10 Wild Ideas For The Perfect Suicide Squad 2
8. The Suicide Squad Are Not Your Family
The 2016 movie has the field team trading snarky quips and getting closer, finally realising the mission’s true nature and collectively giving it a hard pass... only to have a dysfunctional bonding session in a bar and decide that they need to prove themselves, step up and go back to work.
But that’s not how the Suicice Squad concept operates. These people haven’t chosen to stand together. They’re violent criminals who’ve been conscripted to put their lives on the line by people that can’t be trusted; spooks who placed bombs in their heads and told them they don’t mean anything. They’re paranoid, resentful and angry.
They’re not family. They’re not friends. At best, they’re like cellmates: passive-aggressive bros that share cigarettes and call each other ‘homes’, but that wouldn’t cross the street to spit on each other if they were on fire. At worst, they hate each other.
That level of tension is what helps create the dramatic conflict: that barely concealed dislike and distrust is what keeps this loose alliance of scumbags and psychopaths alive when their handlers don’t care if they come home. They only person each of them can rely on is the one they see in the mirror.
You know what the 2016 movie gets right? When Boomerang persuades Slipknot to rabbit in order to verify whether the nanobombs in their necks are real and callously watches Flag blow his head off. That’s the Suicide Squad.