Batman: Arkham Rebels

Batman: Arkham Rebels is a direct-to-video animated superhero film which is part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies. It serves as a sequel to the 2016 film Batman: Bad Blood and the 2018 film Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay.

Premise
When the mysterious Arkham Knight emerges to establish a new order in Gotham and Arkham through iron fist, Batman and Deadshot must bring together a team with their allies to end their new enemy's tyranny.

Plot
In the docks of Gotham City, Batman intercepts Amanda Waller and her Task Force X Squad (consisting of Captain Boomerang, Killer Croc, Harley Quinn, Black Manta and their new leader Bane), who were on a mission to assassinate Black Mask and is gang and retrieve the weapons they stole. When a fight ensues, Deadshot also arrives and joins Batman's side as they destroy the weapons and apprehend Black Mask, foiling the Squad's mission. Just then, they are confronted by a pack of mercenaries led by a new vigilante with a militarized version Batman's armor calling himself the Arkham Knight. Batman and Deadshot are overwhelmed by the Arkham Knight, but they manage to survive an explosion caused by him in the docks while the Arkham Knight's soldiers apprehend Waller and her Squad and kill Black Mask as Arkham Knight voices his goal to establish a new order on Gotham City and Arkham Asylum.

A couple days later, the Arkham Knight's forces had managed to enslave most of the inmates of Arkham Asylum and took control of ARGUS as their leader is determined to eliminate Gotham's criminal underworld on a manner Batman swore to never follow. Little does the Arkham Knight know that Batman and Deadshot had convinced most members of the Gotham City Police Department, including Commissioner James Gordon, in forming a Resistance against the Arkham Knight's empire with Gotham's high-ranking reporter Vicki Vale acing as the vigilante hacker Oracle.

Vicki also manages to recruit most of Batman's close allies to join the Resistance, including the Bat-Family (Batwing, Batwoman, Nightwing, Robin and Gordon's daughter Barbara, who joined the family as Batgirl), Justice League members (consisting of Flash, Cyborg and new comers Green Arrow and Black Canary) and Raven. The heroes split up in multiple areas protecting the citizens and freeing all they can from the eyes of Arkham Knight's mercenaries.

Deducing that the Arkham Knight's forces control the city through high tech drones programmed to hunt down and kill rebelling world leaders and nuke the city, Batman and his teammates hunt and defuse the drones one by one. With the last drone defused, the Resistance members (with Raven's help) shelter the Resistance into a safe place and set out to battle the Arkham Knight's forces. On the middle of the chaos, Batman confronts the Arkham Knight himself, who reprimands Batman for "being so weak" when he chose to spare criminals rather than execute them.

Just as Commissioner Gordon arrives, the Arkham Knight reveals himself to Gordon's horror as his son James Gordon Jr., who was dissatisfied with the superheroes' no-killing policy and decided to take over the discontinued protocols to the U.S.A. army and the League of Assassins to begin a crime-hunting crusade of his own. After a brief fight, J.J. vanishes. Deadshot, Nightwing, Robin and Green Arrow set out to implant explosives in the Arkham Knight's weapon facility before they are attacked by the Joker and his gang as the Joker decided that he should let the Arkham Knight take control so that he and Batman may kill each other "like animals".

Just then, under Bane's orders, the Arkham Knight's soldiers attack and fire at both groups. Joker and his henchmen are shot dead, but the others survive and Deadshot is successful in detonating the bomb, destroying the arsenal while Vicki (thanks to a microchip implanted on the core of Arkham Knight's central computer by Batgirl) hacks the ARGUS tech and defuses the bombs implanted on the Suicide Squad members' necks. While the others retreat, only Bane remains loyal to the Arkham Knight and resumes to fight the Resistance until Nightwing and Cyborg defeat him.

After they neutralize the remaining militia, Batman and Deadshot face the Arkham Knight for one final showdown. Just as Batgirl (who had learned of the Arkham Knight's identity from her father) arrives and unmasks herself in front of him, the Arkham Knight, understanding the tyrannical monster he had become (not just for the criminals, but for his family as well), finally relinquishes his armor and equipment and surrenders. The remaining members of the militia and the Squad turn themselves in as James is sentence to prison in Belle Reve alongside Waller, who was exposed for her own involvement with the Suicide Squad members, whose existence is now public knowledge.

Barbara is comforted by Bruce and Zoe over James's condition as Alfred remarks to Floyd and Damian that despite James' madness, he was still her brother. As Batman and the others resume their roles in Gotham City, two delinquents fight over a stolen handbag in Crime Alley in the presence of a girl nearby before they are shot dead by a mysterious new vigilante in a red mask.


 * In a post-credit scene, Harley is residing in Arkham Asylum and breaks into Bane's cell holding the Joker's knife ready to avenge her "puddin'".

Cast and Characters

 * Jason O'Mara as Batman / Bruce Wayne, a wealthy socialite, and the owner of Wayne Enterprises who dedicates himself to protecting Gotham City from its criminal underworld as a highly trained, masked vigilante equipped with various tools and weapons. He and Deadshot are the leaders of the Resistance against the forces of the Arkham Knight.
 * Christian Slater as Deadshot / Floyd Lawton, an expert marksman and assassin allied with Batman and a former member of Waller's Suicide Squad. He and Batman are the leaders of the Resistance against the forces of the Arkham Knight.
 * Keri Russell as Oracle / Vicki Vale, Gotham City's high-ranking reporter allied with Batman. She is Bruce's fiancee and a high-tech watcher providing intelligence and computer hacking services to assist other superheroes.
 * Ashley Greene as Batgirl / Barbara Gordon, a new young Bat-based vigilante allied with Batman. She is the daughter of Commissioner James Gordon.
 * Toby Kebbell as Arkham Knight / James Gordon Jr., a Bat-themed terrorist who seeks to eliminate crime through brute force and iron fist. He is the estranged son of Commissioner Gordon and the half-brother of Barbara.
 * Stuart Allan as Robin / Damian Wayne, a member of the Teen Titans allied with Batman. He is the son of Bruce Wayne who was originally raised by Ra's al Ghul to become the new leader of the League of Assassins.
 * Sean Maher as Nightwing / Dick Grayson, the first young hero who took the moniker of Robin allied with Batman and a member of the Teen Titans.
 * Yvonne Strahovski as Batwoman / Kate Kane, a female Bat-based vigilante allied to Batman.
 * Chrstopher Gorham as Flash / Barry Allen, a founding member of the Justice League allied with Batman and Central City's main protector who can run in superhuman speeds.
 * Shemar Moore as Cyborg / Victor Stone, a founding member of the Justice League allied with Batman who operates with his robotic components which can interface Apokolipian technology.
 * Taissa Farmiga as Raven, a half-human half-demon witch and daughter of Trigon and a member of the Teen Titans allied with Batman.
 * Jonathan Banks as James Gordon Sr., the head commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) allied with Batman. He is the father of Barbara and James Jr..
 * Mae Whitman as Zoe Lawton, Floyd Lawton's daughter and a friend of Barbara.
 * Gaius Charles as Batwing / Luke Fox, the son of Wayne Enterprises executive Lucius Fox allied with Batman and a soldier clad in an advanced combat exosuit.
 * Alan Tudyk as Green Arrow / Oliver Queen, a new member of the Justice League allied with Batman and Star City's Robin Hood-influenced protector.
 * Vanessa Marshall as:
 * Black Canary / Dinah Lance, a new member of the Justice League allied with Batman.
 * Reene Montoya, a member of the GCDP allied with Batman. She has a very close relationship with Batwoman.
 * David McCallum as Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's loyal butler, chief of security and trusted confidant and a member of the Gotham City Resistance.
 * Danielle Nicolet as Amanda Waller, a corrupt agent of the CIA and the organizer of the Suicide Squad / Task Force X. Her Squad's members are reluctant members of the Arkham Knight's forces.
 * Tara Strong as Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel, a crazed supervillain and the Joker's love-obsessed henchgirl as well as a member of Waller's Suicide Squad.
 * Greg Ellis as Captain Boomerang / George "Digger" Harkness, a criminal of Flash's Rogues Gallery and a member of Waller's Suicide Squad.
 * Fred Tatasciore as:
 * Bane, one of Batman's foes allied with the Arkham Knight and the new leader of the Suicide Squad.
 * Killer Croc / Waylon Jones, a new member of the Suicide Squad and a supervillain who suffers from a regressive atavism which caused him to develop reptilian features.
 * Dave Fennoy as:
 * Black Manta, a member of the Suicide Squad and enemy of Aquaman.
 * Grid, a robotic doppelganger of Cyborg and a commander of the Arkham Knight's forces.
 * Steven Blum as Black Mask / Roman Sionis, a brutally sadistic kingpin in Gotham City's criminal underworld who has a fixation with masks.
 * Richard Epcar as the Joker, Batman's archenemy and a psychopathic supervillain.

Continuity to other DC Animated Films
The film is another sequel to Son of Batman, Batman vs. Robin and Batman: Bad Blood, but it also shares continuity with other films in the franchise.

Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay

 * Deadshot's nano bomb is revealed to have been defused by Cyborg shortly after he accomplished the mission Waller sent him and the Squad for.
 * The film is set about five months after the end of Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay. This is because of the moment Waller is taken to prison in Bele Reve for one year, on which Deadshot remarks that Waller would die in the very first month, hinting his awareness of Waller's terminal disease.