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Task Force X / The Suicide Squad

Rick Flag: "Love 'em or hate 'em, these are your brothers and sisters for the next few days."

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

The second team of coerced criminals to be assembled by Amanda Waller for dangerous black ops missions.

For the previous team appearing in Suicide Squad, see Task Force X - Original Team.

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In General

• Asshole Victim: Enforced, they were all on life sentences and agreed to participate in extremely dangerous missions in exchange for reduced sentences. If they were killed during the mission, nobody will miss them and they might even rejoice at the news of their deaths.
• Boring, but Practical: Most of the characters who make up this iteration of the squad are just conventional weapon experts with only a handful of metahumans within their ranks. Which is more than reasonably effective against the explicitly human military grunts they face on Corto Maltese.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Due to the Soft Reboot nature of the movie, Deadshot, Killer Croc, and Katana are all absent with no explanation.
• Explosive Leash: Once again, small explosive chips are injected in the necks of the team's criminal members.
• Old Hero, New Pals: Old Villains but still. The only returning members from the previous film are Harley, Boomer, and Flag.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Bloodsport, Polka Dot Man, Peacemaker, Ratcatcher and Mongal are not part of the Squad in the comics.
• Two Girls to a Team: Harley and Mongal are the only two women on Team A. Later, Harley and Ratcatcher 2 become the only two women on Team B once Harley joins up with them.

Squad Team A

In General

• Advertised Extra: Team A were advertised with seemingly equal importance as Team B, but all of them, sans Harley and Rick, end up biting the bullet before the film even reaches the title sequence.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: To the X-Force from Deadpool 2, an Anti-Hero Team that only exist to show off a collection of weird, ridiculously obscure characters the filmmaker has the rights to and to be comedically killed off early into their first mission, leaving only the two characters with plot significance.
• The Bus Came Back: Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang are recruited once again. The latter however doesn't last as long as he did originally.
• Butt-Monkey: Most of Team A which is filled with people that either don't have powers, their powers are just one-trick gimmicks, or are total morons. Even most of their deaths are embarrassing, with only Harley and Flag making it out alive.
• C-List Fodder: Except for Harley and Flag who survive, and possibly Boomerang since he wouldn't be considered a C-list character, all the members of this team are really minor characters from the comics who are killed very early into the film.
• Decoy Protagonist: The intro deliberately frames them as the main squad only to be on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle just minutes later: thus clearing the path for the real protagonists in Team B, with Flag and Harley as the only survivors of the first assault.
• Non-Indicative Name: Typically Team A would be the main team with the best members that has Team B as support. In this, Team A is filled with cannon fodder that's used as a distraction for Team B to sneak in and fulfill the mission.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Team A, who after being utterly massacred on the beachhead, are revealed to have just been a diversion so that Team B could land without drawing attention.
• Too Dumb to Live: Most of the fatalities of Team A can be summed up with Blackguard's betrayal, Mongal downing a helicopter without a plan, thus getting herself and Boomerang killed, and everyone else not thinking to just retreat and find another path.
• Undignified Death: None of their demises in the opening scene are pleasant or dignified; Blackguard gets his face blown off after stupidly announcing himself as the Corto Maltese army's inside man, Mongal burns alive in a crash that she caused, Captain Boomerang is riddled with splinters and dashed to pieces by Mongal's ill-considered attack on a helicopter, Javelin is riddled with bullets while trying to use his namesake weapon in a gunfight, and Savant's head is blown up by Waller as he whimpers in fear and tries to run away. Weasel and TDK avert this, though not because their fates were any less humiliating; Weasel seems to drown because no one bothered to check if he could swim, but he turns out to have survived, and TDK, despite his attempt to contribute failing miserably, isn't confirmed dead.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Most of Squad Team A is dead within the opening minutes of the film, leaving Rick and Harley as the only two to get any significant screen time. Though Weasel is revealed to have survived at the very end of the film.

Rick Flag

See his sheet on the Task Force X Officials and Agents page.

Harley Quinn

See her character page.

Captain Boomerang

See his sheet on the Task Force X - Original Team page.

Mongal

Mongal

"Don't worry, Flag! I got the bird!"

Species: Warzoon

Citizenship: Warworld

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Mayling Ng

Voiced By: Moe Harada (Japanese), Taryn Szpilman (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

A genocidal alien warrior with a massive hatred of humans.

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• Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, her family can stand toe-to-toe with Superman; here, she dies when she gets caught in a helicopter crash. Even her actor lampshades that Mongal should be powerful enough to survive this.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: As a Green-Skinned Space Babe in a comic book movie directed by James Gunn, Mongal's comparable to Gamora or Nebula, especially with her father in the comics being similar to Darkseid.
• Badass on Paper: Just looking at her page image she seems pretty badass, right? Well, until she tried taking down a helicopter, and got both her and Captain Boomerang killed thanks to her stupidity. Even Rick Flag told her not to.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: She's trapped in the wreckage of a crashed helicopter and graphically burns to death.
• Didn't Think This Through: She decides to try and bring down a helicopter by first grabbing onto its landing skids, not realizing that doing so would cause it to pitch and go out of control from her weight and the momentum of her leap. Rather than let go, she holds onto the helicopter in a blind panic as it spins out of control, and while it kills several soldiers, it also leads to Captain Boomerang being mortally wounded from the resulting shrapnel. She continues to hold until the helicopter inevitably crashes, leading to her being trapped beneath the wreckage and burning to death.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Her comic counterpart had her head punched off by her brother, Mongul Jr.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: When she speaks, it sounds like she has a really husky and much deeper voice compared to the other female characters. Zig-Zagged as she lets out a high-pitched scream when losing control of holding onto a helicoptor and when trapped, her screaming becomes raspy. And when she laughs at Blackguard freaking out, her laugh doesn't sound particularly high or low-pitched.
• Flat Character: Aside from being an alien warrior, she doesn't survive long enough to get any character development. If one were to pause the movie at the scene showing her criminal record, they could see that Mongal is in Belle Rêve for war crimes, crimes against humanity, mass homicide, destruction of property, aiding & abetting, and threatening an official.
• Informed Attribute: She supposedly hates humans, but no evidence of this is seen in the film; she doesn't seem to have any problem working with the rest of the Squad, and even volunteers to take down a helicopter that has them pinned down.
• Leeroy Jenkins: The first thing she does is charge out of cover and attempt to take down an attack helicopter used by the Corto Maltese military. It doesn't go well.
• The Load: It's one thing to cause your own death, but to simultaneously cause the death of a teammate definitely earns you this title.
• Longer-Than-Life Sentence: As revealed in her criminal record, Mongal was serving a sentence of over 200 years in Belle Rêve with the crimes justifying such a sentence being war crimes and crimes against humanity. Given such a long sentence no normal human could serve, it’s understandable that Mongal joined Task Force X in order to get that sentence reduced.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her misguided attempt at taking down the Corto Maltese helicopter not only gets herself killed, but inadvertently kills Captain Boomerang as well, who up to that point had been holding his own in the ambush.
• The Quiet One: She doesn't have many lines and mostly keeps to herself. Her only lines are her last words before doing what gets her killed.
• Super-Strength: Seems to be her main superpower, as she is strong enough to pull a helicopter.
• Token Non-Human: She's the only alien to be part of the Suicide Squad, and the only non-human member of Team A aside from Weasel.
• Too Dumb to Live: Mongal causes her own death when she makes the decision to bring down a helicopter even though Rick told her not to do it. Even worse is that she also causes Captain Boomerang’s death through this stunt.
• Woman on Fire: She dies by immolation.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: She quietly rolls her eyes at Harley's claim that American women don't have accents (said, of course, in Harley's trademark Brooklyn accent).

Savant

Brian Durlin / Savant

"I'd rather not be called at all. But I'll do anything to get out of this hellhole."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Michael Rooker

Voiced By: José Luccioni (European French), Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), Eduardo Dascar (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

"So this is the famous Suicide Squad!"

A highly skilled war veteran.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: There is only one mention made of him being an expert blackmailer like in the comics through his criminal record, which states that he is in Belle Rêve for an extortion charge. These skills are never shown onscreen as he is portrayed as gruff and co-dependent instead.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While Savant in the comics was still a villain, he was unfailingly polite and snarky with everyone and geniuenly respected Oracle and Black Canary. Here, he's rather gruff and abrasive.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Savant is a young, attractive man in the comics that served as Birds of Prey's main source of Female Gaze, but an older man with an unflattering hairstyle and outfit here.
• Adaptational Wimp: Savant in the comics was a scarily professional, expert hacker and blackmailer, and a martial artist on par with Black Canary or Green Arrow II, two of the best martial artists in DC. Here, as soon as danger appears, he runs away.
• Adapted Out: His partner in crime Creote is nowhere to be seen.
• Badass on Paper: He seems to be a stoic professional whose aim is so precise he can turn a rubber ball into a weapon. When Team A is ambushed on the beach, he winds up spending the entire fight hiding behind cover, not contributing anything to salvage the situation. When the team is inevitably massacred he ends up losing his head, both figuratively and literally.
• Decoy Protagonist: The film opens on him, and he receives a fair amount of focus throughout its opening minutes, leading viewers to assume that he will be a major character, only to end up dying before the opening credits even roll. The blood in the water from his death even forms the words "Warner Bros. Pictures Presents."
• Hypocrite: He's not wrong in calling the team a bunch of amateurs but he cracks under pressure and tries to flee despite being repeatedly told by Waller to turn back. It doesn't end well for him.
  • Hypocrite Has a Point: That said, he's only gung-ho when combat's his own priority, and largely considers the team "amateurs" because they can't make the switch between combat and survivalism when needed. It's only when he hangs back during the firefight with the Corte Maltese military that he neglects his own points (since in his defense, the battle was already lost at that point, he was underequipped to fight the military, and he believed he was the sole survivor of Team A, meaning the ball shouldn't have been in his court in the first place).
• Improbable Aiming Skills: He manages to hit all the targets across the walls of his cell with a bouncing ball without looking at most of them.
• Kick the Dog: In his introductory scene, he needlessly kills a bird. Later on after getting his head blown for ditching the mission, a bird of the same species is seen eating his brains.
• Know When to Fold Them: After witnessing his team get massacred by the military, he gets overwhelmed with fear and runs back into the sea. Despite telling him multiple times to turn back, Waller kills Savant for desertion.
• Miles Gloriosus: Downplayed. The team is getting decimated as Savant surveys the carnage, we expect for him to burst into a furious rage and go full Leeroy Jenkins to avenge his team… but instead, he runs back into the sea and tries to swim to safety. Not even Waller's demands for him to turn back can stop him… until she blows his head apart for going AWOL.
• Not So Stoic: He usually is shown to be quiet and cool until most of his teammates are killed, then he panics and flees.
• Pet the Dog: He'd no reason to try and save the ugly, child-murdering freakshow Weasel, but he did and as the end credits reveal, it was not in vain.
• Red Is Violent: Savant's introduced serving time for what's implied to be a violent criminal act, kills a bird for sport and he wears red.
• Sacrificial Lamb: His death shows that Waller isn't bluffing about the bombs in their necks and she will kill them for trying to go AWOL.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Rattled by the utter massacre of his team, he attempts to make a break for it by swimming away to safety. It does him no good.
• The Stoic: He's generally gruff and inexpressive, giving him the air of having Seen It All. The "tough badass" act goes away after the military confrontation.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He deems his teammates “amateurs” after trying and seemingly failing to save Weasel, and blamed that on their incompetence and the squad mission control.
• You Have Failed Me: Savant's desperate attempt to desert gets his head blown up by Waller.
• Your Head Asplode: He panics on the beach and runs away. Waller blows him up for desertion.

Javelin

Gunter Braun / Javelin

"American women all love accents."

Species: Human

Citizenship: German

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Flula Borg

Voiced By: Milton Wolch (Latin American Spanish), Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Garcia Júnior (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

A former Olympic athlete turned criminal.

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• Affably Evil: He's quite polite and flirtatious with Harley Quinn. He's even nice enough to entrust her with his javelin as he dies.
• Absurdly Sharp Blade: While rather inefficient as a throwing weapon, especially against gunfire, his javelin's sharpness make it a very deadly melee weapon in the hands of a expert fighter like Harley Quinn, as several henchmen and the bulletproof eye of Starro can attest.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Compared to the rest of his fallen teammates, his death is shown in a more somber light.
• Awesome, but Impractical: His javelin is very ornate and pretty to look at, but in a fight between a throwing spear and multiple firearms, the firearms win. Javelin doesn't even get the chance to throw his titular weapon before being riddled with bullets and left to die. Harley fares far better using it as a melee weapon.
• Dies Wide Open: His eyes are open when he finally succumbs to his wounds.
• Europeans Are Kinky: He flirts with Harley during the helicopter ride.
• Flat Character: Besides liking Harley Quinn, he doesn't have much of a character before he gets shot.
• Javelin Thrower: His favored weapon, and source of his codename.
• Joke Character: Although not as pathetic as TDK, his only apparent gimmick is that he fights with a Javelin. Unlike TDK (who at least gets to demonstrate his skill set before being dispatched), Javelin is shot the minute he comes out of cover to throw his weapon. Turns out it's a bad idea to bring a guy who needs to be standing upright and out of cover to use his weapon in to a firefight.
• Named by the Adaptation: In the comics his civilian name was never revealed, but here his name is Gunter Braun.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Although he is one of the casualties in the opening sequence, his javelin allowed Harley to injure Starro: giving the rats the opportunity to finish him off from the inside.
• Take Up My Sword: He bequeaths his weapon to Harley as he dies. She uses it to tear open Starro's eye, allowing Ratcatcher's rats to come in and finish the job.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He bleeds out next to Harley soon after the opening credits.

Weasel

Weasel

Species: Weasel-human hybrid

Citizenship:

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Sean Gunn

Appearances: The Suicide Squad | Creature Commandos

Blackguard: Is this thing a dog?

Captain Boomerang: A dog? What kind of dog do you think it is, mate?

Blackguard: I don't know. I'm not familiar with all the breeds.

T.D.K.: I'm gonna go with Afghan hound.

Captain Boomerang: Since when does an Afghan hound have bloody thumbs?!

A feral and carnivorous weasel man.

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• Adaptation Species Change: The comic version was actually a human in an elaborate weasel costume. This Weasel is an actual humanoid vermin, and it's unknown if he ever even used to be human.
• Adaptational Nonsapience: The comic version was animalistic, but could speak and expressed awareness of his current situation. The movie version appears completely feral and incapable of communicating beyond bestial growls and chittering, leaving Rick unsure as to whether he's even intelligent enough to give consent to be in the mission at all.
• Ambiguously Evil:
  • While Rick Flag claims that Weasel is responsible of the deaths of 27 children, an interview by James Gunn suggests that he might be innocent of his supposed crimes.
  • This is somewhat evident by his body language and treatment; as he gets pushed out of the vehicle to join team A, he visibly panics before jumping out of the plane, it looks like he fell in the water rather than jumped in like the others, and nobody considered if Weasel could swim before taking him on the mission.
  • Also, note his body language while he's on the chopper when Flagg introduces him. He nods and makes a noise that sounds like confirmation when the latter tells the others he's harmless, looks visibly taken aback when Rick says that he killed 27 children, and rolls his eyes after he's told that he's agreed to take on the mission.
• Ambiguously Human: He's in a prison for human/metahuman supervillains, but it's never established just what kind of creature he is or why he looks like this. He may never have been human at all and simply be a humanoid weasel.
• Butt-Monkey: Judging by his body language, he's the most scared as he's pushed out of the truck in his intro, visibly panics when told they were about to jump (as shown by how he tries to free himself before the jump while screeching), and he supposedly drowns before taking even part in the mission.
• Casting Gag: Sean Gunn is playing an anthropomorphic animal with a mo-cap suit in a comic book film directed by his brother James Gunn.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He spends most of the time off in his own little world, and barely seems to comprehend what's going on around him.
• Damned by Faint Praise: While everyone else on the team, even TDK, has powers or skills with at least some utility, Weasel is just kinda… there. The highest praise Rick Flag can think of to give to him before the mission begins is "I think he's agreed to do this."
• The Ditz: It's not clear what, if anything, is going through Weasel's head.
• Expy: Gunn based him on Bill the Cat from Bloom County.
• Fish Eyes: He has unfocused, bulging eyeballs to complete his scraggly, mangy appearance.
• Full-Frontal Assault: He's a naked weasel man.
• Gonk: He's just a disgustingly hideous creature.
• Informed Attribute: He apparently is a highly dangerous prisoner and a serial child killer, but within the film itself comes off as too stupid to actually be an effective threat.
• Joke Character: The weirdest member of the team in appearance and demeanor, he's immediately incapacitated without contributing anything to the team because it turns out he can't swim.
• Killer Rabbit: He seems to be a pathetic and not mentally aware animal person, when Blackguard gets terrified at the prospect of sitting next to him (thinking he might be a werewolf), Rick Flag says that a) he's not a werewolf and b) he's harmless. Flag then corrects himself and notes that Weasel has killed 27 children.
• Not Quite Dead: It's revealed in The Stinger that he's still very much alive.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Parodied. He's apparently highly dangerous and killed 27 children, but in the film itself he's just a scatterbrained moron who drowns before the team even reaches Corto Maltese.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When he wakes up after his seeming death, Weasel opts to run off into the jungle and go off the radar.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Weasel is mostly remembered as one of the many C-list villains that died during his first mission with the Squad, and when he returned for the New 52 continuity, he was once again killed and promptly forgotten. Here he survives the whole movie by being unconscious long enough for the enemy forces to leave the area.
• Super Drowning Skills: He can't swim and apparently drowns after jumping into the ocean in the opening prologue. Apparently, nobody at A.R.G.U.S. thought to check that all members of the Squad could swim beforehand.
• Token Non-Human: Double subverted for team A. He apparently drowns, which seemingly leaves Mongal as the only non-human remaining for team A until she got herself (and Captain Boomerang) killed bringing down a helicopter. In the first post credits scene, it's revealed that Weasel survives.
• Wicked Weasel: Weasel has a very one-track mind, is easily agitated and startled, is scared by and doesn't want to do many things, and doesn't understand or care for social norms and how people see or think of him (this last point is confirmed by his licking of the grate at the prison).
• Would Hurt a Child: Rick Flag confirms that he's killed no less than twenty-seven children. Though, as mentioned above, James Gunn suggests he might be innocent.

TDK

Cory Pitzner / The Detachable Kid (TDK)

"It stands for me. It's what a name is."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Nathan Fillion

Voiced By: Andrés Gutiérrez Coto (Latin American Spanish), Akio Katou (Japanese), Ricardo Juarez (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

A man with the power to make his arms fall off and float around independently from the rest of his body.

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• Adaptation Deviation: In the film, he's a criminal from the present day as opposed to a wannabe superhero from the 30th Century.
• Adaptation Name Change: From "Arm-Fall-Off Boy" in the comics to "The Detachable Kid" in the film. His real name is also changed from "Floyd Belkin" to "Cory Pitzner". A pragmatic change, both because the character does not resemble his comic form very much, and because of conviction of his comics creator Gerard Jones on a serious felony.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: His comic counterpart, Arm-Fall-Off Boy, could only pop an arm off and use it like a blunt weapon. Here, he at least has the ability to telekinetically detach both arms and control them from afar, though it doesn't make him any less pathetic.
• Adaptational Villainy: He's a criminal loosely based on a superhero.
• Age Lift: His comics counterpart was a teenager. Here, he is an adult (which makes the "kid" part of his name a little inaccurate).
• Alternate Company Equivalent: He's kind of an inversion of The Vanisher from Deadpool 2, one was a C-List Fodder Joke Character who turned out to be played by a very famous actor. This is a very famous actor playing what turns out to be a C-List Fodder Joke Character.
• Cloudcuckoolander: TDK sort of lives in his own little world. Without hesitation, he jumps into the fray against dozens of heavily armed soldiers upon Flag's command and is genuinely proud of his "power", and tries earnestly looking like a badass while pitifully slapping some soldiers. Earlier aboard the Osprey, he legitimately thought Weasel was… an Afghan hound (assuming he wasn’t being a Deadpan Snarker or that he was joking).
• Comically Missing the Point: When Javelin asks him what "TDK" stands for, he replies that it stands for him, not understanding that Javelin was asking what the initials stood for.
• The Comically Serious: He acts genuinely serious with a face of earnest determination while using his powers to ineffectively slap at some soldiers.
• Detachment Combat: He is able to remove his arms and make them float separate from his body while being fired at. While the sheer oddity of his power is able to momentarily distract the soldiers at the beach, it doesn't last and he is quickly incapacitated.
• The Ditz: Like Blackguard he thinks Weasel is a dog. When Captain Boomerang incredulously asks what breed Weasel could possibly be, TDK responds with "Afghan hound". Captain Boomerang can only respond with "Since when does an Afghan hound have bloody thumbs?!"
• Embarrassing Nickname: It's revealed just before his supposed death that TDK is short for The Detachable Kid. It's barely better than his original comic-book codename of "Arm-Fall-Off Boy", and bad enough that Harley Quinn immediately hangs a lampshade on it.
• Flat Character: Aside from his ability to detach his arms from his body, he doesn't show much personality before his detached arms get shot and he begins bleeding out immediately.
• Joke Character: His power is just detaching his arms. That's it. He has no other powers and hasn't a clue when it comes to using it in creative ways. It's no wonder he was immediately defeated.
• Lethal Joke Character: Though an Informed Attribute to be sure, he’s apparently been on enough successful missions that the control room is surprised he hasn’t worked with Harley before.
• The Load: Gains this title because of the fact that his superpower does not help out his team very much at all. The only thing it does is annoy several Corto Maltese soldiers by slapping them repeatedly.
• Logical Weakness: Even when detached his arms still seem to be connected to the rest of his body, so when the soldiers on the beach resort to riddling his detached arms with bullets, he winds up quickly bleeding out.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: His silly pink outfit from the comics becomes a very dark green for the film.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: His detached arms are riddled with bullets, leading to him quickly bleeding out. Then again, Word of God is that he’s not really dead.
• Required Secondary Powers: Averted. TDK's arms are powerless beyond their detachability, and he seems to lack even basic hand to hand combat skills.
• Small Name, Big Ego: A nicer version, as he's very proud of his utterly lame superpower.
• Synchronization: He feels the pain when his detached arms are riddled with bullets, collapsing as they bleed out.
• Uncertain Doom: We never get any actual confirmation of his death. He’s bleeding out on the ground and his status on the Belle Reve terminal lists him being in critical condition during the opening credits, but is never actually listed as dead and he doesn’t come up again after that. James Gunn has confirmed at least he didn't die in the movie's runtime, but given the last we see of him he's in critical condition and spewing up his own blood on a beach thousands of miles from America, it's anybody's guess how he'd crawl out of that.

Blackguard

Richard Hertz / Blackguard

"Yo, they sat me next to a WEREWOLF?! Yo, let me out!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Pete Davidson

Voiced By: Jose Antonio Toledano (Latin American Spanish), Shunsuke Takeuchi (Japanese), José Leonardo (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

A mercenary for hire.

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• Adaptational Wimp: In the comics he has a suit of armor that's capable of generating energy constructs to attack and defend himself. Here, he wears what appears to be simple combat fatigues and relies on handguns.
• Asshole Victim: He is thoroughly unpleasant to everyone in the lead-up to the mission, and is revealed to have sold the team out to the Corto Maltese military as soon as they land on the island. It's hard to feel bad when they reward him for his treachery by blowing his face off.
• Boom, Headshot!: He has his head blown apart by the Corto Maltese military.
• Death by Irony: He sold out the team to the Corto Maltese military to save himself, but he ends up being the first member of the Suicide Squad they kill.
• A Dick in Name: Pete Davidson reportedly jumped at the chance to play a character whose civilian name was "Dick Hertz," and his betrayal of all the other Squad members makes his real first name just as apt as his codename.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: His comic counterpart had his head chopped off instead of being shot in the face.
• Dirty Coward: He's easily frightened by the presence of Weasel after Harley calls him a werewolf and was quick to betray his teammates just to save himself from death.
• The Ditz: Asks if Weasel is a dog. Captain Boomerang has an incredulous reaction.
• Hate Sink: He is very annoying to be around and he sold out Team A to the Corto Maltese soldiers, so it's very clear he isn't meant to be a sympathetic character.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: His outfit seems to be made from leather, completely black with golden/bronze accents.
• It's All About Me: Blackguard is apparently very selfish as he does intentionally make Bloodsport clean toilet paper from his shoe and later on betrayed his team for his own personal benefit.
• Jerkass: Spends much of his screentime being an asshole to anyone near him, like Bloodsport or a random Belle Reve guard.
• Lean and Mean: The biggest Jerkass on a team of convicted killers and he has Pete Davidson's lanky physique.
• Meaningful Name: "Blackguard" is an archaic term for a dishonorable reprobate, and he certainly fits the bill.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Is revealed to have sold the team out to the local military as soon as they arrive on the island, and is shot in the face while announcing their presence to the other side.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • Hinted at when he needs the assistance of T.D.K. to help fasten his seatbelt.
  • Really, one wonders how his double cross would have panned out even if he hadn't been killed by the government he sold the team out to, given that he's still got a bomb implanted in him that Waller is all too happy to use. The film even heavily implies that Waller was aware of his plan the whole time and factored it into using Team A as a diversion to allow Team B to infiltrate the island unmolested.
  • Also, considering he's supposed to be a black-ops mercenary, stealth is far from his strongest quality, as despite wearing an all-black tactical outfit with lots of weapons attached to it, having Pete Davidson's distinctive lean, lanky stature, bleached blond hair and pale skin makes him stand out like a sore thumb even under cover of darkness, making him easy prey for snipers - which he inevitably becomes.
• Troll: He messes with a guard by repeatedly pretending to reach for one of his guns.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He freaks out at the idea Weasel is a werewolf, to the point he desperately wants out of a plane thousands of feet in the air right now. Only after being assured Weasel is in fact a giant weasel man does he calm down.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Corto Maltese army kill him quickly after he reveals that he's the one who contacted them.

Squad Team B

In General

• Beware the Silly Ones: While the roster of villains that make up Team B are substantially more madcap than their predecessors from the first movie, they are still incredibly competent combatants who possess skillsets that make them arguably even more dangerous than the Midway City roster. Flag even lampshades this, pointing out to Sol Soria that, while the team are (in his words) "fuckin' idiots", they're still a capable fighting force and useful allies.
• Contrasting Replacement Character:
  • Bloodsport to Deadshot: Deadshot put his daughter on a pedestal and was outmatched by Batman. Bloodsport has a strained relationship with his daughter and very nearly killed Superman.
  • Peacemaker to Captain Boomerang: Captain Boomerang is scruffy, mischievous and lacks any kind of principles. Peacemaker is well-groomed with a Heroic Build, acts non-nonsense most of the time and has a sense of duty, however misguided it may seem.
  • Polka-Dot Man to El Diablo: El Diablo was the vessel to a fire spirit and felt angst over killing his family. Polka-Dot Man's powers come from science and he hates his mother.
  • Ratcatcher 2 to Katana: Katana has a steady job as one of Waller's agents who lost her husband but was able to keep his soul close through her cursed sword. Ratcatcher 2 is a common thief that's viewed as cannon-fodder by Waller who lost her father and symbolically keeps his memory close via her rat-summoning device.
  • King Shark to Killer Croc: Killer Croc is a human that just happens to have a mutation and turned to villainy out of hatred for everyone. King Shark is a demigod that just happens to look humanoid and doesn't bear any ill will towards humanity despite eating people.

Bloodsport

Robert DuBois / Bloodsport

"I'm an assassin, why would I share my liabilities?!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): US Army, Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Idris Elba

Voiced By: Dan Osorio (Latin American Spanish), Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese), Ronaldo Júlio (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

"Don't you worry, yeah? I'm going to get you out of here alive."

A former war veteran turned contract killer who gained infamy for putting Superman in the ICU with a Kryptonite bullet.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: His comics counterpart suffered from severe mental illness, believing himself to be a hardened Vietnam War veteran. Here, he's not only completely stable but arguably the only member of the team who isn't suffering from serious mental issues.
• Abusive Parents:
  • During the Training from Hell he endured as a child, his father would use harsh punishments whenever Robert failed a task. The worst was him being locked in a crate for 24 hours with starving rats, which led to his phobia.
  • Bloodsport is a downplayed example as he's very dismissive of his daughter, whom he regards as annoying and sees nothing wrong with cursing her out. He even admits she shouldn't be hanging around him. His confrontation with Waller after Tyla's visit also shows he wasn't even aware of how old his daughter is. That being said, anyone aiming harm at her in any way sets him off.
• Action Dad: He's an assassin and a father.
• Actor Allusion: Two of them.
  • It's not the first time Idris Elba plays a character who battles against malevolent forces from a place called Jotunheim.
  • It's also not the first time Idris Elba plays a character who takes on a giant kaiju-sized creature from outer space.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Idris Elba is considerably more handsome and suave than the Bloodsport of the comics.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Inevitably, due to the setting update. He's no longer a delusional man who believes himself to have been a Vietnam War vet, but a genuine veteran who is perfectly stable.
• Adaptational Badass: His comics counterpart only believed he was a war veteran due to his severe mental illness whereas here, he genuinely did serve in the military and is extremely capable as a result.
• Adaptational Nationality: He's American in the comics but British like his actor here. Given that he is still said to have served in the US Military, this likely means he has dual citizenship, or, less likely, a Green Card.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Bloodsport has a teleportation system linked to a warehouse full of guns that he can summon at will. In the film, he instead is a Walking Arsenal of IKEA Weaponry.
• Affably Evil: To the point that his "evil" comes across as an Informed Flaw. We don't really see him do anything evil in the film. He can be a jerk, but overall he's a pretty good guy at his core. If anything, he spends more time thinking and saying that he has no good in himself than proving that as a point, especially since he has plenty of moments where he does prove it.
• Age Lift: Originally an (apparent) Vietnam vet, here he's played by 48-year-old Idris Elba.
• Almighty Janitor: Robert DuBois is introduced cleaning the Belle Rêve penitentiary, picking up the trash of other inmates like Blackguard and Savant, and he's also one of the deadliest assassins in the DCEU. Bloodsport has hospitalized Superman with a Kryptonite bullet (although Word of God is that Superman recovered), packs enough weaponry to briefly overpower King Shark, and is a marksman capable of out-dueling Peacemaker in a gunfight by shooting through Peacemaker's hollow-point rounds dead center with his own, smaller, armor-piercing bullets.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime.
• Badass Normal: No superpowers besides incredible killing skills honed by Training from Hell.
• Blackmail: His ultimate decision in regards to the data that contains all the scathing involvement in terms of involvement of the U.S. Government in Project Starfish. Long story short, Bloodsport decided to not expose the information to the press in exchange for their freedom, much to Amanda's reluctance.
• Blood Knight: It's subtle, but during his Body-Count Competition with Peacemaker, Bloodsport is clearly gaining some satisfaction from the impromptu challenge. Going as far as kill with several of his armor's more flashier weapons even though the initial goal was to just take the guards out silently. He even ultimately relents to Peacemaker's point that being a show-off is fine for as long as what you're showing off is "dope as fuck".
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Bloodsport has a platonic version of this dynamic with Ratcatcher II, with Robert serving as the jaded brooding boy to Cleo's kindhearted gentle girl.
• Chick Magnet: You can see the female Belle Reve inmates checking him out in the background when he's introduced to Ratcatcher II.
• Collapsible Helmet: His black helmet with a skull motif uses the same technology as the rest of his IKEA Weaponry and can fully collapse, although it doesn't disappear in his collar: he puts it on or remove it by hand before storing the very compact item in his Utility Belt.
• Combat Breakdown: Due to running out of ammo, he eventually goes from using numerous high-tech guns to a pair of pistols to a katana and finally his bare hands over the course of the final fight.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: Was ordered to let Starro do its thing after it got free. He went back to save the people anyway.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Bloodsport is essentially this to Deadshot from the first movie.
  • Both men are elite-level assassins and Notorious Parents with 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 cheerful young girl who loves him despite of his career as a hired gun, Bloodsport is a terrible father to a juvenile delinquent who are both constantly at each other's throats. Whereas Deadshot is motivated to join the Squad by his need to be back in his daughter's life, Bloodsport wants nothing to do with his kid, but is coerced into joining the team or else his daughter will 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 old war buddies who are far more cordial to one another during their operation in Corto Maltese. Deadshot was snarky yet fairly cordial with his teammates (aside from Flag), whereas Bloodsport is more antagonistic (ironically he's the most consistently friendly around Flag) and takes longer to shed his weary, self hating and aggressive attitude.
  • While Deadshot's skillset is defined by his Improbable Aiming Skills, Bloodsport's skillset showcases a bigger emphasis on him being both a Walking Armory and a Multi-Melee Master who's capable of mowing down entire armies with his superior firepower.
  • Most strikingly, 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 Batman villain who was eventually appended by the Dark Knight during a night out with his daughter while Bloodsport is a Superman villain who put the Man of Steel in the ICU before he was arrested.
• Cool Helmet: He has a collapsible black helmet with a skull motif.
• Crazy-Prepared: It's implied that the small bullet he used to defeat Peacemaker in their Quick Draw duel was made by him in case he and the latter ever come to blows.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's a professional killer codenamed Bloodsport who wears a predominantly black costume with a creepy Rage Helm. He's also one of the most moral members of the team after Ratcatcher. This also furthers his contrast with his Evil Counterpart Peacemaker, a Bright Is Not Good Psycho for Hire.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has a very dry, world-weary sense of humor.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: A male example. Bloodsport starts off as a weary anti-social jerk who's coldly sardonic to nearly everybody he meets, but thanks to some positive influence from Cleo, his icy exterior gradually melts, revealing a surprisingly affable and empathetic human being under all that gruff and snark.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Bloodsport, a man with no powers, put Superman in the ICU thanks to a Kryptonite bullet.
• Do Wrong, Right: He criticizes Tyla for stealing a smart watch both because she got caught and because she stole something so pointless, not because she broke the law.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a daughter, Tyla. When Amanda Waller threatens to send her to Belle Reve (for stealing a smartwatch) to ensure his cooperation, a furious DuBois holds a pen to Waller's throat, ignoring her armed personnel surrounding him.
• Evil Brit: He's a hitman with Idris Elba's London accent.
• Exotic Weapon Supremacy: He specializes in strange-looking custom-made IKEA Weaponry which is powerful enough to put him on level footing with superhumans. Even his sword is a collapsible katana. This is in contrast with Peacemaker, who uses a single fancy-but-conventional pistol and whatever other weaponry he can pick up around the battlefield.
• Foil: To Peacemaker. Aside from both of them having nearly identical upbringings and skill sets, Bloodsport is a villain who deep down wants to be a good person, while Peacemaker believes himself to be heroic but in truth is an unrepentant, delusional villain.
• Gadgeteer Genius: This is what sets him aside from your average Superhero Packing Heat. The unique, exotic, and highly personalized nature of his IKEA Weaponry makes it clear that he could only have built and designed it himself, and using it in battle requires lots of rapid, on-the-fly customization to make sure he always has the perfect tool for the job.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: The grumpy to Ratcatcher 2 and later Harley Quinn's gleeful.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: While his helmet is collapsible and he spends plenty of screentime bareheaded, most of his fight scenes feature him wearing it, symbolizing how he feels there's nothing heroic about him. Right around the time his heroic spirit was ignited, a piece of rubble hits his head and shatters the helmet, leaving his face exposed for the rest of the movie.
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers a massive panic attack near the end of the film when Ratcatcher II summons veritable tidal waves of rats to kill Starro, with one such wave scampering directly over him. He just curls up in a fetal position and whimpers.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Right from the start it's already quite clear how much of a Noble Demon he is, but as the movie goes on, it becomes very obvious that he's much more "noble" than "demon", bordering on an outright Anti-Hero. As he starts opening up to his teammates, it grows increasingly clear that it's not so much that he's villain with standards as it is he's a good man who was so broken from being raised from birth as a living weapon by his abusive father that he believes being a Professional Killer is all he could ever hope to be.
• Hitman with a Heart: He's an antisocial hired killer, but that's the worst there is to him. He's not especially cruel (beyond enjoying a good trick-shot contest mid-battle), tries to keep his teammates alive and in one piece, is willing to show kindness within the parameters of his mission, and is even willing to completely abandon his mission to save lives.
• Hypocrite: Defied, being an assassin, Bloodsport realizes he doesn't have the moral high ground to chew out his daughter for stealing a TV watch, which is why he opts to give her advice on how not to get caught instead.
• I Am a Monster: He tells both Tyla and Cleo that any goodness that was once in him was all but wrung out by his abusive father, and that he's a horrible person who his daughter should want nothing to do with, and who Ratcatcher 2 is wrong for seeing any good in. He ends up proving himself wrong for the most part; while far from the nicest or most heroic person in the world, DuBois proves himself to be noble enough that he can't abandon the people of Corto Maltese to Starro's rampage, risking his own life to save them.
• IKEA Weaponry: A variation, in that his entire suit is basically a wearable weapon rack of collapsible, modular, and modifiable gadgets.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Best seen right before the final battle when he shoots through Peacemaker's bullet and the bullet still goes through Peacemaker's gun and his neck.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • As neglectful a parent as he is, he's completely right in saying to his daughter that she should have had a partner to help her steal the smartwatch she wanted to avoid getting caught, that she's ultimately responsible for her own predicament, as she committed a robbery despite knowing how living a life of crime ended up for her dad, and that her robbery was completely pointless as she already had a phone that had the same features that the watch she coveted had. He makes it clear to Waller that he's fine with her going to juvie as punishment to learn the consequences of her actions and only relents when Waller makes it clear that she'll ensure she's tried as an adult and sent to Belle Reve instead.
  • He also has a point that his daughter should logically want nothing to do with an unrepentant assassin who has absolutely no idea of how to be the father she needs and should try to have a normal life as far away from his influence as possible.
  • As strange as it may seem, he was also right to call out his daughter over getting caught, rather than the fact that she stole the watch. Bloodsport is a career criminal who kills people for a living, and apparently went as far as putting Superman in the ICU with a kryptonite bullet. Someone like him doesn't have the moral high ground to call out someone else for stealing, he knows it too. Which is likely why he doesn't do so at all.
  • His assertion that Peacemaker kills less out of any higher ideals and more because he enjoys carnage and has simply found a way to indulge his worst traits and be rewarded for it is also not totally off the mark.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's abrasive, quick-tempered, a neglectful father, and finds most of his teammates annoying or weird. However, he is protective of his daughter, is a consummate professional, focuses on keeping his teammates alive, and is capable of striking up genuine friendships with them.
• Katanas Are Just Better: His suit contains a collapsible katana, which he briefly wields during the final battle.
• The Leader: He's the de-facto leader of Squad Team B.
• Logical Weakness: Due to his Adaptational Superpower Change, his status as a Walking Armory is limited by the fact there's only so much weight he can carry and space to put IKEA Weaponry components while still being an effective marksman, so if a job goes on for too long he'll eventually run out of weapons. Which is exactly what happens during the battle with Starro, as he not only used most of his components over the previous few days, he used up the rest of them surviving against Starro's Parasite Zombie horde.
• Malicious Misnaming: He calls Peacemaker "Pissmaker" to his face one time. (Genius Bonus alert: "piss" has its own place in Idris Elba's native English slang, and not a nice one.)
• Mistaken for Racist: When Peacemaker gets a Comedic Underwear Exposure, Bloodsport mocks his compatriot's "tighty-whities", a phrase Peacemaker is apparently unfamiliar with and mistakes for a racial slur.
• Mythology Gag:
  • He was taken to Belle Reve after shooting the Man of Steel with a Kryptonite bullet, a deed that he also pulled off in the comics.
  • His helmet resembles a skull with a black shield covering its upper half. This evokes the design of Bloodsport's original mask◊, which took up the upper half of his face.
• Noble Demon: Bloodsport is open about being an assassin and a killer, telling his daughter that she's better off without him as a father. And unlike the other Squad members who readily (though sometimes reluctantly) take the offer of a suicide mission if only to get out of Belle Rêve for a week, Bloodsport categorically refuses to join Amanda Waller's taskforce until she threatens to throw his daughter in prison with him, despite working as a janitor for presumably far less than a decade off his sentence. Bloodsport also risks his life to defy Waller by helping to save Corto Maltese from being destroyed by Starro when his orders were to do nothing.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: The character's nationality is never addressed, but he was American in the comics, is established to have served in the U.S. military, and has a French last name. Idris Elba just uses his natural English accent.
• Not So Above It All: Despite Bloodsport's status as the weary Only Sane Man, he's still willing to partake in a petty Body-Count Competition with Peacemaster.
• Not So Similar: For Deadshot, being a Black, gun-toting mercenary with a daughter, wears a similar suit of armor (complete with a Cool Helmet), is shown to be cordial with Harley Quinn, and is treated as the de facto leader after Flag; he was selected by Waller specifically because he'd make a good leader.
• Odd Friendship: With Cleo as he views her as a surrogate daughter. This is in spite of him being terrified of rats.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He's in prison for shooting Superman with a Kryptonite bullet, sending the hero to the ICU (though he got better).
• Offstage Villainy: Bloodsport is already an inmate at Belle Reve when introduced, and his past work as an assassin is only alluded to in dialogue.
• Only Sane Man: He's contrasted with the quirky Harley Quinn, overzealous Peacemaker, the overly optimistic and trusting Ratcatcher, Dumb Muscle King Shark, and suicidal Polka Dot Man as the sanest member of the team; even Rick Flag has a few Not So Above It All moments, but Bloodsport reacts to everything with weary resignation.
• Papa Wolf: Do not threaten his daughter. He eventually becomes a father figure to Ratcatcher II, which is proven when he subdues King Shark for trying to eat her and when he shoots Peacemaker in the neck for trying to gun her down.
• Parental Substitute: To Ratcatcher II.
• Parents as People: His tense relationship with his daughter and dismissive attitude towards her won't be getting him any "father of the year" awards any time soon but he does care about her and seems to want her to have a better life than he had, being disappointed when she starts engaging in petty crime.
• Pet the Dog: Or technically, Pet The Rat, literally. After the team kills Starro and at last complete their mission, he finally manages to work up the courage to pet Sebastian after the little guy snuggles up on his leg for a nap aboard the Osprey. He is still visibly freaked out, but it's definitely progress.
• Psycho for Hire: Subverted. You'd normally expect a supervillain assassin with a creepy outfit named Bloodsport to be one of these, but it soon becomes clear that he's a Punch-Clock Villain who mostly keeps his enthusiasm for his job within sane, reasonable levels, and instead serves as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who's frequently the Only Sane Man.
• Quick Draw: Engages in one against Peacemaker after the former sees the latter about to kill Ratcatcher 2. It doesn't go well for Peacemaker, though he does end up surviving in the end.
• Rage Helm: His helmet's visor is an Eyeless Face with a grinning, skeletal mouth, likely for the intimidation factor.
• Reimagining the Artifact: A major aspect of his comic counterpart's backstory is that he falsely claims to be a veteran of the Vietnam War, which ended when Idris Elba was only a child. The film's modern adaptation of Bloodsport actually does have military experience, and is said to have served alongside Flag in the latter's pre-Squad days.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: In a R-rated movie with an already significant amount of strong profanity, Bloodsport has the dubious honor of being the most frequent user of the F-word; it would be easier to count the times he doesn't use some sort of curse word.
• Scary Black Man: It comes with being a deadly mercenary after all. That said, while he is a ruthless killer, he is actually quite cordial and friendly towards those whom he trusts.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: The moment rats become a part of the equation, all of his dignity flies straight out the window, if the windows aren't shattered first by his panicked screams. Peacemaker and Waller's support team give him a good bit of grief and shit over this.
• Straight Edge Evil: When the Squad are chilling out in the club while waiting for the Thinker, he refuses to drink and has to be pressured by Flag into taking just one. He later says he doesn't smoke when captured, only accepting a cigarette from the officer in charge as a courtesy.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Initially, Deadshot was supposed to return for the sequel, but Will Smith's schedule wouldn't allow it, and so the role was filled by Bloodsport instead. While some changes in the script were made to accommodate this (see Contrasting Sequel Main Character above), the groundwork still seems like it might have been made for the former — it's not hard to see Lawton's situation and relationship with his daughter progressing into DuBois' in the five year gap between movies.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He hates working with Peacemaker and isn't too broken up over his betrayal.
• Tyke-Bomb: Bloodsport is the son of a mercenary who apparently trained him from birth to be an elite killer for reasons unknown.
• Walking Armory: He carriers an arsenal of collapsible weapons; Epic Flail, the cord of which he can use as a garotte, a flamethrower, a dart-launcher, twin pistols, a Hand Cannon with additional mods that gradually increases it to a BFG, a collapsible katana and a derringer.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has a major phobia of rats, due to his father repeatedly locking him in a box with some as part of the Training from Hell he put him through as a child. This causes some serious problems when he's put on a team with Ratcatcher II/Cleo, whose special skill is summoning and controlling rats. While he befriends Cleo in the end, he never fully gets over his fear of rats: When Cleo summons an army of rats in the finale to overwhelm Starro, he quickly curls in to a fetal position out of panic and spends the rest of the fight immobilized as the rats swarm over him and Cleo comforts him. He's at least gotten used to Cleo's pet rat Sebastian enough to allow him to rest on his knee in the final scene, though he is visibly tense and struggles to work up the nerve to pet him.
• Wicked Cultured: He's an extremely skilled assassin and an enemy of Superman who is also capable of utilizing extremely complex armaments on the fly and is well-versed in martial concepts such as Dim Mak and Kyushojitsu.
• Xenomorph Xerox: Invoked. He may be an ordinary human being, but his armour is designed to make him look monstrous and inhuman in a way that closely resembles HR Giger's iconic creation. The Rage Helm with the Eyeless Face and grinning, skeletal jaw is the most obvious feature, but the belts on the sides of his torso also resemble the Xenomorph's exoskeletal ribs.

Peacemaker

See DCEU: Task Force X - Officials and Agents.

Ratcatcher II

Cleo Cazo / Ratcatcher II

"I knew Sebastian sensed good in you for a reason!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: Portuguese

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Daniela Melchior

Voiced By: Lupita Leal (Latin American Spanish), Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Teline Carvalho (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

"If I die 'cause I gambled on love, it will be a worthy death."

A criminal with a handheld device that allows her to control legions of rats.

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• Alliterative Name: Cleo Cazo.
• Animal Lover: She's fond of rats and is the first team member to reach out to Beast Man King Shark.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: A kindhearted young woman who controls/communicates with small furry creatures, and uses that power to take down Starro. She's basically DC's version of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member of either team. She's so young that she doesn’t even know what an overhead projector is.
• Badass Adorable: She's a very pretty, kindhearted young woman whose tech makes her one of the Squad's most dangerous and versatile members.
• The Beastmaster: A particularly powerful one. She can summon and command rats with impressive range and precision, and with no meaningful upper limit on the size of the swarm under her command.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a friendly, altruistic Nice Girl, but if you give her enough reason, she will drown you in an army of extremely hungry rats. This even applies if you're a skyscraper-sized kaiju.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Ratcatcher II has a platonic version of this dynamic with Bloodsport, Cleo being the kindhearted gentle girl to Robert's jaded brooding boy.
• Canon Foreigner: There is no Ratcatcher II in the comics.
• Daddy's Girl: She is shown to be close with her father in the flashbacks. He taught her how to control the rats.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Cleo grew up homeless and destitute on the streets of Portugal where she was raised by a Gadgeteer Genius father who turned to petty crime to support them both until he eventually succumbed to his drug addiction and passed away via overdose, leaving the young Cleo to fend for herself.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She wears a creepy-looking costume in dark colors and controls swarms of rats as her primary skill, but she is by far the friendliest member of the Squad.
• Devoured by the Horde: This is the main reason why you should Beware the Nice Ones. When she does end up in a life-or-death battle, this is her favourite means of ending it, and it's gruesomely effective. Even Starro the Conqueror isn't safe.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her incarceration is the result of a fabulous lack of foresight; not only did she try to rob a bank (as opposed to her father's method of stealthy petty theft), but she was surprised to learn that the court considered her rats a deadly weapon, which Cleo proves several times in the movie that they effectively are.
• Foil: To Bloodsport; Cleo had a close relationship with her father, who taught her to control and appreciate rats, while DuBois was abused by his father, whose savage punishments gave him a crippling rat phobia.
• Gas Mask, Longcoat: Her supervillain costume is mainly comprised of a hooded knee-length leather coat and a gas mask she inherited from her father, the original Ratcatcher.
• Gratuitous Animal Sidekick: She has a pet rat named Sebastian.
• The Heart: She's the most socially adept member of the Squad who regularly resolves the numerous disputes within their ranks and who most makes an effort to get to know people and see the good in them. She befriends King Shark and constantly pushes Bloodsport to show his good side. It works.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: What can you do with the ability to summon and control rats? Pretty much anything you want. Rats are small, stealthy, intelligent, and incredibly numerous in any area with any degree of human habitation, and their jaws can bite through just about anything with sufficient time and energy. Her powers make her an excellent spy, saboteur, and assassin, and are extremely useful in direct combat as well, as the Corto Maltese military and Starro find out to their cost.
• Heavy Sleeper: She loves to sleep, refusing to join the squad simply because she got woken up on morning. Throughout the mission she always tries to take a nap even at the worst times possible. Peacemaker attributes this to her being a Millennial.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Cleo instantly assumes that King Shark (a Shark Man who tried to eat her while she slept) and Bloodsport (a man who casually slaughters people by the dozens and once nearly killed Superman) are kind, good people, and refuses to believe that they are evil. She is proven right on both counts by the end.
• Insistent Terminology: She's not Ratcatcher, she is Ratcatcher II. Even when she's called by her code name, people almost always say the number 2 after.
• Legacy Character: She is the second Ratcatcher; her father was the original Ratcatcher who created her equipment, but he died in Portugal before she came to America.
• Morality Pet: She's this to Bloodsport in spades, eagerly trying to get Robert to ease out of his shell and embrace his inner goodness which he vehemently denies exists.
  • Also serves as one to King Shark by becoming his first friend and convincing him that he shouldn't eat friends.
• Nice Girl: She's the one member of Task Force X who isn't some form of murderer or supervillain before coming to Belle Reve, and as a consequence she's easily the most moral and friendly of the team. She's the one member of Task Force X to go out of her way to try and befriend everyone else from the start (even after King Shark tries to eat her). Notably, while it's implied or openly stated that everyone else on the teams has killed or attempted to kill someone, Ratcatcher 2 was in prison for bank robbery because the prosecution argued that her rats counted as deadly weapons, which granted they very much are, but there's no indication that she ever used them as such.
• Not a Morning Person: She outright admits that she hates waking up very early when Amanda Waller wakes her up for the mission in her cell.
• Odd Friendship: With Bloodsport as he views Cleo as a daughter-like figure. This is despite how Bloodsport is terrified of rats. Also with Nanaue, who, once again, tried to eat her.
• Person of Mass Destruction: While she's far too much of a Nice Girl to use her powers to their full destructive effect without very good reason, being able to mobilise the entire rat population of a city is exactly as deadly as it sounds. It doesn't matter how big and tough you are or how many friends you've brought along — if she wants you to be Devoured by the Horde, you will be.
• The Pig-Pen: She wears several layers of dirty clothing and her hair is equally disheveled.
• Precision F-Strike: Unlike most of the team, Cleo almost never swears. However, when she realizes that King Shark really did try to eat her, she angrily calls him a bastard and nearly sics a swarm of rats on him.
• The Slacker: She's generally lazy and complains loudly about any work she's forced to do with Waller having to practically threaten her to get her out of bed and she spends much of the film only barely staying awake and active. This is also reflected in her poor hygiene, disheveled hair and dirty clothes.
• Sleepyhead: She's introduced brushing Waller off because she wants to keep on sleeping. During the Squad's first night camping, she's so deep in sleep that she doesn't even notice King Shark picking her up and trying to eat her.
• Squishy Wizard: She's got an incredibly powerful and versatile superpower (see Heart Is an Awesome Power above), but she's still a scrawny teenage girl with zero combat training, and she can't change that no matter how many rats she summons. If she's directly confronted by a trained soldier when she's without immediate access to her little furry friends, her best option is generally to run and hide.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only woman to be part of Team B, though she's later joined by Harley Quinn.
• Superior Successor: Her late father, the original Ratcatcher, was a petty thief afflicted with a drug addiction who was best known for using his rats to steal watches and prized jewelry to fence later for a quick buck. Cleo on the other hand, is far more mentally stable despite her eccentricities and slays a Mind-Manipulating Starfish Alien Kaiju by commanding her rats to devour the damn thing alive from the inside out.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the five members of the squad, there is no evidence that Ratcatcher actually killed anyone before she was arrested; she explicitly states that she was only arrested for "armed robbery" (the rats being defined as a weapon). During the mission, she even tries to be friendly to King Shark despite the fact that he literally tried to eat her. She also wasn't seen actually killing anyone when the Squad slaughtered freedom fighters they mistook for Corto Maltese soldiers, the most she's seen doing is using her rats to distract one dude so Peacemaker can kill him.
• Unkempt Beauty: Her looks are never a point of discussion, but she only starts with Messy Hair, and the only detriment afterwards is how the mission makes her as dirty as the rats she's controlling. Nonetheless, her actress is still very pretty.
• Villain Ball: Ratcatcher I survived on petty theft, using the rats to steal small things no one will notice. Ratcatcher II decided to rob a bank, a situation that in no way would be overlooked by anyone.

Sebastian

Sebastian

Species: Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)

Affiliation(s): Ratcatcher II, Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Jaws and Crisp Ratt

Voiced By: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

"Aww, he always wants to be near you! I think he senses good in you."

—Ratcatcher II to Bloodsport

Ratcatcher II's loyal rodent companion.

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• Amplified Animal Aptitude: Is very intelligent and behaves similarly to a human, even waving at people to say hello. In one scene he even squeaks in such a way that it sounds like he's saying "uh-oh".
• Animals Lack Attributes: Although consistently referred to as a "he", Sebastian exhibits no sign of the huge testicles an adult male rat should sport.
• Dogged Nice Guy: A non-romantic version with DuBois. Sebastian really likes him and just wants to be his friend, but DuBois's crippling fear of rats makes that damn near impossible. He eventually gets over it... kind of, and allows Sebastian to snuggle up to him and even pets him. Very, very nervously.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Or Evil-Detecting Rat anyway. Sebastian freaks out when Thinker shows Cleo and Flag what Project Starfish is really about.
• Nice Guy: He is incredibly friendly and affectionate towards everyone he meets, even though most people initially don't think highly of him because of prejudices against rats. Towards Bloodsport, who actively tries to avoid him because of a rat phobia, he's even extra friendly, doing his best to win him over (and he succeeds, in the very end). He's happily waving to everyone he meets to indicate his friendliness to everyone.
• Parrot Pet Position: Is commonly seen on Cleo's shoulder, which many rats like to do.
• Resourceful Rodent: Is a very intelligent rat able to follow Cleo's commands and warns the team when there's danger.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Is an adorable little rat who wears a tiny red backpack.
• Team Pet: Serves as this for the team as a whole, with Peacemaker giving him Fernet, and Bloodsport getting the courage to pet him.

Polka-Dot Man

Abner Krill / Polka-Dot Man

"I don't like to kill people, but if I pretend they're my mom, it's easy."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: David Dastmalchian

Voiced By: Víctor Ugarte (Latin American Spanish), Mamoru Miyano (Japanese), Manolo Rey (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

"My mother was a scientist at S.T.A.R. Labs, and she was obsessed with turning me and my brothers and sisters into superheroes. She infected me. Now if I don't, you know, expel the dots twice a day… they'll eat me alive."

A deeply troubled man afflicted with an interdimensional virus that grants him the ability to shoot plasma blasts in the form of polka-dots.

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• Abusive Parents: His mother experimented on him and his siblings in the hopes that they would become superheroes. He survived. Most of his siblings didn't.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the comics, Polka-Dot Man had a pot belly and a mean overbite. Here, he's played by the slender and unkempt but still considerably better-looking David Dastmalchian.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Polka-Dot Man is given an entirely new backstory, his mother being a S.T.A.R. Labs scientist who was driven by her obsession with superheroes to experiment on her own children. Abner is the only one of his siblings to survive the interdimensional virus he was infected with.
• Adaptational Badass: Typically one of Batman's most ridiculous foes, Polka-Dot Man is portrayed here as a legitimate superpowered being with incredibly lethal powers. He is even treated as the team's Story-Breaker Power and one of the few capable of hurting Starro the Conqueror.
• Adaptational Heroism: A regular two-bit criminal and D-List Batman rogue in the comics, Krill is presented here as a sympathetic and well-meaning misfit who ultimately uses his powers for good.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Abner's polka dots in the comics were individual weapons attached to his suit, each possessing a different ability. In the film, they're actual superpowers born from a cosmic virus and are capable of disintegrating anything in their path.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime as the time traveler known as Abra Kadabra.
• Ambiguous Situation: The reasons for why he was locked up is unknown by the end of the film. It's strongly implied that he killed his abusive mother, but this is never confirmed. A deleted scene between him and the Thinker confirms that Krill did in fact kill her, which he claims was out of self-defense.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: He dresses like a steampunk aviator, which makes the polka-dot decals seem a little out-of-place.
• Bathos: His entire character sums up to this. For example, his backstory of being experimented on by his own mother sounds horrifying. Him hallucinating everyone he sees as his mother? Hilarious.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Downplayed. Polka-Dot Man is far from evil but the trauma of the experimentation his mother forced him to undergo has left him a broken, heavily damaged person.
• Beware the Silly Ones: As ridiculous as his name and powers sound, he’s still the most powerful member of the team, with his polka-dots being easily capable of destroying any and all matter. He is also the only member capable of seriously harming Starro on his own.
• Blessed with Suck: His powers make him the strongest and most dangerous member of the team. However, the method by which he got them (being his mother's unwilling guinea pig) has left him with a load of psychological issues (including PTSD, depression, suicidal thoughts, and hallucinations). He also develops glowing tumors across his body that slowly eat him alive if he doesn't expel the polka dots at least twice a day and is relentlessly mocked and ridiculed as being a joke villain by those who don't fully understand his powers.
• Body Horror: As a side effect of the cosmic virus that gives him his powers, his excess energy will develop into bulbous, multi-colored tumors that cover his body. He's fitted with a power dampener at Belle Reve to keep this at bay, but in the field, he needs to expel the energy at least twice a day, or else the tumors will eat him alive.
• Brutal Honesty: While his teammates lie (poorly) about the fate of Sol Soria's men, Polka-Dot Man directly states:
  Polka-Dot Man: I turned them into my mother in my head and killed them.
• Butt-Monkey: He's often treated as a joke due to people assuming that he's a joke that shoots polka dots and his own mother implanted him with powers at a young age.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Polka-Dot Man and his siblings were subjected to cruel experiments by their own mother, who wanted to create her own superheroes. He is one of the few test subjects who survived the process. Not only is he Blessed with Suck by the interdimensional virus inside him, but the experience left him so traumatized that he has frequent hallucinations of his mother.
• Death Seeker: He responds to Bloodsport resignedly saying that they're all going to die with "I hope so." He gets his wish.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: A much better and dignified death here, compared to his death in Final Crisis Aftermath: Run!, where his head is crushed by a fallen sewer grate.
• Disabled in the Adaptation:
  • He has a whole host of mental issues that his comic counterpart never dealt with, the most notable being his vivid hallucinations.
  • His "superpower" has been changed for the movie into a debilitating chronic illness that will presumably kill him if not managed.
• The Eeyore: Thanks to the abuse of his mother when he was a kid, he's a very depressed and insecure pessimist who was hoping to die in the mission.
• Forced into Evil: He's not a naturally violent man (readily admitting he doesn't like killing people), disapproves of alcohol based on the number of deaths drunk driving causes, actually enjoys helping others, and we don't know what – or even if – he did anything that justified him being locked up in Belle Rêve aside from killing his mother, which considering what she did to him, should be basis for leniency.
• Glass Cannon: He's an ordinary, none-too-healthy man in an apparently unarmoured costume who also happens to be a walking plasma cannon.
• Hates Their Parent: He despises his abusive mother, and can only kill people if he imagines them as her.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Bloodsport and Peacemaker openly express incredulity at his powers at first, but quickly stop complaining when they realize how effective they are. Bloodsport even banks on his power being the only thing capable of directly harming Starro in the final battle.
• Heroic Wannabe: A really tragic example, Abner has wanted all his life to be and feel special, after the horrific experiments performed on him by his mother to give him superpowers he ended up desiring to be a superhero for real but his personality, amorality, and some unspecified crime he committed cut that dream short. At least until he gets the chance to fight Starro in order to save Corto Maltese and the world, proudly declaring himself to be a hero shortly before he's crushed by the Conqueror.
• Hidden Depths: Reveals he has some slick dance moves at the club, especially compared to Ratcatcher and Peacemaker.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: The poor guy gets squashed by Starro right when he starts feeling proud of himself.
  Polka-Dot Man: I'm a superhero! I'm a motherfucking super—
• Killed Off for Real: He's crushed to death by Starro.
• Lethal Joke Character: He's a suicidal sad sack with a ridiculous alias who's dressed like a loaf of wonder bread, yet his superpower makes him one of the only members of the Squad capable of doing direct damage to Starro.
• Light Is Good: He wears a white costume with colorful polka-dots and joins the surviving members of Task Force X in saving the world from Starro, giving his life in doing so.
• Looks Like Cesare: Downplayed, but his pallid complexion, wide dark eyes, and constant haunted expression definitely contrast with his brightly colored costume.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: He's infected with a virus from another dimension that riddles his body with energy-generating tumors. The 'superpower' bit comes from the fact that he can spray out the energy in devastating plasma blasts that resemble a stream of polka-dots.
• Momma's Boy: To the point that he sees literally every single living thing as a twisted form of his mother. Peacemaker mockingly refers to him as Norman Bates.
• Mundane Solution: Polka-Dot Man needs a special collar to keep the constantly growing polka dots under control, but when out in the field he can simply expel them (if they weren't used up in combat), in a simple process akin to taking a dump.
• Nice Guy: Despite being a part of the Suicide Squad, Abner is a pretty friendly, caring, and sensitive person who was the only one to feel sympathy for Milton's death.
• Not Enough to Bury: After Starro squishes him, all that's left is his torn up costume and a red puddle.
• No Social Skills: He's a social reject who sees his mother literally everywhere, so he never had any social skills in his life due to how little interaction he had with other people.
• Parental Issues: Among his stew of emotional issues, the Polka-Dot Man harbors a homicidal resentment towards his mother for intentionally infecting him with an interdimensional virus that gives him his powers.
• Primary-Color Champion: Some of his polka-dots are red, yellow, and blue in color.
• Profane Last Words: He says "I'm a superhero, I'm a motherfucking super—" to Bloodsport, just before he is crushed by Starro.
• Redemption Equals Death: How he dies.
• Running Gag: Polka-Dots Man keeps seeing everyone around him as his mother, including his squadmates, people in a night club, and Starro.
• Shrinking Violet: Because he's treated as a social reject, Polka-Dot Man is a very meek and timid introvert who keeps to himself and is pretty uncomfortable interacting with people. Though it doesn't help when all he can see is his mother.
• Story-Breaker Power: His ability is generating polka dots that disintegrate any matter they touch. Had he survived longer, he would've easily disintegrated Starro, effectively shortening the entire ordeal.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: Due to the trauma he suffered at the hands of his mother, he sees her everywhere once his hallucinations kick in (usually when he is reminded of her abuse, or when he needs motivation to attack people during the mission). Everywhere and as everyone, Starro included, which, despite how nightmarish it sounds, helps since she is the only person he can bring himself to kill without feeling bad about it.
• Too Happy to Live: Polka-Dot Man gets to bask in his heroic deed for barely a minute before Starro smashes him into a pulp.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: When initially introduced to Polka-Dot Man, Peacemaker asks what kind of power throwing polka dots at people actually is. Polka-Dot Man's powers ultimately proves the only thing able to directly injure Starro in the final battle, where Bloodsport and King Shark caused minimal damage and Ratcatcher II needed overwhelming numbers of rats and a lucky shot from Harley (using a weapon she'd only just acquired hours ago) to take him down.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: After successfully injuring Starro, Abner smiles for the first time in the entire film as he realizes he's finally become a hero and that his life could actually have value and meaning after all. His Hope Spot however is abruptly cut short when Starro squashes him into a gory stain on the ground.

King Shark

Nanaue / King Shark

"Nom-nom!"

Species: Shark demigod

Citizenship:

Affiliation(s): Task Force X ("Suicide Squad")

Portrayed By: Sylvester Stallone (voice), Steve Agee (motion capture)

Voiced By: Mauricio Bennetts (Latin American Spanish), Tesshō Genda (Japanese), Luiz Feier Motta (Brazilian Portuguese), Alain Dorval (European French)

Appearances: The Suicide Squad

"So smart, me! Enjoy book so much!"

A shark-man speculated to be a descendant of an ancient shark god.

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• Acrofatic: King Shark is shown to be a highly overweight humanoid shark in the film but he is surprisingly very agile as he was easily able to dispatch a man while in stealth mode, was able to run alongside his teammates for a long time, and at one point he is shown to be able to jump very high when fighting Starro.
• Adaptational Comic Relief: Downplayed. King Shark is often portrayed as a serious threat, but in Secret Six he's a clear comic relief character and Boisterous Bruiser. This King Shark is closer to the latter, as a silly, lovable Manchild, although he's still a brutally powerful monster with a taste for human flesh.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Most versions of King Shark are as articulate as humans, and sometimes even highly intelligent. This version is an infantile Dumb Muscle who speaks in very broken English.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: As the team's monosyllabic non-human in a James Gunn superhero film, he's clearly meant to be the DCEU equivalent to Groot.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime as a mutated human named Shay Lamden.
• Atomic F-Bomb: When Bloodsport keeps making fun of his "fake mustache", Nanaue lets out a loud "FUCK!" before stomping off in a temper tantrum.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Nanaue is easily distracted. While the team is planting explosives around Jotunheim, he seemingly forgets what he's meant to do and wanders off on his own.
• Awesome, but Impractical: What his role on the team ultimately amounts to. You'd think that having a hulking, nigh-unstoppable Shark Man as the team's muscle would come in handy; but in actual practice, King Shark is very much The Load who's more trouble than he's worth.
  • His combat capabilities are rendered down to munching on a single mook at a time. That would be fine and all, except the rest of the squad is able to take down entire swaths of goons much more quickly and efficiently.
  • Given how the Suicide Squad's mission is a clandestine affair that requires them to infiltrate a foreign nation undetected, King Shark's presence serves only to draw unnecessary attention.
  • When they do infiltrate Jotunheim in the climax, he's too easily distracted to be much use in contributing to the plan and at one point simply wanders off from the rest of the team, leading to them having to do without him when they get ambushed.
  • It doesn't help that he's tempted to eat anything in sight, including his own teammates. Early in the mission, he was very close to chowing down on an unsuspecting Ratcatcher before Bloodsport just happened to wake up and catch him in the act.
  • As if to drive the point home, King Shark proves to be next-to-useless in the climax. He latches himself onto Starro for a time, only for the latter to effortlessly swat him away. He only served as a distraction if anything.
• Berserk Button: Getting shot by guns sends Nanaue into an animalistic rage despite the fact that he is immune to gunshots.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a sweetheart but he's still a giant shark who can tear people apart like tissue paper and bite people in half with no effort.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Nanaue's childishness makes it easy to forget he's a giant Shark Man who could easily tear a grown man in half (vertically!) with his bare hands, and his go-to offensive move is to eat people in about three bites. Many of Suarez's men can attest to his ferocity.
• The Brute: He's the largest member of the new Task Force X, not only standing half a head taller than Bloodsport, but being at least three times wider and strong enough to tear a man in half like wet paper.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: He's in his own little world most of the time.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Other than a grand total of two mentions of his codename, he's pretty much always referred to as Nanaue.
• Dumb Muscle: King Shark is strong enough to rip a man in half vertically, but he isn't the team's smartest.
  • A few of his outbursts have little to do with the situation at hand and more to brag that he's spatially aware of things, like reporting that he sees a bird while on the communication channel.
    Amanda Waller: Any questions?
    King Shark: [holds up hand and points to it] Hand!
    Amanda Waller: Yes. That is your hand, Nanaue. Very good.
    King Shark: [puts down hand and looks pleased with himself]
  • When introduced, he's seen intently reading the classical theological text Varieties of Religious Experience by the philosopher William James... but he's holding it upside-down, and wants to give off the appearance that he's literate more than anything.
    Peacemaker: He's pretending to read a book!
    King Shark: So smart, me! Enjoy book so much!
• Fat Comic Relief: He's fat, has a very silly, childish personality and adds more levity than any other character.
• Four-Fingered Hands: He only has four fingers on each hand.
• Friendless Background: Nanaue himself admits to never having friends, which causes Ratcatcher to take pity on him and become his first friend despite him trying to eat her mere moments prior.
• Friend to All Children: A deleted scene shows that while he was forced to wait inside the van while the rest of the team went to a bar to capture The Thinker, he got bored, saw two children playing outside the van and walked up to them menacingly, causing him to go missing and forcing the rest of the team to find him again...only for Ratcatcher to ultimately find him playing with those same children in their home.
• Gentle Giant: Double Subverted. Ratcatcher assumes he's this early on, only for him to attempt to eat her at the earliest opportunity. Once she convinces him to accept her and the rest of the team as friends, though, he's a big, fishy teddy-bear. Yes, he still kills and eats their enemies, but 'does horrible things to people who deserve it' is not only normal, but encouraged for a Suicide Squad member.
• Hulk Speak: His manner of speech.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: He's mostly motivated by the belief that the Suicide Squad are his friends, and he's helping them out. By the mission's end, they sort of are friends.
• Immune to Bullets: Not only is his hide thick enough to tank even Bloodsport's explosive rounds with no visible damage, shooting him in general pisses him off more than anything.
• Joke of the Butt: He pulls his pants up from the back a couple of times when they're a little below his waistline.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He's a hulking mass of possibly-divine muscle Shark Man, but he has the mentality of a toddler that just wants affection.
• Made of Iron: Gunfire doesn't harm him and Starro's offshoots can't latch onto his face, though the alien jellyfish in Jotunheim are able to make him bleed.
• Never Learned to Read. He is apparently illiterate as he was seen reading a book upside down.
• Nice Guy: Although a carnivorous Shark Man, Nanaue is a complete teddy bear at heart, being extremely affectionate to anyone he deems a friend. The only negative thing you can say about the guy is that he eats people, and that's mainly out of animal instinct than malice. Once he's taught he shouldn't do so, he strictly directs his hunger towards his enemies.
• Perpetual Frowner: Being a shark-man, his facial expressions are naturally limited.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Type A. This version of King Shark may or may not be the legendary son of a shark god but he often behaves like a toddler, easily getting distracted by things like birds. He also at one point sculpts a childish clay figure of Peacemaker out of bomb components while he and Peacemaker were planting charges. He's still a vicious animal who eats people though. Without supervision, he almost ended up eating one of his teammates.
• Semi-Divine: Amanda Waller relates in-universe speculation that Nanaue is a descendant of an ancient shark god.
• Shark Man: Rather than use his hammerhead shark appearance from the New 52 comics, he resembles a humanoid great white shark like in the post-Crisis comics.
• Simpleton Voice: He tends to speak in a slow, simple manner and has difficulty constructing coherent sentences.
• Stout Strength: This version of King Shark has a notable dad-body, but he’s just as strong as his musclebound counterparts in other media.
• Super-Toughness: Bullets and even Bloodsport's explosive rounds don't seem to actually hurt him, and a very long drop barely fazes him. Only the cute sea creatures in Jotunheim's aquarium manage to pierce his skin and draw blood… and even then, that's the absolute most they can do, and he's not even tired and still completely battle-ready after his run-in with them.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Killer Croc, being the token man-eating beast-man on the team.
• Threatening Shark: The name says it all, and try to do something that does not warrant you to become his next meal.
• To Serve Man: Early in the mission, King Shark almost eats Ratcatcher because he's hungry before Bloodsport wakes up in time to stop him and Ratcatcher asks him to consider them friends so that he won't eat them. While the rest of the team are subsequently off-limits, during the mission King Shark grabs several men and crams them headfirst into his jaws to swallow them whole, and is shown at least once gnawing on a human skull.
  King Shark: Nom nom?
• Token Non-Human: He's this for the team after Mongal's death and Weasel's apparent death.
• Tranquil Fury: The cold fury in his expression as he slowly stands up and stares down the soldiers shooting at him is very much the face of a shark-man who has been repeatedly mocked, humiliated, and betrayed throughout the movie… and he's had enough.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He only wears a pair of pants during the entire movie.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: King Shark is a lovable, childish oaf for much of the movie, but the occasions he exhibits rage reveals the bad side of a hulking Shark Man you do not want to be on, most especially when he looks downright pissed at Suarez's men after they (ineffectually) pelt him with a hail of bullets.

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