11 Ways Suicide Squad Needs To Set Up Future DC Movies

Here's the thing about Suicide Squad: it inherently messes up Batman's street cred by existing at all. He's supposed to be the World's Greatest Detective, and the very idea that villains that he had risked his life for to put behind bars (even if it's sort of implied that those bars are incredibly crap at their job) would be allowed out at all would be inconceivable to him.

But then he can't know, because he'd have shut it down, so you really have to preserve his ignorance if you want a franchise. So, that obviously poses a problem: you either have to make him look like a fool, or you make him look like he's been over-ruled by the government. The latter is equally inconceivable, so the only way to do it is to have a genius in charge of keeping the wool firmly over his eyes.

That also means the Squad can never operate in Gotham in the future (unless Batman is dead), but that's a trade off that's entirely welcome.

The Hints

If he knows, it wouldn't make a slip of sense. There's literally no way he'd allow it to happen, which is precisely why he can't find out either in this film or in any Suicide Squad sequel that the underground team are operating.