Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League — Every Character Who Dies

As the title implies, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has many deaths. Of course, this suits the graphic nature of Amanda Waller and Task Force X, as fans have seen their violence on display time and time again in comics, cartoons, animated movies, and live-action films from Warner Bros.

In this case, it does hit home a bit more as Task Force X has to kill brainwashed iconic DC heroes. It’s part and parcel of them saving Earth from a Brainiac invasion. However, there are other characters who get brutally murdered in a high-stakes story that isn’t for the faint of heart.

9 Dr. Happersen Gets Blown To Bits

Dr. Sydney Happersen was one of Lex Luthor’s scientific cronies from the comics. Here, he is found trying to remove the neural bombs Waller placed in Task Force X’s heads. Waller eventually finds out, but before she can interrogate Happerson, he blows up.

It turns out, Luthor implanted a bomb of his own. He covers tracks in this gruesome scene, sacrificing his pawn and ensuring Waller can’t find and make him her slave. An enraged Waller destroys the tech, ensuring no one but her can free the Suicide Squad from servitude.

8 Lex Luthor Loses His Heart

Flash is the last of the Leaguers to get brainwashed and mutated into Brainiac’s hive mind. Reluctantly, Task Force X teams up with Luthor and battles the Flash out in the streets. Luthor eventually uses a stun bomb against the Scarlet Speedster.

They shoot up a bus with Flash inside, causing it to explode. But when it seems like they can celebrate murdering Barry Allen, Luthor sees a red spot on his chest and drops dead. Flash is spotted holding his heart up. He ripped it out like Kano’s Fatality from Mortal Kombat while joking, “What do you know? He did have a heart!”

7 The Flash Gets Gunned Down

Task Force X has tech that allows them to tap into the Flash comics’ Speed Force, courtesy of Toyman. It enables them to move at Barry’s speed and to spot him when he runs circles around them. A terrifying firefight ensues.

They end up shooting Barry, leaving him bleeding out on the ground. It has a tragic ring to it, though, because the game actually had Flash early on protecting Task Force X before Green Lantern kidnapped him for conversion. To rub salt in the wound, Captain Boomerang urinates on Barry and gloats over winning their rivalry.

6 Green Lantern Is Riddled With Bullets

The Suicide Squad has unique tools to combat Green Lantern (John Stewart) as well. They procure a Yellow Lantern battery that Batman developed in case he had to fight Green Lanterns. It nods to Bruce Wayne’s contingency plans from the Tower of Babel storyline.

This boosts and upgrades the team’s tech. They destabilize Green Lantern’s Oan constructs, rendering him vulnerable to attacks. They eventually shoot him up, with Deadshot applying the final bullet against a John he felt was too narcissistic. Ironically, King Shark would then use John’s ring to temporarily become a Green Lantern. He conjures a giant shark construct and breaks the shield on Brainiac’s ship, paying homage to the hero John once was.

5 Wonder Woman Gets Roasted To Death

Wonder Woman is the only hero impervious to Brainiac’s corruptive virus, probably due to her divine blood. She doesn’t want to kill her ex-colleagues, though. She thinks they can be saved, so she forges a shield with green kryptonite and tries to beat Superman into submission.

Sadly, the Man of Steel is no longer there. Diana tries to use the kryptonite shards from her shield to finally kill Kal-El, but he uses his heat vision to fry her. Weakened, he flies back to Brainiac, leaving Task Force X heartbroken as the Themysciran princess turns back to the clay she was formed from. As Diana blows away in the wind, the fatality impacts Harley tremendously. She did like Diana, after all, and was even inspired by the hero.

4 Tim Drake Was Murdered Off-Screen

Task Force X heads to one of Batman’s lairs to find weapons to kill Superman after seeing green kryptonite can’t work on his augmented body. They discover a hologram with the Arkhamverse’s Batman (voiced by Kevin Conroy) outlining how to take down the League. He is addressing his Robin, Tim Drake.

However, King Shark points out that he doesn’t think the Boy Wonder survived fighting the Dark Knight. He points to a bloody mask on the ground, insinuating the Caped Crusader murdered Tim. Bruce’s hologram is heard saying there is no anti-Batman plan. It gives him an intimidating vibe and plays on trust and betrayal in families.

3 Batman Is Shot Point-Blank

The Suicide Squad eventually captures Batman, allowing their secret ally — the Lex Luthor from Earth-2 — to use his blood. Luthor-2 creates gold kryptonite as a compound that can dampen Superman’s powers. They then leave Bruce on a bench out in the open as bait.

However, after he keeps taunting Harley over her failures and their past together, the jester loses her temper. She takes a gun and shoots Batman in the head. Murdering Batman like this has angered some fans who felt that Conroy’s Bruce deserved a better sendoff. But it makes sense from a tactical standpoint because Bruce was a genius who made Brainiac’s legion stronger.

2 Superman Is Shot And Sliced To Death

Thanks to the gold kryptonite, the Man of Steel is vulnerable to attack. When he arrives, the Suicide Squad uses their jetpacks, Speed Force tech, and guns to shoot him up. Boomerang even slices the Man of Steel to bits.

Seeing as he is basically human, Kal-El ends up on the ground. He bleeds out and dies, crippling Brainiac’s legion even more. Superman was the main enforcer, creating the opening Task Force X required. They can now hunt down Brainiac once and for all.

1 Brainiac Gets Stabbed In the Head

The big twist in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is that there are 13 Brainiacs enslaving various worlds in the Multiverse. The heroes teleport to Earth-2 to fight the one who attacked Earth-1. There, he combines with Flash’s DNA to become a Speed Force Brainiac variant.

Luckily, Task Force X is able to shoot him up and bring him back to Earth-1. Waller stabs him with a data spike in his head. It downloads all the data they need to hunt the Elseworlds Brainiacs down. Plus, it causes him to disintegrate, and his ships and soldiers to crumble. Waller takes pride in this kill-shot, but she is left worried, knowing her thinly-stretched team has other realities to save.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Microsoft Windows.