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Will the lower heroes, like Flash or Green Lantern, end up teaming up with us for the final battle? In some ways that sounds cool, but after 20 or 40 or 60 hours (who knows how long games are these days?) of fighting as Task Force X, it will feel a bit limp if Wonder Woman ends up saving the day.Warning: You need to have a program capable of running an SWF file to play this game. Harley will not suddenly become super powered halfway through.
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But then what will change? The four heroes we play as are very much ‘what you see is what you get’. In true video game style, it’s likely we fight him both first and last, with the first encounter being an impossible fight we cannot hope to win in order to show off his powers. That means Superman, easily the toughest of the League, is up first. It’s not just Superman they have to kill - it’s the whole Justice League. The latest trailer, which once again lacks any gameplay footage, shows the grander scale of the problem (if the title had not already made that clear). It’s not until Supes appears that they realise what they’re in for. It appears, from the original teaser, that Task Force X doesn’t know the scale of the problem until Superman shows up - they assume they are out on Brainiac goon clean up patrol. The problem with this is Superman’s very existence makes it difficult to build a narrative in a game like this. How can I be? There’s no legit way Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and Deadshot can beat him, so the battle will likely be about damage control while trying to shake him out of Brainiac’s spell admittedly, the Brainiac control is at least better than Superman just deciding to be bad.
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I’m still excited for Kill The Justice League - you could put Harley Quinn on a pair of socks and I’d be excited for them - but I’m not really excited to fight Superman. Still, big strong good hero is bad, actually - it’s been done to death. Even Invincible arguably explores this trope, although that would be a more reductive interpretation of what Superman ‘is’. Both Brightburn and The Boys do ‘what if Superman was bad’, and they do it in more interesting ways than DC has done this century. While DC can’t control that, it should be able to react to it. Related: On Bully's 15th Birthday, It Still Doesn't Need A SequelĮven unofficially, we’ve seen Superman inverted. Considering the MCU managed to make a goody two shoes Captain America interesting, DC’s direction is even more disappointing. Though he’s not ‘evil’ in these movies, he isn’t the classic ‘do no wrong’ Supes either. As well as the two Injustice games, where evil Superman is the narrative hook, we’ve also seen Superman duke it out with Batman on the silver screen in both Dawn of Justice and Justice League. The problem is this twist has been explored time and time again. It makes sense, then, that inverting that into ‘evil Superman’ makes for quite the twist. Superman is supposed to be a beacon of hope, a bastion of goodness. Superman was in the game’s first teaser, so his presence is nothing new, but absence has not made the heart grow fonder. Though it’s Arkhamverse setting means no Batman, we did see the likes of Superman, Green Lantern, and the Flash all getting ready to face Harley, Captain Boomerang, and company. While we’ve yet to see any gameplay from Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, DC FanDome provided a much clearer look at what the game will entail.