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My downtrodden brothers and sisters of Gotham, you have nothing to fear. We are the Children of Arkham. We are here to end the masquerade, and expose the corruption at root in your city! For too long men like your esteemed mayor have profited from the pain of innocents! Tonight, we show you the TRUTH! Look at the hearts of these spineless creatures, chosen to lead. Candidates, take off your masks. Show Gotham your true selves. Tell them what you really think about the city you pretend to love.
~ Lady Arkham's speech to the audience at the mayoral debate.
I think it's time you knew my real name: I am… Lady Arkham. And you already know the Penguin. Look at him up there, taking everything that should belong to you, mocking you! The smug, insignificant bastard. He thinks he can get away with it… because none of them know who he really is; they wouldn't believe you if you told them. It would be so easy to get rid of him. Who else will deliver justice?
~ Vicki Vale showing her true colors by drugging Bruce into attacking the Penguin.
You don't know how I suffered, but you will! I'll show you what Thomas Wayne did to me, to my family!
~ Vicki to Bruce, if he unmasks himself to save Alfred and tells her he would've fought for her because of her suffering.

Victoria "Vicki" Vale (born Victoria Arkham), also known as Lady Arkham, is the main antagonist of the 2016 episodic adventure video game Batman: The Telltale Series.

She is the fanatical leader of the Children of Arkham, and guises as an investigative reporter for the Gotham Gazette in order to hide her true colors.

She was voiced by Erin Yvette, who also voiced Bonnie in Telltale's The Walking Dead and Arlecchino from Genshin Impact. While disguised as Lady Arkham, she was voiced by Steve Blum, who also voiced Blockbuster in the same series, as well Killer Croc and Sickle in the Arkhamverse. Outside DC comics media, Blum provided the voices of Orochimaru from Naruto, Starscream from Transformers: Prime, Amon from The Legend of Korra, and Ares from God of War.

Biography[]

Forming the Children of Arkham[]

You want to know how I survived? I survived… because every night, I dreamed of the revenge I'd take on them… and this forsaken city!
~ Vicki Vale to Batman about her tragic past of being abused by the Vales if inquired about it by him.
Old Vale Family Photo

An old photograph of Vicki shortly after being adopted by the Vales.

Vicki Vale was born as Victoria Arkham. Her parents were running Arkham Asylum until the corrupt Thomas Wayne had them both killed for not giving up the Asylum. After the murder of her birth parents, she was adopted by the Vale family and was renamed Vicki Vale. However, it was later revealed that Vicki was brutally abused by her foster-parents in a secret hole in their basement, where she created the Lady Arkham persona. Obsessed with vengeance, she vowed to get even with the Waynes.

Fueled by fanaticism, delusion, and hatred, Vicki joined the now-reformed Children of Arkham and became their leader. They were a political reform group-turned-fanatical terrorist organization who claimed that their motive is to "clean up" the corruption in Gotham City, usually by murder. But Vicki's true motive was personal revenge against Mayor Hamilton Hill, Carmine Falcone, and Bruce Wayne (even though Bruce was never involved in his father's corruption, she still holds him responsible), and also wanted the people of Gotham to suffer as she did, by spreading chaos throughout the city.

She also developed a powerful drug that makes people lose their morals and makes them act on their basic impulses, while a concentrated dose will permanently lock them in a mentally unstable state of mind.

Executing Plans Once More[]

She wanted me to feel what my father had done to all those people.
~ Batman to Alfred about Vicki Vale.
Vicki drugs Bruce Wayne

Vicki revealing her true nature after drugging Bruce Wayne.

In the third episode "New World Order", Vicki Vale injects Bruce Wayne with the psychosis-inducing drug during a press conference in which Oswald Cobblepot (secretly her second-in-command, the Penguin) is appointed the CEO of Wayne Enterprises, revealing that she is actually Lady Arkham. She coaxes Bruce into attacking Cobblepot, which he ultimately does. This action causes Bruce to be ironically incarcerated at Arkham Asylum.

In the fourth episode "Guardian of Gotham", Vicki Vale fakes her own kidnapping and fully adopts her Lady Arkham persona. She goes to her adoptive parents home and brutally attacks her mother, lethally injecting her with a dose of her drug before gouging out her eyes, killing her. She then attacked her adoptive father, beating him to a bloody pulp with a belt (like how they used belts to torture her), before she hung him up with the belt by the neck like a noose, though the blood loss killed him instead of the hanging. She left her brother alive, showing compassion for him and that she seemed to actually care for him. She then used her father's warehouse to store her drugs, but they were later destroyed by Mayor Harvey Dent/Two-Face and his Enforcers.

One Last Fight with Batman[]

Nothing will keep me from my revenge!
~ Vicki Vale fighting Bruce/Batman.
Batman vs Lady Arkham

Lady Arkham being confronted by Batman at Arkham Asylum.

In the fifth episode "City of Light", Vicki storms Wayne Manor together with the Children of Arkham while Bruce is gone. They capture Alfred Pennyworth and bring him to Arkham Asylum, intending to lure Batman there. When Batman turns up, Vicki opens all cells of the asylum, allowing the inmates to roam free. Most immediately attack Batman, while Vicki flees deeper into the asylum.

Eventually, Batman is able to catch up to her and manages to break her mask into pieces with a single punch. Vicki is saved when Batman is attacked by Victor Zsasz, but moments later, Batman catches up to her again. He demands to know where Alfred is and, claiming that she will bring Batman to him, Vicki destroys the floor below them with her staff, causing both to drop into an older, abandoned part of the asylum. Down there, Vicki evades Batman once more. Before escaping for good, Vicki orders Batman to bring Bruce Wayne to her, threatening to murder Alfred should he refuse.

Further venturing through the old canals, Batman finds a tied-up Alfred in a chapel-like room. While trying to cut him loose, Batman is attacked by Vicki, who quickly gains the upper hand by threatening Alfred with her energy staff. Vicki notices how Batman talks to Alfred, noticing the caring tone. To find out how much Alfred means to Batman, Vicki starts beating Alfred up. Once again threatening to kill Alfred, Vicki orders Batman to remove his mask, leaving the latter with the conflicting choice of unmasking himself or refusing to do so.

Batman complies, removing his cowl and throwing it to the ground despite Alfred's pleas not to. While Vicki is shocked to see Bruce's face, she initially refuses to believe it at first as she says that he only cares about himself, but deludes herself into foolishly believing once again that Bruce is Batman so he can prey on the weak and defenseless like his father did. She then fires her energy staff at Bruce, who quickly dodges the blast, but not fast enough that it was able to take out a small chunk of his right ear. Vicki maniacally laughs before she knocks Alfred to the floor with her energy staff.

Batman refuses, pulling out a Batarang while Vicki talks and then throwing it at Alfred's restraints, allowing the latter to break free and punch Vicki in the face. However, she quickly retaliates by firing her energy staff at Alfred's head, and while the blast doesn't kill him instantly, it instead takes out his left eye, much to Batman's horror. Alfred quickly crawls away while Vicki manically laughs.

Vicki Vale Evil

Lady Arkham as she battles Batman/Bruce Wayne.

An intense fight then ensues in which Vicki attacks with her energy staff - claiming that the only truth left will be in Bruce/Batman's death. However, while Vicki mindlessly attempts to murder Bruce/Batman she does not realize that she is causing damage to the surrounding structure. When Bruce/Batman uses her powerful staff against her, Vicki is blasted through a column, causing the walls to crumble. Ultimately, Bruce/Batman defeats Vicki, smashing her into the altar, but due to the damage dealt to the structure, the entire hall starts to break down. Intending to leave Bruce/Batman and Alfred in the collapsing hall, Vicki activates her hover boots to escape. However, Bruce/Batman stops her with her own energy staff once more, smashing her into a wall. While Bruce/Batman frees or helps Alfred up, Vicki attempts to leave the hall on foot, but is presumably crushed to her death when the ceiling collapses onto her, ending her obsession for revenge against Gotham.

A week later after the battle between her and Batman, her body was never found (only her mask and broken staff was recovered) and Bruce wasn't sure if she was dead or alive, but the Children of Arkham was dissolved after her defeat.

Following Vicki's supposed death, the remaining members of the Children of Arkham and the escaped patients were all rounded up by the GCPD. The group was subsequently disbanded, with its members now serving various sentences in Blackgate Prison and Arkham Asylum. News reports would also report of Vicki's involvement as Lady Arkham, along with her defeat at Batman's hands. Batman would keep a display of Lady Arkham in the Batcave, which consisted of her concussion staff and either her broken mask or doll (depending on whether he attacked her or unmasked himself). If Bruce attends Gordon's rally, he can announce plans to renovate Arkham Asylum, in memory of her family and to help it recover from his father's actions.

Personality[]

No wonder Vicki is consumed with hate. It's all she's ever known.
~ Batman, if he understands Vicki's hatred as a reason for killing her foster parents.

Vicki Vale was first seen as a motivated and supporting character. It turns out that she is fanatic, ruthless, manipulative and unhinged. According to "John Doe", her parent's deaths left her with "an unquenchable thirst for vengeance", meaning she is obsessed for revenge (also shown by the murder of her adopted parents, leaving a vendetta sign on her mother by stabbing out her eyes). Her concept of vengeance appears to display that the child inherits the responsibility of the parent, thus causing her misguided hatred of Bruce, who was only a child himself when his father, Thomas, caused her suffering to begin; perhaps a factor is Thomas' death from Joe Chill, which "robbed" her of taking revenge personally, thereby she transfers her grudge to Bruce, irrationally considering him guilty of his father's crimes.

She always tries to justify her violent actions by pointing out certain kinds of motivations (mostly about her tragic past), making her delusional. She also shows signs of mental instability, caused by her foster-parents abusing of her. If evidence that disputes her beliefs is presented before her, she refuses to accept it, instead twisting some preposterous excuse that cancels out the conflicting information; if cognitive dissonance is provoked further, her typically controlled anger turns into mania and less restrained violence.

She did seem to care for her adoptive brother, leaving him alive at her house and even had a picture of them together below Arkham, embracing him in a hug.

Abilities[]

  • Peak-Physical Condition: She appears to possesses Olympic levels of strength, speed, senses, stamina, and endurance.
  • Expert Combatant/Martial Artist: She is a highly skilled fighter who has gone toe to toe with Batman twice.
  • Journalism: She has made a successful career for herself as an investigative reporter.
  • Manipulation: She has great abilities to manipulate people to believe that she isn't involved.
  • Fanaticism: She became the leader of a cult known as the Children of Arkham.
  • Mesmerism: Using a special nerve drug, she was able to cause people to act on their impulses and loosen their hold on their morals.

Equipment[]

  • Energy Lance: He even uses a special high tech lance which can project near-lethal shock waves.
  • Lady Arkham Suit: She uses a high tech suit for her Lady Arkham persona. The suit has technology which allows her some superhuman abilities.
    • Hover Boots: She wears boot with mixture jets in them which grant her brief flight.
      • Super-Leaping: Technology on her boots allow her to jump at superhuman heights.

Quotes[]

Vicki Vale, not interested, and reporter for the Gotham Gazette.
~ Vicki introducing herself to Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne.
We are the Children of Arkham, and we have opened your eyes!
~ Lady Arkham after the attack at the mayoral debate in the Wayne Memorial Auditorium.
Retribution, Bruce.
~ Vicki Vale, if Bruce asks her how she could've drugged him.
Your time's run out.
~ Vicki preparing to fight Batman in Arkham Asylum.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • In the comics and other media, Vicki Vale is normally portrayed as one of Bruce Wayne's love interests and an ally.
  • The damage to Vicki's psyche leaves her unable to accept the truth when it contradicts what she originally believed. If Batman unmasks, Vicki is unable to accept Bruce Wayne was the complete opposite of his father and was trying to help Gotham by fighting crime; making her attacks on him pointless and hindrance to his crusade.

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