Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League grabbed headlines and courted controversy for its premise: As Task Force X, your job was to kill the Brainiac-corrupted members of the Justice League. Over the course of the game, DC superheroes Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Superman died at the hands of the Suicide Squad, often in ways that resonated poorly with fans.
Now, two seasons into Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s post-launch plans, players are tasked with undoing some of those deaths — in a way.
On July 25, Rocksteady Studios released a new playable character, Mrs. Freeze, and new story content for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and thereby started the process of getting the Justice League back together. In season 2 of Rocksteady’s game, Task Force X leader Amanda Waller taps Mrs. Freeze (aka Victoria Frias) from an alternate-reality Metropolis to recover the Flash, part of a plan to find a cure for Brainiac’s corrupting infestation. Task Force X travels to Freeze’s “Elseworld” to take down its Brainiac, after which that world’s version of the Flash is revealed to be very much alive and is brought back to the game’s main reality.
From there, the Flash is basically put into a stasis pod, not to be heard from again.
This event appears to be phase one of undoing some major superhero deaths from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. There are additional empty stasis pods for the remaining Justice League heroes back at Task Force X HQ, and according to leaked details on Rocksteady’s plans, at least two other heroes are expected to return to the core Arkhamverse.
Rocksteady has plans for two more seasons of Kill the Justice League, with new playable characters Lawless (aka Zoe Lawton, daughter of Deadshot) and Deathstroke reportedly the next Task Force X recruits in line. According to unconfirmed leaks from the game’s planned story, those seasons will also bring back Green Lantern and Batman. Like the Flash (and the Joker), they’ll be Elseworlds
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