Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Has The Worst Story Ever Made 

Anyone that wants to debate about the story (aka the morons who think it’s even remotely good and keep leaving bad arguments against my points) there’s a discord link in the description where u can DM me…

idc what they say, this is NOT canon to arkham batman for me Edit: It's no longer my fanon idea that this is not canon, because I now believe it to be straight fact. I've now seen evidence about MASSIVE plot holes in the arkham series about how King shark died in literally a prequel film, rocksteady is trying to push this garbage as canon despite the fact it goes against previous established lore, and that makes me feel even more confident in saying that this game isnt canon. And to those defending it still, then you either like to ignore evidence, or your a troll, if anybody has any genuine evidence that this game is canon without saying "well the devs said its canon so it is." then i'll be shocked, and im not talking about some "well arkham batman is here, so its canon." Im talking about solid evidence that proves king shark never died and that the entire prequel film was complete bogus, and even then, there's still a crap ton of other plotholes to begin with, but this is the main one I took note of. But either im making a fool outta myself, or some people refuse to see the blatant mediocrity and lack of care this new rocksteady has for the arkham franchise. Not saying im 100% right, I could be mistaken, but look up video's talking about this and i've seen many youtubers cover that specific film in direct criticism to suicide squad's lack of fact checking and attention to what has been previously established.

Another plot hole, when Boomerang is wrapped with Wonder Woman's lasso he lies about how Flash's finger came off. This game even fails at the basic continuity.

God they did superman dirty, hes a good guy not an idiot.

The Suicide Squad is, at absolute best, a city level threat. Brainiac is a cosmic threat who has destroyed entire planets. This game is the equivalent of having The Sinister Six go up against Thanos

The fact that this game had just came out and it’s ALREADY doing worse than Marvels Avengers 😭🙏🏾.

Let's be fair, a better name for this is Rocksteady: Kill the Arkhamverse

I noticed in the Argus Recordings how often the league members call Superman "Kal" and not "Clark." Something so small yet proves how little actually know/care about the characters.

Also, can we please retire the multiverse gimmick already? Such a tired nihilistic concept. They basically killed the Arkham continuity by introducing this mess.

Deadshot not caring about his daughter is probably the biggest piece of character assassination in this whole game. That's literally his main redeeming quality.

“We can overdose on fear toxin to cure ourselves of the effects!” Thats not how overdosing works harley

The whole thing about welcoming brainiac with open arms reminds me of the injustice comics "He's literally sitting on a throne" "...it's a chair"

You raised a good point with the Green lantern corps. Where ARE the other DC Heroes? Where's Supergirl? Powergirl? Green Arrow? The Teen Titans? Young Justice? The Justice SOCIETY (who counts among its members Dr. Fate, who has legitimate magical powers that could probably be useful against Superman). Zatanna? The other FLashes? Where the hell IS everyone? Why are we stuck dealing with these chucklefucks when there are literally dozens if not hundreds of other heroes running around that could be useful?

I can’t wait for the thunderbolts kill the avengers game when screwball guns down Insomiac Spider-Man

Rocksteady should've given us that canceled Batman Beyond Arkham game instead of Trash Squad.

Superman getting a massive hunk of Kryptonite lodged in his chest and not dying is absolutely insane to me

This deadshots version is so stupid, making us believe that there were 2 deadshots running around the arkhamverse and Batman (worlds greatest detective by the way) wouldn't realize that the deadshot he's fighting is the fake one??? And he never mentions it at all throughout the series? Yeah, no, this is just a lazy way for them to forcefully race swap a character that didn't need it at all. So stupid fr.

The game fundementally does not understand what suicide squad is about. It's literally a bunch of C and D tier expendable villains (at best) being thrown by the goverment into shady missions that are very dangerous but overall not trully Earth shaking important, that tend to be way above everyones weight class. The result is that you have situations where members of the main cast can and WILL die left right and center, to stuff that the most well known characters could simply walk off, without affecting the plot of the overall universe. This is the overall appeal of the squad (atleast to me), that at the end of the day they are a bunch of nobodies that noone will miss, being thrown as cannon fodder to deal with and be killed by stuff your average super hero can deal with on their most normal days. While at the same time dealing with this situation in different ways. Throwing them against threats like Brainiac or a Justice League that is will to kill? Nah, they would get bodied instantly or at best, used as a distraction to buy a few minutes for the real help can make a difference.

They really brought back my favorite Green Lantern, made Deadshot black, just so we could have some black on black gun violence.

You also forgot to mention how Flash could've easily swiped off GLs ring off his finger as soon as he ran into him. He's done it before in comics, and yet he can't do it here.. also once a Green lanterns Mind and will become corrupted by evil forces the Ring will automatically fly off the users finger! Why didnt this happen?!?! Another plot hole, also it should've flew off when John stewart died smfh.

Even if it is “canon” god knows they’re going to retcon *HARD* in the next one, if there even is a next one after this dumpster fire.

“i didn’t choose how i got here” this was superman’s response to the flash mentioning how brainiac pulled up in a giant skull….. a skull shaped battle station is certainly a choice

They already had a potential to be a good game there. A game about Wonder Woman trying to unbrainwash her comrades from Brainiac. But nope, we got to play as degenerate villains who pissed on the hero who saved them instead of Wonder Woman. (And sexual harassment and pedophilia are only bad when a man does it. When Harley Quinn did it, it’s fine, apparently).

honestly, i HATE how they are trying to make Harley a sympathetic "likeable" girlboss in EVERY media she is in, ESPECIALLY the Arkham universe. This woman stitched together dead babies with Joker and sent them back to the parents because they promised they would be delivered back in "one piece". idc that she is trying to turn over a new leaf, she still murders people and deserves to be locked up because she is a VILLAIN

How would kryptonite protect the Squad from Superman throwing a bus at them?

Listening to the Argus recordings made me legit mad lol. Superman isn't stupid. He wouldn't insist the entire League walks into an obvious trap with no plan like that. He's a good guy, that doesn't mean he's an idiot. Even if he did, Batman would just say no. We've seen Batman leave the Justice League before when he thought they were making a mistake, he'd do so again with this. And why would the Justice League need to be the people welcoming Brainiac to Earth anyway? They're not a government agency. This is a job for civilian diplomats and scientists, not superheroes.

But remember guys, you can't criticize it because it is a "live service game"

Listening to ARGUS tapes legit made me almost pop a blood vessel. Superman isn't some naive boy scout who believes there's goodness in everyone. He's got a good heart but he will admit when a situation is out of his depth. That's why he asks Batman for advice on certain situations, like *this one* And GL wouldn't have agreed with Clark's asinine plan of "lets hear Brainiac out" John is a military man, he would've gotten a hold of local authorities, government agencies, hell he would've gotten a hold of several of his fellow Green Lanterns in case things got dicey. John isn't the first Green Lantern in the DC canon, Hal Jordan was. He could've contacted Hal or all three of the Earth Green Lanterns: Hal, Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner. Also, why didn't Batman question why Superman was so willing to hear out Brainiac? Batman is always 10 steps ahead and he would assume Superman must be under some kind of mind control and knowing the Batman from the comics, he has to have Kryptonite on his belt. Have Batman pass it to Wonder Woman while he makes Superman think he's going along with the plan, have Wonder Woman pull out the Kryptonite and knock out Superman. Boom, problem solved. And with that I put more effort in storytelling than these glue sniffing morons who call themselves writers.

Yeah man. Why isn't Deathstroke there? He's the best member of the Suicide Squad! He's the only member who I could actually see killing the Justice League! He's gone up against the full Justice League multiple times!

It's kinda funny how a lot of people debate Batman's plot armor and dunk on Batman deserving to be killed in this game, yet the squad here is literally on the Nth Metal levels of plot armor.

Arkham Batman’s last words before this game: “I’ve got to, it’s the only way to protect them” His last words after this game: “Are we done with your bad standup routine?” I rest my case.

Also, as a black man, I'm tired of these studios linking by changing the race of one of their characters. They get brownie points No, you get no brownie points, storywise it makes no damn sense, nor should it matter that your character is black. If the character has been white the whole time and at the point, even captain boomerang is wondering which you know he's not exactly the sharpest spoon in the shed. Is clearly wondering why the character is black. Maybe just maybe it is a bad omen of things to come from an already rotting Fattered feces of a game. This whole game was basically a third on the face of DC. I'd rather have an entire game about the Riddler there. I said it it hurt me to say.

They have so little faith in their own subpar story that they already left a reset button on standby by introducing the tired multiverse gimmick.

Fun Fact: Thanks to the comics we know that the other Deadshot had a family and a daughter, which implies that this new "Cool and Badass" Deadshot has just orphaned a girl who, if I remember correctly, loved his dad a lot, " Cool" right?

Looks at Marvel Avengers: *Perhaps I judged you too harshly.*

This game is just a skinsuit using the DC universe. They don't care about the canon, characters, or anything. The people of Rocksteady are clearly just a shell of the former developers who made the Arkham series. They opted in for the most convoluded story to justify having a looter/shooter game that fails to even be good at that.

I feel like they just on a quest to make Harley and the bad guys cool or fun as Deadpool..but they're tarnishing their greatest characters...self sabotage

I still laugh at the luthor “toxic masculinity” bit because lex luthor is toxic masculinity, he would never say it in a million years.

I can't believe they said "let's make a Suicide Squad game" and then decided to have them kill the Justice League!!!! Why not just have them do a black ops mission against a lesser known but still powerful villain? You know like ALL OTHER SUICIDE SQUAD STORIES

Does anyone else find it weird that Flash is referring to Superman as “Kal”? I assumed that Wonder Woman was the only League member that called him by his Kryptonian name.

I still cant believe we got triple A suicide squad game before Justice League

“ No one will. Gotham needs something more.. something worse.. to defend her, she needs a new myth a legend more powerful than I could be right now… a legend that can only rise from the ashes of the Batman.” I stand to say Arkham Batman’s story ended in Knight and isn’t connected to whatever garbage ss was.

My thing is if Barry Allen is faster than time and light as they state in the game why didn’t he run back in time and just stop the justice league from entering the ship in the first place instead he spends three weeks running around, doing nothing not looking for weaknesses not recruiting others for help not going into the Batcave for the contingency plans just running around for three weeks straight

Other criticism to bring up Where is Aquaman? Where is Martian manhunter? Where are the other Rouges from central city? Where is Wally? Why doesn't Thawne get involved if Barry is about to die?

I love how bad writting brings people together

Like u said it's full of bad writing. Everyone's a damn idiot, no character development, the plot armor and character assassination especially towards my favorite character in all of fiction Batman and my 2nd favorite version of him. I also agree with you that there are no clones. I wouldn't be surprised if the developers end up actually making that theory true.

You know a games bad when Colin and Synthetic man got the same opinion.

Not to mention they disrespected Kevin Conroy, by killing off Batman in the most stupidest way

So they made the Justice League incompetent and weak just so the Suicide Squad could kill them. And the Batman I know from Arkham is NOT like this. The stories are Not making sense either.

I never understood why GL almost never utilizes the GL Corps. He has a literal intergalactic police force at his disposal and he never calls for backup, calls in requesting information…hell, his superiors are supposedly the smartest beings in the universe! Also, his ring can scan shit and tell him what it is! Why tf didn’t he scan the ship or Brainiac??? Or like dude said, call his fellow officers and ask if they know anything about Brainiac!

Alright. Us as fans of DC comics, Marvel Comics, and Star Wars must understand that the people who are writing these projects grew up hating them and see it as their time to fix these problematic IP's. Don't support these brands until they respect the fanbase that made them.

Honestly, in my opinion, the only thing that we can do is that we can ignore this game and pretend it does not exist and hopefully one day it’ll become lost media forever🤞

Hear me out, but the worst story decision this game makes is turning the justice league into villains. I know so many stories try to do this, but part of what makes these characters so likeable is their strong sense of justice. Mind controlling these characters to be evil just completely betrays who they are. I feel like several of them should have the will-power to overcome mind control, it's actually green lanterns super power. Batman shouldn't kill, its his biggest personality trait. The death of his parents sent him into depressive state for years of his life, so Batman doesn't kill as he never wants anyone to experience his trauma. You'd think decades of trauma might be enough to break his mind control after Batman kills someone.

"I know you're listening, criminals...." play any arkham game and imagine batman saying that to people

Superman and Lois is the best relationship in comics and she didn’t even care about Clark at all.

I think one of the most moronic decisions was making this the arkhamverse, not for marketing, it wasn't bad for that, but more for the outlook on the game. They catered this game towards a playerbase that LOVES Batman to death, a.k.a anyone who follows Rocksteady games, and had those same players sit through a scene of Batman being shot on a park bench. You know, the character they spent years playing as, developing and growing attached to. They had to have known there'd be a negative response.

It also rubs me the wrong way that Lois lane cares more about wonder women then Superman.

And you know it’s bad when The Flash movie gave Micheal Keaton’s Batman a better send-off than Arkham’s Batman

I refuse to believe this game is canon. This is a fucking atrocity! I seriously regret every supporting or praising Rocksteady. At this point, I'm so sick of modern Marvel and DC media, that I want both companies to either go bankrupt, or take a 5 year break from making anything. After making the last Spiderverse movie, preferably

The lootbox after the thank you Kevin message includes a gun called Mystery Illness. Let that sink in

26:19 There's even more reason for Harley to stay away from Ivy. In the Arkham comics, not only did Harley help Joker with a plan that involved killing kindergartners, but cutting their bodies up and sewing different pieces together. Also, one of the first experiments for the Titan formula was a 5 year old child Harley tested it on. And after the girl died, she and Joker convinced the father to end himself. (Batgirl DLC)

R.I.P Batman R.I.P Kevin Conroy R.I.P modern gaming

i love how braniac just shows up, monologes, goes away, comes back, gets defeated, and game ends. what a great villain XD

So this video proves that the ENTIRETY of the story is logically impossible to happen, which also proves that they never cared about anything story-wise, to begin with. This game was meant to be gameplay-only - which is totally fine - but they decided to add a story without thinking about it at all.

When synthetic man and Colin release a video on the same day agreeing that this game is bad you know something crazy is going on.

I just noticed why did flash save wonder women instead of Batman when he could have been a way bigger help to the squad and the dynamic of him and Harley would have been great

Superman and Flash getting beaten by non-super-powered Fortnite LARPers is ridiculous on its own. 😂

Why doesn't Green Lantern call the Lantern Corps, is he stupid?

Bro I laugh every time you bring up SK. I was there when you ripped into his reviews, now y’all working on videos together. It’s beautiful. Whole ass character arc for our man SK

My entire problem with this game initially starts with the ROSTER. This is NOT an anti-JL team. It’s a team meant to do the govs dirty work and the type of missions that literally even metas would struggle against. If anything the game should have been Legion of Doom kills the JL. Or pick actual metas that have been on the team, there’s like 20 years worth of roster to choose from, pick the baddies would could actually make some sense. Shoot Captain Boomerang literally has a son who has short range super speed. Or Jog who is another speedster with short burst. Or Daniel West, a speedster with a bad knee that limits his range. Where’s enchantress? Killer frost? Emerald Empress, Doctor Polaris, lobo, Grundy, croc idk. I mean the team with in itself is as never filled with heavy hitters power wise In the first place. The justice Leauge no diffs, shoot even the Crime Syndicate found them laughable Also if the justification that any GOOD SS members not there to start, is just to sell them or make them seasonal releases, then that is the SCUMMIEST REASON ever. Screw live services

Every single word is true. It was such a mess that makes horrible, horrible decisions. And yes Harley and Ivy had no previous established relationship, so it was just random and forced here. I can't believe Rocksteady made this.

The game doesn’t even count as canon because it literally makes no sense at all in the Arkham verse, the whole game was plot changed to favor criminals who think their hot stuff. I refuse to buy any more games from this pathetic company

My favorite is when Flash rips out Luthor's heart faster than anyone can even see, but then decides to RUN IN CIRCLES around the Squad. I will say, I actually do like the idea of the League inspiring Bruce to come into the light. However, it happened off screen and then we just kill them all, so no points awarded

something i am confused, why are they trying to make Brainiac have a sympathetic motivation? He wouldn't give a single fuck about his planet. He just collects chunks of worlds to preserve their information/knowledge. he literally wants to collect every planet he deems valuable because of their culture and technology. He would never try to rebuild his planet if it was destroyed, why? because he blows planets often. He literally left Colu to do as he pleased, so the main Brainiac is not sentimental towards his people.

This game actually can’t be canon cause King Shark is dead. He died in Batman Assault on Arkham.

After looking at the reviews on google I’m not surprised by the number of 1 star reviews but what really scares me is how many people are defending the game claiming it’s good.

This whole story feels like a bad fanfiction sequel to the Arkham games. But it's real. In stores. That you can pay money. To play this nightmare.

Waller keeping zero visual tabs and essentially letting the Squad act on an honesty system was the most outrageous thing we're asked to swallow. Body cams. Drones. They exist. And yet they get to string her along constantly by just lying through the comms.

I'll never understand what people see in Harley Quinn or why she is in the Squad. She is literally just a 20 year old girl with a baseball bat

Broooo no way they unironically wrote "toxic masculinity" into a character file 💀

The "other" deadshot is literally the lead in a movie that was canon to the universe

Nice how you and SK went from insulting each other to helping esch other 's videos

We need a fan mod called Justice League: Kill the Suicide Squad, in which you pick any of the Justice League heroes and beat the crap out of the Suicide Squad. If you choose Batman, you play with the Arkham games' mechanics. If you choose The Flash, everyone else moves in ultra slow motion. If you play as Superman, you fly around and laser them.

Stop me if I'm wrong but... isn't green kryptonite legit THE main weakness for Superman apart from red sun radiations? And isn't the kryptonite emitting enough radiations on its own to weaken/make Superman sick in a couple of meters' radius? A single shard of green kryptonite is seen to bring him to his knees in canon, why isn't a WHOLE ASS EAGLE DESIGN on a shield not enough to make him unable to stand??

The ENTIRE Justice League died to being shot with a gun. I thought they would've done something creative for each member but no.

Batmans remote disruptor would've short circuted the bombs too 😂😂😂😂 they did no research at all especially since he used the Arkham city one when he encountered the squad too.

I’m surprised no one asked “where the hell is the rest of the Justice League?”

The disrespect to the Justice League is one thing but the disrespect to their own Kevin Conroy Arkham series Batman is insane.

Another thing to knock on this game for is that boomerang literally lies while he’s wrapped in wonder woman’s lasso of truth, he says flash finger just came off which is an obvious lie, cause we know he cut it off

I don’t actually get how they got Batman. In the arkham games, Batman doesn’t kill. but in this game he is controlled and therefore has bloodlust. I can see the rage and anger of batman being way bigger than in the arkham games, but no he just dies on that stupid bench with one bullet.

Seems that every time someone tries to do anything "suicide squad" it turns out to be hot ass.... get out of hell was the best thing suicide squad, and it was my least favorite animated movie...

10:33 we don’t talk about the pink one

Almost the entire PC playerbase has quit the game in just one week. Love to see it.

Harley Quinn has become such an unlikeable Jar Jar Binks character.

Apparently the comic where Shark kills Zazz apparently had some sort of ‘Battle Royale’ where the inmates of Arkham who survived were in the task force. Which 1) confusing because there were other Task Forces? 2) why are they still in prison cells with no bruises or scars from being hurt? Good god.

If Brainiac is so smart and has access to the multiverse why doesn’t he just go to another universe where his home planet still stands instead of going to the effort of terraforming earth?

I’m so glad I didn’t pre order this game, there’s been so many promising games that have been flops

I think if this game should have been a Batman based game rather than a Suicide Squad game. Here's my idea. When the Justice League is invited to the ship and mind controlled, Batman is the first to snap out of it due to his experience under similar mind control devices like Scarecrow's fear toxin. He would then escape to the Batcave and gather the rest of the Bat-Family to help stop the Justice League by using the BABEL protocols. These protocols would also come in the form of new upgrades to his suit like a speed generator to fight Flash or a yellow lantern ring to fight John but nothing to crazy. In his quest, he meets the Suicide Squad and Waller who want to kill the League as the League is too dangerous. Bruce refuses since they are his friends and because he regrets killing Joker. As for the rest of the family, they are playable as well as they will help evacuate civilians, help figure out how to deactivate mind control and even stop a few teen titans members who have also fallen under Brainiac's control. There could even be a subplot about how the rest of the Bat Family want to step up more but struggle to handle his legacy. It could even be revealed that maybe when Bruce faked his own death, he had actually planned to leave Gotham and spend a happy life with Selena but was afraid of what would happen Gotham and the Bat Family if he left, leading to the Bat Family feeling guilty for preventing Bruce for living his own life. Eventually, after defeating the League, Batman confronts Brainiac, who tries to mind control him again. Bruce is then transported to an illusion where his parents are alive and he is married to Selina. However, he snaps out of it when he realizes its a dream. However, just when he is about to defeat Brainiac, Brainiac starts laughing manically and calls Bruce "Batsy." Brainiac's eyes start to glow green and his face turns into that of the Joker. Joker reveals that, when Brainiac tried to take over Batman's mind, he accidently freed Joker from Batman's mind and caused Joker to take over Brainiac's mind. Joker wants a run back to try to get Batman to turn into a killer as Joker sees the whole Titan incident as Batman killing by accident. So, Joker enacts what he calls his, "final joke," in which he mind controls all of Batman's villains to reek havoc on the world. Joker sends Batman back to the Batcave in order to be prepared to "let him prepare before the big show." Batman explains the whole thing to the Bat family and the Justice League as more of Batman's villains destroy the Justice League's home cities. The League explains that when Brainiac took over their minds, he also found out about all of their weaknesses due to study. This means the only person able to stop Joker is Batman since Brainiac's mind control tech failed on him so Brainiac wasn't able to study him. Batman comes up with a plan but will need the League's help with it. The Bat Family first helps the respective League member defeat one of his rogues in the member's repsective city and gathers the respective materials needed for Batman's plan. However, Joker reveals that he expected this and that the final joke isn't the villains but rather Batman himself. Joker plans to use Brainiac's weapons to destroy the world unless Batman stops him. After all is done, Batman reveals that he is going to fight Joker since he knows Joker best and because Brainiac doesn't have any files on Batman's weaknesses. Superman comes in to reveal that he finished forging Batman's new suit: the Hellbat. Batman uses the Hellbat to confront Joker Brainiac, and the two fight. Joker gains the upperhand since he knows Batman's fighting patterns. When all is lost, Batman gets knocked out but a vision of his parents appears before him. They tell him that they are proud of him and want him to keep fighting. Just when Joker is about destroy the world, Batman gets up and punches him in the face. The onsuing battle leads them to get teleported across the whole world, finally landing in Arkham City during a massive rainstorm. Disconnected from Brainiac's technology on the ship, Joker is just an ordinary man smiliar to Batman. In addition, the Hellbat armor gets destroyed during the ensuing battle. Batman and Joker decide to finish the fight mano a mano. During the fight, the player gets quicktime events with a quote under it similarly like the finall battle in Tekken 8. Each dialouge comes with a flashback to events in the previous game, with the last quote being "I am..." with Bruce saying "I am BATMAN." Batman defeats Joker and is able to disable the weapon without killing him, ending the conflict. Eventually, when all of the game's events are done, Bruce realizes that Gotham is in safe hands and that his family is grown up. He gives Nightwing his blessing to remain to be Batman. He apologizes to Jason about how Bruce left him with Joker and how proud Bruce was that Jason helped people in his absence. He thanks Tim and Barbara for sticking be him even at his lowest. He says goodbye to Alfred and thanks him for being his father when no one else was there. He maybe even goes to Joker before he is sent off to the Phantom Zone, stating that he did not like Joker's methods but Joker is one of the biggest reasons that Batman has evolved from a crime fight to a symbol. Joker then tells Bruce that they'll meet someday again and for him to be ready before disappearing with a chilling echo of laughter. He then asks Diana and Clark to look after the Bat Family while he starts a new life with Selena. We cut to a year later to a Bruce overlooking a large city on a rooftop at night. Selena comes by and jokes that Bruce is reliving the old days. Bruce states that the old days were fun, and there is nothing he would trade them for. However, he looks forward to a new horizon, with the screen panning to a very pregnant Selena. The two overlook the city one last time before the camera goes up to the night sky full of stars with the screen reading this, "Thank you Kevin for everything and more" Sorry this is so long. I just had a lot to say in this area and I don't blame you for not reading it all. Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed my take on it.

I'm sick of how many cop-outs franchises have now Time travel Multiverse thoery Random glowing mcguffin that gives you the power of breaking the 4th wall

There are also tiny problems that are in the Argus recording such as everyone calling Superman Kal instead of Clark