Suicide Squad's Extended Cut: 8 Problems The Movie Needs To Fix

3. Enchantress's Powers Were Poorly Explained

Suicide Squad Enchantress
Warner Bros.

Unlike your regular run-of-the-mill villain - whose powers are definable and abilities usually simple to quantify - Enchantress, with all her spells and incantations, lacks an easily distinguishable set of limits. Because she's magic, we don't really know the full extent of her powers, and that's problematic.

Worse, Suicide Squad never even attempted to explain what she can and can't do, and that left her skillset feeling quite hazy. If she's so powerful, why can't she just destroy the squad with a wave of her hand? Why can't she just teleport her heart back to her? Again, the trailers showed a bunch of axed scenes that could've helped here.

There was a shot of June saying "let's do something fun". Fun with her abilities, perhaps? Did she use/explain more of them in this scene? Or, perhaps the feeling of love can suppress her magic, and it's her connection to Rick that's holding back her powers? We see a couple of shots of the pair getting rather close, so at the very least there was more to their relationship than in the finished film.

It's a lot of assuming, but that's all we can do when we don't have all the information. What we do know is that Ayer shot a lot of June/Enchantress footage that he never used, and these scenes could fill in the missing pieces. This may make the villain feel like more of a threat - if we know what she can do, we know what she's capable of, and that's more compelling to watch.

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