With little than 2 weeks to spell earlier its release, Gotham Knights fans are being asked to dodge spoilers online aft a seemingly large leak. Some authoritative creation books for the crippled look to person shipped early, and astatine slightest 1 subordinate started sharing screenshots of the game’s alleged ending connected Reddit. At slightest 1 developer down the comic publication bushed ’em up has since reacted connected societal media with frustration.

“I can’t statesman to recognize wherefore would anyone spoil a communicative (whether it’s a game, a movie, a book, whatever) for others,” tweeted Fleur Marty, the game’s enforcement shaper astatine Warner Bros. Games Montreal, connected October 7. In summation to co-op multiplayer and Diablo-like accomplishment trees and loot, immoderate recent previews for Gotham Knights person pitched unraveling the enigma astatine the halfway of its communicative arsenic different large focal point. Now, with the authoritative artbook seemingly retired up of schedule, leakers are starting to spoil immoderate of those communicative threads online.

Spoiler Warning: We’re going to sermon 1 of the large evident reveals below. If you don’t privation to beryllium spoiled I’m not definite wherefore you clicked connected an nonfiction astir Gotham Knights spoilers. But decidedly don’t support speechmaking past this point.

The setup for Gotham Knights is that Batman has been killed successful a violent explosion, and his surrogate family, including Nightwing, Jason Todd, Robin, and Batgirl, are tasked with trying to regain power of the city, present nether siege by the Court of Owls. Bruce Wayne’s decease was teased successful the trailers and discussed aboriginal on. Creative manager Patrick Redding adjacent doubled-down connected that crippled constituent astatine San Diego Comic Con 2022, telling 1 fan who asked during a Q&A that yes, Batman really was dead.

But the evident creation publication reveals that’s not needfully the case. Screenshots of 2 pages making the rounds online uncover Bruce is really resurrected astatine immoderate constituent by Talia al Ghul utilizing the Lazarus Pit. Are you shocked? I cognize I am. The creation publication goes connected to item an evident brag combat with Batman wherever the subordinate has to dodge uninterruptible attacks portion besides utilizing code prompts to effort and bring a berserk caped crusader to his senses.

What happens adjacent isn’t precisely clear, and determination is already instrumentality disagreement. One mentation is that Batman dies erstwhile again portion trying to support his surrogate household from Talia. Another is that helium survives, allowing for immoderate absorbing possibilities successful the endgame and post-launch updates. It’s worthy noting, however, that Gotham Knights is not officially portion of the Batman: Arkham universe. That continuity volition re-emerge successful 2023’s Suicide Squad. In mentation then, WB Montreal tin bash immoderate it wants with Batman successful the Gotham Knights timeline.

A large imaginable spoiler for the game, it’s understandable wherefore developers would beryllium frustrated to spot their enactment leak retired of discourse up of the afloat game’s release. As a longtime Batman fan, and idiosyncratic who’s played the full Arkham trilogy positive WB Montreal’s Arkham Origins, it’s not astatine each astonishing that Batman does really look successful the crippled astatine immoderate point. WB’s Batman games person a past of hijinks similar these, and beloved comic publication heroes ne'er enactment dormant for long. Batman successful peculiar erstwhile propelled his consciousness done clip and abstraction aft being omega-beamed by Darkseid.

In the meantime, 1 of the users who posted the artbook screenshots connected the Gotham Knights subreddit has since nuked their account. The subreddit has besides banned each further spoiler posts, demanding users funnel them into a azygous thread. WB besides seems to person been palmy successful getting astatine slightest a fewer of the large YouTube videos initially discussing the leaks taken down. Gotham Knights was primitively expected to motorboat connected October 25, but successful an antithetic determination actually had its merchandise day bumped up a week early. Everyone volition present person a accidental to spot what happens to Batman for existent connected October 21.