14 Simple Fixes That Could Have Made Suicide Squad Awesome

14. Make The Joker The Main Antagonist

The Problem

The Joker doesn't matter. Like at all. He's just there as a side-concern, whose importance was mostly removed in the over-zealous edit.

The Solution

Give him the top-billing he deserves.

It is preposterous to think that Ayer had the Joker at his disposal and chose instead to focus on a nefarious plot by Enchantress to reunite with her brother - a non-entity and mostly unheard of comic book villain - to get revenge on humanity for some reason or other. Whatever, it doesn't ring true.

Here's how it should have gone: Enchantress should have started as a member of the squad, rather than having Waller drop the ball and letting her escape, only for the Joker - still on a mission to reunite with his love - sabotages her from within to destabilise her. He already worked his way in with Griggs, but that ended only with a mobile phone being passed on - stupidly in other words. He should have been used to steal Enchantress' heart to give to the Joker, a far better story.

The Joker should have been the mastermind, pulling the strings to manipulate Enchantress into becoming a massive threat as a distraction to getting his Harley back. That would have removed the importance of Incubus (which the script never followed through on), would have removed the need to give Enchantress some hollow motivation, and would have celebrated The Joker as he deserved. It would also have actually validated his being there.