The Suicide Squad Trailer Breakdown: 23 Things You Must See

17. That'd Be Blackguard

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Joining Michael Rooker's Savant in incarceration, we get to see SNL favourite - and star of last year's impressive The King of Staten Island - Pete Davidson as Richard Hertz, aka Blackguard.

While there are clearly plenty of lesser-known comic book characters being brought to big-screen life in The Suicide Squad, one could argue that Blackguard is one of the most niche and unknown of the bunch.

Making his comic book bow back in 1986 as a villain of Booster Gold's, the rogue would eventually join the Suicide Squad for a brief period of time in 2008 - although that stint in Task Force X abruptly ended with Hertz's death.

For The Suicide Squad, Blackguard is set to be positioned as a hired gun who ends up needlessly ruining his own missions.

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