Suicide Squad: 10 Lessons It Can Learn From Assault On Arkham

3. Avoid Setting Up Future Films

One of the biggest failings of Batman V Superman was how it was forced to spend so much time on set up. It was so occupied with paving the way for the DCEU that it had trouble piecing together a coherent and memorable story for itself. Suicide Squad should be the complete opposite of this. DC needs to let the film tell its own contained story and not bog it down with pressure to set up a solo Batman outing or some such sequel. Assault On Arkham did a great job with presenting a narrative that had a beginning, a middle, and an end. There were no loose plot threads and no time spent at hinting at future animated films in the series. Nevertheless, it gave places to take the characters should they be revisited and there was still room for a sequel should they have wanted it. Suicide Squad could do itself a lot of favours by following this template, the real question is if DC will let them.