Best Suits Perfect for a New Arkham Game

The Batman Arkham games have featured a multitude of comic-inspired suits since Batman: Arkham City. Across the Batman Arkham games, players can choose between some pretty great suits, but if there’s ever (hopefully) another Batman Arkham game, there are plenty of Batman costumes across the comics that would make for excellent skins to provide Batman with a visual style that truly stands out.

With over 85 years of costumes across comics, movies, animated shows, and games to choose from, here are some of the best Batman costumes that would make excellent skins in a potential future Batman Arkham game.

8 Post-Crisis Batman

A Modernized Classic With a Blue and Gray Color Scheme

• Appeared in: Batman #608 (October, 2002)
• Created by: Jim Lee, Jeph Loeb

While Post-Crisis Batman has had many appearances, his most impressionable rendition came from Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb with Batman: Hush. The Batman presented here looks visually stunning with the bulky yellow utility belt, paired with the dark blue colors that appear almost black in shadow, making for a match made in heaven with the gray suit itself.

Everything about the Post-Crisis Batman suit works, and it shows how it’s easy to modernize a classic without straying too far into the wrong territory of an all-black color scheme for Batman. Paired with the colors and the underwear, this is a batsuit for the ages.

7 Rebirth Batman

The New 52 Suit That Brought Forth a Rebirth

• Appeared in: Batman #50 (March, 2016)
• Created by: Greg Capullo, Scott Snyder

When Bruce Wayne “died” in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s New 52 run of Batman, it was only a matter of time before he would return to the cape and cowl to save Gotham City as its protector. After his death, his suit needed a Rebirth, and the colors just work so vibrantly. The pale gray and jet black color scheme already look great, but it’s the purple inner cape that really makes this suit so triumphant.

Bold yellow accents on the belt and the bat symbol with a hint of blue on the gauntlets and cowl under the right light, this is a suit that would work perfectly in the neon lights of Gotham City, gliding around and beating up the superstitious and cowardly lot of criminals that are afraid of the knight in the night.

6 The Batman Who Laughs

The Twisted Smile of a Batman Joker Brings Further Fear

• Appeared in: Dark Days: The Casting #1 (July, 2017)
• Created by: Greg Capullo, Scott Snyder

The Batman Who Laughs is as metal as it gets, as not only is he adorned with metallic belts, chains, and thorns with an all-black outfit, but he’s a Bruce Wayne who’s fallen into the Joker’s abyss and become his greatest enemy. Batman is Joker in this Dark Multiverse variant, and to have him as an outfit would be truly chilling.

Not only is the implication of this suit great for its familiar treads with a Batman infected with Joker’s blood in Batman: Arkham Knight, but being able to roam the streets with a disturbing crimson grin on Batman’s face would truly make for an impressionable outfit choice.

5 Zero Year Batman

A Batsuit for a Wasteland Gotham

• Appeared in: Batman #21 (June, 2013)
• Created by: Greg Capullo, Scott Snyder

When Gotham was plunged into chaos after the Riddler had flooded the subway tunnels and taken out the electrical grids to provide the city with power, Batman came back with a suit befitting a jungle city. The Zero Year batsuit is a play on Batman’s original costume design, complete with the purple gloves and all. However, this suit has a unique design that beats the others.

With the Zero Year suit, Batman has a sleeveless design and a utility belt that is far more military and practical, with plenty of belts, pouches, and rope. It’s a suit that looks great, and seeing it in action would be a lot of fun, even if there might need to be a bit of creativity for the lack of a cape.

4 Owlman

An Evil Batman Adorned in Chrome

• Appeared in: Justice League #23 (October, 2013)
• Created by: Ivan Reis, Geoff Johns

While Owlman himself was created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky decades prior in Justice League of America #29 (August 1964), it wasn’t until his debut in the New 52 era that Owlman’s costume really got the design it deserved to provide readers with a Batman variant from across the Multiverse, one in which the Crime Syndicate reigns supreme, and villainy is what he lives for.

The Owlman suit looks great with shimmering chrome and silvers, along with a cape that stretches to his shoulders like an owl’s talons. The design of an all-blue suit married with chrome makes for an impressionable design that would be fun to wear when taking to Gotham City.

3 Hellbat

A Justice League-Forged Batsuit for Fighting Darkseid

• Appeared in: Batman and Robin #33 (September, 2014)
• Created by: Peter Tomasi, Patrick Gleason

If there is any suit of armor that can be considered overpowered, it’s the Hellbat suit. The Hellbat armor was created by the Justice League to bestow Batman the responsibility and power he would need to do the unthinkable, should the situation arise. Forged from a dying star and other oddities only the Justice League could accomplish, this suit has a distinct style that kills.

The Hellbat suit would make for a great suit for a Batman Arkham game for multiple reasons. The all-black metallic scheme, the glowing red symbols and lines that adorn the suit, and the potential for a cape and set of wings – this is a pretty rad suit that deserves to be in a game.

2 Batman’s Dream Suit

A Cyber-Suit for an Unseen Utopia

• Appeared in: Batman #95 (July, 2020)
• Created by: Jorge Jimenez, James Tynion IV

There is a dream that Bruce Wayne has, one where the sun rises in Gotham and he can remain its protector without the need of fear and dark colors: a dream of a Gotham at peace. Sadly, this dream doesn’t seem to be approaching anytime soon, and this dream can be represented in the suit featured in The Joker War, with its shiny silver and blue colors.

This cybernetic and futuristic suit is perfect for a neo-Gotham, and while Joker takes the suit and twists it into his own sadistic version to abuse and mutilate Batman’s dream, it’s still a suit that would look great in video game form, especially since it’s not been worn as much as it should.

1 Absolute Batman

A Bulkier, Younger, Practical Batman

• Appeared in: Absolute Batman (October, 2024)
• Created by: Nick Dragotta, Scott Snyder

One of the more recent Batman stories comes again from Scott Snyder, in which readers are taken to the Absolute Universe, providing the newest and boldest take on Batman yet from a different Multiverse altogether. This version of Bruce Wayne is far younger, with a different background and build – presented in his hulking size and impressionable batsuit.

The Absolute Batman suit might be a tad hard to pull off considering the size difference, but it would be fun to see that bulky bat symbol that functions as an axe/sledgehammer, along with the bat wings that function as both a cape and gauntlets to slice. While practical for this Batman, it might be a tough suit to get working in game form.