11 Ways Suicide Squad Needs To Set Up Future DC Movies

On the eve of Suicide Squad's release, a lot of fans will have the reviews and that dreaded RottenTomatoes rating floating around in the back of their minds, whether they care to admit it or not. Hopefully, they won't ruin the experience for those who could have loved it (though if you're using reviews in place of your own opinions you probably don't deserve one anyway), but it's got to be a concern for Warner Bros.

Particularly after Batman v Superman suffered such a second week slump.

Regardless of the immediate reviews, Warner Bros and the DC fan army ought to be positive. The film is still tracking well at the box office, the Joker card is still marketing gold and talk of a sequel has already taken place. Given their plans for an Extended universe, and the need to integrate Suicide Squad within it (so it isn't just deemed a wildcard side-concern), you have to suspect that they've already got plans for the next steps.

Let's just hope they're seamless and feel earned.

Here are some last minute hopes for how Suicide Squad sets up the future of the DC Cinematic Universe...

It might be a perilous mission that the bad guys aren't expected to achieve (or else they wouldn't have been sent), BUT, killing off too many of the Squad would be disastrous for the sequel. There might be a raft of unused villains in Batman lore who could fill in, but starting an entirely new team for Suicide Squad 2 would mean having to devote the same sort of time to building the team and trading down on the charm built in the first movie.

So keeping at least a few of the core team around to fight again - even if they're made expendable in the sequel - is a no brainer.

Equally, the idea of killing nobody off is just as bad. A film called Suicide Squad, which positions itself as a superhero Dirty Dozen and then fails to deliver on the implied threat is a declawed animal.

The Hints

Well, according to the reviews, they don't kill anyone important off at all (or if they did, it's being kept extremely quiet since it's the kind of thing you'd stumble over if you spend any time on social media.) So they've probably gone a little too far, to be honest.