History Film / TheSuicideSquad

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Zigzagged with the Corto Maltese army. They often miss their shots when aiming and firing at Task Force X but they were able to gun down Blackguard, Javelin, TDK, and Milton. King Shark in particular does get hit with bullets but his skin is so thick that the bullets just bounce off of him. In one case during the Jotunheim entrance fight scene, rain is falling down so heavily that it negatively affect the accuracy of the soldiers, as Bloodsport lampshades.

* HollywoodTactics: Horribly punished in the opening scene as [[spoiler:things go pear-shaped due to Blackguard's betrayal and everyone begins doing the stupidest things possible. Boomer and Mongal go off on their own, TDK's power are swiftly neutralized, Savant cracks under pressure and deserts, and no-one has the common sense to retreat or take an alternate route. It leads to everyone but Flag and Harley getting killed or incapacitated due to their previous experience. Justified in this case, since that team was meant as a diversion for Bloodsport's.]]

* {{Gorn}}: This is easily one of the goriest comic book movies ever made, on par with ''Film/PunisherWarZone'' and ''Film/{{Logan}}''. The violence is much more graphic than even ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'', and somehow even manages to top ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar''. At one point, King Shark rips a soldier in half ''vertically with all his guts spilling out'', and the opening scene has [[spoiler:[[BoomHeadshot Blackguard's face being literally shot off]]]].

* DanceBattler: Harley can be seen dance-fighting in the Sneak Peek footage.

* CastingGag: Sean Gunn has been cast in a wacky superhero movie directed by his brother James, where he plays a performance-captured humanoid pest and part of a group of near-psychotic criminals who are trying to redeem themselves. Did someone say ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''?

** No one's too upset when Starro takes over [[spoiler:[[GeneralRipper General]] [[AxCrazy Suarez]]]] and turns him into a mindless MouthOfSauron.

* CastingGag: Sean Gunn has been cast in a wacky superhero movie directed by his brother James, where he plays a performance-captured humanoid pest and part of a group of near-psychotic criminals who are trying to redeem themselves. Did someone say ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''?

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Bloodsport is essentially this to Deadshot. Both men are elite level assassins and [[NotoriousParent Notorious Parents]] with [[HitmanWithAHeart hidden hearts of gold]] who end up being dragged into Waller's suicide mission for the sake of their children. But where as Deadshot is the doting father of a [[CheerfulChild cheerful young girl]] who loves him despite of his career as a hired gun, Bloodsport is a [[AbusiveParents terrible father]] to a [[{{Delinquents}} juvenile delinquent]] who are both [[DysfunctionalFamily constantly at each other's throats]]. Whereas Deadshot is motivated into joining the Squad by his need to be back in his daughter's life, Bloodsport personally wants nothing to do with his kid but is coerced into joining the team's roster or else his daughter will intentionally be sent to Belle Reve by Waller to die. Where Deadshot was consistently at odds with Rick Flag during their mission in Midway City and had to overcome their grievances with one another to get the job done, Bloodsport and Flag are [[FireForgedFriends old war buddies]] who are far more cordial to one another during their operation in Corto Maltese. And where Deadshot's skillset is defined by his ImprobableAimingSkills, Bloodsport's skillset showcases a bigger emphasis on him being both a WalkingArmory and a MultiMeleeMaster who's capable of mowing down entire armies with his [[MoreDakka superior firepower.]] And more strikingly, [[spoiler:Where Deadshot completed his mission but is still entrapped as Waller's asset, Bloodsport succeeded in obtaining freedom for both himself and the surviving members of his squad via blackmailing Waller with the data collected from Jotunheim.]] Even their superhero adversaries are contrasting, with Deadshot being a Franchise/{{Batman}} villain who was eventually appended by the Dark Knight during a night out with his daughter while Bloodsport is a Franchise/{{Superman}} villain who [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu put the Man of Steel in the ICU]] before he was arrested.

* {{Deconstruction}}: A frequent criticism of the first movie was that the core premise strained believability, as most of the characters (e.g. Harley, Captain Boomerang, Slipknot and Comicbook/{{Katana}}) lacked abilities that would actually be useful in the sorts of Superman-level situations the team was supposedly formed to deal with. [[spoiler:We see this on full display in the opening battle, where the initial strike team, which mostly consists of {{Badass Normal}}s (with a few exceptions like Mongal and TDK, the latter of whom is quickly established as a JokeCharacter) is quickly massacred when faced with superior numbers. It later turns out that this team was intentionally chosen to serve as a distraction for Bloodsport's group, who were the ones Waller trusted to ''actually'' get the job done.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In the real world, there is no gun able to give a bullet enough kinetic energy to go through a bigger bullet (even if both bullets were shaped exactly like the ones used by [[spoiler:Bloodsport and Peacemaker]]), let alone doing that and also going through the other shooter's gun and hitting him/her.[[note]]Even if this was possible, both shooters would have to shoot at the exact same time and in a perfect straight line between them, which would be extremely unlikely, especially in the heat of battle.[[/note]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: It is shown that Waller and her staff apparently didn't do a thorough enough background check on all of the Squad members, leading to a few embarrassing moments on the mission. This includes [[spoiler:Weasel apparently drowning as soon as Squad A arrives at their drop-off point, because nobody checked if he knew how to swim beforehand, and putting Bloodsport on a team with a person who can control rats, without knowing he has musophobia (phobia of rats)]].
** [[spoiler:Mongal's fate]] shows that even with superpowers it's important to think things through; she tries to take down the [[spoiler:attack helicopter]] by leaping onto the landing skids, the type of move you'd expect Wonder Woman would effortlessly carry off - except here it promptly causes it to [[spoiler:go out of control through her extra weight and momentum and crash before she can try to escape, detonating its payload and horrifically burning her to death]].

** There's a rather buxom secretary prone to {{Gainaxing}} in the office of the Corto Maltese generals. [[spoiler:She becomes a [[BloodSplatteredInnocents blood-splattered innocent]].]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], when Task Force X finds out that Rick Flag is being held in a militia camp, the team starts brutally slaughtering everyone at the camp. [[note]]Bloodsport and Peacemaker even have a competition which gets [[SerialEscalation increasingly more elaborate.]][[\note]] [[spoiler:When they find Flag, it turns out he's having tea with the leader and it was a camp of good guys.]]

* FiveManBand: Bloodsport's original team fits into this pretty neatly:
** TheLeader: Bloodsport, who is specifically chosen to lead the team.
** TheLancer: Peacemaker, who often clashes with Bloodsport over his leadership style. [[spoiler:He also turns out to be TheMole who is seemingly killed by the Leader when this is discovered.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Polka-Dot Man probably comes the closest, coming across as socially-awkward and shy, and was created via experimentation.
** TheBigGuy: King Shark, very much of the DumbMuscle variety.
** TheChick: Ratcatcher II, initially [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only girl on the team]], as well as the most kind and caring character.
** TeamPet: Sebastian, Ratcatcher II's pet rat.
** SixthRanger: Rick Flag and Harley Quinn, who both meet up with and join Bloodsport's Squad at different times. Also Soria and her rebellion (especially her contact, Milton the bus driver) to a lesser extent.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Just about every pocket on Bloodsport's suit contains some kind of gun or ammo, and he [[BottomlessMagazines always has a weapon handy]] even after being disarmed mid-fight. [[spoiler:When the Squad faces Starro in the climax, Bloodsport finally [[DramaticAmmoDepletion runs out of weapons]] after using them all over two days spent on Corto Maltese, and can only take cover while the rest of the Squad finish Starro off]].

* SequelNonEntity: About half the characters from the first movie don't return for this one, most notably Creator/WillSmith as Deadshot, Creator/KarenFukuhara as Katana, Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje as Killer Croc, Creator/CaraDelevingne as June Moone and Creator/JaredLeto as the Joker. They aren't even ''mentioned'' (though the Joker is at least alluded to when Harley talks about her sordid romantic history), which is especially odd since Deadshot has most of the same skills that Waller so badly needed from Bloodsport. Griggs, the abusive security officer who tormented the Squad at Belle Reve in the first film, also doesn't show up during any of the scenes set in the prison.

* HandCannon: Peacemaker's pistol is an already-massive Desert Eagle... [[UpToEleven with a barrel extension]]; on top of this, during one sequence, he attaches a silencer to it, making it appear almost as long as John Cena's leg.

* PerilousMarriageProposal: Silvio Luna wants to marry Harley Quinn, but she's a dangerous woman who used to work for the Joker. [[spoiler:Harley shots him point blank as a result of the proposal.]]

** TheLancer: Peacemaker, who often clashes with Bloodsport over his leadership style. [[spoiler:He also turns out to be TheMole who is killed by the Leader when this is discovered.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: As discussed in [[https://youtu.be/KjvE_h-GBf4 this video]], Harley shows signs of Histrionic Personality Disorder, but it's never mentioned in-universe.