Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is finally here. Seven years, multiple delays, lackluster announcement reactions, and ultimately an average-to-bad game means that fans are rightly annoyed at the final product. After the excellent Batman: Arkham trilogy, we all expected bigger and better things from Rocksteady. Perhaps with less executive interference and more time for patches, the game will become better, just like Cyberpunk 2077, but who knows?
Fans are understandably angry, and for good reason, at the offering given to us, however, some fans are picking apart the very thing we – as the Suicide Squad – were ’employed’ to do.
NOTE: HEAVY spoilers for the game follow.
The Game is Literally Titled Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to players that in the game titled Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, you as the team, end up killing the Justice League, or at least, the majority of them. Rather than just sticking to killing the many nameless and faceless enemies over the game’s expansive map, you will end up in a few boss battles that’ll end up resulting in you having to kill your childhood heroes.
Unfortunately, it seems that some fans aren’t happy with this, and may have gotten more than they bargained for. With killing the likes of Lex Luthor – oh no, anyway – to Flash, Wonder Woman, and more besides, you’ll end up cutting a swath of destruction and death through Metropolis, and for some reason, fans are angry. Why?
Just saw Superman's death in Kill the Justice league and it is the worst death out of all of them.
The most iconic hero of all time and he just falls to the ground and dies without a word. 💀 pic.twitter.com/acQ2WqjyJw
— Devoun (@DevounYT) January 31, 2024
Could’ve easily prevented all the unnecessary anger by just making it a one-off game not mixing previous continuity. It isn’t hard. 🤣
— REBEL MOON 🌕 (@Snyder_Cut_240) January 30, 2024
Some fans are angry about the killing of the Justice League themselves. Others are angry about the utter lack of spectacle and anti-climatic nature of each of them, and some are angry about the continuity mixing of this with Batman: Arkham games.
One Death is Likely to Leave a Bad Taste in Your Mouth Though
Of course that death is well known at this point, and it’s Batman’s. Not only is it Batman’s death, but it comes at the hands of Harley Quinn. Not only that, but this is the same Batman who survived the events of the Arkhamverse’s worst villains, including blood poisoning, Scarecrow-induced hallucinations, and Mark Hamill’s incredible Joker. So of course fans are angry.
Throw in the unfortunate passing of Kevin Conroy, and this will make even the largest defender of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Rocksteady stumble a little. Fans are understandably annoyed, and many took to social media to say as much.
Nah because how did Gotham Knights manage to do Batman's death better than SSKTJL 😭
Like yes I get it. He always had to die in this game, but having the same man who literally fought off diseased blood with nothing but shere willpower, succumb to MIND CONTROL is such a cop out pic.twitter.com/FhRZQQpjYS
— Sam (@Sgr_Vx) January 29, 2024
However you might look at it, the game has been undoubtedly a failure, and with fans leaving the game in droves, it’s yet to be seen if it can be saved by anything, whether that be the Season 1 content on the way, or the revisionist history of a future DLC undoing all poor story decisions of the base game. All of that is without the now infamous Sweet Baby Scandal…
What do you think about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s handling of the characters and universe? Let us know in the comments below!
