Strange called an emergency meeting of the Gotham City council and asked them to approve Protocol 10 by disclosing he'd failed to control the circulation of weapons inside Arkham. Batman reasoned this was Protocol 10, but when confronted the Joker claimed he'd never heard of it. Unknown to Strange, the Joker, who was suffering from an incurable disease, was poisoning Gotham City's hospitals by smuggling his contaminated blood into the local blood banks. He initially suspected Strange and the Joker were planning Protocol 10 in concert, since Strange had alluded to working with a partner. Strange then began an hourly countdown to its inception, which Batman monitored with increasing concern after hacking a TYGER communications network. The proliferation of arms led to widespread gang violence and a bloody turf war between Joker and the Penguin.Ī missile from Wonder Tower striking the Museum.īatman did not learn of Protocol 10's existence until his own incarceration inside Arkham City, when Strange rather cryptically informed him that it would be implemented shortly afterwards. To ensure Protocol 10's inevitability, Strange began smuggling weapons into the criminal populace from TYGER's arsenal. TYGER personnel were apparently briefed on Protocol 10 by Strange it was understood that its successful implementation would conclude their contract with the city and set a precedent for similar programs in Keystone City and Metropolis. The task of carrying out Protocol 10 was entrusted to TYGER Security, a firm contracted to monitor Arkham's walled enclosure and keep the inmates under control. Details were disclosed only to Strange, Mayor Sharp, and the city councilmen even James Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department was just informed it was the "worst case security measure". Due to its controversial nature, Protocol 10 could only be authorized by unanimous consensus in the Gotham municipal council. The contingency called for the immediate execution of as many inmates as necessary to preempt a mass breakout. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through Mayor Quincy Sharp, they were able to successfully lobby for the mass relocation of all incarcerated felons and Arkham Asylum patients to the city's worst slums, which were then cordoned off as Arkham City.ĭuring the new Arkham's construction, Strange first proposed Protocol 10 as a contingency designed to protect Gotham from the catastrophic crime wave which would inevitably follow any major breach in its heavily guarded perimeter. Ra's and Strange planned to concentrate Gotham's entire criminal populace in a central location where it could be annihilated en masse, but needed a pretext for doing so. Protocol 10 was at the heart of the Arkham City concept as originally masterminded by Ra's al Ghul and Hugo Strange.
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