Possibilites of Arkham 3

Whether or not the next Rocksteady Batman game is a true Arkham City sequel or a rumoured silver age prequel, we have yet to know. But there are many hints from Arkham City that suggest a lot of ideas. Here you go. Oh, and BTW:

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1.) Harley's Pregnancy? At the end of Arkham City, you can go around and discover at positive pregnancy test left next to Harley's old outfit. Not prizes for guessing who the father is. At the end of New Game Plus in the credits, you can hear her singing "Hush Little Baby" But during Harley Quinn's Revenge, you find the Scarface doll dressed as the Joker with tonnes of negative pregnancy tests surrounding it. What's going on here?

2.) Hush. After completing his side quests, you discover Hush was surgically removing the faces of inmates of Arkham City and grafting them onto his own. He looks exactly like Bruce Wayne now. He managed to elude the Dark Knight and become one of the few people to escape Arkham City's walls before the game's conclusion. 

3.) Azrael. The Watcher in the Wings was following Batman since the beginning. At the start of the game when Bruce and Jack Ryder are entering Arkham City, he is watching from the rooftops. After leaving a map for Batman across the city, he finally speaks to him and says there is fire coming and that he may lose much, saying that he may be the one the prophecy spoke of. Okey-doke...

4.) Ra's Al Ghul. Dead? Again? Maybe not. After being impaled with his own sword on a fence at the end of the game, you can no longer find his body, just his sword. Talia's body also goes missing...

5.) Prometheus. Man, just saying that name sounds cool. If you're not up to speed, Prometheus is essentially Batman's opposite. His parents were criminals gunned down by Lawmen and he swore revenge, so training himself in the art of killing, he goes to hell on the police. There are newspaper clippings with references to him all over Arkham City. He may not be a part of the next game, but he sure as hell might be...

6.) Cadmus. This may be the least tangible, but throughout Harley Quinn's revenge, you'll find numerous references to Cadmus, the group responsible for creating Superboy. Joker cloned? Seems unlikely, but you never know.

7.) Scarecrow. The most referenced villain not appearing in the game. You can find his mask as part of a riddle, and also numerous canisters of fear gas throughout the game in Hush's lair as well as the Riddler's and numerous others. During Protocol ten, you can find Henchmen lying dead wearing the Scarecrow masks. This may be a reference, but some theorise it's just a graphical glitch...right? In Arkham City, there are three radio signals not shown on the cryptographic sequencer. These spell out numbers, each of which can be decoded using real world codes. These three spell out "I WILL RETURN BATMAN" "YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME" and the last one can only be decrypted with the keyword Scarecrow "FEAR WILL TEAR GOTHAM TO SHREADS" The final reference to the fear doctor can be found in a boat on the water which can be opened using the code "City of Terror" Inside the boat, you'll find insects and canisters of fear gas as well as an inmate who sitting on a chair. When you get close, he yells out in fear and dies. The notes on that wall are invoices from a Mr Carmine Falcone to Dr Jonathan Crane. Creepy. Scarecrow may very well be the focus of the next game with this much emphasis put on him.

8.) Other places. Keystone, Metropolis and Bludhaven are all mentioned throughout the game.

With these elements in place, the next Arkham game sure has a lot going for it.