The Suicide Squad Cast Reveal - Predicting EVERY Character
2. Julio Ruiz - Doctor Light
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Up until Identity Crisis (which we'll just ignore for the sake of, well, ignoring it), Doctor Light was a villain played exclusively for laughs. He was a joke character, deployed against the Teen Titans more often than not, and years spent in that role eventually led him to the employ of the Suicide Squad.
In a mission to Apokolips, Light gets shot to death by a bunch of Parademons, soaring to the sky in what readers expected to be the figure's big turning point... only for it to be played ever-so-slightly for laughs and for the character to quite literally get sent to Hell.
Julio Ruiz, like others on the Squad's cast-list, doesn't exactly boast the most extensive filmography. However, he does have a similar beard to Light and it wouldn't be out of the question for Gunn to mimic this particular moment from the comics, given it happened around a similar time to the Ostrander-helmed books the director is said to be taking inspiration from.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and the Golden Age of Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled.
