Victor Zsasz (Arkhamverse)



"I'm just thinking about the one that got away. The one I chose. I needed the mark. I want the mark!"

- Victor Zsasz

Victor Zsasz is a minor antagonist that appeared in the first two Batman Arkham game; Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City.

Zsasz's Past
Zsasz was once rich and that he lost his parents when he was young. To cope with the pain, Zsasz took on gambling, but he started to lose his money. After more gambling Zsasz started to regain his money, to the point where he was able to gamble with others like Oswald Copplepot. But when he gambled with the Penguin, Zsasz lost all of his money, and was kicked out of the Iceberg Lounge. Shortly after he lost all his money, and thinking of committing suicide, a thug asked pointed a knife at him and demanded for his money. Without knowing Zsasz grabbed the knife and rammed it into the thug, killing him. Zsasz said that plunging the knife into the thug felt good, but when the thug died, the feeling was gone. Before he knew it, Zsasz accidently cut himself with the same knife, and that felt just as good, so in order to feel the enjoyment, Zsasz decided to kill someone and cut himself for every kill.

Arkham Asylum
In the videogame Batman: Arkham Asylum, Victor Zsasz is the first real villain that Batman will actually encounter after Joker escapes. He keeps an Arkham Asylum guard hostage in an electric chair, and Batman had to be stealthy and use the gargoyles around the electric chair and knock Zsasz down without being seen.

Later in the game, Victor Zsasz is ordered by Joker, to get Dr. Penelope Young to give up her research notes. He does this by threatening her with a knife, until the Batman comes to her rescue. What happened to Zsasz after being knocked out by Batman is unknown, but it is implied that he escaped while Batman was fighting Quinn's goons who had arrived, as his body was not seen in the room during it. Later on in the game, after Batman is drugged by Scarecrow's fear toxin, Zsasz appears in Batman's hallucination. He is not seen again after this.

In some of the games' challenge modes, Zsasz is one of various thugs to be fought.

Batman: Arkham City
Zsasz makes an appearance in Batman: Arkham City. He appears in one of the Side missions. In Arkham City, Zsasz would kidnap several political prisoners. He then would call a random phone somewhere in Arkham City and wait for someone to pick up the phone. Then he would threaten them that if they don't find another phone that was ringing in a certain amount of time, he would one, if not all the hostages. Batman does this several times and every time he find the phone that's ringing Batman would track Zsasz's location while at the same time, Zsasz would tell his story of why he became the serial killer he is today.

After Batman manage to tract down Zsasz, Batman took out Zsasz and rescued the hostages.

Batman: Arkham Knight
Zsasz is set to appear as an antagonist in the upcoming game; Batman: Arkham Knight, but his role is currently unknown.

Character Bio
His profile in the videogame Arkham Asylum states:

A true sociopath, Zsasz grew up in a life of ease, but nonetheless, became a serial killer. Indiscriminate in his prey, body count is the only thing that matters to Zsasz. He takes pleasure in arranging the corpses of his victims in life-like poses before carving a mark for each of his victims into his own body. He is saving a special spot for the Batman.