Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Tanks Even Harder After Mrs. Freeze Debut

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If you didn’t think Sweet Baby Inc., Rocksteady Studios, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League could be humiliated any further, hold onto your Harley Quinn baseball bat because they’ve hit a new low. The game’s Season 2 update launched yesterday, July 25, and the numbers were abysmal. On Steam, Kill the Justice League peaked at 572  concurrent players on Season 2’s launch day, according to That Park Place. That’s fewer players than it had at the end of last month and the beginning of this one, where it had 655 and 633 concurrent players, respectively. The game’s all-time peak concurrent players number occurred when it launched in February, and 13,459 people were playing; that’s a 95% decline from then to now. This indicates a downward trend that even new bells and whistles like a Season 2 and a new playable character can’t help, or even give a small, temporary bump.

And is it any wonder Season 2 didn’t help its numbers when the star attraction was “Mrs. Freeze”? You remember her, right? She’s the female multiverse variant of the classic Batman villain Mr. Freeze, the one who was rumored to be on her way at the end of May, all but confirmed when Warner Bros. began copyrighting the leaked images of her, and then officially announced a week before season 2 launched. Mrs. Freeze is not a variant of Nora Fries, Victor Fries’ wife, who became the supervillain in lieu of her husband, which would at least make some sense and be consistent with the Batman mythos (in a wacky “look what we can do with the multiverse” way). This character is Victoria Frias, which I assumed was a misprint of what was intended to be Victoria Fries, but everywhere I look, sites still spell the last name “Frias,” so I guess I gave them too much credit. (Or maybe this is intentional, and she’s Latina.) Victoria is a survivalist who is trying to heal her cryogenically frozen wife, who may or may not be a Nora Fries variant. (Nora Frias?) So, Sweet Baby Inc.’s contribution to Season 2 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was to pull a literal Kathleen Kennedy via South Park and put a chick in it and make her gay. And Rocksteady/SBI really want to make sure you know she’s gay, so they made one of her skins look like this:

How do you go from one of the greatest game developers to this LMFAO. This is going to be the last game Rocksteady makes. pic.twitter.com/nHkUB3pbna

— Melee Games (@MeleeGames) July 25, 2024

I’m scratching my head, trying to figure out why nobody wants to play this game. This feels like a legitimate attempt to sabotage Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League – or, rather, the latest part of a long, multi-pronged attempt that includes pretty much every aspect of the game. They not only gender-swapped Mr. Freeze, but they turned him into a ridiculous caricature of a lesbian, something you’d expect to see in a meme, not a game where the developers and DEI consultants are patting themselves on the back for their inclusivity. Aside from that cut-off rainbow cape, she’s got the double female sign on her pink pant leg, the rest of which is covered in snowflakes. I can’t imagine gay people are anything but insulted by this. And that makes me think that, aside from their nutty politics and social views, the activists in charge of entertainment are straight-up lunatics. No normal person creates something like this unless they’re trying to mock gay people, and I don’t think that was Sweet Baby Inc.’s or Rocksteady’s intention. That only leaves crazy as an explanation, and if they’re shocked by the reaction gamers are having to Mrs. Freeze and her zany new look, that only confirms it.

Keep in mind that Rocksteady made the Batman Arkham games. Their name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.