Turns Out Arkham Batman Shot in Rocksteady's Suicide Squad Was a Clone

The majority of fans found this ending for Batman both humiliating and disrespectful, and with the game being dedicated to the late Kevin Conroy, whose performance as Batman in Kill the Justice League was his final one, it's easy to see why the community viewed Rocksteady's treatment of the DC universe's most iconic vigilante as "the biggest 'f**k you' to a game series that has been with us for more than a decade."

A year later, it seems the game's creators have finally recognized the magnitude of their mistake, pulling the "it was all a dream" move and revealing in a new trailer that Batman who was shot wasn't actually the real one but a clone created by Brainiac, while the real Batman was hiding in the shadows all along. In fact, none of the Justice League members killed by the Suicide Squad in the game titled Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League were the real heroes – Superman, Flash, Green Lantern – they were all clones, leaving Wonder Woman as the only genuine casualty of the story.

Considering that the release of a new comic book-style cutscene featuring the biggest plot twist of all coincided with Rocksteady shipping Episode 8 – the final post-release update the game will ever receive – and compounded by the overwhelming backlash the studio has faced for Kill the Justice League's main story, it's fair to assume that the twist is nothing more than a last-ditch attempt to redeem the project's legacy before it fades into obscurity, which may still take some time, as unlike other 2024 letdowns like XDefiant and Concord, the game will still be available even after Episode 8's release in both Online and Offline modes.

On a related note, it was recently revealed that Rocksteady fired an undisclosed number of developers in the final days of 2024, affecting the company's programming, QA, and artist departments. Earlier, in September of the previous year, it was also reported that the studio's QA department lost over half its employees, decreasing from 33 to 15, with the primary reason behind both cuts being the underperformance – to put it mildly – of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

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