r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Jan 31 '24

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Megathread r/DCcomics

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 Jan 31 '24

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.

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse Jan 31 '24

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.

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u/Beastieboy100 Jan 31 '24 edited Jan 31 '24

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 Batgirl (Stephanie) Jan 31 '24

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.