History Headscratchers / TheSuicideSquad

** In the original comics when Bloodsport shot Superman and he was hospitalized. The radiation from the Kryptonite bullet weakened the surrounding tissue enough for the surgeon to operate on him (people need to remember that the actual physical Kryptonite is not what's hurting superman). The surgeon actually had to keep the bullet on the wound area so the Doctor can properly stitch it up.

** He also ''liked'' rats and believed they deserved to have a worthwhile purpose. The most likely commercial use for his invention would be for mass extermination of billions of them, Pied Piper style.

** Maybe ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'' was ThroughTheEyesOfMadness ''even more'' than suspected, and Cassandra was less of a willing companion to Harley than the film portrayed her to be.

* We never see Polka Dot Man throw his dot-streams any farther than a few dozen meters. It's possible that the eye was simply too high up for him to strike, but the leg was close enough.

* Did Ratcatcher 2 send tons of rats to their deaths? Should I be worrying that they are going to drown inside the eye or blood vessels while doing little to no damage individually (I was a bit worried about Harley too, but of course she knows what she's doing better than the rats. But it may have been a substance that's hard to swim back out of.)?

*** Harley has Bruce the Hyena. And canonically, Harley has TWO hyenas. So maybe between the two movies she got another hyena and the Joker shot them both.

** She probably intended to send the Navy and Air Force (and also the Justice League would likely have a better survivability rate than the Suicide Squad for this task) after it if it should ever leave the confines of the island, but didn't care enough for the people of the island to exterminate it immediately. An answer to the question about five up from here posits that she doesn't think much of his world-threatening capacity.

** He has a nanotech armoury able to assemble complex weaponry and melee gear as well as a helmet and grappling gear. If it can assemble everything from a flame thrower to gyro stabilised BFG. Stands to reason he can use it to generate a modem to send the data into the cloud. As an assassin on the go, and as part of his former job being able to receive and transmit information and data would have been a must. Having such a device in his inventory is not script magic but simple deduction.

** Yes. It just didn't pass Flag's mind that it was something above regular fear of water.

* Just before the Joker and she drove off the pier in the first ''Suicide Squad'', Harley screamed to Mr. J that she couldn't swim. She spent most of the subsequent period either locked up in prison or trying to build her reputation as a criminal, neither of which is conducive to signing up for swimming classes. And yet now, in ''this'' movie, she doesn't have any of the trouble that Weasel fell prey to during the opening landfall. What, did she talk Joker into busting Croc out pf Belle Reve too, and he gave her a few lessons to pay her back?

* Just before the Joker and she drove off the pier in the first ''Suicide Squad'', Harley screamed to Mr. J that she couldn't swim. She spent most of the subsequent period either locked up in prison or trying to build her reputation as a criminal, neither of which is conducive to signing up for swimming classes. And yet now, in ''this'' movie, she doesn't have any of the trouble that Weasel fell prey to during the opening landfall. What, did she talk Joker into busting Croc out too, and he gave her a few lessons to pay her back?

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* Just before the Joker and she drove off the pier in the first ''Suicide Squad'', Harley screamed to Mr. J that she couldn't swim. She spent most of the subsequent period either locked up in prison or trying to build her reputation as a criminal, neither of which is conducive to signing up for swimming lessons. What, did she talk Joker into busting Croc out too, and he gave her a few lessons to pay her back?

* Just before the Joker and she drove off the pier in the first ''Suicide Squad'', Harley screamed to Mr. J that she couldn't swim. She spent most of the subsequent period either locked up in prison or trying to build her reputation as a criminal, neither of which is conducive to signing up for swimming lessons. What, did she talk Joker into busting Croc out too, and he gave her a few lessons to pay her back?

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*** Not likely, unless the GCPD forgot to update their display of Wanted posters: Captain Boomerang was still named as a wanted (and living) fugitive in ''Birds''.