One of the boldest moves Rocksteady made when it unveiled its Suicide Squad game after years of rumors was its subtitle: this was going to be a game about you, as players, fighting and being forced to slaughter DCs finest heroes, before Braniac could puppet them into being his own deadly occupation force. ThenSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League actually came out, and pretty much no one was happy. Now, weeks before its first anniversary, the live-service game is going out with well, not really a bang, and barely even a whimper. The base version ofKill the Justice League climaxed with the death of Superman and Wonder Woman alike, as the titular team braced themselves for Brainiacs defeat and the realization that there were dozens upon dozens of alternate realities with their own Braniacs under threat for them to save, setting up the games live-service structure for months to come. But then Kill the Justice League faced a critical drubbing and dire sales, leaving Rocksteady scrambling to offer fixes alongside its planned rollout of future contentcontent that came to an end this week with the games eighth and final major update, just two weeks before the game would celebrate its first anniversary. That would already be not-great if Kill the Justice League stuck any kind of landing, but instead, its final story content revealed that the whole thing had been kind of a pointless hoodwink. The story content of this weeks eighth episode ends with the defeat of the final Braniac variant in the multiverse at Taskforce Xs hands with a little extra help from Superman and Batman, who it turned out hadnt been killed during the events of the main game. Instead, those deathswhich sparked a sea of controversy at the time, when it was believed that Kevin Conroys portrayal of Batman inKill the Justice League would be his final posthumously released performance as the Dark Knightwere that of clones. On the one hand, players who actually stuck around shouldnt be surprisedprevious updates had seen Harley, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and Deadshot already liberate Green Lantern and Flash from Braniacs clutches after their own apparent deaths, traveling to alternate worlds and putting them in stasis, so the revelation that Batman and Superman were also clones is not that surprising. And yet, it means that players whove stood by Kill the Justice League at its lowest points have been rewarded with the realization that they never actually got to, well, kill the Justice League. The only casualty by the end of all this is actually Wonder Woman, who had avoided Braniacs mind control in the initial game, only to be killed by (the newly revealed as a clone) Superman.And so,Suicide Squad ends with Taskforce X and the Justice League going their separate ways: the League staying behind to atone for their crimes by monitoring the multiverse to finish off any lingering Braniac threats, and the Suicide Squad, freed from Amanda Wallers embedded explosives, finding their own tiny pocket of the multiverse to go celebrate and hang out in. But to end it all this wayan animated slideshow cutscene and a casual, flippant explanation from Harley Quinn via voice over that covers the clone reveal in half a linespeaks to just what a miserable conclusion this all turned out to be, for what was meant to be the long-awaited future of the Batman Arkhamuniverse. At least theres some heroes alive now that they can all carry on with, if that future ever arrives? Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.