They acting like Joker is a creep- well, he is, but not sexually (at least to HARLEY and in this universe)- and making Harley act and dress like that and it's so weird they put Ivy x Harley in a universe where they were yk at most close acquaintances or sorta friends AND Harley was 10000% NOT over Joker's death
I don’t know man. I wouldn’t put it past Joker. He is a genocidal maniac devoid of any semblance of morals. Anything would be fair game to him as long as it’d entertain him enough. Especially when it comes to Harley
Yeah it feels like they were just trying to copy the Harley from the Harley Quinn show because this Harley still loves Joker and really didn’t seem all that close to Ivy in this universe
@@aglassofwetwater5215I love the show but it really solidified a versión of Harley that is being used in all universes. I want a some variety. Telltale Harley was awesome, 1999 animated Harley was awesome, Gotham Knights Harley was awesome. DC just can't have one of their most profitable characters be seen as a total simp I think.
@@Emilio-ju1sythats what so weird. I would agure besides the sex appeal since City and SS 2016, the obesession / simping to Joker is one of her most recognizeable Character Traits.
@@applehazeva2739 I kinda get it in a sense. There really aren't that many intresting things you can do with the simp personality and Harley got way too popular to not be used and developed further. She had to come out of the Joker's shadow at some point, but I wish they didn't retcon all versions. Arkham Harley was such a threat that she got her own dlc. I'm just sad because arkham Harley really was the last and one of the best of that version.
A lot of the times yeah, Harley is supposed to be somewhat empathetic to people, especially once she stops working for Joker, but Arkham Harley feels no sympathy for anybody
Some say that " hey the gaps between knight and this game could be the explanation" true, but considering months after joker's death she still try to kill batman for it , i dont see how she will change just like that.
In my opinion, this and Gotham Knights should have been reversed studio-wise. WB should have made SS and been allowed to do whatever however (since it wouldn't be canon to the Arkhamverse) while Rocksteady made Gotham Knights and tackled the Court storyline with Jason, Dick, Tim, and Barbara post-Arkham Knight.
No, plus the reason they did ssktjl game was cause they we're given the rights plus they user assets from their canned original IP multiplayer TPS game
Plus they were tired of being related to Batman games, so did WB Montreal so WB Montreal decided to use the images of concept art from proyect sabath AND that's How they Made Gotham Knights, h AND How Rocksteady Made the ssktjl game
@@thomasraines1396And also experimented with Titan on them before killing them. After that, Joker And harley sewed The toddlers together, And promised to send The children to The parents "in one piece" 😂
actually no kiddo? maybe read a comic then just stfu? can you give some arguments? WHOLE DC lore is chaotic crap, so how it was an insult? for example, then Injustice is insult for Shazam, because he was killed by Superman
Whats weird about the whole retcon for deadshot is that, it implied that the "original" deadshot retired after his zoe born. Its like telling us before batman year one, deadshot already made some contract kills, had several clients that hired him before. But somehow, when blackmask (joker) hired him to kill batman in origins, he was listed as caucasian. To make the inconsistency even worse is that in origins, it was stated in his profile that deadshot was former military, how come amanda waller didnt know the person she recruited to the suicide squad is a fake one . Same goes to hugo strange, what, the smartest guy who discovered the identity of batman couldnt figure out there was 2 floyd lawton ? Its like they are trying to use the suicide squad most wanted comics as reference but they altered it too much and the result was bad
@@buffsniper some people actually defended the fact that he missed when he was fighting batman , considering that thing was consistent in the comic Heck can the "OG" deadshot richochet bullets when we play as him?
They left after they completed the game content wise. Sefton Hill and Ian Ball wrote the story just like Arkham Knight. Sefton Hill was also the one who made the game a looter shooter as he was the creative director.
@@ColtonT13 no the fuck he did not lol. David Zaslav and the higher ups are who decided it needed to be a looter shooter. Section Hill left because they kept making obscene changes to the story he had given them
@@TBone4Breakfast This is false. In the credits Sefton Hill and Ian Ball are the ones who wrote the game’s story. Also WB only told them to make it live service, Sefton Hill made it a looter shooter. Also the story was finished in 2019 and Sefton left in 2022 for unknown reasons, apparently to get away from WBs direction.
Yes doesn't mean they still didn't change what he had originally wrote....for god sakes use your brain a lil bit, he left for a reason@@Moonking_Is_Back
The line where Harley says "Causing long term mental and emotional damage to everyone you knew" makes no damn sense. The Batfamily respected him. The GCPD and Gordon respected him. Even supervillains such as Mr Freeze, Ras Al Ghul and Poison Ivy (who's now randomly Harely's love interest) grew to respect him. Catwoman and Talia loved him. Jason forgave him, and Harely had a bigger hand to play in *his* mental and emotional damage than Batman ever did. Everyone else who knew Batman was a psychopath. And Harely's mental and emotional damage was caused by Joker.
Tbh Harley should not even be talking as she overdosed kids with titan drugs, but no she is a tough girl boss going through a hard time like she literally tourtured kids like tf
Finally someone acknowledge the fact that Arkham Asylum should be abandoned after the events of the first game and not up and running 5 years after Arkham Knight.
@@gothamsmostwantedclownbitc7107 It's been long abandoned in Arkham Knight aswell. Scarecrow uses it as a hideout and the entire place is a overgrown ruin.
Oddly enough, they made a tie in comics for this game where basically they in away rebuilt arkham asylum. And they transported king shark from belle reve. But why?
As someone who loves anti-hero Harley, there’s no doubt that Arkham Harley was not meant to be a good guy in any way, shape or form. She continued being a villain not because of her grief, but because that’s who her character was. Remember in Origins, even before she was “hypnotized” by Joker, she worked with the Falcone family (known criminals) and had ties to the League of Assassins. She was written to be a pure villain who sold her humanity for power since the beginning. Retconning it just to make her more like the more popular version of the character cheapens the entire universe and what it meant in terms of DC lore. Or maybe I’m just babbling who knows
The straw that broke the camels back for me was when boomerang asked if Deadshot was supposed to be white. I look at that scene with a bombastic side eye. It only got worse when TOKENISED/BLACKWASHED Deadshot called the OG Arkham Deadshot a "phony". THAT along with the "toxic masculinity" line in wonder womans bio (WRITTEN BY LEX LUTHOR) along with the disrespect of Arkham Batman was all it took for me to rebuke this piece of garbage as "canon". 🖕 Sweet baby inc.
@@Earlierfourlike it doesnt make any sense for Lex luthor's character, the guy who doesnt like superman because to him the mere existence of superman is an insult, why would he respect wonder woman who in the same league with superman?
First red flag: deadshot was established to be white in city and origins They made him black in this game (for no actual reason mind you) and try to place a backstory behind this change thinking it'll excuse it Second red flag: they managed to kill the flash by just.. shooting at him? I get they had the thing that temporarily slows him down but throughout most of the fight hes just summoning tornadoes and running around.. after it was established he can kill all of them in mere seconds Third red flag: flash saved them and they all gave him no respect whatsoever but when wonder woman just throws them into a building and didnt even save them throughout most of the game she gets beat by superman and suddenly they care? They dont even try to help her they're just flabbergasted and claims allegiance with her, when in gods name was it explained or shown to us thst wonder woman was directly helping them? Yeah i thought so. Fourth red flag:bat-fucking man just dies to a bullet while sitting on a bench after pulling a scarecrow and just.. standing right in front of the suicide squad and shooting lasers from his eyes? Instead of the regular arkham approach he does in various games against armed enemies.. yeah this game is just downright continuity breaking and upright disrespectful with every passing second each cutscene or boss fight plays
@@ohhellwhereami2574 no i really just expected superman to save him honest here (he totally should have through ambushing the suicide squad but whatever) And i expected him not just standing there in front of the SS tryna be built like a kaiju boss shooting laser outta his eyes and just getting flooded with bullets because of doing so Tl;DR i did not expect the situation that got him benched to happen and i expected superman to be faster.. its not like all of brainiacs troops are disposable especially arkhamverse batman
@@MisterKenK from brainiac statement and attitude during end shows that Batman (real one) might be still be somewhere in his or other brainiac collection , since he was rather careless about losing them and only wanted to test out the ss as he was interested in them so thus HIS superman saving him wouldn't serve purpose Also Batman boss fight may have been meh but realistically ss are throughout game enhanced like their chips improving their perception speed and their weapon being stated to be powered up by yellow lantern ring battery with tech of luther himself as well as their own fear toxic which was built under harley who is stated even in earlier the timeline to possess relative intellect as joker which could have done same despite that batman was ordered to not kill ss even after all that harley said " They got LuckY' implying severe difficulty despite all upgrades i have mentioned with a batman that was pulling punches
@@ohhellwhereami2574 harley's statement of learning fear toxin off of scarecrow IN the arkhamverse is as BS as deadshot becoming black and having a 99.9 % dna match with the "doppelganger" also its not like theres a anti batman device hes been fighting all kinds of foes ever since asylum in singular nights also he only became interested in the SS... many cutscenes after batman tried to kill them but flash saved them, and he wouldnt have been interested in them whatsoever if Batman or Flash killed some of them or most of them or all of them which in all fairness any of these 3 should have He oneshotted harley before two times in a row, he made quick work of deadshot two times in a row, boomerang even with speedster gauntlet and everything is still a moron and the gauntlet kind of just improves his speed, i can perfectly imagine batman giving him the electrocutioner treatment and just knocking him out in one punch and then throwing a batarang in his cranium And they did get lucky because batman was about to fill their brains with led except for maybe king shark but thats yet to be proven, and even if they say thats not the real batman or the real justice league the writing is still garbage and if brainiac made copies of them the copies should not be this idiotic nor inconsistent with what they're showing us they can do TL;DR nearly every member of that suicide squad should have been dead except for king shark because hes basically the heavy hitter and can accomplish more without the gadgets the rest of them are using than... them, and is the only guy i can imagine batman struggling against.
@@MisterKenK ahem batman was said to not kill ss why are we on killing topic then? Also in early game their chips haven't been enhanced to process data it's stated later making them above their initial early counterparts also luther and toyman also have ways to hack wayne tech , mind you they were all being amped by yellow lantern ring (battery) at this point so Batman had to initially fight gl level opponent while holding back and harley knowing all his trick prior also harley being smart as joker (stated before ssktjl) can do same i mean he did finalize titan serum ? Also they got lucky "as shown so their odds of defeating even a holding back already counter answer to Batman being low i mean astronomically low
I love Harley in all her forms, but DC is hellbent on making her a hero in every instance possibe. Making her an anti-hero in the main universe made sense because it was gradual. This Harley had no doubts. She reveled in the pain she inflicted with the Joker. Not every version needs to be a tank girl. Gimme ditz Harley, complete evil Harley, mad genius Harley. She's such a versatile character that can shine in more ways than the one rocksteady chose.
I find it Ironic how the same people who constantly bring up the Multiverse seem hellbent and Making every version of a character reflect a single type.
“This is canon to the Arkham-Verse!” Then why is the game written like it isn’t? I know this’ll sound like cope, but nothing can convince me this is canon to the AV if there are this many inconsistencies with the timeline between AK and KTJL, as well as the previous Batman games. We should have still gotten an ARKHAM Game, I’m sorry, multiplayer or not, that would be leagues better than whatever this hate-infested tumor of a service is.
I fuckin agree, like, if this is an Arkham game, why is it so different from the Arkham games thematically and logically? So many things are working against it being an Arkhamverse game, which should be fine because it is a _perfectly_ passable game if you divorce it from Arkham. Why didn't they make a multiplayer Arkham game, if that's what they wanted? Why make it a Suicide Squad game?
@@Resi1ience I doubt it would've changed much and probably only end up making it even worse than it already is. The Rocksteady that made the Arkham games only exists by name, but everything and everyone else that made this so good studio is gone. The people who made this abomination have no respect for DC or the Arkham games in general and the writing by Sweet Baby Inc. shows that. One of the few redeemable things about Suicide Squad is the Voice Acting, rarely the lines themselves (again, the writing is obnoxious) but in how they are delivered is passable. The Animations is also OK but still a fall from grace compared to the Arkham games over 9 years ago. Granted, this game has a bigger open world but there are many things that should've looked better, considering how it took to make it
@@cc_rex5017 majority of the people who worked on this game did knight and city, including sefton hill who only left after majority of the game was done. ur coping
@@mrmelonman2893 you're lying and spreading oneside propaganda. If this game is so great why don't the people who actually made it stop passing the buck?
It's kinda like Warhammer's End Times. I can't accept this as the actual conclusion because so many elements contradict not only the past information, but also future revelations. If I accept this it breaks the plot.
I find it funny how Harley Quinn’s argument against Batman was blaming him for the mental torment he’s caused as if he was the villain. Like bro you’re literally in love with the most psychologically offensive criminal
And who created the joker? Batman, Batman caused Joker to fall, Batman failed to realize how Harley Quinn was being manipulated. It’s literally Batman’s fault
@@thecringeprince2040Ha! Yeah right as if Harley didn't fall for Joker in the first place, even if Batman helps she would never listen, life must be hard for a millennial writer fan huh?
@@shisho_sos8093 Harley was literally manipulated by a sociopath and dunked into the same vat of chemicals he was. Did you just forget that part of the lore?
As an Arkham fan. This game, well, I'm glad I didn't play this. I hope they add the worst game of the year at the game of the year awards. Just so they don't make awful games like these. This game has more refunds than Anthem.🤦🏿
Wait really? More refunds than anthem is crazy. You know you messed up when your game is doing worse than the train wreck they have to keep at a 90% discount at all times
Bruh if they wanted a memeber of the squad to be black then just do it, dont pull unnecessary mental gymnastics for no reason Hell a better way would be to have it be black manta instead of deadshot, that dude already has a jetpack and laser eyes so it def would be cooler mechanics than just le gun like all other squad members But fr they could have easily hust said that white deadshot was the mentor to the new one, or that the new one killed deadshot and just took up his title, ya wanna have deadshot be black so bad yet you yourselves acknowledge how much that dosnt make sense
I think it would be a perfect storyline, the black dead shot is hired to kill Arkham deadshot and succeeds, he then realizes what he’s done making Zoe an orphan so he adopts her which would keep the connection to him and Zoe and allow him to be deadshot or hell, if you don’t want og deadshot killed by him just say it was bloodsport who’s allies with deadshot but deadshot dies from brainiacs invasion so bloodsport becomes the new deadshot instead of using multiverse BS. This game never needed to be in te multiverse, the easily could have just not let us beat brainiac yet instead of kill him and made it more clear justice league are clones and the new characters we fight are random justice league characters like Aquaman with the final boss being brainiac
Was just about to say that. If you wanted a ruthless black straight man of the group, Black Manta is already there, and he has a recognizable silhouette and design. Deadshot is a mainstay of the Suicide Squad, but if you're not going to even let him be the original, just get another character.
@@nestormelendez9005 yeah but I think black manta would fit better He already has the jetpack and laser eyes that would be cooler than just guns like everyone else
They made batman like an idiot for chasing deadshot who turned out to be an imposter for years, and Harley lecturing batman about about trauma while she killed a child, and joker who's doing bad things because he hasn't found himself yet??? Who the hell is writing this bullshit
Deadshot wasn't an imposter, the video literally says that the Deadshot is his exact, same match, - and another log mentions the copy uses his strategies, his getup, his style, his exact DNA sequence, except that he's white - this isn't new, remember Nick Fury?, the other parts I don't care about, but they did actually write the reasoning, especially for a character in the games that you take down with literally 3 button presses across the Arkham games
4:46-6:13 this entire cutscene is SO DAMN CREEPY. My gosh... WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? I get Shark's "vegetarian option", my man is not too socially aware... but Harley's "fun size" joke? WHAT THE HELL!?
King Shark's comment is fine enough. Not only is he not socially aware, but he wasn't trying to be crass or anything. He eats people. He's a shark. She is a plant woman, not made of flesh and meat. So eating her would be vegetarian. All things considered, it's fine. No worse than anything in the Arkham games, it's just not funny. It's *Harley* that crosses the line, and not in a "Boomerang going to piss on the Flash's corpse and everyone compliments him on his dick" way. That was just tonal whiplash and gross. Harley's borderline pedo commentary is absolutely *foul*, doubly so when you remember that this Harley is also a multiple-time child murderer.
King Shark died in Assault on Arkham and he was designed differently i guess the devs forgot about that. Also green Lanterns existence in the game creates plot holes, green lantern rings do not allow deadly force willy nilly and if John stewarts will has been broken by mind control he shouldn't be able to use his ring.
I liked Arkham's Harley Quinn because it was "revolutionary" at the time, it dared to keep Harley as the character she had always been while the new comics pushed all that nonsense. I was pretty concerned that this game would take her in that direction. And it did exactly that. In every way possible.
In regards to Poison Ivy - I heard somewhere a theory that the reason they turned her into a child was because they were desperately trying to desexualize her. In Arkham Knight, Ivy was smoking hot and sensual at that. Buuuut, mah wahmen objectification, so what's a surefire way people do not objectify a woman? Make her a child. That way, if someone does try to sexualize her, it says more about them than anything... ...Which makes it even more baffling that they're pushing for the Harley and Ivy relationship in this game, with Harley saying some stuff that is more than eyebrow raising. Had they kept it like it was in Arkham trilogy and make her NOT have romantic involvement with Ivy, they'd avoid all this awkward stuff. It's like in their pursuit of their quotas, they completely disregarded the implication. Either that, or other alternative, which is... Far worse.
If that's the case then the fact they went with a child ivy is just eyebrow raising on its own. Doesn't help if they'll saying Ivy and Harley are a thing (which the real arkham Harley didn't have any romantic feelings towards her, just no more than acquaintance or friends) then this makes it more weird that Harley is saying this to kid ivy
desexualizing poison ivy ruins poison ivy's whole point. she's meant to be sexual because she is heavily seductive and uses her attractiveness to her advantage. if anything, her BEING sexual is what MAKES her strong.
@@BanishedSilentShadow3318harley saying "my little girl" was the biggest deal breaker because just think a room full of devs (most likely male) were like ya we can make this work 💀
6:50 fr same thing with like the new 52 Harley they make it seem like Joker Made Harley Wear The Jester Outfit Even tho she chose to pick and wear it herself.
I couldnt agree more about Harley. EVERYTHING you said is what I have been shouting from hilltops for years. She is a VILLAIN at the end of the day, but since like 2016 DC wants us to treat her like a wacky hero. Im never gonna look at Harley and be like "awe she was emotionally abused by Joker, poor thing" like they want us to. She helped kill and stitch together BABIES and sent them back because they promised they would come back "in one piece". But awe she had a toxic boyfriend. Please, im never gonna like her or treat her like a hero
If it makes you guys feel better, this game can't be in the arkham verse. Because king shark is canonically dead between the events of origins and asylum.
@@dylansharp8471original deadshot (white) was an impostor of the "true" deadshot (black), they did a dna test and both had the same dna despite very obviously having different genetics and not being related
They are from different Earths where genetics work differently. I'm guessing the gene that influences skin color on one Earth didn't influence skin color on the other Earth? It's a common thing in the DC multiverse where multiversal counterparts would share the same DNA but have very different physiology.
This version of Harley change would of made sense if in the years following Arkham Knight she actually tried to change and redeem herself (especially in the eyes of Batman) like the Harley in the injustice universe. But no she still more or less continue to be a criminal after Knight and up to before this game (considering how Batman talks to her). And now they want to retcon that she was a different Harley then what all the Arkham related media depicted her as. SMH
I hate the “redemption” harley bullcrap because its pretty much against her own character. Harley gets worse as the years go by, and it would be harder to actually redeem herself because she would become more and more depraved. She is head over heels for the Joker yet DC keeps wanting to make her change, almost like DC keeps blaming Jason Todd for his own death.
@@PostCrisisRH Hmmm it's seems like they don't really know what to do with Harley? Honestly I like how her original incarnation ultimate fate was just to retire and live a normal life. Because really Harley is to joker, what Batman is to the joker, a motivation once you remove that then what's the point? I do agree that ultimately after the joker dies or they break up then Harley has no reason to continue being a villain or a hero.
Yeah connecting suicide squad kills the justice league to Arkham series makes no sense whatsoever especially with Harley Quinn character who killed a lot of people and try to make her basically a anti hero which I don’t buy at the moment, mostly because she try to get another joker which failed badly at least in my opinion.
@@buffsniper That too! It further proves that this garbage is just a acid trip that Harley is having. Huh..? Now that I said that, it makes a whole lot of sense to label that in the game. “Harley Quinn’s wild trip: Kill the Justice League with guns.” Lol
The fact that they wrote Harley’s love for joker off as a “phase” when she’s been by his side all the way up until his death and even mourned him in the following game is laughable… this is live action Harley in a damn video game that’s it that all
I’m writing this before watching the vid. It can’t be canon, not because of how horrible it is because everyone knows that, it’s because it contradicts each Arkham character too much for it to be ignored. I cannot see Arkham Batman acting the way they made him out to be when he ISNT mind controlled, plus even Harley doesn’t act like her Arkham verse self. There is no way it can ever actually be part of that story unless it’s a different version of that story altogether
Something to point out is the official Batman Arkham UA-cam channel never made any videos about Suicide Squad but is clearly still active with videos for the Arkham Trilogy on Switch.
The injustice comics are the same way with Harley. They made her go the anti hero route and work actively with Batman FOR YEARS despite the fact that in addition to years of crime she actively participated in the joker NUKING 8 MILLION PEOPLE. But yeah sure it makes sense that she's an anti hero Batman would work with and not lock up, and all of the other heroes working with Batman were just okay with it too. "But he cant turn her in superman will kill her" yeah that's dumb because Batman could have imprisoned her himself just like he did with multiple regime prisoners. Also Batman was trying to be an inspiration to get the global population to resist superman, so working with the person responsible for again NUKING 8 MILLION PEOPLE seems unlikely. And then all of batmans allies lost their minds when he starting working with the rogues, bank robbers who avoided violent crime and prided themselves on never killing or maiming people, but are perfectly fine with working with a mass murdering, serial killing, violent child deleted. Sure makes sense yeah man those bank robbers are too evil to work with. Quinn's character is so forced ita crazy
If this was a Elseworlds Game I’d be Fine with this Game but making it connected to the Arkhamverse makes Zero Sense, If Rocksteady wanted a Will Smith Deadshot they could’ve done Bloodsport and have Deadshot as DLC and as for Harley it’s even Out of Character when I’m getting tired of the Overly Focused Push for Harley Quinn and not to mention that the Arkham’s Version of the Character is the Most Monstrous and Darkest of any Harley Variant, don’t get me started on how that game removes he Feminine Charm with Terrible Skins, this Game is a Curse and Gotham Knights is a Much Better Game that’s this Abomination.
I’m not even inherently against Harley having a redemption arc even in a universe like this. But they went about it in the worst way possible. If they want us to see this version of Harley as redeemable, they have to show that she feels remorse for her actions. They should’ve had her begin still smitten with the Joker, But perhaps as the events of the game play out, she comes to realize that he was a terrible person (there’s a number of ways you could do this but fear toxin hallucinations would probably be the easiest solution). She feels ashamed that she worshiped this man for so long and the realization of the atrocity she committed in his name finally kick in. Show her breakdown and think that she doesn’t deserve to go on. Then you could have the squad, who at that point have come to kind of like each other, gives her some tough love, and explains that feeling bad about herself isn’t going to get them out of the situation, but if she really does feel guilty for what she did, she can help them, save the world. Yeah it’s a bit generic, but if you have to redeem Harley in this universe, that’s probably the best way to go. You have to show that she feels bad about what she did rather than just saying “it was a phase.”
Yep, I know you said this is generic and while most of the list is, the one part that isn’t, is her realising the depth of what she’s did. It disappointing to say but not a single of one of any Harley’s redemption arcs in media, every touch on that subject.
Even without the forced continuity, the story would still have had issues with bad tone shifts, excessive use of plot armor, flimsy explanations why why things that shouldn't seem to work would work, and almost every opportunity for character growth squandered. But at least we could take continuity and "sudden changes in character" off the table, which is non-negligible.
My issue is that Killer Croc was monsterous and scary to deal with like he was more croc than human yet King Shark dwarfs him and is more human than shark
When Harley Quinn is lecturing Batman about causing mental damage to everyone I couldn’t help but chuckle… the same Harley Quinn who helped joker kidnap and murder a kindergarten school🤔🤔okay writers👍🏻
This Harley... Helped kill and mutilate a bunch of kindergarteners Helped kill a little girl, and then drove the father to kill himself slowly and painfully so she and Joker could have his stuff. Was at least complicit in the kidnapping and torture of Jason Todd. Was complicit in the crippling of Barbara Gordon. Helped kidnap multiple doctors in Arkham City, and had them brutally murdered for entertainment when they failed to cure Joker. Showed absolutely no hesitation or remorse for literally any of this. The idea of this Harley being anything but completely evil, 5 year timeskip or no, is absolutely ridiculous.
U made Hella good points...I just don't see how the writers didn't see the missing connections and how to bridge them or like you said just place it in a different universe and end it with them in the Arkham universe freeing batman and using his plans to stop and save the rest of the Justice League b4 it happend again
a good excuse for Deadshot would be that a fake Deadshot killed the real one to try to surpass him, doesn't make much sense but makes more sense than Batman somehow fighting the wrong Deadshot
this seems to be the problem of they want to force connection with Arkham series, all while trying to make Harley more of her modern comic, the "hate Joker and in love with Ivy" type with completely conflict with Arkham Harley
Harley dressing Batman down in any capacity makes no sense, but it makes absolutely zero sense in the Arkham universe. This Harley is beyond evil and even helped Joker kill and mutilate children.
Here’s a thought: how is Harley in Arkham Asylum again? In Arkham knight (the previous game) she is locked up in a joker holding cell in panessa studios so how Tf did she move?
Yeah, while most people talking about Deadshot. Not many talking about King Shark. *King Shark was dead in Assault on Arkham animated movie.* His head got blown up. What’s up with that? Did rocksteady retcon that? I saw Kill the Justice League game, how King Shark talk about his dad, Kamo, a lot. Would make more sense if this King Shark is actually Kid Shark the son of King Shark from the Assault of Arkham movie. Kid Shark only appearance was Arkham Knight Comic. It makes sense, since Suicide Squad game sets 5 years later after Arkham Knight. Kid Shark grows into new King Shark, he wants to kill Waller to avenge his dad but he got captured and got bomb in his neck just his dad. Why, Rocksteady didn’t go this route. The should’ve make the new King Shark form a relationship between Harley Quinn and Captain Boomrang cause they were on same team with old King Shark. 1:21 Yeah, DC tries to push her a cool as Deadpool. But they unintentionally made her annoying. 1:36 Clownhunter should’ve Kill Harley. Reminder Harley Quinn killed Kids in comics. That should not be ignored. 1:44 Don’t get me start on Injustice including Adventure of Jon Kent comic. That was a terrible comic, by Tom Narcissist Tayor. 9:10 K. I get multiverse thing but why not make the New Deadshot from a different universe instead the old one? If the old Deadshot was stranded in a new universe wouldn’t he keep a low profile? And if the Old Deadshot is from another universe how his daughter end up in that universe as well? The would mean there two Zoe Lawtons. All this makes it so pointless. You talk about The Joker DLC. List of DLC characters leaked. Apparently Zoe Lawton will most likely be DLC character with the name Lawless. So she mostly is from another universe.
To this day im still wiling to put money on the idea that Gotham Knights was suppoused to be the Arkhamverse game and sequel to arkham knight.A LOT about it just fits with how the characters and story plays out. In particalr the Harley there actually feels like a natural progression of Arkham harley's character becoming a fully sadistic and cruel villain in her own right. The joker is mentioned but never shown in the game for like....NO reason. Batman is meant to be bead and yet he's not on a rampage? Harley fro some reason in that game and joker split up. that's never really explained. Clayface acts like a crazier version of his Arkham City self. the list goes on. They probibly planned to make it the arkhamverse game and suicide squad was poribbly oriignally supoused to be based on the MOVIES version of the characters. But due to how they saw Avengers crash and burn. They tried to salvage gotham knights as best they could by ripping out all the live service stuff. But they KNEW it was bad. So they remvoed all teh arkham verse refrences possible and changed things in the delay. And gave it over to suicide squad. WHich if you really think about it. is trying WAY too hard to tell you it's Arkhamverse. LIke all the refrences and explinations given for deadshot alone feel really forced and kinda stupid and shoehorned in. This was probibly meant to be it's own universe. But they slapped the Arkhamverse seting onto it to try to make it sell better.
@@KrakenZzzz King Shark was canonically dead and the asylum was shut down after Arkham City also Aaron Cash would not be an Asylum guard he would at least be a captain working under Commissioner Gordon at GCPD, this game is not canon to the Arkham verse
Blackshot would have worked just by saying he's another guy, one who took the gear and name after the other one found his happy ending and retired or got killed by another villain in the 5 years.
She assisted Joker in: 1) Manipulating a man to kill himself after she helped Joker experiment on a little girl. 2) Helped Joker torture Jason Todd who was a teenager at the time. 3) Was ok with Joker killing Kindergartners and sawing them back together. And expects us to feel sorry for her in this shite game? *WHAT WERE THEY COOKING*
Bro say it louder for the people in the back . Let’s look at the injustice series when Harley joined Batman’s team to take down Superman . Like what? Why? She was alongside the joker when they nuked all of metropolis while killing Lois in the process . BOTH surgically implanted a bomb in Lois not to mention the hundreds if not millions of lives they took prior in their career criminal history. Never understood why Batman or any hero for that matter would tolerate her assisting them in any kind of way
What are you talking about? I thought Rocksteadys' last game was Arkham Knight. What game is this? I've never heard of it. THERE IS NO SUCH GAME!!! lol
well said man this game was just a huge middle finger to the arkhamverse and to the dc universe. I'm just waiting for Rocksteady to announce that it's not cannon.
DC trying to “redeem” Harley in any way is disturbing. Arkham and Injustice are the most egregious. Arkham has already been stated but I find it funny in Injustice that all the heroes have a hard time forgiving Flash and Green Lantern, but everyone seems cool with Harley. Can’t we have a villain who’s also a bisexual? Cause she’s done too much murder and torture for “redemption”.
I honestly didn't know that because I never really listened to the audio tapes/extortion files in the Arkham games and even though I play Origins so much nowadays it never came to my mind to listen to the extortion files thanks for pointing that out
This game idolizes Harley to a ludicrous level. I can't remember a single joke made at her expense while Shark, Boomerang and Deadshot get made fun of all the time.
Lets also not forget harley is supressing her other self Harleen quinzel who literally talks to her every once in a while. I dislike the newer version of harley so much.
Brand recognition. That's the only reason. This game follows a terrible route that has come around lately. Writers who want to tell their own stories using already established IP or universes to hook people in but barely follow or ignore the source material altogether. As stated they turned Harley Quinn into the modern independent Harley without the work. She never had a romantic relationship with Ivy. Especially not one that makes the already pedo-esque convo she has with Kid Ivy seem less...gross. At best maybe she had a crush but it's clear Arkhamverse Harley was all Mr. J all the time. And Deadshot's recon is sooooooooo lazy. He is perhaps the worst character. Always bitching about how terrible John Stewart is for having the gall to lock him up and keep him from his daughter for murdering people. What a jerk. Don't even get me started on the "boooooo black cop ewwww" way his lex codec comes off. But even worse is that the race swap "imposter" nonsense makes Batman look like an idiot. The world's greatest detective never once in his fight against the "fake" Deadshot ever mentions that he's an imposter?
Harley & Ivy were friends in animated series, but it's not an Arkham canon. Also Harley in animated series was redeemable and sympathetic because there weren't anything heinous committed since cartoon was kids friendly.
The whole Harley Quinn is a grey character is starting to made ma annoyed they just wash over Harley is actually evil and it’s not joker fault 100 percent and all the do is ship her with ivy in every single dc project
Setting this in the Arkhamverse was just straight up stupid. The universe is much closer to Injustice 2 if anything, but Injustice 2 does literally everything better. Take Harley. In Injustice 1, we very much get the sence that Harely is not ENTIRELY on board with everything Joker does. He even hits her several times, something that I don't think we ever really saw in the Arkham games (Not to say that Joker was some kind of perfect boyfriend, but in Injustice it really feels like he's lashing out at Harely at time, whereas in the Arkhamverse it never feels so sadistic for lack of a better word). Injustice 2 does the "Good Harley" so much better. This version of Harley is actually redeemable and likeable. We see her somewhat get over Joker in the first game, and she seems completely over him by the second, only really questioning it under the influence of Scarecrows fear toxin. Not only that, her getting over the Joker feels much more earned and cathartic. Even though the Arkhamverse and Injustice are showing completely different Harleys you still get the sence that they are the same character just sent down 2 different paths. Then there's Deadshot. Even if it's technically canon and accurate to the comics, Arkham Deadshot was not exactly a sympathetic character. Injustice Deadshot was significantly more so. I don't know if that's what they intended, but Injustice Deadshot seemed much more influenced by Will Smith's portrayal (Who, despite being in a god aweful movie, put in a great performance and really helped make the character more likeable). We see this in Deadshot's intro dialogue, whenever someone mentions his daughter he gets mad quick. Arkham Deadshot certainly did not give off that. Plus they, for whatever reason, decided to make Harley into a creep by being weird with little Ivy (Who was a stupid inclusion as it completely undermines her genuinely heroic sacrifice in Arkham Knight but fucking whatever at this point) all to they can keep pushing the Harley x Ivy thing which was never brought up in the Arkhamverse, but surprise surprise, was included in Injustice. To me, this whole game feels like it was supposed to be a kind of alternate univers of Injustice 2 where Braniac beat the Justice League and it was left to the other characters to beat him, which could have worked as a premise (Ignoring all of the other stupid things in the game) but they set in the established universe that is just completely incompatible with that story. Fuck this game.
@jaxxpool9630 if it was to 1 to 1 it would just be canon hence why I said head canon. Some things don't perfectly line up but more things than others do for that game compared to ssktjl
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They acting like Joker is a creep- well, he is, but not sexually (at least to HARLEY and in this universe)- and making Harley act and dress like that and it's so weird they put Ivy x Harley in a universe where they were yk at most close acquaintances or sorta friends AND Harley was 10000% NOT over Joker's death
I don’t know man. I wouldn’t put it past Joker. He is a genocidal maniac devoid of any semblance of morals. Anything would be fair game to him as long as it’d entertain him enough. Especially when it comes to Harley
Yeah it feels like they were just trying to copy the Harley from the Harley Quinn show because this Harley still loves Joker and really didn’t seem all that close to Ivy in this universe
@@aglassofwetwater5215I love the show but it really solidified a versión of Harley that is being used in all universes. I want a some variety. Telltale Harley was awesome, 1999 animated Harley was awesome, Gotham Knights Harley was awesome. DC just can't have one of their most profitable characters be seen as a total simp I think.
@@Emilio-ju1sythats what so weird. I would agure besides the sex appeal since City and SS 2016, the obesession / simping to Joker is one of her most recognizeable Character Traits.
@@applehazeva2739 I kinda get it in a sense. There really aren't that many intresting things you can do with the simp personality and Harley got way too popular to not be used and developed further. She had to come out of the Joker's shadow at some point, but I wish they didn't retcon all versions. Arkham Harley was such a threat that she got her own dlc. I'm just sad because arkham Harley really was the last and one of the best of that version.
A lot of the times yeah, Harley is supposed to be somewhat empathetic to people, especially once she stops working for Joker, but Arkham Harley feels no sympathy for anybody
Some say that " hey the gaps between knight and this game could be the explanation" true, but considering months after joker's death she still try to kill batman for it , i dont see how she will change just like that.
I thought she was more of a tool in Arkham Origins
But WB Montreal at least knew how to Establish her as an tool, since that was the POINT
@@applehazeva2739extortion tapes, she was bad before the Joker working with Hugo Strange
And what's worse Harley has been a bad person even before meeting orgins
All her character is about now is how she and ivy are couple and joker was a the stereotypical ex
In my opinion, this and Gotham Knights should have been reversed studio-wise. WB should have made SS and been allowed to do whatever however (since it wouldn't be canon to the Arkhamverse) while Rocksteady made Gotham Knights and tackled the Court storyline with Jason, Dick, Tim, and Barbara post-Arkham Knight.
I feel that would’ve been so much better
They used the popularity of the series to attract fans...that why they used the name in one and tried using the universe for this crap
No, plus the reason they did ssktjl game was cause they we're given the rights plus they user assets from their canned original IP multiplayer TPS game
Plus they were tired of being related to Batman games, so did WB Montreal so WB Montreal decided to use the images of concept art from proyect sabath AND that's How they Made Gotham Knights, h AND How Rocksteady Made the ssktjl game
Its so weird to. Just make GK a spin off game and rewrite here and there some thints and done.
I think its funny how in the arkham games harley is a known child killer but I guess she is a good guy now
Main universe Harley has killed children.
@@thomasraines1396And also experimented with Titan on them before killing them. After that, Joker And harley sewed The toddlers together, And promised to send The children to The parents "in one piece" 😂
@@buffsniperwait really?
@@Juancr2006 yes. Arkham harley Quinn is literally one of The most evil versions of her
@@buffsniper oh god
This game was insulting not just to the Arkham Universe, but DC lore as a whole.
actually no kiddo? maybe read a comic then just stfu? can you give some arguments? WHOLE DC lore is chaotic crap, so how it was an insult? for example, then Injustice is insult for Shazam, because he was killed by Superman
wait to see the depress joker
Dont be rude or ill report you 😊@@gimek1
@@gimek1actually I'm gonna report you now 👍
@@Earlierfour for?
Whats weird about the whole retcon for deadshot is that, it implied that the "original" deadshot retired after his zoe born. Its like telling us before batman year one, deadshot already made some contract kills, had several clients that hired him before.
But somehow, when blackmask (joker) hired him to kill batman in origins, he was listed as caucasian. To make the inconsistency even worse is that in origins, it was stated in his profile that deadshot was former military, how come amanda waller didnt know the person she recruited to the suicide squad is a fake one .
Same goes to hugo strange, what, the smartest guy who discovered the identity of batman couldnt figure out there was 2 floyd lawton ?
Its like they are trying to use the suicide squad most wanted comics as reference but they altered it too much and the result was bad
Would have made more sense if it was black Deadshot who is from a different universe.
Also, The original was far better shooter And didn't actually miss his targets💀
And all they had to do was say this one was the alternative dimension one
@@buffsniper some people actually defended the fact that he missed when he was fighting batman , considering that thing was consistent in the comic
Heck can the "OG" deadshot richochet bullets when we play as him?
Too me what sticks out is the fact batman pointed out that copperhead was a different person
In the Arkham games she killed and sowed a bunch of toddlers together and now there trying to “redeem” her like come on
Human centipede ahh shit
From what Arkham game/comic did this happen?
@@AM-sj5vrfr
@@panduvandal it happened in the batwoman dlc in arkham knight
@Posttal what the actual fuck that’s so disturbing and now she’s a antihero?
I dont think Rocksteady can recover from this seeing their founders left years ago because of this game.
They left after they completed the game content wise. Sefton Hill and Ian Ball wrote the story just like Arkham Knight. Sefton Hill was also the one who made the game a looter shooter as he was the creative director.
@@ColtonT13 no the fuck he did not lol. David Zaslav and the higher ups are who decided it needed to be a looter shooter. Section Hill left because they kept making obscene changes to the story he had given them
@@TBone4Breakfast This is false. In the credits Sefton Hill and Ian Ball are the ones who wrote the game’s story. Also WB only told them to make it live service, Sefton Hill made it a looter shooter. Also the story was finished in 2019 and Sefton left in 2022 for unknown reasons, apparently to get away from WBs direction.
@@TBone4Breakfastthey are in the credits
Yes doesn't mean they still didn't change what he had originally wrote....for god sakes use your brain a lil bit, he left for a reason@@Moonking_Is_Back
The team who worked on the others Arkham games literally walked away from the game, so you know why the game is so bad💀
Yep. And they formed new studio called 100 star games
The line where Harley says "Causing long term mental and emotional damage to everyone you knew" makes no damn sense. The Batfamily respected him. The GCPD and Gordon respected him. Even supervillains such as Mr Freeze, Ras Al Ghul and Poison Ivy (who's now randomly Harely's love interest) grew to respect him. Catwoman and Talia loved him. Jason forgave him, and Harely had a bigger hand to play in *his* mental and emotional damage than Batman ever did. Everyone else who knew Batman was a psychopath. And Harely's mental and emotional damage was caused by Joker.
Yeah it's bullshit but I think she knows it's bullshit. She was just trying to put him down before she...well, put him down.
Yeah when Batman said “are we done with your bad standup routine” I think he knows she’s full of sh&t.
Tbh Harley should not even be talking as she overdosed kids with titan drugs, but no she is a tough girl boss going through a hard time like she literally tourtured kids like tf
Seriously this whole tough girl boss thing is getting pretty damn old. Why can’t we have normal female characters again.
@@Fingerprint-face yeah fr
Finally someone acknowledge the fact that Arkham Asylum should be abandoned after the events of the first game and not up and running 5 years after Arkham Knight.
Thats not even something I noticed! I always forget that they shut it down and thats why we got Arkham City.
@@gothamsmostwantedclownbitc7107 It's been long abandoned in Arkham Knight aswell. Scarecrow uses it as a hideout and the entire place is a overgrown ruin.
Oddly enough, they made a tie in comics for this game where basically they in away rebuilt arkham asylum. And they transported king shark from belle reve. But why?
The fact that that nots even a fact
So it’s agreed that this game isn’t canon as it claims and the series ended with Arkham Knight
Already done that before the game came out, but this pushes it more
Any real Arkham fan agrees that this game isn't canon only mindless shills consider it canon
@callmejacob3234 and some who really trying to force that this game is canon might as well make stuff up honestly
Its just a god-awful Tumblr fanfic project
As someone who loves anti-hero Harley, there’s no doubt that Arkham Harley was not meant to be a good guy in any way, shape or form. She continued being a villain not because of her grief, but because that’s who her character was. Remember in Origins, even before she was “hypnotized” by Joker, she worked with the Falcone family (known criminals) and had ties to the League of Assassins. She was written to be a pure villain who sold her humanity for power since the beginning. Retconning it just to make her more like the more popular version of the character cheapens the entire universe and what it meant in terms of DC lore. Or maybe I’m just babbling who knows
She also worked for Strange, that should tell you enough.
She worked with strange and joker? Damn she had a list of all the evil people she should work with?
The straw that broke the camels back for me was when boomerang asked if Deadshot was supposed to be white. I look at that scene with a bombastic side eye. It only got worse when TOKENISED/BLACKWASHED Deadshot called the OG Arkham Deadshot a "phony". THAT along with the "toxic masculinity" line in wonder womans bio (WRITTEN BY LEX LUTHOR) along with the disrespect of Arkham Batman was all it took for me to rebuke this piece of garbage as "canon".
🖕 Sweet baby inc.
When in reality this games Deadshot is the phony lol
Im still laughing my ass off when it stated themyscira had a better technology than our society , like what....shield and swords?
@@megatron2171that's just shows they turned Luther into a simp
@@Earlierfourlike it doesnt make any sense for Lex luthor's character, the guy who doesnt like superman because to him the mere existence of superman is an insult, why would he respect wonder woman who in the same league with superman?
Yep
They should have just given us a game about the adventures of Dick Grayson and Officer Balls.
Officer Balls🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
@@buffsniperHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Officer WHO?
@@dylansharp8471 Officer balls - Man
@@dylansharp8471 Officer Balls🗣️🔥
First red flag: deadshot was established to be white in city and origins
They made him black in this game (for no actual reason mind you) and try to place a backstory behind this change thinking it'll excuse it
Second red flag: they managed to kill the flash by just.. shooting at him? I get they had the thing that temporarily slows him down but throughout most of the fight hes just summoning tornadoes and running around.. after it was established he can kill all of them in mere seconds
Third red flag: flash saved them and they all gave him no respect whatsoever but when wonder woman just throws them into a building and didnt even save them throughout most of the game she gets beat by superman and suddenly they care? They dont even try to help her they're just flabbergasted and claims allegiance with her, when in gods name was it explained or shown to us thst wonder woman was directly helping them? Yeah i thought so.
Fourth red flag:bat-fucking man just dies to a bullet while sitting on a bench after pulling a scarecrow and just.. standing right in front of the suicide squad and shooting lasers from his eyes? Instead of the regular arkham approach he does in various games against armed enemies.. yeah this game is just downright continuity breaking and upright disrespectful with every passing second each cutscene or boss fight plays
That Batman was on verge of death you think he can do that QTE there
@@ohhellwhereami2574 no i really just expected superman to save him honest here (he totally should have through ambushing the suicide squad but whatever)
And i expected him not just standing there in front of the SS tryna be built like a kaiju boss shooting laser outta his eyes and just getting flooded with bullets because of doing so
Tl;DR i did not expect the situation that got him benched to happen and i expected superman to be faster.. its not like all of brainiacs troops are disposable especially arkhamverse batman
@@MisterKenK from brainiac statement and attitude during end shows that Batman (real one) might be still be somewhere in his or other brainiac collection , since he was rather careless about losing them and only wanted to test out the ss as he was interested in them so thus HIS superman saving him wouldn't serve purpose
Also Batman boss fight may have been meh but realistically ss are throughout game enhanced like their chips improving their perception speed and their weapon being stated to be powered up by yellow lantern ring battery with tech of luther himself as well as their own fear toxic which was built under harley who is stated even in earlier the timeline to possess relative intellect as joker which could have done same despite that batman was ordered to not kill ss even after all that harley said " They got LuckY' implying severe difficulty despite all upgrades i have mentioned with a batman that was pulling punches
@@ohhellwhereami2574 harley's statement of learning fear toxin off of scarecrow IN the arkhamverse is as BS as deadshot becoming black and having a 99.9 % dna match with the "doppelganger" also its not like theres a anti batman device hes been fighting all kinds of foes ever since asylum in singular nights also he only became interested in the SS... many cutscenes after batman tried to kill them but flash saved them, and he wouldnt have been interested in them whatsoever if Batman or Flash killed some of them or most of them or all of them which in all fairness any of these 3 should have
He oneshotted harley before two times in a row, he made quick work of deadshot two times in a row, boomerang even with speedster gauntlet and everything is still a moron and the gauntlet kind of just improves his speed, i can perfectly imagine batman giving him the electrocutioner treatment and just knocking him out in one punch and then throwing a batarang in his cranium
And they did get lucky because batman was about to fill their brains with led except for maybe king shark but thats yet to be proven, and even if they say thats not the real batman or the real justice league the writing is still garbage and if brainiac made copies of them the copies should not be this idiotic nor inconsistent with what they're showing us they can do
TL;DR nearly every member of that suicide squad should have been dead except for king shark because hes basically the heavy hitter and can accomplish more without the gadgets the rest of them are using than... them, and is the only guy i can imagine batman struggling against.
@@MisterKenK ahem batman was said to not kill ss why are we on killing topic then? Also in early game their chips haven't been enhanced to process data it's stated later making them above their initial early counterparts also luther and toyman also have ways to hack wayne tech , mind you they were all being amped by yellow lantern ring (battery) at this point so Batman had to initially fight gl level opponent while holding back and harley knowing all his trick prior also harley being smart as joker (stated before ssktjl) can do same i mean he did finalize titan serum ?
Also they got lucky "as shown so their odds of defeating even a holding back already counter answer to Batman being low i mean astronomically low
I love Harley in all her forms, but DC is hellbent on making her a hero in every instance possibe. Making her an anti-hero in the main universe made sense because it was gradual. This Harley had no doubts. She reveled in the pain she inflicted with the Joker. Not every version needs to be a tank girl. Gimme ditz Harley, complete evil Harley, mad genius Harley. She's such a versatile character that can shine in more ways than the one rocksteady chose.
I find it Ironic how the same people who constantly bring up the Multiverse seem hellbent and Making every version of a character reflect a single type.
GK Harley was a great version that was very similar to what Nightwing is to Batman. She kinda grew out of Jokers shadow but still carried on his work
“This is canon to the Arkham-Verse!”
Then why is the game written like it isn’t? I know this’ll sound like cope, but nothing can convince me this is canon to the AV if there are this many inconsistencies with the timeline between AK and KTJL, as well as the previous Batman games. We should have still gotten an ARKHAM Game, I’m sorry, multiplayer or not, that would be leagues better than whatever this hate-infested tumor of a service is.
I fuckin agree, like, if this is an Arkham game, why is it so different from the Arkham games thematically and logically? So many things are working against it being an Arkhamverse game, which should be fine because it is a _perfectly_ passable game if you divorce it from Arkham.
Why didn't they make a multiplayer Arkham game, if that's what they wanted? Why make it a Suicide Squad game?
@@Resi1ience I doubt it would've changed much and probably only end up making it even worse than it already is. The Rocksteady that made the Arkham games only exists by name, but everything and everyone else that made this so good studio is gone.
The people who made this abomination have no respect for DC or the Arkham games in general and the writing by Sweet Baby Inc. shows that.
One of the few redeemable things about Suicide Squad is the Voice Acting, rarely the lines themselves (again, the writing is obnoxious) but in how they are delivered is passable. The Animations is also OK but still a fall from grace compared to the Arkham games over 9 years ago. Granted, this game has a bigger open world but there are many things that should've looked better, considering how it took to make it
@@cc_rex5017 majority of the people who worked on this game did knight and city, including sefton hill who only left after majority of the game was done. ur coping
@@mrmelonman2893 you're lying and spreading oneside propaganda. If this game is so great why don't the people who actually made it stop passing the buck?
It's kinda like Warhammer's End Times. I can't accept this as the actual conclusion because so many elements contradict not only the past information, but also future revelations. If I accept this it breaks the plot.
Gotham knight gave us a better version batman death twice over then what suicide squad gave us clone or not
That game is so stupid for killing him twice though like tf?
I find it funny how Harley Quinn’s argument against Batman was blaming him for the mental torment he’s caused as if he was the villain.
Like bro you’re literally in love with the most psychologically offensive criminal
And who created the joker? Batman, Batman caused Joker to fall, Batman failed to realize how Harley Quinn was being manipulated. It’s literally Batman’s fault
@@thecringeprince2040so all the deaths joker and Quinn is now Batman fault?
@@thecringeprince2040Batman tried to help her, And explain that she's being manipulated. Did she listen? No
@@thecringeprince2040Ha! Yeah right as if Harley didn't fall for Joker in the first place, even if Batman helps she would never listen, life must be hard for a millennial writer fan huh?
@@shisho_sos8093 Harley was literally manipulated by a sociopath and dunked into the same vat of chemicals he was. Did you just forget that part of the lore?
As an Arkham fan. This game, well, I'm glad I didn't play this. I hope they add the worst game of the year at the game of the year awards. Just so they don't make awful games like these. This game has more refunds than Anthem.🤦🏿
This game is almost dead already😂
Wait really? More refunds than anthem is crazy. You know you messed up when your game is doing worse than the train wreck they have to keep at a 90% discount at all times
@@peanutbutter6720 they already dropped the first month to roughly 127 players on Steam. This game is practically dead AF.
Nah, this shit isn't Canon, assult on Arkham is.
Yep. Atleast assault on arkham doesn't Have nikocado avocado sized plot holes
@@buffsniper Yeah
agree 100%
That movie is kinda underrated tbh, way better than this shitty ass “game”.
@@buffsniper nah SS has caseoh sized wholes
Bruh if they wanted a memeber of the squad to be black then just do it, dont pull unnecessary mental gymnastics for no reason
Hell a better way would be to have it be black manta instead of deadshot, that dude already has a jetpack and laser eyes so it def would be cooler mechanics than just le gun like all other squad members
But fr they could have easily hust said that white deadshot was the mentor to the new one, or that the new one killed deadshot and just took up his title, ya wanna have deadshot be black so bad yet you yourselves acknowledge how much that dosnt make sense
Or just bloodsport easy, and instead of rivalry towards green lantern its superman
I think it would be a perfect storyline, the black dead shot is hired to kill Arkham deadshot and succeeds, he then realizes what he’s done making Zoe an orphan so he adopts her which would keep the connection to him and Zoe and allow him to be deadshot or hell, if you don’t want og deadshot killed by him just say it was bloodsport who’s allies with deadshot but deadshot dies from brainiacs invasion so bloodsport becomes the new deadshot instead of using multiverse BS. This game never needed to be in te multiverse, the easily could have just not let us beat brainiac yet instead of kill him and made it more clear justice league are clones and the new characters we fight are random justice league characters like Aquaman with the final boss being brainiac
They forgot bloodsport exists
Was just about to say that. If you wanted a ruthless black straight man of the group, Black Manta is already there, and he has a recognizable silhouette and design.
Deadshot is a mainstay of the Suicide Squad, but if you're not going to even let him be the original, just get another character.
@@nestormelendez9005 yeah but I think black manta would fit better
He already has the jetpack and laser eyes that would be cooler than just guns like everyone else
They made batman like an idiot for chasing deadshot who turned out to be an imposter for years, and Harley lecturing batman about about trauma while she killed a child, and joker who's doing bad things because he hasn't found himself yet??? Who the hell is writing this bullshit
It really does stink of sweet baby inc
We should just avoid them like the plague.
Deadshot wasn't an imposter, the video literally says that the Deadshot is his exact, same match, - and another log mentions the copy uses his strategies, his getup, his style, his exact DNA sequence, except that he's white - this isn't new, remember Nick Fury?, the other parts I don't care about, but they did actually write the reasoning, especially for a character in the games that you take down with literally 3 button presses across the Arkham games
4:46-6:13 this entire cutscene is SO DAMN CREEPY. My gosh... WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
I get Shark's "vegetarian option", my man is not too socially aware... but Harley's "fun size" joke? WHAT THE HELL!?
King Shark's comment is fine enough. Not only is he not socially aware, but he wasn't trying to be crass or anything. He eats people. He's a shark. She is a plant woman, not made of flesh and meat. So eating her would be vegetarian. All things considered, it's fine. No worse than anything in the Arkham games, it's just not funny.
It's *Harley* that crosses the line, and not in a "Boomerang going to piss on the Flash's corpse and everyone compliments him on his dick" way. That was just tonal whiplash and gross. Harley's borderline pedo commentary is absolutely *foul*, doubly so when you remember that this Harley is also a multiple-time child murderer.
King Shark died in Assault on Arkham and he was designed differently i guess the devs forgot about that.
Also green Lanterns existence in the game creates plot holes, green lantern rings do not allow deadly force willy nilly and if John stewarts will has been broken by mind control he shouldn't be able to use his ring.
Or he should have been an entirely different sort of Lantern.
I liked Arkham's Harley Quinn because it was "revolutionary" at the time, it dared to keep Harley as the character she had always been while the new comics pushed all that nonsense. I was pretty concerned that this game would take her in that direction. And it did exactly that. In every way possible.
In regards to Poison Ivy - I heard somewhere a theory that the reason they turned her into a child was because they were desperately trying to desexualize her. In Arkham Knight, Ivy was smoking hot and sensual at that. Buuuut, mah wahmen objectification, so what's a surefire way people do not objectify a woman? Make her a child. That way, if someone does try to sexualize her, it says more about them than anything...
...Which makes it even more baffling that they're pushing for the Harley and Ivy relationship in this game, with Harley saying some stuff that is more than eyebrow raising. Had they kept it like it was in Arkham trilogy and make her NOT have romantic involvement with Ivy, they'd avoid all this awkward stuff. It's like in their pursuit of their quotas, they completely disregarded the implication. Either that, or other alternative, which is... Far worse.
If that's the case then the fact they went with a child ivy is just eyebrow raising on its own. Doesn't help if they'll saying Ivy and Harley are a thing (which the real arkham Harley didn't have any romantic feelings towards her, just no more than acquaintance or friends) then this makes it more weird that Harley is saying this to kid ivy
desexualizing poison ivy ruins poison ivy's whole point. she's meant to be sexual because she is heavily seductive and uses her attractiveness to her advantage.
if anything, her BEING sexual is what MAKES her strong.
@@BanishedSilentShadow3318harley saying "my little girl" was the biggest deal breaker because just think a room full of devs (most likely male) were like ya we can make this work 💀
And they failed in the end. There's still a lot of child Ivy rule 34. 😂
But the whole point of ivy being sexy is too attract man as her minions lmao
6:50 fr same thing with like the new 52 Harley they make it seem like Joker Made Harley Wear The Jester Outfit Even tho she chose to pick and wear it herself.
2:23 the anger in Batman's voice just saying Harley's name says enough
I couldnt agree more about Harley. EVERYTHING you said is what I have been shouting from hilltops for years. She is a VILLAIN at the end of the day, but since like 2016 DC wants us to treat her like a wacky hero. Im never gonna look at Harley and be like "awe she was emotionally abused by Joker, poor thing" like they want us to. She helped kill and stitch together BABIES and sent them back because they promised they would come back "in one piece". But awe she had a toxic boyfriend. Please, im never gonna like her or treat her like a hero
If it makes you guys feel better, this game can't be in the arkham verse. Because king shark is canonically dead between the events of origins and asylum.
And deadshot is white, captain boomerang is dead, Batman faked his death, And relationship between poison ivy And harley Quinn never happened
@@buffsniperwell harley and ivy's relationship while never go in depth at least there is that interaction between them in arkham asylum
@@megatron2171 yeah, because they were friends. Not lovers
@@buffsniper it's still weird they want a child ivy and an adult harley be together isnt that illegal
@@Earlierfour sweet baby Inc..... That's all you need to know.....
And this is Sweet Baby Inc’s writing everyone 😭
What?
It’s not. Del walker already confirmed it’s the two guys that left writing.
Who cares?
How tf does running a DNA test on Blackshot still give you the same results as Deadshot? That makes no sense.
What now?
@@dylansharp8471original deadshot (white) was an impostor of the "true" deadshot (black), they did a dna test and both had the same dna despite very obviously having different genetics and not being related
They are from different Earths where genetics work differently. I'm guessing the gene that influences skin color on one Earth didn't influence skin color on the other Earth?
It's a common thing in the DC multiverse where multiversal counterparts would share the same DNA but have very different physiology.
@@SeanWheeler100 🤓
1:11 Cash actually does become the commissioner after Gordon becomes mayor. They showed that in the Nightwing DLC.
so another retcon?
@@bigjawline9235It's not a retcon if you don't consider the name game to be canon.
This version of Harley change would of made sense if in the years following Arkham Knight she actually tried to change and redeem herself (especially in the eyes of Batman) like the Harley in the injustice universe. But no she still more or less continue to be a criminal after Knight and up to before this game (considering how Batman talks to her). And now they want to retcon that she was a different Harley then what all the Arkham related media depicted her as. SMH
Yeah this games timeline also doesn’t make sense with it being soon after Arkham Kniht
@@westhequagsireplus8191 really doesn't
I hate the “redemption” harley bullcrap because its pretty much against her own character. Harley gets worse as the years go by, and it would be harder to actually redeem herself because she would become more and more depraved. She is head over heels for the Joker yet DC keeps wanting to make her change, almost like DC keeps blaming Jason Todd for his own death.
@@PostCrisisRH Hmmm it's seems like they don't really know what to do with Harley? Honestly I like how her original incarnation ultimate fate was just to retire and live a normal life. Because really Harley is to joker, what Batman is to the joker, a motivation once you remove that then what's the point? I do agree that ultimately after the joker dies or they break up then Harley has no reason to continue being a villain or a hero.
Boomerang making fun of Harley for dressing sexy makes no sense unless it's meant to imply he's asexual or something.
Then how would he know that she's dressed like that?
Dont they lack fashion sense?
I don't see the correlation, it isjust a dumb outfit. He is simply making fun of her.
How could it imply he's asexual? Bro's just making fun of an outfit he thinks is oversexualized/looks silly lol
@@diogod2347Nah the way it is implies he's asexual or something
Just to have him dress (sexy)
Bro It’s almost like the writers and the ones who think it’s the best game ever never played any Arkham Game!
And know nothing about Arkham!
Harley saying fun size is creepy
Remember it was one of the writers that made her say that and they were most likely a boy
Yep and she's somehow morally superior to Batman even though she murdered children in this universe.
Yeah connecting suicide squad kills the justice league to Arkham series makes no sense whatsoever especially with Harley Quinn character who killed a lot of people and try to make her basically a anti hero which I don’t buy at the moment, mostly because she try to get another joker which failed badly at least in my opinion.
This deadshot just isn’t as fun. I think Justice League’s is my favorite.
Hes a complete sleazebag in that though. Oh. I forgot he had his own episode. Task force x. Never mind, i see your point.
This game is a retcon galore.
2:42 I just played this DLC yesterday, and I was thinking that the GCPD should have just gunned both of them down.
What the hell happened to this universe. What a mess holy crap.
Forgot to mention that Amanda Waller and king Shark died in the Arkham movie.
And asylum was shut down after akham City.
@@buffsniper
That too! It further proves that this garbage is just a acid trip that Harley is having. Huh..? Now that I said that, it makes a whole lot of sense to label that in the game. “Harley Quinn’s wild trip: Kill the Justice League with guns.” Lol
Actually amanda waller might still be alive , well at least according to arkham knight tie in comic
The fact that they wrote Harley’s love for joker off as a “phase” when she’s been by his side all the way up until his death and even mourned him in the following game is laughable… this is live action Harley in a damn video game that’s it that all
This harley was pure evil she would have been great if she stayed evil especially from what we seen in the "leaks" of the batman beyond game
I’m writing this before watching the vid. It can’t be canon, not because of how horrible it is because everyone knows that, it’s because it contradicts each Arkham character too much for it to be ignored. I cannot see Arkham Batman acting the way they made him out to be when he ISNT mind controlled, plus even Harley doesn’t act like her Arkham verse self. There is no way it can ever actually be part of that story unless it’s a different version of that story altogether
Act?
Something to point out is the official Batman Arkham UA-cam channel never made any videos about Suicide Squad but is clearly still active with videos for the Arkham Trilogy on Switch.
I think now it does
From all the clips I’ve seen from SSKTJL Tara strog’s voice acting as Harley became so horrendous
The injustice comics are the same way with Harley. They made her go the anti hero route and work actively with Batman FOR YEARS despite the fact that in addition to years of crime she actively participated in the joker NUKING 8 MILLION PEOPLE. But yeah sure it makes sense that she's an anti hero Batman would work with and not lock up, and all of the other heroes working with Batman were just okay with it too.
"But he cant turn her in superman will kill her" yeah that's dumb because Batman could have imprisoned her himself just like he did with multiple regime prisoners.
Also Batman was trying to be an inspiration to get the global population to resist superman, so working with the person responsible for again NUKING 8 MILLION PEOPLE seems unlikely.
And then all of batmans allies lost their minds when he starting working with the rogues, bank robbers who avoided violent crime and prided themselves on never killing or maiming people, but are perfectly fine with working with a mass murdering, serial killing, violent child deleted. Sure makes sense yeah man those bank robbers are too evil to work with.
Quinn's character is so forced ita crazy
If this was a Elseworlds Game I’d be Fine with this Game but making it connected to the Arkhamverse makes Zero Sense, If Rocksteady wanted a Will Smith Deadshot they could’ve done Bloodsport and have Deadshot as DLC and as for Harley it’s even Out of Character when I’m getting tired of the Overly Focused Push for Harley Quinn and not to mention that the Arkham’s Version of the Character is the Most Monstrous and Darkest of any Harley Variant, don’t get me started on how that game removes he Feminine Charm with Terrible Skins, this Game is a Curse and Gotham Knights is a Much Better Game that’s this Abomination.
I’m not even inherently against Harley having a redemption arc even in a universe like this. But they went about it in the worst way possible.
If they want us to see this version of Harley as redeemable, they have to show that she feels remorse for her actions.
They should’ve had her begin still smitten with the Joker, But perhaps as the events of the game play out, she comes to realize that he was a terrible person (there’s a number of ways you could do this but fear toxin hallucinations would probably be the easiest solution).
She feels ashamed that she worshiped this man for so long and the realization of the atrocity she committed in his name finally kick in.
Show her breakdown and think that she doesn’t deserve to go on. Then you could have the squad, who at that point have come to kind of like each other, gives her some tough love, and explains that feeling bad about herself isn’t going to get them out of the situation, but if she really does feel guilty for what she did, she can help them, save the world.
Yeah it’s a bit generic, but if you have to redeem Harley in this universe, that’s probably the best way to go. You have to show that she feels bad about what she did rather than just saying “it was a phase.”
Yep, I know you said this is generic and while most of the list is, the one part that isn’t, is her realising the depth of what she’s did. It disappointing to say but not a single of one of any Harley’s redemption arcs in media, every touch on that subject.
If I'm correct they made injustice Harly Quinn
know what she did and made her feel bad for it in some kind of way
@@gameover9390
Did Lilith handle it better?
@@dylansharp8471 Who?
It's kinda hard to redeem the version of her that killed kids, tbh
This game would have been so much better if it wasn't in the arkham universe.
All they had to do is Gotham Knights but with the Arkham Knight DLC Cast.
Even without the forced continuity, the story would still have had issues with bad tone shifts, excessive use of plot armor, flimsy explanations why why things that shouldn't seem to work would work, and almost every opportunity for character growth squandered.
But at least we could take continuity and "sudden changes in character" off the table, which is non-negligible.
4:48 in the arkham comics catwoman, poison ivy and harley quin are good work friends but that's all
i am vengeance
i am the night
i am batman
I am vengeance
I am the nigh- *cries in pain*
My issue is that Killer Croc was monsterous and scary to deal with like he was more croc than human yet King Shark dwarfs him and is more human than shark
When Harley Quinn is lecturing Batman about causing mental damage to everyone I couldn’t help but chuckle… the same Harley Quinn who helped joker kidnap and murder a kindergarten school🤔🤔okay writers👍🏻
This Harley...
Helped kill and mutilate a bunch of kindergarteners
Helped kill a little girl, and then drove the father to kill himself slowly and painfully so she and Joker could have his stuff.
Was at least complicit in the kidnapping and torture of Jason Todd.
Was complicit in the crippling of Barbara Gordon.
Helped kidnap multiple doctors in Arkham City, and had them brutally murdered for entertainment when they failed to cure Joker.
Showed absolutely no hesitation or remorse for literally any of this.
The idea of this Harley being anything but completely evil, 5 year timeskip or no, is absolutely ridiculous.
@@senorsnout4417 like the writers are so out of touch that is actually insane we’re meant to be believe she’s just a good person now
U made Hella good points...I just don't see how the writers didn't see the missing connections and how to bridge them or like you said just place it in a different universe and end it with them in the Arkham universe freeing batman and using his plans to stop and save the rest of the Justice League b4 it happend again
a good excuse for Deadshot would be that a fake Deadshot killed the real one to try to surpass him, doesn't make much sense but makes more sense than Batman somehow fighting the wrong Deadshot
this seems to be the problem of they want to force connection with Arkham series, all while trying to make Harley more of her modern comic, the "hate Joker and in love with Ivy" type with completely conflict with Arkham Harley
Harley dressing Batman down in any capacity makes no sense, but it makes absolutely zero sense in the Arkham universe. This Harley is beyond evil and even helped Joker kill and mutilate children.
Here’s a thought: how is Harley in Arkham Asylum again? In Arkham knight (the previous game) she is locked up in a joker holding cell in panessa studios so how Tf did she move?
Yeah, while most people talking about Deadshot. Not many talking about King Shark. *King Shark was dead in Assault on Arkham animated movie.* His head got blown up. What’s up with that? Did rocksteady retcon that?
I saw Kill the Justice League game, how King Shark talk about his dad, Kamo, a lot. Would make more sense if this King Shark is actually Kid Shark the son of King Shark from the Assault of Arkham movie. Kid Shark only appearance was Arkham Knight Comic. It makes sense, since Suicide Squad game sets 5 years later after Arkham Knight. Kid Shark grows into new King Shark, he wants to kill Waller to avenge his dad but he got captured and got bomb in his neck just his dad. Why, Rocksteady didn’t go this route.
The should’ve make the new King Shark form a relationship between Harley Quinn and Captain Boomrang cause they were on same team with old King Shark.
1:21 Yeah, DC tries to push her a cool as Deadpool. But they unintentionally made her annoying.
1:36 Clownhunter should’ve Kill Harley. Reminder Harley Quinn killed Kids in comics. That should not be ignored.
1:44 Don’t get me start on Injustice including Adventure of Jon Kent comic. That was a terrible comic, by Tom Narcissist Tayor.
9:10 K. I get multiverse thing but why not make the New Deadshot from a different universe instead the old one? If the old Deadshot was stranded in a new universe wouldn’t he keep a low profile? And if the Old Deadshot is from another universe how his daughter end up in that universe as well?
The would mean there two Zoe Lawtons.
All this makes it so pointless.
You talk about The Joker DLC. List of DLC characters leaked. Apparently Zoe Lawton will most likely be DLC character with the name Lawless. So she mostly is from another universe.
To this day im still wiling to put money on the idea that Gotham Knights was suppoused to be the Arkhamverse game and sequel to arkham knight.A LOT about it just fits with how the characters and story plays out. In particalr the Harley there actually feels like a natural progression of Arkham harley's character becoming a fully sadistic and cruel villain in her own right. The joker is mentioned but never shown in the game for like....NO reason. Batman is meant to be bead and yet he's not on a rampage? Harley fro some reason in that game and joker split up. that's never really explained.
Clayface acts like a crazier version of his Arkham City self. the list goes on. They probibly planned to make it the arkhamverse game and suicide squad was poribbly oriignally supoused to be based on the MOVIES version of the characters. But due to how they saw Avengers crash and burn. They tried to salvage gotham knights as best they could by ripping out all the live service stuff. But they KNEW it was bad. So they remvoed all teh arkham verse refrences possible and changed things in the delay.
And gave it over to suicide squad. WHich if you really think about it. is trying WAY too hard to tell you it's Arkhamverse. LIke all the refrences and explinations given for deadshot alone feel really forced and kinda stupid and shoehorned in. This was probibly meant to be it's own universe. But they slapped the Arkhamverse seting onto it to try to make it sell better.
And look how that turned out 😂 the game failed hard even WB admitted it
Yeah I remember watching the first trailer for Gotham knights and thought it fit perfectly in the Arkhamverse just to be surprised it wasn’t
SSKTJL's not canon, simple as.
That’s cope. Cause it is.
@@KrakenZzzzit isn't it contradicts many things set up in the past games and lore
@@KrakenZzzz King Shark was canonically dead and the asylum was shut down after Arkham City also Aaron Cash would not be an Asylum guard he would at least be a captain working under Commissioner Gordon at GCPD, this game is not canon to the Arkham verse
@@xxxCyber24xxxand cash suppose to be the new commisioner after gordon elected as mayor
@@KrakenZzzzThe game has plot Holes The size of Your mother, so it can't Be canon
Blackshot would have worked just by saying he's another guy, one who took the gear and name after the other one found his happy ending and retired or got killed by another villain in the 5 years.
4:37 Also Poison Ivy DIED in Arkham Knight, how are people this dumb to make that point?
Aaron Cash as commissioner since Gordon is Mayor is such a great idea and I’d love to see it since he was Gordon’s right hand man in AK.
She assisted Joker in:
1) Manipulating a man to kill himself after she helped Joker experiment on a little girl.
2) Helped Joker torture Jason Todd who was a teenager at the time.
3) Was ok with Joker killing Kindergartners and sawing them back together.
And expects us to feel sorry for her in this shite game?
*WHAT WERE THEY COOKING*
Bro say it louder for the people in the back . Let’s look at the injustice series when Harley joined Batman’s team to take down Superman . Like what? Why? She was alongside the joker when they nuked all of metropolis while killing Lois in the process . BOTH surgically implanted a bomb in Lois not to mention the hundreds if not millions of lives they took prior in their career criminal history. Never understood why Batman or any hero for that matter would tolerate her assisting them in any kind of way
To think the whole deadshot thing was just so they could blackwash him and use the version from the movie
They have some balls to have the audacity to say this is canon to the Arkham verse
What are you talking about? I thought Rocksteadys' last game was Arkham Knight. What game is this? I've never heard of it. THERE IS NO SUCH GAME!!! lol
At the earnings call Warner Brothers announced they’re going to double down on the live service model. good luck with that
Batman's armor is bulletproof. Harley shooting him in the head shouldn't have killed him. The bullet would've bounced back. Bad writers.
It would be cool if she learned from Arkham knight and shot him in the side of his abdomen
Lmao even synder's batman suit got it right, remember when he got that direct shot to the head
The only Harley who deserves a redemption arc is Arleen Sorkin's Harley Quinn. Injustice Harley too.
They've ruined harley, its not the fun, crazed joker sidekick anymore. She feels like someone hijacked her for their idealogical purposes
Harley's face on EDP445, oof.
well said man this game was just a huge middle finger to the arkhamverse and to the dc universe. I'm just waiting for Rocksteady to announce that it's not cannon.
The harley and deadshot character changes are fanfic levels of "we can make this work".
All I gotta say to Future DC games is that ,yall better get your shit together
DC trying to “redeem” Harley in any way is disturbing.
Arkham and Injustice are the most egregious.
Arkham has already been stated but I find it funny in Injustice that all the heroes have a hard time forgiving Flash and Green Lantern, but everyone seems cool with Harley.
Can’t we have a villain who’s also a bisexual? Cause she’s done too much murder and torture for “redemption”.
Also everybody seems to forget that she literally worked for Hugo strange before she became Harley Quinn and she knew about his experiments
I honestly didn't know that because I never really listened to the audio tapes/extortion files in the Arkham games and even though I play Origins so much nowadays it never came to my mind to listen to the extortion files thanks for pointing that out
HARLEYS LOST BABY IS NEVER MENTIONED. HARLEY AND IVY ARE NOT FRIENDS AT ALL
This game idolizes Harley to a ludicrous level. I can't remember a single joke made at her expense while Shark, Boomerang and Deadshot get made fun of all the time.
Lets also not forget harley is supressing her other self Harleen quinzel who literally talks to her every once in a while. I dislike the newer version of harley so much.
Brand recognition. That's the only reason. This game follows a terrible route that has come around lately. Writers who want to tell their own stories using already established IP or universes to hook people in but barely follow or ignore the source material altogether. As stated they turned Harley Quinn into the modern independent Harley without the work. She never had a romantic relationship with Ivy. Especially not one that makes the already pedo-esque convo she has with Kid Ivy seem less...gross. At best maybe she had a crush but it's clear Arkhamverse Harley was all Mr. J all the time. And Deadshot's recon is sooooooooo lazy. He is perhaps the worst character. Always bitching about how terrible John Stewart is for having the gall to lock him up and keep him from his daughter for murdering people. What a jerk. Don't even get me started on the "boooooo black cop ewwww" way his lex codec comes off. But even worse is that the race swap "imposter" nonsense makes Batman look like an idiot. The world's greatest detective never once in his fight against the "fake" Deadshot ever mentions that he's an imposter?
Harley & Ivy were friends in animated series, but it's not an Arkham canon. Also Harley in animated series was redeemable and sympathetic because there weren't anything heinous committed since cartoon was kids friendly.
I'll tell you what happened
They wanted Harley to be woke and deadshot to be color washed because of the movies.
Could have just made Deadshot BloodSport instead
I agree with everything you said about this game.
I want to go back in time and keep this game from ever getting made.
The whole Harley Quinn is a grey character is starting to made ma annoyed they just wash over Harley is actually evil and it’s not joker fault 100 percent and all the do is ship her with ivy in every single dc project
Setting this in the Arkhamverse was just straight up stupid. The universe is much closer to Injustice 2 if anything, but Injustice 2 does literally everything better.
Take Harley. In Injustice 1, we very much get the sence that Harely is not ENTIRELY on board with everything Joker does. He even hits her several times, something that I don't think we ever really saw in the Arkham games (Not to say that Joker was some kind of perfect boyfriend, but in Injustice it really feels like he's lashing out at Harely at time, whereas in the Arkhamverse it never feels so sadistic for lack of a better word). Injustice 2 does the "Good Harley" so much better. This version of Harley is actually redeemable and likeable. We see her somewhat get over Joker in the first game, and she seems completely over him by the second, only really questioning it under the influence of Scarecrows fear toxin. Not only that, her getting over the Joker feels much more earned and cathartic. Even though the Arkhamverse and Injustice are showing completely different Harleys you still get the sence that they are the same character just sent down 2 different paths.
Then there's Deadshot. Even if it's technically canon and accurate to the comics, Arkham Deadshot was not exactly a sympathetic character. Injustice Deadshot was significantly more so. I don't know if that's what they intended, but Injustice Deadshot seemed much more influenced by Will Smith's portrayal (Who, despite being in a god aweful movie, put in a great performance and really helped make the character more likeable). We see this in Deadshot's intro dialogue, whenever someone mentions his daughter he gets mad quick. Arkham Deadshot certainly did not give off that.
Plus they, for whatever reason, decided to make Harley into a creep by being weird with little Ivy (Who was a stupid inclusion as it completely undermines her genuinely heroic sacrifice in Arkham Knight but fucking whatever at this point) all to they can keep pushing the Harley x Ivy thing which was never brought up in the Arkhamverse, but surprise surprise, was included in Injustice.
To me, this whole game feels like it was supposed to be a kind of alternate univers of Injustice 2 where Braniac beat the Justice League and it was left to the other characters to beat him, which could have worked as a premise (Ignoring all of the other stupid things in the game) but they set in the established universe that is just completely incompatible with that story.
Fuck this game.
Let’s say suicide squad is NOT cannon
In my head canon this is definitely an alternate universe and gotham knights takes place in the arkham universe
Except Gotham Knights also doesn’t line up with the Arkham games. Ra’s Al Ghul and Talia being alive are two big examples.
@jaxxpool9630 if it was to 1 to 1 it would just be canon hence why I said head canon. Some things don't perfectly line up but more things than others do for that game compared to ssktjl
@@jaxxpool9630from the arkham knight dlc ra being alive is a choice iirc
The Arkhamverse ended with Arkham Knight
That Harley Quinn cartoon show poster is disgusting. So is this game.