The Suicide Squads Ratcatcher 2 Wants to Return as a True Villain

The Suicide Squad’s Ratcatcher 2 Wants to Return as a True Villain

The Suicide Squad actor Daniela Melchior wants her character Ratcatcher 2 to return to the DC Extended Universe with a true supervillain debut.

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The Suicide Squad star Daniela Melchior would like to see Ratcatcher 2 in more of a villainous role.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Melchior was asked what she would most like to see from Ratcatcher 2 in potential future DC projects. “She had the opportunity to talk about her father, so I would love to see a little bit more about it,” Melchior said. “But I would love, also, to see Ratcatcher learning from, I don’t know, why not Bloodsport? How to shoot a gun, how to fight with someone, I would love to see her debuted as a supervillain for real.”

Melchior portrayed Cleo Cazo/Ratcatcher 2, the daughter of the original Ratcatcher (portrayed by Taika Waititi in the film) who has the power to control rats. She also uses a filtration mask during her time in the sewers in order to remain unaffected by the fumes. While she is one of the villains recruited for Task Force X, she is mostly a sleepy “millennial” who loves her pet rat, Sebastian, and develops a strong friendship with Idris Elba’s Bloodsport. Prior to the film’s release, writer/director James Gunn revealed that they had auditioned “hundreds of actors from across the world” to play Ratcatcher 2 before landing on Melchior.

The original DC Comics Otis Flannegan/Ratcatcher was a supervillain created by Norm Breyfogle, Alan Grant and John Wagner in 1988, who used his ability to communicate with rats to attack the citizens of Gotham City. Like many of the DC villains selected for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, Ratcatcher is as obscure a supervillain as Polka Dot-Man (David Dastmalchian) and Javelin (Flula Borg). Melchior’s Ratcatcher 2, who appears in the DC Extended Universe, finds herself in Belle Reve after using her powers to rob banks after she inherited the title from her father.

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Elba appeared alongside Melchior in the same interview, but when he was asked about the future of Bloodsport, he expressed interest in seeing the character’s origin story instead. “I would be really interested to see why he went to jail, why did he shoot superman? I would love to see that narrative come alive,” Elba said. The actor also addressed rumors that he was brought into the film as a replacement for Will Smith’s Deadshot.

“Those rumors would be natural because Will said he wasn’t joining the second movie,” Elba said. But I’m really satisfied that James [Gunn] didn’t want to do that; I didn’t want to do that. Deadshot is a great character and Will slays it, so I was really keen the audience and fans kept that rumor going. Surprise!”

Melchior’s performance as Ratcatcher 2 and Elba’s performance as Bloodsport can be seen in The Suicide Squad, which is currently available in theaters and on HBO Max.

Source: Entertainment Tonight

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