Suicide Squad: Ranking All 11 Characters Revealed So Far

With more than a year until David Ayer's supervillain team-up movie hits cinemas (and with leaks sprouting all over the place) the Fury director has bucked the trend of his DC directing stable-mates by showing what's under the skirt of his movie pretty early. So far, he's been drip-feeding, but with increasingly annoyed reactions to some of his characters leaking, he dropped an almighty amount of information in one go, revealing nine as yet unseen (mostly characters).

There are still holes to fill in: Viola Davis' Amanda Waller is still under wraps, there's no sign of whoever Common is playing and both Ike Barinholtz's Hugo Strange and Raymond Olubawale's King Shark are yet to rear their heads. In the case of the latter, that's probably because he's going to be mostly CGI, of course. Unless they have some seriously talented animal trainers.

But with eleven of the main cast (twelve if you include Scott Eastwood's as yet unconfirmed soldier role), there's a very definite sense of how Ayer's ambitious ensemble is going to look. 

In short, it's very much a case of The Expendables meets The Breakfast Club via Gotham City and Belle Reve prison. Quite how you feel about the film will probably be tied very closely with how you feel about that last sentence. But there are good points and there are disappointing ones (and some surprises therein), and there's very much an order of how good the characters look so far...

Look, it's clear they've been drawn to the New 52 version of Harley more than the older, "traditionalist" image of her as an actual harlequin, but that's not going to fly with every fan.

Clearly, Warner have tried to bring Robbie's Harley in line with the more modern version of characters that presumably influenced the Joker, but you have to wonder whether there was really any need to dilute her impact.

Ok, so she appears to have Quinn's irrepressible spirit (as far as her posing can transmit, anyway), but the visual references to her typical appearance are limited at best. It might be a great casting and a good character design, but it's not as Harley as fans will have wanted - in fact, it's a little more like Tank Girl than Mr J's beloved.