The Evolution of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

At launch, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been going strong with regular updates. And that was followed up by consistent content releases. All the while, the game has been slowly expanding on the plot. With the release of the latest season finally here, for better or worse, those plot points are indeed true. Unsurprisingly, those who have stuck with the game since launch are a little less than enthused.

At the end of Season 2’s story content, it’s revealed that The Flash is not dead after all. In fact, he’s very much alive. The version of The Flash that the Suicide Squad ‘killed’ was simply a corrupted clone. That means that the rest of the Justice League is also alive. Considering that the game has no plans to stop, it would appear that the ensuing seasons will see other members return, including Superman and Batman. That would mean that potentially the late Kevin Conroy’s Batman has additional dialogue recorded. It would also mean that the Suicide Squad will have gone from ‘killing’ the Justice League to saving them.

That particular plot point had been leaked six months ago via datamined voicelines. It was also something that many fans had theorized all along. After all, would the Justice League really be killed off? Of course not.

There is no word yet on a potential Season 3 release date. That first year roadmap included four total seasons with three additional characters coming in Seasons 2-4. After that, it’s anyone’s guess. That’s because Warner Bros. declined to comment on the game’s fate post-year one. ‘We are not yet discussing anything that is not announced,’ they stated.

Batman’s fate in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a point of debate, but it’s exactly the sort of risk taking video game stories need. Marvel’s big break into multiplayer should’ve always been a hero shooter, not a looter shooter.

It always makes me a little sad when a live game clearly has a story mapped out but just cannot see it through due to poor performance. I’m bummed we never got to see Marvel’s Avengers’ Kree invasion with Captain Marvel and She-Hulk added, and now? Well, a longer term picture of what Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was supposed to be is coming together, starting with the launch of season 2 here.

A big pushback to the concept of the game in the first place was that the Suicide Squad was…killing the Justice League, Braniac-corrupted versions of iconic heroes which needed to die, including, unfortunately, Arkham trilogy Batman, who was executed by Harley Quinn.

Enter the plot twist. Spoilers follow.

As of the end of season 2’s first part here, our latest Branaic kill reveals that in fact, The Flash is alive. The real Flash. It appears we did not fight and have not killed the original Justice League, but in fact clones of the Justice League with the real versions held in captivity.

So yes, the previously rumors are confirmed, the live portion of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now about…saving the Justice League.

The timeline of this remains to be seen. There are three other cloned/mirrored heroes that should be in there, Green Lantern, Superman and Batman. But if we killed the clones, the one JLA member that appear to actually die was Wonder Woman, the non-corrupted version killed by clone Superman. So that’s not great.

This also opens a curious door. If Batman returns, and if the story was already recorded ahead of time, we may get more voicework from the departed Kevin Conroy, and in a non-evil form, free from Braniac’s clutches. Conroy’s final work was supposed in the most recent animated Justice League movie, but I do wonder if we may hear more from him in this Suicide Squad live content.

I actually like this idea, but there are a few problems. First, the launch of this storyline should not be in season 2 of the live game. The main game should have with the clear indication you were going to save the real JLA, instead it just told you that there were 13 more Braniacs to kill in other worlds which just sounded exhausting. It didn’t even launch with season 1’s Joker content which seemed wholly disconnected from the main story. There were tiny, tiny hints, at best.

The other issue is that this storyline is almost surely not going to play out as it was intended to. Suicide Squad says they will finish out this year’s content but that’s it, and jamming this entire concept into what has to be little more than a couple more cutscenes is not going to work. The launch of season 2 ‘spiked’ the Steam playercount from 250 players to 570 players. No one is watching any of this unfold, as interesting as it may be.

Ah, what could have been.