The spine of many superhero team-upsbe it Avengers, Guardians, or X-Menis a group of clashing personalities having to learn to work as a team to achieve a common goal. With Suicide Squad, Ayer and his team subvert that classic story by placing the spotlight squarely on the villains, and forcing them to play heroes themselves. But this highlights something very important thing that they need to get right. Audiences need to feel something for these characters. Ayer will need to spin a common theme from his previous filmsbrotherhood and camaraderieand use that to unleash DCs freaks in a unique and well-expressed way that grabs fans and sets them up for his next task. Killing them off. It's rare for main characters in comic book movies to ever die, but in a movie where the title and idea both promise death, and so many of the actors play obscure characters, its safe to say that some of them arent long for this world. With that in mind, Ayer can kill off some of the characters youd expect to go. Even better, he can defy expectation and shock audiences by taking out a surprise lead or two before the movies over. In the end, Warner Bros. didnt back down from the title. They couldve named this movie Task Force X or simply The Squad, but nothey kept Suicide in the name. They stuck to their guns, and they did so for a reason. Suicide Squad needs to make audiences fall for this colorful band of bad guys, and then needs to live up to its titleby picking a few of them off.
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