Masked Guard

Biography
The Masked Guard is the average security guard at Arkham Asylum, one of the many present during the Joker's takeover of the asylum. He, along with many others, are identified mainly by their extensive riot gear and helmets with metal grilles that obscure their features. Masked Guards are often new trainees hired by Arkham's administrator, Warden Sharp, as part of several new security measures being instituted at the asylum.

Road to Arkham
After apprehending the Joker, Batman called Warden Sharp to tell him that he would arrive in fifteen minutes. Warden Sharp notified the Masked Guards of his frustration due to the Joker's previous escape and would not tolerate any more incompetence amongst them, stating that "we straighten out Arkham today, we straighten out Gotham City tomorrow".

Batman: Arkham Asylum
The Masked Guards comprised many of the security guards present at Arkham Asylum's Intensive Treatment facility, when the Joker was recaptured by Batman. Most were posted to guard the Joker as he was being returned to Arkham Asylum after his most recent capture. While being transferred through the Holding Cells under the supervision of an unidentified security officer and a doctor, the Joker broke free and set loose all the prisoners housed in the Holding Cells (Most of them convicts transferred temporarily from Blackgate Prison). The Masked Guards turn up throughout the asylum, but most are immediately overpowered and murdered by the escaping inmates. The Joker and his men also take several Masked Guards hostage, two of which he experiments on, turning them into monstrous beasts. Batman, while trying to recapture the Joker, finds that most of the Masked Guards are actually dead or incapacitated. Arkham's security force became extremely depleted as the Joker and his hordes of inmates killed more and more of the Masked Guards, going so far as to even use their radios for communication. The Masked Guards were often isolated against desperate odds and cut off from radio support. Those who proved fortunate enough to survive the first stages of the Joker's takeover were either rounded up by his men or managed to find a safe place to hide and wait out the remainder of the takeover of Arkham. Most of the surviving Masked Guards fell under Poison Ivy's mind-controlling spell when infected by the spores released into the air by her mutated plants after they overran Arkham Island.

Notable Masked Guards
The following are Masked Arkham Guards identified by name and are therefore not included in this category:


 * Bill
 * Mike
 * Thomas Armbruster
 * Steve
 * Jackson
 * Jerry

The rest remained unidentified and are thus credited only as "Masked Guards".

List of Masked Guards in Batman: Arkham Asylum
The following is a list of all the Masked Guards that have appeared in Batman: Arkham Asylum: