Summary
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueis constantly proving there may yet be secrets and Easter eggs that haven’t been uprooted. Brainiac’s true alien form may have been discovered, for example, while scattered calendars hint at some kind of a return for the Batman. It’s unclear if any of this is meant to come to fruition and have a big reveal inpost-launch seasonal expansions forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, but what has already been divulged about these seasons suggests that more will be learned about Rocksteady’s expanding multiverse.
Likewise, whileSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueseems to definitively close the book on the Justice League, there’s a chance that they could still be alive, as teased by Brainiac imitating the Flash in the base game’s final story campaign boss fight. It now seems obvious that all four seasons will arrive with their own Justice League boss fights with Brainiac imitating the slain heroes in a wholly purple hue. But regardless of whether these characters are still secretly alive or not, Rocksteady seems to have completely denied itself the opportunity to eventually give players a Wonder Woman boss fight.
Superman lands concentrated laser vision blasts on Wonder Woman and she’s left there to slowly die. However, after a little while of lying still, Wonder Woman somehow disintegrates. It’s unclear why the effects of laser vision would gradually erode her into smoldering ash since that isn’t commonly an effect of that power, but it is convenient enough to leave her without a corpse for Brainiac to eventually harvest, clone, or imitate. Meanwhile,Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, and Superman are all killed with bullets—laced with gold kryptonite in Superman’s case, but bullets nonetheless.
This opens the door to them being Brainiac puppets thereafter, whileWonder Woman was the only Justice League member not assimilatedand is incinerated without a chance for Rocksteady to turn her into a posthumous Brainiac boss fight, which could have been one of the more unique points of interest throughout the game’s upcoming expansions. Now, players will seemingly be stuck dealing with the same Justice League boss fights they’ve already tackled.
Wonder Woman impaling Superman with green kryptonite is illuminating for multiple potential story threads. The most obvious is stated within the narrative, explaining that however Brainiac’s brainwashing has affected Superman also affects his genetic makeup and no longer makes him lethally susceptible to green kryptonite. But this also demonstrates that Superman was able to return to the Skull Ship and recover hastily, regenerating tissue andhealing fully in the time it takes Earth-2 Lex to manufacture gold kryptonite.
Brainiac’s omnipotence and presence would make it believable that he had technology aboard the Skull Ship that could repair even a Kryptonian, but another plausible answer may be that he can harvest DNA and create clones without any imperfections—not unlike what Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine attempted withGalen Marek inStar Wars’The Force Unleashedduology. If this theory has any validity outside of speculation, then there’s no hard evidence to suggest that the Justice League is actually dead but merely held captive aboard the Skull Ship.
If so, the Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, and Superman that Task Force X kills might’ve simply been clones, too.
Moreover, the post-launch seasonal expansions forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguewill be debuting new Brainiac variants mimicking the appearance and abilities of these Justice League characters, and perhaps that’s only narratively possible because there are DNA reserves stored and uploaded between dimensions that each Brainiac has access to. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look convincing that Wonder Woman will ever be added to that catalog of bosses, and that’s a massive disappointment as well as a waste of the character’s potential.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
WHERE TO PLAY
Play as the Suicide Squad to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, The Justice League. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a genre-defying, action-adventure third-person shooter from Rocksteady Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham series.
