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Compare the endgame credits of this game and the previous trilogy. NONE of the devs from Arkham are there anymore. This new Rocksteady are full of purple-haired diversity hires and same minded individuals. Oh and Sweet baby inc.
We're friends now!
They could have made so many other DC games and stories, but if you have followed the woke trends of modern entertainment it's very easy to understand why they choose to make this particular story.
If you take Superman, and brainwash him, or otherwise make him evil, that doesn't attack the values Superman stands for. Didn't see anyone calling Injustice woke for turning Superman evil there (there's a Godwin's Law joke hiding in here, maybe you can spot it yourself).
If you take Batman and brainwash him, you get a story set up in Arkham Knight directly (when he refuses to quarantine himself and fights Robin over it, Robin points out that if Batman goes evil, he's gonna be unstoppable), but nobody called Arkham Knight woke, last I checked. Also, a huge chunk of Batman-specific storylines in this game is about how he foresaw the whole thing and still boldly went into the trap with his friends (kinda reinforcing the narrative from Arkham Knight and City that it is dangerous to be Batman's friend) but also left a last will just in case.
If you take Flash and brainwash him, you're gonna stop and wonder why are we reaching this far because the character was never in no way about masculinity to begin with. You're just speaking in MRA dogwhistles now.
Look. If you see a vast political message hidden in the idea that superheroes can be suborned, have fun with that.
I see generic comic book plot #2 because it's THAT ANCIENT (nobody remembers the Avengers came together as a team to stop a Hulk rampage) that is universally resolved by everyone getting unbrainwashed, resurrected, making up and having apple pie together, and the game's plot has clues that these aren't even the real Justice League members strewn liberally throughout it, and the leaks have confirmed they're bringing everyone back eventually, which also kinda breaks your theory.
They bungled a plot twist by making the "oh noes, an irreversible thing happened" (also by reusing one they already did in Arkham Knight with Oracle) take too long to resolve. That's on them.
You acting like it's an act of war on meninity is entirely on you.
If they didn't kill all the male heroes in very disrespectful and anticlimatic ways and only choose to give wonder woman an honourable death then you might have had a point, but that is not what happened.
The writers even felt the need to praise the amazonian society for getting rid of all men and "toxic masculinity" so if you don't believe that the writers made the premise of the game to be able to kill and humiliate the heroes that a lot of boys grew up to idolize, then your just being ignorant to the obvious truth.
Rocksteady: *nothing but a hollow husk*