Gamers Are Mad About An LGBTQ+ Flag In Suicide Squad

thegamer.com:

Last night, Rocksteady released a 20-minute gameplay video of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, unveiling it for the first time since delaying it earlier this year. While the live-service elements like the battle pass are still proving controversial, it's an unrelated snippet from a seven-second clip that's riled up gamers.

As Harley Quinn traverses the city and climbs a rooftop that has a giant Batman mask on the side, you can see an LGBTQ+ flag painted on the adjacent building, described by one commenter as "unnecessary wall paint".

Homophobes in the replies complaining about a rainbow on a wall that I, a gay man, didn't even notice at first because it was such a slight detail. Y'all are so fu**ing obsessed with us, it's insane - @jayjaybeastie

Plenty more in the quote retweets have taken snapshots of the flag, announcing that they will no longer be buying the game. "As soon as I see that rainbow wall, I'm out," @DerekSilk89 said.

But others were quick to shoot down these comments; "Must be hard living life with such a weak mentality," @DrBenana_ replied.

Some gamers are even mad that they'd hang up an LGBTQ+ flag specifically in Gotham. Even though... this isn't Gotham. It's Metropolis. "I hate this woke sh*t," said @ankityuusuke. "I consider it disingenuous, but in a city like Gotham, I don't know man. Gotham was never a progressive city. The characters can be but the city should be dark and gritty".

'Woke' is a term that cropped up a lot in the comments and quote retweets, with @PC_gamerrr claiming that "They injected wokeness" as though it's Scarecrow's fear drug.

Of course, what many are forgetting is that Harley Quinn - who is being played in the video - is bisexual. She dated both the Joker and Poison Ivy