10 Wild Ideas For The Perfect Suicide Squad 2

Unfortunately, another casting rumour indicates that Margot Robbie will be back in Task Force X as the cheerfully loopy Harley Quinn, the Joker’s (former?) main squeeze.

It’s true that Robbie was fantastic in the role in Ayer’s Suicide Squad, despite the cheesecake clothes, and the character is due to front the Birds Of Prey movie next February, a flick which is already getting phenomenal word of mouth despite still being in post-production.

With Harley rotating towards being more of an anti-hero than an out-and-out villain, it makes little sense to have her return to the fold in the Suicide Squad. Indeed, it makes little sense to have her on the team regardless of whether she’s reformed.

Harley Quinn is a loose cannon: a mentally unstable psychiatrist-turned-gangster. Her value as a field agent for the Squad has always been questionable - what can she do that a special forces soldier can’t do better? - and she’s far more likely to be a horrendous liability, go off the reservation and do her own thing rather than stick to the mission.

Not only that, but she’s loud, brash and multi-coloured from top to toe - hardly covert operation material even if she can keep it together and hold to the plan. No, the Suicide Squad doesn’t need Harley Quinn... but there are any number of female badasses (with powers! or specialist weapons!) who could easily replace her (Duchess, Vixen, Nightshade, Killer Frost, to name only a few).