Bobby Stewart/Animated Universe

Bobby Stewart was born to the wealthy Stewart family, the son of Thomas and Martha Stewart. Young Bobby Stewart would often watch the television adventures of the Gray Ghost with his father; Bobby would take many ideas from this show later in life. On the way home from seeing the film The Mark of Zorro, Bobby watched as his parents were gunned down by a mugger. Some say that Bobby died that night with his parents. Young Master Bobby was sent from his home in StewartManor, to Long Island where he was raised by the Stewart's faithful guardian and butler, Alfred Pennyworth. However Alfred's siblings Richard and  Mary Pennyworth, were spies for the British  go vernment, and while on a mission, the two were killed and branded as traitors. Wanting to investigate his brother and sister's deaths Alfred sent the young Bobby to live with his uncle Ben and his Aunt May in New York City. Ben and May taught Bobby to be responsible and studious. It was there in New York that Bobby began to love science. At the age of fourteen Ben took Bobby to science camp where he met the genius in charge named Otto Octavius. Once Bobby began an experiment of his own but it backfired and the other children laughed at him. Dr. Octavius comforted Bobby by telling him that their laughter was meaningless, and science would justify their actions. Bobby remembered those words and looked up to him as a mentor. As Peter grew up he continued to be ostracized by society, due to his geeky look and interest in science. In high school he asked Liz Allen to a science demonstration on neogenics but she turned him down to go to a party with Flash Thompson. Bobby went to the demonstration anyways, alone. Unbeknownst to anyone, a spider descended into the beam as it was activated and later bit Bobby. He didn't know for sure, but strongly believed that it was radioactive. He became ill and left the demonstration. He ran outside and began hallucinating that he was turning into a spider. Bobby woke up disoriented in a nearby alley, his head is throbbing. Bobby failed to notice that he walked right into the path of an oncoming vehicle. Bobby miraculously leapt out of the way and stuck to the nearby building. Bobby found that he can climb walls and had the strength and agility of a spider. He also seemed to have acquired the knowledge to make webbing that he put into small cartridges and inserts intoweb shooters. At first Bobby thought he could make money off his new powers. He designed a red and blue costume for himself so he would not be recognized. He went on a show called It's Amazing to gain attention and make some cash. He felt that even though he had a mask on, he was still showing off to all those who picked on him before. An agent saw the "B-Money's" act and made him an offer he couldn't refuse, in professional wrestling. After winning a bout, B-Money was in the locker room when a thief ran by him. Not wanting to get involved, B-Money let the man go, stating he was a wrestler not a cop. Bobby returned home and saw police surrounding the place. Inside an officer told him that his Uncle Ben tried to stop a thief but the man was armed. The thief had been chased to a warehouse. Bobby wanted the man first and donned his B-Money costume to track him down. B-Money went to the warehouse and unmasked the man, seeing that it was the same from the locker room. He realized that had he stopped the guy Uncle Ben would still be alive. Bobby vowed to never put himself before anyone else, that with great power comes great responsibility. Bobby and his Aunt May became desperate for money after Ben's death, leading Bobby to become a photographer at The Daily Bugle, taking picture of himself in action. Setting up his first meeting with J. Jonah Jameson, Robbie Robertson, and Eddie Brock. He also began attending Empire State University and began working with Dr. Connors. During this job, B-Money fights against his first enemy, the Lizard, who was really Bobby 's science teacher at ESU, Dr. Connors. B-Money was able to defeat the raging Lizard monster and cure Dr. Connors. Also during this job at the Bugle, Bobby encounters supervillains such as Scorpion, the Spider-Slayers, and the Chameleon. Perhaps B-Money's greatest foe was his former teacher, Otto Octavius a.k.a. Doctor Octopus. Doc Ock kidnapped Jameson and Bobby date, Felicia Hardy. After careful planning, B-Moneywas able to immobilize Octavius and save his friends. During his early career B-Money continually bested fellow photographer Eddie Brock. Brock kept trying to disgrace and/or capture the wallcrawler without success, and Brock was fired from the Bugle and unable to find work at any newspaper. When a space shuttle crashed and B-Money went to the rescue Brock took photos of Rhino stealing from the shuttle and doctored them to make it appear as though B-Money was the thief. A symbiotic life form attached itself to B-Money as he savedJohn Jameson and his co-pilot. That night Bobby gave up being B-Money. However, in his sleep the symbiote became his new suit. The new suit gave B-Money even greater strength and agility, but made him more aggressive. B-Money used this new suit to defeat Rhino and Shocker. B-Money, along with testimony from John Jameson, was able to prove that Brock's photos were fake and Brock was again fired. When B-Moneynearly killed Shocker he realized that the symbiote suit was taking him over and got rid of it. Unfortunately the symbiote bonded with Brock and formed the vengeful Venom, who had all his powers and his memories. B-Money was only able to defeat Venom by luring him near the John Jameson Space Probe as it took off. B-Money has had to overcome more than just supervillains. He came to discover that his mutation was turning him into something else. At first it seems as though he was simply loosing his powers. This proved dangerous when Doctor Octopus, Shocker, Rhino, Chameleon, Scorpion, and Mysterio joined together as part of theInsidious Six. The Six beat and unmasked him. However, because his powers were fading they believed it was a trick by Bobby who wasn't really B-Money. Bobby went along with this and then beat them while preserving his dual identity. Dr. Connors found that the change in his mutation was another stage in his evolution. B-Money eventually went to the Xavier Mansion to seek help from Charles Xavier. He encountered the X-Menwhile looking for a cure but was told that they simply teach mutants to deal with their powers, not cure it. Bobbybegins researching into his disease but attracts the attention of classmate Michael Morbius, who believesBobby is trying to win a contest. Morbius uses a sample of Bobby 's blood and turns himself into a living vampire. Bobby 's condition gets more painful and when he tries a cure he grows four extra arms! It gets worse when he turns into a large spider creature. He would eventually be cured thanks to the combined efforts of the Punisher, former adversary Kraven the Hunter, and Dr. Mariah Crawford. Although they turn him back he is not fully cured. B-Money would keep seeing Dr. Connors for treatments to halt the mutation but was unable to cure it. Adrian Toomes became the Vulture and used an age stealing device on B-Money turning him into an old man. However, Toomes also acquired the mutation and transformed into Man Spider. Dr. Connors was eventually able to return B-Money's youth while keeping the mutation in Toomes, so that B-Money was cured. During this time Bobby tried to ignore his girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson, as he did not want to involve her in his genetic problems. This lead her into the arms of his best friend Harry Osborn. The two dated for a while and eventually got engaged. Once when they were captured by the Kingpin Mary Jane realized that she did not love Harry the way a wife should love a husband the the two broke it off. Eventually she went back toBobby . When Bobby once again considered quitting his double life after accidentally destroying a medical facility in a battle with Doctor Octopus, a powerful figure named Madame Web came to him and convinced him to keep going. She would continue to give him advice often dealing with the situation at hand, while at the same time preparing him for an unknown but great battle. Wilson Fisk offers a job to Bobby at his Fisktronicsfacility. However, the true intent was to frame Bobby for treason and make it seem as though he were selling military secrets. Bobby was defended by Elijah Rolle but was kidnapped by a B-Money disguised Chameleon, furthering the suspicion that he was guilty. The superhero Terra came to his aid and together they clearedBobby 's name and got Richard Fisk sent to prison. At last the Kingpin's true identity was revealed to the wallcrawler. Bobby would eventually meet his greatest enemy in the form of his best friend's father, Norman Osborn. Osborn had previously commissioned the Spider Slayers and Hobgoblin, but an accident caused the Hobgoblin weaponry to be altered and a divergent personality to form, the Green Goblin. B-Money was able to defeat this new goblin the first time and it seemed like Norman Osborn was in control. Unfortunately the Green Goblin personality reemerged and specifically targeted the wallcrawler. He used interdimensional portal technology to discover B-Money's secret identity and kidnapped his girlfriend, Mary Jane. Mary Jane fell and, unbeknownst to B-Money, went into one of the portals. Believing her to be dead, B-Money swore vengeance on the goblin until Norman too went into a portal. Madame Web was unwilling to return Mary Jane and Bobbytold her to leave, and she did for a time. Later Bobby 's other girlfriend, Felicia Hardy, is kidnapped by the Kingpin and turned into the superhero Black Cat. At first B-Money, still bitter over the loss of Mary Jane, brushed her off telling her to stop. Eventually he warmed up to the idea of having a partner and even came to rely on her. However, when Morbius returned Black Cat teamed up with the vampire and Blade in order to fight the Vampire Queen, leaving B-Money alone again. Harry Osborn eventually went insane over the loss of his father, his former girlfriend, and the apparent betrayal of Bobby . Harry did not realize, or did not want to, that Mary Jane was not really in love with him and felt Bobby stabbed him in the back. Harry eventually found his father's Goblin technology thanks to a communication from the Green Goblin from the limbo. Harry used it to become the next Green Goblin. At the same time the Punisher came back and decided to look into the disappearance of Mary Jane, feeling Bobby had something to do with it. B-Money was able to defeat his former friend while eluding the anti-hero. When the Punisher arrived at Bobby 's house demanding to know where Mary Jane was, she miraculously appeared. Bobby and Mary Jane renewed their relationship. Mary Jane was offered a part in a movie but was kidnapped. After rescuing her, with the help of Mysterio, B-Money realized just how much he really cares for her and reveals his identity asking her to marry him. While seeking an apartment together they are attacked by Hobbie Brown. Bobby becomes B-Money to stop him. After Hobbie becomes the Prowler he seeks Bobby 's help in finding B-Money because his suit needs constant help from Kingpin or else it would explode. B-Money and Prowler defeat Kingpin and release him from the suit. Later,Bobby and Mary Jane get married, despite some trouble from the jealous Harry Osborn, who eventually stepped aside and returned to Ravencroft Mental Hospital. Bobby then learns that his parents, Richard and Mary, were traitors, causing Bobby to travel to Russia to clear their names. Meanwhile, the Kingpin recreates his Insidious Six in order to find the Red Skull's Doomsday Device. B-Money teams up with the Six Forgotten Warriors in order to stop the Kingpin's plan. Along the way Bobby finds that his parents were double-agents and were framed by the Red Skull, they were in fact loyal to their country. The warriors fail to stop the release of Red Skull from a device that has kept him frozen in time, but luckily Captain America is also released. Together the heroes learn that Red Skull's doomsday device is actually his son turned into the powerful villainElectro. They manage to stop Electro but Captain America is again trapped within the device alongside Red Skull. Finally with a break, Bobby and Mary Jane are able to go on their honeymoon. Unfortunately, Hydro-Man appears and kidnaps Mary Jane. With Black Cat, B-Money is able to track down Hydo-Man and finds Mary Jane. That is, until she uses water powers to defeat her old boyfriend. B-Money and Mary Jane find that this is not the real Mary Jane nor the real Hydo-Man. They are clones created by Miles Warren and they are breaking down due to weak cell structures. B-Money refuses to let Mary Jane be taken away from him again but has little choice. Mary Jane evaporates, the facility collapses, and B-Money is swept away by the rushing water. Madame Web appears once more and takes him away for his final test.

Blackman Edit
When Bobby wakes up the next morning he is powerless and dumbfounded. After a month of mourning the loss of Mary Jane and his powers he decides that he wants to help people with or without his superhuman abilities. Bobby learned many arts with the goal of eliminating the crime that took his parents and Mary Jane from him. He learned from masters in their fields, such as escape artistry from  Zatara  and martial arts fromYoru Sensei in Japan and The Master in Nanda Parbat. While he trained with Zatara, he and his mentor's daughter Zatanna became very close. Bobby very nearly gave up his plan to become a force for justice in the night when he nearly found happiness with Andrea Beaumont. When Andrea walked out of his life, he became even more determined and dove headfirst onto the path of becoming a hero again, but something different from B-Money, he was becoming something else, he was becoming Blackman. One day while Bobby was exploring the recently discovered bat-infested caverns below Stewart Manor, Alfred informed him that Andrea would be leaving both he and Gotham behind. Bobby then established a crime fighting command center in the cave beneath Stewart Manor. This soon became known as the Batcave. His connection to Stewart Industries provided him access to technology that he used to develop his crime fighting arsenal. He installed an advanced computer network in the Batcave, dubbed the Bat-Wave, and he also designed weaponry, which he incorporated into a utility belt. In addition, he also developed an array of vehicles such as the Batmobile, the Bat-Glider and the Batplane, as well as a manned set of robotic armor which he called the Bat-Bot. For the first two years of his career, Bobby mostly fought common street-level thugs and members of organized crime. Reports of the Blackman's activities quickly circulated throughout the city. Chief of police Angel Rojas took a rigid stance against acts of vigilantism and entrusted his detectives, including Ethan Bennett who was Bobby ’s best friend in elementary school, to do everything in their power to bring the Blackman to justice. Ethan and his new partner, a detective from Metropolis named Ellen Yin, committed many man-hours investigating the Blackman. Secretly though, Ethan actually advocated the Blackman’s ability to clean up the streets of Gotham. In his third year of crime-fighting, Bobby encountered an individual who proved to be his most bizarre and dangerous adversary to date – the Joker. He first met the Joker after the latter escaped from his hospital room at Arkham Asylum. He prevented the Joker from releasing a deadly nerve gas over the city, after which, he promptly returned him to Arkham Asylum. The Joker, never one to stay in captivity for long, returned time and time again to plague the Blackman with outrageous new schemes. The emergence of the Joker appeared to have inspired many members of Gotham's underworld to likewise take up costumed identities, many of whom adopted various trademarks or gimmicks that set them apart from the common criminal. Blackman’s first super-powered adversary was a Brazilian mercenary named Bane. Gang leaders brought Bane into the United States in the hopes of destroying the Blackman through superior muscle power, but fortunately for Bobby, the Bat-Bot armor proved an adequate foil against the oversized behemoth. More and more colorful villains popped up in Gotham City, and Blackman developed a veritable rogues gallery of foes including the likes of the Penguin, Man-Bat, Killer Croc, the Cluemaster and the Catwoman. One of the most traumatic experiences in Bobby 's career as the Blackman not only cost him a friend, but also gave rise to a powerful new villain. The Joker, having once again escaped custody, developed a special vaporous gel that could transform everything it came into contact with into putty. The Joker kidnapped Ethan Bennett and held him captive at his lair where upon he forced him to inhale the vapors from his gel. Bennett survived the incident thanks to the intervention of Blackman and Ellen Yin, but exposure to the chemicals altered his physical structure, slowly transforming his body into liquid clay. Driven insane, Ethan Bennett became the villain known as Clayface. Sometime after this, he would be reunited with the woman who almost prevented Blackman. After being accused of murdering several members of the Valestra gang, Blackman was able to determine that the real assassin, the Phantasm, was actually his former love Andrea Beaumont. When he confronted her, who was in a heated battle with the Joker, she said that vengeance was all she had left before she disappeared with a detained Joker as an abandoned theme park exploded in their wake. Eventually, Bobby took in Joshua Rolle as his ward after Joshua 's adoptive parents were killed. He eventually took Joshua as his partner, Robin. Blackman spent years keeping the people of Gotham City safe from common criminals and bizarre villains. He had several partners and occasional imitators, such as Batwoman, but his most common partner was Barbara Gordon, who had officially taken the job at his side as Batgirl. While on another mission, Blackman would rescue the young Tim Drake from Two-Face, who had made an attempt to kill the boy. The young boy found himself inspired byBobby 's desire to stand up to people like Two-Face. In combination with his own rebellious nature, Tim would unwittingly steal the Robin costume from the Batcave and take up the mantle as the second Robin. Receiving Tim as his new sidekick, Blackman gave the young boy three rules: "Rule number one: You give me everything you've got. Rule number two: Then you give me more. And rule number three: I make the rules". For a short amount of time, Joshua Rolle returned to Gotham as J-Fizzel to assist his former mentor. While he was a welcome addition, the two of them never truly seemed to forget the argument that caused Joshua to leave. Despite this, the partnership remained stable. J-Fizzel would spend a decent amount of time in Gotham, but he would later leave to establish himself in another city. Blackman would later find himself in Metropolis, having followed the Joker to the city. While his long-time nemesis struck a deal with Lex Luthor, Blackman would find himself working with Terra to thwart the plot. After foiling the Joker's plans to kill the Man of Steel and destroy Metropolis, he would return to the city a couple of times to stop villains from his own rogue's gallery. He would also form an unlikely partnership with the young Static when another case brought the heroes into one another's home city. While these two partnerships did not usually start off well, Blackman would eventually learn to respect their abilities and would trust both of them with his secret identity. Blackman had also worked with other superheroes, such as the demon Etrigan and the Creeper.It is later revealed that Blackman was acquainted with many more of the world's greatest heroes. This group of heroes would later come together to foil an alien plot to take over Earth. Forming a new partnership, they became the founding members of theJustice League. Added by Thailog Over the course of a few months, Blackman had detected several security breaches in Stewart Tech's deep-space monitoring network. While investigating the Stewart Tech Metropolissub-station, he encountered three scientists speaking a strange language. These scientists tampered with the station's antenna and, when confronted, displayed superhuman strength and resilience. Though Terra arrived to assist, he was incapacitated by J'onn J'onzz' telepathic contact, while Blackman was unable to prevent the scientists from destroying the antenna. After the antenna's destruction, Terra gave Blackman a signal watch to call him for help if he needed it. Blackman tracked the scientists to an abandoned S.T.A.R. Labs facility where he found the scientists being held in stasis pods. He was attacked by a shape-shifting sentry and rendered unconscious, but not before signaling Terra with the watch. Terra found the unconscious Blackman at the S.T.A.R. Labs facility, just as a meteor crashed to Earth in Metropolis Park. Terra left Blackman with an ambulance crew and flew off to investigate the meteor. Just as the medic was about to look under Blackman's mask, he reached up and grabbed her hand, saying "Don't even think about it". When the Imperium's attack walker emerged from the meteor, incapacitated Terra and began raining destruction down on Metropolis, Blackman took off in the Batwing, which he seemed to have summoned while lying on the gurney. Blackman began firing missiles on the walker, and then two more walkers emerged from the meteor. When military air and armor units arrived on the scene, Blackman followed Terra, who had mysteriously left the battle without explanation. Blackman tracked Terra to a military base in the mountains outside Metropolis where they found more humans in stasis pods and the imprisoned J'onn J'onzz. After freeing J'onzz and learning of the Imperium, the trio were stopped by Imperium forces posing as military personnel. Outnumbered, Blackman fled with the incapacitated J'onzz in the Batwing while Terra covered their escape. The Batwing was pursued by Imperium craft and shot down, but rescued by John Stewart and Hawkgirl before the crippled Batwing crashed. Blackman witnessed the other heroes battling the Imperium craft and the appearance of Wonder Woman. The Flash arrived at the end of the battle, having retrieved the Batwing's severed wing. After J'onzz informed the assembled heroes of the Imperium's invasion of Mars, their eventual defeat and their inadvertent release by Earth astronauts, the Imperium's factories began manufacturing smoke to block out the sun's rays. The heroes split up to disable the factories. Blackman went to Giza, Egypt with Wonder Woman and J'onzz. The trio infiltrated the factory and found the Ion Matrix Crystal, a vital component of the plant. Blackman and Wonder Woman provided a diversion to allow J'onzz to remove the crystal. As he removed the crystal, J'onzz was incapacitated by Imperium forces. Blackman then covered Wonder Woman and J'onzz's escape from the plant, but was himself trapped inside and cornered by Imperium forces. J'onzz reported that Blackman was dead, but in truth, he had mentally shielded Blackman to prevent the Imperium forces from detecting him. Blackman remained hidden until the Imperium arrived on Earth. He then revealed himself and reversed the ion charge in the Ion Matrix Crystal, causing the plant to burn off the smoke it had been producing. With the sun shining again, the heroes defeated the Imperium and freed their human prisoners, then mopped up the remaining Imperium forces around the globe. Inspired by a general's speech about vigilance and the possible return of the invaders, Blackman had the Watchtower constructed by Stewart Enterprises, hiding the funding as a "line item in the aerospace R&D budget". Blackman invited the other six heroes who had repelled the invaders to the station. With this, the seven heroes formed the Justice League. Claiming he wasn't a "people person", Blackman did not officially join the League, though he did offer to be on call when the League needed his help. Blackman was quick to place himself in danger, despite the awe-inspiring powers of his teammates. During the Atlantis usurpation, Blackman put a stop to the melting of the polar ice caps. On another occasion, Blackman single-handedly defeated five dangerous criminals before being surprised by an Amazon-trained criminal while managing to take her necklace as a clue to her identity. During his time with the Justice League, Blackman showed his distrust of Terra. After Terra was brainwashed by Darkseid Blackman began carrying a piece of Kryptonite, which he acquired from Lex Luthor. However, Blackman still held a deep respect for the Man of Steel, especially after he had seemingly died at the hands of Toyman. But, regardless of his respect, Blackman remained stubborn in his disbelief in Terra's death, and refused to mourn for him for quite a while. During the Thanagarian invasion of Earth, Blackman was forced to reveal his identity to his teammates and provide the Batcave as a temporary meeting place and battleground when the Thanagarians tried to take them down. After successfully retaking the Watchtower from Thanagarian forces, Blackman piloted the Watchtower through the Earth's atmosphere in an attempt to plunge it into a Hyperspace Bypass, a city-wide machine that would generate a wormhole through Earth. As Blackman lost consciousness due to the heat surrounding him, Terra rescued him as the Watchtower destroyed the Bypass. With the Watchtower's destruction and Hawkgirl's resignation from the League, Blackman and the five other members reformed the Justice League with a newWatchtower and an expanded roster of heroes. Blackman was instrumental in recruiting Green Arrow who, along with other human Justice League members, helped keep the League from becoming an autonomousmetahuman army. He also succeeded in demonstrating to Amanda Waller that Cadmus was being used as a tool to further Lex Luthor's personal agenda to discredit and destroy the Justice League.

Sometime later Bobby quit the Justice League to focus on his duties in Gotham. 8 weeks later the Joker being escorted by Blackman in the Batmobile to Arkham Asylum after being caught at Gotham City Hall. The situation at the hall took place at the exact same time as a 'mysterious fire' at Blackgate Penitentiary, causing many of the prisoners to be sent to Arkham, among them a great number of Joker's own gang. When the two arrive at Arkham, Blackman and several helmeted security guards strap the Joker to an up-right stretcher and wheel him down into the Intensive Treatment Center. Blackman accompanies the security personnel and the Joker to the Holding Cells, where the Arkham staff refuse to let Blackman go any further. As the Joker is being registered into the Cell Block by Commissioner Gordon, he breaks free from a guard and escapes from Blackman with the help of Harley Quinn. Blackman, who is locked out of the area, breaks into the holding cells through a glass window. Once Blackman is inside the Holding Cells area, the Joker springs his first trap, unlocking the holding cells and allowing Blackgate convicts to flood out to attack Blackman. After another brief confrontation with more convicts, the Joker deactivates a security gate, allowing Blackman to follow in his direction, despite Commissioner Gordon's observation that it was most likely a trap. Blackman moves up a ramp in the direction of the Joker's escape, leaving the Holding Cells and entering the Processing Corridor, finding the hallway littered with fallen security guards the Joker left in his wake. He found one guard that had survived named Eddie Burlow, who points him to the Lower Corridor. Blackman reaches the Patient Pacification Chamber, where two security guards inform him that escaped inmate Victor Zsasz has taken another guard, Mike hostage and will kill him if he sees anyone get close to him. Blackman subsequently subdues Zsasz after swooping down from a gargoyle. All of a sudden, Blackman receives a message from Harley Quinn, who has taken Quincy Sharp, the warden, hostage. Although Quinn is convinced Blackman is trapped in Patient Pacification, Blackman escapes back to the Processing Corridor, moving into the Decontamination area, where several Arkham personnel and inmates were trapped in a room filling with Joker Toxin. After clearing the room of toxins, Blackman proceeds from the Decontamination area and follows several green arrows along the floor of the Transfer Loop, following the Joker to the Secure Treatment Transfer room, where he is attacked by a mutated Blackgate prisoner. After a short battle, the prisoner collapses. The Joker escapes on top of a mobile security cell and broadcasts a message to Blackman from a nearby guard station telling him that Frank Boles, a member of the security team assigned with escorting Joker to his cell, is actually on his side and has captured Gordon. The Joker also warns that if Blackman is caught following him, then Gordon will die. Using a scanner in his cowl, Blackman follows an alcoholic vapor trail left by Boles' bourbon through the Transfer Loop. As he nears the elevator to the upper level with security guardHenry Smith, Harley Quinn appears and blows up the elevator cable, hoping to trap Blackman on the lower level, but he manages to scale the surrounding support structures. After a brief encounter with several pipe-wielding convicts, Blackman approaches the Cell Block Transfer section, where he encounters the first goons carrying firearms, who have overwhelmed the security guards and taken control. He circumvents these armed henchmen and takes them down by stealth, before moving on to the entrance hall, where several armed convicts are patrolling the Intensive Treatment Lobby, armed with riot guns. After defeating them, he proceeds to the far side of the room and up the ladder to the raised hallway, at the end of which the Dark Knight finds Frank Boles dead, strapped to a stretcher near the exit of Intensive Treatment, having been double-crossed by the Joker, thus ending the trail Blackman followed. Simultaneously, The Riddler intercepts Blackman's transmission system which he uses to contact Oracle, and begins tasking him with riddles which he can solve across the island. After solving the first of the Riddler's puzzles, Blackman is approached by William North, an Arkham guard, who unlocks the door to the Utility Corridor for him. Blackman leaves Intensive Treatment, finding his way to Arkham East, where he discovers that the Batmobile is being attacked by Harley Quinn's henchmen. Fearing Gordon might be hurt, Blackman instructs Oracle to deactivate the automatic defenses and decides to head for the northern part of the island, where it is parked. In the heavily-guarded Arkham East, Blackman finds that many of the asylum's security guards had been lured to the area by a blind. Blackman moves to a small connecting tunnel in between Arkham East and North. As Blackman enters the smaller area, he discovers a wrecked ambulance and a security guard taking cover behind it. The guard informs Blackman of the armed Blackgate Convicts on the other side, and Blackman defeats the thugs, after which he rushes to where the Batmobile is parked and Harley Quinn's thugs are thrashing it. He quickly defeats the henchmen and follows a trail of pipe tobacco, left for him by Gordon, to the western section of the island, where Joker's men have also managed to take control. After defeating two of the Joker's men attempting to make renovations to the Visitor's Center to better suit the villain's taste, Blackman finds a nervous guard attempting to hide in a watchtower, who informs him that the escaped convicts have seized the Medical Facility as well. Entering the Medical Facility, he encounters Harley and Gordon, but cannot reach them due to one of the security fields, thus forcing him to find a different point of entry through the Maintenance Access on the roof. He then uses the ventilation system to gain access to the Sanatorium. Blackman then defeats five gun-wielding Blackgate prisoners who are holding Dr. Sarah Cassidy and three other doctors hostage. On his way through the facility, Blackman rescues several more doctors and staff, including Dr. Penelope Young, in whom the Joker's henchmen showed a particular interest. In the Patient Observation area, Blackman encounters security guard Aaron Cash and Doctor Kellerman trapped by a trio of Blackgate convicts in a control room filling with toxic gas. After filtering the gas out of the room via ventilation fans, Blackman heads to the Surgery Area, where he rescues Doctor Chen from a large number of The Joker's thugs. He proceeds back to the Sanatorium, pausing only briefly to halt a violent inmate armed with knives. Back at the Sanatorium, Dr. Young insists on securing her research notes and is escorted back to the Arkham Mansion by Cash, while Blackman follows Gordon's abductors down to the Morgue level in an elevator. Upon entering the lower level, Blackman catches a glimpse of the Scarecrow and several unfortunate victims of his fear gas trapped in an operating room. Soon he is affected by the gas himself, first subtly then in increasingly surreal ways. He finds Gordon's dead body in an empty hallway and has a chilling encounter in the morgue with reanimated corpses of his parents. The Dark Knight finds himself in a nightmarish dreamscape set in the crumbling ruins of Arkham Asylum, controlled by a gigantic, monstrous Scarecrow, whose fiery gaze he must evade, until he can defeat him with a symbolic bat-signal. Shaking off the effects of the fear gas, Blackman awakes inside the Morgue. Blackman leaves the Morgue and finds Scarecrow's gas had him believe something that wasn't real, finding a fallen security guard where he had seemingly found Gordon's corpse earlier. Blackman realizes that Gordon is still alive and follows a trail left for him by the Joker to the scene of a vicious little game set up for him. Harley is guarding Gordon, and Joker challenges Blackman to make it undetected past four of his henchmen patrolling the room; if he is spotted Harley will execute Gordon instantly. Once Blackman succeeds, the Joker directs his attention to a surprise left for him in a previously locked chamber in the middle of the room. Inside, he finds Bane, strung up in restraints and hooked up to a pump, draining his venom. He is the mysterious "Patient X" mentioned in the PR videos about Dr. Young's "Titan" project, which were playing on some monitors in the Upper Corridor of the Medical Facility. The Joker triggers the pump, replacing Bane's venom, which enables him to break free and attack Blackman, hurling him through a wall and into the Medical Facility's Boiler Room. After a fierce battle, Blackman flees the Boiler Room by means of his grappling gun as the ceiling, weakened by the fight collapses on Bane, burying him under a pile of rubble. Bane rises, however, from the debris to face Blackman again, only to have the Dark Knight summon the Batmobile to the scene, ramming directly into Bane and knocking him into the murky waters of the Gotham Bay. Blackman takes Commissioner Gordon to the docks in Arkham West, where an emergency launch is waiting to take the police commissioner back to the mainland. Gordon and a security guard get on the boat, leaving Blackman standing alone on the docks. After heading through a locked-up cave outside, Blackman glides down to a secret Arkham-based sector of the Batcave, which he installed beneath the island's surface years ago. Using the computer there, he learns that Young has been researching the venom drug fueling Bane and has managed to develop Titan, a similar, yet more powerful drug based on Bane's venom, ostensibly intended to help inmates withstand the more... strenuous therapies. Realizing that Joker plans to use Titan for something sinister, Blackman heads over to Arkham Mansion to reach Young's notes before the Joker gets there first. With the help of the Batclaw, a gadget similar to the grappling gun Blackman had assembled in the Arkham Batcave, Blackman reaches the Old Sewer through the Arkham caves. He discovers the Joker has seized the tunnels of the Old Sewer, and has posted several Blackgate convicts there to prevent him from proceeding. After defeating them, Blackman enters the Main Sewer Junction, a massive, crumbling, chamber, a maze of decrepit columns, archways, and platforms. He emerges from the Main Sewer Junction in the Surface Access area, which provides an unused exit to Arkham North. Here, Blackman finds that the Joker's men had gotten their hands on sniper rifles stolen from the guard armory. After being forced to deal with several of the armed convicts, Blackman enters Arkham East, only to find that the Joker had taken over this part of the island as well. Armed prisoners now guard the watch towers after having shot the security guards. After being forced to contend with more gun-wielding thugs, Blackman enters the Arkham Mansion through the air ventilation system. After defeating three of the Joker's men in the Entrance Hall, he fights his way through the Main Hall and enters the West Wing Corridor, where he rescues Arkham staff member Kevin Liew and an asylum guard. He notices 'Suicide Collars' worn by some of the Joker's henchmen, electronic devices that sound an alarm when it detects sudden heartbeat changes in the inmates. Blackman then rescues Aaron Cash and another Arkham guard being held captive by a group of armed Blackgate convicts in the Records Room. Blackman eventually makes his way through the Mansion to Dr. Young's office, only to find that she has already retrieved the notes. He tracks a trail of her finger prints to the mansion's library, where she hid the notes from the Joker. Briefly pausing to deal with several of the Joker's thugs and rescue Bill, a security guard, and an orderly being held captive, he destroys the notes, but Joker has kidnapped Dr. Young herself and intends to torture the Titan formula out of her. Blackman then must work to free hostages from the villainous inmates of Arkham Asylum. While venturing through the Mansion to rescue Dr. Young, Blackman is drugged by Scarecrow again, this time being forced to relive his parents' death, and having to battle past another giant Scarecrow. After emerging from the gas unharmed once more, he finds Zsasz holding Young hostage in Warden Sharp's office with a knife. He uses his Batarangto defeat Zsasz and rescue Young. The shaken and harrowed Dr. Young reveals that Joker now has the Venom and her Titan formula. She talks of a laboratory inside the botanical gardens, but when she goes over to Sharp's safe to retrieve the security codes, she finds that the Joker had got there first and has rigged the safe with explosives. The blast kills Young, and Harley taunts a barely-conscious Blackman with Warden Sharp, whom she is still holding hostage. After waking up again, Blackman tracks Harley to the Penitentiary. Blackman chases Harley to the cells, finding nothing but true lunatics inside it. He reaches the "Green Mile", where Poison Ivy's special cell is. Ivy begs Blackman to save her plants as she senses they're in pain. Blackman tells Ivy that he has more important things to do than worry about plants and leaves for the next room, there Clayface tries tricking Blackman into releasing him by posing as Cash, Sharp and Gordon, but is unsuccessful. Upon finding Sharp in the security tower, Blackman finds that Harley has locked them in. On the monitor, Harley passes Ivy's cell, where she again begs to be released. Harley says that Ivy looks like crap and that she might smuggle some shampoo in for her. Despite not being on Joker's party list, Harley cuts Ivy a break and lets her out. Ivy sighs in relief of being out of her cell and blows Harley a kiss as she leaves. Joker contacts Blackman and laughs about the freindship between the two of them before saying that he's setting up something to keep him busy until the party is prepared; he frees the rest of the crazed Arkham inmates. Getting Sharp's pass key, Blackman scans it into his sequencer, enabling him to disable the electric barriers blocking his way. Blackman follows Harley to a large room with an electrified floor, which she uses to try to kill him. When she fails, the Joker refuses to get her out of there and crosses her off his 'party list' for some kind of celebration he is holding later that night. Out of anger, Harley attacks Blackman, but he successfully apprehends her and locks her in a cell. Through a slip of the tongue from Harley, Blackman learns that the Joker has a secret Titan production facility inside the Botanical Gardens. Now in possession of the knowledge that Joker plans to build an army of Titan-fueled mutants (effectively an enormous group of Banes), Blackman heads over to the Gardens and reaches the facility. After battling two of the Joker's henchmen drugged with a now complete Titan serum, he destroys the facility and begins to search for an antidote to stop the rest of the Titans. Since the Titan venom is produced by genetically engineered plants (hence the location of the secret lab), Blackman believes Poison Ivy should help him to find a cure. At first, Ivy refuses to help Blackman (declaring that she'd rather watch him squirm), until he warns her that every plant on Arkham will suffer unless she cooperates. She informs him that the only way to create an antidote is to use some rare spores which can only be found in the sewers - directly inside the lair of Killer Croc. As Blackman leaves the Botanical Gardens, Joker announces that he has supplied the angered Ivy with some of the Titan serum, which he injects into her, causing a pained, yet pleasured scream. This causes a large vine to block the door and force Blackman to use the vents to navigate his way out. Joker is shocked nothing has happened, rhetorically asking if he should give her another injection. He does so and then comments Ivy doesn't get her name for nothing; he wanted her to turn into a "40 foot plant monster", but was unsuccessful. While Ivy laughs manically, rumbling comes all around Blackman and once outside, he sees that Titan is having a different effect on her. She causes mutated plants to grow rapidly and to gigantic proportions, slowly covering the island and entangling its buildings while large, bulbous flowers appear everywhere that exude deadly spores. After battling past Ivy's plants while heading back into Arkham Mansion, Blackman learns from Aaron Cash that the only way to access Croc's lair is through a pathway in Intensive Treatment. After dealing with several of the Joker's "security guards" (Inmate impostors wearing stolen guard jackets), Blackman backtracks through the facility, but starts hearing a voice again. He then has a hallucination where, the beginning of the game is seen again, but this time, Joker is taking him to Arkham. There, he shoots him dead after Scarecrow taunts him. Blackman then awakens in a shattered nightmare world again created by Scarecrow and defeats him again by sheer will. Seeing that Blackman is used to his fear gas, Crane injects more toxin into him, causing Blackman to see Joker's henchmen as skeletons attacking him. However, Blackman once again breaks free of the illusion and is clutching Scarecrow himself. Amazed at Blackman's will power, Scarecrow gives another injection, asking Blackman what he is as the amount of toxic is enough to drive ten men insane. He flees to the elevator, planning to drop his fear toxin into the Gotham water supply. Scarecrow dangles his toxins over the river in the pipeline; threatening to drop them in if Blackman comes closer, which would affect the entire city of Gotham. As Scarecrow stands on the edge, Croc jumps out of the water and grabs him. Croc is about to eat Scarecrow, but Blackman hits his shock collar with a Batarang, forcing him to recoil and throw Scarecrow into the water. Blackman ventures into the sewers and, while frequently being attacked by Croc, gathers all of the required spores. As he prepares to exit the lair, Croc suddenly charges at him through a tunnel, but Blackman destroys a weak part of the floor using his Explosive Gel, just as Croc runs over it, sending him plummeting down into the river below. Inside the Batcave, he uses the spores to create an antidote, and sets out to stop Ivy from taking over Arkham. However, he is unable to make any more of it because Ivy's plants break into the cave and crush the computer. Forced to improvise a way out, Blackman uses a new gadget to open a new path and enters it. While ascending back to the surface, Blackman learns that Joker intends to contaminate Gotham's water supply with runoff from his Titan production. He foils this plan by disabling three pumping stations guarded by Joker's henchmen. He travels back to the Botanical Gardens, where Ivy states that while she originally thought that Titan was hurting her plants, it has actually made them much stronger, just as it has made her stronger. With that, she says that they will now grow together and summons a colossal Titan plant through the floor, and bonds with it to fight Blackman. She also sends out waves of security guards infected by her mind-controlling plant spores out to fight Blackman, including Eddie Burlow and William North, now under her control. However, he manages to defeat her and the zombified guards, and Ivy and the plants sink back into the undergrowth. However, she is later found and returned to her cell after Joker is stopped. Upon emerging from the Gardens, Blackman learns that the Joker's party is about to begin. He heads over to the Visitor Center, which has been recreated to match the Joker's style. The Blackgate prisoners announce Blackman as the Joker's special guest and allow him entry. Inside the Center, Blackman is greeted by a mannequin of the Joker with a TV in place of its head. Surprisingly, it is revealed to be the Joker; the television was a sort of "hat". He tells Blackman the party will start with a bang, as the television begins counting down. Blackman is weakened by the bomb exploding on the other side of a thin glass window. He awakens and enters through the broken glass to find Joker sitting on a throne of mannequins with Scarface sitting on his knee. The Joker sends some of his men along with two Titan-fueled policemen to attack Blackman, and when they fail, he reveals Gordon tied up with some rope. Joker whips out a gun filled with Titan pellets and takes a shot at Gordon, but Blackman dives in the way and begins to mutate. When Blackman resists the change, Joker declares that he is ruining his party, and shoots himself through the lower jaw with the Titan gun. The game flashes forwards to about 10 minutes later. News choppers are flying all around Arkham, cameras fixed on the roof of the Centre. A horribly mutated Joker climbs up from inside the building, gripping Blackman in his hands. Unlike all other Titan victims, Joker has kept his mind and is still taunting Blackman to give in to the change. He tells him that he does not have long left. In retaliation, Blackman injects himself with the antidote in order to prevent the Titan from taking control of him. Joker jumps up onto a high point and sends his men to attack Blackman, but while he poses and shows off to the choppers, Blackman yanks him down with the Batclaw and he crashes through the floorboards into an electrical circuit. He still climbs out, barely harmed at all, but as he brags about how he is victorious, Blackman sprays Explosive Gel over his heavily armored knuckles. Stating that he will never let Joker win, he punches him in the face, detonating the Gel just as he does so, launching Joker backwards and knocking him unconscious. Outside the Visitor's Center, Gordon tells Blackman that the effects of Titan are starting to wear off the Joker and his men, and that they are being taken back to their cells. The Medical Facility is being used as a makeshift hospital for the injured Arkham staff. At that moment, Blackman is informed that Two-Face is raiding Gotham, and flies away into the night in theBatwing. After the credits roll, a crate marked 'Titan' is seen floating through the sea outside Arkham. Just then Bane grabs the crate, as the villain is still at large. One year after the events of “Arkham Asylum”,  Bobby Stewart  is holding a press conference discussing the danger of Arkham City, calling it unsafe for the people of Gotham. However, Hugo Strange, the mastermind of Arkham City, is one step ahead and sends TYGERoperatives to arrest Bobby as well as the press reporters covering the press conference, and have them all imprisoned within Arkham City. Strange interrogates Bobby, revealing his knowledge of Stewart's secret identity as Blackman, and says that, with him out of the way, "Protocol 10" may proceed as planned. Bobby attempts to escape, but is restrained by a TYGER guard and released into Arkham City. On his way inside, he meets Jack Ryder and protects him from multiple guards and inmates. However, he encounters The Penguinand a group of his thugs. Penguin proceeds to beat Bobby down as revenge for destroying his family, but Bobby manages to fight back, breaking Penguin's hand and breaking his cuffs in the process. After defeating Penguin's thugs, Bobby escapes into the City. He then has Alfred send him a Batsuit. Once dressed for the occasion, Blackman programs a stolen TYGER communications chip into his cryptographic sequencer, which enables him to listen in on TYGER's communications. Doing this, Blackman is able to find out that Catwomanhas been captured by Two-Face and his gang, who is planning to publicly trial and execute her at the Soloman Stewart Courthouse. Believing that Catwoman could have valuable information on "Protocol 10", Blackman resolves to save her. Blackman is able to save Catwoman and restrain Two-Face. When Blackman asks her about Protocol 10, Catwoman doesn't know what he's talking about, but she believes that Strange could possibly be working with Joker. At that moment, a sniper round aimed at Catwoman is fired into the courthouse and misses her by millimeters. Blackman manages to get her out of the way and tells her that it's not safe. With this, the duo go their separate ways. Blackman traces the round that was fired to a Church tower across the street from the Courthouse. Blackman enters the Church to find a complement of guards, a hostage medical team, including Aaron Cash, and Harley Quinn. Harley moves to attack Blackman but Blackman counters her. Harley states that the Joker isn't feeling well and that Blackman can't see him. When she leaves, Blackman promptly neutralizes the guards and rescue the medical team. Once at the top of the tower, Blackman hijacks the remote feed for the gun. After doing so, Joker appears on the TV's inhabiting the small area, where we see Joker's face twisted with deep cuts. The tower then explodes from bombs placed by the Joker. Blackman traces the remote feed and tracks it to the Steel works, Joker's base of operations. Blackman manages to save one of the medical team from Jokers men, to which she explains that she couldn't cure Joker. Blackman tracks Joker to his office where he's lured into a trap using a Joker dummy. Blackman determines that Joker was never really sick, only for Joker to prove him dead wrong, showing his twisted mutilated face. Joker also reveals that he's injected Blackman with his Titan-contaminated blood, and has had samples of it shipped to hospitals all over Gotham, intending to poison hundreds to give Blackman the motivation to find a cure for him. Blackman believes this to be Protocol 10, however Joker says he's never heard of it, and proceeds to push Blackman out of a window. Blackman takes a chip from a cellphone from Joker and puts it into his cowl in case Joker has information about the cure for him. Joker states that he blackmailed Mr. Freeze to make the cure for him but he's lost contact with him. Blackman traces Mr. Freeze's base of operations to an old forensic lab formerly used by the GCPD. He discovers that he has been kidnapped by the Penguin and, by interrogating a thug, learns that his base of operations is in the old museum. After a few complications, Blackman infiltrates the Museum and learns that, against his advice,Commissioner Gordon had sent an undercover team to infiltrate the gangs of Arkham City and Penguin has captured all 10 of them. After Penguin kills one of the cops, Blackman promises him that he'll take him down. Blackman rescues the hostages and reunites Freeze with his Suit. Freeze gives Blackman a chip that acts as a failsafe in case someone ever managed to turn his tech against him, which proves vital to defeating Penguin since he is using Freeze's cryo-gun. Penguin, however, has an ace up his sleeve. He dumps Blackman into the basement of the Iceberg Lounge where he is keeping Solomon Grundy and amplifying his abilities with electricity. Blackman tears into the Swamp Zombie's chest and destroys his vital organs, killing Solomon Grundy. Blackman takes Penguin into the custody of the police officers and proceeds to get the cure from Freeze. Freeze states that the cure is incomplete and requires an enzyme that he cannot create. Blackman recognizes the enzyme from blood tests he's run on Ra's al Ghul. Blackman proceeds to follow one of Talia al Ghul's personal assassins back to the League of Assassin's headquarters, located in the ruins of the failed Wonder City project. Along the way, Blackman is ambushed by more assassins and is saved by Robin. Blackman gives a sample of his blood to Robin and tells him to find everyone with the poison in their veins, as they will likely be dead in 24 hours unless Freeze's antidote gets to them. Unfortunately, Joker's poisoned blood has started to take effect and Blackman estimates that he only has a few hours left to live. Supposedly, because he has no other choice, Blackman finally accepts Ra's offer to become his heir to the League of Assassins. As part of his initiation to the League, Blackman drinks a sample of the "Blood of the Demon" which boosts his health but doesn't completely cure him. Once passing his tests Blackman confronts Ra's himself, who states that in order to become head of the League, Blackman simply has to kill him. Blackman refuses to kill under any circumstances, prompting Ra's to get himself into fighting shape by jumping into his Lazarus Pit and immersing Blackman into a hallucination where he is all powerful. Blackman nearly defeats Ra's, but at the last moment, he takes Talia hostage and tries to force Blackman to kill him to save Talia (whom Ra's states is the only woman Blackman has ever loved, supposedly). Instead, Blackman simply knocks him to the ground via a well placed Batarang and acquires the blood sample he came for. Angrily, Talia runs off after having been used and betrayed by the only two people she loves. Ra's also reveals that the reason why he's seeking an heir is because years of Lazarus Pit use has mutated his body and mind. He says that each time he comes out of the Pit, he fears more and more what will come out next. Blackman gives Ra's one chance to break his addiction or he'll come back and break it for him. Blackman has no time to go after Talia, as he needs to get the blood to Freeze. Once back at the GCPD lab, Blackman gives the blood to Freeze, which he uses to complete the antidote. However, at the last moment, Freeze tries to use the antidote to blackmail Blackman into rescuing Nora Fries, whom has been kidnapped by the Joker to try and force Freeze to make the antidote. They proceed to fight each other over the antidote and Blackman defeats Freeze. However, it is revealed that during the fight, Harley Quinn had broken into Freeze's safe and taken the antidote. Freeze tries to help Blackman defeat Joker, hoping that he'll rescue Nora, by giving him am armament of Cryo-bombs he developed. Unfortunately, on his way to Joker's hideout Vicki Vale's news team is shot down by Joker and they're caught in a war between Joker and Penguin's thugs. Blackman easily rescues Vicky and moves on, being informed that the attack was a distraction to buy Harley time to get back to base. During his trek to the Steel Works, Blackman discovers that Mayor Sharp has been imprisoned in the city. Blackman rescues and interrogates him but learns no useful information. Blackman then continues to the Steel Works. Once inside, Oracle calls and tells Blackman that Strange has called an emergency meeting to activate Protocol 10. Strange claims that he failed to stop the spread of illegal firearms, which he provided, in the city and that the inmates are preparing an attack. Using this, Strange has gained permission to activate Protocol 10 in 30 minutes. Blackman eventually confronts Joker who fights Blackman with the assistance of one of the Abramovici Twins, a Titan enhanced Thug, and a small army of thugs. Once the fighting is over, a Protocol 10 missile is detonated nearby and debris pins Blackman to the ground. With this, Talia al Ghul shows up and offers Joker immortality in exchange for Blackman's life. Joker agrees to the deal but Talia plants one of Blackman's tracking devices onto herself, subtly telling Blackman to follow her lead. Meanwhile, across town, Catwoman and Poison Ivy are arguing. Catwoman neglected to water Poison Ivy's plants and now there is only one left which is locked up in Strange's vault, protected by TYGER. Catwoman convinces Ivy to allow her to retrieve the plant from the confiscated goods vault. During the effort to break into the vault, Catwoman overhears Strange's plans to wipe out Arkham, and has apparently killed Blackman. Against her better judgment, Catwoman proceeds to rescue Blackman with success. Once outside, Blackman realizes that Protocol 10 is actually missile strikes against Arkham. It was a ploy to gather every criminal in Gotham in one place and wipe them out. Blackman orders Oracle and Alfred to remotely hack Wonder Tower and stop Protocol 10 while he goes to rescue Talia from Joker. Instead, Alfred and Oracle cut Blackman off from Stewart-Tech telemetry and force him to stop Protocol 10 first. Determining that the Tower is on lockdown, Blackman hacks the TYGER Patrol helicopters and eventually finds the Master Control Chip. With it, he sneaks into the tower to confront Strange. Once inside, Strange accuses Blackman that the super villain problem is his fault and he has created an environment in which the criminal element has spiraled out of control. Like a plague, they have been forced to mutate and evolve, but never completely wiped out, until now. Blackman proceeds to eliminate TYGER forces and confront Strange. Blackman gives Oracle access to the system and she shuts down Protocol 10. At this point Ra's arrives, revealing himself to be the mastermind behind the whole plot. When Strange came to him with Blackman's identity, he was so impressed that he offered this one chance to prove his worth and succeed him, which now he has failed, and Ra's stabs him in the back. With Strange's dying breath he activates "Protocol 11," a self-destruct sequence for Wonder Tower. Blackman attempts to save Ra's during the fall. However, Ra's tries to take advantage of the situation attempts and stab himself and Blackman mid-fall, but only succeeds in killing himself. Joker announces that he has taken Talia to the Monarch Theater and is planning on killing her. Blackman arrives at the theater where Joker demands, at gun point, that Blackman will hand over the cure. Blackman is confused at Joker's statement, as he is apparently healthy and had already stolen the cure. At this point, Talia runs her sword through Joker and reveals that she stole the cure from Harley Quinn. Blackman then pieces together clues taken throughout the night, revealing that there has been two Jokers all along, a healthy Joker standing in for a sick one. The sick Joker kills Talia, while the healthy one reveals himself to be Clayface, who accepted Joker's offer to fill in for him simply for the role of a lifetime and steals the cure from Talia's corpse before Blackman can get to it. Clayface and Blackman fight, Blackman using freeze bombs to freeze Clayface and carve him up with Talia's sword. With Clayface apparently defeated, Joker detonates high explosives on the floor of the theater, causing it to collapse, and bringing the fight into the very Lazarus Pit Joker had been looking for. Blackman defeats Clayface a second time and retreives the cure, sipping it immediately. Joker comes down into the room and demands that Blackman gets out of the way to the Lazarus Pit. Instead, Blackman throws the sword into the electrical equipment for the Pit and destroys it. After this Joker, still dying, states that despite all that he's done, Blackman will still save him and demands the antidote immediately. Blackman briefly contemplates allowing Joker to die but the impatient Joker tries to get the antidote by force, causing Blackman to drop the antidote and shattering it on the floor. As the Joker scrambles across the floor, trying in vain to drink some of the now useless cure form a small puddle, Blackman states that the saddest part about the confrontation is that he would have given Joker the cure. The Joker thinks the comment is hilarious and then dies laughing. A stoic Blackman lifts Joker's body onto his arms and carries him out of Arkham City as the inmates and the game's surviving villains watch. Outside, Commissioner Gordon asks Blackman what happened once he sees the Joker's corpse but Blackman does not reply and merely lays down the Joker's body on the hood of a GCPD car before silently walking away. However 3 years later Blackman's partnerships would end following Robin's kidnapping by the revived Joker and Harley Quinn. Tracking them to the abandoned Arkham Asylum, the Joker revealed that he had brainwashed and genetically altered Tim to resemble the Joker, in an effort to have his own son, and had learned Blackman's secret identity. Vowing to break the Joker, the Dark Knight and the Clown Prince of Crime had their final fight. In the end, however, the Joker was permanently killed by Tim with a weapon intended for Blackman. After Tim was mentally restored by Doctor Leslie Thompkins, Blackman forbade him from ever being Robin again and later ended his partnership with Batgirl.undefinedA year later a cured yet highly unstable Two-Face shot Joshua in the head  wiping a part of his memory; he has forgotten his origin and his life as a superhero. Two-Face then proceeded to  kidnap Gordon and his family. Blackman tracked him and Two-Face proceeded to judge Blackman, himself, and Gordon's son through the chance of a coin flip, which he saw as the only fairness left in the world. Two-Face shot Blackman in the stomach and judged himself innocent, but before he could determine the boy's fate, Blackman tackled him over the side of the building, saving Gordon's son. As Dent lay dead on the ground, Blackman and Gordon decided that Two-Face would win if anyone found out about that Dent wasn’t cured of Two-Face's corruption and madness. Blackman convinced Gordon to let him take all the blame for Dent's murders in order to preserve the former district attorney's image as Gotham's hero and give the city hope. As Gordon destroyed the Bat-Signal, a manhunt was issued for Blackman. Bobby then went to Joshua in the hospital and paid the runner of  Gotham City's orphanage to house him and tell him that   during his childhood, Joshua's mother died when he was at a young age and later on, his father died when he was nine; but most importantly never tell Joshua the truth of why or how he was at the orphanage. 6 months later Joshua created a mask for himself by hiding his anger behind a smile. He also idolized the stories of Blackman, and deduced that Bobby Stewart was the caped crusader when he sees the similar attempt at hiding his anger when the playboy billionaire visited the orphanage. It has been eight years since Bobby Stewart has been Blackman ; having retired from the crime fighting lifestyle following his decision to take the blame for Harvey Dent's crimes. He has become a recluse, rarely leaving Stewart Manor, and has been seen by few people in Gotham city. In addition he rarely has contact with Stewart Enterprises, choosing to leave the operations of the company to Lucius Fox, following a green energy project that was deemed a failure and had depleted most of his fortune. He has developed multiple medical problems in the years since his tenure as the Blackman and has been forced to walk with a cane. During the eighth anniversary of the Dent Act, a day where they celebrate an Act which put the majority of criminals inBlackgate Prison, Bobby watches from the manor and skips participating in the celebrations. As this is happening a maid, later to be revealed as Selina Kyle, is stealing Bobby 's mother's pearl necklace from his private quarters. Bobby sneaks up behind her and confronts her, but she overpowers him and escapes with the necklace. During an investigation of the safe, Bobby discovers that the real target was his fingerprints and not the necklace. He returns to the Batcave for the first time in years and runs an analysis, only to be confronted by Alfred who asks him to return to life. Opting to retrieve his mother's pearls, Bobby begins to track the thief via a GPS locator that was planted onto the pearls. He follows her to a gala where he encounters Miranda Tate and later Kyle herself. He recovers the pearls after learning of a new threat to Gotham, but Selina is able to steal his car by claiming to be his wife. Shortly afterward, Stewart is visited by the newest member of the  Gotham City Police Department,  Joshua Rolle. At Stewart Manor Joshua tells him about the attack on James Gordon and reveals to him that he knows Stewart is actually Blackman. He warns him about another threat known as Bane and asks him again to return as Blackman. As he leaves, Bobby informs Alfred of his decision to see the Commissioner and schedules an appointment with an orthopedic specialist after a meeting with Lucius Fox regarding Stewart Enterprises. After learning that the cartilage in his knees has completely depleted, he uses this opportunity to break into the Commissioner's room with a mask on and Gordon tells him about the underground army Bane is building. Returning to the cave, Bobby puts on a sophisticated leg brace which returns his ability to walk without a cane. Against Alfred's advice, he dons his cape and cowl again and goes out to Gotham. As this is happening, Bane goes to a stock exchange and uses Bobby 's stolen finger prints to place a number of risky investments in his name. Bobby now as Blackman chases after Bane and his mercenaries; however, he causes more problems with the police force opt to pursue him rather than the criminal as he was still the accused murderer of Harvey Dent. Blackman escapes into the Bat, a giant aerial craft made by Lucius Fox, and flies away. He finds Selina Kyle holding John Daggetthostage and sees a group of Bane's thugs making their way towards her to kill her. She and Blackman fight off the thugs until Bane himself appears, causing them to flee. Blackman takes her to a building and tells her he would like a meeting with Bane. She quietly sneaks away leaving Blackman confused. Bobby goes back to the Batcave and is confronted by Alfred, who tells him that he doesn't want to bury Bobby as he's "buried enough members of the Stewart family". Alfred threatens to quit if Bobby doesn't hang up his suit. Bobby retorts by saying he has nothing outside of Blackman and that Andrea Beaumont, his first love after Mary Jane, was going to be his future. Alfred then tells Bobby about the letter to Bobby from Andrea saying that she was going to marry Harvey Dent (his best friend at the time) even if Bobby stopped being Blackman and that he burned it to spare Bobby the pain. Bobby becomes angry and accuses Alfred of lying and tells him to leave, to which Alfred does in grief. Awaking the next morning, Bobby is stunned to learn that Alfred is no longer at the manor. Meeting with Fox at the Manor, Fox informs him that his company is losing money fast due to Bane's use of Stewart's fingerprints and that he needs to go with the least risky option which is Miranda Tate or Stewart Enterprises will close. They decide to reveal the green energy project to Tate which was, in reality, a fully operational fusion reactor that was capable of powering Gotham for an indefinite period but could easily be converted to a nuclear bomb. Tate agrees to accept guardianship of the Reactor and Stewart, while at a meeting at Stewart Enterprises, is forced to remove himself from the board as he is no longer in a position of leadership over the company. After a brief meeting with Selina regarding Bane, he returns to the Manor to find Tate there waiting. The two share intercourse before exploring the underground tunnels, Blackman and Catwoman eventually locate Bane's hideout. Kyle has, however, double-crossed the Blackman and locks him in a chamber with Bane himself. Blackman then starts to fight Bane, clearly losing to his superior power and the fact that the mask he wears provides him with Venom that allows him to feel little to no pain (no longer needing  the Venom to be injected into his brain from a dispenser, he no longer has the dispenser that are usually mounted on his arm, and fed through tubes connected to his mask). Blackman still continues to fight and even uses an EMP device to turn off all the lights; however, this has no effect on Bane due his birth and molding in darkness and his undergoing the same training with Ra's al Ghul as Bobby Stewart. Bane quickly finds and beats Blackman even further; then he breaks Blackman 's back over his knee and starts ruthlessly beating his face until his mask breaks off. Bane orders his men to take Bobby Stewart to the Pit, a prison Bane controls in the Middle East. Bobby awakes from his unconscious state and finds Bane looking over him, informing him that he is going to complete what Ra's al Ghul started and is going to force Bobby to watch Gotham's destruction. He tells Stewart that he will be kept alive until Gotham's destruction, at which time he will be allowed to die with Bane specifically stating "You have my permission to die" at the time of Gotham's destruction. A doctor, who is also an inmate in the prison, says that he is going to help fix his back and hangs him up until Bobby can learn to stand. Bobby, while doing this, has a vision of Ra's al Ghul who tells him that he has a child and an heir. Bobby believes it to be Bane (since Taila is dead). Bobby later regains his ability to stand and sees men trying to escape the Pit. He tries to do so himself, but is too weak. He starts training, but continues to fail. While Bobby is resting for his next attempt the doctor that lives next to him tells him the story of how the child became incarcerated in the Pit and later escaped. Bobby realizes, from the story, he must attempt to escape the same way the child did. He tries a final time, remembering his own fall into the cave, and reaches a ledge where all fall. Bats fly out of a hole next to his head and Bobby feels a surge of strength go through him and he leaps off the ledge and grabs hold of the next standing stone. He continues his climb upwards and makes it out of the Pit. He travels back to Gotham where he finds out that things have gotten much worse. He finds Selina, who saved a child who was being mugged, and tells her that he could help give her the Clean Slate - a device capable of removing all traces of a person from official documents and databases. He agrees to give it to her on the condition that he helps him free the cops that have been trapped underneath the city. She reluctantly agrees and Bobby allows himself to be captured in order to locate Fox, who helps him get back his equipment from the Warehouse and a disruptor that will prevent the bomb from detonation. Meanwhile Rolle joined Gordon and his regime of remaining police officers to overthrow Bane and his men to regain control of the city. The plan failed as Gordon and several other men are sentenced to walk on a thin layer of ice. In the commotion, Rolle attempted to free the trapped officers underground, but was caught. As he was about to be executed, Batman arrived and saved him, tasking him with evacuating the city as much as he could. Blackman then goes to the river in order to rescue Commissioner Gordon. Defeating the thugs, he tells Gordon to light a flare and put it on the fuse which leads up to a giant bat shape on the bridge, much to Bane's surprise. Blackman then starts to liberate the cops from the sewers and Gordon organizes them into an army to fight Bane's mercenaries. They start an all-out war in the middle of the streets and Blackman and Bane confront one another on the steps of Gotham's City Hall. Blackman starts to gain the upper hand as he starts punching away at Bane's mask. He saves Miranda who had been taken hostage and interrogates Bane to tell him who has the trigger which will set off the bomb that would destroy the city, paraphrasing Bane's own taunt in the pit. Miranda then appears and stabs Blackman before telling him that she is actually Talia al Ghul, the daughter of Ra's al Ghul. She revealed that she was the child who climbed out of the pit and that the man who helped her was Bane who was later rescued by Ra's for saving his daughter. She then reveals that Bane revived her with the Lazerus pit and that she was the one who revived the Joker.She fixes Bane's mask and Bane straps a rope around Blackman 's neck. Blackman pleads with her not to set off the bomb but she ignores him as she only wanted revenge upon the man and the city that destroyed her father. She leaves to go find the bomb and secure it in a place where no one can get to it, although Gordon is already at work trying to defuse it. Bane is about to kill Blackman when Selina comes through on the Batpod and shoots Bane, killing him. Blackman uses the Bat and flies after Talia while Catwoman goes after the escort tumbler vehicles. He shoots the truck she is in off the road and confronts her. Talia, who is mortally wounded, tells him that she overrode the bomb so that nothing could stop it and flooded the compartment holding the stabilization equipment. Blackman realizes that she is telling the truth and that it needs to be taken somewhere safe; realizing the only option is to take the bomb into the Atlantic Ocean. Selina kisses him goodbye and Gordon asks Blackman who he is and he tells him by reminding him of the night of his parent's death stating: "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulder to let him know that the world hadn't ended." As Gordon realizes the Blackman 's identity is Bobby Stewart, Blackman flies away with the bomb attached to the Bat. The city watches in horror as Blackman flies away with the bomb, making it to a safe distance before the bomb detonates. Following the apparent death of Blackman, he is identified as a hero and a monument is erected in his honor in the center of city hall. Meanwhile, at Stewart Manor, a small memorial service is held in Bobby Stewart's honor by the few men that knew the truth of his identity as Blackman. A short while afterwards, Lucius Fox discovers that the Bat, which had a failing autopilot, had actually been repaired six months prior. Rolle received his own inheritance from Bobby, under his first name as a Superhero: Robin. When he visited the coordinates he was provided, Rolle found himself in the Batcave. Bobby passes on his legacy to Rolle after realizing that being a hero was his destiny. Joshua then finds a  Red Diary Bobby left which informs him the truth of his past. Alfred, at a cafe in Florence, recalls as recurring dream he had during Bobby 's first disappearance regarding finding him happily at a cafe in Italy with a wife. As Alfred sits he looks up to find Bobby sitting with Selina across the cafe. He smiles and nods at him, as does Bobby, having finally found peace and happiness.

The Wolverine Edit
However 2 years later He was kidnapped and had his mind wiped by an unknown agency, completely erasing his past and lining his bones with adamantium, Bobby was trained to be the ultimate killing machine, Weapon X. After escaping the facility, the feral Wolverine was taken in by Heather Hudson and her husband James, members of Alpha Flight, a Government sanctioned group considered to be the Canadian equivalent of the Justice League. After helping him cope with his lost past, Wolverine joined Alpha Flight. Feeling that the Canadians were using him as a weapon, he accepted Professor Charles Xavier’s offer to leave and join the X-Men, a group of mutant peacekeepers who fought for mutant rights. Instantly falling for teammate Jean Grey, Bobby felt hostility towards her boyfriendCyclops, the leader of the group. When the X-Men learned that The Mutant Control Agency was kidnapping mutants usingSentinel robots, Wolverine lost two of his friends in the fight to stop the agency. Morph, his best friend who he believed dead, and Beast, arrested for breaking and entering. Beast later received a pardon from President Robert Kelly. Wolverine discovered that Morph was still alive, but was under a form of mind control from Mister Sinister, who implanted him with a device which triggered his hatred for the X-Men for abandoning him. Wolverine tried and failed to reach Morph, until the X-Men and Magneto defeated Mister Sinister, and Xavier removed the device from his brain. It wasn't long before Wolverine was once again confronted by demons from his past. Uriko, a former love, returned to New York City as Lady Deathstrike to exact her revenge on him for leaving her behind years ago, as well as murdering her father, who was one of the scientists behind the original Weapon X program. Saving her from an alien taking over her body did little to change Yuriko’s feelings towards him, instead only leaving him with another enemy out there. While traveling in Japan, Wolverine fought Silver Samurai and his minions. He later received a mysterious envelope featuring pictures of his past he couldn’t recall seeing before. He flew to the coordinates left on the back of the envelope, hoping to finally learn the secrets to his past, and the mysterious Weapon X project which gave himadamantium skeleton and claws and he encountered his old friends, Sabretooth, Silver Fox, and Maverick. The four learned that they were taken against their will and had false memories implanted in their brains, meaning what they remember of their past may not actually be true. Leaving with more questions than answers, Wolverine returned to the X-Men continuing to fight for mutants' rights, hoping to make the world a safer place for both humans and mutants to come. Over the next 3 years  the object of fear, awe and speculation on the part of the students, has helped him inspire the X-Men in good ways by providing battle tips after clandestinely watching Danger Room sessions and in bad ways in inspiring conflict between the core group of X-Men simply by virtue of his loner status and aggressive behavior. But, his softer side often showed through. He was sometimes a protective father-figure to Kitty Pryde (whom he called "half-pint"), X23, Kurt Wagner (whom he called "elf"), and Rogue. The closest of the four was Kitty, who believed that Bobby wouldn't hurt her, even in a mind-control-like state that was supposed to cause him to kill her. When he thought she might have died, when she had actually just phased away, he was overcome with grief. He once stated to a mind controlled Kitty that he, in turn, could never hurt her. He also shared a close relation with X23. He was protective of her and thought mostly of her safety. He seemed proud of her abilities and deeply cared for her in a father-daughter way. 2  years later Wolverine is bidding farewells to the X-men and the Xavier Institute. Unfortunately, as he is about to say goodbye to Charles, an explosions destroys the institute and Jean Greyand Charles Xavier are missing. He awakes from this flashback by a road side. As he departs, there is an explosion and he rushes to the scene. A child is trapped in a fiery wreck of a train and several RVs. Wolverine jumps into the chaos and is engulfed in an explosion just before saving the child. The child's family takes Bobby in despite warnings that the MRD is on their way. As Bobby recovers from the blast, the MRD arrive at the home, arresting the family. Bobby fights as best as he can, but the MRD are too prepared for his strategy and buy enough time for the family to be taken away. On an impulsive decision, Wolverine and Beast infiltrate an MRD compound and free the family and the imprisoned mutants. Realizing the extent of the MRDs power, Bobby decides that it is time to re-establish the X-men to fight for mutantkind. Some, including Cyclops,Magneto, and Rogue, are skeptical of Wolverine as a leader of the X-Men. However, when Charles Xavier comes with a message from the future that Wolverine must lead the X-Men to prevent a mutant-hunted future, there are no objections from the team. Wolverine is very aggressive, but exhibites actions that are for the team, X-Men and mutants along with mutant supporters. He shows excellent qualities of a leader. At the request of Nicholas Fury of SHIELD, Wolverine is called upon to help take down the Hulk who has gone rampant in the Canadian wilderness. Fury threatens Wolverine by naming all members of the X-men at the new Institute and that he will turn them over to the MRD if he does not cooperate. Naturally Wolverine cooperates, hunts down the Hulk only to find that Elijah Rolle was called to bring in a "monster" itself SHIELD created. For whatever reason, Bobby has definite animosity toward SHIELD. After helping his former foe and defeating the Wendigos, he warned Fury that if he ever do that stunt again, he won't help him next time and let Hulk to come out and say "thank you" to Fury. Then he resumed his anti-MRD activities, which resulted in a success in preventing the Days of Future Past from becoming reality. Somehow, when Kang began summoning his forces from the past and future, Wolverine was there saving War Machine from three dinosaurs by killing them, which the latter didn't liked. After listening to Iron Fizz's message, he thought that the message was meant for War Machine. Despite that, he responded and became one of the New Avengers who later helped take down Kang with divide-and-conquer strategy. When Galactus arrived, Bobby responded to Code: White and then proceeded to his assigned post. After that, he fell unconscious and was taken out of the area by Madame Web.

== B-Money Once More  == Madame Web then restored Bobby’s memories and revealed that she had been training Bobby for a horror beyond belief the whole time. However Her master, the Beyonder, does not believe Bobby to be worthy enough yet and puts him through the Secret Wars against Doctor Octavius, Alistar Smythe, the Lizard, Red Skull, and Doctor Doom. The Beyonder puts the villains on a planet that knows no such thing as war and leaves them there for one year, allowing the villains to take over and nearly destroy everything that society built. Bobby enlists the help of the  Fantastic Three, Captain America,  Iron Fizz  , and Storm. The Beyonder then strips Bobby of his mutant abilities and restores his original spider powers. Bobby barely is able to stop the Lizard and bring out the Dr. Connors personality feeling rust from not using the powers in many years. He is also able to bring the Black Cat to the planet, though against her wishes. Together the heroes are able to defeat the villains and win the wars. The Beyonder puts everyone back without the knowledge of what happened and then wisks B-Money to his ultimate challenge finding the real Mary Jane. B-Money eventually found her