Summary
This article contains potential spoilers for playable characters arriving inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguebased on reliable leaks.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguehas always been tremendously transparent. It made no effort to obscure its plot, even when its subtitle was believed to be a cheeky misnomer, and it seems to be plain about what characters players can expect to accompany Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark asMetropolis and the multiverse’s Task Force X.
As it stands right now, leaks have almost all turned out to be true regardingSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueand the teaser graphic for the game’s four post-launch seasons run parallel to the leaks about them.
So, leaning into the leak and how well the graphic image’s silhouettes check out, the four playable recruits will almost assuredly be Joker, Victoria Fries, Zoe Lawton, andSlade Wilson’s Deathstroke. Many characters from the Arkhamverse would’ve retrospectively been great additions to ARGUS’ unwitting and unwilling squad, though, and to not see Jason Todd’s Red Hood play a role inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueat all is a fumble of the character that Rocksteady needed to capitalize on.
Batman: Arkham Knightconcludes withJason Todd shedding the Arkham Knight mantle and becoming Red Hood. Equally vengeful and lethal, Jason doesn’t adopt a goodhearted vigilante persona but instead immediately hunts down and murders Black Mask.
Then, the only explicit mention of him at all inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueis a cardboard standee and an ambiguous reference from Jack Ryder at theBatman Experience museum exhibit. Rather, for Rocksteady to finally reveal Jason’s existence let alone establish him as Red Hood and then abandon him is completely wasteful.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguedid make strides to distance itself from theArkhamgames and to its benefit it didn’t make any obligatory cameos, but Jason was one character who Rocksteady spent quite some time crafting in the previous game and would have made a terrific expansion addition. Seeing Jason entrapped by ARGUS and having to work alongside his kidnapper and torturer’s ex-girlfriend would’ve been arresting, for example, and he’s certainly not afraid to wield a variety of guns.
Deathstroke being recruited intoSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueas a playable TFX protagonist crushes the argument of Rocksteady not featuring anyone from theArkhamseries in its post-launch DLC roster—if legitimate, of course. Therefore, if Deathstroke was viable, it makes no sense why a character as perfect for TFX as Jason Todd wouldn’t have made the cut.
Deathstroke making the cut is also an issue of Rocksteady seemingly wanting to carve out its own path with all the wild decisions it made regarding lore and canon. Meanwhile, it evidently can’t wholly let go of popular characters. Deathstroke has far less screen time than Jason and Slade was even an understudy lackey who was only subbed in to take over the Arkham Knight’s militia.
Deathstroke surely left a more positive impression on the Arkhamverse than Jason Todd regardless of how swiftly Batman’s beaten him in the two times they encounter one another, but this dynamic could’ve also been explored inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueif they were both recruited onto TFX.Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguemight not receive more than its four planned post-launch expansions and while the franchise’s future is uncertain there’s a good chance players have seen all they’re going to of Red Hood, and that’s a shame.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
WHERE TO PLAY
Play as the Suicide Squad to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, The Justice League. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a genre-defying, action-adventure third-person shooter from Rocksteady Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham series.
