Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launched today in early access, and while it isn’t playable right now due to a bug that sees players opening the game to find the story has already been completed, key spoilers are being shared online.
Major spoilers for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League follow.
If you’re reading past the carefully placed video and glaring warning tag, I’m assuming you’re not fussed about plot details, so let’s get on with what this big reveal is.
After 15 years, Arkham Batman is apparently dead. The cutscene was shared online almost immediately after launch by YouTuber Dan Allen Gaming. King Shark drops Batman onto a bench, still possessed by Brainiac, before Harley Quinn pulls out a pistol and shoots him in the head.
It’s our turn now. After all we’ve been through… betcha didn’t think it’d be me at the end, eh Bats?
The bench – and Batman – flop backwards, as the camera flies up to a birds-eye-view, showing his lifeless corpse sprawled out. Superman shoots into focus shortly after, laughing at the Suicide Squad, “One of the world’s finest heroes, snuffed out by… this.”
It is called Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, in fairness, so it’s not like it’s a total surprise, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t already a mounting wave of backlash forming.
The YouTube comments are flooded with outrage, with many decrying the scene as “disrespectful”. Most are unhappy with the mere fact Batman died, but others are more upset about how it was done. He didn’t go down fighting, but possessed and sitting down. “They didn’t give bro an honourable death,” one user commented.
Audio of this scene leaked before launch, but many buried their heads in the sand hoping that it was fake.
We know from leaks that the Justice League is supposed to return in the post-launch seasonal story, so a lot of theories are being thrown out about this scene. Some think Batman faked his death, perhaps using Clayface as a stand-in, while others believe the ‘returning’ Justice League will be from another universe, much like Joker.
At any rate, the cutscene has been shared completely out of context. The game launches on February 2, just four days away, so we’ll get a full picture of Batman’s supposed death soon enough. Brainiac clone, fakeout, or real – whatever the case, this is supposedly his final scene in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
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