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in the first few mins when you first see batman harlley even says so. and then that whole place tells you
anything that happens in the DC universe game wise, movie wise and heck even comic wise can be altered, changed or edited.. So while it follows the Arkham games storyline, it doesn't mean WB couldn't release another Arkham game in the same universe and either retcon this game or pretend the other game happened in another of the billions of DC universes..
they left at the end of 2022. so they still worked seven of eight years on this game.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League features an original, narrative-driven experience that picks up the story five years after the events of Batman: Arkham Knight. Players who are familiar with the Batman: Arkham series will see some related narrative elements pop up in the game.
Straight from the Suicide Squad website's FAQ page.
Sorry bro, they own the IP and they say it's canon to the Arkham universe.
So far what makes it canon is
*Possible Spoilers*
* the opening scene when Waller goes to Arkham to recruit the suicide squad the gates to Arkham are the same exact ones scene when Batman is delivering Joker in the first game.
* Waller has all 4 members of the Squad in these stretchers to explain to them their mission. The room they are in is the very first room that Batman battles his first inmates in Arkham Asylum where joker first takes over Arkham.
* Same scene Boomarang gets into an argument with Deadshot and then after finding out he’s deadshot says “Deadshot is white.”
* First encounter with Batman happens in a the Batman Experence which is a Museum of the Arkham Trilogy (Origins not mentioned). In it you see all the concept art of the characters from the Arkham games and can hit a button. Jack Ryder proceeds to tell you about the events like for example besides each major character having a bio you can listen to you can see a cardboard cut out of Batman carrying a dead Joker out of the Theater and there will be a voice over from Ryder about what happened. The events of all 3 games is shown in this museum as well as explaining that few years after the events of Arkham Knight was when Batman met Superman for the first time.
* White Deadshot from Arkham City is displayed and interacting with it as Deadshot gets a special line of dialog indicating that the Deadshot in Arkham City and the Assault on Arkham animated film was an imposter.
* Waller gives all the Squad their outfits and for Harley she is given the Nurse Harley outfit from Arkham Asylum but then proceeds to dismiss it and instead go for something “more progressive for a woman” completely disrespecting better games before it (not to mention Harley in the Batman experence is her Nurse Cutout that as Captain Boomarang if you interact with he will also disrespect the poor choice in Harley’s wardrobe)
So regardless if you want it to be canon or not it is. I can choose to try to make this elseworlds but I can’t deny it’s still intended to be a follow up to Arkham Knight. How Batman met Superman is terribly explained and to me goes agaisnt the whole Knightfall Protocol and what the whole point of that was suppose to be. The game seems to want to give fans a love letter with the museum to the trilogy but also disrespect it with I’m guessing dialog added and forced by Sweet Baby Inc. obviously the whole Batman thing that makes Batman in this game completely feel uncharacteristic to the Arkham verse Batman in which if this game was its own thing i wouldn’t care about what they did with Batman as much but the fact this is the Batman we spent 5 games knowing a animated film and comic books of this version of Batman and it being in my opinion one of the most powerful versions of Batman to date be completely treated the way he does I don’t want to consider this canon either.
Gotham Knights deapite people want to hate on it I feel treated Batman with more respect. He died the way Batman would have died with a heroic sacrifice. Not only that he fought with himself to snap out of the negative effects of the Lazerous pits control which Batman will do. While Arkham Batman never once so far not have I seen in the leaks ever bothers to fight against Brainiacs control.
Also another thing I don’t see talked about either is the fact that Hall of Justice has Batman recording dialog to talk to visitors who are touring the Hall of Justice… so your telling me that the Arkham Batman decided to sell out by going into a recording booth to record messages for holograms for people who were going to visit the Hall of Justice? I mean that alone I can’t see the man who was brutal in previous games now selling his likeness and voice for tourists.
Like yes, they can say later it no longer isn't. But as of right now, it is.
The studio behind the game and the entire Arkham universe, said so and there are so many tie ins to Arkham as mentioned above.
It's okay that you don't agree where the story went, but you can't dissociate away the truth here.
Who knows, maybe when Suicide Squad 2: Suicide Harder comes out, you may enjoy the what they're doing with the story.
newsflash - you, the consumer, don't decide what's canon and what's not canon