History VideoGame / SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague

* ObviouslyEvil: Discussed in the ApocalypticLog regarding how the Justice League got mind controlled -- The Flash and Wonder Woman are highly suspicious of Brainaic due to him having appeared in a giant cobra skull ship, while Superman and Green Lantern are on the side of "we can't assume someone's evil just because they have spooky decor". Of course, by the conceit of the game, it's clear who turned out to be right.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: In the Game Awards 2022 trailer, just as Boomerang is about to give Flash one hell of a beating privately, he accidentally severs Flash's left thumb with an offhand boomerang swipe. Boomerang quickly makes Flash stand up against a wall as the rest of the Squad arrives, so he can claim the two were just chatting (though the Squad's attention is diverted elsewhere afterward). It's a slight variation here, as Flash isn't even unconscious at first, and can be heard groaning in pain when pushed up against the wall.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: {{Subverted}}. [[spoiler: Braniac does not appear for most of the game, with Batman seemingly running his army in his stead, but the moment the controlled Justice League are gone, he immediately appears and make the Suicide Squad their replacements. They are rescued, and Brainiac becomes a very active force when they storm his ship.]]

* DeadMansSwitch: The bombs in the Squad's neck act as one for Waller: if she dies, they go boom. So the Squad can't let her die or kill her.

* MoralMyopia: Harley Quinn engaged in this when [[spoiler: she lectures Batman just before she kills him about all the pain and suffering he caused in his crusade. However, this completely ignores the fact that she was fully complicit in many of Joker's atrocities such as terrorizing Gotham City again, and torturing Jason Todd. She also trued to use innocent police officers as bait to lure in Batman for revenge on his part in Joker’s death.]]

* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: Superman thought he could negotiate with Brainiac despite Batman, The Flash and Wonder Woman's warnings, which led to Brainiac brainwashing the League. Flash instantly killed Lex Luthor by ripping his heart out but instead chose to gloat and torture the squad, allowing Wonder Woman to save the day. The next time they fight, they have Anti speed-force tech. ]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Despite now being completely [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] due to their brainwashing and having more than enough capability to track down the Squad and kill them on the spot, the Justice League repeatedly insists on leaving the Squad alive in an attempt to capture or just taunt them. One egregious example is [[spoiler:the Flash killing Lex Luthor by ripping out his heart before anyone, let alone the victim, notice. Instead of repeating the same feat with the rest of Task Force X, he instead insists on playing keep away, which allows the Squad the chance to kill him.]] Ironically enough, the Squad, who are ''actual'' supervillains who are generally prone to this trope, completely avert it as they [[spoiler:kill each Justice League member the first chance they get]].

* IdiotBall: All over the place with many people grabbing it. But the most egregious examples would be when Superman thought he could actually negotiate with Brainiac against Batman and Wonder-Woman's warnings which lead to Brainiac brainwashing him and the League instead and when Flash instantly killed Lex Luthor by ripping his heart out but never tried that move again on the rest of the Squad.

* MoralMyopia: Harley Quinn heavily engaged in this when she lectures Batman just before she kills him about all the pain and suffering he caused in his crusade. However, this completely ignores the fact that she was fully complicit in many of Joker's atrocities such as terrorising Gotham City over and over again, helping Joker torture Jason Todd, and trying to use innocent police officers as bait to lure in Batman just to get revenge on him for killing the Joker. She is literally the last person who gets to claim any moral authority over Batman.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Task Force X successfully kills the Justice League and Brainiac, meaning the once-heroic titans end their careers as mass-murdering villains. This does save the world, but it also leaves it in the hands of Earth-2 Lex Luthor and Amanda Waller, who are hardly better than Brainiac. Additionally, the Squad's work isn't done, as they now have to deal with twelve other Braniacs across the multiverse.]]

* BewareTheSuperman: The whole Justice League sans Wonder Woman. Under Brainiac's control and their morals gone, the League terrorize Metropolis and humanity, with things haven gotten so desperate that Waller and A.R.G.U.S. have decided to use the Squad to take down the League.

* HappyEndingOverride: A weird example. ''Arkham Knight'' ends with Batman and Alfred ambiguously faking their deaths after Bruce's identity is revealed at large, with him possibly operating under a new identity. ''Kill the Justice League'' gives him a happier ending in where years later, Superman invites him to form the Justice League, resulting in Batman coming out of hiding, regaining public trust, and having a team of more powerful heroes to depend on. The game then takes that away when Brainiac brainwashes Batman and the rest of the Justice League and makes them ravage most of the planet, with the now-evil Batman implied to have killed Robin in his rampage. [[spoiler:Task Force X defeat and kill Batman, along with the rest of the Justice League, leaving the world in the hands of villains like Lex Luthor and A.R.G.U.S.]].

* BewareTheSuperman: The first trailer shows Superman murdering an innocent pilot in cold blood, implying that he's gone evil and the Suicide Squad are the only ones who can stop him.
** This basically applies to the whole Justice League sans Wonder Woman. Under Brainiac's control and their morals gone, the League proves to be terrorizing force on Metropolis and humanity, with things haven gotten so desperate that Waller and A.R.G.U.S. have decided to use the Squad to take down the League.

* DownerEnding: Regarding the League itself, [[spoiler:they all are either killed while brainwashed as villains, or are killed by said brainwashed people, and die as villains despite their lives as heroes beforehand]]. This is especially potent with [[spoiler:Batman and the Batfamily, as it means his decade of heroism ends with his death as just another psychotic killer who was killed by Harley Quinn, one of the villains across the majority of the ''Arkham'' games]].

* InformedAttribute:
** The threat of killing the squad if they disobey is harder to take seriously when the game is built around CoOpMultiplayer, meaning nobody would expect any of the team to actually die, and in fact they won’t unless you deliberately avoid objectives. In practice, it makes the Squad more of an ARGUS-funded VillainTeamUp, since they’re fighting heroes anyway.
** The game reveals that the Deadshot previously featured in ''Arkham City'' and ''Arkham Origins'' was actually an imposter, with the one in the squad during this game being the real Floyd Lawton... except, as Deadshot's aim is for the most part under the player's control, it ends up feeling like the other way around as the player naturally isn't going to be able to pull off the same [[ImprobableAimingSkills impossible sniper shots]] the other Deadshot managed. In other words, the fake Deadshot ends up coming across as a better shot than the ''actual'' Deadshot.
* JokerImmunity: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler: Lex Luthor, who the trope would likely be named after if The Joker hadn't existed, is quickly killed after the Squad encounters him perhaps as a defiance of this trope...but the Squad quickly encounters another Luthor from a different universe who does everything he'd do anyway and survives the campaign.]]

* OrcusOnHisThrone: {{Subverted}}. [[spoiler: Braniac does not appear for most of the game, with Batman seemingly running his army in his stead, but the moment the controlled Justice League is dead, he instantly appears and tries to take control of the Squad, but they are rescued, and then they go to his ship and fight him and he doesn't hide.]]
* PlotArmor: An unbelievable amount. The five greatest superheroes in the world could kill the Suicide Squad in an instant if Brainiac bothered to see them as a threat.

* VillainProtagonist: The Suicide Squad might as well be the poster boys of this trope: a group of supervillains recruited from prison to do the government's bidding in exchange for reduced sentences. It is even taken further than most incarnations of the Squad, since the majority of their primary targets except Brainiac are brainwashed superheroes, rather than being worse supervillains than themselves or political regimes.

* VoodooShark: This game states that the Justice League wasn't formed until after the events of ''Arkham Knight''. Fair enough, but on the previous games we had easter eggs referencing ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/TheFlash, ComicBook/GreenLantern (Both Jordan and Stewart), ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}, Comicbook/MartianManhunter, [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Hawkman and Hawkgirl]], ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/GreenArrow, Comicbook/SwampThing, ComicBook/{{Deadman}}, ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends el Dorado]] or ComicBook/TheSpectre just to name a few, and fans pointed out it seemed unlikely that so many heroes would have been active at the same time without teaming up. Plus, villains like the Injustice Gang and Prometheus are referenced, who usually require the entire League to take down. Complicating it further, the Arkhamverse was lauded for [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructing]] SupermanStaysOutOfGotham (Since each game takes place in less than a night, Batman has no time to ask for help) so retconning the League as having never existed seems rather contradictory to the prior games’ worldbuilding.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Despite now being completely [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] due to their brainwashing and having more than enough capability to track down the Squad and kill them on the spot, the Justice League repeatedly insists on leaving the Squad alive in an attempt to capture or just taunt them. Ironically enough, the Squad, who are ''actual'' supervillains who are generally prone to this trope, completely avert it as they [[spoiler:kill each Justice League member the first chance they get]].

* HappyEndingOverride: This game takes place after the Batman: Arkham Series and proceeds to invalidate everything that happened there. After being forced into hiding when his identity was exposed, Batman meets other superheroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash where they then form the Justice League. However, Brainiac was able to turn Batman and the rest of the Justice League into his brainwashed goons who ravage most of the planet with the Suicide Squad sent in to kill the Justice League. The Suicide Squad [[spoiler:beats down Batman, Harley Quinn mocks him for all the pain and suffering he has caused in his crusade, and then shoots him in the head. All the good that Batman has done throughout the series is reduced to nothing and he dies an unceremonious death]].

* CharacterShilling: Wonder Woman's [[https://i.ibb.co/BBVWYVs/65-AD0051-B1-EC-4-B95-8-B3-C-FD2-D18-E29636.jpg in-game Bio]] comes off as particularly positive compared to the other Justice Leaguers, especially considering that it's written in-universe by Lex Luthor, a known narcissist who typically has no respect for anyone that's not him. In contrast, Green Lantern's bio has Deadshot accusing him of being "one of the good ones" and a narc due to his straight-laced background as well as him being a "space cop".

* TwilightOfTheSupers: ''If'' the game's story is treated as a sequel to the ''Arkham'' series, and considering the events herein, [[spoiler:the Justice League - no word on any other superteam - are brainwashed by Brainiac and massacres the city of Metropolis, forcing Amanda Waller to assemble the Task Force X to ''kill'' the heroes. At the end of the game, Task Force X ''accomplishes'' the impossible, and the Justice League go down one by one as villains they became under Brainiac.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: This game takes place after the Batman: Arkham Series and proceeds to invalidate everything that happened there. After being forced into hiding when his identity was exposed, Batman meets other superheroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash where they then form the Justice League. However, Brainiac was able to turn Batman and the rest of the Justice League into his brainwashed goons who ravage most of the planet with the Suicide Squad sent in to kill the Justice League. The Suicide Squad beats down Batman, Harley Quinn mocks him for all the pain and suffering he has caused in his crusade, and then shoots him in the head. All the good that Batman has done throughout the series is reduced to nothing and he dies an unceremonious death.

* CharacterShilling: Wonder Woman's [[https://i.ibb.co/BBVWYVs/65-AD0051-B1-EC-4-B95-8-B3-C-FD2-D18-E29636.jpg in-game Bio]] comes off as particularly positive compared to the other Justice Leaguers, especially considering that it's written in-universe by Lex Luthor, a known narcissist who typically has no respect for anyone that's not him.

* {{Retcon}}: The first iteration of Deadshot, who was initially treated as the real Floyd Lawton, is revealed to be an imposter who took on the mantle while the current Deadshot was out of the game. Lawton remarks that he still has to deal with this "phony, steampunk-ass lookin' dude". The other Squad members also lampshade the change: Boomerang believes that the ''faker'' is the real deal, while Harley theorizes that he's a "long-lost twin of another race".

''Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League'' is a video game based on the ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' of Creator/DCComics. Developed by Rocksteady, the creators of the ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'', it will be released on February 2nd, 2024 for the Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS, and Platform/MicrosoftWindows.