Batman: Arkham Origins Studio Nearly Made Suicide Squad Years Ago

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Everyone’s favorite rag-tag team of misfit super-villains turned reluctant super-heroes are finally getting their own video game in Rocksteady Studios’ upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, but a game about the team of super-criminals has actually been in the works for more than a decade. DC may have only revealed the new Suicide Squad game at DC Fandome 2020, but DC has been talking about the game’s development in one form or another since 2010. Through multiple teases, Easter eggs, confirmations, studio changes, cancellations, and revivals, a Suicide Squad game actually coming to fruition feels like a sort of mission only the scrappy titular team could pull off.

Though the Suicide Squad didn’t reach mainstream popularity until David Ayer’s Suicide Squad in 2016 — or really until after James Gunn’s universally better-received soft-reboot/sequel, The Suicide Squad in 2021 — the team has actually been around in DC's comics since the 1980s. Assembled by the tough-as-nails Amanda Waller on behalf of the United States government to go on top-secret and too-dangerous missions that they’re not expected to come back from. The team of would-be-reformed villains over the years has featured iconic characters like Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and the terrifying Batman villain King Shark as well as lesser-knowns like Bronze Tiger, Weasel, Count Vertigo, and dozens more, all of whom were constantly at risk of not making it home alive.

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DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns was the first — and only, with no developer or publisher making an official comment at the time — to announce that a Suicide Squad game was in the works