20 Facts About Arkham Asylum

Arkham Asylum has a poor security record and high recidivism rate, at least with regard to the high-profile cases—patients, such as the Joker, are frequently shown escaping at will—and those who are considered to no longer be mentally unwell and discharged tend to re-offend.

Arkham Asylum was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the same asylum he had been building.

Shortly afterward, Amadeus Arkham Asylum returned to his home to find his front door wide open.

Arkham Asylum has been demolished or destroyed several times in its history, notably during the events of Batman: The Last Arkham.

Arkham Asylum reveals that he has discovered blueprints created by his uncle, Dr Amadeus Arkham, for a new Arkham Asylum.

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Arkham Asylum contemplates the fates of his own nonviolent "special" patients: an artist with almost no facial features who must paint facial expressions onto his almost blank face to express himself; a man obsessed with his own reflection in a series of mirrors in his room; and a woman supposedly so ugly, one glance at her face would cause anyone to become mentally ill.

Originally, Arkham Asylum was used only to house genuinely mentally ill patients having no connection to Batman, but over the course of the 1980s, a trend was established in having the majority of Batman's adversaries end up at Arkham.

Arkham Asylum is featured in other DC Comics publications, apart from the Batman comic book titles.

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and painted by Dave McKean.

Batman: The Last Arkham Asylum was written by Alan Grant; pencils by Norm Breyfogle, originally a four-issue storyline that kicked off the Batman: Shadow of the Bat series.

An episode of Batman: The Animated Series titled "Dreams in Darkness", about Batman in Arkham Asylum, portrays a similar theme, with the Scarecrow as the chief villain, replacing Jeremiah Arkham Asylum with a more nondescript administrator, Dr Bartholemew who is portrayed as naive rather than sinister.

Arkham Asylum: Living Hell was written by Dan Slott, penciled by Ryan Sook with inks by Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Royal.

Arkham Asylum soon realizes the horrors of the place and tries to survive.

Arkham Asylum was originally referred to as 'Fish' as new inmates commonly are, but is re-dubbed 'The Great White Shark' by himself.

Arkham Asylum is viewed as a desperate place where patients dwell in terror, much in the same fashion as in A Serious House on Serious Earth, which was illustrated by McKean.

Arkham Asylum Reborn is a three-part miniseries written by David Hine and illustrated by Jeremy Haun.

In JLA: The Nail, the Joker-using Kryptonian gauntlets provided by a genetically augmented Jimmy Olsen-breaks into the Arkham Asylum, erecting a forcefield around it that prevents anyone but Batman, Robin and Batgirl from entering, while forcing the rest of the patients to fight each other for a chance to live as his slave when only one is left standing.

In Batman Begins, Arkham plays a much larger role than the previous films, with Jonathan Crane being either the administrator or a high-ranking doctor at the asylum and using it to conduct sadistic experiments with his fear gas, with his own patients as guinea pigs.

Arkham Asylum uses the pipes under the asylum to empty his toxin into the Gotham water supply.

Arkham Asylum, renamed Arkham State Hospital, appears in Joker where Arthur Fleck steals a document about his mother, revealing a history of mental instabilities.