10 Wild Ideas For The Perfect Suicide Squad 2

Having said all that, historically the Squad hasn’t always featured out-and-out villains. The comics have frequently had superheroes and vigilantes volunteer to work with Task Force X: characters like superspies Nightshade and Nemesis, the superhero Vixen, former assassin Bronze Tiger and extradimensional fugitive Rac Shade.

Needing government resources or intelligence for their own reasons, and working with the Suicide Squad as payment for those services, their job is to keep the criminal element in line and on mission - although their participation is voluntary and it’s made clear that Amanda Waller barely trusts them any more than she does the bad guys with bombs in their heads.

Without that useful dynamic, it doesn’t matter how alpha male Rick Flag is, or how scared they are of those bombs - at some point, the criminal element are going to make a play for freedom.

For storytelling purposes, it also means that you get to give the audience relatable, humanised characters to root for, allowing that criminal element to remain their gloriously sociopathic selves - compelling ciphers to mount plot points and set-pieces around.

This is something Ayer’s movie pays lip service to with the addition of Katana to the team as Flag’s bodyguard, and it’s something any sequel should lean into hard, as a vital part of the story.