Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Suicide Squad Disbands
- Bloodsport (Robert DuBois) (First appearance) Joins and quits team (Origin revealed)
- Harley Quinn (Harleen Quinzel) (Leaves Team)
- King Shark (Nanaue) (First appearance) (Leaves Team)
- Polka Dot Man (Abner Krill) (First appearance; dies) (Origin revealed)
- Ratcatcher II (Cleo Cazo) (First appearance) (Flashback and main story) (Leaves Team) (Origin revealed)
- Sebastian (First appearance) (Leaves Team)
- Colonel Rick Flag (Death)
Supporting Characters:
- A.R.G.U.S.
- Briscoe (First appearance)
- Dale Biner (Single appearance)[1]
- Emilia Harcourt (First appearance)
- Flo Crawley (First appearance)
- John Economos (First appearance)
- Freedom Fighters (First appearance)
- Milton (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- Sol Soria (First appearance)
- Suicide Squad
- Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness) (Death)
- Javelin (Gunter Braun) (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- Mongal (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- Savant (Brian Durlin) (First appearance; dies)
- T.D.K. (Cory Pitzner) (First appearance) (Apparent Death)
- Weasel (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Corto Maltese government
- Starro the Conqueror (First appearance; dies) (Flashback and main story)
- United States government (Flashback and main story)
- Director Amanda Waller
- Blackguard (Richard Hertz) (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- Peacemaker (Chris Smith) (First appearance) (Origin revealed)
- Thinker (Gaius Grieves) (First appearance; dies) (Flashback and main story)
- Director Amanda Waller
Other Characters:
- A.R.G.U.S.
- Abner Krill's mother (First appearance) (Vision)
- Auggie Smith (Mentioned)
- Avral Kaddam (Mentioned)
- Belle Reve inmates
- Camila (Single appearance)[1]
- Clyrax (First appearance)
- Doctor Alandy (First appearance)
- Herrera Family (On a TV or computer screen) (Death)
- Joker (Mentioned)
- NASA (On a TV or computer screen)
- Nazi Party (Mentioned)
- Ratcatcher (Single appearance)[1] (Dies in flashback)
- Robert DuBois' father (Mentioned)
- Robert DuBois' wife (Mentioned) (deceased)
- S.T.A.R. Labs (Mentioned)
- Senator Cray (Mentioned)
- Shark god (Mentioned)
- Superman (Mentioned)
- Tyla DuBois (First appearance)
Locations:
- DC Extended Universe
- China (Mentioned)
- Corto Maltese
- Portugal (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Porto (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Igreja dos Clérigos (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Qurac (Mentioned)
- Russia (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Iron Heights Penitentiary Mentioned in a file
- Louisiana
- S.T.A.R. Labs (Mentioned)
Items:
- Javelin's javelin
- Peacemaker's helmet
- Kryptonite Bullets (Mentioned)
- Trick Boomerangs
Vehicles:
- Milton's minibus
- Sheba
Concepts:
- World War II (Mentioned)
Plot
Waller's distraction
From the black site prison Belle Reve in Louisiana, A.R.G.U.S. director Amanda Waller sends a Suicide Squad strike team, consisting of incarcerated supervillains who perform black ops missions in exchange for reduced sentences, to the island of Corto Maltese. The team, led by Colonel Rick Flag, is ambushed by the Maltese Army as soon as they arrive on shore, and all of them are killed, save for Flag, who escapes into the jungle, and Harley Quinn, who is taken prisoner.
Monitoring all of this, Waller sees that her second Squad, led by the mercenary Bloodsport, has safely arrived on the island, with the first team having been a distraction for the enemy. Their mission is to infiltrate the scientific experimentation facility Jotunheim, located in the Maltese capitol of Valle Del Mar, and destroy every trace of the mysterious and dangerous Project Starfish. On their first night, Bloodsport and the vigilante Peacemaker develop a rivalry over their differing ideologies and similar abilities, and they're forced to stop King Shark from eating Ratcatcher II.
Task Force X to the "rescue"
The next day, Waller directs the Squad towards a guerilla camp that Colonel Flag has been located in, and orders the team to kill all soldiers in the camp on sight. Bloodsport and Peacemaker turn it into a contest of who can make the best kill, and slaughter nearly all the soldiers before reaching Flag. As it turned out, Flag had not been a hostage, and this was a rebel military faction opposing the regime of Maltese dictator Silvio Luna. After the Squad awkwardly apologizes for killing the soldiers, the rebels reluctantly agree to help them get to Valle Del Mar.
Harley kills Luna
Meanwhile, Harley Quinn is cleaned up and dressed up to meet Luna, who is infatuated with her. She falls in love and the two spend the day together, but when Luna reveals he plans to kill children in the Project Starfish experiments, she's reminded of her abusive relationship with the Joker and shoots him. She is then captured by the Maltese forces and tortured by Mateo Suárez, Luna's right-hand man and successor.
Back with the Suicide Squad, Flag takes control of the team from Bloodsport. They learn more about their teammate Polka Dot Man before they meet the rebels' contact, Milton, who drives them in a minibus to Valle Del Mar. On the drive, Bloodsport and Ratcatcher bond on the bus before arriving at the club La Gatita Amable. There, they encounter and capture the Thinker, chief scientist at Jotunheim. Bloodsport, Peacemaker, and Flag are briefly captured by Maltese soldiers, and Flag learns that Harley is still alive before they kill the soldiers and regroup with their teammates.
Before they head on to Jotunheim, Flag makes the executive decision for the team rescue Harley first, though when they go to retrieve her the next day, they find she had broken free by herself. She joins the rest of the Squad to infiltrate Jotunheim. With the Thinker's help, the Squad breaks in and splits into two teams to plant explosives around the facility. Flag and Ratcatcher force the Thinker to show them the full extent of Project Starfish in the lower levels, while the others plant the explosives in the upper levels.
Peacemaker holds Colonel Flag at gunpoint
After he shows them the horrific experiments, the Thinker explains to Ratcatcher and Flag that the project's main subject, a giant starfish-like alien he named "Starro", had been discovered by American astronauts and the project was funded by the U.S. government. The Suicide Squad's true mission was to destroy all evidence of American involvement in the project, now that Corto Maltese had been taken over by anti-American warlords. Furious, Flag grabs the hard drive containing the evidence, intent on taking it to the press, but he's stopped by Peacemaker, the only Squad member privy to their real purpose.
Starro unleashed
At the same time, Polka Dot Man accidentally sets off the explosives too early halfway up the building, and Jotunheim begins to collapse. Flag and Peacemaker fight through the crumbling facility, until Peacemaker kills Flag. Ratcatcher manages to get the drive away from him, but Bloodsport makes it to them and shoots Peacemaker in the throat, incapacitating him. Ratcatcher gives Bloodsport the drive before Starro breaks free of its bonds, and bursts from the wreckage of the building as the Squad runs to safety. Starro unleashes spores that latch onto the faces of Maltese soldiers and citizens, allowing it to control them, and embarks on a rampage through Valle Del Mar.
Despite Waller demanding they leave the beast to its own devices, the Suicide Squad engages in combat with Starro. Aided by Waller's subordinates at Belle Reve, they manage to kill it, though at the cost of the Polka Dot Man's life. In the aftermath of the battle, Bloodsport blackmails Waller with the drive to let him and his teammates go free, and they're picked up by a helicopter that flies Bloodsport, Ratcatcher, Harley, and King Shark to safety.
Sometime later, Peacemaker is rescued and rushed to an American hospital. As punishment for their insubordination, Waller enlists two of her aides to join him on a new team run through the Task Force X program to endure a world-saving mission.
Cast
- Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn
- Idris Elba as Bloodsport
- Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
- John Cena as Peacemaker
- Joel Kinnaman as Colonel Rick Flag
- David Dastmalchian as the Polka Dot Man
- Daniela Melchior as Ratcatcher II
- Sylvester Stallone and Steve Agee as King Shark
- Agee also plays John Economos
- Peter Capaldi as the Thinker
- Alice Braga as Sol Soria
- Joaquín Cosío as Major General Mateo Suárez, Starro
- Juan Diego Botto as General Presidente Silvio Luna
- Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang
- Pete Davidson as Blackguard
- Michael Rooker as Savant
- Nathan Fillion as T.D.K.
- Flula Borg as Javelin
- Mayling Ng as Mongal
- Sean Gunn as Weasel, Calendar Man
- Storm Reid as Tyla DuBois
- Tinashe Kajese as Flo Crawley
- Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt
- Julio Ruiz as Milton
- Taika Waititi as Ratcatcher
- John Ostrander as Doctor Fitzgibbon
- Jared Leland Gore as Double Down
- Stephen Blackehart as Briscoe
- Mikaela Hoover as Camila
- Natalia Safran as Kaleidoscope
- Dee Bradley Baker, Crisp Rat, and Jaws as Sebastian
- Nick Padgett as Karma
Notes
- James Gunn pitched the title The Suicide Squad as a joke to Warner Bros, which they unironically loved. The original title Gunn had planned was Suicide Squad: Dogs of War.[2]
- The Suicide Squad was released in theaters and on Max simultaneously due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- The song "Rain" by grandson and Jessie Reyez, which plays in the film's trailers and when Bloodsport, Flag, and Peacemaker escape the military convoy, was an original song written for the film.
- Peacemaker was originally intended to die in The Suicide Squad, but once the film was completed, Gunn was given a chance to make the Peacemaker TV series, and so shot the post-credits scene of Peacemaker alive in the hospital at the last minute on the set of the show.[3]
Trivia
- Four characters from the comics make brief cameo appearances as prisoners of Belle Reve.
- The villain Kaleidoscope from Dial H for Hero appears when Amanda Waller takes Peacemaker and Bloodsport to Cleo Cazo's prison cell. Kaleidoscope was originally created by two fans, Chris Lawton and Nancy Mae Lawton, who wrote in to DC Comics and suggested the character for Dial H for Hero in 1982. The credits for The Suicide Squad give special thanks to Chris Lawton and Nancy Mae Lawton.[4]
- Batman villain Calendar Man briefly appears to taunt Polka-Dot Man. Special thanks were given to Calendar Man's creators Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff in the movie's credits.
- Flash villain Double Down makes a cameo standing next to Calendar Man and joins him in his taunting of Polka-Dot Man. The movie's credits also include special thanks to Double Down's creators Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver.
- Karma is seen standing behind Double Down for a very brief moment when Bloodsport asks Waller if he, Double Down and Calendar Man would be on the Suicide Squad team. In the comics, Wayne Hawkins/Karma was once part of Task Force X in Suicide Squad #58. Karma's creators Paul Kupperberg and Steve Lightle were given special thanks in the film's credits.
- The Squad's mission briefing in a theater with a projector is a reference to how Amanda Waller would often brief the team in John Ostrander's Suicide Squad.
See Also
- Characters from The Suicide Squad (Movie)
- Other things related to The Suicide Squad (Movie)
- Movie Gallery: The Suicide Squad (Movie)
Links and References
- None.
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks
- ↑ @djkevlar on Twitter
- ↑ Collider - Is Peacemaker Dead? James Gunn Explains Suicide Squad Credits Scene
- ↑ Johnston, Rich (6 August 2021). Kaleidoscope, The Suicide Squad Character Created By Two Fans In 1982. Bleeding Cool. Avatar Press.
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