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Agents of ARGUS and members of the Suicide Squad, appearing most prominently in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

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ARGUS And Associates

Amanda Waller

Amanda Waller

Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

^{Waller in Batman: Assault On Arkham}

^{Waller in Batman: Arkham Origins}

Voiced By (En): C.C.H. Pounder (Arkham Origins, Arkham Origins: Blackgate, Assault on Arkham), Debra Wilson (Kill the Justice League)

Voiced By (It): Alessandra Felletti

The Director of ARGUS and commander of Task Force X. Amanda Waller first appears in the Arkham Series after Batman defeats the assassins attempting to kill him on Christmas Eve during the events of Arkham Origins, specifically to offer Deathstroke an alternative to prison in the stinger, later offering much the same to Deadshot and Bronze Tiger at the end of Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate several months later.

She, alongside Task Force X, take center stage in the dubiously canon Batman: Assault On Arkham animated feature film set between Origins and Asylum, attempting to apprehend The Riddler before seemingly being killed by Deadshot at the end of the film, though it is later revealed that Batman stopped this from happening in Arkham Underworld.

As of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, she is leading the resistance against Brainiac during the Metropolis Invasion through a new iteration of Task Force X while maintaining a headquarters in the annexed Hall Of Justice.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the stinger of Origins and her role in Blackgate she's noticeably much slimmer then we normally see of her, more akin to her New 52 look. Assault on Arkham returns her to her usual look, apparently having bulked up since those eight years, and flipped right back in Kill the Justice League where she reverts back to her slimmer appearance.
• Adaptational Villainy: Hands down the most spiteful, vicious, and unsympathetic version of this character to date, at least if you don't count her DCEU version.
• Ax-Crazy: Downplayed, but this version of her is very ruthless and violent.
• Batman Gambit: Batman even calls her on it at the end of the film. Waller knew the convicts would go rogue once in Arkham, and was counting on that as a diversion for a lone assassin to go after The Riddler. She knew if she sent the whole team with the objective of killing The Riddler, it would arouse their suspicions as to why. However, despite "breaking a lot of eggs to make an omelette", Batman points out the flaw in her plans by calling her "a messy cook", as Riddler got away.
• Black Boss Lady: She's in charge of the Suicide Squad.
• The Cameo: She appears only once in the Origins, and once in Origins Blackgate, each with a few lines. She finally steps into the spotlight in the Assault on Arkham animated movie.
• Control Freak: She goes nuts when she sees Dr. Happersen's device for removing nanobombs and wrecks it in every way she can while furiously screaming that the Suicide Squad belongs to her in their faces. Seeing this obsession with control is part of the reason why the Squad seriously considers working for Luthor instead despite Waller's constant threats of execution.
• Formerly Fat: While in her classic overweight appearance in Assault on Arkham, DLC for Underworld takes place afterward and reused Waller's Origins design, hence Waller lost that weight.
• Formerly Fit: During Origins, she has a slender, New 52-esque appearance. By Assault, she's gained a substantial amount of weight and looks more like her classic comics design.
• Hate Sink: We clearly aren't supposed to like her in this continuity.
• Ink-Suit Actor: In Kill The Justice League she's visually based on her actress.
• Lack of Empathy: Perfectly willing to sacrifice lives to get what she wants.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: She's a very advertised part of Assault on Arkham, taking away from the surprise of her prior cameos.
• The Man Behind the Man: Implied to have set up the Blackgate uprising a few months after Christmas as a testing ground to find who to employ to her Suicide Squad.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: In Kill The Justice League she is particularly insistent on killing the mind-controlled Justice League, claiming that it should be done for The Needs of the Many. While it's easy to see this as a valid point, Waller is even more interested in getting her hands on Brainiac's mind control technology, seeing the potential for an entire army of criminals with no will except hers. Given that she also hates anything she can't control, it's likely that Waller has long considered the Justice League a dangerous Wild Card because of their independence from the United States government. Because of this, she privately considered Brainiac mind controlling the League an excellent excuse to finally remove them from the picture.
• The Stinger: Her appearance in Origins.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The ending of Batman: Assault on Arkham implies that Deadshot killed her, but we never see for sure. DLC for Underworld takes place afterward and states Batman stopped Deadshot before he could fire.
• You Don't Look Like You: She changes appearance with every portrayal.

Rick Flag

Richard "Rick" Flag, Jr.

Rick Flag in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

^{Flag in Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate}

Voiced by (En): Adam Baldwin (Arkham Origins: Blackgate), Jim Pirri (Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League)

Voiced By (It): ???

Waller's right-hand man.

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• Adaptational Job Change: During his appearance in Blackgate, his rank is Captain rather than Colonel.
• Adaptational Wimp: Sort of. During his appearance in Blackgate, we don't see his combat skills in action, spending most of the game at the office.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Mentions "a guy (he) slept with's yappy dog" to compare to a Squad member bugging him in KTJL.
• Demoted to Extra: He only appears as a minor character in Blackgate.
  • Gets it worse in 'Kill The Justice League where (despite normally being the handler for the Squad on missions), he's simply a go-man in cutscenes and a NPC that can be talked to in The Justice Hall. Possibly Justifed given it's established he's locking down the parts of the city the Squad clears.
• Everyone Has Standards: He expresses disdain at Deadshot, and isn't happy when Waller decided to recruit him and Bronze Tiger into the Suicide Squad.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Like Deathstroke and Bronze Tiger, he doesn't appear in Assault on Arkham despite it featuring the Squad.

Hack

Zalika / Hack

Hack in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

Living computer and bio-hacker; Task Force X Support Squad member during the Metropolis Invasion.

Voiced by (En): Omono Okojie

Voiced By (It): ???

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• Villain Respect: While Luthor's files regard Gizmo as a tinkerer idiot and Penguin as a "pathetic little gremlin", he admits he feels genuine admiration (and envy) for Hack as a being who has transcended the physical and become "intellectual purity", and wishes he could accomplish the same.
• Virtual Ghost: While Hack's orignal body is still alive, its comatose state means she can only interact with others in a digitized form.

Gizmo

Mikron O'Jeneus / Gizmo

Gizmo in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

Techie and vehicle supplier Task Force X Support Squad member during the Metropolis invasion.

Voiced by (En): Rick Pasqualone

Voiced By (It): ???

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• Gadgeteer Genius: He's a genius who creates high tech gadgets.
• Meaningful Name: Mikron comes from the Mikron Group, a microelectronics manufacturer. As for his last name, just take out the O' and it's pretty obviously meant to be alternatively spelled genius.
• Truer to the Text: Much like the comics, this Gizmo is an adult with dwarfism, unlike his Teen Titans (2003) counterpart (and by extension, the one from Teen Titans Go!), where he was reimagined as a little kid, and his Titans (2018) counterpart, who was an adult that didn't have dwarfism.

Toyman

Hiro Okamura / Toyman

Toyman in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

Justice League super fan and member of the Support Squad during the Metropolis Invasion.

See Metropolis Citizens for more information.

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Task Force X / The Suicide Squad

The Squad In General

Task Force X / The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad as featured in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.^NoteClockwise: Harley Quinn, Killer Shark, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang

• Cape Busters: As the name implies, Kill The Justice League has the group being tasked to kill the Justice League after they've become Brainwashed and Crazy. A lot of the missions involve finding ways to weaken them in order for them to be able to be taken down by a bunch of guys with guns.
• Explosive Leash: All of them have bombs in their bodies to keep them in line. Wandering too far from the mission area or from teammates in co-op mode will have Waller threatening them to get back to the mission with a countdown.
• Foil: Task Force X/The Suicide Squad is comprised of supervillains who have no real interest in saving the world, but partly go along with it to satisfy their own personal interests. The Justice League is a team of superheroes who selflessly protect the world from evil. While the League had the best intentions in negotiating with Brainiac peacefully to avoid a war, this resulted in every member (except Wonder Woman) being brainwashed into dangerous psychopaths, slaughtering thousands of people. This ends with them dead at the hands of the squad. The squad are willing to start a war with Brainiac for entertainment. The combination of their own destructive interests plus the threat of explosive death by Waller leads to them saving the world almost unintentionally by way of wiping out the entire Justice League and Brainiac.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: They're a bunch of D-list supervillains recruited for black ops government jobs for the prospect of shaving some time off their sentence.

Harley Quinn

Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn

Harley in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

See The Arkham Asylum Character Sheet for more information.

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Deadshot (spoilers)

Floyd Lawton / Deadshot

Deadshot in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

^Unmasked

Voiced By (En): Bumper Robinson

Voiced By (It): ???

The real Deadshot of Earth-1.

For information on the Deadshot of Earth-2, see The Arkham City character sheet

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• Jet Pack: He uses a jetpack as his traversal tool.
• Older Than They Look: As a result of the retcon establishing this Deadshot as active and then subsequently retiring prior to the one seen in the rest of the Arkham setting showing up, this Deadshot would have been at the height of his career over 17 years prior to the events of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, yet seemingly appears to be in his early 30s at most.^Note the events of the Arkham Trilogy span nearly two years (16 months between Asylum and City, 6 between City and Knight), and Origins, the first chronological appearance of Deadshot in the Arkham setting, is ten years prior to Asylum, while Kill The Justice League is five years after Knight (stated as such by Harley Quinn at the start of the game). This would place the current timeframe of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League at 16 to 17 years after Arkham Origins, a timeframe where Deadshot was already a reputable assassin and the second Deadshot had become active.
• Parents as People: Genuinely tries to be part of his daughter, Zoe's, life but his inability to fully extract himself from his past as a Professional Killer, puts a hamper on their relationship. As King Shark puts it, despite his shortcomings, Floyd is at least making the effort to communicate with his daughter, unlike Shark's own father.
• Sniper Duel: The scar on his mask is the result of one between him and the "other Deadshot" which nearly resulted in a Mutual Kill, but he's 99% sure he took out his copycat although that still means there's a chance he might've lived. Though the experience left Floyd more than a little freaked out, as it showed his "imposter" was equal to him in skill, so much so that when Deadshot learns about alternate realities, he hits upon the very real possibility that the "other Deadshot" was actually his counterpart from another Earth.
• Weaponized Exhaust: His Traversal Attack is unleashing an explosive blast from his jetpack.

King Shark

Nanaue / King Shark

King Shark in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

Voiced By (En): Samoa Joe

Voiced By (It): ???

Demigod shark-man and the only truly superpowered member of the Squad.

Information regarding the version of King Shark featured in Batman: Assault On Arkham can be found here.

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• Bad Liar: He becomes rather awkward when he tries to tell lies and often blurts out inconvenient truths without realizing that his teammates are trying to lie for some reason. For this reason, the Squad quickly learns to never involve Shark whenever they tell a lie.
• Daddy Issues: Shark begins tearing up when Batman addresses Robin as "son" in his pre-recorded message, admitting to the squad he has a complicated relationship with his own father. Unlocked ARGUS tapes go into detail, revealing that at a younger age Shark foolhardily went to the surface to prove himself, where he was captured and sent to Belle Reve penitentiary, and his father never once sent any rescue.
• Expy: A hulking warrior with arms covered in tattoos, who often misinterprets what others are saying or doing and is generally socially awkward (sometimes to the point of childishness) despite his noble bearing, acting as the muscle for a team of reprobates — it's not difficult to see the inspiration for this version of King Shark.
• Genius Bruiser: While he is the largest and strongest of the Suicide Squad, he is also the most articulate and intelligent among them, and part of the reason why he's in the human world in the first place is his desire to learn; when he learns of parallel dimensions, he's fascinated by the possibility of gaining multiversal knowledge. Shark's philosophical discussions with Luthor have even given him, contrary to the dismissal offered to his teammates, a measure of appreciation from Lex.
  Luthor: He's well-read. Cultured. Urbane. Have you ever heard a shark wax rhapsodic about the theory of power? I have, and it's delightful, if a little digressive.
• Noble Demon: Though a supercriminal, King Shark displays little, if any, of the same unsavoury traits the other members of Task Force X possess, and usually conducts himself as an honorable warrior who respects and admires the integrity of superheroes.
• No Social Skills: Being from an undersea kingdom of humanoid sharks, he has little understanding of the subtle nuances of human behavior. This is offset somewhat by Shark being a Shark Man, since few in their right mind would get on the bad side of one.
• Shark Man: He is the prince of an entire kingdom of them and was raised as an honorable, if vicious, warrior.
• Shockwave Stomp: Slams the ground hard enough to make a massive blast for his Traversal Attack.
• Token Good Teammate: In a team comprised of; a maniac, an assassin, and an Australian, Shark is by far the most valiant and respectful member of the Squad.
• The Worf Effect: During the Squad's first fight with the brainwashed Batman, he can easily be Curb-Stomped just like the rest of his team. Keep in mind that, not only is he The Big Guy of the group but, is the only one who is a demigod that possess superpowers, as such he should have lasted much longer compared to the rest (and put up a much better fight).

Captain Boomerang

George "Digger" Harkness / Captain Boomerang

Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

^{Captain Boomerang in Batman: Assault On Arkham}

Voiced By: Greg Ellis (Assault on Arkham), Daniel Lapaine (Kill the Justice League) ^{Other voice actors}Jean-François Vlérick (Fr)

An Aussie who has an uncanny ability to have whatever he throws return to him. Along with Deadshot and Quinn, he's a veteran within Task Force X.

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Provides examples of:

• Back for the Dead: Killed by Deadshot in the tie-in comic.
• Badass Normal: He fights alongside the likes of King Shark and Killer Frost with nothing but a couple of boomerangs.
• Battle Boomerang: His weapon is a boomerang, in-case you didn't know.
• The Bogan: Australian and one of the biggest Jerkasses of the whole franchise, an aspect brought front and center in Kill the Justice League.
• Butt-Monkey: Gets no respect from anyone and is consistently beat up throughout the movie. Pretty much every major character abuses him at some point.
• Composite Character: While his name and demeanor clearly mark him as Boomerang I, he drops his array of special boomerangs in Kill the Justice League for a garden variety Precision-Guided Boomerang and a high tech gauntlet that gives him bursts of Speed Force, making his MO much closer to his speedster son, Boomerang II.
• Continuity Snarl: He was killed by Deadshot in a tie-in comic, but appears fine in Kill the Justice League and is even working alongside Deadshot in that game.
• The Dragon: Acts as the Number Two to Deadshot during the mission although given how disliked he is by the other members, nobody really listens to him.
• Dual Wielding: Commonly fights with a boomerang in each hand when he has to get up and close.
• Empowered Badass Normal: In Kill the Justice League, he gets access to a gauntlet made by Dr. Sivana that allows him to use the Speed Force. He also now uses guns rather than just boomerangs.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: None of his squadmates are particularly fond of him due to his jerkish personality and won't hesitate to insult or beat him. If he didn't have a copious helping of Plot Armor from both being a playable character and the Suicide Squad game running on Black Comedy, he wouldn't have lived very long.
• Gag Penis: According to Kill The Justice League, it's distractingly large.
  King Shark: Makes sense. The gods have cursed you in every other possible way.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: He'll need them in order to fight with boomerangs, but his skills are best displayed during Deadshot and Boomerang's dart game.
• Jerkass: While the squad may be comprised of villains, even they find his behavior rude and abrasive, and he quickly becomes the group pariah.
• Lame Pun Reaction: Neither Boomer nor Deadshot are amused by Killer Frost's Incredibly Lame Ice Pun, which can be interpreted as a Take That! towards Batman & Robin.
  Killer Frost: The Joker has a dirty bomb? That gives me the chills.
  * Boomer and Deadshot stares at her disapprovingly*
  Boomer: Ice puns? Really?
• Last Disrespects: He tries to urinate on Flash's corpse after the Squad kills him in Kill the Justice League. Deadshot prevents him from doing so, however.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: It's implied a few times he's just pretending to be dumber than he really is to get people to underestimate him. Possibly... He's very convincing if so.
• Precision-Guided Boomerang: Not just boomerangs; he'll use anything he can throw in a pinch - with lethal accuracy.
• The Rival: To Deadshot since they're both marksmen. Naturally when things turn south, it winds up coming to blows between the two.
• Scarf of Asskicking
• Speed Blitz: His Traversal Attack has him Flash Step throughout a large area, rapidly and repeatedly attacking anyone inside it.
• The Starscream: Constantly tries to undermine Deadshot and take command of the Squad during the film.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed. The Squad are no saints, but Captain Boomerang is markedly worse than the rest, having less standards than the others on even a basic level.
• Troll: Winds up Colonel Flag by pretending he doesn't understand the difference between dimensional travel and time travel.
• Unknown Rival: Maintains a heated and intensely personal rivalry, that multiple characters acknowledge is entirely one-sided, with the Flash, in spite of the vast power disparity of tussling with a speeder meaning that Harkness has been instantly defeated every time. Personnel files compiled by Earth-2 Lex Luthor note that he brings up the Flash an average of once every four minutes in therapy sessions, while Barry — out of genuine ignorance, not spite — didn't even recognize the name "Captain Boomerang" when it was mentioned to him once.
  Rick Flag: Don't most rivalries have two sides to them?
  Boomerang: Don't your ARSE have two sides to it? 'Cause I'm gonna... kick 'em BOTH!
  Flag: Yeah. Be honest with me, Harkness — does Flash even know your name?
  Boomerang: Of COURSE he bloody... I, I mean... I, I assume he woulda looked into it after the whole... LOOK, he won't NEED t' know my name when he's a scarlet smear on the flamin' SIDEWALK, now will 'e?!

The Joker (Earth-2)

The Joker

"Time to paint this town PURPLE!"

Voiced By: JP Karliak

The Clown Prince Of Crime of Earth-2, and sole survivor of his original world's Task Force X.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: It's noted that the fact that this version was in his universe's Task Force X means that he's capable of functioning in a team and doesn't have the Chronic Backstabbing Disorder typical of most Jokers. He claims that he did kill his old team, but that it was, in his own warped way, a Mercy Kill to save them from the much worse fate awaiting them with Brainiac — and that's even getting into whether you believe him or not.
• Age Lift: This is a younger, less-experienced Joker who, according to one of the devs, had not yet reached "supervillain status" on his Earth. When he first learns of his counterpart from this universe, he's immediately disgusted at how old he is comparison.
• Ambiguously Gay: The original had his moments, especially with Batman, but this Joker is so camp that the ambiguity is more on whether he isn't. He maintains a platonic relationship with Harley — "strictly coworkers" — and seems particularly enamored with Rick Flag (who's been in some gay relationships himself), even nicknaming him "Flagpole" in his interrogation tapes.
• Artificial Limbs: He's missing his left leg, and has replaced it with a gaudy prosthetic one that looks somewhere between a nutcracker and a marionette. If his own account is to be believed, he lost it blowing up the Hall of Justice.
• Everyone Has Standards: He has a distaste for the "tacky sideshow" made from his former Earth, not just because it's too egomaniacal a concept even for him or that Brainiac is stealing his bit, but because there's no fun or excitement in being the Joker in a fully Jokerized world.
  "When EVERYTHING'S a punchline... the joke just isn't funny any more."
• Future Me Scares Me: Played for laughs. When Waller tries to scare Joker into line by showing him photographs of his Earth-1 counterpart's corpse, he's disgusted... to see how old and skin-damaged he was.
  Joker: [observing the Batman Museum display] Wow... this is very existential for me. I always wondered what I'd look like dead. Answer? Waxy!
• Joker Immunity: Somehow survives the complete destruction of his home dimension and is one of the few survivors to escape, which, all things considered, is fairly normal fare for The Joker. Special note goes to the context within the Arkham Series as a whole, as this Joker functions as a defacto replacement for the original Joker who died in Arkham City, essentially returning him from the dead in the eyes of the greater setting.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Pre-release material casts him in this light compared to his predecessor, noting that he's a younger and less experienced criminal who didn't get to achieve the same level of supervillainy before he was recruited and his world destroyed, and that he is at the very least capable of working within a team setting.
• Lean and Mean: Even by the standards set by the original Joker, this guy is an absolute stringbean.
• The Nicknamer: Affectionately calls his squadmates and higher-ups by diminutive names ("Sharky", "Ricky" and "Floydie", to name a few). His pet name for Waller, "Mandy", really grates on her nerves.
• Parasol Parachute: This version uses a jet-powered parasol to glide around the air.
• Replacement Goldfish: Considering he has no home to go back to, and the native Joker of Earth-1 died in Arkham City...
• Taking You with Me: His plan was supposedly to kill every hero, villain and Brainiac trooper at the Hall of Justice, including himself, by blowing it apart with a lot of dynamite. Instead, he hobbled away, maimed but alive, with his allies dead and nothing to protect him from being captured.
• Too Kinky to Torture: To hear him tell it, he enjoyed the hell Brainiac put him through ("we could've been pals, swapped torture tips!"), and only left captivity because he felt he had a score to settle. He even knows from past experience that ARGUS is going to inject him with another bomblet to bring him into Task Force X, and he's so eagerly masochistic about the process that Boomerang is creeped out; when the entire team hesitates, he does it himself.
  [Boomerang tries, tentatively, to sneak up on him with the injector]
  Joker: [his voice low and anticipating] Put it in me.
  Boomerang: Aw, mate, bloody hell! Now you've just made it weird!
• Unreliable Narrator: In classic Joker fashion, and he proudly admits it by name in the Season 1 intro. Whether or not he even killed his own Squad — to spare them being converted by Brainiac, as he says, or just for the hell of it — is left a mystery.