10 Wild Ideas For The Perfect Suicide Squad 2

Bit of a red herring in the header, there - no one’s suggesting that the movie ceases production, or that Task Force X itself should be disbanded. But the threat of being shut down constantly hangs over the Suicide Squad like the sword of Damocles, and it’s caused some of the richest storylines in the Squad’s history over the years.

Firstly, there was the uneasy alliance between Senator Cray and the Squad’s UNSC liaison, Derek Tolliver, to blackmail Waller into helping Cray get reelected. Waller had her own blackmail material ready to go, but neglected to inform Flag, who took it upon himself to go black ops on US politicians to protect the Squad, with tragic consequences.

Then there was the intervention of the Dark Knight himself. In one of the standout stories from Ostrander’s standout run, when Batman found out that a US government initiative was putting superpowered criminals back on the streets, he infiltrated Belle Reve to put a stop to the Squad, confronting them on their home turf.

Or there's the appointment of Waller’s replacement as director, revealed to be an actor paid by Waller to pretend to take her place while she continued to run the Squad from behind the scenes. When the Squad's next target exposed her ruse to the American public, Waller was on borrowed time, personally taking the Squad on one last ditch assassination mission to take out all of her enemies once and for all...