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, Job Power X efficiently kills the final remaining Brainiac, then — Lookup 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 have been apparently trapped inside Brainiac’s lair this complete 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 varied alternate realities affected by different Brainiacs to set them proper.
As for Job Power X, they’ve hacked the bombs out of their heads and have peaced out to an Elseworld to stay their finest 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 ultimate online game function because the Caped Crusader noticed him disposed of in such an ignominious approach. However the ending cutscene of Kill the Justice League’s ultimate story episode explains that the Batman and Superman that have been beforehand killed by Job Power X have 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, virtually as if nothing ever occurred.
In earlier story episodes, gamers recovered uncorrupted variations of the Flash and Inexperienced Lantern, undoing these heroes’ deaths as effectively. However Surprise Lady, 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 Lady will exist in the identical continuity as Rocksteady’s Arkhamverse.
The revival of the Justice League, sans Surprise Lady, 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 Job Power X is an alternate-universe Joker, who could 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 relies on a comic book ebook 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 because of 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 ultimate chapter of Kill the Justice League continues to be introduced within the most cost-effective approach 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 Lady, can transfer on.
