The ultimate piece of content material for Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League landed this week, and it successfully and unceremoniously undoes the dramatic deaths of two extra of its Justice Leaguers. In episode 8 of Kill the Justice League, Activity Power X efficiently kills the final remaining Brainiac, then — Search for within the sky! It’s a spoiler! — Superman and Batman present up, completely alive and seemingly unhurt.
The finale of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, as narrated by Harley Quinn, explains that Superman and Batman had been apparently trapped inside Brainiac’s lair this entire time. Now that the surviving Justice League is free of Brainiac’s management, they’ll atone, releasing Metropolis’ residents from their alien oppressors and visiting numerous alternate realities affected by different Brainiacs to set them proper.
As for Activity Power X, they’ve hacked the bombs out of their heads and have peaced out to an Elseworld to dwell their greatest lives, free from Amanda Waller’s management.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had gamers kill DC’s most well-known superheroes over the course of the 2024 sport — a lot to the dismay of Batman followers who weren’t happy that actor Kevin Conroy’s remaining online game position because the Caped Crusader noticed him disposed of in such an ignominious method. However the ending cutscene of Kill the Justice League’s remaining story episode explains that the Batman and Superman that had been beforehand killed by Activity Power X had been clones created by Brainiac. Free of their purple crystal prisons, Bats and Supes are apparently free to rejoin the canon of Rocksteady’s Arkhamverse, nearly as if nothing ever occurred.
In earlier story episodes, gamers recovered uncorrupted variations of the Flash and Inexperienced Lantern, undoing these heroes’ deaths as nicely. However Surprise Girl, who was killed by an evil (clone) Superman throughout Kill the Justice League’s story, will apparently stay lifeless in Rocksteady’s sport. The excellent news for Diana is that she has her personal sport within the works, although it’s unclear if Monolith Productions’ Surprise Girl will exist in the identical continuity as Rocksteady’s Arkhamverse.
The revival of the Justice League, sans Surprise Girl, has taken place over the course of a number of post-release expansions to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which have additionally launched new playable characters. A kind of new additions to Activity Power X is an alternate-universe Joker, who may be very totally different from the one voiced by Mark Hamill within the Batman Arkham video games.
On condition that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is predicated on a comic book e-book property, it’s unsurprising that the Justice League would return alive, and that their deaths could be meaningless in the long term. It’s additionally unsurprising resulting from a flood of leaks that indicated their return. Even Rocksteady hinted at one level in an in-game calendar that Batman could be again, regardless of being shot within the head by Harley.
However the remaining chapter of Kill the Justice League continues to be introduced within the least expensive method doable, with a handful of illustrations and voiceover from a single character explaining how the sport’s once-shocking story could be wrapped up. It’s an acceptable ending for the saga of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad sport, which was beset with delays, poor reception, rampant leaks, and technical issues. The excellent news is that everybody, aside from perhaps Surprise Girl, can transfer on.
