14 Simple Fixes That Could Have Made Suicide Squad Awesome

The Problem

Ultimately, Diablo sacrifices himself in order to protect his "new family", despite there being absolutely no hint up to that point that he felt like he belonged to them. You know, since they kept shouting at him, calling him a pussy and him just generally wandering around the battlefield with no villains bothering to fight him.

The sacrifice ends up feeling hollow, because there's no way they deserved him giving up his life for them.

The Solution

Jettison the ridiculous contrivance that Diablo actually loved the Squad like a family. His whole arc is supposed to be about avoiding the ghosts of his past by moth-balling his powers and silently punishing himself for killing his real family. Why not have his death actually mean something to that arc specifically?

Diablo should have sacrificed himself by allowing the demon inside him to let loose completely and exploding, and his reasoning should simply have been to see his family again. Enchantress had just shown him his fantasy of being with them again, so it would have fit perfectly, rather than the awkward, out-of-the-blue revelation that he feels attached to this band of sociopaths and psychos.