Dark Knight mythos, Arkham Asylum is also a masterful study of postmodern magical symbolism and the varying degrees of psychosis. The multi-strand narrative begins with the inmates, led by The Joker, taking over the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, holding the staff hostage, and demanding an audience with The Batman. Time becomes strange. Unlike typical comic book stories, the villains have individual fixations and realistic flaws. They are transformed, by the story's close, into mythopoeic figures.
Psychiatry is like that.
Change the structure, don't dwell on the content. Arkham alludes to H.P. Lovecraft , and how non-Euclidean geometry and negative architecture can warp the psyche. You must be mad, or you wouldn't have undertaken this Graal Quest. What Arkham Asylum captures is how postmodern magical systems are the evolutionary results of human experiences. These experiences can be arduous and dangerous to the unprepared individual.