The GALL they have to treat him like a joke throughout the whole game only to then have that fake-ass memorial message at the end, as if implying their send-off was somehow well done or respectful, is absolutely INSANE. The disrespect is crazy.
@@ikillcows573 Conroy died in 2022. It is 2024. They had over a year to properly think out an actual memorial message and to give the character a satisfying send-off. They failed on both counts.
@@CracksterJack That would require them to rewrite the script, animate new cutscene, redo entire gameplay sections and call back VAs. I know Pyro’s viewers aren’t the smartest but that’s basically asking them to invest even more money and dev time to a game that’s never going to make back any money. No one’s that stupid.
@@tieuucanh8958I don't know why people bring up Conroy's death. I'd argue Rocksteady something much worse. They shat on the Arkham batman, while Kevin Conroy was alive. They easily could've had F*CKING BATMAN go put in a blaze a glory but they had to figuratively piss all over him. To my knowledge, the suicide squad killed the whole justice league without sustaining casualties
The audacity, the Cojones, the gall to have Arkham Batman, the man who has taken out multiple of his rouges gallery in single nights, killed by 4 street level mid villains.
I genuinely don’t know what the writers were thinking. Obviously it’s not their fault Conroy passed, but even if he was alive people would be pissed. This writing is ludicrously poor.
>Re-use the entry cinematic from Arkham asylum almost 1:1 to Suicide squad cinematic (the bat deliver joker on batmobile) >Re-using same bit with Scarecrow's gas from Arkham asylum (the bit where you control joker and then he shoots batman and it's "game over" screen) Jesus, those devs just spitting on the legacy of good batman games, don't they?
They really gave him that Last Of Us 2 treatment, but worse. Dies pathetically, doesn't even die as himself, he is still controlled by Brainiac. I gotta go play Arkham Knight again to forget this happened
Nah. Joel’s death wasn’t earned but it COULD HAVE. If the game was in chronological order it would have felt more natural and less artificial. People complained that his death wasn’t dignified, and I ask you which death in the Last of Us was at all dignified? Sarah’s is the closest but its still brutal and harsh. Here batman was dethroned, turned into one of the mindless thugs he beats up, actively mocked by Harley and crew, acting like they’re the heros now and that they deserve to replace him with no real effort to earn it. Joel’s death was a focal point of Last of Us part 2, Batman’s death serves no purpose here.
The difference with Joel is that he is living in a world that is trying to be very realistic and grim. Him having a brutal death makes a lot of sense, Batman is Batman though.
I highly doubt Arkham Batman would even be in the Justice League Following Arkham Knight, he probably lived in the fucking sewers or some shit and operated from there. Not became some sort of public figure, it’s crazy how badly they misinterpreted the ending of Arkham Knight
@@no-barkthechosenone2436 I don't mind it tbh, its supposed to have been like 5 years and Batman has always had trusted allies since his development in origins.
@@fandyus4125 Yeah I've been hearing more about this company since this game was released. I still gotta research what they do. But from what I've heard it looks like a perfect company for right wing (anti woke) people to blame everything on
@@roachdoggjr1454 Yeah just saw that, hopefully the crisis leak is at least true but if that isn't then it's an unfortunate end to all his years as batman
>Batman can fight off mind control in Arkham Knight >He can't in this game for whatever reason >But Harley Quinn can "because she has a degree in neuroscience"
@@morganuhl9992 Scarecrow never mind controlled Batman in Arkahm Knight, he was under mind control from the Titan disease Joker infected him with in Arkham City. The Joker disease literally reshaped his mind to make give him Joker's personality and the dude just broke free from THAT with his sheer will. Meanwhile, Brainiac's mind control was temporarily broken by Wonder Woman's lasso lmao
Guys, I hate this scene as much as everyone, but you have to be fair to Rocksteady. They couldn't have predicted Kevin's death. They tried their best to pay respects, despite the script, voiceacting, and most of the game already being done.
@MEMEGUY414Oh yes. Let's ask them to spend even MORE money on the game that's gonna flop anyways. I'm sad Kevin's dead to but asking them to remake a scene is wild. 💀 Recasting or using Ai would have been even more disrespectful than leaving it as it is so just stfu dude 😭
White male, former hero of the games, respected by fans.. yeah it's not surprising they gave him the lamest ending they could think of. We've seen this in literally every big IP in the last 5 years.
@@fandyus4125Yep. People act like youre a "right wing nutcase" if you point it out but im not rightwing, its just reality that this is woke esg bullshit. Sweet baby is an industry esg group funded by groups like blackrock. Thats not a conspiracy
It’s always these hotshot Writers thinking they can do better than their predecessors. But when they can’t, so they have to tear down dumbed down Legacy Characters in order to prop themselves up. This is getting tiring seeing this shit over and over again. [Edit): I ain’t considering this trash Canon. It’s really easy because it’s so incredibly different to the Arkham-Verse.
@@camzilla603boy12 its their fault if you are uneducated and stupid. Otherwise you would realize that EA is responsible for this game . Who made rocksteady quit the game they were working on to instead make justicr league? EA did Why did all the original writers,progammers and other workers leave? EA Who made this game live service? EA. EA is responsible and i could go deeper. You can google and read for yourself.
What shocked me was how he didn’t escape after being beat. Everyone knows Batman always has a plan, and he’s escaped through much worse situations yet here he gives up on his park bench and just.. dies 💀
its even crazier when you find out they made a movie in the Arkham Verse with these same 4 with more people and Batman slams them with less prep time, not bloodlust and without home advantage
Or it would be if Warner Bros and DC made a sequel to The Dark Knight Rises and did the same thing as Suicide Squad: KTJL and killed off Bruce Wayne's Batman like that.
@@derekpayneszubliminals7723 Yeah or that. You have a movie trilogy that happend years ago and had a satisfying ending and you're like: "Nah this won't do. We gotta kill him"
@@verspinbro even “died” at the end of Arkham knight and they just brought him back just to shoot him in the head when he obviously would’ve just countered
The Justice League absolutely don't deserve such disrespect. They should have just called the game, Suicide Squat: Spit in the face of the justice league. Because that's literally what this is.
Warner Bros has been doing this for years now. They never respected the Justice League as an IP, and only tried to rush one out the gate when Marvel started making bank with the Avengers
If it makes you feel better, remember: This game is always online and depends on a central login server. Once this game gets bricked by the server going offline, it won't be able to disgrace its predecessors any more.
@@deaconthethird3218 I don't even consider suicide squad canon to the Arkham vers. The WB Damian Wayne game that was cancelled looked like something that continue this universe.
Rocksteady logic: Batman takes down Gotham’s Most Wanted in multiple games, IN ONE NIGHT! including Mr Freeze, Bane before and after Titan, Deadshot, Harley, Ivy, Hugo, Ra’s both and after Lazarus Upgrade, Arkham Knight, Killer Croc, Scarecrow, Hush, The Militia, Copperhead, The Electrocutioner, Black Mask, Joker, Penguin, Lady Shiva, Riddler, Firefly, Anarchy, Mad Hatter Clayface, Victor Zsasz, Solomon Grundy, Calendar Man, Manbat, Pyg, Azrael, Two Face, TYGER, King Shark, Boomer, Black Spider, and Killer Frost. But he lost and was killed by a group of villains he no diff’d before
@@themilkman5237Yeah a couple armies of hundreds of criminals and mental patients. And then an actual army that was trained in ways to beat Batman, who still all got clapped in a night.
God, this one was hard to watch. Didn't expect this game could get any worse, but oh boy, they managed to fuck it even more. Rest in peace Kevin Conroy, thank you for everything. Your legacy will always be remembered.
There was a whole episode of Batman: The Animated Series where Joker believes Batman is dead and holds a funeral for him. THAT, is a proper way to do a send-off for Batman. This “send-off” is sad and frankly insulting.
He also tried to kill the dude who he thought killed Batman. Man had more respect for the Bat in his left toenail than the shmuck who wrote this trash.
When I saw Harley shoot him my mind went back to that one episode of BTAS where she tries to go straight, but ends up "stealing" a dress by accident. At the end of the episode she's admitted back to Arkham, but batman still buys her the dress and says "I know what it's like to have a bad day" and she gives him a kiss. To think this Harley is supposed to be the spiritual successor to that Harley is honestly contradictory.
Even Last Of Us 2 showed respect to Joel by giving us Flashbacks. This just feels like it was written by those Twitter People that think Batman just does what he does to punch & cripple Poor People. The amount of disrespect to not just Batman, but Kevin Conroy, is so bad that I hope this game shuts down Rocksteady for making this dogshit. I hope everyone that made this game never gets a job in the Gaming Industry ever. R.I.P Kevin Conroy. You deserved better.
I wouldn't be surprised if the only Batman comic that they read was All-Star Batman and Robin and assumed that is what the entire character of Batman is like.
What's more insulting is that post credit scene where they pretend to care about Batman, Conroy and his legacy because let's be honest. They do not. If they made Batman's death like this, they could not care less about the character. Not to mention that they used Lois Lane there who probably should be talking about death of her HUSBAND!! Both Batman and Superman were done horribly dirty in this game, Rocksteady is dead and whoever replaced people who made previous Arkham games clearly actively HATE the DC Universe, Batman and Superman. Fuck those Devs. Also goddamn poetic too that the most dignified death is done to Wonder Woman. Because of course it is. Great.
If you compare her bio and how they handled her in the game you can very clearly tell the devs bias for her. The bio for her is egregious, Lex Luthor would never say that about her.
I've yet to see full footage of this game yet instantly knew they'd treat Wonder Woman's death with the respect Batman should have gotten. And what a surprise, that's exactly the case. These mindsets are so miserably predictable.
the weird thing is He passed during this games development and NO ONE THOUGHT TO CHANGE THIS SCENE. I know budgets a thing but you should 100% scrap all this shit upon finding his death and actively redo the moment to give him a proper send off atleast
Worst part is killing him was entirely unnecessary. They could've just stripped his armor and equipment, and locked him up until they could find a way to save him if there was one.
@@krodh9946 I'm aware of that, but like others have said their deaths could've been done way better. At least with the others you could argue that they were too dangerous to be left alive, but Batman by this point was no longer an active threat, so what was the point of killing him.
@oakleyraverty1030 That is true, but every time goku died, it served a purpose and was always portrayed as a heroic send-off. 100 times better than dying mind-fucked on the bench. Wish they could've done something similar with batman.
Yeah, I agree 😂 The very moment I thought to myself “I’m surprised that he hasn’t disconnected yet,” he then immediately disconnected during a shitty escort mission 😂😂😂
@Default-gf4zf I'll give you an example and I quote from lex luthor talking about wonder women, "there is little amusement to be found in imagining how improved earth would be if instead of forcing the amazons into hiding with our cruelty and avarice, we had instead looked to them as a model, replicable if only we could set aside our baser instincts. They've solved so many of our society's broken ills : broken democracy, lagging technology, and toxic masculinity"
@Default-gf4zf basically they praised wonder women like she was a God in the form of a thesaurus while giving the others quirky insults coming from the squad
reminder that arkham harley ruthlessly murdered innocent people but now she's taking the moral high ground and taking down to a mind-controlled batman. what a joke, these writers despise batman and all his fans, you can tell.
Look them up. Compare their experience to the old staff. Same thing is destroying the entire entertainment industry and I'm tired of pretending it's not. DEI is not equality, DEI is a force that has leveled the entire industry. The entertainment industry, not just the game industry. Go compare the credits of the writers on like Netflix's Daredevil to Secret Invasion or Echo and you'll be WTF.
To be fair all versions of Harley have, but they usually leave her room to "get better, " even the literal psycho of the comedy series has her morality pet moments. Harley don't care about killing generic "innocents" like rich fundraiser plate diners, but feels bad if they're kids or have similar signs of abuse.
@@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer Well, that's where your argument fails, this version of Harley Quinn literally tortured a 16 year old, helped Joker dismember and sew several minors together and talked the father of a girl with cancer (who eventually died due to her condition being worsened by Joker) into commiting suicide. So... no, I doubt this Harley was planned as an anti-hero.
Uhh, let's not forget DC is the one with a literal _heroic_ serial rapist (Bueno Excellente *of Gotham* "New Earth") who they never saw fit to "correct" or otherwise have his ass beat, those are all not acts that would a hundred percent prevent one from donning the "anti hero" cape. And adult comedy Harley has 'accidentally' done worse, it's just brushed over as part of her comedic sociopathy schtick (wiping out the kids birthday party) I'm just saying *don't count this Harley out yet* especially if WB ignores the game sales and looks at overall Suicide Squad sales and demands they continue this train wreck in the same universe. Both DC and WB as a whole also have a habit of overlooking the acts of "big sellers," like when one Harley nuked all the kids of Gotham with exploding game systems. Just feeling bad after _doesn't prevent an act_ I was just saying they kept anti hero status after because they regretted doing it or management just plain said ignore it. Also a 16 year old isn't a kid, the cut off in censor boards appears to be around ~14 Either someone is going to bring the sewing thing up together in the next installment and have her deliver a cheesy RU-vid tier apology over it, or they will just ignore it. Either way it's going to be hilarious watching the fallout.
So literally they said "oh btw the Lasso of Truth breaks the mind control" in the flash scene with WW And then never use it even as a temporary solution.
I get they couldn't have predicted Kevin's untimely passing, but treating Arkham Batman like this is just wrong. That iteration of Batman meant a lot to people.
There was a comic issue where the Batman from the comics met the Arkhamverse Batman in a 2 page cameo and that did the character more justice than in this...well whatever thr fuck this was.
Batman fight would've been so cool as a "Reverse Predator Section" Like you and the squad are forced to use nothing but your firearms, and sometimes depending on your location will use an inverted takedown on you, Glide takedown, or even a grate or vent takedown. Each takedown takes a significant portion of your health so you have to play carefully. Sometimes he'll use a disruptor on your guns so you cant shoot for a time and in that time Batman will try to come after you. Make it two phases even, make the second section a scarecrow section, you have to hide from him and then get to like a spotlight or something just as a homage to Batman Arkham Asylum where it all began. I imagined he'd die by ASKING the squad to kill him rather than just be edgy batman on twitter insulting the squad.
It's worse than that. They hired writers with no credits but conveniently worth DEI points to replace the old ones. DEI'd all the way from top to bottom.
Remember Kevin Conroys final line for THE BATMAN is: "Are you done with you bad stand-up routine?" That is the final line for a character and voice actor that defined a GENERATION of gaming.
The last thing we get by the late great Kevin Conroy voicing Batman is him brainwashed on a bench killed by Harley Quinn. What a horrible way to go out. Fuck this shit.
The movie wasn’t canon, it includes arkham villains you still see alive and well like two-face get shot and killed by the members, the main lore of the arkham verse is mainly the games the comics and movies are not and have been confirmed not to be by the original developers of the game
The man who sweeped the whole city of gotham from thugs, gangsters and Psychopaths all in one night. And when he's the boss of this game, his boss fight is made into a joke and his death by Harley😂 wtf
Technically Multiversus will be his last video game performance. Also he's in one of the recent DC animated films that coming out soon reprising his role and he's going to do a small part in another batman film.
i can think something cooler When Harley talking sh1t, batman took the chance to strike and beat up everyone. Giving a last stand but since hes injured badly, he messed up and king shark take the opportunity to rip batman apart, before dying he could say something memorable. I think it's better than getting shot while sitting in a bench park
@@tiredeyestooyes one of the most beloved versions of Batman who’s not only one of the most popular characters ever but the reason that the studio who made this game became a titan of the industry and a gold standard for quality deserves better
... i understand the anger on it, but it makes no sense whatsoever, is not like the voice actor recorded a whole speech of what to do and such, they just record the parts that are said, people are just jumping at it like, your skipping a great mans words, like... are you going to tell me that what happened in this scene is not on par with how the suicide squad has been acying this whole game?
Harley not mentioning Jokers blood in Bruce is weird asf imo. she literally kept Bruce alive cause she noticed Joker was taking hold of him more than the other experimented patients
Their marketing was reliant on the Arkham connection and this is how they repay everyone lol They tried to decimate an entire series that fast after it was supposed to have concluded.
I wouldn't mind at all if this was some other Batman but Arkham Batman? So many people have attached and idolized him so much and this is what you do with the character? I'm still heartbroken about it.
I'm not pissed that Batman died, I'm pissed at HOW he died. It's so unbelievable especially if you've played all 4 of the previous games and seeing all of his exploits, fighting his whole rogues' gallery, an entire army, saving Gotham from Scarecrow's gas. It's actually worse than Joel's death bc at least his death was plausible. At least have him go down fighting, there's no way the same Batman from all the Arkham games dies by fuckin monologue 😂😂
This reaction to batman's death is how I felt when I first saw the scene online, just good lord how mishandled the league is. Its just sad, superman dies without any respect, green lantern was completely out of character, wonder woman got to be herself (because certain consultant company), flash got wazzed on. This ruins the Arkham verse, robin (who was happily married and finding his footing in a world without batman) is dead/mind controlled considering there's no body. Dependant on how the story progresses things could get WORSE, Batman and the JL who were turned into puppets and instead of being detained and at least attempted to be cured as the game progresses were instead executed once downed. Death stroke or Prometheus should have got the kill on batman, somebody who could actually match him, with a Arkham knight style predator duel, with you trying to survive batman until he runs out of gadgets, then move into the fear gas sequence's first bit then a death stroke style 1v1 where the team is split up and forced to race to beat batman first maybe getting a bonus reward and a cutscene showing their character getting in the final blow. Superman should have been a desperate battle to survive, where you need to trap him in a room with the kryptonite, slowly luring him over. Flash should have been a Mr freeze style boss where you need to learn and find counters to his attacks, maybe using his villains weapons you could like loot from the hall of justice. Green lantern should have been paint myself yellow to justify surviving his attacks and could like, be hot potato each member using their fear to charge the battery then use it like an EMP to disrupt his ring. The batman boss fight is just a ripoff of his Lego batman 3 one but even worse. What a... pathetic send-off to Arkham batman and ruining the justice league on their introduction to the universe. Rocksteady, in their attempt to distance themselves from batman allowed a consultant company to just ruin their standing with the Arkham fanbase- I feel sorry for the devs that didn't want to make this game. Green lantern rings don't work as they should, superman's weakness to kryptonite was not shown off correctly, GOLD kryptonite should almost immediately remove his powers if he doesn't get away from it, the green kryptonite in his chest should have downed him. They want a joke- USE PINK KRYPTONITE. Kevin actually wanted to be an evil batman for once, seems he wanted to have a bit of fun in possibly his last performance, wonder if the story was different when he recorded the lines or even knew if it was in the Arkham verse, as he understood how much those games meant to the fanbase.
>Green lantern rings don't work as they should Brainiac reprogrammed the ring, that's the lore reason >the green kryptonite in his chest should have downed him He also altered Superman's physiology, making him less Kryptonian and thus more resistant to Kryptonite apparently
I think we can all agree that we will not mention this game or any of the disrespectful things that they have done to Batman in this when we talk about Kevin Conroy's Legacy throughout the years. Rest in peace Kevin, we'll miss you
The thing is, Batman dying from a gunshot from someone as powerless as him (human I mean) is thematical since he always said that he either will die from old age, a villain getting lucky or a street thug getting lucky. But come on, just like that isn't even someone getting lucky just him being fucked over by a terrible script. Harley killing him would've been much better if, for a moment just like Flash, he regained control and either 1 (my own fanfic, I know), said one word and that being "sorry" and it pans to Harley face as she sheds a tear - finally getting rid of the last thing that was associated with Joker but also getting rid of the man that essentially killed her slavery or 2, he regains control and provides them with some information about Superman until Brainiac takes control again and they have to shoot him.
It's insane how a company who made multiple 10/10 games and boss fights, such as killer freeze in Arkham City, struggle so much with the boss fights in this game. ALL THEY HAD TO DO, was have the four characters fight Batman in a "predator section." And have the players knowledge of Batman's abilities from the previous games be used against batman, and make batman adapt to what the characters do JUST LIKE THE FREEZE FIGHT.
I think it’s really depressing that Pyro brings up Batman being at his lowest point and how he’s referencing his glory days, and the only connection Pyro makes is to some n’wah on tiktok.