Based on the cutscenes with Mrs. Freeze and the final clashes with Brainiac, it looks like Season 2 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will confirm rumors that had been circulating for some time. Spoilers follow, be warned.
We are referring, specifically, to the theory according to which Rocksteady Studios would have found a way to bring back Superman, Batman, Flash and Green Lantern after they were killed by Task Force X during the game’s campaign.
After the clash with Brainiac in Episode 1 of the new season, in fact, it turns out that Flash is still alive and that the one we had eliminated was nothing more than a clone generated by the technologies of the extraterrestrial villain.
At this point, it’s reasonable to imagine that the same treatment has been reserved for the other members of the Justice League, locked away somewhere waiting to be freed, so as to restore the Arkhamverse… or maybe not?
A poorly managed story?
As Forbes rightly points out, Rocksteady Studios envisioned these narrative twists from the beginning but handled them terribly poorly, focusing on the clash with the Brainiac variants rather than saving the Justice League when it comes to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s post-launch content.
Revealing after the campaign’s credits that the various Superman, Batman, Flash and Green Lantern were still alive and that we would have to defeat the Brainiac variants to save them would have had a very different appeal and, who knows, maybe even on the numbers front it would have improved something.
The problem, in fact, is that after a first season that was purely filler, which did not advance the plot in any way, it might now be too late to hope to recover the excellent numbers of the launch; and these interesting developments, however, are not being followed by anyone.
