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There are a lot of questions left unanswered at the end ofSuicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Throw on top the abrupt ending and the brave decisions that follow into the credits after the eulogy, and you’d be right in thinking a lot of people were left dumbstruck and flabbergasted by it all.
The end of the game kind of just drops on you out of nowhere if you’re not fully paying attention to the story, which is hard enough over the cacophony of noise, character barks, and scripted dialogue blowing out constantly. So if you were left scratching your head whilst staring at the gaudy splash screens after the showdown with Brainiac, then here’s the ending of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, explained.
Warning: Spoilers For The Ending Of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Below
One of the biggest criticisms of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is its ending. For those not aware,Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League ends abruptlyand it comes completely out of left field. The majority of the game is spentbuilding up to killing the Justice Leaguewhilst the showdown withBrainiac is merely an afterthoughtuntil Superman is killed.
From there the game focuses onthe Suicide Squad figuring out how to get to Brainiacand take him down. However, it turns out there are13 Brainiacs working together across different universesand the Suicide Squad will need to beat each one of them one by one.
Lex Luthor and Waller work together begrudgingly to help the Squad accessEarth-Two, the location of the Brainiac that kicked all the events off. The idea is that they’ll be able togain information from this Brainiac by using him as a conduit to access Earth-One’s ship. Such as the location of the dimensions that the other Brainiacs are hiding in.
The Suicide Squad finds their first Brainiac, who calls himselfVril Doxbefore he turns himself into The Flash to fight the Squad. Though it could be argued that Brainiac himself should be able to handle four people with guns easily, it’s just another in a line ofdisappointing and underwhelming boss fightsin the game.
Vril Dox is the name of the Brainiac in Earth 2 of the DC Comics.
Brainiac gets defeated and he’scaptured and taken alive in the pseudo-Pokeball gadgetsthe Suicide Squad uses back to Waller and Lex. Wallerstabs a hacking device into Brainiac’s headwhich allows them to download a data burst from Brainiac’s ship who himself dies and then explodes.
The Squad celebrate their victory with a long-overdue group high-five whilst commenting that there are12 Brainiacs left to go.
Then the game slams the handbrake on andthe credits roll, out of nowhere. Then after the fanfare, you and your crew aredumped back into the big broken sandbox of Metropolisand you’re pretty much left to your own devices.
There’s also aeulogy for Batman/Kevin Conroyafter the credits, which is a touching moment. But it’s absolutely obliterated by the game dropping aloot screen and two tone-deaf splash screensabout their DLC and Endgame content immediately after.
You would not be wrong for feeling confused when all those post-game screens are cleared and you’re dumped back into Metropolis and essentially told to do the endgame whilst waiting for the next content drop. It’s an abysmal way to tell a story and it leaves the plot in a lurch as we wait for the next story beat to appear with future DLC.
In Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League to surmise the ending, basicallythe story stops as soon asBrainiac is beaten. His ship is still in the city, the civilians he captured on his ship are still there,Metropolis is in ruins and Earth is undefendedas its only protectors are all dead. Also, the city is still filled withBrainiac’s mutants and minionsthat you can shoot, as if he wasn’t dead at all and nothing matters.
The Suicide Squad is essentially told tohang around and waituntil they’re done going through the information downloaded from Brainiac’s brain and that’s it. There are hints that it’s going to bemultiverse traveling in the future, but that’s a long way off if it ever happens at all.
It’s very doubtful Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has any kind of longevity.
At launch Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League hasone ending. However, because it’s a live service game with twelve other Brainiacs to take down, ittechnically has 13, so the story hasn’t actually ended yet.
Since there arestill twelve Brainiacs left, and there is a plan to drop DLC with different Squad members in different worlds it means thatthe story is far from over. New Brainiacs to beat in each new dimension which seems to be just Metropolis but reskinned could result in the same ending being repeated over and over again. The Squad fights Brainiac, he gets spiked for information, roll credits.
However, considering theabysmal reception of the game and the hemorrhaging of itsplayer baseafter launch, it’s highly unlikely that there will be any future for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. This means that the original ending, as abrupt and underwhelming as it is, isthe only one it will have.
