In Gotham Knights it seems the court of owls will be the big bad for this game. But why is one of the newest enemies to the bat family the major villain here? Thanks to an interview we do have the answer.
ComicBook.com: We see in the footage that The Court of Owls is the main antagonist. And we even see teased how far they’ve infiltrated with the owl at the top of the badge and things like that, so there are little clues. When you folks were crafting this game and decided to go that route, was it more about what excited you about them as an organization and what they bring or trying to maybe avoid doing another Joker story or doing some of those things that we’ve seen?
Patrick Redding: Right. No, it really was what was magical and special about The Court of Owls as a new element in the Batman lore. It just was such a good fit because one, we’re kicking things off with a very shocking event and then asking the question, “What happens to Gotham City as a consequence of that?” Right? And you can start to imagine all the obvious things, but for us, at least in our interpretation of story, that becomes the inciting incident. You don’t have this firewall, this buffer between the worst excesses of the city and its populous anymore. So an organization like The Court of Owls that’s been sitting in the shadows for a few hundred years suddenly has their opening, right? There’s that aspect of it.
The other part of it is the game is really driven by the new guard, right? It’s driven by these young heroes who are not Batman and don’t necessarily philosophically do things the same way he would. And they represent the youth and collaboration and solving certain kinds of problems with a certain kind of fervor and a certain kind of youthful energy. Well, there’s no better antithesis to that, honestly, than The Court of Owls, which represents corrupt, old, entrenched power and wealth, it’s just twisted and has distorted and turned Gotham City into this grotesque version of an East Coast American city, right? So I think it was a really logical, very organic choice as an adversary for that group of heroes.
Article:https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/gotham-knights-court-of-owls-interview/
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