It's a shame to see what's happened to general nerd culture in society. From superheroes and comic books, to video games, to even tabletop games, corporations and their woke dipshit sycophants on social media, have completely invaded and conquered the hobby so many of us grew up on and loved.
Woke people take something popular, corporatize and sanitize it, take it over, then kick the true fans out in order to make it a tool for propaganda. "The Circle of Diversity." The latest thing they've taken a giant steaming shit on, is the DC Animated/Arkham Universe, in the latest Sweet Baby Inc woke propaganda dumpster fire, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, a shitty, wokefest looter-shooter game that sucks ass.
Okay, let's get one thing straight: The fuckin' Suicide Squad has NEVER been popular with DC fans. Ever! The Suicide Squad are DC's version of Miss Marvel: A shitty corporate-pushed entity no one has ever wanted or asked for. Miss Marvel (Kamala Khan) at Marvel, was pushed because of a rich Democratic nepo-baby working at Marvel Comics, Sana Amanat, and the character is literally a Mary Sue fan-fic of her, although she didn't write Miss Marvel herself. The Suicide Squad, however, were pushed merely for corporate reasons; as a way to maximize profits and bank off of villains not tied to the main DC heroes. So while pushing the Suicide Squad wasn't done to be woke, it was done in the most cynical, inorganic way.
I'm sure anyone who cares by now knows how shitty the Suicide Squad game is, but for those who don't know, the short version is, you play as unlikeable DC villain assholes, most of whom have no superpowers at all, and go around KILLING THE FUCKING JUSTICE LEAGUE. Even though you have no superpowers and you're the D-list supervillain lackeys. Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, and King Shark; those are the characters in order of popularity.
Some of you may have remembered the Margot Robbie Suicide Squad movies Warner Bros tried to make. Well, this game is even worse than that. They try to piss on The Flash's still-warm corpse, they shoot Batman point-blank in the head (as if his cowl wouldn't be bulletproof or as if he couldn't escape out of that situation,) and so on. ugly brown-skinned Wonder Woman gets a dignified death in this game though. And because it's a group of shitty never-has-beens fighting your favorite DC heroes, it's even worse. It's as bad as Abby in The Last of Us 2: having to play as a shitty woke character who kills your favorite characters.
And Sweet Baby Inc, the propaganda company that writes the scripts for these video games, was involved in this, that's the whole point of this. They want to metaphorically and LITERALLY kill your heroes. They are immoral scumbags, to a T. And I don't even believe in "good and evil," but I do believe in selfishness and destruction, which is what most other people would describe as "evil." They hate white men, they hate heterosexual and monogamous people, they mostly hate biological women, and so on. You know, woke. But the main thing about being woke is, they hate morality and ethics, too. And this game is a celebration of immorality and depravity. All it's missing is a group orgy and every character now being "bisexual" (which is just a Millennial buzzword for "gay" and always has been.)
And that's the point. They want to take away your heroes. Take away your role models. Take away your inspirations to be good and decent. It's called Demoralization and Yuri Bezmenov warned us about this forty years ago. The woke wants to DEMORALIZE us, and games like Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is how they do it. Just like they did with Saints Row 2022, and The Last of Us: Part II, and all the other shit games and movies and TV shows out there. This is all 100% intentional, and backed by companies like Blackrock and Sweet Baby Inc.
As a kid, I got into superheroes from DC. Long before the MCU, I was a DC fan. I went through my entire childhood on the DC Animated Universe, because I couldn't access or afford comics at the time. So from 1992 with Batman The Animated Series, all the way up to like 2005 with Justice League Unlimited, I was all apart of the DC Animated Universe (although we willfully ignore The Zeta Project, sometimes forget about Static Shock canonically being in the DCAU, and we're still upset we never got a Wonder Woman animated series.) So yeah, before the MCU, me and my late partner were huge DC fans and to see Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League shows how far DC has fallen. My late girlfriend was the biggest Batman fangirl ever and she got into Batman lore from the animated series, as well. She loved Batman, Nightwing, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn, the most. She even dressed as a different Batman character every Halloween. She passed away years ago, before woke became the monster its become now, but she would've hated what they turned Harley into.
Harley Quinn is perhaps the biggest example of the corporate wokefication of a character in DC. Harley Quinn started out on the Batman animated series as The Joker's obsessed girlfriend who was a young-but-gifted 25-to-30 year old Arkham Asylum psychologist, who The Joker gaslit and indoctrinated into becoming obsessed with. It was an interesting character dynamic. But... In the late 2000s, Harley started becoming this icon for trailer trash girls on social media. "I want a Harley-Joker romance." No one remembers that? I remember that. I remember Harley being co-opted by trailer trash women liking Harley. And while my deceased girlfriend liked Harley as a character, she never "saw herself" as Harley or could "identify" as her.
All of THIS is when the corporatization of nerd culture really began. It was 2007 to 2012, really. You could also call it The Big Bang Theory Effect. When corporations began to co-opt and take over nerd culture, and yes, The Big Bang Theory TV show is the worst and most blatant example of this takeover. But also, the Xbox 360 and Call of Duty are a part of it. Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a part of it. Dungeons and Dragons and Wizards of the Coast going super-corporate became a part of it. Star Wars being sold to Disney in 2012 is a part of it. JJ Abrams ruining Star Trek is a part of it. 2007 to 2012 is really when nerd culture went from being a niche for nerds and geeks, into being forced into the mainstream, by greedy corporations trying to make a buck. It's also when they started ruining Harley Quinn. And much of this all culminates into one series: The Arkham Asylum games.
While a lot of DC fans see the Arkham Asylum as a continuation/spiritual successor to the DC Animated Universe version of Batman (since Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Kevin Conroy, and Mark Hamill were all involved in the games, making them feel like part of the same universe,) it's also when DC started becoming mainstream and corporate and when they started ruining Harley Quinn.
I don't care what anyone says, but Arkham Harley is cringe as fuck. They actually started ruining Harley by the second Arkham game when they took away her red and black costume and gave her the pigtails. Didn't just modify the costume, but ditched it, entirely. In that game, she wore the "sexy nurse" outfit. Harley without the red and black (even if it's not the harlequin suit) just isn't the real Harley. And while many people liked that Harley, it set off the chain-effect of ruining Harley Quinn even more than the trailer trash girls who willfully wanted an abusive toxic relationship "like Harley and Joker."
This only continued as Warner Bros tried to push their uber-shitty, horrendous, fucked-up, godawful DCEU group of movies, aka "the Snyderverse." I personally fucking HATED Man of Steel, but I can forgive that, as about half of people hate it, while the other half like it. But everything from there on out... Oh boy. Yes, I can say that the DC Extended Universe of Zack Snyder movies were the biggest shit taken on DC heroes before Sushi Squad: Kill Your Game Studio. I've fucking ALWAYS hated the Snyderverse. Literally the only thing they ever got right was Henry Cavill as Superman. They then proceeded to fuck that up beyond all belief. And these cinematic abortions also gave us Margot Robbie Harley Quinn. And while I can't blame her for how shitty and woke the character is, and continuing that "appeal to trailer trash women" demographic in the 2016 Suicide Squad movie, I can blame Robbie for being too fucking lazy to do the Jersey accent Harley is known for.
So in short, we had DC gold from 1992 to 2005 with the DC Animated Universe (although I'm still pissed we never got a Wonder Woman animated TV show to complete the DC trinity.) And while they're not my favorite, we had the Christopher Nolan Batman "Dark Knight" trilogy in the 2000s. But then around 2012-2013, DC started going to shit with Man of Steel, Trailer Trash Harley Quinn, and other DC flops like the Suicide Squad movies. This isn't even getting into the comics, as they started going to shit in 2017-2018 with Tom King writing Batman (a whiny, soy, middle-aged dad with mommy issues, going through a midlife crisis and projecting all his personal issues onto Bruce Wayne, making Batman as whiny and soy as Tom King is.)
Although the second Arkham Asylum game was popular to a lot of people (it is a good game,) the third game kinda sucked. So aside from Batman: Arkham City and a few straight-to-DVD animated gems, most of the 2010's sucked with DC. It got shittier and shittier over time. And while Marvel were the first to go woke in 2014, DC soon followed and became woke themselves by 2018. And by 2020, we started getting shit like Gotham High, I Am Not Starfire, Gotham Knights the shitty WB Games title, and Gotham Knights, the shitty CW show.
Oh, and the entire fucking Arrowverse; almost forgot about that shit! There's goddamn six Arrowverse shows; I didn't even know that. Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, and Batwoman. And then there's "elseworlds" multiverse shows not connected to them, like Gotham, Superman and Lois, Naomi, Stargirl, Titans, Doom Patrol, Krypton, Gotham Knights, and retroactively, even Smallville. So 6 woke CW Arrowverse shows and another 9 DC shows unrelated to them. And out of 15 DC TV shows, a good 10 of them are complete dogshit. (Let's just say Arrow, Gotham, Superman and Lois, Doom Patrol, and Stargirl-or-Smallville are good enough to be "mediocre" and not outright garbage.) So FIFTEEN shows over the course of 23 years if you count Smallville, and two-thirds of them are low-budget dog turds.
While the DC Animated Universe ended, and the games were going downhill after the second Arkham game, and the movies were going to be ten years of a Jurassic Park sized pile of shit, many of us even forgot the shitty-ass Smallville/Arrowverse/Whatever-the-fuck-you-call-Gothamverse, was going on, in television. Of all of these shows, I've only ever seen Smallville and Doom Patrol. Never saw Arrow beyond the first season, never got into The Flash, and Gotham always looked too boring for me to get into.
So yeah, ALL OF THIS has led to DC's downfall. Warner Bros and Zack Snyder fucking up the movies, Greg Berlanti fucking up the TV shows, Brian Michael Bendis and Tom King fucking up the comics, Sweet Baby Inc. and Amy-Leigh Shaw fucking up the video games post-Arkhamverse and Harley Quinn, and so-on and so-on.
Like I said, corporations fuck up all these nerd properties and try to milk the cow dry, while also poisoning it with hateful woke propaganda. That is why you get a DC game in 2024 that has Harley Quinn shooting Batman in the face while complaining about "mental health issues he caused." It's a blatant and deliberate effort to ruin everything you love. To piss on your childhood like Captain Boomerang did to The Flash. And to kick out old fans in favor of woke shills who'll swallow "the message" at the expense of your company actually earning a profit. Not that it's about profit anymore; it's merely about the destruction of the old and forcing in the "new." And it doesn't matter if "the new" won't survive the next fiscal year; because DC is only one property.
The World Economic Forum, BlackRocks, and Sweet Baby Incs of the world, have you BY THE BALLS. DC is only one property that they've destroyed. But there's so many other franchises out there left to go. Spider-Man, the rest of Marvel proper, Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Terminator, He-Man, Scooby Doo, Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and so much more... And the real-life Hydra out there, is killing everything you love and cherish in nerd culture, until there's nothing left. Not even Nintendo and anime are safe. They're also coming for your fuckin' anime! Even your Japanese waifus aren't safe. Shitstains like Jamie Marchi and Monica Rial have already ruined Western dubbed anime. But they want the Japanese corporations to bow down, too. And before you know it, you'll have season 2 of Netflix Bebop and a Naruto series starring Jaden Smith.
They're going to try to fuck up all of it. And the only way these properties survive, is if we the fans, keep them alive. Because the corporations actively want to ruin everything you love. Don't let them. And don't let them tell you what's "canon" or not. These properties are metaphorically in our hands now. We have to protect them and keep them sacred. Because the corporate entities want to destroy them and demoralize you in the process until we have an entire generation of weak effeminate beta-men, angry useless shitty entitled bitchy feminist women, and mentally-ill transpeople and "non-binary" nutcases running the world. Don't let them take away your ethics, morality, hopes, dreams, and inspiration from you. Don't you fuckin' dare let them ruin your childhood, or anyone else's.
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