User blog:RoninTheMasterless/Masterless (Arkham) Knight (There will be SPOILERS)

As the title warns, there will be spoilers here. This is going to tease my Masterless rewrite of Arkham Knight, but first, and editorial of why such a rewrite is taking place.

Why Rewrite?
First and foremost, because I love Batman, simple as that, but there's more. I have many problems with the story of Arkham Knight, both in plot devices, and even basic structure at some points. This is where the spoilers come in. The first and foremost plot device I hated was thew identity of the Arkham Knight, which is Jason Todd. Evidently Rocksteady and Geoff Johns are unaware of what "Original" means. I remember talking on chat before about my guess, which was Lonnie Machin (which in my opinion the game hints at gracefully, without a payoff), and I thought it sufficed as "original" since Lonnie has never been anything other than Anarky, and a minor villain. With Jason, Rocksteady's writers basically played the Under the Red Hood arc all over again, but with a different name, and some Battle for the Cowl undertones, which, while not bad, was disappointing. Another critical problem for me, was the death of Oracle (which I've heard is undone by the end somehow, but I've yet to beat the game, so I don't know for certain). She is kidnapped and killed by Arkham Knight and Scarecrow, they use Crane's new Fear Toxin to make her so afraid of Batman she shoots herself in the head. They had a strong character like Barbara Gordon, who overcame being crippled by the Joker, and tortured further into being unable of overcoming a Fear Toxing that even a random cop could sort of overcome. Another minor problem for me is Batman's insanity and full on asshole tendencies: he is hallucinating the Joker every few minutes, and hides Barbara's death from Tim (who's dating her, rather than the traditional Dick / Babs, for some reason, which is another problem for me personally), and somehow cannot express any emotion whatsoever to anyone at all.

Other Villains
TO BE ADDED