Arkham Asylum
The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane,
better known as Arkham Asylum, is a fictional psychiatric hospital north of
Gotham City. It has featured prominently in the various continuities of the DC
Universe, as well as in the films Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and
Batman Begins. Depicted as a remote, labyrinthine stone facility, Arkham has
housed many of Batman's most notorious foes, including the Joker, Two-Face,
Scarecrow, and Killer Croc. Jeremiah Arkham is the asylum's current director.
Within the Batman mythos, Arkham Asylum was named for the
mother of Amadeus Arkham, a Gotham psychiatrist who founded the institution
after his mother's mental illness led to her untimely death—in reality, Amadeus
had euthanized her, although he repressed that memory. According to Batman
Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City, a compilation of
contemporary analyses edited by Dennis O'Neil, the asylum was named for a
somewhat similar facility known as "Arkham Sanitarium" mentioned in
the horror fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. As a result, DC's Arkham was
supposed to mirror Lovecraft's dark and brooding literary characteristics while
providing an essential intertextual supplement to the background atmosphere of
equally dismal Gotham City.
I believe this cosplayer is also at the asylum.
The patients with Batman
Poison Ivy & Harley
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