Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League gameplay was shown recently during The Game Awards 2021, and there’s a certain moment in the trailer featuring King Shark that seemingly emulates a moment from James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad movie. King Shark is along for the ride in KTJL’s story with fellow antiheroes Deadshot, Captain Boomerang and Harley Quinn, making up the infamous Task Force X commanded by Amanda Waller. The mission given to the team looks to be an especially daunting task from the footage shown, as the Suicide Squad must band together to save Metropolis and bring down Brainiac, his alien forces, and the mind-controlled members of the Justice League.

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When The Suicide Squad movie came out this year, comparisons of the characterization of individual characters between the film and SSKTJL started to emerge. There are key differences between the Kill the Justice League King Shark and the Suicide Squad movie’s, with the DCEU adaptation of the character being a lumbering villain played for laughs. Rocksteady’s King Shark, on the other hand, harkens back to the character’s depiction in DC comics, mixing menace and humor in spades while displaying a higher level of intelligence than his movie counterpart.

In the new Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League trailer shown at The Game Awards 2021, fans were given a more in-depth look at how each character will play. Deadshot maintains his natural marksmanship abilities, Harley uses a grappling hook and her trusty bat/gadgets to dispatch foes and Captain Boomerang zips around the city with his speedster abilities while throwing his boomerangs far and wide. King Shark looks to have an incredibly diverse skill set as well, operating as both a melee-focused character with unique blades while also having long-range suppression capabilities, boasting a massive minigun strapped to his back.

KTJL’s King Shark Eats People Like In The DCEU Movie

The Suicide Squad game’s King Shark is a far cry from the character’s depiction in The Suicide Squad movie, which saw King Shark as a fully hands-on brawler that tore through his enemies with his teeth and clawed hands. No weapons were ever used by King Shark in the movie, which could have been heavily influenced by James Gunn’s choice to make Nanaue more of a dumb grunt for laughs. While the two different characterizations of King Shark may present different fighting styles in their respective Suicide Squad adaptations, there’s one character trait that Rocksteady’s adaptation shares with James Gunn’s: a penchant for eating bad guys.

There’s a moment in Suicide Squad: KTJL‘s gameplay trailer that shows King Shark singling out a lone member of Brainiac’s alien army, exclaiming “there’s no escaping my wrath”, before sticking the alien’s entire head in his razor-toothed mouth and biting down. The camera pans to the shadows of both King Shark and the alien on the wall behind them as he brutally mauls the enemy, and the sequence ends with Captain Boomerang giving him a high five for his mid-combat snack. The moment is extremely familiar to those who have seen The Suicide Squad film, as there are several occasions where King Shark eats bad guys whole to brutal effect.

What remains to be seen is how gruesome Rocksteady gets when depicting King Shark eating his victims. It’s a fair assumption that KTJL will earn a Mature rating, as the footage shown by Rocksteady so far looks to lean into the debauchery of the villains that should allow the developers to fully capture the essence of the Suicide Squad as the Justice League’s heroes. Seeing King Shark maul his enemies with blood and gore would be incredibly satisfying for DC fans, playing into the brutality of the antihero within the context of a“superhero video game. Hopefully, there will be many instances in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League where King Shark gets to digest his victims, and maybe fans will get to hear a “Nom Nom” as an ode to his Suicide Squad movie appearance.

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Mason is a freelance Game Features Writer for Screen Rant with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Media from Wingate University. Being involved in video game journalism has always been a goal of Mason’s, and being able to contribute his gaming knowledge to Screen Rant is a dream come true. Working out of North Carolina, Mason spends his free time trying to catch up on his backlog of games or finishing one of the 10 TV shows he’s currently watching.

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