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that bruce's corpse is one of darkseid's failed batman clones. dick and batman's other friends conclude that bruce is alive. bruce subsequently returns in morrison's miniseries batman : the return of bruce wayne, which depicts his travels through time from prehistory to present @ - @ day gotham. bruce's return sets up batman incorporated, an ongoing series which focuses on wayne franchising the batman identity across the globe, allowing dick and damian to continue as gotham's dynamic duo. bruce publicly announces that wayne enterprises will aid batman on his mission, known as " batman, incorporated ". due to reboot
| 699 |
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| 699 |
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| 699 |
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| 699 |
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| 699 |
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| 699 |
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| 699 |
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stickley, nygma resigns and seeks retaliation against bruce for rejecting his invention and begins to send him riddles. a news report reveals how harvey dent became two @ - @ face : when he was prosecuting a mob boss named sal maroni, maroni threw acid on dent's face, disfiguring half of it. batman tried to save him, but failed. after the incident, dent seeks to kill batman for failing to save him. bruce meets chase meridian, a psychiatrist who is obsessed with batman, and invites her to come with him to a circus event. after a performance from the circus performers, the
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| 699 |
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| 699 |
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| 699 |
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and critical acclaim, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest batman stories of all time, and one of the best works of grant morrison's career. the graphic novel would later become the definitive story of arkham asylum, a critical part of the batman mythos. the critically acclaimed video game batman : arkham asylum, the first game in the batman : arkham series, was based on the graphic novel. = = conception and influences = = the graphic novel was writer grant morrison's first work on batman, making it the earliest installment in the morrison's batman saga. morrison would later note in the annota
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| 699 |
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2d model. combat was designed to be unique for batman, and was given a simple control scheme to reflect the ease with which batman can perform the moves. arkham asylum was built on epic games'unreal engine 3. eidos president ian livingstone said one developer spent two years programming batman's cape, using over 700 animations and sound effects to make it move realistically. the developers intended to use other batman characters in the game, but these were removed when it was decided they would not work within the story. for example, batman's enemy mr. freeze did not fit because the character has different motivations to the
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