The Suicide Squad Movies Should Always Have The Same One Villain

The Suicide Squad Movies Should Always Have The Same One Villain

The Suicide Squad movies had different approaches when it came to villains, but the films had a figure in common who should be the main antagonist.

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The Suicide Squad Movies Should Always Have The Same One Villain

The Suicide Squad movies should always keep one ultimate villain. Suicide Squad comics have a deep bench of characters to utilize, both when it comes to filling Task Force X and the team’s adversaries. James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad takes special advantage of this. Gunn adds unrecognizable DC villains for his film, giving the filmmaker freedom to create character portrayals from scratch. Suicide Squad stories have had a constantly changing roster for the team, allowing for many entertaining possibilities from film to film. As different personalities bounce off each other and new scenarios that allow for character debuts like fan favorites King Shark and Polka-Dot Man, the audience never knows who will come together for missions. However, while the team’s roster must be fluid, Task Force X’s primary villain should be unchanging: a fixed evil star the team and the audience long to defeat.

In 2016, David Ayers’s critically disliked Suicide Squad introduced Enchantress, a witch possessing June Moone. Enchantress’s vague plan and lack of personal connection to any Task Force X members rendered her appearance underwhelming. For the 2021 sequel, Gunn uses Starro, an advanced alien who has been captured and experimented on in secret. But Starro, it turns out, is merely a physical threat to the film’s existential one: the U.S. government.

There’s a character in the Suicide Squad universe who serves as the representative of the government, a character whose dark, albeit human power can act as a true counterpoint to Task Force X’s array of mutant freaks: Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller. She creates and controls Task Force X, putting bombs in their heads and threatening them with death at the press of a button if they do not comply with her orders. Introduced in Ayer’s film to the tune of Sympathy for the Devil, Waller is immediately a nefarious presence. In Gunn’s film, Waller forcibly recruits Bloodsport by threatening his teenage daughter with imprisonment and likely death. Her relationship with the squad brings the kind of personal stakes that could not be achieved with any other antagonist. She is the one true supervillain in the Suicide Squad universe.

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As a government agent, Waller’s cruelty brings realism and authenticity to a world populated by sentient starfish and demonic witches. Her position encompasses the kind of bureaucratic control that can never be toppled, certainly not through the kind of violence Task Force X is skilled at. Better yet, the extremes to which she is willing to go to achieve her goals a unique even within the system. Gunn portrays her as a lone wolf even among her own team. The employees in her control room knock her out when they realize she intends to let Starro murder everyone in the South American Nation of Corto Maltese.

The future of the Suicide Squad is bright. Harley Quinn is a pop-culture icon with a solo film. Peacemaker is getting his own HBO show. However, spinning off these individual characters gives them a brand identity away from the squad. Suicide Squad sequels need to be distinguishable as themselves, not just as Harley Quinn movies or Bloodsport movies. This is only possible through Amanda Waller’s presence. She is the glue that holds not just the team together but the entire film franchise.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/suicide-squad-villain-amanda-waller-always-why/

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