History YMMV / SuicideSquad

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: In the 2016 run [[spoiler:most people didn't buy that Ted Kord had made a genuine FaceHeelTurn. Sure enough, Black Mask has been impersonating him.]]

* TaintedByThePreview: The New 52 reboot of Suicide Squad didn't make the best first impression. A lot of the people who would have eagerly supported such a book were put off by ComicBook/SecretSix getting cancelled seemingly to be replaced by the new Squad, and the new costumes (particularly for Harley Quinn) were... not well-received. Since the book officially launched, it has attracted a fair share of complaints for its characterizations that seem a bit off and for what some consider to be pointless design changes, such as Amanda Waller's slimming-down.

** Windfall joins the team with some cool powers, a rich history within the comics and a recent SympatheticMurderer backstory which was already showing signs of powerful story potential. Then, almost as soon as she joined the team, she gets killed off in a contrived and non-impactful way.

** Flo'a death in the original series.

* TearJerker: In the ComicBook/DCRebirth series: how Rustam destroys Waller in ''Suicide Squad #10'', demolishing her IAmAMonster and TheDreaded facade.

* TearJerker: In the DCRebirth series: how Rustam destroys Waller in ''Suicide Squad #10'', demolishing her IAmAMonster and TheDreaded facade.

* TaintedByThePreview: The New 52 reboot of Suicide Squad didn't make the best first impression. A lot of the people who would have eagerly supported such a book were put off by ComicBook/SecretSix getting cancelled seemingly to be replaced by the new Squad, and the new costumes (particularly for Harley Quinn) were... not well-received. Since the book officially launched, it has attracted a fair share of complaints for its characterizations that seem a bit off and for, what some consider to be, pointless design changes, such as Amanda Waller's slimming-up.

* MagnificentBastard: ComicBook/AmandaWaller, also known as "The Wall" is a genius specialist who is ruthlessly dedicated to [[KnightTemplar protecting her country]] by any means necessary. Forming the Suicide Squad, Waller sends them on mission after mission, making endless plans to eliminate their targets and to complete their missions, while not hesitating to sacrifice them. Known for a ruthless, intimidating nature, Waller is one of the few who can even intimidate Batman and when she finds herself being taken over by the Thinker cap, she shatters it as not to let anything else control her. Waller is even one of the [[NervesOfSteel few mortals capable of staring down Darkseid himself]], and whenever she falls from power, she knows all she has to do is wait for when they give her authority again out of the inevitable need for someone like Waller to do the work nobody else will.

* MagnificentBastard: '''[[Comicbook/AmandaWaller AMANDA WALLER]]'''. There are VERY few people in the DCU who beat her at this.

* HarsherInHindsight: In an early issue Rick Flag and Comicbook/AmandaWaller get into a fight over mind-wiping old Suicide Squad members so they don't reveal information about the squad. Mind-wiping to hide secrets would become a much more serious problem when regular heroes start doing it in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''. Even weirder, Waller of all people eventually relents and decides mind-wiping is too extreme.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:As of issue 6, Yo-yo is still alive inside King Shark's stomach and he appears briefly to beg for help.]]

* TearJerker: How Rustam destroys Waller in ''Suicide Squad #10'', demolishing her IAmAMonster and TheDreaded facade.

-->''Amanda Waller'':...I don't understand. [[PyrrhicVillainy This feels like losing. But I won.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Count Vertigo and Kanto wind up fighting each other in Issue 35, which is funny considering that both characters would later be voiced by Michael York in the {{DCAU}} shows (the former appearing in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the latter in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'').

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
** Comicbook/AmandaWaller staring down Batman is probably the big one (loosely adapted into the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' cartoon with Waller offhandedly calling him "rich boy"), but the gradual reveal of Oracle proved to be the one with the most disproportionate effect on the DCU. [[https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2013/11/amanda-waller-and-hulk.html Byrne's famous cover has become a Memetic Mutation.]]
** For perspective, following [[StuffedIntoTheFridge her crippling]] in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', Barbara Gordon had been all but written out of the Bat-books and the DCU in general, and most people remembered her as Creator/YvonneCraig in the ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV show from the 60s. After this, Oracle's become big enough to get several comic series including ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', her own TV show of [[Series/BirdsOfPrey the same name]], repeat Justice League memberships, and inspired the resurrection of a cheesy villain named the Calculator just to be her evil counterpart. She's generally considered one of the sexiest women in the DCU, and it's primarily for her personality and mind.
** Comicbook/AmandaWaller herself was a walking mine of awesome moments. Laughing as her rebellious subordinate desperately held a gun to her face, and ''daring'' him to shoot. Utterly crushing Kobra's Janus Directive plans. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Easily mending the relationship between her son-in-law and her daughter by force of pure, unadulterated]] {{Sassy Black Woman}}hood.
** The cherry on the cake: due to the manipulations of a lovestruck lab tech, Lashina and Poison Ivy, the team is stranded in ''Apokolips''. Many of the Squad perish fighting Parademons and the Female Furies. And then, ''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'' appears. Long, long before [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Batman ever did]], Waller decided she had had '''enough''', and proceeded to threaten the God of Evil with her handgun. When Darkseid offered to revive the fallen, Waller rebuffed him in no uncertain terms, and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech told him exactly why]].
*** Vertigo takes out the blade he's been stabbed with and [[LodgedBladeRecycling uses it]] to backstab a New God.
** Shattering the Thinker helmet counts. To wit, she's destroying a powerful piece of technology simply because it made her ''doubt'' if she was in charge of her life.
** Werner Vertigo, half insane and half drugged, manages to fly to the skies above Jerusalem and stops a missile salvo from hitting the Dome of the Rock.
%%** The [[PieInTheFace Mad Pie Thrower]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:

* HarsherInHindsight: In an early issue Rick Flag and [[Comicbook/AmandaWaller Waller ]]get into a fight over mind-wiping old Suicide Squad members so they don't reveal information about the squad. Mind-wiping to hide secrets would become a much more serious problem when regular heroes start doing it in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''. Even weirder, Waller of all people eventually relents and decides mind-wiping is too extreme.

** The cherry in the cake: due to the manipulations of a lovestruck lab tech, Lashina and Poison Ivy, the team is stranded in ''Apokolips''. Many of the Squad perish fighting Parademons and the Female Furies. And then, ''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'' appears. Long, long before [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Batman ever did]], Waller decided she had had '''enough''', and proceeded to threaten the God of Evil with her handgun. When Darkseid offered to revive the fallen, Waller rebuffed him in no uncertain terms, and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech told him exactly why]].

** The cherry in the cake: due to the manipulations of a lovestruck lab tech, Lashina and Poison Ivy, the team is stranded in ''Apokolips''. Many of the Squad perish fighting Parademons and the Female Furies. And then, ''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'' appears. Long, long before [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Batman ever did]], Waller decided she had had '''enough''', and proceeded to threaten the God of Evil with her handgun. When Darkseid offered to revive the fallen, Waller rebuffed him in no uncertain terms, knowing full well nothing good could come out of that.

** The cherry in the cake: due to the manipulations of a lovestruck lab tech, Lashina and Poison Ivy, the team is stranded in ''Apokolips''. Many of the Squad perish fighting Parademons and the Female Furies. And then, ''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'' appears. Long, long before [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Batman ever did]], Waller decided she had had '''enough''', and proceeded to threaten the God of Evil with her handgun.

** The cherry in the cake: due to the manipulations of a lovestruck lab tech, Lashina and Poison Ivy, the team is stranded in ''Apokolips''. Many of the Squad perish fighting Parademons and the Female Furies. And then, ''ComicBook/Darkseid'' appears. Long, long before [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Batman ever did]], Waller decided she had had '''enough''', and proceeded to threaten the God of Evil with her handgun.

** Werner Vertigo, half insane and half drugged, manages to fly to the skies above Jerusalem and stops a salvo of missiles from hitting the Dome of the Rock.

** Werner Vertigo, half insane and half drugged, manages to fly to the skies above Jerusalem and stop a couple of missiles from hitting the Dome of the Rock.

* Werner Vertigo, half insane and half drugged, manages to fly to the skies above Jerusalem and stop a couple of missiles from hitting the Dome of the Rock.

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