Suicide Squad: 12 Last Minute Concerns You Won't Admit
10. There Won't Be Enough Important Deaths
When Suicide Squad was announced, there was a distinct suggestion that we were going to see the comic book movie world's version of The Dirty Dozen. The cast might have been pretty starry, but the title (emphasis on the Suicide) and the concept surely meant we'd seen a similarly blunt portrayal of expendable evil characters.
In The Dirty Dozen pretty much everyone dies: they're the bad guys, it's not really something to mourn. The same should have been assured in Suicide Squad aside from a couple of big name survivors (Harley Quinn for the spin-off potential, Deadshot because he's Will Smith and at least one of the non-bad Task Force X members). But it's beginning to look like too many will survive.
We know Harley will survive because she's basically greenlit for a spin-off, Will Smith is still Will Smith, Katana actress Karen Fukuhara has mentioned that she wants to do a spin-off and The Joker is going nowhere. By the look of it, the characters who entered the fray with big Dead Meat signs on their heads will be the ones who bite the bullet, and that doesn't really fit the supposed stakes.