For a long time Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Since the film’s release, there has been a lot of drama surrounding a pivotal scene involving Batman. Rocksteady’s loot shooter is the sequel to Batman: Arkham So fans were naturally interested in how the game worked the caped crusader. Well, a newly discovered Easter egg could give some hope to fans unhappy with his involvement, or it could turn out to be a really elaborate way to tease Calendar Man as… future playable character.
As the title of the game suggests, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is all about taking down DC Comics’ greatest heroes after they are enslaved by the mind-controlling alien Brainiac. Batman is among them, during his appearance has some great references to it Arkham gamesbe Death at the hands of Harley Quinn was a big problem for some fans. Killing a comic book character is often fleeting because there is always a hero-resurrecting Lazarus Pit around the corner, but this death felt different to some.
This was partly because the game features a prolific voice actor Kevin Conroy’s final appearances as Batman in front of his Death in November 2022but overall some felt that this was a disappointing end to the Arkham iteration of Bruce Wayne. This was a character that players had spent a lot of time as, and now they were forced to kill him. It conveys a similar mood to the reaction of some players The Last of Us Part IIand scrolling through reactions to the scene on YouTube paints an ugly picture.
The virtue of this response is a conversation for another day, but a newfound set of calendars hidden within Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice LeagueThe world of Batman could suggest that Batman will somehow return to the fold. YouTube channel has Batman Arkham videos posted a video (Thanks, IGN) features 12 calendars posted on random walls throughout the game’s open world, each corresponding to a different month and with a date circled on them. December is the only exception as there is no date circled there. It has a date marked with Batman’s symbol.
If you put each of these calendars in chronological order and assign the date number to a different letter of the alphabet (where 1 is A, 2 is B, etc.), you get a cryptic message:
- January 8th – H
- February 5th – E
- March 23 – W
- April 9th – I
- May 12 – L
- June 12 – L
- July 18 – R
- August 5th – E
- September 20 – T
- October 21st – U
- November 18th – R
- December 14th – N
The question is WHO will return. The use of calendars seems to be an homage to Calendar Man, a Batman Villain who commits crimes on certain holidays. The serial killer has already appeared in the past Arkham games and could theoretically be a playable character who “returns”. But the use of the Batman symbol in the December calendar seems to suggest that Bruce could find his way back from the abyss.
But if Batman returns, will there be a hypothetical resurrection? Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League or a future rocksteady project? That’s unclear at this point, but the studio has plans for a release New characters for the loot shooter. Given that the game is all about shooting and upgrading weapons, it’s unlikely that Batman will end up as a playable character Part of his overall strategy is to oppose the use of firearms.
