Rocksteady's take on DC Elseworlds means anything goes
Why is Suicide Squad's Joker DLC getting HATE?
by Michael McWhertor
Rocksteady Studios' Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will send DC villains Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn and King Shark on a mission to put a bunch of good guys out of their mind-controlled misery next month. But the Suicide Squad team won't be limited to just the four playable characters; The Joker is next, and he will be brought back to life thanks to Rocksteady's use of the multiverse – or as DC Comics has called it for the past 35 years, Elseworlds.
Batman fans will remember that Rocksteady's version of the Joker from Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City is dead in the Arkhamverse. The Joker coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League comes from an alternate world where he "hadn't reached supervillain status before Brainiac invaded" his world, Rocksteady explained in a new video. He is younger, "precipitated in a different way" and more of a team player, as he was a member of the Suicide Squad in his world.
