u/mwcope

I'm replaying the game right now, and noticed something that I thought was interesting. To be clear, in this post, I'm talking about the second half of the mission where you go into his Metropolis Batcave, shooting at him as a giant demon.

I've always wondered what was really going on during that fight. In the context of the game, Harley cooks up a dose of fear toxin that Batman isn't immune to, and the whole squad trip balls in a nightmare where Batman is a giant, fiery demon. At the end of it, Bruce is covered in bullet holes in the middle of the Batcave. What happened in reality?

Looking at his attacks in the fight, I think I figured it out. It clicked when he did the move where he swept his arm across the field, sending a wave of fire: that movement he does with his arm is the one he does when you do a cape stun in the Arkham games.

I think his attacks are all symbols for his moves and tactics during the freeflow combat sections of his games. The only one I can't figure out is the one where a beam of fire comes from his eyes and lights the ground under you. But all the others map pretty well: he's throwing a quickfire batarang when those spinning voids come from his hands, the bit where the "heat vision" plants mines that grow then explode are quickfire explosive gel, and the previously mentioned cape stun.

The only problem is, he's standing in front of four people with guns. You ever get spotted during a stealth segment in the Arkham games and start fumbling, attacking the enemy hoping to knock them down? That's what's happening, except poor Bruce has no idea because he's hallucinating.

This actually makes me more okay with how this fight turns out. In the games, I already die more often in combat than stealth. Plus, the Suicide Squad are all armed, which never goes well with freeflow, especially multiple armed hostiles. And they're all characters that would be boss fights in his games.

TL;DR: Batman brought freeflow to a predator fight, and what we see him do is symbolic of that.

I've been hearing noises in my attic, so I got my tall brother to look up there. Could someone add Ben Affleck's Batman, or some other spooky thing barely visible in the darkness?