10 Most Heroic Things The Suicide Squad Have Ever Done

Everyone loves a good villain. Sure, they do terrible, terrible things - but in awesome, kickass ways, and generally with a damn good backstory to explain why. While seeing people do good is by no means bad in a comic, it can get stale pretty fast, especially with how cliche a wholesome good guy is in the realm of comics. So a team of villains forced to do good? Pure comic gold.

This is exactly what makes the Suicide Squad one of the most interesting teams in DC - all questionable, controversial film adaptions aside. Having characters who don't want to do the right thing makes for genuine suspense, because we can't predict how they'll behave. It also makes their moments of genuine, unforced heroism all the brighter, for showing it doesn't always take a hero to do heroic things.

Sometimes, this means some awful things happen - the team barely want to rescue each other, let alone random civilians. But between risking their lives, their sanity, and their freedom to do good, the motley crew of villains are heroic far more often than you'd expect.

Of the many members the Suicide Squad has had, Killer Croc is likely the most bloodthirsty of them all - a fact that is given away slightly by his name. These murderous tendencies don't stop him from doing some seriously heroic moments, however - the best being his rescue of a zoo's worth of mutant animals, who had been trying to kill him only pages earlier.

It's worth mentioning his bomb collar deactivates during this mission, meaning he could have probably escaped if he wanted to - but that saving the beasts was more important to him.

While this alone would suffice as a wholesome gesture, Croc also has a fairly epic heroic monologue at the scientists responsible, explaining he won't kill the creatures because he understands what it's like to be made into a monster by society. At an absolute minimum, the comic wins the awards for the deepest thing you have ever heard from a crocodile.

Also, the comic contains a panel of Killer Croc riding a mutant elephant out of a top-secret science facility, which is somehow even cooler than it sounds.