Tear Jerker / Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

• To many fans the fact that the goal of the game is to kill some of the greatest heroes of the DC Universe in order to save Metropolis and by extension the world.
  • Worse due to the fact that Batman is among the leaguers controlled by Brainiac. It was thought by many fans that Bruce was gone after the end of Arkham Knight, only to have to fight him and potentially kill him in this game. Considering Arkhamverse fans have played as Batman/Bruce for 7 years, the facts that he is among one the targets and this being one of Kevin Conroy's final roles before his passing makes it doubly sad.
• The holographic presentations by the Justice League shown in the Hall of Justice. Through each of them we see that the Leaguers were good people who simply want to use their powers to help and are now being forced to control and kill the very people they swore to protect. Makes you wonder if the Squad is able to free the mind controlled League will they be able to live with themselves knowing what they were forced to do.
• When Wonder Woman (the only leaguer who seems to have escaped Brainiac's mind control) manages to subdue the Flash, she uses her Lasso of Truth to get him to tell her how she can stop them and save them. Flash's answer?
  Flash: You have to kill us Diana… we have to die to save the world.
• Making it worse is that from what we’ve been shown the mind control didn't get all the leaguers it happened seemingly one by one as shown when Flash inadvertently saves the team from being taken to Brainiac by Green Lantern telling Stewart that the league "don't leave a man behind" before facing off against him.
• Waller giving Diana the brutal truth of the League's actions.
  Waller: We trusted you. Let you live amongst us. And now your friends are slaughtering the very people they swore to protect.
• Flash can be heard breathing raggedly and his smug chuckle weakening just moments before he is finally taken out.
• Harley ends up shooting Batman. For a very brief moment at the end of the scene, once the gun goes off and Batman is dead, Harley genuinely looks sad, no doubt reflecting the reaction of the player. Remember, this is the Arkham Batman, a Batman we knew and loved for over a decade, one whose journey we followed for four whole games, dead at the hands of one of his rogues. The somber rendition of his theme music is the final twist of the knife.
• This game's version of Toyman is The Justice League's number one fan and reverse engineered Lex's Anti Speed Force tech just to keep Flash still long enough to get an autograph, yet his tech ends up helping you kill his idols. Even after he accepts that it was For the Greater Good he is distraught about it.
  • During one mission with him as your Voice with an Internet Connection if you get too far from the objective he starts Inelegant Blubbering. It is painfully clear the guy needs affection and friends really badly.
• Diana goes down fighting Superman, successfully stabbing him in the chest with a big chunk of Kryptonite. However, it's not enough, and he blasts her with enough heat vision to incinerate her, and it only benches him for a while as he flees back to Brainiac's ship. Diana's last words are her begging the Squad to prove her wrong and step up to the task of defeating the remainder of the League and Brainiac.
  • When the rest of the Squad goes back inside the Hall, Harley is still left on her knees over Diana's remains.
  Harley: You died as you lived, doll. Looking sharp, and not listening to any of us.
  • Even the other villains feel this one, as Gizmo requests a moment of silence for Diana, and Officer Cash agrees.
• Although the game ends in the Suicide Squad's favor as well as the demise of the original Brainiac, it also ends with the entirety of the Justice League dead and Metropolis' population completely wiped out from the invasion.
• There's something deeply sad about how the Justice League were brainwashed. While most of the team were suspicious of the new alien, Superman successfully convinced them to not prejudge Brainiac and meet him peacefully for negotiations. It's a very Superman commitment to trust and peace...that left his home city devastated, his friends dead, and him corrupted into the monster he was always terrified of becoming.
• The Stinger featuring Lois Lane making a tribute to Batman, which turns out to be just as much a tribute to Kevin Conroy as it is to Bruce Wayne.
  Lois: Metropolis, this is Lois Lane. From all reports, it seems that Batman is...gone. As Batman, and as Bruce Wayne, as everyone knew him. Everyone knew his voice. Always prepared, he left a communication with the Daily Planet in the event of...(Beat) Well, it reads "When I put on the cowl, I became a symbol. But I never stopped being Bruce Wayne, citizen of Gotham. Remember that we are all handed adversity in our lives. No one's journey is easy. It's how we handle that, how we help others, that makes us unique. That's what the Batman will always stand for." Metropolis, we'll get through this. And Batman, goodbye. You will be missed but never forgotten.
  Thank You, Kevin