The newest content patch for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has revealed a major plot twist revealing that the ArkhamVerse Batman is not actually dead. The live service multiplayer shooter will no longer be updating after the latest, and final, Season 4: Episode 8 release, and the game is going out with a bang.

The content update, released one day ago, reveals that the Arkham version of Batman who was killed by Harley Quinn earlier in the Suicide Squad title was actually a clone created by Brainiac. The real Batman, it appears, is still alive and was being held captive by the villain, along with the rest of the Justice League. The new info was spotted by DiscussingFilm on X, and many fans are taking to the comments to express their displeasure with this seemingly retconned solution to an unpopular decision.

ArkhamVerse Batman's Revival Feels Retconned But Evidence Suggests It Was Planned

Fans Still Feel Slighted By The Seemingly Random Twist

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League was meant to follow in the footsteps of other free-to-play live-service games, serving as a spinoff of the Batman: Arkham series and set within the same universe. However, the title could not keep the interest alive and its shutdown was announced after only four seasons. With the release of the final episode of the season, players are treated to an ending that they weren't expecting: That every Justice League character who met their death at the hands of the game's villains, except Wonder Woman, was actually a clone and is not really dead.

Many fans have taken to the X post and other social media websites to voice their disappointment regarding this plot twist. Many fans, it seems, feel slighted by what seems to them to be a sloppy attempt by developer Rocksteady to undo the extremely unpopular decision to kill off one of the most beloved DC characters in such an offhand manner. This was doubly troubling in light of the tragic ing of Kevin Conroy two years ago, who had been the voice of Batman since 1992.

However, an article on Forbes states that the plot twist was the plan all along, and evidence of this can be found both in the game's storylines and in previous datamining. Despite this, it seems that fans are unimpressed by Rocksteady's final hurrah and view Kill The Justice League as a smear on the Arkham franchise.

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The Plot Twist Has The Same Effect As Saying "It Was All A Dream"

If it was actually the planned resolution all along, the final update to Kill The Justice League was probably supposed to be a shocking twist reveal. But since it's the last thing fans will see of the doomed live service title, the attempted bang of an exit ends up fizzling out. Instead of being a cool moment showing that the fan-favorite hero is still alive, the reveal makes it feel like the game might as well not have happened.

If all the Justice League heroes killed in the game were just clones, then none of the game's events had any real consequences. This is similar to the trope ending of "it was all a dream," which is hated by many across all media, from books to movies and beyond. The reveal that Batman (and most of Justice League) is actually still alive is somehow a fitting end to a game plagued with issues and unpopular choices since its launch. The ending of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League closes the book on a chapter that it seems many fans are ready to put behind them.

Source: DiscussingFilm/X, Forbes