fail

00:05:35.610or is that saucy out that you make him

00:05:37.830where punishment enough the fact that

00:05:39.900Joker hid the Boy Wonder

00:05:41.460in the asylums also led fans to

00:05:43.169investigate whether or not they confined

00:05:44.970where he might be hiding was some

00:05:46.860speculation that he was held somewhere

00:05:48.660near dr. Young's office around where

00:05:50.880Amadeus Arkham was once confined or even

00:05:53.700in a different cell with fans having

00:05:55.620noticed Rawlings that seemingly to pick

00:05:57.419Joker's masterminding the creation of

00:05:59.070the Red Hood whether that's or Joker's

00:06:01.590origin as Red Hood it's kind of hard to

00:06:04.200tell there are some compelling theories

00:06:06.150out there that's hi Joker's activity in

00:06:08.250asylum with him trying to hide Jason but

00:06:10.680nothing concrete for now of course with

00:06:13.200Roxton II being so good at hiding

00:06:15.090secrets maybe there's a way to find the

00:06:17.130second Robin and we just don't know it

00:06:18.960number five the cells of Batman's rogues

00:06:21.810gallery with Arkham Asylum housing the

00:06:24.390most famous members of Batman's rogues

00:06:26.520gallery it would have been more than a

00:06:28.230little awkward if the game didn't

00:06:29.669feature some of their cells

00:06:30.990fortunately Rocksteady included a

00:06:32.850truckload of different cells in the game

00:06:35.190Maxie Zeus is self

00:06:36.540be seen in the intensive treatment area

00:06:38.340complete with all sorts of Greek symbols

00:06:40.320two faces meanwhile could be found in

00:06:42.870the penitentiary complete with all sorts

00:06:44.910of election material back when Harvey

00:06:46.650Dent was Gotham's District Attorney

00:06:48.390other cells in the game include calendar

00:06:50.730man's which is filled to bursting point

00:06:52.380with dates and calendars and abandoned

00:06:54.420cell once occupied by Killer Croc and

00:06:56.610even a secret lair used by scarecrow

00:06:59.070which can't be found in the elevator

00:07:00.510room after Holly drops the elevator on

00:07:02.580Batman number four is George Clooney in

00:07:05.460this people might balk at this but

00:07:07.740genuinely George Clooney should have

00:07:09.660been an amazing Batman he'd knock it out

00:07:12.210the Parkers Bruce Wayne any day of the

00:07:14.070week it's just a shame that you know the

00:07:16.620one Batman film he had involved nipple

00:07:19.170armor and a rampaging Arnie is cold

00:07:21.570quiet mr. freeze for them my point still

00:07:24.360stands but whatever I digress because

00:07:26.610even while audiences continue to

00:07:28.230remonstrate on the failings of Clooney's

00:07:29.940Dark Knight rock city might be champs

00:07:32.160they are chose to reference the actor in

00:07:34.350Arkham Asylum after rescuing aaron cash

00:07:36.840and another doctor from being trapped by

00:07:38.520Joker gas a message will display on a

00:07:40.560nearby notice board that reads dr.

00:07:42.300Clooney the gynaecology this

00:07:44.040acknowledges Clooney's performance as

00:07:45.870the eponymous character in 1997's Batman

00:07:48.780and Robin but also his breakout role in

00:07:50.970ER where he played dr. dubrow's for five

00:07:53.520years number three Jason would ruse

00:07:56.460involvement in Poison Ivy's origin

00:07:58.830poison ivy plays a big big role in

00:08:01.530Arkham Asylum with the plants having

00:08:03.210been used to develop dr. Young's Titan

00:08:05.220formula and she nearly goes up against

00:08:07.050the Joker - she unintentionally benefits

00:08:09.510from Joker and affecting her plants with

00:08:11.250the new formula at one point which leads

00:08:13.320her to almost decimate the entire island

00:08:15.570but though rocks would never really take

00:08:18.150the time to delve into Ivy's backstory

00:08:20.220at least not in the main game she's one

00:08:22.800of Batman's most famous rogues after all

00:08:24.750and the only thing fans really need to

00:08:26.460know is that a she's pretty much half

00:08:28.560plant half woman and B she's an

00:08:31.020eco-terrorist with a pathological love

00:08:33.000for nature that said I these origins are

00:08:35.940interesting and they involve another DC

00:08:38.520villain he belongs to a whole other

00:08:40.140corner of the DC universe jason woodrue

00:08:42.750aka the floor onic man weirdly woodrose

00:08:45.810involvement with Ivy's origin is

00:08:47.550actually a product of 19

00:08:49.16097's Batman and Robin and it was brought

00:08:51.139into the comics after 2006 is Infinite

00:08:53.899Crisis the same origin is used in the

00:08:56.449our converse but I as we were revealing

00:08:58.160in an audio tape how Jason had

00:08:59.839transformed her into the being she is

00:09:01.759today with woodrue confound to exist in

00:09:04.129the are converse one could reasonably

00:09:05.810expects one thing to be around to now

00:09:08.360he'd made for a great game number two

00:09:11.300scarecrows two most famous portrayals

00:09:13.939scarecrow was one of Batman's most

00:09:16.040infamous and fierce and villains and

00:09:17.990nowhere is he more creepy than in the

00:09:19.910Arkham games portrayed by Dino Andrade

00:09:22.579in Arkham Asylum rocks they decide to

00:09:24.500give their version of Jonathan crane a

00:09:26.209makeover fit for a horror film

00:09:27.949that's withing the good doctor but

00:09:29.480Freddy Krueger like syringe fingers and

00:09:31.579Olsen inbuilt gas mask to go underneath

00:09:33.889his already terrifying scarecrow mask

00:09:36.019it's an unsettling image and and rabid

00:09:38.569is the role real justice the brief

00:09:40.189amount of time he's in the game of

00:09:41.930course he wasn't the first to play

00:09:43.579scarecrow outside of the comics and Rox

00:09:45.470Utley acknowledged that in are two

00:09:46.610asylum by paying reference to two other

00:09:48.529actors who did Jeffrey Combs and Killian

00:09:50.899Murphy Combs played scarecrow in the new

00:09:53.480Batman adventures while Murphy himself

00:09:55.639was the first to portray the character

00:09:57.350in live-action starting with 2005 s

00:10:00.139Batman Begins

00:10:01.250well technically at least along as we

00:10:03.589ignore Coolio's cameo as the character

00:10:05.689in Batman and Robin which well anyway

00:10:09.470both combs and Murphy are referenced and

00:10:11.600want a scarecrows interview tapes both

00:10:13.759actors are now doctors and both are now

00:10:16.550also unfortunately victims other

00:10:18.410villains experiments with fear

00:10:19.819ouch and number one what else

00:10:23.269the wardens secret room the mother of

00:10:25.970all Arkham Easter eggs the one that

00:10:27.800rocks early themselves had servile to

00:10:29.720the public seriously how could any

00:10:31.819Easter Egg rank any higher at the 2009

00:10:34.699BGA's one of others surprised everyone

00:10:36.920by showcasing a CGI trailer for her then

00:10:39.319untitled sequel to Arkham Asylum the

00:10:41.959Arkham City title wasn't to be revealed

00:10:44.180for another year but if fans had been a

00:10:46.339little more diligent and applying

00:10:47.660explosive gel to you know every single

00:10:50.059part of the asylum environments they

00:10:51.680would have discovered what the sequel

00:10:52.850was all about before any major

00:10:54.529announcements after waiting around a

00:10:57.199year Rox Lee finally took pity on the

00:10:59.300public and they were revealed that

00:11:00.589they've hidden a secret room in warden's

00:11:02.410office applying three doses of explosive

00:11:05.200gel to an unassuming wall and detonating

00:11:07.450it opens up sharp secret room but

00:11:09.730players can see blueprints of what would

00:11:11.320eventually become Arkham City this

00:11:13.240studio would try the trick again in

00:11:14.890Arkham City but the wardens room went

00:11:16.720undetected for a whole year that's some

00:11:19.240next-level Easter ragging and the salad

00:11:20.980reminded that when it comes to secrets

00:11:22.750and references rocks today are the

00:11:24.460undisputed kings and yeah that was our

00:11:27.340look back on the coolest Easter eggs and

00:11:29.320secrets in Batman Arkham Asylum want us

00:11:31.810to do what could be on the best eggs in

00:11:33.190Arkham City it was so sure to hit that

00:11:35.200like button as hard as Batman hits his

00:11:37.120enemies and to also subscribe if you

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00:11:46.810things that's all for now though I hope

00:11:48.970you're all doing well wherever you are

00:11:50.110and I'll see you next time bye

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