In June 2021, the game's developer NetherRealm issued an apology after it received backlash from the community over its special event in celebration of Pride Month in the mobile port of Injustice 2. The event's challenge was for players to defeat Poison Ivy, a character who identifies as bisexual, hundreds and thousands of times to unlock prizes, a task which was deemed to be tone-deaf by the community. In their apology, they acknowledged that the challenge was "insensitive and inappropriate" towards victims of real-life violence against the LGBTQ+ community, and vowed to commit themselves to improve their ethics.