Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League ends as it began by disappointing fans

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League screenshot — Suicide Squad’s days are officially over (Warner Bros.)

Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has released its final piece of content, ending its troubled saga with an appropriately low quality conclusion.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League became one of 2024’s most high-profile disappointments, although after key staff left developer Rocksteady even before it was out, there never did seem much hope of anything else.

Despite recent job losses, Rocksteady has continued to update the shooter with story DLC and characters since it launched in February last year, but in December it confirmed Season 4 episode 8 would be the game’s final update.

This update, which debuted on January 14, provided a resolution to the ongoing story with Brainiac, who in the game’s story possessed various members of the Justice League – including Batman, Superman, and The Flash – which ultimately led to their deaths at the hands of the Suicide Squad.

What happened in the final update for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League?

While players are led to believe Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, and The Flash have all been killed, the new episode’s closing sequence confirms all these seemingly brainwashed heroes were actually clones, completely undoing the events of the game in the most boring way possible.

In fact, an alive and well Batman delivers the final punch to Brainiac, who is then delivered to Suicide Squad boss Amanda Waller.

The bombs in the necks of Harley Quinn and co. are then defused and, now that Waller can no longer track them down, the squad delivers classified documents to Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane.

This revelation is told to players though a 2D animated cinematic narrated by Harley Quinn, which is a notable downgrade from the main game’s very expensive looking cut scenes.

Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League's live-service story has concluded with a 2D cut scene that has Harley Quinn explain the ending (probably due to budget cuts)Arkham Batman is alive and well, the justice league that was killed were clones.pic.twitter.com/RP8aE13Qw9
— Synth Potato🥔 (@SynthPotato) January 14, 2025

Many players have criticised the ending for essentially undoing the entire point of the narrative. In a comment on Reddit, one user wrote: ‘Even by retcon standards, this is extremely half done.’

Another added: ‘Horrible. They could have at least given us a [good] cut scene where Batman and the League returns in a dramatic way. Instead we get this lame voiceover clip with Harley.’

Is Wonder Woman dead in Suicide Squad?

One omission from the final sequence is Wonder Woman, who was the only member of the Justice League not possessed/cloned by Brainiac. She assisted the Suicide Squad in tracking down the cloned members, but was killed by the evil Superman.

As such, the only logical conclusion is Wonder Woman is dead in the Batman: Arkham series, which is odd considering a game based around the superhero is supposedly still in the works at Monolith Productions (although it’s never been confirmed if it is set in the Arkham universe).

There’s been no official update about the game since it was announced in 2021. Amid speculation it had been cancelled, an insider in 2023 claimed the game is still in development and described it as a cross between God Of War and Crackdown.

A job listing in March 2024 also appeared to confirm Gotham Knights developer WB Games Montreal is also involved in the project in some capacity.

It was later rumoured that when it was announced in 2021 no serious work had begun on the game, which would certainly explain the lack of news since then.

What is the future of Batman in video games?

The confirmation that Batman is still alive in the Arkham universe means he could return in some kind of sequel. The last game in the series was (very good) VR title Batman: Arkham Shadow, a sequel to Batman: Arkham Origins set six months later.

Batman: Arkham Shadow was released last year (Oculus Studios)

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is set five years after the events of Batman: Arkham Knight, so it’s the furthest along in the timeline. Although, whether any game will want to acknowledge the events of Suicide Squad seems doubtful.

While there’s no confirmation of a new Batman game being in development, rumours last year suggested Rocksteady is working on some kind of Batman project. With the rebooted DC movie universe set to kick off with Superman this year, there’s also a chance a rebooted Batman unrelated to the Arkham timeline could materialise.

Whatever Batman game comes next, it likely won’t be related to Robert Pattinson’s The Batman. DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn previously said there was ‘no truth’ to a rumour to that effect, which circulated in August last year.

There was never any video game tie-in to Zack Synder’s DCEU, and hardly any DC Comics games of any kind during that period.

Gunn has previously indicated that in the future all new games will be in the same continuity as the movie universe but it’s unclear what that means for the Wonder Woman game – especially given there are no current plans for a new movie – and no other titles have been announced since.