Everyone’s “favorite” looter-shooter Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League shocked audiences when the game’s eponymous team… well, killed the Justice League. It was all right there in the name, and no matter how many bugs the game had, at least it was always honest. However, that may not be the case anymore because according to the latest developments in the game’s plot, we may not have actually killed the Justice League. Now how did Task Force X screw this up?
Suicide SquadThe second season of apparently revealed that superheroes thought to be dead may very well be alive. At least one of them is. In the cutscene after the end of the second season story and still another Brainiac boss fight, Lightning miraculously escapes the clutches of the villain and actually is preserved from the suicide squad.
Lightning had one of Suicide Squadmore dramatic arcs, so it’s only fitting that he’s brought back to begin this final wave of his story. At the start of the game, he’s actually one of the few members of the Justice League who hasn’t been corrupted by Brainiac, and even helps the team escape the clutches of the mind-controlled Green Lantern. He is eventually captured by a brainwashed Batman, who then turns the Flash into another one of Brainiac’s minions.
Given that he was one of the detainees and was only captured because of his heroism, players felt particularly bad about having to kill the Flash, whose excruciating death is further ruined by the scene’s tacit confirmation that Captain Boomerang packs a huge cock. This fucking game, man… but at least people don’t have to feel too bad about it anymore after it turns out that The Flash that died is a clone!
This latest twist seems to confirm the fan theory that the in-game versions of the Justice League were clones. If The Flash is any indication, the other members of the Justice League – with the exception of Wonder Woman, who is never controlled/cloned and is actually repulsed in a fight against Superman – appear to be being held captive by some of the multiverse’s Brainiacs. Given that the post-game DLC follows the Squad’s attempts to kill the remaining 13 Brainiacs who work in tandem to control the multiverse (this game is a lot), you can bet we’ll probably run into the rest of the Justice League, and actually save them this time.
This means that at least Superman, Green Lantern and Batman should return in the near future. This latest comeback may be particularly notable because the death of Batman’s most famous actor, Kevin Conroywho has voiced the character ever since Batman: The Animated Series premiered in 1992. After his death, Conroy and Batman fans became uncomfortably weird, combative, and possessive about his portrayal in Suicide Squad, which they rather rudely deemed unworthy of being Conroy’s last move as the Crusader. They were particularly upset by the very unceremonious and abrupt manner in which Harley Quinn executed him.
However Suicide Squad is Conroy’s final video game appearance as Batman, his actual last words are obviously much better and are in a cartoon which was released earlier this month. Now fans are wondering if Conroy recorded more dialogue that they could hear in the DLC if Batman is also revealed to have survived the events of the game.
The rest of the game’s players seem to be on board with this narrative twist, though some have expressed that they may have preferred it to be delivered pre-launch rather than post-launch. After a muted reception to the first season, which introduced an Joker from the alternate universe as a playable character, the second season didn’t do much to win players back outside of this potential plot twist.
Will this turnaround be enough to save Suicide Squadwhich disappointed his publisher earlier this year? Absolutely not, but it’s an interesting (and very comic book-inspired) wrinkle that should freshen things up while Rocksteady closes this story. Heck, that move made me reinstall the game and dedicate part of my weekend to it, so it’s doing something right. Of course, it took enough time.
