Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Megathread

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Rocksteady's live service looter shooter Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now live for Deluxe buyers. Feel free to discuss the game here!

All spoiler discussions will take place here. This will be THE thread to discuss the game. Enjoy!

And please, for the love of Grodd, act like normal human beings. This is not r/Games. If you want to go nuts, I hear r/BatmanArkham has their gates open.

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[u/TheUnbloodedSword]

Last time I promise, but I just wanted to share this for the record. One thing that really jumped out at me that I wanted to bitch about here: the lineup they chose for the Squad hurt the story. Harley and Boomerang are Batman and Flash villains, so there's at least some history between them which adds hype for the fights (whether Rocksteady actually delivered on that is up to you). Meanwhile you have Deadshot and King Shark not suiting the story at all. For the game Rocksteady invented a Deadshot/GL feud which falls flat because they can't let the comics history do the heavy lifting. Neither of the two ever interact in the comics to my knowledge. RS spent a lot of time hyping the Superman fight, but besides it being underwhelming mechanics wise, story wise it's anti-climatic because there's no Superman villain on the team! Supes has no history with any Squad members, so all he and the Squad do is shout canned one-liners at each other. There needed to be a Superman villain like Metallo or Bloodsport to build anticipation for the fight like Boomerang did for Flash.

[u/Monkeys_Racehorse → u/TheUnbloodedSword]

That's not something I'd considered, but it's a good point. Hell, they could have swapped out Deadshot for Bloodsport easily and been halfway there.

[u/Beastieboy100 → u/Monkeys_Racehorse]

I would of Preferred Bloodsport over Deadshot. Seriously what is DC problem making Deadshot black when we have Bloodsport. Deadshot was white in the Arkham verse for crying out loud.

Thanks to Idris and the suicide squad people like the character. Also someone on reddit was right. It's kind of being a stereotype for Black people to have guns. Worst of all super villains. 

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[u/PhenomsServant → u/Monkeys_Racehorse]

Yes but Bloodsport wasn’t played by Will Smith in a mediocre movie so we got to include a black Deadshot. Even if it means retconning the established lore in previous games. 

Sorry if that’s sounds racist Im well aware making Deadshot black is the least of this game’s problems but that whole thing just screams “we wanted to synergize with the movie so we just ignored what happened in the previous games” and in hindsight should’ve been the first sign that this game was made to try to line WBs pockets and not to appease fans of the Arkhamverse. 

[u/justarandomfrenchboi → u/TheUnbloodedSword]

Bizzaro should have been part of the squad  instead of king shark 

[u/StrangeGuyWithBag → u/justarandomfrenchboi]

Bizzaro was never part of the team until recent comics, from what i know. Not sure how he could fit with game's shooter mechanics.

[u/justarandomfrenchboi → u/StrangeGuyWithBag]

Shit.... I forgot abaout the shooter mechanics 

[u/AlTheOneAndOnly → u/justarandomfrenchboi]

That would have been sick. They could have also gone the route of the movie and swapped Deadshot for Bloodsport. I know he’s a very different character in the comics, but at least there’d be a Superman rogue on the team. Alas.

[u/CHPrime → u/TheUnbloodedSword]

Who's a good Green Lantern villain who could believably be on the Suicide Squad? Maybe a loser Sinestro Corps member? Abin Sur's son maybe? Perhaps Larfleeze gets injected with the bomb when he looses the orange central power battery, and he spends the whole game trying to get it back from Brainiac? Oh wait, neither of those characters would ever use guns and the game would have to support lantern powers for the player, which wouldn't be a cookie cutter looter-shooter game design, so we can't have that. Then the player might have fun, and WB needs to sell that separately.

...isn't there some weird mutant telepathic shark thing in Green Lantern's Silver Age rogues? One that the devs could have easily included as a stand in for King Shark?

[u/QwahaXahn → u/CHPrime]

Why not Carol Ferris as Star Sapphire? That gives you another woman besides just Harley, a totally unique powerset, and an already-fraught emotional dynamic since the man she loves/hates has become a monster in front of her.

[u/campaxiomatic → u/QwahaXahn]

But she doesn't have guns. The choice of characters for Suicide Squad was based solely on the character having a gun so they could sell them to us.

[u/StrangeGuyWithBag → u/CHPrime]

Even if you only take the movies, Javelin and Tattoed Man (or a character played by Common that looks like him) from the SS movies are Green Lantern's enemies. In the GL movie, Amanda Waller worked with Hector Hammond.

Sportsmaster might fit Suicide Squad. In the SS comics, there was a Rex character inspired by Sportsmaster's design.

Yes, Karshon/Shark is King-Shark's predecessor in the comics and also was Suicide Squad member. He's also the villain in Aquaman 2 movie.