After watching the gameplay and cutscenes on YouTube from start to finish, I'm gonna say both. Yes it's canon but it's also a dream. Nothing in Arkham VR is real, instead it was Bruce Wayne having a nightmare of him becoming the Joker. When he wakes up, Bruce later finds out that he is in fact slowly becoming the Joker with his blood (ever since Joker used the titan formula on himself in Arkham Asylum and later in Arkham City the Joker put an iv in Batman's arm which is how Joker's blood was used inside Batman's body) just like the other four victims were infected.
It explains why in Arkham Knight you see Batman talking to Nightwing and says "This is the last time we'll meet" and why Batman didn't want Robin to help him during his missions. In reality, Batman didn't want those two guys near him for too long because in his dream Batman kills them both, or at least he killed one of them with his own hands and allowed the other one to be killed by Killer Croc which was planned by Batman/Joker. Bruce is afraid that will become a reality and why he didn't want that to happen.
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ExplorerDS6789
8 years ago
I see. I wondered if they made it slightly non-canon, and at the point in AK when Batman is in a hallucination, fighting off a hoard of Jokers before finally grabbing one and breaking his neck, if it was in fact Nightwing he had killed in that fight.
Thanks for clearing things up. I kind of wonder why the original actors for Alfred and Penguin didn't return.
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