Suicide Squad 2: 10 Things That Will Make It Awesome
8. A Smaller, More Street-Level Scale
The worst thing about the current glut of superhero movies is that most of them seem to have a similar third act - namely, the big, CGI villain hellbent on global destruction. Most recently, we've seen this in The Avengers and its sequel, as well as 2015's Fantastic Four. At this point, it's a bland cliché.
Disappointingly, Suicide Squad did little to shake this trope up. And even worse, the Enchantress and the world-destroying threat that she posed seemed a better fit for DC's other super-powered team, the Justice League. The whole point of the Suicide Squad is for them to be covert, and hidden from the public eye. Doesn't tackling such a high-profile mission go against the very reason for them existing?
It would've been far better, and far more fitting, to have them face a villain on a much smaller scale - think Daredevil fighting The Hand in Marvel's Netflix show, or Jessica Jones battling Kilgrave. An enemy on this smaller scale but still with grave powers and who is still a big enough threat to warrant calling on the squad, would be a much better fit for the supposed stealthy nature of Task Force X.