10 Reasons Batman: Assault On Arkham Destroys Suicide Squad
8. It Makes The Most Of Its PG-13 Rating
While it's fair to argue that the censorship standards for animation and live-action are absolutely not the same, there are many who feel that Suicide Squad's end-product felt rather neutered.
Violence isn't just bloodless as the PG-13 rating largely requires for live-action, but also generic and lacking the visceral brutality that, say, Christopher Nolan's Batman movies managed on the same rating.
Assault On Arkham, being an animation, can get away with a lot more, and the result is a film that lives up to the mature nature of the comics far easier. KGBeast and King Shark's heads both explode from the nano-bomb implants in fairly gnarly detail, and there's also a ton of semi-nudity from Harley and Killer Frost, if that's your thing.
Sure, having Harley in anything skimpier for the Suicide Squad movie would've been hugely controversial regardless of the rating (and rather unnecessary), but at least the animated equivalent ratchets up the brutality, as best evidenced by a brutal exchange near the end, where The Joker repeatedly stabs Deadshot with a pair of knives and bloody squibs spurt out.