What Happened To Every MAJOR Character Who Joined The Suicide Squad?

1. Katana

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Although the 2016 Suicide Squad movie would probably lead most to believe that Katana has been a long-running member of the Suicide Squad, she's actually more synonymous with another DC super-team: the Outsiders. Still, she has crossed paths with the Squad before, only joining them permanently in the pages of DC rebirth from 2016 onward.

The first time Tatsu encountered Task Force X came after working with the Outsiders in Markovia, a fictional DC country situated in eastern Europe. She helps the Squad stop a shipment of weapons destined for the Yakuza, but she wouldn't actually take active membership with the group until decades later.

As in the film, Katana gets appointed as the team's co-leader by Amanda Waller, working alongside Rick Flagg to keep the rest of the team in check. She's active during the aforementioned business with Zod, and even plays an active role during the Justice League vs Suicide Squad event, where the two teams join forces to take on Maxwell Lord.

Katana's final mission with the Squad took place in Russia, where Amanda Waller got infected by an alien virus. She has to convince Boomerang and Deadshot not to make a run for it, and uses Soultaker to pretty much save the day. Not bad going, given she hasn't been with the Squad for that long in the grand scheme of things.

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1. Who Oversees Task Force X?

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.