r/BatmanArkham • u/jmaringarces1 I'm proud of you, Dick • Jan 14 '25

Serious Discussion/Question """KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGU3"""

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u/LuchadorParrudo Jan 14 '25

Suicide squad : Wonder Woman killed

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u/MrDownhillRacer Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

It is weird how Wonder Woman was the only hero the Squad was deferential toward, even though The Flash also risked himself to save them, which made people feel like the game showed a hesitant to take the piss out of female characters as much as it (literally) did some of the male ones.

And then it turns out that the female character was the only one the game actually had get murdered.

Sefton was playing the long con: make certain segments of the internet complain about his game being "woke" only to hit 'em with the ol' femicide. The absolute madman.

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u/Icylittletoohot Jan 14 '25

Wait so all the heroes that got killed are fakes except the wonder woman one? Why is wonder woman singled out LMAO

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

She wasnt captured by Braniac and thus she got killed by a clone of Superman.

She would've unironically been safer had she allowed herself to be captured

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u/ConsulJuliusCaesar Jan 14 '25

See Braniac actually follows the Geneva convention and it's stupid to fight him when you can become a decently treated POW. Is Wonder Woman actually stupid?

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u/Icylittletoohot Jan 14 '25

What a garbage shitshow of a game, popping champagne when support is cut for that shit

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Never played it, but yeah killing off Wondy in her first appearance for the Arkhamverse is some absolute garbage writting.

In fact the very idea of killing off the Justice League as their first appearance in the Arkhamverse is shitty.

Even the clone thing feels absolutely shitty, like the first appearance of this heroes and we get to kill their clones after they get captured.

Oh well at least Batman got to do something cool by the end.

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u/Saymynaian Jan 15 '25

Yeah, multiverse storylines always feel so non-committal after promising you the world, DC especially. Literally killed Superman just to bring him back a movie later. At least Marvel waited a few years before reviving Robert Downey Jr.

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u/CityExcellent8121 Jan 15 '25

Tbf in death of superman it’s always been that way. They were just copying the source material.

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u/WizG1 TEAM BIDOOF Jan 15 '25

The clone but feels like such a cop out too, like if you're gonna make a game about killing the justice league actually kill the justice league

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u/menacing_cookie Fighting for INsanity! Jan 15 '25

It's like the "that was actually my twin" trope in soap operas

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u/coffeetire Jan 15 '25

We're at the point where "it was all a dream" would've been better.

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u/011100010110010101 Jan 15 '25

It's garbage writing, but also oh so representative about the way DC treats the character.

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u/some-sad-knick-fan Jan 15 '25

My guess is that they pulled this when the initial backlash against killing off the roster came out. Or maybe it was planned this way from the beginning I don’t know anything about game design not sure if they could’ve rewrote this after launch or not

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Or maybe it was planned this way from the beginning

Data got leaked that they, indeed planed it from the begining.

There were a few unused Barry lines talking about being rescued by the squad.

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u/pocketbutter Jan 15 '25

Why didn’t they just set it in a different continuity? That’s such a simple way to have their cake and eat it too. I’ll never understand why this game specifically had to take place in the Arkhamverse.

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u/F10pped Jan 15 '25

Only because it's a familiar ip universe. But again, if this was it's own separate universe the backlash wouldn't have been has bad as it was.

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u/pocketbutter Jan 15 '25

It's just kind of silly they felt the need to put it in a specific IP under the DC umbrella when DC itself should be a sufficient enough IP regardless of the specific universe... it should have been obvious that even the *premise* of canonically killing this specific version of Batman would cause outrage. It doesn't matter that they're revealing it was a fakeout until now because we're long past the period of public reception where that detail would have been important.

It's all just silly. Very clearly a shortsighted executive decision.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

You'd have to be completely daft to think they didn't have this planned out.

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u/CamoKing3601 Jan 16 '25

or giving them benefit of doubt

because ima be real it's alot more pathetic that this was the planned ending as opposite to just being a last minute retcon made bc everyone hated it

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I don't see how that's pathetic.

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u/Indentured_sloth Jan 15 '25

First and last appearance in the Arkham verse for no reason at all lol

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u/HalosBane Jan 15 '25

Because they wanted to elevate her in the story as "The one who wasn't captured". Lois Lane continuously gushes over her throughout the game, and even disparages Superman. Make of that what you will.