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* FauxAffablyEvil: All the squad except [[TheStoic Clock King]]. Including [[TokenGoodTeammate Colonel Flagg.]]

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* FauxAffablyEvil: All the squad except [[TheStoic Clock King]].King]] and Captain Boomerang. Including [[TokenGoodTeammate Colonel Flagg.]]
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* EvilPlan: One of the most beautifully constructed. The plan is fueled by PragmaticVillainy, because the squad is formed enterely by [[{{TheSociopath}} sociopaths]] and a TokenGoodTeammate. The plan must be followed RightOnTheTick and it does not permit unnecesary killing. It works because it was planned by a ClockKing who is TheSociopath himself. And the plan seems to be a classic [[MacGuffin Grand Theft Macguffin]]... but in reality is a [[spoiler: DespairGambit Cadmus is pulling on the League]]
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* BadassNormal: Everyone at the squad, even Clock King, who was capable enough to trick Batman.

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* BadassNormal: Everyone at the squad, even Clock King, who was capable enough to trick Batman.standstill the Batman. The CentralTheme is how a crew of {{BadassNormal}}s can defeat a bunch of [[BewareTheSuperman superhumans]]. They need an EvilPlan.
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* BewareTheSupermen: One of the CentralTheme on this episodes. When Clock King is showing Captain Atom, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter's intel at the ChejovClass, you can hear [[ScareChord ominious music]]

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* BewareTheSupermen: BewareTheSuperman: One of the CentralTheme {{CentralTheme}}s on this episodes. episode. When Clock King is showing Captain Atom, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter's intel at the ChejovClass, ChekhovsClassroom, you can hear [[ScareChord ominious music]]

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* BadassNormal: Everyone at the squad, even Clock King, who was capable enough to trick Batman.
* BewareTheSupermen: One of the CentralTheme on this episodes. When Clock King is showing Captain Atom, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter's intel at the ChejovClass, you can hear [[ScareChord ominious music]]



* Foreshadowing: At the first scene, after the priest asks Lawton if he wants the priest to pray for him, Lawton [[PassiveAggressiveKombat politely declines]]. This annoys the priest, and is the first clue that Lawton is FauxAffablyEvil.

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* Foreshadowing: ForeShadowing: At the first scene, after the priest asks Lawton if he wants the priest to pray for him, Lawton [[PassiveAggressiveKombat politely declines]]. This annoys the priest, and is the first clue that Lawton is FauxAffablyEvil.
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* Foreshadowing: At the first scene, after the priest asks Lawton if he wants the priest to pray for him, Lawton [[PassiveAggressiveKombat politely declines]]. This annoys the priest, and is the first clue that Lawton is FauxAffablyEvil.
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* OhCrap: Plastique when being asked what will she do facing Superman, seeing [[UncomfortableElevatorMoment Green Lantern use her elevator]] and [[RightBehindMe hearing Captain Atom chastise her unlady manners]].
* OpenTheIris: Plastique’s iris narrows every time she has a OhCrap moment.
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* DispenseWithThePleasantries: After seeing Sans Souci doing TheTease to Lawton, Captain Boomerang and Clock King want to talk business:
-->'''Harkness:''' ''Enough of this talk, let's get talk of out the business at hand, will ya?.''
-->'''Fugate:''' ''Agree, time is of the essence.''
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'''Lawton:''' ''I know, I've seen the pictures.''
'''Sans Souci, smiling:''' ''And that's all you're gonna to see, killer.''

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'''Lawton:''' -->'''Lawton:''' ''I know, I've seen the pictures.''
'''Sans -->'''Sans Souci, smiling:''' ''And that's all you're gonna to see, killer.''
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* TheTease: After Colonel Flag introduces Lawton to Sans Souci as the explosives expert:
'''Lawton:''' ''I know, I've seen the pictures.''
'''Sans Souci, smiling:''' ''And that's all you're gonna to see, killer.''
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** Bette Sans Souci, AKA Captain Boomerang.

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** Bette Sans Souci, Digger Harkness, AKA Captain Boomerang.
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* SecretIdentity: Inverted because the members of the Suicide Squad are villains. However, all of them have secret identities. The point is that no one of them had a RedRightHand, so they can do TheInfiltration because [[EvilMakeover without his costumes]] TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse.
** Bette Sans Souci, AKA Plastique.
** Floyd Lawton, AKA Deadshot.
** Temple Fugate, AKA The Clock King.
** Bette Sans Souci, AKA Captain Boomerang.
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* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: This episode shows not only how Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg met, but also shows them studying Green Lantern, Captain Atom and The Martian Manhunter at their ChejovClassroom.

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* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: This episode shows not only how Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg met, but also shows them studying Green Lantern, Captain Atom and The Martian Manhunter at their ChejovClassroom.ChekhovsClassroom.
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* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: This episode shows not only how Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg met, but also shows them studying Green Lantern, Captain Atom and The Martian Manhunter at their ChejovClassroom.
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* [[{{YouAllMeetInACell}} YouAllMeetInAnAbandonedWarehouseThatReallyIsACell]]: Lawton and Flag meet the rest of the Suicide Squad at the AbandonedWarehouse. Lawton can believe he could do the job and leave. He is so wrong...

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* [[{{YouAllMeetInACell}} YouAllMeetInAnAbandonedWarehouseThatReallyIsACell]]: You All Meet In An Abandoned Warehouse That Really Is A Cell]]: Lawton and Flag meet the rest of the Suicide Squad at the AbandonedWarehouse. Lawton can believe he could do the job and leave. He is so wrong...
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* SpySatellites: Lawton reminds Flag that the Justice League Satellite [[ProperlyParanoid could hear them]].

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* SpySatellites: Lawton reminds Flag that the Justice League Satellite [[ProperlyParanoid could hear them]].them]].
* [[{{YouAllMeetInACell}} YouAllMeetInAnAbandonedWarehouseThatReallyIsACell]]: Lawton and Flag meet the rest of the Suicide Squad at the AbandonedWarehouse. Lawton can believe he could do the job and leave. He is so wrong...
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* AbandonedWarehouse: Justified by Flag, when Lawton observes that the Justice League SpySatellites could hear them, Flag answers that [[LexLuthor the guy]] who abandoned this warehouse had a very good security installation on it.
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* OralFixation: Lawton is showed chewing a toothpick.

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* OralFixation: Lawton is showed chewing a toothpick.toothpick.
* SpySatellites: Lawton reminds Flag that the Justice League Satellite [[ProperlyParanoid could hear them]].
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** Task Force X is the official name for the nicknamed Suicide Squad (also, you cannot have that name at children's tv).

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** Task Force X is the official name for the nicknamed [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad Suicide Squad Squad]] at DC Comics. (also, you cannot have that name at children's tv).



** Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg all were members of Task Force X (Otherwise known as the Suicide Squad).

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** Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg all were members of Task Force X (Otherwise known as the DC Comics [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad Suicide Squad).Squad]], even if not all of them worked together at the same time.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: All the squad except [[TheStoic Clock King]]. Including [[TokenGoodTeammate Colonel Flagg.]]

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* FauxAffablyEvil: All the squad except [[TheStoic Clock King]]. Including [[TokenGoodTeammate Colonel Flagg.]]


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* ExplosiveLeash: Colonel Flagg ask Lawton how it was his [[LastRequest Last Meal]].
-->''It was loaded with exploding nanites.. Any escape attempt... [[FauxAffablyEvil Well, you'll gonna look kind of funny trying to run ahead with no head.]]''
* FauxAffablyEvil: All the squad except [[TheStoic Clock King]]. Including [[TokenGoodTeammate Colonel Flagg.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: All the squad except [[TheStoic Clock King]]. Including [[TokenGoodTeammate Colonel Flagg.]]
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* BoxedCrook: Lampshaded by Lawton.
-->''An expert with nothing to lose? This must be some nasty business.



** Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg all were members of Task Force X (Otherwise known as the Suicide Squad).

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** Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg all were members of Task Force X (Otherwise known as the Suicide Squad).Squad).
* OralFixation: Lawton is showed chewing a toothpick.
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** The Warden and the Guard of the prison are animated versions of Comissoner Gordon and Chief O'Hara from [[Series/Batman live action Batman]].

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** The Warden and the Guard of the prison are animated versions of Comissoner Gordon and Chief O'Hara from [[Series/Batman [[{{Series/Batman}} live action Batman]].
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** Played straight with Temple Fugate, (a pun on Tempus Fugit, ''Times flies'', the Clock King.

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** Played straight with Temple Fugate, (a pun on Tempus Fugit, ''Times flies'', flies''), the Clock King.



** The Warden and the Guard of the prison are animated versions of Comissoner Gordon and Chief O'Hara from Batman.

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** The Warden and the Guard of the prison are animated versions of Comissoner Gordon and Chief O'Hara from Batman.[[Series/Batman live action Batman]].

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* CasualDangerDialog: No matter that he is walking to the chair, Floyd Lawton will make jokes about it.



* CasualDangerDialog: No matter that he is walking to the chair, Floyd Lawton will make jokes about it.

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* CasualDangerDialog: No matter that he is walking to MeaningfulName, StevenUlyssesPerhero:
** Colonel Flag. That could be one of those PropheticNames, because we discover Flag's father also was a soldier. Lampshaded by Lawton:
-->''Colonel... Flag? You're kidding, right?
** Played straight with Temple Fugate, (a pun on Tempus Fugit, ''Times flies'',
the chair, Floyd Lawton will make jokes about it.Clock King.
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* CasualDangerDialog: No matter that he is walking to the chair, Floyd Lawton will make jokes about it.

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* CasualDangerDialog: No matter that he is walking to the chair, Floyd Lawton will make jokes about it.it.
* MythologyGags:
** Task Force X is the official name for the nicknamed Suicide Squad (also, you cannot have that name at children's tv).
** The Warden and the Guard of the prison are animated versions of Comissoner Gordon and Chief O'Hara from Batman.
** Clock King, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, Deathshot and Colonel Flagg all were members of Task Force X (Otherwise known as the Suicide Squad).
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* DeadManWalking: How this episode begins.

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* DeadManWalking: How this episode begins.begins.
* CasualDangerDialog: No matter that he is walking to the chair, Floyd Lawton will make jokes about it.

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* DeadManWalking: How this episode begins.

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* DeadManWalking: How this episode begins.
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This is the tale of how a RagtagBunchOfMisfits manage to do TheInfiltration by DressingAsTheEnemy impersonating some Mooks at that EvilTowerOfOminousness KillSat, the Watchtower, headquarters of those Justice League wannabe {{EvilOverlord}}s…

Wait… what?

At a Prison where a guard, the warren and a priest are with a heavily restrained prisoner, Floyd Lawton, aka Deadshot, walking to the chair. The prisoner seems to be taking his impending execution with humor. When they arrive, are surprised by a uniformed man sitting at the chair. When the warden ask him what does this mean, the man only gives him some papers, and the warden releases the prisoner in the man’s custody. Then Lawton ask him what happens if he doesn’t want to go with him. The man answers Lawton could take his turn at the chair.

When they are in a car leaving the prison, the man identifies himself as Colonel Flagg, who informs Lawton he is now a BoxedCrook who has the mission to infiltrate the Watchtower. Lawton answers he always wanted to die for his country.

So begins Task Force X, an episode written by John Ostrander, which shows us a total inversion of tropes like TheCaper, Mooks and the TokenGoodTeammate, that also is full of {{MythologyGag}}s.

* DeadManWalking: How this episode begins.

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