Summary
Considering thatSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueis a DC game set in the vast open world of Metropolis and is a continuation of the Batman: Arkham universe from developer Rocksteady Studios, Easter eggs are bound to be everywhere. There’s even an entire room taking you on a trip down memory lane of past Arkham games.
As you explore Metropolis and fight the bad guys as the bad guys of Task Force X, lots of names on buildings, environmental art, and other connections referencing the greater DC villains and heroes will pop out at you. The following are but a few unique examples.
11Big Belly Burger, Sundollar Coffee, And Soder Cola
One of the earliest Easter eggs you encounter in Kill the Justice League is when you quite literally swing by Big Belly Burger, perhaps DC’s most popular fast-food establishment. Miraculously, the giant sign with the logo and mascot is still intact amid all the wasteland destruction.
10Stanhope College
Another early Easter egg you encounter, as Harley is on her way to meet up with the rest of Task Force X during the tutorial part of the game, is Stanhope College. The building is in ruins and is taken over by enemies that you’ll need to clear.
Stanhope is significant because it teases the possible inclusion of Linda Danvers' Supergirl in future expansions, not to be confused with Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El,portrayed in live-action by actresses like Melissa Benoist, Sasha Calle, and Helen Slater. Linda fused with Matrix Supergirl to get her powers, and Stanhope was her alma mater.
Stanhope was also confirmed to be the college attended by Melissa Benoist’s Kara Danvers in the CW Supergirl series.
9Stagg Enterprises
Grappling or flying around Metropolis, you’ll also see a building with multi-colored lettering that might have you mistaking it for the Google logo. It actuallyisa fictional tech giant found in the DC universe, and the developers also took the opportunity to feature it with Google’s colors.
This would, of course, be the building run by Simon Stagg called Stagg Enterprises. Like all those who have business empires named after them in DC, Stagg is a villain who’s had his run-ins with Batman and other Justice League members, Arkham Knight being one of those examples. His business was also featured heavily in the Arrowverse shows, and the character appeared in Wonder Woman 1984 and CW’s The Flash.
8Sivana, Kord, And Ocran Industries
Metropolis is home to even more notable DC buildings scattered all around it. You’ll come across Sivana Industries and Kord Industries just behind it, and the beginning section of the game also features a building for Ocran Industries when swinging around as Harley. Yes, lots of evil villains are CEOs of industries.
Dr. Thaddeus Sivana is the arch-nemesis of Shazam, obsessed with the ancient powers granted by the wizard, and was the main villain of the 2019 movie. Kord Industries is run by Ted Kord, who was the Blue Beetle prior to Jaime Reyes, and whose disappearance was a side-plot of the 2023 movie Blue Beetle.Ocran was an Easter egg also seen in 2022’s Gotham Knights, and it was the company responsible for the deleterious chemical compound Draxx, which shows up in The Exterminators comics.
7Zatanna, Green Arrow, And Booster Gold References
And on top of supervillain buildings, Metropolis contains homages to beloved DC superheroes and Justice League members. Surrounding Kord Industries are Queen Consolidated and Booster Gold International, the former owned by Green Arrow himself, Oliver Queen, and the latter a tribute to the time-traveling hero suited in gold.
6Edge Airlines And Intergang
One of Superman’s most important enemies is out there in Metropolis. That would be Morgan Edge, who now apparently owns Edge Airlines, which promises to be a better competitor to Spirit Airlines (at least according to how the ad is worded). Another compelling piece of evidence is the mention of Intergang.
There’s lots of graffiti tagging on Metropolis' structures, and one of the tags is for the criminal organization that was once led by Edge in the comics and composed of other villainous leaders like Bruno Mannheim and even Lex Luthor. It was seen in the Arrowverse shows, particularly the focus of the third season of Superman & Lois, and in Young Justice. Morgan Edge, played by Adam Rayner, also shows up in Superman & Lois.
5Brainiac’s Terminauts Resemble The Flood In Halo
The primary enemies engaging in firefights with you all across Metropolis are Brainiac’s Terminaut minions. These are grotesque alien beings that were humans transformed by spindly symbiote-like purple orbs. This design contrasts with the robot forms represented in the comics and is seemingly inspired by The Flood species fromHalo, visually and behaviorally.
Task Force X gets a demonstration by Green Lantern of how one transforms into a Terminaut, where an unfortunate civilian gets absorbed by the tentacled alien ball ina very creepy scene evoking the one from Halo: Combat Evolved. The civilian’s pleas for help in getting it off are naturally another similarity shared with one of the soldiers in Halo getting attacked by the Flood.
4Black Manta Graffiti
This Easter egg might be the biggest tease yet for a playable character. Black Manta, Aquaman’s enemy in the comics and the main villain of James Wan’s DCEU movies, does eventually become a member of the Suicide Squad, and this might indicate that he’ll be available in one of the next seasons of Kill the Justice League.
Just outside the area where you find Oswald Cobblepot’s black market warehouse from which he deals arms, there is a sealed garage door with Black Manta’s face graffitied onto it. It’s hard to mistake that glowing red-eyed helmet for anything else, and there are more locations of it all over the map.
3Lots Of Eye-Popping DC Character Memorabilia
More Suicide Squad Easter eggs and teases can be discovered inside the glass-enclosed wall of memorabilia in the Hall of Justice museum that you must destroy so fellow squad members can steal their special traversal gadgets. Harley gets the grapple, Boomerang Dr. Sivana’s Speed Force Gauntlet, and Deadshot the jetpack, but you’re able to also see many other cool things, like even Malcolm Merlyn’s arrow.
Nightwing’s batons are right therealong with Scarecrow’s glove, a reference to past WB Games collaborations Gotham Knights and Batman: Arkham Knight. Then you also have a toxin canister from Dr. Poison, Polka-Dot Man’s handkerchief, and Condiment King’s ketchup and mustard bottles. If Condiment King or Polka-Dot Man joins the Suicide Squad in future expansions, many would probably rejoice.
Polka-Dot Man made an appearance in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, played by David Dastmalchian, and Condiment King is likely a reference to all the discussion about this stranger-than-strange condiment villain whom Gunn dislikes and confirmed will be absent from the new DCU.
2Harley Quinn’s Arkham Knight Costume
For Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Harley gets a new skin, which is a hybrid of the 2016 outfit worn by Margot Robbie in the David Ayer movie and her appearance in Arkham City. She has a similar red and blue jacket, a shirt that says “Harleen the Queen,” a choker, and blue and pink-colored hair tips.
However, you do still get to see the old costume she wore in the last game, Arkham Knight, which was delivered to her locker courtesy of Waller and ARGUS, and Harley refused to put it back on. Her former attire was a very low-cut black and red leather corset with a black tutu.
