While we’ve yet to see any gameplay from Rocksteady’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Suicide Squad🧸: Kill The Justice League, DC FanDome provided a much clearer look at what the game will entail. 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. Superman was in the game’s first teaser, so his presence is nothing new, but absence has not made the heart grow fon𒆙der. I was bored then and I’m bored now. Pl▨ease, do something new.
Superman is supposed to be a beacon of hope, a bastion of goodness. It makes sense, then, that inverting that into ‘evil Superman’ makes for quite the twist. The problem is this twist has been explored time and time again. The butler always does it. 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. Though he’s not ‘evil’ in these movies, he isn’t the classic ‘do no wrong’ Supes either. Considering the MCU managed to maඣke a goody two shoes Captain America interesting, DC’s direction is even more disappointing.
Even unofficially, we’ve seen Superman inverted. While DC can’t control that, it should be able to react to it. 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. Even Invincible arguably explores this trope, although that would be a more reductive interpretation of what Superman ‘is’. Still, big strong good h♏ero is bad, actually - it’s been done to death.
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 ex🃏cited to fight Superman. 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.
The problem with this is Superman’s very existence makes it difficult to build a narrative꧂ in a game like this. 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. It’s not until Supes appears that they realise what they’re in for. 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 just Superman they have to kill - it’s the whole Justice League.
That means Superman, easily the toughest of the League, is up first. In true video game style, it’s likely we fight him both first and last, with the first encounter ღbeing an impossible fight we cannot hope to win in order to show off his powers. But then what will change? The four heroes we play as are very much ‘what you see is what you get’. Harl꧃ey will not suddenly become super powered halfway through. 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.
Having Superman in a story makes him the focus; he’s too s🌄trong. Writers cottoned on to the fact he was too powerful a hero, so they made him a villain, but even that has worn thin now. Evil Green Lantern? Sure. Evil Aquaman? Yes please. Evil Wonder Woman a la Flashpoint? Why is that not a🌼 game already? Evil Superman? Nah, I’m good.
