After what seems to be a long wait, DC fans were treated to new trailers for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and Gotham Knights. Each are action-packed and filled to the brim with things to unpack, such as how Suicide Squad players are going to beat the various Justice League members shown off: Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, and Wonder Woman.

The games are also clearly tonally different: Gotham Knights seems to be, befittingly, more brooding and serious, while there’s clearly the humorous aspects of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Despite this, there is one prominent theme that’s very evident in both trailers.

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Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice DC FanDome Trailers

While it’s rather apparent in the title of the team, Task Force X is clearly on a suicide mission. They even reference how fighting the Justice League is one of the worst ideas they’ve ever heard, and while Brainiac’s influence on the Justice League remains to be fully seen, Superman alone poses a ridiculous threat to the squad. Even if they win, they still have the explosive devices in their head, and it seems that they have, as Deadshot highlights, a “one-way ticket.”

True to form for the Suicide Squad, sure, but the Gotham Knights trailer highlights how dangerous their mission is too. Nightwing calls the Court of Owls a myth before being told that, when going down this rabbit hole, there’s no coming back. Indeed, the Court unleashes a ton of Talons on the Gotham Knights characters, and it seems to be a desperate fight. Without Batman, the Bat-family is all that’s left to defend Gotham, and just as the Suicide Squad faces impossible odds in Metropolis, they do too in Gotham.

Gotham Knights vs. Court of Owls, Suicide Squad vs. Justice League

Obviously, the Court of Owls and Justice League are not that similar. One is a pseudo-Illuminati organization that runs the city, manipulating its politicians, criminals, and more. As the trailer so paints it, Batman and Jim Gordon were essentially allowed to exist, but they didn’t have the role in the city that they thought they did. Meanwhile, the Justice League is incredibly powerful and each member is being manipulated by Brainiac in his grand scheme, but both pose impossible odds for the heroes.

This may be a rather straightforward storytelling device, but it means that instead of playing heroes like Batman in the Arkham series or taking on Brainiac in a Rocksteady Superman game, players take on the roles of former underlings and criminals. No, there’s no disrespecting Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, King Shark, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, or Deadshot, but they’re all heading into a fight they can’t seemingly win. And that’ll likely make the superhero fantasy of each game all the better.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and Gotham Knights both release in 2022.

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