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Because of the high turnover of... "[[BoxedCrook employees]]", this series has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
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!!1987 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Black Orchid]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_black_orchid.jpg]]
-> See [[ComicBook/BlackOrchid her own page]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blockbuster]]
!!!'''Mark Desmond'''
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blockbuster_mark_desmond_0001.jpg]]
* TheBerserker: The experiments he made on himself made him super-strong and gigantic, but decreased his intelligence and caused him to become mindlessly aggressive.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Ends up killed by Darkseid's creation Brimstone.
* DumbMuscle: The formula that transformed Mark into Blockbuster damaged his cognitive abilities.
* LegacyCharacter: After death his brother Roland became the newest Blockbuster.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Used to be a chemist who tested his own formula on himself in an attempt to get strong.
* SuperStrength: His main power.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Just look at the pic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bronze Tiger]]
!!!'''Ben Turner'''
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/225px_bronzetigercm7.jpg]]
Ben Turner was a student of the martial arts master known as the O-Sensei. When he and fellow student ComicBook/RichardDragon were approached by an agency known as G.O.O.D., they became international crime fighters alongside the O-Sensei's goddaughter, ComicBook/LadyShiva. However, during a mission to the Arctic, Ben stayed behind to confront the killer of his fiancé. This led him into a trap set by the villainous Doctor Ojo, where he was brainwashed and turned into the villainous Bronze Tiger. It was later revealed that Barney Ling, the head of G.O.O.D., was the one who had hired Ojo, and upon his seeming death, Ben was set free from Ojo's brainwashing.
Post-Crisis, Ben's backstory was somewhat altered. While much of his original backstory remained intact, it was expanded on, revealing that he killed a robber who killed his father in a fit of rage, and he learned martial arts to control that rage. Instead of being brainwashed by Doctor Ojo, he was turned into the Bronze Tiger by the Sensei of the League of Assassins. After being rescued by Rick Flag and partially cured of his conditioning by Amanda Waller, Ben joined the team to atone for his actions and to find a cure for his residual conditioning.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: He left the squad to run a dojo in Detroit, but rejoined the Squad during World War III.
* AChatWithSatan: Had his during the Diabloverde mission. Confronting a mirage of a young, irate Ben Turner helped him channel the rage he'd struggled with all his life and allowed him to finally conquer his demons for good.
* AnimalMotifs: Take a guess.
* TheAtoner: After serving as a brainwashed lackey of the League of Assassins, Ben felt the need to act righteously to make up for his actions.
* BadassNormal: He is just a martial artist with no superhuman power. But he is a ''very'' good martial artist, capable of exchanging blows with ''Batman'', and in some continuities even was one of his teachers.
* BloodKnight: Ben first got into martial arts in the hope that they would serve as an outlet for his deep-seated urge to inflict suffering on others. Said urge began back when he was ''10'' and used a kitchen knife to slaughter a burglar who'd attacked his parents.
--->"But what scared me was that I wasn't sorry for ''killing'' him. I was sorry it ''ended'' so soon."
* BrainwashResidue: He was justifiably freaked out by the mere possibility of this happening, so he never accepted any position higher than Waller's right hand. Flag once consulted him on how to avert this, and his advice proved invaluable in saving the day.
* BreakoutCharacter: Not quite as much as Lady Shiva, but he's far more prominent than Dragon in comics and especially in adaptations.
* DespairEventHorizon: Sarge Steel punted him straight into it just as he was entering a serious relationship with Vixen. This caused him to shatter mentally, flee the Squad, and return to mercenary work. Between Waller and Vixen, he got pulled from the abyss and managed to stabilize, though he was unable to restore his relation with Mari.
* FreudianTrio: The ego to Shiva's id and Dragon's superego in ''[[ComicBook/RichardDragonKungFuFighter Richard Dragon: Kung-Fu Fighter]]''.
* JiveTurkey: During the seventies, he spoke in very stereotypical lingo, though his depiction was otherwise FairForItsDay.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: While Ben has always been a bit older than Richard the continuity that made ''him'' Richard's first and longest lasting martial arts instructor rather than O-Sensei made Ben quite a bit older with them still maintaining their friendship.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: Kneeled to ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}} out of respect for her forging herself into a hero after the League of Assassins (including himself when he was brainwashed) tried to make her a TykeBomb.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: He originally used his mask as a conduit for his wrath, to the point that while in the Squad the sight of it made him uncomfortable and nervous of losing his temper. Later he was able to dominate his rage and wear it normally.
* MasterApprenticeChain: In addition to his training of Cass while brainwashed he was part of quite a few such chains in the corner of Post-Crisis continuity where he is made Dragon's longest-lasting and most influential instructor, though only the first one listed here was pointed out [[note]]neither Steph nor Tim thought Tim was the best person to be teaching her, but her proper mentors kept suddenly deciding to kick her out until Babs finally took her in[[/note]]:
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]->[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]->[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Lance]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Barbara Gordon]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/TheQuestion Vic Sage & Rene Montoya]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]->[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]->Damian Wayne
* ParentalSubstitute: The O-Sensei, his teacher, was this to him and Dragon.
* RedOniBlueOni: Even after he was retconned to have anger issues he is ''always'' the blue to Dragon's red.
* ReluctantPsycho: The whole reason he turned to martial arts was to learn to control the rage inside of him.
* ScaryBlackMan: He is black under his mask. Averted during his days with Richard Dragon, but after his brainwashing he was retconned into having had serious anger issues since childhood.
* TigerVersusDragon: While in this case the tiger is the more restrained of the two and Tiger and Dragon basically consider each other brothers they still fight on occasion, and the imagery is even more pronounced in Dragon's dreams where Tiger acts as a kind of incredibly violent voice of conscience.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Captain Boomerang]]
!!!'''George "Digger" Harkness'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_boomerang_8.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/TheFlashTheRogues The Flash Rogues]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Count Vertigo]]
!!!'''Werner Vertigo'''
[[quoteright:211:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/count_vertigo_the_nail_001.png]]
->See [[Characters/GreenArrow Green Arrow villains]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Deadshot]]
!!!'''Floyd Lawton'''
[[quoteright:197:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deadshot_4.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/{{Deadshot}} his page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Doctor Light]]
!!!'''Arthur Light'''
->See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Justice League villains]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duchess]]
!!!'''Lashina'''
[[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duchess_8.jpg]]
* AmnesiacHero: Joins the Squad not knowing who she is or where she came from.
* {{BFG}}: Unhappy with the weapons on offer in Belle Reeve's armoury, she constructs her own massive gun that anyone without her SuperStrength struggles to life.
* EasyAmnesia: She suffered this upon her arrival on Earth after being shot.
* TheMole: An accidental version. She was left for dead by her fellow Female Furies, but only suffered EasyAmnesia and was allowed into the Squad as she had no Earth records. Once the amnesia wore off, Lashina decided to betray the team in the process of returning to Apokolips.
* PhysicalGoddess: She is a New Goddess from Apokolips.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Enchantress]]
!!!'''June Moone'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/enchantress_june_moon_custom_suicide_1_9f8a0862ddc5604d187568cad1c4a240.jpg]]
* BeastAndBeauty: She's a gorgeous redhead and she's the lover of her teammate, Killer Croc, the man-eating lizard mutant.
* DePower: For a time, after Nightshade absorbed the demonic entity powering her magic.
* EvenEvilHasStandards/ PetTheDog: She once healed a mortally wounded cat that Katana had befriended. When Katana thanked her, she replied "No need. It is not right that any innocent animal should suffer."
* FunctionalMagic: Her main ability.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A powerful sorceress garbed in flowing dark green robes, especially so when depicted as a villainous EvilSorceress.
* MagicalGirlWarrior / DarkMagicalGirl / EvilSorceress: Enchantress started as a Manga/SailorMoon style MagicalGirl in her own adventures (one of the very first Magical Girls!) before disappearing for a few years. When she came back, Enchantress fought {{Comicbook/Supergirl}} as she'd decided to steal all the magical power on Earth in order to eliminate evil. Then it turned out her mentor was secretly evil, and June Moone's Enchantress side went full villain.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After shooting Nightshade, who was just trying to calm her down.
* PowerDyesYourHair: In earlier versions, June Moone is a natural blonde, but turns black-haired whenever she becomes the Enchantress. These days June's a redhead regardless of her identity.
* SquishyWizard: June's the team's powerhouse, but she's a graphic designer and about as tough as you can expect of that. When the villain Cosmonaut headbutted her, she was comatose for hours. Cosmonaut did the same thing to athletic teammate ComicBook/{{Katana}} and Katana was only momentarily dazed. June got squished for real in Flashpoint, when Superman stepped on her.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Has one, which is her main reason for joining the squad; she was promised they could keep it in check. Interestingly, while she might not like the Enchantress, she eventually shoots Nightshade in an attempt to restore her powers. Belle Reve's psychologist makes it a point to explain there's a difference between willingly giving power away and having it taken. In fact, he explicitly compares power to a drug and Moone's actions as withdrawal.
* TalkToTheFist: One of her biggest weaknesses these days. She's almost always the most powerful member of the squad, but she's rarely effective. It's because she spends a long time talking, including telling an enemy what she intends to do to them, so opponents just blast her while she's still blabbing.
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[VillainProtagonist Relatively speaking]], Enchantress is this to the Suicide Squad. Mainly because she's an evil witch who's just as dangerous to her squadmates as she is to her enemies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Javelin]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/javelin.jpg]]
An Olympic athlete turned criminal/Mercenary his skill, and an arsenal of javelin based trick weapons.
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* BadassNormal: Much like Green Arrow and Arsenal, he doesn't have any powers.
* HiredGuns: He's a German mercenary.
* JavelinThrower: A former Olympic javelin thrower turned criminal.
* MysteriousPast: Other than his nationality and past as an Olympic Athlete, nothing is known about Javelin's past.
* NoNameGiven: His real name has never been revealed.
* NotQuiteDead: Left to die by the Squad during ''War of the Gods'', he reappeared several years later during ''Cry for Justice'', getting knocked out by Supergirl.
* RetGone: Hasn't returned in the post-Flashpoint continuity.
* TrickArrow: Javelin's carries an arsenal of trick javelins.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Karin Grace]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karin_grace_0012.jpg]]
Karin Grace is an elite government agent working in Task Force X. Her relationship with Rick Flag led her to become a member of the Suicide Squad, operating as their combat medic. The area she specializes in is space medicine.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mindboggler]]
!!!'''Leah Wasserman'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mindboggler_0001.jpg]]
* BrainUploading: Her corpse was retrieved from Jotunheim and used by the Jihad engineers to create a new Ifrit. It came with a host of problems due to Mindboggler's difficult personality, which the engineers tried to correct by implanting FalseMemories and changing her directives. Eventually the Hayoth's AI Dybbuk was able to repair the faulty programming and restore her memories.
* MasterOfIllusion
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nemesis]]
!!!'''Thomas Andrew Tresser'''
[[quoteright:176:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nemesis_dc.jpg]]
* AlliterativeName: '''T'''om '''T'''resser
* LatexPerfection: His disguise skills are based on special masks of his own invention.
* MasterOfDisguise: Able to develop lifelike masks used to impersonate others.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Finally gets fed up with Waller's machinations and the other members' shenanigans and quits.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Long before Tresser had ever graced the pages of a comic ComicBook/SteveTrevor was Franchise/WonderWoman's blonde super-spy boyfriend, and later husband. After Crisis undid their marriage and made Steve into Etta's husband and love interest instead Tom was eventually written as Diana's blonde spy boyfriend for a time.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Rick Flag. He returns for a mission to save Flag's son from a deranged former colleague.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nightshade]]
!!!'''Eve Eden'''
[[quoteright:125:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightshade_1.png]]
->See [[Characters/CaptainAtom here]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Plastique]]
!!!'''Bette Sans Souci'''
[[quoteright:184:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/plastique_9.jpg]]
* CanadaEh: Plastique is a Canadian terrorist.
* DefeatByModesty: Her first appearance had Firestorm defeat Plastique by vaporizing her clothes (in front of TV cameras!), both because it amuses him and because it's a convenient way to separate her from the bombs on her suit.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Initially, she had no actual super powers and just relied on her skill with explosives. Later she was granted the power to generate explosions with her minds.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''Raise The Flag'', she only pretends to go along with Eiling's plan to betray the Squad and kill Waller, having learned her lesson of getting involved with people like him in the past. She is also outraged when [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White Dragon]] murders Twister while she was defenseless. befriended.
* EvilRedhead
* FadSuper: Plastique was created when Quebecois separatist terrorists were in the news. They were a short-lived phenomenon, and in later appearances she was explained as a die-hard anachronism before reforming. In the New 52, her background is as a more generic terrorist.
* HavingABlast: Her super power.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She became a member of the Suicide Squad for the duration of a single mission. She attempted to betray the team during their second field operation in Qurac (under the command of Amanda Waller), but was anticipated and caught by fellow operative Nemesis, and subsequently brainwashed to suppress all memories of her membership in the Squad. This backfired when she was recruited a second time and her memories were returned.
* MadBomber: One of the few times a mad bomber is female. Unlike most examples, she was fairly inept and had for a brief time reformed, but in the New 52 she's back to bomb-throwing.
* [[DatingCatwoman Marrying Catwoman]]: ComicBook/CaptainAtom married her after she reformed after having first been an adversary in his series.
* TookALevelInBadass: Via genetic modification commissioned by her organization, Plastique gained the power to project explosive force from her body.
* VillainousFriendship: Forms one with Twister in ''Raises The Flag''.
* WesternTerrorists: Plastique started out as a violent Quebec separatist (likely inspired by the Front de libération du Québec) whose first story involved threatening to suicide bomb a newspaper.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Poison Ivy]]
!!!'''Pamela Lilian Isley'''
[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poison_ivy.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy her page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Privateer]]
!!! '''Mark Shaw'''
[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/privateer.jpg]]
* BadassNormal: Privateer has no superpowers but takes on supervillains.
* BountyHunter: After leaving the Squad, Shaw returned to his previous Manhunter identity and became a bounty hunter specialising in bringing in supervillains.
* EyepatchOfPower: Shaw wears one in his Privateer identity as part of his swashbuckling image. There is nothing wrong with his eye.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: His codename and costume deliberately evoke this.
* SwissArmyWeapon: His Power Baton includes the following functions: BladeOnAStick, TelescopingStaff, GrapplingHookPistol, [[JavelinThrower javelin/spike]], [[MagneticWeapons magnetic pulse]], [[FightingWithChucks nunchuks]], and SonicStunner.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Punch and Jewelee]]
!!!'''Clyde Phillips''' and ??
[[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/punch_and_jewelee_02.jpg]]
* HypnoTrinket: The Hypno-Gems were capable of hypnotizing other human beings. This item was actually more often used by Jewelee then Punch.
* MorningSickness: How Jewelee discovers she is pregnant.
* PeoplePuppets: Punch and Judy used an alien gun that projected beams of concentrated light that allowed them to take physical control over another person's body. In function, the sting strings were similar to the strings found on a puppet.
* UnholyMatrimony: Punch and Jewelee are a married couple who delight in inflicting chaos on the world.
* VillainousHarlequin: Punch and Jewelee's costumes are modeled after traditional Punch and Judy outfits.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ravan]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ravan_dc_comics_suicide_squad_kali.jpg]]
* BadassNormal: He is a Thuggee assassin who practices Kali worship, but has no powers of his own.
* HazyFeelTurn: He was an enemy to the Suicide Squad, although he later became one of their members.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: One of the least moral of a very immoral team, but it's always played for laughs after he joins the Squad.
* KilledOffForReal: He was killed in battle against Kobra.
* LaughablyEvil: Ravan was surprisingly funny at times.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Ravan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rick Flag, Jr.]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rick_flag_jr_0004.jpg]]
* BackFromTheDead: In Ostrander's ''From The Ashes'' it's revealed [[spoiler: he was teleported to Skartaris at the last second.]]
* BrainwashResidue: [[spoiler:He consults Bronze Tiger on how to avoid this, and successfully screws Eiling over.]]
* ColonelBadass
* DeathSeeker: Increasingly as the series goes on, particularly after he finds out [[spoiler: his father had the same problem - he wasn't killed, he chose needless self-sacrifice instead.]]
* FalseMemories: [[spoiler:Rick Flag had no children. Junior's a random soldier Wade Eiling sent through a brainwashing program to force the identity upon him.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:When offered the chance to reconnect with the family he once had, he refuses to, saying he's Rick Flag now.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shade the Changing Man]]
!!!'''Rac Shade'''
[[quoteright:171:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shade_the_changing_man.jpg]]
->See [[ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan his page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shrike]]
!!!'''Vanessa Kingsbury'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shrike.jpg]]
* HeelFaithTurn: Shrike found religion and regarded her service in the Squad as a genuine opportunity for redemption.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her primary weapon is a hypersonic shriek.
* WingedHumanoid: Shrike can fly via feathered wings the alien Overlord grafted to her back.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: DependingOnTheArtist, but her hair is usually depicted as pink or purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Slipknot]]
!!!'''Christopher Weiss'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slipknot_dc_comics_firestorm.jpg]]
* AnArmAndALeg: Slipknot loses an arm when Captain Boomerang convinces him to defect during a mission and the ExplosiveLeash bracelet detonates.
* CripplingOverspecialization: His ropes are stronger than steel, which makes them good against humans, but they were worthless against robots. Without any other means of attack, he had no way to fight them and instead tried to escape. [[spoiler: Which turned out to be a bad idea]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He fights using ropes.
* InstantKnots: His whole shtick is that his ropes do this.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Attempts to escape after Captain Boomerang convinces him that the bombs were a bluff. [[spoiler: They're not, and it cost him his arm]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Thinker]]
!!!'''Clifford "Cliff" Carmichael'''
[[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new_thinker.jpg]]
* CompellingVoice: He's able to control people just by telling them what to do.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He always wears glasses, even when he gets an real super villain costume.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics Ronnie Raymond's]] high school bully to a sociopathic monster bent on murdering ComicBook/{{Oracle}}.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: He escapes without punishment at the end of the original Ostrander book, his powers returned.]]
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: He finally gets his just deserts in the 2007 limited series.]]
* LegacyCharacter: To [[OneSteveLimit Clifford]] [=DeVoe=], an old enemy of [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]]. He used [=DeVoe=]'s "thinking cap" to gain his powers, [[SuperiorSuccessor but no longer needs it to use them]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: For Eiling in the final arc of the book.]]
* RestrainingBolt: One he's press ganged into the Squad, Waller installs a device that allows her to turn his powers on and off, keeping him under control. [[spoiler: Eiling disables it in the final arc.]]
* TheSociopath: A classic case. Waller, Oracle, and co. debate the ethics of finding a cure for the disorder at one point.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vixen]]
!!!'''Mari Jiwe [=McCabe=]'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vixen_dc_comics_jla_suicide_squad_a.jpg]]
->See [[ComicBook/{{Vixen}} her page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yasemin]]
!!!'''Yasemin Soze'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yasemin_soze_002.png]]
Yasemin Soze was a Turkish smuggler and assassin who was forced into the Suicide Squad.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her outfit shows a lot of cleavage.
* CameBackWrong: Shortly after her death she was reanimated as a Black Lantern.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Challenging [[CombatPragmatist Deadshot]] to a gunslinger duel was not going to pan out as she thought.
* DirtyCoward: On her first mission, she was overcome by the fear of possibly dying when the task became too much for her and she ran, which bought her great shame among the Suicide Squad.
* TheGunslinger: Styles herself as one, as she's at least competent, until her serious lapse in judgement.
* HonorBeforeReason: Against all logic or reason, she challenges Lawton to a duel, and he shoots her dead before she even starts counting.
* TooDumbToLive: Giving a blatant opening to an opponent known for their uncompromising nature in order to get a duel was a foolish idea and it got her killed.
[[/folder]]
!!1987 Series Support Staff
[[folder:Amanda Waller]]
!!!'''Amanda Waller'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amanda_waller_ss10.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:If you learn nothing else from this page, learn that ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' is afraid of Amanda Waller.]]
->''You know, the Lord's been a great comfort to me all these years. Try not to look so surprised. Yeah, I've got a lot to answer for when I meet Him, but I'd like to believe that for all the harm I've caused, I've also done some good. Maybe the angels need a sharp sword too.''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''
Amanda Blake Waller is a Creator/DCComics character created by John Ostrander, Len Wein, and Creator/JohnByrne, first appearing in ''Legends'' #1 (dated November 1986).
Waller is the [[TropeCodifier epitome]] of the {{black boss lady}} trope, as well as being one of the most morally ambiguous DC characters. She dances atop the line between [[AntiHero anti-hero]] and [[AntiVillain anti-villain]] ({{depending on the writer}}) and frequently commits immoral acts in the pursuit of American dominance.
Over the years, Waller has been the head of various secret governmental organizations like the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, Checkmate, Belle Reve Penitentiary, CADMUS, and ARGUS -- and even [[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls the principal of a high school for young superheroes]].
The character appears frequently in other media, having been portrayed by a variety of well-respected black actresses (see works featured below).
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!! Amanda Waller appears in the following media:
[[AC: Notable Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' (debut)
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' (all volumes, 1987 -- present)
[[AC: Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' (2009), voiced by voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' (2014), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' (2015), voiced by Creator/PennyJohnsonJerald
* ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse'' (2018), voiced by Music/VanessaWilliams
** ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'' (2018)
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanHush'' (2019)
[[AC: Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' (2011), portrayed by Creator/AngelaBassett
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, portrayed by Creator/ViolaDavis
** ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' (2016)
** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' (2021)
** ''Series/Peacemaker2022''
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (2010), portrayed by Creator/PamGrier
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' (2013 -- 2016), portrayed by Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson
[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'' (2011), voiced by Debra Cole
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' (2013), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
** ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague''
* ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' (2014), voiced by Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson
* ''[[VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries Batman: The Enemy Within]]'' (2017), voiced by Debra Wilson
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' (2004 -- 2006), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' (2011), voiced by Sheryl Lee Ralph
* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' (2015 -- present), voiced by Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown
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!!Amanda Waller provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: She's fat and menopausic. ''Do not assume this makes her helpless in any way''. In the second half of the original ''Suicide Squad'', she was even able to join the Squad in the front lines and pull her weight with her superpowered operatives, and even before then she was shown to be well trained in firearms and strong and skilled in combat enough to actually fight off Granny Goodness, a bonafide alien goddess.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** Many live-action adaptations will cast thinner and more attractive actresses for Waller.
** The ''New 52'' not only made her thinner, but also [[AgeLift younger]] as she was originally middle-aged in addition to overweight. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_imagesamandawallernew52_6920.jpg Later issues]] have toned down her attractiveness, making her more of a traditional BlackBossLady than a supermodel.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Some non-comic depictions of Amanda portray her with a real ego problem, if not a full-fledged case of TooCleverByHalf, usually to better portray her as a villain or otherwise make it clear that she is ''not'' the hero.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' version of Amanda is LighterAndSofter, more sincere and has some standards she won't cross, unlike her comic book counterpart... although these standards are kind of fickle, since we learn she had planned to create a "Batman 2.0" by assassinating an innocent pair of parents to traumatize a child (though she did relent when [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the would-be assassin]] pointed out the immorality of the plan). She also shows some elements of humility and regret at her actions:
--->'''Amanda Waller:''' "Our enemies are never as evil as we think they are and maybe we are never quite as good".
*** After the Cadmus-arc, she toned down her grudge against the League, after learning that Comicbook/LexLuthor [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated her into it]]. She also tried to talk Wade Eiling out of ''his'' anti-League sentiments, but he refused to listen.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' has her call out Lex Luthor on his more extreme issues and upon realizing his insanity, Waller assists the title heroes and even orders a general to arrest Luthor.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' has her as the President of the United States and while she still had countermeasures developed to deal with the League, given this League is composed of [[SmugSuper three]] [[SociopathicHero violent]] [[GoodIsNotNice jackasses]], no one can blame her.
* AdaptationalVillainy: A number of adaptations play her as a corrupt bureaucrat of her own, using ARGUS or Task Force X to handle her personal dirty work rather than being for the greater good.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' has her commission the Suicide Squad to retrieve sensitive information Riddler stole detailing her own crimes. [[spoiler:The movie ends with Deadshot trying to kill her in the last moments as karmic retribution, but DLC for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamUnderworld'' takes places afterward ''Assault'' and reveals Batman stopped Floyd before he could kill her]].
** The version of her that appeared in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' took her BadBoss tendencies beyond UpToEleven, blackmailing almost every field operative she had and then treating '''everybody''' in her Agency as expendable fodder, being a pretty clear example of TheSociopath. [[spoiler:She was so bad that the reason she [[DroppedABridgeOnHim had a bridge dropped on her]] on the fourth season (other than [[RealLifeWritesThePlot behind-the-scenes issues]]) was because the leader of the men who had taken ARGUS hostage decided to kill her once it was clear that she would allow all the other hostages to die and [[EvenEvilHasStandards got disgusted over it]].]]
** Her ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' version had no problem casually blowing away a dozen subordinates that were trapped in the command center with her by herself for the sake of keeping secret how much she'd screwed the pooch with Enchantress. Deadshot (who saw her do it) [[EvenEvilHasStandards had a brief moment of shock over said slaying]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'', the entire plot is Amanda selfishly using the Squad to track down a mystical artifact that will [[KarmaHoudini guarantee that she goes to Heaven upon her death, regardless of her wrongdoings in life]], because she's well-aware that she's done things that were wrong. Her BadBoss credentials are in full display, and she critically underestimates or misuses her team several times. It's then followed by a comic tie-in where she then repeats the process to find another such token, as she's afraid that ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' is personally coming for her.
* AntiVillain[=/=]AntiHero: Depending on the story and the writer. Her position has placed as both an ally ''and'' an antagonist to superheroes in the DC Universe, and in either case she is trying to do good but relying on extreme methods.
* ArchEnemy: Major Zastrow, her Soviet counterpart, in the first ''Suicide Squad'' with his very own Soviet metahuman hit squad, The Red Shadows.
* BadassNormal: Despite being an ordinary human, she can hold her own alongside her superpowered operatives and once fought off [[PhysicalGod Granny Goodness]].
* BadBoss: To the ComicBook/SuicideSquad: she puts bombs in their heads, in case they get any ideas about escape. However, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], in that the Squad is made up of murderers and other criminals.
* BecomingTheMask: Early on, she put up a big front of being a scary black woman that took no crap, not even from hardened supervillains. Her losses embittered her to the point where it wasn't a front anymore.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: She is never portrayed positively and is literally shown as only preferable in comparison to the overtly destructive and monstrous villains she is up against.
* BlackBossLady: Amanda Waller, in any organizations is widely recognized as one of the few people who can make Batman think twice about messing with her. Heck, she's taken on Granny Goodness (right-hand woman to ''Darkseid'') and walked away.
* BoxedCrook: After her ill-advised stint as part of the ComicBook/LexLuthor Administration, which resulted in her being implicated in a number of criminal activities, she was offered the job of White Queen of the newly-revamped ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}, in the naive hope that the rigors of setting international metahuman policy would keep her busy and prevent her from running any more supervillain task forces on the side. It didn't work.
* BrokenBird: Hard to believe, but Amanda Waller was once just a more-or-less normal housewife with a family and children. Unfortunately, her husband and several of her children died in the Cabrini-Green sprawl, and she fell on ''very'' hard times to the point she had to go on government welfare to keep her children alive. Being proud as the devil, Amanda successfully clawed her way out without relying on anybody else, whether it be any further welfare or extended family, and reached her current status as one of DC's premier masterminds. Her sister confessed in-series she was plainly terrified of Amanda's dark side overtaking her and eventually getting her killed.
* ConsummateProfessional: All she cares for is the mission. Everything else can go hang.
* ControlFreak: She has a definite domineering streak to the point it functions as a strength and a character flaw. Amanda herself puts it best in a flashback:
-->'''Amanda Waller''': I am not taking no more charity -- not from kin, not from friends, and especially not from no damn government! The taste of it rots in my mouth! I'm gonna get me power over my own life! And heaven help the one who tries to take that power from me!
* CrazyPrepared: Waller does a real number on Harcourt that puts her high in the MagnificentBastard territory: she manages to trick her into revealing her source, all the while having secretly removed four bullets from her gun ''that morning'' so when she has Waller at her supposed mercy, she's defenseless, while Waller has Captain Boomerang kill her with a well-placed boomerang. All this while she tells Harcourt before she dies, "You have achieved ''nothing'' for The People. Other than betraying them. You murdered Hack, and now you're going to ''fry''."
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Waller was once just a normal housewife trying to eke a living in a bad area of Chicago with her family. Then her eldest son, who was all set to leave the area on a full scholarship, was killed on a mugging gone wrong. While she was still reeling from the death, a rapist approached her daughter, and when she fought, he killed her. Neighbors only responded to the screams by closing their windows. It was a closed casket funeral. Her husband confronted and killed said rapist - [[MutualKill and died in turn]]. Small wonder she's so determined to secure power for herself and establish control over whatever she deems necessary.
* DarkSecret: [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueVsSuicideSquad Before the current Squad was formed]], she commanded an older iteration composed of [[spoiler:Doctor Polaris, Emerald Empress, Rustam, Johnny Sorrow and Lobo.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: Dependence on others is a tremendous BerserkButton for her. This, coupled with her pride, makes her insufferably arrogant and abrasive even when others are genuinely trying to help her. And may God help you if you actually think showing sympathy for the horror that is her life is going to help anyone.
* TheDreaded: Despite having no powers, she's not above capturing villains, sending them to death trap planets, putting bombs in them, recruiting them into the Suicide Squad, and using the bombs if the crooks step out of line. She also goes against heroes in addition to the bad guys and as the picture quote points out, even Batman, another example of this trope, is afraid of her.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.
-->'''Flag:''' Are you out of your cotton-picking mind, lady?\\
'''Waller:''' Frankly, I couldn't be more serious, colonel! And by the way, if you ever again call anything about me 'cotton-picking,' mister —- I'll stuff those bright, shiny eagles on your shoulders so far up your butt, they'll be able to nest in your skull!
* {{Expy}}: Her character model and parts of her personality were based on [[Series/GimmeABreak Nell Carter]], according to Mike Gold.
* TheExtremistWasRight: She's a brutal disciplinarian and demands the same obedience from assistants and assassins. One of the people Amanda alienated with her cavalier attitude, Dr. Simon [=LaGrieve=], eventually came to think better of her once he entered a similar position as head of a metahuman research institute.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After Rustam made it clear he was capable and willing to use her family to get to her, she laid a trap for him. Knowing he was going to approach Deadshot, [[MagnificentBastard she beat him to the punch and offered Lawton an excellent deal in exchange for participating in the con]]. Using a literal magic bullet courtesy of Enchantress, she was shot in the heart and sent into suspension for several hours, during which she was declared dead. Afterwards she was revived and oversaw Rustam's plan's collapse, but not before she experienced the pain of dying and seeing her family mourn her. She describes the experience overall as literally seeing Hell.]]
* FatBitch: She's frequently depicted as overweight and as this page shows, calling her "not nice" is an understatement. She is a stubborn, hard-arsed, surly, demanding and abrasive sort of woman.
* {{Flanderization}}: Earlier in the Ostrander run she at least showed enough care for the people under her command (yes, even the Squad) that her support staff included things like a psychiatrist and was fair in a "don't fuck with me and I won't screw with you" sense. As time went on, she became more and more sociopathic (both in a figurative and in some adaptations '''literal''' sense) and nowadays more often appears as [[BigBad the main antagonist]] or [[BigBadEnsemble a major member of the opposing force]] of any story arc she is part of.
* {{Foil}}: To Batman. Both are extremely pragmatic and intelligent manipulators who don't trust anyone else to get the job done, but one is a rich white guy who inherited a fortune that adheres to a higher moral code of protecting civilians from criminals and compassion towards human life while the other is a black woman who came from poverty, clawing and scratching her way to power, but abides by a Machiavellian moral code and is willing to make whatever sacrifice is needed for her greater good.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She started off a housewife before her family died. Now she's one of DC's premier Chessmasters.
* {{Gonk}}: DependingOnTheArtist, but she is traditionally depicted as overweight, middle-aged, harsh-featured and frankly kind of ugly. Can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in those cases as a result of her job and the stress it takes to continue doing it.
* GoodIsNotNice: In the times she's hasn't crossed the line, she's still one of the most darkly pragmatic characters.
* HeroicSacrifice: Post-''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' Amanda led a Suicide Squad strikeforce to attack the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'''s satellite, New Oa in the ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' event. Knowing she wasn't going to get out alive one way or the other, she packed enough explosives to reduce the station to rubble under her jacket.
** Utterly drained after a particularly traumatic gambit, she tries to take a Kryptonite bomb into the Black Vault to shut it down from the inside. [[spoiler:However, Rick Flag tears the bomb away from her and dives into the Vault himself.]]
* HeroicWillpower: If this woman wants something, ''she'll get it and damn the cost''. After the deaths of her husband and two of her five children, she struggled without respite until she'd successfully left Chicago behind, put her remaining kids through college, and graduated herself in Political Sciences. Her determination and brilliance made her a priceless addition to the campaign of a Congress hopeful (who, by all accounts, was put in office by her efforts) and later on proved key to the reformation of the Squad.
** So far, she's the ''only'' person to ever have shaken off Max Lord's mind control powers, deny the temptation the Thinker helmet offered her, and was able to resist the Diabloverde jungle's hellish hallucinations. Granted, she was still visibly affected in all cases, but she still ended in charge of all three situations while still being able to get right back to work after.
* HumansAreFlawed: Her personal thoughts on the matter:
-->'''Amanda Waller''': Nobody can decide for anybody else to be well or strong or whole. People have to decide that on their own -- and you have to let 'em.
* IAmAMonster: She has, entirely unironically, accepted the metaphorical albatross around her neck and given up all hope of ever sleeping soundly again. Whenever she's given a ReasonYouSuckSpeech or at point into her flaws, she just grimaces and accepts it, acknowledging how monstrous she's become in life.
** [[{{Deconstruction}} Rustam tore her world apart through this]], [[spoiler: forcing Amanda to expose herself to her surviving children as thus. And for the deathblow, Waller's daughter told her ''exactly'' what she thought of her. A broken, confused Amanda is left alone to simmer in the realization of her life's work.]]
--->'''Amanda Waller''':...I don't understand. [[PyrrhicVictory This feels like losing. But I won.]]
** During her attempt to usurp control of Checkmate, she was outmaneuvered and tricked by Mr. Terrific strictly because her own paranoia got the best of her, because it makes her think others are the same way, in addition to the fact her tendency of being crazy-prepared makes her not so subtle.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: A terrifying mix of Loyalty, Authority, Respect and Fear. She can be very charismatic when she makes the effort - as shown by the fact most of the Squad fully respects her despite hating her guts, and for those who don't... there's always the cranial bombs and Rick Flag. Careful amounts of Prejudice also help her manipulate villains into serving the Squad. When working with heroes, she buys their Loyalty with either Money or Information.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She often makes horrifically unethical decisions when faced with impossible dilemmas. She justifies them to herself with varying arguments, some of which she accepts more readily than others. The one she seems to accept the most is "because nobody else will".
-->'''Amanda Waller''': I'm not proud of what I had to do -- but I would do it again. You all quit, you all die, I can still guarantee you one thing -- the Squad will go on.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At the end of the first ''Suicide Squad'' series, Amanda was quite thoroughly exhausted of the entire metahuman scene and just wanted to retire to Diabloverde. Had the ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' crossover not forced the U.S. Government to bring her back, she'd have remained quite peacefully there.
* InSeriesNickname: Due to her being difficult to cross, she's called "the Wall". [[spoiler: Father Craemer deconstructed this when confronting Amanda after ''The Janus Directive'', pointing it was an image she's proud of presenting, even if she's well aware it's not completely real. Under the manipulation and the brilliance, she's still human, but she sublimates her feelings until they start affecting her judgment. At that point, she starts needing others to serve as her conscience (Nightshade, Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger, Simon [=LaGrieve=], her sister, Vixen, Katana and even Oracle have at one point filled the role). Craemer challenged her to stop surrounding herself with people serving as her brakes and actually learn to dominate ''herself''. She hasn't quite mastered it, but she's still trying some of the time.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: With General Wade Eiling in Project Atom, and she's not too fond of Sarge Steel in the Department of Metahuman Affairs. She has a better relation with Checkmate, which she co-founded. Kobra tried to exploit this trope in ''The Janus Directive'', though TeethClenchedTeamwork prevailed.
* IronLady: You ''have'' to be commanding and have a temper when your job consists in leading a squad of superpowered lunatics and broken heroes. Even ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' knows better than to cross her lightly.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the original 1987 series, she was pragmatic, manipulative, and unscrupulous, but had a HiddenHeartOfGold, best exemplified in the last arc of the book, where she takes on a job to liberate a Central American nation because she feels guilty about enabling the U.S. Government to prop up the country's regime with its own version of the Suicide Squad. Not only that, instead of the usual million dollar fee that the Squad charged, she took the job for a single peso, and paid the Squad their salaries for the mission out of her own pocket. And when the mission is done, she takes on the job of rebuilding the country's infrastructure as its interim president. However, {{Flanderization}} kicked in, and she became a
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Amanda Waller ''did'' have a heart. It used to shine every now and then in the original ''Suicide Squad'', until the job ground it out of her. She recovers to a more human level when she's separated from the job, but she's so good at it, the government prefers enduring her most grating traits rather than allow her a respite... which of course only worsens the problem until she's kicked out until the next crisis rolls in and she's put back in control and the whole horrible cycle starts all over again. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Every now and then her humanity prevails]], but most of the time it's buried under a layer of pitch-black pragmatism.
* KnightInSourArmor: She has long lost pretty much all faith in everything she doesn't directly control. The fact she [[VetinariJobSecurity keeps being called to do the same horrible, thankless job time after time]] probably had something to do with it.
* LargeAndInCharge: Her concept as "The Wall" actually dictated her design. [[http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/suicide-squad-progressive-leader-amanda-waller.html According to her creator John Ostrander]]:
-->As the character percolated, he cooked up a name, Amanda Waller, and a nickname branched off in his mind: "The Wall." "When you're doing comics, you need a visual shorthand in order to convey certain aspects of a character," Ostrander says, "and if Amanda Waller's nickname was 'The Wall,' she had to look a little bit like a wall. She had to look formidable. By not giving her Wonder Woman's muscles, and instead some heft, it sort of suggested a power in her."
* LaserGuidedKarma: Like it or not, she's often punished for her darker acts. Betraying Rustam eventually led to the destruction of her family, and her lone wolf act put the Squad under severe scrutiny.
* LonelyFuneral: Emilia Harcourt, NSA representative, muses there are very few greater accolades in the intelligence community. [[spoiler: When it's Waller's turn, only her children and Harcourt, as her successor, show up.]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: While in her better days she's simply [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]], she can stoop pretty low if if will get the mission done.
* MindRape: She once suffered this via a neurotoxin. Aside from the expected visits of her husband and two eldest children, she saw an agent who got killed while she was on MissionControl, and most notably, her EnemyWithin.
** She was also not above inflicting this on others. Notably, Quebecois nationalist Plastique was an early Squad member who threatened to expose the Squad upon her release. Waller ordered Plastique's memories erased instead. She only stopped doing this because her go-to mentalists, Mindboggler and the Thinker, either died or lost their powers.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Her driving goal is her need to protect and strengthen the government she works for. It doesn't matter what methods she uses or what crimes the government may have committed, either before she was called in or after clearing things up: so long as they defend the USA, then it's acceptable.
* NecessarilyEvil: She knows full well that some of the things she does are wrong, but she justifies them as necessary. Through her crimes, she serves a greater purpose; the protection and advancement of the United States of America.
* NervesOfSteel: Waller can, will, and does regularly stare down alien gods, supervillians, and the Goddamn Batman.
** In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Waller is in the shower…when Franchise/{{Batman}} breaks into her house. They then proceed to have a ''nice chat''…and at the end, Waller makes such a [[VillainHasAPoint disturbingly good point]] that Batman is too rattled to do his trademark StealthHiBye, and just walks out the door while Waller sets off the alarm.
*** Note that this particular example is even a downplayed trope, as right after Batman leaves, she found herself visibly shaken by the ordeal.
* NobleDemon: If she's feeling charitable, having a good day and there are no crises in the horizon.
** This extends in the oddest ways. For instance, she rather liked the second Thinker, Cliff Carmichael, and was upset when King Faraday murdered him... after Carmichael had engineered a mutiny and tried to kill Waller.
* TheOmniscient: She has intel on almost everything.
* OneSteveLimit: Amanda enforces her trademarks very zealously. A team of assassins and vandals working for a BananaRepublic decided to start using the name Suicide Squad, and this personally offended Waller to the point she sponsored a mission herself to eliminate the regime.
* ParentalNeglect: An unfortunate consequence of Amanda throwing herself into politics. She genuinely loves her children, but her devotion to her job had a really, ''really'' high cost for her few remaining familial relationships.
* {{Pride}}: Even the death of her husband and two children wasn't enough to break her. It was actually the start of trying to dig her way out that triggered her ascent and filled her with enough anger to power a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]]. As her sister relates, welfare isn't free money; it costs a lot of dignity, and that was a price Amanda was never willing to pay. Coupled with her stubbornness, her brilliance makes her virtually unstoppable, but her anger is always in danger of congealing into raw hate.
** That said, she does have her limits and is perfectly capable of feeling shame. After the LOA arc, in which she crosses a personal MoralEventHorizon, she releases the few remaining Squad members and allows herself to be arrested. Mind, she knows full well [[VetinariJobSecurity the government is going to need her whether they like it or not]], and is in fact [[BatmanGambit counting on this]] to get out once the first legit offer comes by, having appeased her personal desire for judgment.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She's very good at dishing them out. For example, when Poison Ivy seduces a man with her pheromones, Waller snarks, "You're a slaveholder, deep down. So make your boytoy here take a nap and let's get on with business."
** However, her favorite target has always been Captain Boomerang, whose nickname "Boomerbutt" she coined. On the other hand, she prefers puncturing his ego with quick insults rather than full speeches.
* RetiredBadass: At the end of the original run of ''Suicide Squad'', she left her position to lead a tiny Caribbean country. She would have ''stayed'' there gladly had the ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' crossover not [[TenMinuteRetirement forced the U.S. government to drag her back]].
* SassyBlackWoman: Yup!
-->'''Amanda Waller:''' ''[while threatening murderous convicts to back down]'' I am fat, black, and menopausal. You do NOT want to mess with me!
* ScaryBlackWoman: And how! notably it comes from her [[MagnificentBastard intelligence]] and her position in the government rather than any physical strength.
* ShadowArchetype: To Batman, representing his paranoia and what could happen if he became TheUnfettered in his pursuit of justice.
* SmugSnake: If someone who defied her falls into her web, she isn't above a spot of gloating.
** Memorably, at the end of ''Justice League vs. Suicide Squad'', Waller initially refuses to even consider allowing the League to take away Killer Frost... until Batman admits that despite his original doubts, [[ARareSentence he might have been wrong]] about the Squad's value. Waller takes a moment to process this, then decides the whole fiasco was WorthIt just to hear Batman acknowledge one mistake, and happily allows Frost to leave. [[spoiler:She's fairly sure Frost's going to end up in Belle Reve one way or the other, anyway, and [[ManipulativeBastard the entire conflict was in her favor anyway, as she got control of the assets of]] ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} after capturing Max Lord.]]
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Max Lord tries this with Waller in a flashback in ''Justice League #12''. He gets a haymaker to the eye.
* SurroundedByIdiots:
** Idiotic NSC liaison Derek Tolliver. After the utter fiasco that was the ''Flight of the Firebird'' arc, he gets the brilliant idea of trying to keep his job by leaking news of the existence of the Squad to the even bigger idiot Senator Joe Cray. Waller chews him up with some gravedigging and gets him to drop the scheme... though by then his foolhardy meddling has already ensured his own death and Cray's, the exposure of the Squad, and a host of other problems.
** Vic Sage in ''ComicBook/New52'' treats the Squad as his personal fantasy league and neglects basic background checks and safety measures in favor of idiotic ideas like renaming the team "Task Force XL".
* TeenPregnancy: The 2001 series reveals that Waller had a child back when she was 16, and subsequently gave her up for adoption. The baby grew up to be Havana.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Waller did her best to avert this in ''Suicide Squad'''s original run, hiring several psychiatrists, doctors and even a priest as additional personnel in Belle Reve. However, their success rate was fairly low, her abrasive personality made it very hard to work with her for long and in the end she more or less decided it wasn't really worth the effort, as she hasn't tried to do something similar with later iterations of the Squad.
* UnbuiltTrope: She's the TropeCodifier for BlackBossLady and is quite the impressive example of the archetype. Not only does she hold a lot of governmental power, she's also extremely intelligent and a BadassNormal who once [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu fought off Granny Goodness]]. That being said, there are a number of ways that she comes off as a rather dark and tragic deconstruction of the trope. For starters, many of the same qualities that allow her to be so successful at her job have also made her very difficult to work with, even for those who aren't coerced into working with her. Moreover, her hard-nosed attitude and drive for success stem from her husband and two of her children being tragically murdered, and her dedication to her career has driven a rift between her and her remaining family. Also, while most BlackBossLady characters are unambiguously good, Waller is deeply morally ambiguous, constantly dancing on the line between AntiHero and AntiVillain and committing immoral acts in the name of protecting and advancing American interests. Even at her best, she's ruthlessly pragmatic to the point that it unnerves even Batman. And no matter how much she tries to justify her actions to herself, they still weigh on her heavily. She even retired from her position at one point, having become thoroughly sick of what it required her to do... only for the government to put her back to work.
* UndyingLoyalty: Where others have faith in Heaven, she has hers in the Squad. Waller is fully aware that the Squad is supposed to be expendable, but the very idea of treating them as disposable weapons revolts her.
* TheUnfettered: Accomplishing the mission ''at all cost '' is her legacy.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her sister remembers the charming, happy girl she used to be. While she had already developed some of the habits that would define her life later on (most notably her stubbornness and pride), her family and later Joseph Waller helped curb most of Amanda's nastiest habits.
* VetinariJobSecurity: The whole reason why Waller still has her job: no-one else can do what she does, or at the very least no-one is willing. ''The Phoenix Gambit'' arc and her return to Squad leadership in ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' are good examples. Whenever she's sent to prison, she shrugs and basically says she only needs to wait a short time before someone in the government pardons her because she can do what few others can.
* WeDoTheImpossible: Her reason for creating the Squad. They're not suicidal -- they just go on suicidal missions.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She is genuinely trying to work for the good of her country, but she isn't afraid to send dangerous supervillains on suicide missions to this end, and her methods are so drastic even some people in the government are shocked by it. She often makes it a point to surround herself with more morally-straight characters such as Belle Reve's supporting staff and outright heroes like Nightshade, Vixen and Nemesis to serve as her conscience. To their disgust, however, she listens but only very rarely actually heeds their advice.
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!!!'''ComicBook/{{Oracle}}''' (Barbara Gordon)
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->See [[ComicBook/{{Oracle}} her page]] for more info.
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!!!'''Florence "Flo" Crowly'''
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A staff member who works behind the scenes for the Suicide Squad. She's also the niece of Amanda Waller.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She was attracted to Bronze Tiger.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She desperately wants to become a field agent so she can more effectively compete with Vixen for Bronze Tiger’s attention. This winds up getting her killed.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She’s a white woman in her first appearance.
* JustAKid: Besides already dating Vixen, Ben saw her as a kid.
* KillTheCutie: One of the nicest, most innocent members of the cast, so of course she had to die. Notably, her death is what finally causes Economos to resign.
* KilledOffForReal: She’s killed during the disastrous mission to Apokolips.
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Briscoe was a pilot and mechanic that took care of Sheba, the covert stealth helicopter used by the Suicide Squad.
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* AcePilot: He's an extremely skilled pilot, especially when it comes to his helicopter Sheba.
* BadassNormal: No powers, just skills as pilot and marksman and helped the Squad on many of their missions.
* CoolShades: He's always seen with sunglasses.
* DeathOfAChild: Sheba is named after Briscoe’s deceased daughter, which is strongly implied to be one of the main reasons for his unhealthy obsession with the vehicle.
* KilledOffForReal: He is killed by Parademons while piloting Sheba in defense of the team.
* LastNameBasis: His first name is never mentioned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:John Economos]]
[[quoteright:165:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/192379_54109_john_economos.jpg]]
John Economos is the warden of Belle Reve Penitentiary. Though not directly responsible for its actions, he works with Amanda Waller and her Suicide Squad.
----
* WardensAreEvil: Subverted. He might be the warden of the [[HellholePrison Belle Reve Penitentiary]], but he's a pretty okay guy.
* NiceGuy: He's fairly pleasant and grounded when compared to Waller.
[[/folder]]
!!1987 Series Opponents
[[folder:Brimstone]]
!!!'''Brimstone'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brimstone_0003.jpg]]
* PlayingWithFire: Brimstone can generate and project balls of fire from his eyes and hands.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Catseye]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1322404_catseye2.jpg]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Cats and especially leopards.
* ArtificialHuman: He's apparently a bioengineered meta-human that serves as enforcer for the Yakuza.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gets scratched by his own poisonous claws when fighting Bronze Tiger.
* MysteriousPast: His real name and origin remain a mystery.
* PoisonousPerson: His claws are coated with poison.
* TattooedCrook: His entire body is covered in tattoos that make him look more feline-like.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rustam]]
!!!'''Raza Kattuah'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rustam_01.jpg]]
Rustam is professional archaeologist and leader of The Jihad, Rustam wields a flammable weapon called as Psi-Scimitar, this weapon allows him to engage with Suicide Squad and especially with his main foe Rick Flag Jr.
----
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Besides setting it on fire, the Psi-Sword can also cut open portals to other dimensions.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Used to be one before becoming part of the Jihad.
* FlamingSword: His signature Psi-Sword.
* NotQuiteDead: He and Flag were apparently killed during the destruction of Jotunheim, when in fact both ended up falling to Skartaris.
[[/folder]]
!!1987 Series Other Characters
!!2001 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Blackstarr]]
!!!'''Rachel Berkowitz'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/236785_37991_blackstarr.jpg]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: When compared to her original Pre-Crisis incarnation, she exposes a lot more skin.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Killer Frost]]
!!!'''Louise Lincoln'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/426905_killer_frost_by_paco_medina_1.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/FirestormDCComics here]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Major Disaster]]
!!!'''Major Disaster''' (Paul Booker)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/major_disaster_pe_001.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League characters]]
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Support Staff
[[folder:General Frank Rock]]
!!!'''Frank "Sergeant" Rock'''
[[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/general_rock.jpg]]
* DeadAllAlong: The 2001 series ends with Amanda Waller revealing that the real Sgt. Rock and Bulldozer both died in 1945. It's never explained who the impostors involved with this incarnation of the Suicide Squad really were.
* LatexPerfection: Following the Squad's dissolution, General Rock vanished leaving behind only a lifelike face mask. The implication is clearly that this individual was not the real Rock, and may in fact have been the Comicbook/UnknownSoldier, a World War 2 era character known for being a MasterOfDisguise.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He and his pal Bulldozer were caught in a time rift during the late 1950s, which slowed down their aging. This is complicated by the fact that the "Rock" seen in the series turns out to be an impostor, as well as Waller's above-mentioned revelation.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Havana]]
!!!'''Odalys Milagro Valdez'''
[[quoteright:209:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/193001_156750_havana.jpg]]
The second-in-command of Sergeant Rock's Suicide Squad.
----
* AmazonianBeauty: Sometimes seen in a tank-top and she's pretty toned and certainly not ugly.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, a cab driver is shown trying to guess exactly what Hispanic group she belongs to. Her somewhat ambiguous appearance is due to her ancestry, with her being the child of Amanda Waller and an unidentified Latino father.
* DeskJockey: When first introduced, she's working by herself in an isolated government records office.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: At some point she revealed to Amanda Waller that she's her biological daughter, who she gave into adoption due to Waller only being 16 years old and felt she wasn't ready to be a mother.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Modem]]
!!!'''Wesley Percival Sloan'''
[[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wesley_sloan_001.png]]
* TheCracker: Recruited as hacker and mission control for Rock's Suicide Squad.
* NerdGlasses: Wears rounded spectacles to go with the hacker look.
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Opponents
[[folder:Tolteca]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tolteca_01.jpg]]
A member of the reformed Onslaught.
----
* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit exposes her midsection.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about her, not even if she's really Mexican.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female at Onslaught.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She just disappeared after Onslaught was defeated.
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Other Characters
!!2011 Series Field Agents
!!!'''Captain Boomerang'''
!!!'''Deadshot'''
[[folder:El Diablo]]
!!!'''Chato Santana'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/el_diablo2_min.jpg]]
* TheAtoner: While taking revenge on the gang that nearly killed him, Santana set the gang’s home ablaze and accidentally killed an innocent woman and children in the process. Afterward he surrendered to authorities, and regards his time in the Squad as an opportunity to make amends for his actions.
* BaldOfAwesome: Has a shaved head and he's pretty powerful.
* OddFriendship: In El Diablo's spinoff miniseries, he's assigned to work with [[ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}} Uncle Sam]], the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the United States of America, on a case at the Mexican border. The two men turn out to have shared interests (including justice) despite their very different viewpoints on how to achieve it, and become good friends.
* PlayingWithFire: El Diablo possesses pyrokinetic powers.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Because his powers constantly burns his shirt
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harley Quinn]]
!!!'''Harleen Quinzell'''
[[quoteright:198:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harley_quinn_5.jpg]]
In the New 52, Harley is captured by Black Canary and is forcibly inducted into the Suicide Squad by Amanda Waller. For major info see [[Characters/HarleyQuinn relative page]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:James Gordon Jr.]]
!!!'''James Gordon Jr.'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james_gordon_jr.jpg]]
-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 Batman Rogues Gallery]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Shark]]
!!!'''[[Characters/SecretSix King Shark]]'''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Savant]]
!!!'''Brian Durlin'''
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savant.png]]
Former operative of the Birds of Prey organization. He has a condition where he has a non-linear memory and sporadic amnesia.
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Voltaic]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2038370_ssquad_22.jpg]]
A member of the Suicide Squad with the power to generate and project electricity.
----
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name was never revealed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yo-Yo]]
!!!'''Chang Jie-Ru'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yo_yo.png]]
Chang Jie-Ru is a convict and a member of the newly formed Suicide Squad with the ability to alter his body's mass and thickness.
----
* EatenAlive: Gets eaten by King Shark. Luckily he survives and manages to get out a few issues later.
* NighInvulnerability: He survived getting eaten and digested by King Shark, and Waller theorizes that he's almost completely un-killable.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: Yo-Yo has the ability to increase his body mass to an extent where he is capable of resisting an explosion in his immediate vicinity, and other damage to a similar degree. In the opposite manner he is also able to decrease his mass, to bypass small gaps and other slight obstacles.
[[/folder]]
!!2011 Series Support Staff
!!2011 Series Opponents
[[folder:Red Orchid]]
!!!'''Min Jie-Ru'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2869222_screen_shot_2013_02_13_at_61705_am.png]]
The crime-boss sister of the Suicide Squad member Yo-Yo.
----
* ColorCharacter: ''Red'' Orchid.
* MonochromaticEyes: Her eyes are completely red.
* PoisonousPerson: Red Orchid appears to have an altered, plant-based physiology that allows the emission of airborne toxins and paralytics.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her colors are red and black and she works for a terrorist organization.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Regulus]]
!!!'''Dean Higgins'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2520212_img_1053.png]]
The brutal leader of Basilisk.
----
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Dresses in green armor.
* TomTheDarkLord: Has a surprisingly normal name for the leader of a terrorist organization.
[[/folder]]
!!2011 Series Other Characters
!!Members of the Suicide Squad not appearing in the main series
[[folder:Sidearm]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sidearm.jpg]]
Sidearm appeared as part of the squad in ''[[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy vol. 4]]'', where King Shark killed him for trying to shoot Detective Makoa in the back.
----
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Sidearm was with a special cybernetic vest equipped with modular appendages capable of increasing his strength to superhuman levels.
* ShoulderCannon: One of the Tecnovest's mountings is multi-barreled cannon mounted behind his right shoulder.
[[/folder]]
!!2016 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Will Evans]]
!!!'''Will Evans'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_evans.jpg]]
* BoomHeadshot: Lawton executes him this way.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Intended to kill and replace Lawton as the new Deadshot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Coldsnap]]
!!!'''Darryl'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coldsnap_pe_01.jpg]]
* AnIcePerson: His most obvious ability.
* FireIceDuo: With his girlfriend Heatstroke
* MauveShirt: He and Heastroke surprisingly survive their Suicide Squad mission despite being C-List at best.
* OnlyOneName: His full name is never mentioned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Heatstroke]]
!!!'''Joanne'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heatstroke_01.jpg]]
* FireIceDuo: With her boyfriend Coldsnap.
** She also briefly formed one of these with Killer Frost in the latter's solo issue of {{ComicBook/Justice League of America Rebirth}}.
* MauveShirt: She and Coldsnap surprisingly survive their Suicide Squad mission despite being C-List at best.
* OnlyOneName: Her full name is never mentioned.
* PlayingWithFire: Her most obvious ability.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Juan Soria]]
[[quoteright:271:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/juan_soria.jpg]]
A C-Lister who briefly served in the Suicide Squad.
----
* AnArmAndALeg: He got his hands cut off and replaced with artificial ones made of nanites, which give him the power to unlock anything.
* ArcWords: "Juan Soria does not belong in this story."
* BlackComedy: His story arc is this.
* BrokenBird: He set out to be a superhero, but ended up being nothing more than a C-Lister superhuman.
* ButtMonkey: The Squad treats him like squat. [[spoiler: It was deliberately done to enforce his fatalism to bring down the mission's target.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: His defeatist attitude is toxic to the hope-eating alien he is sent up against.]]
* DriventoSuicide: He attempts this on his mission. [[spoiler: It ends up de-powering the mission's villain, an alien who feeds on positive emotions, to the point where he can kill it.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: One titanically unlucky character.
* ShoottheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: He is last seen sharing a cell with a ''very hungry Killer Croc''. And Waller didn't even do it to spite him, she actually felt it was a reward since he'd been stuck in an actual hole previously.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Lasted two issues.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Battleaxe]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5159101_battleaxe.jpg]]
* AlasPoorVillain: Even though her Squad teammates didn't particularly liked her, they do feel sorry that she died that way.
* AnAxeToGrind: Her weapon of choice and codename.
* CListFodder: Being a barely known foe of the Outsiders in a title that constantly does this, it's no surprise that she reappears in the Post-Flashpoint continuity to bite it.
* GirlishPigtails: While she's not particularly childish, but this is her style.
* YourHeadAsplode: King Cobra uses a device that triggers the bombs in the Squad member's necks. He tests it on Battleaxe, killing her and revealing the purpose of the implants to Kobra.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Only appears in a few issues and then is killed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodletter]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bloodletter_0.jpg]]
* CombatTentacles: He can use the tentacles on his head to lash and ensnare opponents.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name wasn't revealed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zoomax]]
!!!'''Brian Smith'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5615996_6705264736_latest.jpg]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His skin is green.
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Looks like a green-skinned satyr or faun.
* HornedHumanoid: He has ram horns.
* YourHeadAsplode: El Diablo used his heat powers to ignite the bomb in Zoomax's neck and blew his head off, leaving only a headless smoking body.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Behemoth]]
!!!'''Taro Raiden'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/behemoth_dc_comics_hybrid.jpg]]
* TheBrute: His main asset is his brute strength.
* MauveShirt: Despite being C-List at most, he did survive his confrontation with El Diablo.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zizz]]
[[quoteright:303:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zizz.jpg]]
* DropTheHammer: Just like Hawkgirl, she fights with a mace.
* {{Expy}}: Appears to be based on Justice Lords Hawkgirl from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' series.
* MysteriousPast: How did a Thanagarian ended up drafted into the Suicide Squad is unknown.
* WingedHumanoid: Being a Thanagarian, she has hawk-like wings that allow her to fly.
[[/folder]]
!!2016 Series Opponents
[[folder:Jake Dalesko]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jake_dalesko.png]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Kobra]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kobra_pe_0001.jpg]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lady Eve]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lady_eve_001.jpg]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: She and Katana end up exchanging minds during her respective run.
[[/folder]]
!!Suicide Squad Black
[[folder:Azúcar]]
!!!'''Veronica Lopez'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5447436_suicide_squad_most_wanted_el_diablo_and_boomerang_2016_002_019.jpg]]
* BareYourMidriff: Her shirt is torn to show her navel.
* FairCop: Used to be a GCPD cop before she obtained her powers and became a vigilante.
* FreakOut: She freaked out when she saw the Devil Chutriel that possesses El Diablo, ruining any chance of a relationship between them.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Her power allows her to see the death within people.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Juniper]]
!!!'''Zahra Abed'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zahra_abed_prime_earth_0001.jpg]]
Juniper is an agent of A.R.G.U.S., who serves as the organization's representative on the Suicide Squad Black team.
----
* GreenThumb: Due to being a lesser known Avatar of The Green, Juniper is capable of both transforming existing flora and creating new examples.
* {{Flight}}: Juniper can fly with the plant-based wings that are constantly on her back.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Klarion]]
!!!'''ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/klarion_the_witch_boy_y3.jpg]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gentleman Ghost]]
!!!'''[[Characters/{{Hawkman}} Jim Craddock]]'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gentleman_ghost.jpg]]
[[/folder]]
!!2019 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Magpie]]
!!!'''Margaret Pye'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new52magpie_png.png]]
-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart2 Batman Rogues 2]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cavalier]]
!!!'''Hudson Pyle'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cavalier_legends_dark_knight_batman_dc_comics_h1.jpg]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No member of the Suicide Squad is impressed by him, and when he dies, they don't care. At least Harley doesn't.
* YourHeadAsplode: Get's his head punched off by Osita.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zebra-Man]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zebra_man.jpg]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Animal alias variety. And Harley can't help but point out that his powers have nothing to do with zebras.
* BarrierWarrior: He can create force-fields at will.
* EliteMook: Seems to have become Lok's bodyguard.
* MauveShirt: Besides Harley, he's the only member of the Suicide Squad that wasn't part of the Revolutionaries before they went rogue.
* PunchClockVillain: He doesn't seem to enjoy protecting someone as disgusting as Lok, but has little choice in the matter thanks to being part of the Squad.
* TheQuietOne: He's not particularly talkative.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Shark]]
!!!'''Karshon'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karshon_prime_earth_002.jpg]]
----
-> See [[Characters/GLOtherVillains GL Other Villains]]
[[/folder]]
!!!The Revolutionaries
[[folder:In General]]
* MortonsFork: Either they complete 50 Suicide Squad missions and gain their freedom, or they spend the rest of their lives imprisoned. [[spoiler:They actually expected that, joining the Squad to stop whoever is behind Lok.]]
* MultinationalTeam: They come from many different nations. Osita is from Puerto Rico, Chaos Kitten from Hong Kong, Thylacine from Australia, Wink is American, Deadly Six from Somalia and so on.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Unsurprisingly, neither Lawton nor Harley like the idea of working with a group of people that killed two of their own, and the feeling is mutual.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Scale and T.N.Teen are both killed in their first appearance.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They go after corrupt politicians and military contractors.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Osita]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182749_osita.jpg]]
* AMotherToHerMen: She deeply cares for her team, being remorseful any time one of them ends up dying.
* ArtificialLimbs: Her left arm is mechanical. It can apparently be hijacked.
* BrawnHilda: She's a big, muscular not particularly attractive woman.
* BraidsOfAction: Has her hair arranged in a longish braid.
* ButchLesbian: She's at least more masculine than her late wife.
* TheLeader: Leader of the revolutionaries.
* TheLostLenore: Her wife Tonia.
* MeaningfulName: Her codename means "Little She-Bear" in Spanish.
* SuperStrength: Her mechanical arm is so strong it punched Cavalier's head like a watermelon.
* YouKilledMyFather: Wants to get to Captain Boomerang for killing her wife Tonia with one of his boomerangs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Aerie]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182748_thr_aerie.jpg]]
* AmbiguousGender: Non-binary and looks androgynous.
* BattleCouple: With Wink, complementing her teleporting with their flight.
* IronicFear: They're a winged person afraid of flying on an airplane.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The president of a nation the Squad was sent to assassinate is their mother, which the Squad minus Deadshot knew about.]]
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Apparently can communicate with birds.
* WingedHumanoid: Has blue-colored wings that allow them to fly.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wink]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182750_wink.jpg]]
* BattleCouple: With The Aerie, and their powers compliment each other.
* DelinquentHair: Has blonde hair dyed pink in a mohawk.
* {{Fangirl}}: The brief team-up with the Flash reveals she's a big fan of the Scarlet Speedster.
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Not really offing, but annoyed at Harley AreWeThereYet antics, she teleports her to the middle of the outback for several minutes. Apparently there were too many emus.
* StickyFingers: Mentioned she's kleptomaniac.
* {{Teleportation}}: Can teleport herself and others. Her limits haven't been explored.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fin]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182758_fin.jpg]]
* BashBrothers: With his brother Scale.
* FishPeople: He and his brother are Atlanteans that look fish-like.
* ForcedToWatch: The Shark chewed his brother in half in front of him without being able to intervene.
* ItsPersonal: He vows to kill The Shark for killing his brother.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Kills The Shark by injuring him underwater and letting him be eaten by a swarm of sharks, not only to separate him from his telepathic link, but as revenge for his brother.]]
* PsychicLink: He and Scale shared one, and once he dies, Fin can't help but feel half-empty. He can also extend the mental link to others in order to have private conversations.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Forced to work alongside The Shark, who ate his brother.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Deadly Six]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182775_deadly_six.jpg]]
* SevenDeadlySins: He can use the device on his chest to inflict his targets with one of the seven deadly sins, although he says he wouldn't want to weaponize {{Lust}}.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jog]]
!!!'''Samuel Song'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182754_jog.jpg]]
* ADeathInTheLimelight: The issue which shows his backstory and POV is the one were he dies.
* AlliterativeName: His name is revealed to be this [[spoiler:when he was at the morgue]].
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:After dying, he reawakens at a morgue, greeted by his father the ''Black Racer'', now he can use his speed without exhaustion, probably matching the Flash.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Him reviving, being Black Racer's son and running just in time to save The Revolutionaries from death screams of this.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Knowing he failed to take the detonator of his explosive, he remains calm and tells Osita to chase down those who control them before dying.
* {{Irony}}: He considers ironic that he, someone who hates running after being forced to flee so many times in his life, has speed-related powers.
* MellowFellow: Because of his powers, he's rather laid back. [[spoiler:He's not even that shocked to find out the Black Racer is his father.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He stands out for not having them, needing lots of rest and food to be able to use his powers, and only for short periods of times.
* SuperSpeed: He has this power, although unlike other speedsters, he can only use them in short bursts. He does have the HealingFactor of other speedsters, which allow him to mostly heal from an explosion that nearly charred his face in a matter of hours.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chaos Kitten]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182759_chaos_kitten_9.jpg]]
* BadassNormal: So far the only member of the Revolutionaries that hasn't shown any powers or special abilities.
* NiceHat: Wears a hat that says 'Nope'.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Anti-Hero for sure, but when she finds a dog at the clinic of a BackAlleyDoctor, she insists on taking it with them, and then she leaves it in Deadshot's care (who by that point had fulfilled his sentence and was free to go).
* ThoseTwoGuys: Usually seen with Thylacine.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Thylacine]]
!!!'''Corinna'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182765_thylacine.jpg]]
* CaptainEthnic: She's Australian, possibly aboriginal, with supernatural senses and whose codename is an extinct marsupial.
* LivingLieDetector: Her hearing is so good she can easily identify when someone is lying.
* ScaryBlackWoman: Unlike Deadly Six who is at least civil, Thylacine can be pretty intimidating. Best shown when she kills Magpie.
* SuperSenses: This is her apparent power.
[[/folder]]
!!2019 Series Support Staff
[[folder:Lok]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7292455_lok.jpg]]
* BadBoss: You think Waller is bad, Lok is worse, electrocuting Lawton with a cattle prod for no reason other than questioning his orders, electrocuting them again for not doing the things he ordered exactly like he wanted and so on.
* TheBully: He's even called a one-dimensional bully by Jog.
* BullyingADragon: He makes the team go all the way to Australia to capture Captain Boomerang...[[spoiler:only to order Lawton, who considers Boomerang an actual ''friend'' to shoot him in the head or Lok and his men will start detonating the Squad's bombs one by one. Lawton instead shoots Zebra-Man in the shoulder to take down Lok's force-field and then shoots Lok in the head.]]
* TheDragon: He's revealed to be this to [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord]]]] of all people.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Lok is missing his right ear and has burn scars on the right side of his face, as if he was caught in an explosion at some point.
* HateSink: He's just there to be an a-hole to the Suicide Squad, no backstory or sympathetic qualities for him.
* SmugSnake: The guy likes to act as if he can make the Suicide Squad function much better than Waller, but its clear very soon he's just a short tempered psychopath who is not as smart as he thinks. [[spoiler:He doesn't even know the Revolutionaries let themselves be drafted into the Suicide Squad to screw over the plans of whoever is calling the shots for him.]]
[[/folder]]
!!2021 Field Agents
[[folder:Superboy]]
!!!'''Conner Kent'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superboy_conner_kent.jpg]]
-> See [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peacemaker]]
!!!'''Christopher Smith'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peacemaker_dc_comics_1263408_1280x0.jpeg]]
->See [[ComicBook/{{Peacemaker}} his page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bolt]]
!!!'''Lawrence Bolatinsky'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bolt_3.png]]
* DyingToBeReplaced: Gets killed on his first mission with the Suicide Squad so the speedster Alinta can use the codename Bolt without confusion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film Freak]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/film_freak_prime_earth_0002.png]]
-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 Batman Rogues Gallery]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shrike]]
!!!'''Boone'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boone_01.jpg]]
-> See Characters/{{Nightwing}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Talon]]
!!!'''William Cobb'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightwing_vol_3_8_textless.jpg]]
-> See Characters/{{Nightwing}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nocturna]]
!!!'''Natalia Mitternacht'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nocturna_dcnu_2.jpg]]
-> See Characters/{{Batwoman}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Culebra]]
!!!'''Alejandra Cortez'''
[[quoteright:237:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/culebra_8.jpg]]
* AbhorrentAdmirer: She doesn't seem to get how gross it is when she talks about shipping Nocturna and Superboy and mentions feeling hot when Superboy acts assertive against Peacemaker.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Culebra means snake in Spanish, but neither her outfit nor her powers involve snakes, so she fits the Animal Alias category.
* TheBigGuy: The main reason Waller recruited her was due to her strength.
* BrawnHilda: She's big, muscular and not conventionally attractive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Loves making witty comments and ribbing on her teammates and even Waller.
* MauveShirt: She survives her first appearance, while fellow newcomers Mindwarp and Exit die on their debut issue.
* MotorMouth: She never stops trying to lighten the mood of a situation, to the annoyance of Peacemaker.
* SuperStrength: She's strong enough to use a special needle made to penetrate a Kryptonian's skin.
* StoutStrength: She's huge, heavyset and very strong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Branch]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/branch.jpg]]
* GreenThumb: Mentions he can hear plants and he can also control them.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ultraman rips him in half and then burns what's left with his heat vision.
* PlantPerson: Some sort of experiment turned him into one.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's not really a criminal, he's just someone Waller drafted into the Squad and just wants to leave.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodsport]]
!!!'''Robert [=DuBois=]'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8050727_bloodsport.jpg]]
-> See Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL
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* RetCanon: He's given a new armor and helmet that matches his appearance on ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' movie.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Black Siren]]
[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8054663_blacksiren5.jpg]]
* AffablyEvil: For an evil version of Black Canary, Black Siren gets along surprisingly quick with the Suicide Squad, who forcefully drafted her and took her from her home universe.
* BareYourMidriff: Always seen with an open jacket that shows her stomach.
* BoundAndGagged: By gagging her she can't use her sonic scream.
* CanonImmigrant: Her design is based on the character from ''Crisis on Two Earths'', while her codename comes from the DCAU but that became much more popular thanks to the ''Arrowverse''.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Just like her main universe counterpart.
* SinisterShades: She's always seen with sunglasses.
[[/folder]]
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To get back to the main page, go [[Comicbook/SuicideSquad here]].
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[[foldercontrol]]
!!1987 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Black Orchid]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_black_orchid.jpg]]
-> See [[ComicBook/BlackOrchid her own page]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blockbuster]]
!!!'''Mark Desmond'''
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blockbuster_mark_desmond_0001.jpg]]
* TheBerserker: The experiments he made on himself made him super-strong and gigantic, but decreased his intelligence and caused him to become mindlessly aggressive.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Ends up killed by Darkseid's creation Brimstone.
* DumbMuscle: The formula that transformed Mark into Blockbuster damaged his cognitive abilities.
* LegacyCharacter: After death his brother Roland became the newest Blockbuster.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Used to be a chemist who tested his own formula on himself in an attempt to get strong.
* SuperStrength: His main power.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Just look at the pic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bronze Tiger]]
!!!'''Ben Turner'''
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/225px_bronzetigercm7.jpg]]
Ben Turner was a student of the martial arts master known as the O-Sensei. When he and fellow student ComicBook/RichardDragon were approached by an agency known as G.O.O.D., they became international crime fighters alongside the O-Sensei's goddaughter, ComicBook/LadyShiva. However, during a mission to the Arctic, Ben stayed behind to confront the killer of his fiancé. This led him into a trap set by the villainous Doctor Ojo, where he was brainwashed and turned into the villainous Bronze Tiger. It was later revealed that Barney Ling, the head of G.O.O.D., was the one who had hired Ojo, and upon his seeming death, Ben was set free from Ojo's brainwashing.
Post-Crisis, Ben's backstory was somewhat altered. While much of his original backstory remained intact, it was expanded on, revealing that he killed a robber who killed his father in a fit of rage, and he learned martial arts to control that rage. Instead of being brainwashed by Doctor Ojo, he was turned into the Bronze Tiger by the Sensei of the League of Assassins. After being rescued by Rick Flag and partially cured of his conditioning by Amanda Waller, Ben joined the team to atone for his actions and to find a cure for his residual conditioning.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: He left the squad to run a dojo in Detroit, but rejoined the Squad during World War III.
* AChatWithSatan: Had his during the Diabloverde mission. Confronting a mirage of a young, irate Ben Turner helped him channel the rage he'd struggled with all his life and allowed him to finally conquer his demons for good.
* AnimalMotifs: Take a guess.
* TheAtoner: After serving as a brainwashed lackey of the League of Assassins, Ben felt the need to act righteously to make up for his actions.
* BadassNormal: He is just a martial artist with no superhuman power. But he is a ''very'' good martial artist, capable of exchanging blows with ''Batman'', and in some continuities even was one of his teachers.
* BloodKnight: Ben first got into martial arts in the hope that they would serve as an outlet for his deep-seated urge to inflict suffering on others. Said urge began back when he was ''10'' and used a kitchen knife to slaughter a burglar who'd attacked his parents.
--->"But what scared me was that I wasn't sorry for ''killing'' him. I was sorry it ''ended'' so soon."
* BrainwashResidue: He was justifiably freaked out by the mere possibility of this happening, so he never accepted any position higher than Waller's right hand. Flag once consulted him on how to avert this, and his advice proved invaluable in saving the day.
* BreakoutCharacter: Not quite as much as Lady Shiva, but he's far more prominent than Dragon in comics and especially in adaptations.
* DespairEventHorizon: Sarge Steel punted him straight into it just as he was entering a serious relationship with Vixen. This caused him to shatter mentally, flee the Squad, and return to mercenary work. Between Waller and Vixen, he got pulled from the abyss and managed to stabilize, though he was unable to restore his relation with Mari.
* FreudianTrio: The ego to Shiva's id and Dragon's superego in ''[[ComicBook/RichardDragonKungFuFighter Richard Dragon: Kung-Fu Fighter]]''.
* JiveTurkey: During the seventies, he spoke in very stereotypical lingo, though his depiction was otherwise FairForItsDay.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: While Ben has always been a bit older than Richard the continuity that made ''him'' Richard's first and longest lasting martial arts instructor rather than O-Sensei made Ben quite a bit older with them still maintaining their friendship.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: Kneeled to ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}} out of respect for her forging herself into a hero after the League of Assassins (including himself when he was brainwashed) tried to make her a TykeBomb.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: He originally used his mask as a conduit for his wrath, to the point that while in the Squad the sight of it made him uncomfortable and nervous of losing his temper. Later he was able to dominate his rage and wear it normally.
* MasterApprenticeChain: In addition to his training of Cass while brainwashed he was part of quite a few such chains in the corner of Post-Crisis continuity where he is made Dragon's longest-lasting and most influential instructor, though only the first one listed here was pointed out [[note]]neither Steph nor Tim thought Tim was the best person to be teaching her, but her proper mentors kept suddenly deciding to kick her out until Babs finally took her in[[/note]]:
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]->[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]->[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Lance]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Barbara Gordon]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/TheQuestion Vic Sage & Rene Montoya]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]->[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]->Damian Wayne
* ParentalSubstitute: The O-Sensei, his teacher, was this to him and Dragon.
* RedOniBlueOni: Even after he was retconned to have anger issues he is ''always'' the blue to Dragon's red.
* ReluctantPsycho: The whole reason he turned to martial arts was to learn to control the rage inside of him.
* ScaryBlackMan: He is black under his mask. Averted during his days with Richard Dragon, but after his brainwashing he was retconned into having had serious anger issues since childhood.
* TigerVersusDragon: While in this case the tiger is the more restrained of the two and Tiger and Dragon basically consider each other brothers they still fight on occasion, and the imagery is even more pronounced in Dragon's dreams where Tiger acts as a kind of incredibly violent voice of conscience.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Captain Boomerang]]
!!!'''George "Digger" Harkness'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_boomerang_8.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/TheFlashTheRogues The Flash Rogues]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Count Vertigo]]
!!!'''Werner Vertigo'''
[[quoteright:211:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/count_vertigo_the_nail_001.png]]
->See [[Characters/GreenArrow Green Arrow villains]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Deadshot]]
!!!'''Floyd Lawton'''
[[quoteright:197:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deadshot_4.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/{{Deadshot}} his page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Doctor Light]]
!!!'''Arthur Light'''
->See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Justice League villains]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duchess]]
!!!'''Lashina'''
[[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duchess_8.jpg]]
* AmnesiacHero: Joins the Squad not knowing who she is or where she came from.
* {{BFG}}: Unhappy with the weapons on offer in Belle Reeve's armoury, she constructs her own massive gun that anyone without her SuperStrength struggles to life.
* EasyAmnesia: She suffered this upon her arrival on Earth after being shot.
* TheMole: An accidental version. She was left for dead by her fellow Female Furies, but only suffered EasyAmnesia and was allowed into the Squad as she had no Earth records. Once the amnesia wore off, Lashina decided to betray the team in the process of returning to Apokolips.
* PhysicalGoddess: She is a New Goddess from Apokolips.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Enchantress]]
!!!'''June Moone'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/enchantress_june_moon_custom_suicide_1_9f8a0862ddc5604d187568cad1c4a240.jpg]]
* BeastAndBeauty: She's a gorgeous redhead and she's the lover of her teammate, Killer Croc, the man-eating lizard mutant.
* DePower: For a time, after Nightshade absorbed the demonic entity powering her magic.
* EvenEvilHasStandards/ PetTheDog: She once healed a mortally wounded cat that Katana had befriended. When Katana thanked her, she replied "No need. It is not right that any innocent animal should suffer."
* FunctionalMagic: Her main ability.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A powerful sorceress garbed in flowing dark green robes, especially so when depicted as a villainous EvilSorceress.
* MagicalGirlWarrior / DarkMagicalGirl / EvilSorceress: Enchantress started as a Manga/SailorMoon style MagicalGirl in her own adventures (one of the very first Magical Girls!) before disappearing for a few years. When she came back, Enchantress fought {{Comicbook/Supergirl}} as she'd decided to steal all the magical power on Earth in order to eliminate evil. Then it turned out her mentor was secretly evil, and June Moone's Enchantress side went full villain.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After shooting Nightshade, who was just trying to calm her down.
* PowerDyesYourHair: In earlier versions, June Moone is a natural blonde, but turns black-haired whenever she becomes the Enchantress. These days June's a redhead regardless of her identity.
* SquishyWizard: June's the team's powerhouse, but she's a graphic designer and about as tough as you can expect of that. When the villain Cosmonaut headbutted her, she was comatose for hours. Cosmonaut did the same thing to athletic teammate ComicBook/{{Katana}} and Katana was only momentarily dazed. June got squished for real in Flashpoint, when Superman stepped on her.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Has one, which is her main reason for joining the squad; she was promised they could keep it in check. Interestingly, while she might not like the Enchantress, she eventually shoots Nightshade in an attempt to restore her powers. Belle Reve's psychologist makes it a point to explain there's a difference between willingly giving power away and having it taken. In fact, he explicitly compares power to a drug and Moone's actions as withdrawal.
* TalkToTheFist: One of her biggest weaknesses these days. She's almost always the most powerful member of the squad, but she's rarely effective. It's because she spends a long time talking, including telling an enemy what she intends to do to them, so opponents just blast her while she's still blabbing.
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[VillainProtagonist Relatively speaking]], Enchantress is this to the Suicide Squad. Mainly because she's an evil witch who's just as dangerous to her squadmates as she is to her enemies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Javelin]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/javelin.jpg]]
An Olympic athlete turned criminal/Mercenary his skill, and an arsenal of javelin based trick weapons.
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* BadassNormal: Much like Green Arrow and Arsenal, he doesn't have any powers.
* HiredGuns: He's a German mercenary.
* JavelinThrower: A former Olympic javelin thrower turned criminal.
* MysteriousPast: Other than his nationality and past as an Olympic Athlete, nothing is known about Javelin's past.
* NoNameGiven: His real name has never been revealed.
* NotQuiteDead: Left to die by the Squad during ''War of the Gods'', he reappeared several years later during ''Cry for Justice'', getting knocked out by Supergirl.
* RetGone: Hasn't returned in the post-Flashpoint continuity.
* TrickArrow: Javelin's carries an arsenal of trick javelins.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Karin Grace]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karin_grace_0012.jpg]]
Karin Grace is an elite government agent working in Task Force X. Her relationship with Rick Flag led her to become a member of the Suicide Squad, operating as their combat medic. The area she specializes in is space medicine.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mindboggler]]
!!!'''Leah Wasserman'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mindboggler_0001.jpg]]
* BrainUploading: Her corpse was retrieved from Jotunheim and used by the Jihad engineers to create a new Ifrit. It came with a host of problems due to Mindboggler's difficult personality, which the engineers tried to correct by implanting FalseMemories and changing her directives. Eventually the Hayoth's AI Dybbuk was able to repair the faulty programming and restore her memories.
* MasterOfIllusion
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nemesis]]
!!!'''Thomas Andrew Tresser'''
[[quoteright:176:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nemesis_dc.jpg]]
* AlliterativeName: '''T'''om '''T'''resser
* LatexPerfection: His disguise skills are based on special masks of his own invention.
* MasterOfDisguise: Able to develop lifelike masks used to impersonate others.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Finally gets fed up with Waller's machinations and the other members' shenanigans and quits.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Long before Tresser had ever graced the pages of a comic ComicBook/SteveTrevor was Franchise/WonderWoman's blonde super-spy boyfriend, and later husband. After Crisis undid their marriage and made Steve into Etta's husband and love interest instead Tom was eventually written as Diana's blonde spy boyfriend for a time.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Rick Flag. He returns for a mission to save Flag's son from a deranged former colleague.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nightshade]]
!!!'''Eve Eden'''
[[quoteright:125:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightshade_1.png]]
->See [[Characters/CaptainAtom here]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Plastique]]
!!!'''Bette Sans Souci'''
[[quoteright:184:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/plastique_9.jpg]]
* CanadaEh: Plastique is a Canadian terrorist.
* DefeatByModesty: Her first appearance had Firestorm defeat Plastique by vaporizing her clothes (in front of TV cameras!), both because it amuses him and because it's a convenient way to separate her from the bombs on her suit.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Initially, she had no actual super powers and just relied on her skill with explosives. Later she was granted the power to generate explosions with her minds.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''Raise The Flag'', she only pretends to go along with Eiling's plan to betray the Squad and kill Waller, having learned her lesson of getting involved with people like him in the past. She is also outraged when [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White Dragon]] murders Twister while she was defenseless. befriended.
* EvilRedhead
* FadSuper: Plastique was created when Quebecois separatist terrorists were in the news. They were a short-lived phenomenon, and in later appearances she was explained as a die-hard anachronism before reforming. In the New 52, her background is as a more generic terrorist.
* HavingABlast: Her super power.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She became a member of the Suicide Squad for the duration of a single mission. She attempted to betray the team during their second field operation in Qurac (under the command of Amanda Waller), but was anticipated and caught by fellow operative Nemesis, and subsequently brainwashed to suppress all memories of her membership in the Squad. This backfired when she was recruited a second time and her memories were returned.
* MadBomber: One of the few times a mad bomber is female. Unlike most examples, she was fairly inept and had for a brief time reformed, but in the New 52 she's back to bomb-throwing.
* [[DatingCatwoman Marrying Catwoman]]: ComicBook/CaptainAtom married her after she reformed after having first been an adversary in his series.
* TookALevelInBadass: Via genetic modification commissioned by her organization, Plastique gained the power to project explosive force from her body.
* VillainousFriendship: Forms one with Twister in ''Raises The Flag''.
* WesternTerrorists: Plastique started out as a violent Quebec separatist (likely inspired by the Front de libération du Québec) whose first story involved threatening to suicide bomb a newspaper.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Poison Ivy]]
!!!'''Pamela Lilian Isley'''
[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poison_ivy.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy her page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Privateer]]
!!! '''Mark Shaw'''
[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/privateer.jpg]]
* BadassNormal: Privateer has no superpowers but takes on supervillains.
* BountyHunter: After leaving the Squad, Shaw returned to his previous Manhunter identity and became a bounty hunter specialising in bringing in supervillains.
* EyepatchOfPower: Shaw wears one in his Privateer identity as part of his swashbuckling image. There is nothing wrong with his eye.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: His codename and costume deliberately evoke this.
* SwissArmyWeapon: His Power Baton includes the following functions: BladeOnAStick, TelescopingStaff, GrapplingHookPistol, [[JavelinThrower javelin/spike]], [[MagneticWeapons magnetic pulse]], [[FightingWithChucks nunchuks]], and SonicStunner.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Punch and Jewelee]]
!!!'''Clyde Phillips''' and ??
[[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/punch_and_jewelee_02.jpg]]
* HypnoTrinket: The Hypno-Gems were capable of hypnotizing other human beings. This item was actually more often used by Jewelee then Punch.
* MorningSickness: How Jewelee discovers she is pregnant.
* PeoplePuppets: Punch and Judy used an alien gun that projected beams of concentrated light that allowed them to take physical control over another person's body. In function, the sting strings were similar to the strings found on a puppet.
* UnholyMatrimony: Punch and Jewelee are a married couple who delight in inflicting chaos on the world.
* VillainousHarlequin: Punch and Jewelee's costumes are modeled after traditional Punch and Judy outfits.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ravan]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ravan_dc_comics_suicide_squad_kali.jpg]]
* BadassNormal: He is a Thuggee assassin who practices Kali worship, but has no powers of his own.
* HazyFeelTurn: He was an enemy to the Suicide Squad, although he later became one of their members.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: One of the least moral of a very immoral team, but it's always played for laughs after he joins the Squad.
* KilledOffForReal: He was killed in battle against Kobra.
* LaughablyEvil: Ravan was surprisingly funny at times.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Ravan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rick Flag, Jr.]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rick_flag_jr_0004.jpg]]
* BackFromTheDead: In Ostrander's ''From The Ashes'' it's revealed [[spoiler: he was teleported to Skartaris at the last second.]]
* BrainwashResidue: [[spoiler:He consults Bronze Tiger on how to avoid this, and successfully screws Eiling over.]]
* ColonelBadass
* DeathSeeker: Increasingly as the series goes on, particularly after he finds out [[spoiler: his father had the same problem - he wasn't killed, he chose needless self-sacrifice instead.]]
* FalseMemories: [[spoiler:Rick Flag had no children. Junior's a random soldier Wade Eiling sent through a brainwashing program to force the identity upon him.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:When offered the chance to reconnect with the family he once had, he refuses to, saying he's Rick Flag now.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shade the Changing Man]]
!!!'''Rac Shade'''
[[quoteright:171:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shade_the_changing_man.jpg]]
->See [[ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan his page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shrike]]
!!!'''Vanessa Kingsbury'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shrike.jpg]]
* HeelFaithTurn: Shrike found religion and regarded her service in the Squad as a genuine opportunity for redemption.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her primary weapon is a hypersonic shriek.
* WingedHumanoid: Shrike can fly via feathered wings the alien Overlord grafted to her back.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: DependingOnTheArtist, but her hair is usually depicted as pink or purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Slipknot]]
!!!'''Christopher Weiss'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slipknot_dc_comics_firestorm.jpg]]
* AnArmAndALeg: Slipknot loses an arm when Captain Boomerang convinces him to defect during a mission and the ExplosiveLeash bracelet detonates.
* CripplingOverspecialization: His ropes are stronger than steel, which makes them good against humans, but they were worthless against robots. Without any other means of attack, he had no way to fight them and instead tried to escape. [[spoiler: Which turned out to be a bad idea]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He fights using ropes.
* InstantKnots: His whole shtick is that his ropes do this.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Attempts to escape after Captain Boomerang convinces him that the bombs were a bluff. [[spoiler: They're not, and it cost him his arm]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Thinker]]
!!!'''Clifford "Cliff" Carmichael'''
[[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new_thinker.jpg]]
* CompellingVoice: He's able to control people just by telling them what to do.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He always wears glasses, even when he gets an real super villain costume.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics Ronnie Raymond's]] high school bully to a sociopathic monster bent on murdering ComicBook/{{Oracle}}.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: He escapes without punishment at the end of the original Ostrander book, his powers returned.]]
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: He finally gets his just deserts in the 2007 limited series.]]
* LegacyCharacter: To [[OneSteveLimit Clifford]] [=DeVoe=], an old enemy of [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]]. He used [=DeVoe=]'s "thinking cap" to gain his powers, [[SuperiorSuccessor but no longer needs it to use them]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: For Eiling in the final arc of the book.]]
* RestrainingBolt: One he's press ganged into the Squad, Waller installs a device that allows her to turn his powers on and off, keeping him under control. [[spoiler: Eiling disables it in the final arc.]]
* TheSociopath: A classic case. Waller, Oracle, and co. debate the ethics of finding a cure for the disorder at one point.
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!!!'''Mari Jiwe [=McCabe=]'''
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->See [[ComicBook/{{Vixen}} her page]] for more info.
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[[folder:Yasemin]]
!!!'''Yasemin Soze'''
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Yasemin Soze was a Turkish smuggler and assassin who was forced into the Suicide Squad.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her outfit shows a lot of cleavage.
* CameBackWrong: Shortly after her death she was reanimated as a Black Lantern.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Challenging [[CombatPragmatist Deadshot]] to a gunslinger duel was not going to pan out as she thought.
* DirtyCoward: On her first mission, she was overcome by the fear of possibly dying when the task became too much for her and she ran, which bought her great shame among the Suicide Squad.
* TheGunslinger: Styles herself as one, as she's at least competent, until her serious lapse in judgement.
* HonorBeforeReason: Against all logic or reason, she challenges Lawton to a duel, and he shoots her dead before she even starts counting.
* TooDumbToLive: Giving a blatant opening to an opponent known for their uncompromising nature in order to get a duel was a foolish idea and it got her killed.
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!!1987 Series Support Staff
[[folder:Amanda Waller]]
!!!'''Amanda Waller'''
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[[caption-width-right:350:If you learn nothing else from this page, learn that ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' is afraid of Amanda Waller.]]
->''You know, the Lord's been a great comfort to me all these years. Try not to look so surprised. Yeah, I've got a lot to answer for when I meet Him, but I'd like to believe that for all the harm I've caused, I've also done some good. Maybe the angels need a sharp sword too.''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''
Amanda Blake Waller is a Creator/DCComics character created by John Ostrander, Len Wein, and Creator/JohnByrne, first appearing in ''Legends'' #1 (dated November 1986).
Waller is the [[TropeCodifier epitome]] of the {{black boss lady}} trope, as well as being one of the most morally ambiguous DC characters. She dances atop the line between [[AntiHero anti-hero]] and [[AntiVillain anti-villain]] ({{depending on the writer}}) and frequently commits immoral acts in the pursuit of American dominance.
Over the years, Waller has been the head of various secret governmental organizations like the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, Checkmate, Belle Reve Penitentiary, CADMUS, and ARGUS -- and even [[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls the principal of a high school for young superheroes]].
The character appears frequently in other media, having been portrayed by a variety of well-respected black actresses (see works featured below).
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!! Amanda Waller appears in the following media:
[[AC: Notable Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' (debut)
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' (all volumes, 1987 -- present)
[[AC: Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' (2009), voiced by voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' (2014), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' (2015), voiced by Creator/PennyJohnsonJerald
* ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse'' (2018), voiced by Music/VanessaWilliams
** ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'' (2018)
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanHush'' (2019)
[[AC: Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' (2011), portrayed by Creator/AngelaBassett
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, portrayed by Creator/ViolaDavis
** ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' (2016)
** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' (2021)
** ''Series/Peacemaker2022''
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (2010), portrayed by Creator/PamGrier
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' (2013 -- 2016), portrayed by Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson
[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'' (2011), voiced by Debra Cole
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' (2013), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
** ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague''
* ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' (2014), voiced by Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson
* ''[[VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries Batman: The Enemy Within]]'' (2017), voiced by Debra Wilson
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' (2004 -- 2006), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' (2011), voiced by Sheryl Lee Ralph
* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' (2015 -- present), voiced by Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown
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!!Amanda Waller provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: She's fat and menopausic. ''Do not assume this makes her helpless in any way''. In the second half of the original ''Suicide Squad'', she was even able to join the Squad in the front lines and pull her weight with her superpowered operatives, and even before then she was shown to be well trained in firearms and strong and skilled in combat enough to actually fight off Granny Goodness, a bonafide alien goddess.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** Many live-action adaptations will cast thinner and more attractive actresses for Waller.
** The ''New 52'' not only made her thinner, but also [[AgeLift younger]] as she was originally middle-aged in addition to overweight. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_imagesamandawallernew52_6920.jpg Later issues]] have toned down her attractiveness, making her more of a traditional BlackBossLady than a supermodel.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Some non-comic depictions of Amanda portray her with a real ego problem, if not a full-fledged case of TooCleverByHalf, usually to better portray her as a villain or otherwise make it clear that she is ''not'' the hero.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' version of Amanda is LighterAndSofter, more sincere and has some standards she won't cross, unlike her comic book counterpart... although these standards are kind of fickle, since we learn she had planned to create a "Batman 2.0" by assassinating an innocent pair of parents to traumatize a child (though she did relent when [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the would-be assassin]] pointed out the immorality of the plan). She also shows some elements of humility and regret at her actions:
--->'''Amanda Waller:''' "Our enemies are never as evil as we think they are and maybe we are never quite as good".
*** After the Cadmus-arc, she toned down her grudge against the League, after learning that Comicbook/LexLuthor [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated her into it]]. She also tried to talk Wade Eiling out of ''his'' anti-League sentiments, but he refused to listen.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' has her call out Lex Luthor on his more extreme issues and upon realizing his insanity, Waller assists the title heroes and even orders a general to arrest Luthor.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' has her as the President of the United States and while she still had countermeasures developed to deal with the League, given this League is composed of [[SmugSuper three]] [[SociopathicHero violent]] [[GoodIsNotNice jackasses]], no one can blame her.
* AdaptationalVillainy: A number of adaptations play her as a corrupt bureaucrat of her own, using ARGUS or Task Force X to handle her personal dirty work rather than being for the greater good.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' has her commission the Suicide Squad to retrieve sensitive information Riddler stole detailing her own crimes. [[spoiler:The movie ends with Deadshot trying to kill her in the last moments as karmic retribution, but DLC for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamUnderworld'' takes places afterward ''Assault'' and reveals Batman stopped Floyd before he could kill her]].
** The version of her that appeared in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' took her BadBoss tendencies beyond UpToEleven, blackmailing almost every field operative she had and then treating '''everybody''' in her Agency as expendable fodder, being a pretty clear example of TheSociopath. [[spoiler:She was so bad that the reason she [[DroppedABridgeOnHim had a bridge dropped on her]] on the fourth season (other than [[RealLifeWritesThePlot behind-the-scenes issues]]) was because the leader of the men who had taken ARGUS hostage decided to kill her once it was clear that she would allow all the other hostages to die and [[EvenEvilHasStandards got disgusted over it]].]]
** Her ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' version had no problem casually blowing away a dozen subordinates that were trapped in the command center with her by herself for the sake of keeping secret how much she'd screwed the pooch with Enchantress. Deadshot (who saw her do it) [[EvenEvilHasStandards had a brief moment of shock over said slaying]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'', the entire plot is Amanda selfishly using the Squad to track down a mystical artifact that will [[KarmaHoudini guarantee that she goes to Heaven upon her death, regardless of her wrongdoings in life]], because she's well-aware that she's done things that were wrong. Her BadBoss credentials are in full display, and she critically underestimates or misuses her team several times. It's then followed by a comic tie-in where she then repeats the process to find another such token, as she's afraid that ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' is personally coming for her.
* AntiVillain[=/=]AntiHero: Depending on the story and the writer. Her position has placed as both an ally ''and'' an antagonist to superheroes in the DC Universe, and in either case she is trying to do good but relying on extreme methods.
* ArchEnemy: Major Zastrow, her Soviet counterpart, in the first ''Suicide Squad'' with his very own Soviet metahuman hit squad, The Red Shadows.
* BadassNormal: Despite being an ordinary human, she can hold her own alongside her superpowered operatives and once fought off [[PhysicalGod Granny Goodness]].
* BadBoss: To the ComicBook/SuicideSquad: she puts bombs in their heads, in case they get any ideas about escape. However, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], in that the Squad is made up of murderers and other criminals.
* BecomingTheMask: Early on, she put up a big front of being a scary black woman that took no crap, not even from hardened supervillains. Her losses embittered her to the point where it wasn't a front anymore.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: She is never portrayed positively and is literally shown as only preferable in comparison to the overtly destructive and monstrous villains she is up against.
* BlackBossLady: Amanda Waller, in any organizations is widely recognized as one of the few people who can make Batman think twice about messing with her. Heck, she's taken on Granny Goodness (right-hand woman to ''Darkseid'') and walked away.
* BoxedCrook: After her ill-advised stint as part of the ComicBook/LexLuthor Administration, which resulted in her being implicated in a number of criminal activities, she was offered the job of White Queen of the newly-revamped ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}, in the naive hope that the rigors of setting international metahuman policy would keep her busy and prevent her from running any more supervillain task forces on the side. It didn't work.
* BrokenBird: Hard to believe, but Amanda Waller was once just a more-or-less normal housewife with a family and children. Unfortunately, her husband and several of her children died in the Cabrini-Green sprawl, and she fell on ''very'' hard times to the point she had to go on government welfare to keep her children alive. Being proud as the devil, Amanda successfully clawed her way out without relying on anybody else, whether it be any further welfare or extended family, and reached her current status as one of DC's premier masterminds. Her sister confessed in-series she was plainly terrified of Amanda's dark side overtaking her and eventually getting her killed.
* ConsummateProfessional: All she cares for is the mission. Everything else can go hang.
* ControlFreak: She has a definite domineering streak to the point it functions as a strength and a character flaw. Amanda herself puts it best in a flashback:
-->'''Amanda Waller''': I am not taking no more charity -- not from kin, not from friends, and especially not from no damn government! The taste of it rots in my mouth! I'm gonna get me power over my own life! And heaven help the one who tries to take that power from me!
* CrazyPrepared: Waller does a real number on Harcourt that puts her high in the MagnificentBastard territory: she manages to trick her into revealing her source, all the while having secretly removed four bullets from her gun ''that morning'' so when she has Waller at her supposed mercy, she's defenseless, while Waller has Captain Boomerang kill her with a well-placed boomerang. All this while she tells Harcourt before she dies, "You have achieved ''nothing'' for The People. Other than betraying them. You murdered Hack, and now you're going to ''fry''."
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Waller was once just a normal housewife trying to eke a living in a bad area of Chicago with her family. Then her eldest son, who was all set to leave the area on a full scholarship, was killed on a mugging gone wrong. While she was still reeling from the death, a rapist approached her daughter, and when she fought, he killed her. Neighbors only responded to the screams by closing their windows. It was a closed casket funeral. Her husband confronted and killed said rapist - [[MutualKill and died in turn]]. Small wonder she's so determined to secure power for herself and establish control over whatever she deems necessary.
* DarkSecret: [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueVsSuicideSquad Before the current Squad was formed]], she commanded an older iteration composed of [[spoiler:Doctor Polaris, Emerald Empress, Rustam, Johnny Sorrow and Lobo.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: Dependence on others is a tremendous BerserkButton for her. This, coupled with her pride, makes her insufferably arrogant and abrasive even when others are genuinely trying to help her. And may God help you if you actually think showing sympathy for the horror that is her life is going to help anyone.
* TheDreaded: Despite having no powers, she's not above capturing villains, sending them to death trap planets, putting bombs in them, recruiting them into the Suicide Squad, and using the bombs if the crooks step out of line. She also goes against heroes in addition to the bad guys and as the picture quote points out, even Batman, another example of this trope, is afraid of her.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.
-->'''Flag:''' Are you out of your cotton-picking mind, lady?\\
'''Waller:''' Frankly, I couldn't be more serious, colonel! And by the way, if you ever again call anything about me 'cotton-picking,' mister —- I'll stuff those bright, shiny eagles on your shoulders so far up your butt, they'll be able to nest in your skull!
* {{Expy}}: Her character model and parts of her personality were based on [[Series/GimmeABreak Nell Carter]], according to Mike Gold.
* TheExtremistWasRight: She's a brutal disciplinarian and demands the same obedience from assistants and assassins. One of the people Amanda alienated with her cavalier attitude, Dr. Simon [=LaGrieve=], eventually came to think better of her once he entered a similar position as head of a metahuman research institute.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After Rustam made it clear he was capable and willing to use her family to get to her, she laid a trap for him. Knowing he was going to approach Deadshot, [[MagnificentBastard she beat him to the punch and offered Lawton an excellent deal in exchange for participating in the con]]. Using a literal magic bullet courtesy of Enchantress, she was shot in the heart and sent into suspension for several hours, during which she was declared dead. Afterwards she was revived and oversaw Rustam's plan's collapse, but not before she experienced the pain of dying and seeing her family mourn her. She describes the experience overall as literally seeing Hell.]]
* FatBitch: She's frequently depicted as overweight and as this page shows, calling her "not nice" is an understatement. She is a stubborn, hard-arsed, surly, demanding and abrasive sort of woman.
* {{Flanderization}}: Earlier in the Ostrander run she at least showed enough care for the people under her command (yes, even the Squad) that her support staff included things like a psychiatrist and was fair in a "don't fuck with me and I won't screw with you" sense. As time went on, she became more and more sociopathic (both in a figurative and in some adaptations '''literal''' sense) and nowadays more often appears as [[BigBad the main antagonist]] or [[BigBadEnsemble a major member of the opposing force]] of any story arc she is part of.
* {{Foil}}: To Batman. Both are extremely pragmatic and intelligent manipulators who don't trust anyone else to get the job done, but one is a rich white guy who inherited a fortune that adheres to a higher moral code of protecting civilians from criminals and compassion towards human life while the other is a black woman who came from poverty, clawing and scratching her way to power, but abides by a Machiavellian moral code and is willing to make whatever sacrifice is needed for her greater good.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She started off a housewife before her family died. Now she's one of DC's premier Chessmasters.
* {{Gonk}}: DependingOnTheArtist, but she is traditionally depicted as overweight, middle-aged, harsh-featured and frankly kind of ugly. Can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in those cases as a result of her job and the stress it takes to continue doing it.
* GoodIsNotNice: In the times she's hasn't crossed the line, she's still one of the most darkly pragmatic characters.
* HeroicSacrifice: Post-''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' Amanda led a Suicide Squad strikeforce to attack the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'''s satellite, New Oa in the ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' event. Knowing she wasn't going to get out alive one way or the other, she packed enough explosives to reduce the station to rubble under her jacket.
** Utterly drained after a particularly traumatic gambit, she tries to take a Kryptonite bomb into the Black Vault to shut it down from the inside. [[spoiler:However, Rick Flag tears the bomb away from her and dives into the Vault himself.]]
* HeroicWillpower: If this woman wants something, ''she'll get it and damn the cost''. After the deaths of her husband and two of her five children, she struggled without respite until she'd successfully left Chicago behind, put her remaining kids through college, and graduated herself in Political Sciences. Her determination and brilliance made her a priceless addition to the campaign of a Congress hopeful (who, by all accounts, was put in office by her efforts) and later on proved key to the reformation of the Squad.
** So far, she's the ''only'' person to ever have shaken off Max Lord's mind control powers, deny the temptation the Thinker helmet offered her, and was able to resist the Diabloverde jungle's hellish hallucinations. Granted, she was still visibly affected in all cases, but she still ended in charge of all three situations while still being able to get right back to work after.
* HumansAreFlawed: Her personal thoughts on the matter:
-->'''Amanda Waller''': Nobody can decide for anybody else to be well or strong or whole. People have to decide that on their own -- and you have to let 'em.
* IAmAMonster: She has, entirely unironically, accepted the metaphorical albatross around her neck and given up all hope of ever sleeping soundly again. Whenever she's given a ReasonYouSuckSpeech or at point into her flaws, she just grimaces and accepts it, acknowledging how monstrous she's become in life.
** [[{{Deconstruction}} Rustam tore her world apart through this]], [[spoiler: forcing Amanda to expose herself to her surviving children as thus. And for the deathblow, Waller's daughter told her ''exactly'' what she thought of her. A broken, confused Amanda is left alone to simmer in the realization of her life's work.]]
--->'''Amanda Waller''':...I don't understand. [[PyrrhicVictory This feels like losing. But I won.]]
** During her attempt to usurp control of Checkmate, she was outmaneuvered and tricked by Mr. Terrific strictly because her own paranoia got the best of her, because it makes her think others are the same way, in addition to the fact her tendency of being crazy-prepared makes her not so subtle.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: A terrifying mix of Loyalty, Authority, Respect and Fear. She can be very charismatic when she makes the effort - as shown by the fact most of the Squad fully respects her despite hating her guts, and for those who don't... there's always the cranial bombs and Rick Flag. Careful amounts of Prejudice also help her manipulate villains into serving the Squad. When working with heroes, she buys their Loyalty with either Money or Information.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She often makes horrifically unethical decisions when faced with impossible dilemmas. She justifies them to herself with varying arguments, some of which she accepts more readily than others. The one she seems to accept the most is "because nobody else will".
-->'''Amanda Waller''': I'm not proud of what I had to do -- but I would do it again. You all quit, you all die, I can still guarantee you one thing -- the Squad will go on.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At the end of the first ''Suicide Squad'' series, Amanda was quite thoroughly exhausted of the entire metahuman scene and just wanted to retire to Diabloverde. Had the ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' crossover not forced the U.S. Government to bring her back, she'd have remained quite peacefully there.
* InSeriesNickname: Due to her being difficult to cross, she's called "the Wall". [[spoiler: Father Craemer deconstructed this when confronting Amanda after ''The Janus Directive'', pointing it was an image she's proud of presenting, even if she's well aware it's not completely real. Under the manipulation and the brilliance, she's still human, but she sublimates her feelings until they start affecting her judgment. At that point, she starts needing others to serve as her conscience (Nightshade, Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger, Simon [=LaGrieve=], her sister, Vixen, Katana and even Oracle have at one point filled the role). Craemer challenged her to stop surrounding herself with people serving as her brakes and actually learn to dominate ''herself''. She hasn't quite mastered it, but she's still trying some of the time.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: With General Wade Eiling in Project Atom, and she's not too fond of Sarge Steel in the Department of Metahuman Affairs. She has a better relation with Checkmate, which she co-founded. Kobra tried to exploit this trope in ''The Janus Directive'', though TeethClenchedTeamwork prevailed.
* IronLady: You ''have'' to be commanding and have a temper when your job consists in leading a squad of superpowered lunatics and broken heroes. Even ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' knows better than to cross her lightly.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the original 1987 series, she was pragmatic, manipulative, and unscrupulous, but had a HiddenHeartOfGold, best exemplified in the last arc of the book, where she takes on a job to liberate a Central American nation because she feels guilty about enabling the U.S. Government to prop up the country's regime with its own version of the Suicide Squad. Not only that, instead of the usual million dollar fee that the Squad charged, she took the job for a single peso, and paid the Squad their salaries for the mission out of her own pocket. And when the mission is done, she takes on the job of rebuilding the country's infrastructure as its interim president. However, {{Flanderization}} kicked in, and she became a
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Amanda Waller ''did'' have a heart. It used to shine every now and then in the original ''Suicide Squad'', until the job ground it out of her. She recovers to a more human level when she's separated from the job, but she's so good at it, the government prefers enduring her most grating traits rather than allow her a respite... which of course only worsens the problem until she's kicked out until the next crisis rolls in and she's put back in control and the whole horrible cycle starts all over again. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Every now and then her humanity prevails]], but most of the time it's buried under a layer of pitch-black pragmatism.
* KnightInSourArmor: She has long lost pretty much all faith in everything she doesn't directly control. The fact she [[VetinariJobSecurity keeps being called to do the same horrible, thankless job time after time]] probably had something to do with it.
* LargeAndInCharge: Her concept as "The Wall" actually dictated her design. [[http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/suicide-squad-progressive-leader-amanda-waller.html According to her creator John Ostrander]]:
-->As the character percolated, he cooked up a name, Amanda Waller, and a nickname branched off in his mind: "The Wall." "When you're doing comics, you need a visual shorthand in order to convey certain aspects of a character," Ostrander says, "and if Amanda Waller's nickname was 'The Wall,' she had to look a little bit like a wall. She had to look formidable. By not giving her Wonder Woman's muscles, and instead some heft, it sort of suggested a power in her."
* LaserGuidedKarma: Like it or not, she's often punished for her darker acts. Betraying Rustam eventually led to the destruction of her family, and her lone wolf act put the Squad under severe scrutiny.
* LonelyFuneral: Emilia Harcourt, NSA representative, muses there are very few greater accolades in the intelligence community. [[spoiler: When it's Waller's turn, only her children and Harcourt, as her successor, show up.]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: While in her better days she's simply [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]], she can stoop pretty low if if will get the mission done.
* MindRape: She once suffered this via a neurotoxin. Aside from the expected visits of her husband and two eldest children, she saw an agent who got killed while she was on MissionControl, and most notably, her EnemyWithin.
** She was also not above inflicting this on others. Notably, Quebecois nationalist Plastique was an early Squad member who threatened to expose the Squad upon her release. Waller ordered Plastique's memories erased instead. She only stopped doing this because her go-to mentalists, Mindboggler and the Thinker, either died or lost their powers.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Her driving goal is her need to protect and strengthen the government she works for. It doesn't matter what methods she uses or what crimes the government may have committed, either before she was called in or after clearing things up: so long as they defend the USA, then it's acceptable.
* NecessarilyEvil: She knows full well that some of the things she does are wrong, but she justifies them as necessary. Through her crimes, she serves a greater purpose; the protection and advancement of the United States of America.
* NervesOfSteel: Waller can, will, and does regularly stare down alien gods, supervillians, and the Goddamn Batman.
** In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Waller is in the shower…when Franchise/{{Batman}} breaks into her house. They then proceed to have a ''nice chat''…and at the end, Waller makes such a [[VillainHasAPoint disturbingly good point]] that Batman is too rattled to do his trademark StealthHiBye, and just walks out the door while Waller sets off the alarm.
*** Note that this particular example is even a downplayed trope, as right after Batman leaves, she found herself visibly shaken by the ordeal.
* NobleDemon: If she's feeling charitable, having a good day and there are no crises in the horizon.
** This extends in the oddest ways. For instance, she rather liked the second Thinker, Cliff Carmichael, and was upset when King Faraday murdered him... after Carmichael had engineered a mutiny and tried to kill Waller.
* TheOmniscient: She has intel on almost everything.
* OneSteveLimit: Amanda enforces her trademarks very zealously. A team of assassins and vandals working for a BananaRepublic decided to start using the name Suicide Squad, and this personally offended Waller to the point she sponsored a mission herself to eliminate the regime.
* ParentalNeglect: An unfortunate consequence of Amanda throwing herself into politics. She genuinely loves her children, but her devotion to her job had a really, ''really'' high cost for her few remaining familial relationships.
* {{Pride}}: Even the death of her husband and two children wasn't enough to break her. It was actually the start of trying to dig her way out that triggered her ascent and filled her with enough anger to power a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]]. As her sister relates, welfare isn't free money; it costs a lot of dignity, and that was a price Amanda was never willing to pay. Coupled with her stubbornness, her brilliance makes her virtually unstoppable, but her anger is always in danger of congealing into raw hate.
** That said, she does have her limits and is perfectly capable of feeling shame. After the LOA arc, in which she crosses a personal MoralEventHorizon, she releases the few remaining Squad members and allows herself to be arrested. Mind, she knows full well [[VetinariJobSecurity the government is going to need her whether they like it or not]], and is in fact [[BatmanGambit counting on this]] to get out once the first legit offer comes by, having appeased her personal desire for judgment.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She's very good at dishing them out. For example, when Poison Ivy seduces a man with her pheromones, Waller snarks, "You're a slaveholder, deep down. So make your boytoy here take a nap and let's get on with business."
** However, her favorite target has always been Captain Boomerang, whose nickname "Boomerbutt" she coined. On the other hand, she prefers puncturing his ego with quick insults rather than full speeches.
* RetiredBadass: At the end of the original run of ''Suicide Squad'', she left her position to lead a tiny Caribbean country. She would have ''stayed'' there gladly had the ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' crossover not [[TenMinuteRetirement forced the U.S. government to drag her back]].
* SassyBlackWoman: Yup!
-->'''Amanda Waller:''' ''[while threatening murderous convicts to back down]'' I am fat, black, and menopausal. You do NOT want to mess with me!
* ScaryBlackWoman: And how! notably it comes from her [[MagnificentBastard intelligence]] and her position in the government rather than any physical strength.
* ShadowArchetype: To Batman, representing his paranoia and what could happen if he became TheUnfettered in his pursuit of justice.
* SmugSnake: If someone who defied her falls into her web, she isn't above a spot of gloating.
** Memorably, at the end of ''Justice League vs. Suicide Squad'', Waller initially refuses to even consider allowing the League to take away Killer Frost... until Batman admits that despite his original doubts, [[ARareSentence he might have been wrong]] about the Squad's value. Waller takes a moment to process this, then decides the whole fiasco was WorthIt just to hear Batman acknowledge one mistake, and happily allows Frost to leave. [[spoiler:She's fairly sure Frost's going to end up in Belle Reve one way or the other, anyway, and [[ManipulativeBastard the entire conflict was in her favor anyway, as she got control of the assets of]] ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} after capturing Max Lord.]]
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Max Lord tries this with Waller in a flashback in ''Justice League #12''. He gets a haymaker to the eye.
* SurroundedByIdiots:
** Idiotic NSC liaison Derek Tolliver. After the utter fiasco that was the ''Flight of the Firebird'' arc, he gets the brilliant idea of trying to keep his job by leaking news of the existence of the Squad to the even bigger idiot Senator Joe Cray. Waller chews him up with some gravedigging and gets him to drop the scheme... though by then his foolhardy meddling has already ensured his own death and Cray's, the exposure of the Squad, and a host of other problems.
** Vic Sage in ''ComicBook/New52'' treats the Squad as his personal fantasy league and neglects basic background checks and safety measures in favor of idiotic ideas like renaming the team "Task Force XL".
* TeenPregnancy: The 2001 series reveals that Waller had a child back when she was 16, and subsequently gave her up for adoption. The baby grew up to be Havana.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Waller did her best to avert this in ''Suicide Squad'''s original run, hiring several psychiatrists, doctors and even a priest as additional personnel in Belle Reve. However, their success rate was fairly low, her abrasive personality made it very hard to work with her for long and in the end she more or less decided it wasn't really worth the effort, as she hasn't tried to do something similar with later iterations of the Squad.
* UnbuiltTrope: She's the TropeCodifier for BlackBossLady and is quite the impressive example of the archetype. Not only does she hold a lot of governmental power, she's also extremely intelligent and a BadassNormal who once [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu fought off Granny Goodness]]. That being said, there are a number of ways that she comes off as a rather dark and tragic deconstruction of the trope. For starters, many of the same qualities that allow her to be so successful at her job have also made her very difficult to work with, even for those who aren't coerced into working with her. Moreover, her hard-nosed attitude and drive for success stem from her husband and two of her children being tragically murdered, and her dedication to her career has driven a rift between her and her remaining family. Also, while most BlackBossLady characters are unambiguously good, Waller is deeply morally ambiguous, constantly dancing on the line between AntiHero and AntiVillain and committing immoral acts in the name of protecting and advancing American interests. Even at her best, she's ruthlessly pragmatic to the point that it unnerves even Batman. And no matter how much she tries to justify her actions to herself, they still weigh on her heavily. She even retired from her position at one point, having become thoroughly sick of what it required her to do... only for the government to put her back to work.
* UndyingLoyalty: Where others have faith in Heaven, she has hers in the Squad. Waller is fully aware that the Squad is supposed to be expendable, but the very idea of treating them as disposable weapons revolts her.
* TheUnfettered: Accomplishing the mission ''at all cost '' is her legacy.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her sister remembers the charming, happy girl she used to be. While she had already developed some of the habits that would define her life later on (most notably her stubbornness and pride), her family and later Joseph Waller helped curb most of Amanda's nastiest habits.
* VetinariJobSecurity: The whole reason why Waller still has her job: no-one else can do what she does, or at the very least no-one is willing. ''The Phoenix Gambit'' arc and her return to Squad leadership in ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' are good examples. Whenever she's sent to prison, she shrugs and basically says she only needs to wait a short time before someone in the government pardons her because she can do what few others can.
* WeDoTheImpossible: Her reason for creating the Squad. They're not suicidal -- they just go on suicidal missions.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She is genuinely trying to work for the good of her country, but she isn't afraid to send dangerous supervillains on suicide missions to this end, and her methods are so drastic even some people in the government are shocked by it. She often makes it a point to surround herself with more morally-straight characters such as Belle Reve's supporting staff and outright heroes like Nightshade, Vixen and Nemesis to serve as her conscience. To their disgust, however, she listens but only very rarely actually heeds their advice.
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Oracle]]
!!!'''ComicBook/{{Oracle}}''' (Barbara Gordon)
[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oracle4.jpg]]
->See [[ComicBook/{{Oracle}} her page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flo Crowly]]
!!!'''Florence "Flo" Crowly'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7595993_flo5.jpg]]
A staff member who works behind the scenes for the Suicide Squad. She's also the niece of Amanda Waller.
----
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She was attracted to Bronze Tiger.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She desperately wants to become a field agent so she can more effectively compete with Vixen for Bronze Tiger’s attention. This winds up getting her killed.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She’s a white woman in her first appearance.
* JustAKid: Besides already dating Vixen, Ben saw her as a kid.
* KillTheCutie: One of the nicest, most innocent members of the cast, so of course she had to die. Notably, her death is what finally causes Economos to resign.
* KilledOffForReal: She’s killed during the disastrous mission to Apokolips.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Briscoe]]
[[quoteright:253:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4152027_untitled_5.jpg]]
Briscoe was a pilot and mechanic that took care of Sheba, the covert stealth helicopter used by the Suicide Squad.
----
* AcePilot: He's an extremely skilled pilot, especially when it comes to his helicopter Sheba.
* BadassNormal: No powers, just skills as pilot and marksman and helped the Squad on many of their missions.
* CoolShades: He's always seen with sunglasses.
* DeathOfAChild: Sheba is named after Briscoe’s deceased daughter, which is strongly implied to be one of the main reasons for his unhealthy obsession with the vehicle.
* KilledOffForReal: He is killed by Parademons while piloting Sheba in defense of the team.
* LastNameBasis: His first name is never mentioned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:John Economos]]
[[quoteright:165:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/192379_54109_john_economos.jpg]]
John Economos is the warden of Belle Reve Penitentiary. Though not directly responsible for its actions, he works with Amanda Waller and her Suicide Squad.
----
* WardensAreEvil: Subverted. He might be the warden of the [[HellholePrison Belle Reve Penitentiary]], but he's a pretty okay guy.
* NiceGuy: He's fairly pleasant and grounded when compared to Waller.
[[/folder]]
!!1987 Series Opponents
[[folder:Brimstone]]
!!!'''Brimstone'''
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* PlayingWithFire: Brimstone can generate and project balls of fire from his eyes and hands.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Catseye]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1322404_catseye2.jpg]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Cats and especially leopards.
* ArtificialHuman: He's apparently a bioengineered meta-human that serves as enforcer for the Yakuza.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gets scratched by his own poisonous claws when fighting Bronze Tiger.
* MysteriousPast: His real name and origin remain a mystery.
* PoisonousPerson: His claws are coated with poison.
* TattooedCrook: His entire body is covered in tattoos that make him look more feline-like.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rustam]]
!!!'''Raza Kattuah'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rustam_01.jpg]]
Rustam is professional archaeologist and leader of The Jihad, Rustam wields a flammable weapon called as Psi-Scimitar, this weapon allows him to engage with Suicide Squad and especially with his main foe Rick Flag Jr.
----
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Besides setting it on fire, the Psi-Sword can also cut open portals to other dimensions.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Used to be one before becoming part of the Jihad.
* FlamingSword: His signature Psi-Sword.
* NotQuiteDead: He and Flag were apparently killed during the destruction of Jotunheim, when in fact both ended up falling to Skartaris.
[[/folder]]
!!1987 Series Other Characters
!!2001 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Blackstarr]]
!!!'''Rachel Berkowitz'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/236785_37991_blackstarr.jpg]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: When compared to her original Pre-Crisis incarnation, she exposes a lot more skin.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Killer Frost]]
!!!'''Louise Lincoln'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/426905_killer_frost_by_paco_medina_1.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/FirestormDCComics here]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Major Disaster]]
!!!'''Major Disaster''' (Paul Booker)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/major_disaster_pe_001.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League characters]]
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Support Staff
[[folder:General Frank Rock]]
!!!'''Frank "Sergeant" Rock'''
[[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/general_rock.jpg]]
* DeadAllAlong: The 2001 series ends with Amanda Waller revealing that the real Sgt. Rock and Bulldozer both died in 1945. It's never explained who the impostors involved with this incarnation of the Suicide Squad really were.
* LatexPerfection: Following the Squad's dissolution, General Rock vanished leaving behind only a lifelike face mask. The implication is clearly that this individual was not the real Rock, and may in fact have been the Comicbook/UnknownSoldier, a World War 2 era character known for being a MasterOfDisguise.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He and his pal Bulldozer were caught in a time rift during the late 1950s, which slowed down their aging. This is complicated by the fact that the "Rock" seen in the series turns out to be an impostor, as well as Waller's above-mentioned revelation.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Havana]]
!!!'''Odalys Milagro Valdez'''
[[quoteright:209:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/193001_156750_havana.jpg]]
The second-in-command of Sergeant Rock's Suicide Squad.
----
* AmazonianBeauty: Sometimes seen in a tank-top and she's pretty toned and certainly not ugly.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, a cab driver is shown trying to guess exactly what Hispanic group she belongs to. Her somewhat ambiguous appearance is due to her ancestry, with her being the child of Amanda Waller and an unidentified Latino father.
* DeskJockey: When first introduced, she's working by herself in an isolated government records office.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: At some point she revealed to Amanda Waller that she's her biological daughter, who she gave into adoption due to Waller only being 16 years old and felt she wasn't ready to be a mother.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Modem]]
!!!'''Wesley Percival Sloan'''
[[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wesley_sloan_001.png]]
* TheCracker: Recruited as hacker and mission control for Rock's Suicide Squad.
* NerdGlasses: Wears rounded spectacles to go with the hacker look.
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Opponents
[[folder:Tolteca]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tolteca_01.jpg]]
A member of the reformed Onslaught.
----
* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit exposes her midsection.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about her, not even if she's really Mexican.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female at Onslaught.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She just disappeared after Onslaught was defeated.
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Other Characters
!!2011 Series Field Agents
!!!'''Captain Boomerang'''
!!!'''Deadshot'''
[[folder:El Diablo]]
!!!'''Chato Santana'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/el_diablo2_min.jpg]]
* TheAtoner: While taking revenge on the gang that nearly killed him, Santana set the gang’s home ablaze and accidentally killed an innocent woman and children in the process. Afterward he surrendered to authorities, and regards his time in the Squad as an opportunity to make amends for his actions.
* BaldOfAwesome: Has a shaved head and he's pretty powerful.
* OddFriendship: In El Diablo's spinoff miniseries, he's assigned to work with [[ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}} Uncle Sam]], the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the United States of America, on a case at the Mexican border. The two men turn out to have shared interests (including justice) despite their very different viewpoints on how to achieve it, and become good friends.
* PlayingWithFire: El Diablo possesses pyrokinetic powers.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Because his powers constantly burns his shirt
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harley Quinn]]
!!!'''Harleen Quinzell'''
[[quoteright:198:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harley_quinn_5.jpg]]
In the New 52, Harley is captured by Black Canary and is forcibly inducted into the Suicide Squad by Amanda Waller. For major info see [[Characters/HarleyQuinn relative page]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:James Gordon Jr.]]
!!!'''James Gordon Jr.'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james_gordon_jr.jpg]]
-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 Batman Rogues Gallery]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Shark]]
!!!'''[[Characters/SecretSix King Shark]]'''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Savant]]
!!!'''Brian Durlin'''
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savant.png]]
Former operative of the Birds of Prey organization. He has a condition where he has a non-linear memory and sporadic amnesia.
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Voltaic]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2038370_ssquad_22.jpg]]
A member of the Suicide Squad with the power to generate and project electricity.
----
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name was never revealed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yo-Yo]]
!!!'''Chang Jie-Ru'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yo_yo.png]]
Chang Jie-Ru is a convict and a member of the newly formed Suicide Squad with the ability to alter his body's mass and thickness.
----
* EatenAlive: Gets eaten by King Shark. Luckily he survives and manages to get out a few issues later.
* NighInvulnerability: He survived getting eaten and digested by King Shark, and Waller theorizes that he's almost completely un-killable.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: Yo-Yo has the ability to increase his body mass to an extent where he is capable of resisting an explosion in his immediate vicinity, and other damage to a similar degree. In the opposite manner he is also able to decrease his mass, to bypass small gaps and other slight obstacles.
[[/folder]]
!!2011 Series Support Staff
!!2011 Series Opponents
[[folder:Red Orchid]]
!!!'''Min Jie-Ru'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2869222_screen_shot_2013_02_13_at_61705_am.png]]
The crime-boss sister of the Suicide Squad member Yo-Yo.
----
* ColorCharacter: ''Red'' Orchid.
* MonochromaticEyes: Her eyes are completely red.
* PoisonousPerson: Red Orchid appears to have an altered, plant-based physiology that allows the emission of airborne toxins and paralytics.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her colors are red and black and she works for a terrorist organization.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Regulus]]
!!!'''Dean Higgins'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2520212_img_1053.png]]
The brutal leader of Basilisk.
----
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Dresses in green armor.
* TomTheDarkLord: Has a surprisingly normal name for the leader of a terrorist organization.
[[/folder]]
!!2011 Series Other Characters
!!Members of the Suicide Squad not appearing in the main series
[[folder:Sidearm]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sidearm.jpg]]
Sidearm appeared as part of the squad in ''[[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy vol. 4]]'', where King Shark killed him for trying to shoot Detective Makoa in the back.
----
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Sidearm was with a special cybernetic vest equipped with modular appendages capable of increasing his strength to superhuman levels.
* ShoulderCannon: One of the Tecnovest's mountings is multi-barreled cannon mounted behind his right shoulder.
[[/folder]]
!!2016 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Will Evans]]
!!!'''Will Evans'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_evans.jpg]]
* BoomHeadshot: Lawton executes him this way.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Intended to kill and replace Lawton as the new Deadshot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Coldsnap]]
!!!'''Darryl'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coldsnap_pe_01.jpg]]
* AnIcePerson: His most obvious ability.
* FireIceDuo: With his girlfriend Heatstroke
* MauveShirt: He and Heastroke surprisingly survive their Suicide Squad mission despite being C-List at best.
* OnlyOneName: His full name is never mentioned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Heatstroke]]
!!!'''Joanne'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heatstroke_01.jpg]]
* FireIceDuo: With her boyfriend Coldsnap.
** She also briefly formed one of these with Killer Frost in the latter's solo issue of {{ComicBook/Justice League of America Rebirth}}.
* MauveShirt: She and Coldsnap surprisingly survive their Suicide Squad mission despite being C-List at best.
* OnlyOneName: Her full name is never mentioned.
* PlayingWithFire: Her most obvious ability.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Juan Soria]]
[[quoteright:271:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/juan_soria.jpg]]
A C-Lister who briefly served in the Suicide Squad.
----
* AnArmAndALeg: He got his hands cut off and replaced with artificial ones made of nanites, which give him the power to unlock anything.
* ArcWords: "Juan Soria does not belong in this story."
* BlackComedy: His story arc is this.
* BrokenBird: He set out to be a superhero, but ended up being nothing more than a C-Lister superhuman.
* ButtMonkey: The Squad treats him like squat. [[spoiler: It was deliberately done to enforce his fatalism to bring down the mission's target.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: His defeatist attitude is toxic to the hope-eating alien he is sent up against.]]
* DriventoSuicide: He attempts this on his mission. [[spoiler: It ends up de-powering the mission's villain, an alien who feeds on positive emotions, to the point where he can kill it.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: One titanically unlucky character.
* ShoottheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: He is last seen sharing a cell with a ''very hungry Killer Croc''. And Waller didn't even do it to spite him, she actually felt it was a reward since he'd been stuck in an actual hole previously.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Lasted two issues.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Battleaxe]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5159101_battleaxe.jpg]]
* AlasPoorVillain: Even though her Squad teammates didn't particularly liked her, they do feel sorry that she died that way.
* AnAxeToGrind: Her weapon of choice and codename.
* CListFodder: Being a barely known foe of the Outsiders in a title that constantly does this, it's no surprise that she reappears in the Post-Flashpoint continuity to bite it.
* GirlishPigtails: While she's not particularly childish, but this is her style.
* YourHeadAsplode: King Cobra uses a device that triggers the bombs in the Squad member's necks. He tests it on Battleaxe, killing her and revealing the purpose of the implants to Kobra.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Only appears in a few issues and then is killed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodletter]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bloodletter_0.jpg]]
* CombatTentacles: He can use the tentacles on his head to lash and ensnare opponents.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name wasn't revealed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zoomax]]
!!!'''Brian Smith'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5615996_6705264736_latest.jpg]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His skin is green.
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Looks like a green-skinned satyr or faun.
* HornedHumanoid: He has ram horns.
* YourHeadAsplode: El Diablo used his heat powers to ignite the bomb in Zoomax's neck and blew his head off, leaving only a headless smoking body.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Behemoth]]
!!!'''Taro Raiden'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/behemoth_dc_comics_hybrid.jpg]]
* TheBrute: His main asset is his brute strength.
* MauveShirt: Despite being C-List at most, he did survive his confrontation with El Diablo.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zizz]]
[[quoteright:303:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zizz.jpg]]
* DropTheHammer: Just like Hawkgirl, she fights with a mace.
* {{Expy}}: Appears to be based on Justice Lords Hawkgirl from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' series.
* MysteriousPast: How did a Thanagarian ended up drafted into the Suicide Squad is unknown.
* WingedHumanoid: Being a Thanagarian, she has hawk-like wings that allow her to fly.
[[/folder]]
!!2016 Series Opponents
[[folder:Jake Dalesko]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jake_dalesko.png]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Kobra]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kobra_pe_0001.jpg]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lady Eve]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lady_eve_001.jpg]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: She and Katana end up exchanging minds during her respective run.
[[/folder]]
!!Suicide Squad Black
[[folder:Azúcar]]
!!!'''Veronica Lopez'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5447436_suicide_squad_most_wanted_el_diablo_and_boomerang_2016_002_019.jpg]]
* BareYourMidriff: Her shirt is torn to show her navel.
* FairCop: Used to be a GCPD cop before she obtained her powers and became a vigilante.
* FreakOut: She freaked out when she saw the Devil Chutriel that possesses El Diablo, ruining any chance of a relationship between them.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Her power allows her to see the death within people.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Juniper]]
!!!'''Zahra Abed'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zahra_abed_prime_earth_0001.jpg]]
Juniper is an agent of A.R.G.U.S., who serves as the organization's representative on the Suicide Squad Black team.
----
* GreenThumb: Due to being a lesser known Avatar of The Green, Juniper is capable of both transforming existing flora and creating new examples.
* {{Flight}}: Juniper can fly with the plant-based wings that are constantly on her back.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Klarion]]
!!!'''ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/klarion_the_witch_boy_y3.jpg]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gentleman Ghost]]
!!!'''[[Characters/{{Hawkman}} Jim Craddock]]'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gentleman_ghost.jpg]]
[[/folder]]
!!2019 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Magpie]]
!!!'''Margaret Pye'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new52magpie_png.png]]
-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart2 Batman Rogues 2]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cavalier]]
!!!'''Hudson Pyle'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cavalier_legends_dark_knight_batman_dc_comics_h1.jpg]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No member of the Suicide Squad is impressed by him, and when he dies, they don't care. At least Harley doesn't.
* YourHeadAsplode: Get's his head punched off by Osita.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zebra-Man]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zebra_man.jpg]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Animal alias variety. And Harley can't help but point out that his powers have nothing to do with zebras.
* BarrierWarrior: He can create force-fields at will.
* EliteMook: Seems to have become Lok's bodyguard.
* MauveShirt: Besides Harley, he's the only member of the Suicide Squad that wasn't part of the Revolutionaries before they went rogue.
* PunchClockVillain: He doesn't seem to enjoy protecting someone as disgusting as Lok, but has little choice in the matter thanks to being part of the Squad.
* TheQuietOne: He's not particularly talkative.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Shark]]
!!!'''Karshon'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karshon_prime_earth_002.jpg]]
----
-> See [[Characters/GLOtherVillains GL Other Villains]]
[[/folder]]
!!!The Revolutionaries
[[folder:In General]]
* MortonsFork: Either they complete 50 Suicide Squad missions and gain their freedom, or they spend the rest of their lives imprisoned. [[spoiler:They actually expected that, joining the Squad to stop whoever is behind Lok.]]
* MultinationalTeam: They come from many different nations. Osita is from Puerto Rico, Chaos Kitten from Hong Kong, Thylacine from Australia, Wink is American, Deadly Six from Somalia and so on.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Unsurprisingly, neither Lawton nor Harley like the idea of working with a group of people that killed two of their own, and the feeling is mutual.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Scale and T.N.Teen are both killed in their first appearance.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They go after corrupt politicians and military contractors.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Osita]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182749_osita.jpg]]
* AMotherToHerMen: She deeply cares for her team, being remorseful any time one of them ends up dying.
* ArtificialLimbs: Her left arm is mechanical. It can apparently be hijacked.
* BrawnHilda: She's a big, muscular not particularly attractive woman.
* BraidsOfAction: Has her hair arranged in a longish braid.
* ButchLesbian: She's at least more masculine than her late wife.
* TheLeader: Leader of the revolutionaries.
* TheLostLenore: Her wife Tonia.
* MeaningfulName: Her codename means "Little She-Bear" in Spanish.
* SuperStrength: Her mechanical arm is so strong it punched Cavalier's head like a watermelon.
* YouKilledMyFather: Wants to get to Captain Boomerang for killing her wife Tonia with one of his boomerangs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Aerie]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182748_thr_aerie.jpg]]
* AmbiguousGender: Non-binary and looks androgynous.
* BattleCouple: With Wink, complementing her teleporting with their flight.
* IronicFear: They're a winged person afraid of flying on an airplane.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The president of a nation the Squad was sent to assassinate is their mother, which the Squad minus Deadshot knew about.]]
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Apparently can communicate with birds.
* WingedHumanoid: Has blue-colored wings that allow them to fly.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wink]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182750_wink.jpg]]
* BattleCouple: With The Aerie, and their powers compliment each other.
* DelinquentHair: Has blonde hair dyed pink in a mohawk.
* {{Fangirl}}: The brief team-up with the Flash reveals she's a big fan of the Scarlet Speedster.
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Not really offing, but annoyed at Harley AreWeThereYet antics, she teleports her to the middle of the outback for several minutes. Apparently there were too many emus.
* StickyFingers: Mentioned she's kleptomaniac.
* {{Teleportation}}: Can teleport herself and others. Her limits haven't been explored.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fin]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182758_fin.jpg]]
* BashBrothers: With his brother Scale.
* FishPeople: He and his brother are Atlanteans that look fish-like.
* ForcedToWatch: The Shark chewed his brother in half in front of him without being able to intervene.
* ItsPersonal: He vows to kill The Shark for killing his brother.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Kills The Shark by injuring him underwater and letting him be eaten by a swarm of sharks, not only to separate him from his telepathic link, but as revenge for his brother.]]
* PsychicLink: He and Scale shared one, and once he dies, Fin can't help but feel half-empty. He can also extend the mental link to others in order to have private conversations.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Forced to work alongside The Shark, who ate his brother.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Deadly Six]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182775_deadly_six.jpg]]
* SevenDeadlySins: He can use the device on his chest to inflict his targets with one of the seven deadly sins, although he says he wouldn't want to weaponize {{Lust}}.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jog]]
!!!'''Samuel Song'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182754_jog.jpg]]
* ADeathInTheLimelight: The issue which shows his backstory and POV is the one were he dies.
* AlliterativeName: His name is revealed to be this [[spoiler:when he was at the morgue]].
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:After dying, he reawakens at a morgue, greeted by his father the ''Black Racer'', now he can use his speed without exhaustion, probably matching the Flash.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Him reviving, being Black Racer's son and running just in time to save The Revolutionaries from death screams of this.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Knowing he failed to take the detonator of his explosive, he remains calm and tells Osita to chase down those who control them before dying.
* {{Irony}}: He considers ironic that he, someone who hates running after being forced to flee so many times in his life, has speed-related powers.
* MellowFellow: Because of his powers, he's rather laid back. [[spoiler:He's not even that shocked to find out the Black Racer is his father.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He stands out for not having them, needing lots of rest and food to be able to use his powers, and only for short periods of times.
* SuperSpeed: He has this power, although unlike other speedsters, he can only use them in short bursts. He does have the HealingFactor of other speedsters, which allow him to mostly heal from an explosion that nearly charred his face in a matter of hours.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chaos Kitten]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182759_chaos_kitten_9.jpg]]
* BadassNormal: So far the only member of the Revolutionaries that hasn't shown any powers or special abilities.
* NiceHat: Wears a hat that says 'Nope'.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Anti-Hero for sure, but when she finds a dog at the clinic of a BackAlleyDoctor, she insists on taking it with them, and then she leaves it in Deadshot's care (who by that point had fulfilled his sentence and was free to go).
* ThoseTwoGuys: Usually seen with Thylacine.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Thylacine]]
!!!'''Corinna'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7182765_thylacine.jpg]]
* CaptainEthnic: She's Australian, possibly aboriginal, with supernatural senses and whose codename is an extinct marsupial.
* LivingLieDetector: Her hearing is so good she can easily identify when someone is lying.
* ScaryBlackWoman: Unlike Deadly Six who is at least civil, Thylacine can be pretty intimidating. Best shown when she kills Magpie.
* SuperSenses: This is her apparent power.
[[/folder]]
!!2019 Series Support Staff
[[folder:Lok]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7292455_lok.jpg]]
* BadBoss: You think Waller is bad, Lok is worse, electrocuting Lawton with a cattle prod for no reason other than questioning his orders, electrocuting them again for not doing the things he ordered exactly like he wanted and so on.
* TheBully: He's even called a one-dimensional bully by Jog.
* BullyingADragon: He makes the team go all the way to Australia to capture Captain Boomerang...[[spoiler:only to order Lawton, who considers Boomerang an actual ''friend'' to shoot him in the head or Lok and his men will start detonating the Squad's bombs one by one. Lawton instead shoots Zebra-Man in the shoulder to take down Lok's force-field and then shoots Lok in the head.]]
* TheDragon: He's revealed to be this to [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord]]]] of all people.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Lok is missing his right ear and has burn scars on the right side of his face, as if he was caught in an explosion at some point.
* HateSink: He's just there to be an a-hole to the Suicide Squad, no backstory or sympathetic qualities for him.
* SmugSnake: The guy likes to act as if he can make the Suicide Squad function much better than Waller, but its clear very soon he's just a short tempered psychopath who is not as smart as he thinks. [[spoiler:He doesn't even know the Revolutionaries let themselves be drafted into the Suicide Squad to screw over the plans of whoever is calling the shots for him.]]
[[/folder]]
!!2021 Field Agents
[[folder:Superboy]]
!!!'''Conner Kent'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superboy_conner_kent.jpg]]
-> See [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peacemaker]]
!!!'''Christopher Smith'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peacemaker_dc_comics_1263408_1280x0.jpeg]]
->See [[ComicBook/{{Peacemaker}} his page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bolt]]
!!!'''Lawrence Bolatinsky'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bolt_3.png]]
* DyingToBeReplaced: Gets killed on his first mission with the Suicide Squad so the speedster Alinta can use the codename Bolt without confusion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film Freak]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/film_freak_prime_earth_0002.png]]
-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 Batman Rogues Gallery]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shrike]]
!!!'''Boone'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boone_01.jpg]]
-> See Characters/{{Nightwing}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Talon]]
!!!'''William Cobb'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightwing_vol_3_8_textless.jpg]]
-> See Characters/{{Nightwing}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nocturna]]
!!!'''Natalia Mitternacht'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nocturna_dcnu_2.jpg]]
-> See Characters/{{Batwoman}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Culebra]]
!!!'''Alejandra Cortez'''
[[quoteright:237:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/culebra_8.jpg]]
* AbhorrentAdmirer: She doesn't seem to get how gross it is when she talks about shipping Nocturna and Superboy and mentions feeling hot when Superboy acts assertive against Peacemaker.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Culebra means snake in Spanish, but neither her outfit nor her powers involve snakes, so she fits the Animal Alias category.
* TheBigGuy: The main reason Waller recruited her was due to her strength.
* BrawnHilda: She's big, muscular and not conventionally attractive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Loves making witty comments and ribbing on her teammates and even Waller.
* MauveShirt: She survives her first appearance, while fellow newcomers Mindwarp and Exit die on their debut issue.
* MotorMouth: She never stops trying to lighten the mood of a situation, to the annoyance of Peacemaker.
* SuperStrength: She's strong enough to use a special needle made to penetrate a Kryptonian's skin.
* StoutStrength: She's huge, heavyset and very strong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Branch]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/branch.jpg]]
* GreenThumb: Mentions he can hear plants and he can also control them.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ultraman rips him in half and then burns what's left with his heat vision.
* PlantPerson: Some sort of experiment turned him into one.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's not really a criminal, he's just someone Waller drafted into the Squad and just wants to leave.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodsport]]
!!!'''Robert [=DuBois=]'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8050727_bloodsport.jpg]]
-> See Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL
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* RetCanon: He's given a new armor and helmet that matches his appearance on ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' movie.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Black Siren]]
[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8054663_blacksiren5.jpg]]
* AffablyEvil: For an evil version of Black Canary, Black Siren gets along surprisingly quick with the Suicide Squad, who forcefully drafted her and took her from her home universe.
* BareYourMidriff: Always seen with an open jacket that shows her stomach.
* BoundAndGagged: By gagging her she can't use her sonic scream.
* CanonImmigrant: Her design is based on the character from ''Crisis on Two Earths'', while her codename comes from the DCAU but that became much more popular thanks to the ''Arrowverse''.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Just like her main universe counterpart.
* SinisterShades: She's always seen with sunglasses.
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
!!1987 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Black Orchid]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_black_orchid.jpg]]
-> See [[ComicBook/BlackOrchid her own page]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blockbuster]]
!!!'''Mark Desmond'''
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blockbuster_mark_desmond_0001.jpg]]
* TheBerserker: The experiments he made on himself made him super-strong and gigantic, but decreased his intelligence and caused him to become mindlessly aggressive.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Ends up killed by Darkseid's creation Brimstone.
* DumbMuscle: The formula that transformed Mark into Blockbuster damaged his cognitive abilities.
* LegacyCharacter: After death his brother Roland became the newest Blockbuster.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Used to be a chemist who tested his own formula on himself in an attempt to get strong.
* SuperStrength: His main power.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Just look at the pic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bronze Tiger]]
!!!'''Ben Turner'''
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/225px_bronzetigercm7.jpg]]
Ben Turner was a student of the martial arts master known as the O-Sensei. When he and fellow student ComicBook/RichardDragon were approached by an agency known as G.O.O.D., they became international crime fighters alongside the O-Sensei's goddaughter, ComicBook/LadyShiva. However, during a mission to the Arctic, Ben stayed behind to confront the killer of his fiancé. This led him into a trap set by the villainous Doctor Ojo, where he was brainwashed and turned into the villainous Bronze Tiger. It was later revealed that Barney Ling, the head of G.O.O.D., was the one who had hired Ojo, and upon his seeming death, Ben was set free from Ojo's brainwashing.
Post-Crisis, Ben's backstory was somewhat altered. While much of his original backstory remained intact, it was expanded on, revealing that he killed a robber who killed his father in a fit of rage, and he learned martial arts to control that rage. Instead of being brainwashed by Doctor Ojo, he was turned into the Bronze Tiger by the Sensei of the League of Assassins. After being rescued by Rick Flag and partially cured of his conditioning by Amanda Waller, Ben joined the team to atone for his actions and to find a cure for his residual conditioning.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: He left the squad to run a dojo in Detroit, but rejoined the Squad during World War III.
* AChatWithSatan: Had his during the Diabloverde mission. Confronting a mirage of a young, irate Ben Turner helped him channel the rage he'd struggled with all his life and allowed him to finally conquer his demons for good.
* AnimalMotifs: Take a guess.
* TheAtoner: After serving as a brainwashed lackey of the League of Assassins, Ben felt the need to act righteously to make up for his actions.
* BadassNormal: He is just a martial artist with no superhuman power. But he is a ''very'' good martial artist, capable of exchanging blows with ''Batman'', and in some continuities even was one of his teachers.
* BloodKnight: Ben first got into martial arts in the hope that they would serve as an outlet for his deep-seated urge to inflict suffering on others. Said urge began back when he was ''10'' and used a kitchen knife to slaughter a burglar who'd attacked his parents.
--->"But what scared me was that I wasn't sorry for ''killing'' him. I was sorry it ''ended'' so soon."
* BrainwashResidue: He was justifiably freaked out by the mere possibility of this happening, so he never accepted any position higher than Waller's right hand. Flag once consulted him on how to avert this, and his advice proved invaluable in saving the day.
* BreakoutCharacter: Not quite as much as Lady Shiva, but he's far more prominent than Dragon in comics and especially in adaptations.
* DespairEventHorizon: Sarge Steel punted him straight into it just as he was entering a serious relationship with Vixen. This caused him to shatter mentally, flee the Squad, and return to mercenary work. Between Waller and Vixen, he got pulled from the abyss and managed to stabilize, though he was unable to restore his relation with Mari.
* FreudianTrio: The ego to Shiva's id and Dragon's superego in ''[[ComicBook/RichardDragonKungFuFighter Richard Dragon: Kung-Fu Fighter]]''.
* JiveTurkey: During the seventies, he spoke in very stereotypical lingo, though his depiction was otherwise FairForItsDay.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: While Ben has always been a bit older than Richard the continuity that made ''him'' Richard's first and longest lasting martial arts instructor rather than O-Sensei made Ben quite a bit older with them still maintaining their friendship.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: Kneeled to ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}} out of respect for her forging herself into a hero after the League of Assassins (including himself when he was brainwashed) tried to make her a TykeBomb.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: He originally used his mask as a conduit for his wrath, to the point that while in the Squad the sight of it made him uncomfortable and nervous of losing his temper. Later he was able to dominate his rage and wear it normally.
* MasterApprenticeChain: In addition to his training of Cass while brainwashed he was part of quite a few such chains in the corner of Post-Crisis continuity where he is made Dragon's longest-lasting and most influential instructor, though only the first one listed here was pointed out [[note]]neither Steph nor Tim thought Tim was the best person to be teaching her, but her proper mentors kept suddenly deciding to kick her out until Babs finally took her in[[/note]]:
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]->[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]->[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Lance]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Barbara Gordon]]->[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/TheQuestion Vic Sage & Rene Montoya]]
** O-Sensei->Bronze Tiger->ComicBook/RichardDragon->[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]->[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]->Damian Wayne
* ParentalSubstitute: The O-Sensei, his teacher, was this to him and Dragon.
* RedOniBlueOni: Even after he was retconned to have anger issues he is ''always'' the blue to Dragon's red.
* ReluctantPsycho: The whole reason he turned to martial arts was to learn to control the rage inside of him.
* ScaryBlackMan: He is black under his mask. Averted during his days with Richard Dragon, but after his brainwashing he was retconned into having had serious anger issues since childhood.
* TigerVersusDragon: While in this case the tiger is the more restrained of the two and Tiger and Dragon basically consider each other brothers they still fight on occasion, and the imagery is even more pronounced in Dragon's dreams where Tiger acts as a kind of incredibly violent voice of conscience.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Captain Boomerang]]
!!!'''George "Digger" Harkness'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_boomerang_8.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/TheFlashTheRogues The Flash Rogues]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Count Vertigo]]
!!!'''Werner Vertigo'''
[[quoteright:211:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/count_vertigo_the_nail_001.png]]
->See [[Characters/GreenArrow Green Arrow villains]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Deadshot]]
!!!'''Floyd Lawton'''
[[quoteright:197:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deadshot_4.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/{{Deadshot}} his page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Doctor Light]]
!!!'''Arthur Light'''
->See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Justice League villains]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duchess]]
!!!'''Lashina'''
[[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duchess_8.jpg]]
* AmnesiacHero: Joins the Squad not knowing who she is or where she came from.
* {{BFG}}: Unhappy with the weapons on offer in Belle Reeve's armoury, she constructs her own massive gun that anyone without her SuperStrength struggles to life.
* EasyAmnesia: She suffered this upon her arrival on Earth after being shot.
* TheMole: An accidental version. She was left for dead by her fellow Female Furies, but only suffered EasyAmnesia and was allowed into the Squad as she had no Earth records. Once the amnesia wore off, Lashina decided to betray the team in the process of returning to Apokolips.
* PhysicalGoddess: She is a New Goddess from Apokolips.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Enchantress]]
!!!'''June Moone'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/enchantress_june_moon_custom_suicide_1_9f8a0862ddc5604d187568cad1c4a240.jpg]]
* BeastAndBeauty: She's a gorgeous redhead and she's the lover of her teammate, Killer Croc, the man-eating lizard mutant.
* DePower: For a time, after Nightshade absorbed the demonic entity powering her magic.
* EvenEvilHasStandards/ PetTheDog: She once healed a mortally wounded cat that Katana had befriended. When Katana thanked her, she replied "No need. It is not right that any innocent animal should suffer."
* FunctionalMagic: Her main ability.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A powerful sorceress garbed in flowing dark green robes, especially so when depicted as a villainous EvilSorceress.
* MagicalGirlWarrior / DarkMagicalGirl / EvilSorceress: Enchantress started as a Manga/SailorMoon style MagicalGirl in her own adventures (one of the very first Magical Girls!) before disappearing for a few years. When she came back, Enchantress fought {{Comicbook/Supergirl}} as she'd decided to steal all the magical power on Earth in order to eliminate evil. Then it turned out her mentor was secretly evil, and June Moone's Enchantress side went full villain.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After shooting Nightshade, who was just trying to calm her down.
* PowerDyesYourHair: In earlier versions, June Moone is a natural blonde, but turns black-haired whenever she becomes the Enchantress. These days June's a redhead regardless of her identity.
* SquishyWizard: June's the team's powerhouse, but she's a graphic designer and about as tough as you can expect of that. When the villain Cosmonaut headbutted her, she was comatose for hours. Cosmonaut did the same thing to athletic teammate ComicBook/{{Katana}} and Katana was only momentarily dazed. June got squished for real in Flashpoint, when Superman stepped on her.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Has one, which is her main reason for joining the squad; she was promised they could keep it in check. Interestingly, while she might not like the Enchantress, she eventually shoots Nightshade in an attempt to restore her powers. Belle Reve's psychologist makes it a point to explain there's a difference between willingly giving power away and having it taken. In fact, he explicitly compares power to a drug and Moone's actions as withdrawal.
* TalkToTheFist: One of her biggest weaknesses these days. She's almost always the most powerful member of the squad, but she's rarely effective. It's because she spends a long time talking, including telling an enemy what she intends to do to them, so opponents just blast her while she's still blabbing.
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[VillainProtagonist Relatively speaking]], Enchantress is this to the Suicide Squad. Mainly because she's an evil witch who's just as dangerous to her squadmates as she is to her enemies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Javelin]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/javelin.jpg]]
An Olympic athlete turned criminal/Mercenary his skill, and an arsenal of javelin based trick weapons.
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* BadassNormal: Much like Green Arrow and Arsenal, he doesn't have any powers.
* HiredGuns: He's a German mercenary.
* JavelinThrower: A former Olympic javelin thrower turned criminal.
* MysteriousPast: Other than his nationality and past as an Olympic Athlete, nothing is known about Javelin's past.
* NoNameGiven: His real name has never been revealed.
* NotQuiteDead: Left to die by the Squad during ''War of the Gods'', he reappeared several years later during ''Cry for Justice'', getting knocked out by Supergirl.
* RetGone: Hasn't returned in the post-Flashpoint continuity.
* TrickArrow: Javelin's carries an arsenal of trick javelins.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Karin Grace]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karin_grace_0012.jpg]]
Karin Grace is an elite government agent working in Task Force X. Her relationship with Rick Flag led her to become a member of the Suicide Squad, operating as their combat medic. The area she specializes in is space medicine.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mindboggler]]
!!!'''Leah Wasserman'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mindboggler_0001.jpg]]
* BrainUploading: Her corpse was retrieved from Jotunheim and used by the Jihad engineers to create a new Ifrit. It came with a host of problems due to Mindboggler's difficult personality, which the engineers tried to correct by implanting FalseMemories and changing her directives. Eventually the Hayoth's AI Dybbuk was able to repair the faulty programming and restore her memories.
* MasterOfIllusion
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nemesis]]
!!!'''Thomas Andrew Tresser'''
[[quoteright:176:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nemesis_dc.jpg]]
* AlliterativeName: '''T'''om '''T'''resser
* LatexPerfection: His disguise skills are based on special masks of his own invention.
* MasterOfDisguise: Able to develop lifelike masks used to impersonate others.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Finally gets fed up with Waller's machinations and the other members' shenanigans and quits.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Long before Tresser had ever graced the pages of a comic ComicBook/SteveTrevor was Franchise/WonderWoman's blonde super-spy boyfriend, and later husband. After Crisis undid their marriage and made Steve into Etta's husband and love interest instead Tom was eventually written as Diana's blonde spy boyfriend for a time.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Rick Flag. He returns for a mission to save Flag's son from a deranged former colleague.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nightshade]]
!!!'''Eve Eden'''
[[quoteright:125:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightshade_1.png]]
->See [[Characters/CaptainAtom here]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Plastique]]
!!!'''Bette Sans Souci'''
[[quoteright:184:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/plastique_9.jpg]]
* CanadaEh: Plastique is a Canadian terrorist.
* DefeatByModesty: Her first appearance had Firestorm defeat Plastique by vaporizing her clothes (in front of TV cameras!), both because it amuses him and because it's a convenient way to separate her from the bombs on her suit.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Initially, she had no actual super powers and just relied on her skill with explosives. Later she was granted the power to generate explosions with her minds.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''Raise The Flag'', she only pretends to go along with Eiling's plan to betray the Squad and kill Waller, having learned her lesson of getting involved with people like him in the past. She is also outraged when [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White Dragon]] murders Twister while she was defenseless. befriended.
* EvilRedhead
* FadSuper: Plastique was created when Quebecois separatist terrorists were in the news. They were a short-lived phenomenon, and in later appearances she was explained as a die-hard anachronism before reforming. In the New 52, her background is as a more generic terrorist.
* HavingABlast: Her super power.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She became a member of the Suicide Squad for the duration of a single mission. She attempted to betray the team during their second field operation in Qurac (under the command of Amanda Waller), but was anticipated and caught by fellow operative Nemesis, and subsequently brainwashed to suppress all memories of her membership in the Squad. This backfired when she was recruited a second time and her memories were returned.
* MadBomber: One of the few times a mad bomber is female. Unlike most examples, she was fairly inept and had for a brief time reformed, but in the New 52 she's back to bomb-throwing.
* [[DatingCatwoman Marrying Catwoman]]: ComicBook/CaptainAtom married her after she reformed after having first been an adversary in his series.
* TookALevelInBadass: Via genetic modification commissioned by her organization, Plastique gained the power to project explosive force from her body.
* VillainousFriendship: Forms one with Twister in ''Raises The Flag''.
* WesternTerrorists: Plastique started out as a violent Quebec separatist (likely inspired by the Front de libération du Québec) whose first story involved threatening to suicide bomb a newspaper.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Poison Ivy]]
!!!'''Pamela Lilian Isley'''
[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poison_ivy.jpg]]
->See [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy her page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Privateer]]
!!! '''Mark Shaw'''
[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/privateer.jpg]]
* BadassNormal: Privateer has no superpowers but takes on supervillains.
* BountyHunter: After leaving the Squad, Shaw returned to his previous Manhunter identity and became a bounty hunter specialising in bringing in supervillains.
* EyepatchOfPower: Shaw wears one in his Privateer identity as part of his swashbuckling image. There is nothing wrong with his eye.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: His codename and costume deliberately evoke this.
* SwissArmyWeapon: His Power Baton includes the following functions: BladeOnAStick, TelescopingStaff, GrapplingHookPistol, [[JavelinThrower javelin/spike]], [[MagneticWeapons magnetic pulse]], [[FightingWithChucks nunchuks]], and SonicStunner.
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[[folder:Punch and Jewelee]]
!!!'''Clyde Phillips''' and ??
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* HypnoTrinket: The Hypno-Gems were capable of hypnotizing other human beings. This item was actually more often used by Jewelee then Punch.
* MorningSickness: How Jewelee discovers she is pregnant.
* PeoplePuppets: Punch and Judy used an alien gun that projected beams of concentrated light that allowed them to take physical control over another person's body. In function, the sting strings were similar to the strings found on a puppet.
* UnholyMatrimony: Punch and Jewelee are a married couple who delight in inflicting chaos on the world.
* VillainousHarlequin: Punch and Jewelee's costumes are modeled after traditional Punch and Judy outfits.
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[[folder:Ravan]]
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* BadassNormal: He is a Thuggee assassin who practices Kali worship, but has no powers of his own.
* HazyFeelTurn: He was an enemy to the Suicide Squad, although he later became one of their members.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: One of the least moral of a very immoral team, but it's always played for laughs after he joins the Squad.
* KilledOffForReal: He was killed in battle against Kobra.
* LaughablyEvil: Ravan was surprisingly funny at times.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Ravan.
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[[folder:Rick Flag, Jr.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: In Ostrander's ''From The Ashes'' it's revealed [[spoiler: he was teleported to Skartaris at the last second.]]
* BrainwashResidue: [[spoiler:He consults Bronze Tiger on how to avoid this, and successfully screws Eiling over.]]
* ColonelBadass
* DeathSeeker: Increasingly as the series goes on, particularly after he finds out [[spoiler: his father had the same problem - he wasn't killed, he chose needless self-sacrifice instead.]]
* FalseMemories: [[spoiler:Rick Flag had no children. Junior's a random soldier Wade Eiling sent through a brainwashing program to force the identity upon him.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:When offered the chance to reconnect with the family he once had, he refuses to, saying he's Rick Flag now.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shade the Changing Man]]
!!!'''Rac Shade'''
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->See [[ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan his page]] for more info.
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[[folder:Shrike]]
!!!'''Vanessa Kingsbury'''
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* HeelFaithTurn: Shrike found religion and regarded her service in the Squad as a genuine opportunity for redemption.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her primary weapon is a hypersonic shriek.
* WingedHumanoid: Shrike can fly via feathered wings the alien Overlord grafted to her back.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: DependingOnTheArtist, but her hair is usually depicted as pink or purple.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Slipknot]]
!!!'''Christopher Weiss'''
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* AnArmAndALeg: Slipknot loses an arm when Captain Boomerang convinces him to defect during a mission and the ExplosiveLeash bracelet detonates.
* CripplingOverspecialization: His ropes are stronger than steel, which makes them good against humans, but they were worthless against robots. Without any other means of attack, he had no way to fight them and instead tried to escape. [[spoiler: Which turned out to be a bad idea]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He fights using ropes.
* InstantKnots: His whole shtick is that his ropes do this.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Attempts to escape after Captain Boomerang convinces him that the bombs were a bluff. [[spoiler: They're not, and it cost him his arm]].
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[[folder:Thinker]]
!!!'''Clifford "Cliff" Carmichael'''
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* CompellingVoice: He's able to control people just by telling them what to do.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He always wears glasses, even when he gets an real super villain costume.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics Ronnie Raymond's]] high school bully to a sociopathic monster bent on murdering ComicBook/{{Oracle}}.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: He escapes without punishment at the end of the original Ostrander book, his powers returned.]]
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: He finally gets his just deserts in the 2007 limited series.]]
* LegacyCharacter: To [[OneSteveLimit Clifford]] [=DeVoe=], an old enemy of [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]]. He used [=DeVoe=]'s "thinking cap" to gain his powers, [[SuperiorSuccessor but no longer needs it to use them]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: For Eiling in the final arc of the book.]]
* RestrainingBolt: One he's press ganged into the Squad, Waller installs a device that allows her to turn his powers on and off, keeping him under control. [[spoiler: Eiling disables it in the final arc.]]
* TheSociopath: A classic case. Waller, Oracle, and co. debate the ethics of finding a cure for the disorder at one point.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vixen]]
!!!'''Mari Jiwe [=McCabe=]'''
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->See [[ComicBook/{{Vixen}} her page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yasemin]]
!!!'''Yasemin Soze'''
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Yasemin Soze was a Turkish smuggler and assassin who was forced into the Suicide Squad.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her outfit shows a lot of cleavage.
* CameBackWrong: Shortly after her death she was reanimated as a Black Lantern.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Challenging [[CombatPragmatist Deadshot]] to a gunslinger duel was not going to pan out as she thought.
* DirtyCoward: On her first mission, she was overcome by the fear of possibly dying when the task became too much for her and she ran, which bought her great shame among the Suicide Squad.
* TheGunslinger: Styles herself as one, as she's at least competent, until her serious lapse in judgement.
* HonorBeforeReason: Against all logic or reason, she challenges Lawton to a duel, and he shoots her dead before she even starts counting.
* TooDumbToLive: Giving a blatant opening to an opponent known for their uncompromising nature in order to get a duel was a foolish idea and it got her killed.
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!!1987 Series Support Staff
[[folder:Amanda Waller]]
!!!'''Amanda Waller'''
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[[caption-width-right:350:If you learn nothing else from this page, learn that ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' is afraid of Amanda Waller.]]
->''You know, the Lord's been a great comfort to me all these years. Try not to look so surprised. Yeah, I've got a lot to answer for when I meet Him, but I'd like to believe that for all the harm I've caused, I've also done some good. Maybe the angels need a sharp sword too.''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''
Amanda Blake Waller is a Creator/DCComics character created by John Ostrander, Len Wein, and Creator/JohnByrne, first appearing in ''Legends'' #1 (dated November 1986).
Waller is the [[TropeCodifier epitome]] of the {{black boss lady}} trope, as well as being one of the most morally ambiguous DC characters. She dances atop the line between [[AntiHero anti-hero]] and [[AntiVillain anti-villain]] ({{depending on the writer}}) and frequently commits immoral acts in the pursuit of American dominance.
Over the years, Waller has been the head of various secret governmental organizations like the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, Checkmate, Belle Reve Penitentiary, CADMUS, and ARGUS -- and even [[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls the principal of a high school for young superheroes]].
The character appears frequently in other media, having been portrayed by a variety of well-respected black actresses (see works featured below).
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!! Amanda Waller appears in the following media:
[[AC: Notable Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' (debut)
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' (all volumes, 1987 -- present)
[[AC: Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' (2009), voiced by voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' (2014), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' (2015), voiced by Creator/PennyJohnsonJerald
* ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse'' (2018), voiced by Music/VanessaWilliams
** ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'' (2018)
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanHush'' (2019)
[[AC: Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' (2011), portrayed by Creator/AngelaBassett
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, portrayed by Creator/ViolaDavis
** ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' (2016)
** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' (2021)
** ''Series/Peacemaker2022''
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (2010), portrayed by Creator/PamGrier
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' (2013 -- 2016), portrayed by Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson
[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'' (2011), voiced by Debra Cole
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' (2013), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
** ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague''
* ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' (2014), voiced by Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson
* ''[[VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries Batman: The Enemy Within]]'' (2017), voiced by Debra Wilson
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' (2004 -- 2006), voiced by Creator/CCHPounder
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' (2011), voiced by Sheryl Lee Ralph
* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' (2015 -- present), voiced by Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown
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!!Amanda Waller provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: She's fat and menopausic. ''Do not assume this makes her helpless in any way''. In the second half of the original ''Suicide Squad'', she was even able to join the Squad in the front lines and pull her weight with her superpowered operatives, and even before then she was shown to be well trained in firearms and strong and skilled in combat enough to actually fight off Granny Goodness, a bonafide alien goddess.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** Many live-action adaptations will cast thinner and more attractive actresses for Waller.
** The ''New 52'' not only made her thinner, but also [[AgeLift younger]] as she was originally middle-aged in addition to overweight. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_imagesamandawallernew52_6920.jpg Later issues]] have toned down her attractiveness, making her more of a traditional BlackBossLady than a supermodel.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Some non-comic depictions of Amanda portray her with a real ego problem, if not a full-fledged case of TooCleverByHalf, usually to better portray her as a villain or otherwise make it clear that she is ''not'' the hero.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' version of Amanda is LighterAndSofter, more sincere and has some standards she won't cross, unlike her comic book counterpart... although these standards are kind of fickle, since we learn she had planned to create a "Batman 2.0" by assassinating an innocent pair of parents to traumatize a child (though she did relent when [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the would-be assassin]] pointed out the immorality of the plan). She also shows some elements of humility and regret at her actions:
--->'''Amanda Waller:''' "Our enemies are never as evil as we think they are and maybe we are never quite as good".
*** After the Cadmus-arc, she toned down her grudge against the League, after learning that Comicbook/LexLuthor [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated her into it]]. She also tried to talk Wade Eiling out of ''his'' anti-League sentiments, but he refused to listen.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' has her call out Lex Luthor on his more extreme issues and upon realizing his insanity, Waller assists the title heroes and even orders a general to arrest Luthor.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' has her as the President of the United States and while she still had countermeasures developed to deal with the League, given this League is composed of [[SmugSuper three]] [[SociopathicHero violent]] [[GoodIsNotNice jackasses]], no one can blame her.
* AdaptationalVillainy: A number of adaptations play her as a corrupt bureaucrat of her own, using ARGUS or Task Force X to handle her personal dirty work rather than being for the greater good.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' has her commission the Suicide Squad to retrieve sensitive information Riddler stole detailing her own crimes. [[spoiler:The movie ends with Deadshot trying to kill her in the last moments as karmic retribution, but DLC for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamUnderworld'' takes places afterward ''Assault'' and reveals Batman stopped Floyd before he could kill her]].
** The version of her that appeared in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' took her BadBoss tendencies beyond UpToEleven, blackmailing almost every field operative she had and then treating '''everybody''' in her Agency as expendable fodder, being a pretty clear example of TheSociopath. [[spoiler:She was so bad that the reason she [[DroppedABridgeOnHim had a bridge dropped on her]] on the fourth season (other than [[RealLifeWritesThePlot behind-the-scenes issues]]) was because the leader of the men who had taken ARGUS hostage decided to kill her once it was clear that she would allow all the other hostages to die and [[EvenEvilHasStandards got disgusted over it]].]]
** Her ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' version had no problem casually blowing away a dozen subordinates that were trapped in the command center with her by herself for the sake of keeping secret how much she'd screwed the pooch with Enchantress. Deadshot (who saw her do it) [[EvenEvilHasStandards had a brief moment of shock over said slaying]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'', the entire plot is Amanda selfishly using the Squad to track down a mystical artifact that will [[KarmaHoudini guarantee that she goes to Heaven upon her death, regardless of her wrongdoings in life]], because she's well-aware that she's done things that were wrong. Her BadBoss credentials are in full display, and she critically underestimates or misuses her team several times. It's then followed by a comic tie-in where she then repeats the process to find another such token, as she's afraid that ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' is personally coming for her.
* AntiVillain[=/=]AntiHero: Depending on the story and the writer. Her position has placed as both an ally ''and'' an antagonist to superheroes in the DC Universe, and in either case she is trying to do good but relying on extreme methods.
* ArchEnemy: Major Zastrow, her Soviet counterpart, in the first ''Suicide Squad'' with his very own Soviet metahuman hit squad, The Red Shadows.
* BadassNormal: Despite being an ordinary human, she can hold her own alongside her superpowered operatives and once fought off [[PhysicalGod Granny Goodness]].
* BadBoss: To the ComicBook/SuicideSquad: she puts bombs in their heads, in case they get any ideas about escape. However, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], in that the Squad is made up of murderers and other criminals.
* BecomingTheMask: Early on, she put up a big front of being a scary black woman that took no crap, not even from hardened supervillains. Her losses embittered her to the point where it wasn't a front anymore.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: She is never portrayed positively and is literally shown as only preferable in comparison to the overtly destructive and monstrous villains she is up against.
* BlackBossLady: Amanda Waller, in any organizations is widely recognized as one of the few people who can make Batman think twice about messing with her. Heck, she's taken on Granny Goodness (right-hand woman to ''Darkseid'') and walked away.
* BoxedCrook: After her ill-advised stint as part of the ComicBook/LexLuthor Administration, which resulted in her being implicated in a number of criminal activities, she was offered the job of White Queen of the newly-revamped ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}, in the naive hope that the rigors of setting international metahuman policy would keep her busy and prevent her from running any more supervillain task forces on the side. It didn't work.
* BrokenBird: Hard to believe, but Amanda Waller was once just a more-or-less normal housewife with a family and children. Unfortunately, her husband and several of her children died in the Cabrini-Green sprawl, and she fell on ''very'' hard times to the point she had to go on government welfare to keep her children alive. Being proud as the devil, Amanda successfully clawed her way out without relying on anybody else, whether it be any further welfare or extended family, and reached her current status as one of DC's premier masterminds. Her sister confessed in-series she was plainly terrified of Amanda's dark side overtaking her and eventually getting her killed.
* ConsummateProfessional: All she cares for is the mission. Everything else can go hang.
* ControlFreak: She has a definite domineering streak to the point it functions as a strength and a character flaw. Amanda herself puts it best in a flashback:
-->'''Amanda Waller''': I am not taking no more charity -- not from kin, not from friends, and especially not from no damn government! The taste of it rots in my mouth! I'm gonna get me power over my own life! And heaven help the one who tries to take that power from me!
* CrazyPrepared: Waller does a real number on Harcourt that puts her high in the MagnificentBastard territory: she manages to trick her into revealing her source, all the while having secretly removed four bullets from her gun ''that morning'' so when she has Waller at her supposed mercy, she's defenseless, while Waller has Captain Boomerang kill her with a well-placed boomerang. All this while she tells Harcourt before she dies, "You have achieved ''nothing'' for The People. Other than betraying them. You murdered Hack, and now you're going to ''fry''."
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Waller was once just a normal housewife trying to eke a living in a bad area of Chicago with her family. Then her eldest son, who was all set to leave the area on a full scholarship, was killed on a mugging gone wrong. While she was still reeling from the death, a rapist approached her daughter, and when she fought, he killed her. Neighbors only responded to the screams by closing their windows. It was a closed casket funeral. Her husband confronted and killed said rapist - [[MutualKill and died in turn]]. Small wonder she's so determined to secure power for herself and establish control over whatever she deems necessary.
* DarkSecret: [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueVsSuicideSquad Before the current Squad was formed]], she commanded an older iteration composed of [[spoiler:Doctor Polaris, Emerald Empress, Rustam, Johnny Sorrow and Lobo.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: Dependence on others is a tremendous BerserkButton for her. This, coupled with her pride, makes her insufferably arrogant and abrasive even when others are genuinely trying to help her. And may God help you if you actually think showing sympathy for the horror that is her life is going to help anyone.
* TheDreaded: Despite having no powers, she's not above capturing villains, sending them to death trap planets, putting bombs in them, recruiting them into the Suicide Squad, and using the bombs if the crooks step out of line. She also goes against heroes in addition to the bad guys and as the picture quote points out, even Batman, another example of this trope, is afraid of her.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waller2.png first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' has her laying down the law to Flag.
-->'''Flag:''' Are you out of your cotton-picking mind, lady?\\
'''Waller:''' Frankly, I couldn't be more serious, colonel! And by the way, if you ever again call anything about me 'cotton-picking,' mister —- I'll stuff those bright, shiny eagles on your shoulders so far up your butt, they'll be able to nest in your skull!
* {{Expy}}: Her character model and parts of her personality were based on [[Series/GimmeABreak Nell Carter]], according to Mike Gold.
* TheExtremistWasRight: She's a brutal disciplinarian and demands the same obedience from assistants and assassins. One of the people Amanda alienated with her cavalier attitude, Dr. Simon [=LaGrieve=], eventually came to think better of her once he entered a similar position as head of a metahuman research institute.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After Rustam made it clear he was capable and willing to use her family to get to her, she laid a trap for him. Knowing he was going to approach Deadshot, [[MagnificentBastard she beat him to the punch and offered Lawton an excellent deal in exchange for participating in the con]]. Using a literal magic bullet courtesy of Enchantress, she was shot in the heart and sent into suspension for several hours, during which she was declared dead. Afterwards she was revived and oversaw Rustam's plan's collapse, but not before she experienced the pain of dying and seeing her family mourn her. She describes the experience overall as literally seeing Hell.]]
* FatBitch: She's frequently depicted as overweight and as this page shows, calling her "not nice" is an understatement. She is a stubborn, hard-arsed, surly, demanding and abrasive sort of woman.
* {{Flanderization}}: Earlier in the Ostrander run she at least showed enough care for the people under her command (yes, even the Squad) that her support staff included things like a psychiatrist and was fair in a "don't fuck with me and I won't screw with you" sense. As time went on, she became more and more sociopathic (both in a figurative and in some adaptations '''literal''' sense) and nowadays more often appears as [[BigBad the main antagonist]] or [[BigBadEnsemble a major member of the opposing force]] of any story arc she is part of.
* {{Foil}}: To Batman. Both are extremely pragmatic and intelligent manipulators who don't trust anyone else to get the job done, but one is a rich white guy who inherited a fortune that adheres to a higher moral code of protecting civilians from criminals and compassion towards human life while the other is a black woman who came from poverty, clawing and scratching her way to power, but abides by a Machiavellian moral code and is willing to make whatever sacrifice is needed for her greater good.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She started off a housewife before her family died. Now she's one of DC's premier Chessmasters.
* {{Gonk}}: DependingOnTheArtist, but she is traditionally depicted as overweight, middle-aged, harsh-featured and frankly kind of ugly. Can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in those cases as a result of her job and the stress it takes to continue doing it.
* GoodIsNotNice: In the times she's hasn't crossed the line, she's still one of the most darkly pragmatic characters.
* HeroicSacrifice: Post-''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' Amanda led a Suicide Squad strikeforce to attack the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'''s satellite, New Oa in the ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' event. Knowing she wasn't going to get out alive one way or the other, she packed enough explosives to reduce the station to rubble under her jacket.
** Utterly drained after a particularly traumatic gambit, she tries to take a Kryptonite bomb into the Black Vault to shut it down from the inside. [[spoiler:However, Rick Flag tears the bomb away from her and dives into the Vault himself.]]
* HeroicWillpower: If this woman wants something, ''she'll get it and damn the cost''. After the deaths of her husband and two of her five children, she struggled without respite until she'd successfully left Chicago behind, put her remaining kids through college, and graduated herself in Political Sciences. Her determination and brilliance made her a priceless addition to the campaign of a Congress hopeful (who, by all accounts, was put in office by her efforts) and later on proved key to the reformation of the Squad.
** So far, she's the ''only'' person to ever have shaken off Max Lord's mind control powers, deny the temptation the Thinker helmet offered her, and was able to resist the Diabloverde jungle's hellish hallucinations. Granted, she was still visibly affected in all cases, but she still ended in charge of all three situations while still being able to get right back to work after.
* HumansAreFlawed: Her personal thoughts on the matter:
-->'''Amanda Waller''': Nobody can decide for anybody else to be well or strong or whole. People have to decide that on their own -- and you have to let 'em.
* IAmAMonster: She has, entirely unironically, accepted the metaphorical albatross around her neck and given up all hope of ever sleeping soundly again. Whenever she's given a ReasonYouSuckSpeech or at point into her flaws, she just grimaces and accepts it, acknowledging how monstrous she's become in life.
** [[{{Deconstruction}} Rustam tore her world apart through this]], [[spoiler: forcing Amanda to expose herself to her surviving children as thus. And for the deathblow, Waller's daughter told her ''exactly'' what she thought of her. A broken, confused Amanda is left alone to simmer in the realization of her life's work.]]
--->'''Amanda Waller''':...I don't understand. [[PyrrhicVictory This feels like losing. But I won.]]
** During her attempt to usurp control of Checkmate, she was outmaneuvered and tricked by Mr. Terrific strictly because her own paranoia got the best of her, because it makes her think others are the same way, in addition to the fact her tendency of being crazy-prepared makes her not so subtle.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: A terrifying mix of Loyalty, Authority, Respect and Fear. She can be very charismatic when she makes the effort - as shown by the fact most of the Squad fully respects her despite hating her guts, and for those who don't... there's always the cranial bombs and Rick Flag. Careful amounts of Prejudice also help her manipulate villains into serving the Squad. When working with heroes, she buys their Loyalty with either Money or Information.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She often makes horrifically unethical decisions when faced with impossible dilemmas. She justifies them to herself with varying arguments, some of which she accepts more readily than others. The one she seems to accept the most is "because nobody else will".
-->'''Amanda Waller''': I'm not proud of what I had to do -- but I would do it again. You all quit, you all die, I can still guarantee you one thing -- the Squad will go on.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At the end of the first ''Suicide Squad'' series, Amanda was quite thoroughly exhausted of the entire metahuman scene and just wanted to retire to Diabloverde. Had the ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' crossover not forced the U.S. Government to bring her back, she'd have remained quite peacefully there.
* InSeriesNickname: Due to her being difficult to cross, she's called "the Wall". [[spoiler: Father Craemer deconstructed this when confronting Amanda after ''The Janus Directive'', pointing it was an image she's proud of presenting, even if she's well aware it's not completely real. Under the manipulation and the brilliance, she's still human, but she sublimates her feelings until they start affecting her judgment. At that point, she starts needing others to serve as her conscience (Nightshade, Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger, Simon [=LaGrieve=], her sister, Vixen, Katana and even Oracle have at one point filled the role). Craemer challenged her to stop surrounding herself with people serving as her brakes and actually learn to dominate ''herself''. She hasn't quite mastered it, but she's still trying some of the time.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: With General Wade Eiling in Project Atom, and she's not too fond of Sarge Steel in the Department of Metahuman Affairs. She has a better relation with Checkmate, which she co-founded. Kobra tried to exploit this trope in ''The Janus Directive'', though TeethClenchedTeamwork prevailed.
* IronLady: You ''have'' to be commanding and have a temper when your job consists in leading a squad of superpowered lunatics and broken heroes. Even ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' knows better than to cross her lightly.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the original 1987 series, she was pragmatic, manipulative, and unscrupulous, but had a HiddenHeartOfGold, best exemplified in the last arc of the book, where she takes on a job to liberate a Central American nation because she feels guilty about enabling the U.S. Government to prop up the country's regime with its own version of the Suicide Squad. Not only that, instead of the usual million dollar fee that the Squad charged, she took the job for a single peso, and paid the Squad their salaries for the mission out of her own pocket. And when the mission is done, she takes on the job of rebuilding the country's infrastructure as its interim president. However, {{Flanderization}} kicked in, and she became a
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Amanda Waller ''did'' have a heart. It used to shine every now and then in the original ''Suicide Squad'', until the job ground it out of her. She recovers to a more human level when she's separated from the job, but she's so good at it, the government prefers enduring her most grating traits rather than allow her a respite... which of course only worsens the problem until she's kicked out until the next crisis rolls in and she's put back in control and the whole horrible cycle starts all over again. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Every now and then her humanity prevails]], but most of the time it's buried under a layer of pitch-black pragmatism.
* KnightInSourArmor: She has long lost pretty much all faith in everything she doesn't directly control. The fact she [[VetinariJobSecurity keeps being called to do the same horrible, thankless job time after time]] probably had something to do with it.
* LargeAndInCharge: Her concept as "The Wall" actually dictated her design. [[http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/suicide-squad-progressive-leader-amanda-waller.html According to her creator John Ostrander]]:
-->As the character percolated, he cooked up a name, Amanda Waller, and a nickname branched off in his mind: "The Wall." "When you're doing comics, you need a visual shorthand in order to convey certain aspects of a character," Ostrander says, "and if Amanda Waller's nickname was 'The Wall,' she had to look a little bit like a wall. She had to look formidable. By not giving her Wonder Woman's muscles, and instead some heft, it sort of suggested a power in her."
* LaserGuidedKarma: Like it or not, she's often punished for her darker acts. Betraying Rustam eventually led to the destruction of her family, and her lone wolf act put the Squad under severe scrutiny.
* LonelyFuneral: Emilia Harcourt, NSA representative, muses there are very few greater accolades in the intelligence community. [[spoiler: When it's Waller's turn, only her children and Harcourt, as her successor, show up.]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: While in her better days she's simply [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]], she can stoop pretty low if if will get the mission done.
* MindRape: She once suffered this via a neurotoxin. Aside from the expected visits of her husband and two eldest children, she saw an agent who got killed while she was on MissionControl, and most notably, her EnemyWithin.
** She was also not above inflicting this on others. Notably, Quebecois nationalist Plastique was an early Squad member who threatened to expose the Squad upon her release. Waller ordered Plastique's memories erased instead. She only stopped doing this because her go-to mentalists, Mindboggler and the Thinker, either died or lost their powers.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Her driving goal is her need to protect and strengthen the government she works for. It doesn't matter what methods she uses or what crimes the government may have committed, either before she was called in or after clearing things up: so long as they defend the USA, then it's acceptable.
* NecessarilyEvil: She knows full well that some of the things she does are wrong, but she justifies them as necessary. Through her crimes, she serves a greater purpose; the protection and advancement of the United States of America.
* NervesOfSteel: Waller can, will, and does regularly stare down alien gods, supervillians, and the Goddamn Batman.
** In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Waller is in the shower…when Franchise/{{Batman}} breaks into her house. They then proceed to have a ''nice chat''…and at the end, Waller makes such a [[VillainHasAPoint disturbingly good point]] that Batman is too rattled to do his trademark StealthHiBye, and just walks out the door while Waller sets off the alarm.
*** Note that this particular example is even a downplayed trope, as right after Batman leaves, she found herself visibly shaken by the ordeal.
* NobleDemon: If she's feeling charitable, having a good day and there are no crises in the horizon.
** This extends in the oddest ways. For instance, she rather liked the second Thinker, Cliff Carmichael, and was upset when King Faraday murdered him... after Carmichael had engineered a mutiny and tried to kill Waller.
* TheOmniscient: She has intel on almost everything.
* OneSteveLimit: Amanda enforces her trademarks very zealously. A team of assassins and vandals working for a BananaRepublic decided to start using the name Suicide Squad, and this personally offended Waller to the point she sponsored a mission herself to eliminate the regime.
* ParentalNeglect: An unfortunate consequence of Amanda throwing herself into politics. She genuinely loves her children, but her devotion to her job had a really, ''really'' high cost for her few remaining familial relationships.
* {{Pride}}: Even the death of her husband and two children wasn't enough to break her. It was actually the start of trying to dig her way out that triggered her ascent and filled her with enough anger to power a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]]. As her sister relates, welfare isn't free money; it costs a lot of dignity, and that was a price Amanda was never willing to pay. Coupled with her stubbornness, her brilliance makes her virtually unstoppable, but her anger is always in danger of congealing into raw hate.
** That said, she does have her limits and is perfectly capable of feeling shame. After the LOA arc, in which she crosses a personal MoralEventHorizon, she releases the few remaining Squad members and allows herself to be arrested. Mind, she knows full well [[VetinariJobSecurity the government is going to need her whether they like it or not]], and is in fact [[BatmanGambit counting on this]] to get out once the first legit offer comes by, having appeased her personal desire for judgment.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She's very good at dishing them out. For example, when Poison Ivy seduces a man with her pheromones, Waller snarks, "You're a slaveholder, deep down. So make your boytoy here take a nap and let's get on with business."
** However, her favorite target has always been Captain Boomerang, whose nickname "Boomerbutt" she coined. On the other hand, she prefers puncturing his ego with quick insults rather than full speeches.
* RetiredBadass: At the end of the original run of ''Suicide Squad'', she left her position to lead a tiny Caribbean country. She would have ''stayed'' there gladly had the ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' crossover not [[TenMinuteRetirement forced the U.S. government to drag her back]].
* SassyBlackWoman: Yup!
-->'''Amanda Waller:''' ''[while threatening murderous convicts to back down]'' I am fat, black, and menopausal. You do NOT want to mess with me!
* ScaryBlackWoman: And how! notably it comes from her [[MagnificentBastard intelligence]] and her position in the government rather than any physical strength.
* ShadowArchetype: To Batman, representing his paranoia and what could happen if he became TheUnfettered in his pursuit of justice.
* SmugSnake: If someone who defied her falls into her web, she isn't above a spot of gloating.
** Memorably, at the end of ''Justice League vs. Suicide Squad'', Waller initially refuses to even consider allowing the League to take away Killer Frost... until Batman admits that despite his original doubts, [[ARareSentence he might have been wrong]] about the Squad's value. Waller takes a moment to process this, then decides the whole fiasco was WorthIt just to hear Batman acknowledge one mistake, and happily allows Frost to leave. [[spoiler:She's fairly sure Frost's going to end up in Belle Reve one way or the other, anyway, and [[ManipulativeBastard the entire conflict was in her favor anyway, as she got control of the assets of]] ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} after capturing Max Lord.]]
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Max Lord tries this with Waller in a flashback in ''Justice League #12''. He gets a haymaker to the eye.
* SurroundedByIdiots:
** Idiotic NSC liaison Derek Tolliver. After the utter fiasco that was the ''Flight of the Firebird'' arc, he gets the brilliant idea of trying to keep his job by leaking news of the existence of the Squad to the even bigger idiot Senator Joe Cray. Waller chews him up with some gravedigging and gets him to drop the scheme... though by then his foolhardy meddling has already ensured his own death and Cray's, the exposure of the Squad, and a host of other problems.
** Vic Sage in ''ComicBook/New52'' treats the Squad as his personal fantasy league and neglects basic background checks and safety measures in favor of idiotic ideas like renaming the team "Task Force XL".
* TeenPregnancy: The 2001 series reveals that Waller had a child back when she was 16, and subsequently gave her up for adoption. The baby grew up to be Havana.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Waller did her best to avert this in ''Suicide Squad'''s original run, hiring several psychiatrists, doctors and even a priest as additional personnel in Belle Reve. However, their success rate was fairly low, her abrasive personality made it very hard to work with her for long and in the end she more or less decided it wasn't really worth the effort, as she hasn't tried to do something similar with later iterations of the Squad.
* UnbuiltTrope: She's the TropeCodifier for BlackBossLady and is quite the impressive example of the archetype. Not only does she hold a lot of governmental power, she's also extremely intelligent and a BadassNormal who once [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu fought off Granny Goodness]]. That being said, there are a number of ways that she comes off as a rather dark and tragic deconstruction of the trope. For starters, many of the same qualities that allow her to be so successful at her job have also made her very difficult to work with, even for those who aren't coerced into working with her. Moreover, her hard-nosed attitude and drive for success stem from her husband and two of her children being tragically murdered, and her dedication to her career has driven a rift between her and her remaining family. Also, while most BlackBossLady characters are unambiguously good, Waller is deeply morally ambiguous, constantly dancing on the line between AntiHero and AntiVillain and committing immoral acts in the name of protecting and advancing American interests. Even at her best, she's ruthlessly pragmatic to the point that it unnerves even Batman. And no matter how much she tries to justify her actions to herself, they still weigh on her heavily. She even retired from her position at one point, having become thoroughly sick of what it required her to do... only for the government to put her back to work.
* UndyingLoyalty: Where others have faith in Heaven, she has hers in the Squad. Waller is fully aware that the Squad is supposed to be expendable, but the very idea of treating them as disposable weapons revolts her.
* TheUnfettered: Accomplishing the mission ''at all cost '' is her legacy.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her sister remembers the charming, happy girl she used to be. While she had already developed some of the habits that would define her life later on (most notably her stubbornness and pride), her family and later Joseph Waller helped curb most of Amanda's nastiest habits.
* VetinariJobSecurity: The whole reason why Waller still has her job: no-one else can do what she does, or at the very least no-one is willing. ''The Phoenix Gambit'' arc and her return to Squad leadership in ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' are good examples. Whenever she's sent to prison, she shrugs and basically says she only needs to wait a short time before someone in the government pardons her because she can do what few others can.
* WeDoTheImpossible: Her reason for creating the Squad. They're not suicidal -- they just go on suicidal missions.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She is genuinely trying to work for the good of her country, but she isn't afraid to send dangerous supervillains on suicide missions to this end, and her methods are so drastic even some people in the government are shocked by it. She often makes it a point to surround herself with more morally-straight characters such as Belle Reve's supporting staff and outright heroes like Nightshade, Vixen and Nemesis to serve as her conscience. To their disgust, however, she listens but only very rarely actually heeds their advice.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Oracle]]
!!!'''ComicBook/{{Oracle}}''' (Barbara Gordon)
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->See [[ComicBook/{{Oracle}} her page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flo Crowly]]
!!!'''Florence "Flo" Crowly'''
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A staff member who works behind the scenes for the Suicide Squad. She's also the niece of Amanda Waller.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She was attracted to Bronze Tiger.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She desperately wants to become a field agent so she can more effectively compete with Vixen for Bronze Tiger’s attention. This winds up getting her killed.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She’s a white woman in her first appearance.
* JustAKid: Besides already dating Vixen, Ben saw her as a kid.
* KillTheCutie: One of the nicest, most innocent members of the cast, so of course she had to die. Notably, her death is what finally causes Economos to resign.
* KilledOffForReal: She’s killed during the disastrous mission to Apokolips.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Briscoe]]
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Briscoe was a pilot and mechanic that took care of Sheba, the covert stealth helicopter used by the Suicide Squad.
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* AcePilot: He's an extremely skilled pilot, especially when it comes to his helicopter Sheba.
* BadassNormal: No powers, just skills as pilot and marksman and helped the Squad on many of their missions.
* CoolShades: He's always seen with sunglasses.
* DeathOfAChild: Sheba is named after Briscoe’s deceased daughter, which is strongly implied to be one of the main reasons for his unhealthy obsession with the vehicle.
* KilledOffForReal: He is killed by Parademons while piloting Sheba in defense of the team.
* LastNameBasis: His first name is never mentioned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:John Economos]]
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John Economos is the warden of Belle Reve Penitentiary. Though not directly responsible for its actions, he works with Amanda Waller and her Suicide Squad.
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* WardensAreEvil: Subverted. He might be the warden of the [[HellholePrison Belle Reve Penitentiary]], but he's a pretty okay guy.
* NiceGuy: He's fairly pleasant and grounded when compared to Waller.
[[/folder]]
!!1987 Series Opponents
[[folder:Brimstone]]
!!!'''Brimstone'''
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* PlayingWithFire: Brimstone can generate and project balls of fire from his eyes and hands.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Catseye]]
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Cats and especially leopards.
* ArtificialHuman: He's apparently a bioengineered meta-human that serves as enforcer for the Yakuza.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gets scratched by his own poisonous claws when fighting Bronze Tiger.
* MysteriousPast: His real name and origin remain a mystery.
* PoisonousPerson: His claws are coated with poison.
* TattooedCrook: His entire body is covered in tattoos that make him look more feline-like.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rustam]]
!!!'''Raza Kattuah'''
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Rustam is professional archaeologist and leader of The Jihad, Rustam wields a flammable weapon called as Psi-Scimitar, this weapon allows him to engage with Suicide Squad and especially with his main foe Rick Flag Jr.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Besides setting it on fire, the Psi-Sword can also cut open portals to other dimensions.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Used to be one before becoming part of the Jihad.
* FlamingSword: His signature Psi-Sword.
* NotQuiteDead: He and Flag were apparently killed during the destruction of Jotunheim, when in fact both ended up falling to Skartaris.
[[/folder]]
!!1987 Series Other Characters
!!2001 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Blackstarr]]
!!!'''Rachel Berkowitz'''
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: When compared to her original Pre-Crisis incarnation, she exposes a lot more skin.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Killer Frost]]
!!!'''Louise Lincoln'''
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->See [[Characters/FirestormDCComics here]] for more info.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Major Disaster]]
!!!'''Major Disaster''' (Paul Booker)
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->See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League characters]]
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Support Staff
[[folder:General Frank Rock]]
!!!'''Frank "Sergeant" Rock'''
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* DeadAllAlong: The 2001 series ends with Amanda Waller revealing that the real Sgt. Rock and Bulldozer both died in 1945. It's never explained who the impostors involved with this incarnation of the Suicide Squad really were.
* LatexPerfection: Following the Squad's dissolution, General Rock vanished leaving behind only a lifelike face mask. The implication is clearly that this individual was not the real Rock, and may in fact have been the Comicbook/UnknownSoldier, a World War 2 era character known for being a MasterOfDisguise.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He and his pal Bulldozer were caught in a time rift during the late 1950s, which slowed down their aging. This is complicated by the fact that the "Rock" seen in the series turns out to be an impostor, as well as Waller's above-mentioned revelation.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Havana]]
!!!'''Odalys Milagro Valdez'''
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The second-in-command of Sergeant Rock's Suicide Squad.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Sometimes seen in a tank-top and she's pretty toned and certainly not ugly.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, a cab driver is shown trying to guess exactly what Hispanic group she belongs to. Her somewhat ambiguous appearance is due to her ancestry, with her being the child of Amanda Waller and an unidentified Latino father.
* DeskJockey: When first introduced, she's working by herself in an isolated government records office.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: At some point she revealed to Amanda Waller that she's her biological daughter, who she gave into adoption due to Waller only being 16 years old and felt she wasn't ready to be a mother.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Modem]]
!!!'''Wesley Percival Sloan'''
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* TheCracker: Recruited as hacker and mission control for Rock's Suicide Squad.
* NerdGlasses: Wears rounded spectacles to go with the hacker look.
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Opponents
[[folder:Tolteca]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tolteca_01.jpg]]
A member of the reformed Onslaught.
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* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit exposes her midsection.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about her, not even if she's really Mexican.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female at Onslaught.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She just disappeared after Onslaught was defeated.
[[/folder]]
!!2001 Series Other Characters
!!2011 Series Field Agents
!!!'''Captain Boomerang'''
!!!'''Deadshot'''
[[folder:El Diablo]]
!!!'''Chato Santana'''
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* TheAtoner: While taking revenge on the gang that nearly killed him, Santana set the gang’s home ablaze and accidentally killed an innocent woman and children in the process. Afterward he surrendered to authorities, and regards his time in the Squad as an opportunity to make amends for his actions.
* BaldOfAwesome: Has a shaved head and he's pretty powerful.
* OddFriendship: In El Diablo's spinoff miniseries, he's assigned to work with [[ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}} Uncle Sam]], the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the United States of America, on a case at the Mexican border. The two men turn out to have shared interests (including justice) despite their very different viewpoints on how to achieve it, and become good friends.
* PlayingWithFire: El Diablo possesses pyrokinetic powers.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Because his powers constantly burns his shirt
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harley Quinn]]
!!!'''Harleen Quinzell'''
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In the New 52, Harley is captured by Black Canary and is forcibly inducted into the Suicide Squad by Amanda Waller. For major info see [[Characters/HarleyQuinn relative page]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:James Gordon Jr.]]
!!!'''James Gordon Jr.'''
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-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 Batman Rogues Gallery]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Shark]]
!!!'''[[Characters/SecretSix King Shark]]'''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Savant]]
!!!'''Brian Durlin'''
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Former operative of the Birds of Prey organization. He has a condition where he has a non-linear memory and sporadic amnesia.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Voltaic]]
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A member of the Suicide Squad with the power to generate and project electricity.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name was never revealed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yo-Yo]]
!!!'''Chang Jie-Ru'''
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Chang Jie-Ru is a convict and a member of the newly formed Suicide Squad with the ability to alter his body's mass and thickness.
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* EatenAlive: Gets eaten by King Shark. Luckily he survives and manages to get out a few issues later.
* NighInvulnerability: He survived getting eaten and digested by King Shark, and Waller theorizes that he's almost completely un-killable.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: Yo-Yo has the ability to increase his body mass to an extent where he is capable of resisting an explosion in his immediate vicinity, and other damage to a similar degree. In the opposite manner he is also able to decrease his mass, to bypass small gaps and other slight obstacles.
[[/folder]]
!!2011 Series Support Staff
!!2011 Series Opponents
[[folder:Red Orchid]]
!!!'''Min Jie-Ru'''
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The crime-boss sister of the Suicide Squad member Yo-Yo.
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* ColorCharacter: ''Red'' Orchid.
* MonochromaticEyes: Her eyes are completely red.
* PoisonousPerson: Red Orchid appears to have an altered, plant-based physiology that allows the emission of airborne toxins and paralytics.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her colors are red and black and she works for a terrorist organization.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Regulus]]
!!!'''Dean Higgins'''
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The brutal leader of Basilisk.
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* SecondaryColorNemesis: Dresses in green armor.
* TomTheDarkLord: Has a surprisingly normal name for the leader of a terrorist organization.
[[/folder]]
!!2011 Series Other Characters
!!Members of the Suicide Squad not appearing in the main series
[[folder:Sidearm]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sidearm.jpg]]
Sidearm appeared as part of the squad in ''[[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy vol. 4]]'', where King Shark killed him for trying to shoot Detective Makoa in the back.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Sidearm was with a special cybernetic vest equipped with modular appendages capable of increasing his strength to superhuman levels.
* ShoulderCannon: One of the Tecnovest's mountings is multi-barreled cannon mounted behind his right shoulder.
[[/folder]]
!!2016 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Will Evans]]
!!!'''Will Evans'''
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* BoomHeadshot: Lawton executes him this way.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Intended to kill and replace Lawton as the new Deadshot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Coldsnap]]
!!!'''Darryl'''
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* AnIcePerson: His most obvious ability.
* FireIceDuo: With his girlfriend Heatstroke
* MauveShirt: He and Heastroke surprisingly survive their Suicide Squad mission despite being C-List at best.
* OnlyOneName: His full name is never mentioned.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Heatstroke]]
!!!'''Joanne'''
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* FireIceDuo: With her boyfriend Coldsnap.
** She also briefly formed one of these with Killer Frost in the latter's solo issue of {{ComicBook/Justice League of America Rebirth}}.
* MauveShirt: She and Coldsnap surprisingly survive their Suicide Squad mission despite being C-List at best.
* OnlyOneName: Her full name is never mentioned.
* PlayingWithFire: Her most obvious ability.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Juan Soria]]
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A C-Lister who briefly served in the Suicide Squad.
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* AnArmAndALeg: He got his hands cut off and replaced with artificial ones made of nanites, which give him the power to unlock anything.
* ArcWords: "Juan Soria does not belong in this story."
* BlackComedy: His story arc is this.
* BrokenBird: He set out to be a superhero, but ended up being nothing more than a C-Lister superhuman.
* ButtMonkey: The Squad treats him like squat. [[spoiler: It was deliberately done to enforce his fatalism to bring down the mission's target.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: His defeatist attitude is toxic to the hope-eating alien he is sent up against.]]
* DriventoSuicide: He attempts this on his mission. [[spoiler: It ends up de-powering the mission's villain, an alien who feeds on positive emotions, to the point where he can kill it.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: One titanically unlucky character.
* ShoottheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: He is last seen sharing a cell with a ''very hungry Killer Croc''. And Waller didn't even do it to spite him, she actually felt it was a reward since he'd been stuck in an actual hole previously.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Lasted two issues.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Battleaxe]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: Even though her Squad teammates didn't particularly liked her, they do feel sorry that she died that way.
* AnAxeToGrind: Her weapon of choice and codename.
* CListFodder: Being a barely known foe of the Outsiders in a title that constantly does this, it's no surprise that she reappears in the Post-Flashpoint continuity to bite it.
* GirlishPigtails: While she's not particularly childish, but this is her style.
* YourHeadAsplode: King Cobra uses a device that triggers the bombs in the Squad member's necks. He tests it on Battleaxe, killing her and revealing the purpose of the implants to Kobra.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Only appears in a few issues and then is killed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodletter]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bloodletter_0.jpg]]
* CombatTentacles: He can use the tentacles on his head to lash and ensnare opponents.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name wasn't revealed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zoomax]]
!!!'''Brian Smith'''
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His skin is green.
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Looks like a green-skinned satyr or faun.
* HornedHumanoid: He has ram horns.
* YourHeadAsplode: El Diablo used his heat powers to ignite the bomb in Zoomax's neck and blew his head off, leaving only a headless smoking body.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Behemoth]]
!!!'''Taro Raiden'''
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* TheBrute: His main asset is his brute strength.
* MauveShirt: Despite being C-List at most, he did survive his confrontation with El Diablo.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zizz]]
[[quoteright:303:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zizz.jpg]]
* DropTheHammer: Just like Hawkgirl, she fights with a mace.
* {{Expy}}: Appears to be based on Justice Lords Hawkgirl from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' series.
* MysteriousPast: How did a Thanagarian ended up drafted into the Suicide Squad is unknown.
* WingedHumanoid: Being a Thanagarian, she has hawk-like wings that allow her to fly.
[[/folder]]
!!2016 Series Opponents
[[folder:Jake Dalesko]]
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[[folder:King Kobra]]
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[[folder:Lady Eve]]
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* FreakyFridayFlip: She and Katana end up exchanging minds during her respective run.
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!!Suicide Squad Black
[[folder:Azúcar]]
!!!'''Veronica Lopez'''
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* BareYourMidriff: Her shirt is torn to show her navel.
* FairCop: Used to be a GCPD cop before she obtained her powers and became a vigilante.
* FreakOut: She freaked out when she saw the Devil Chutriel that possesses El Diablo, ruining any chance of a relationship between them.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Her power allows her to see the death within people.
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[[folder:Juniper]]
!!!'''Zahra Abed'''
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Juniper is an agent of A.R.G.U.S., who serves as the organization's representative on the Suicide Squad Black team.
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* GreenThumb: Due to being a lesser known Avatar of The Green, Juniper is capable of both transforming existing flora and creating new examples.
* {{Flight}}: Juniper can fly with the plant-based wings that are constantly on her back.
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[[folder:Klarion]]
!!!'''ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy'''
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gentleman Ghost]]
!!!'''[[Characters/{{Hawkman}} Jim Craddock]]'''
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!!2019 Series Field Agents
[[folder:Magpie]]
!!!'''Margaret Pye'''
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-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart2 Batman Rogues 2]]
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[[folder:Cavalier]]
!!!'''Hudson Pyle'''
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No member of the Suicide Squad is impressed by him, and when he dies, they don't care. At least Harley doesn't.
* YourHeadAsplode: Get's his head punched off by Osita.
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[[folder:Zebra-Man]]
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Animal alias variety. And Harley can't help but point out that his powers have nothing to do with zebras.
* BarrierWarrior: He can create force-fields at will.
* EliteMook: Seems to have become Lok's bodyguard.
* MauveShirt: Besides Harley, he's the only member of the Suicide Squad that wasn't part of the Revolutionaries before they went rogue.
* PunchClockVillain: He doesn't seem to enjoy protecting someone as disgusting as Lok, but has little choice in the matter thanks to being part of the Squad.
* TheQuietOne: He's not particularly talkative.
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[[folder:The Shark]]
!!!'''Karshon'''
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-> See [[Characters/GLOtherVillains GL Other Villains]]
[[/folder]]
!!!The Revolutionaries
[[folder:In General]]
* MortonsFork: Either they complete 50 Suicide Squad missions and gain their freedom, or they spend the rest of their lives imprisoned. [[spoiler:They actually expected that, joining the Squad to stop whoever is behind Lok.]]
* MultinationalTeam: They come from many different nations. Osita is from Puerto Rico, Chaos Kitten from Hong Kong, Thylacine from Australia, Wink is American, Deadly Six from Somalia and so on.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Unsurprisingly, neither Lawton nor Harley like the idea of working with a group of people that killed two of their own, and the feeling is mutual.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Scale and T.N.Teen are both killed in their first appearance.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They go after corrupt politicians and military contractors.
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[[folder:Osita]]
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* AMotherToHerMen: She deeply cares for her team, being remorseful any time one of them ends up dying.
* ArtificialLimbs: Her left arm is mechanical. It can apparently be hijacked.
* BrawnHilda: She's a big, muscular not particularly attractive woman.
* BraidsOfAction: Has her hair arranged in a longish braid.
* ButchLesbian: She's at least more masculine than her late wife.
* TheLeader: Leader of the revolutionaries.
* TheLostLenore: Her wife Tonia.
* MeaningfulName: Her codename means "Little She-Bear" in Spanish.
* SuperStrength: Her mechanical arm is so strong it punched Cavalier's head like a watermelon.
* YouKilledMyFather: Wants to get to Captain Boomerang for killing her wife Tonia with one of his boomerangs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Aerie]]
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* AmbiguousGender: Non-binary and looks androgynous.
* BattleCouple: With Wink, complementing her teleporting with their flight.
* IronicFear: They're a winged person afraid of flying on an airplane.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The president of a nation the Squad was sent to assassinate is their mother, which the Squad minus Deadshot knew about.]]
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Apparently can communicate with birds.
* WingedHumanoid: Has blue-colored wings that allow them to fly.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wink]]
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* BattleCouple: With The Aerie, and their powers compliment each other.
* DelinquentHair: Has blonde hair dyed pink in a mohawk.
* {{Fangirl}}: The brief team-up with the Flash reveals she's a big fan of the Scarlet Speedster.
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Not really offing, but annoyed at Harley AreWeThereYet antics, she teleports her to the middle of the outback for several minutes. Apparently there were too many emus.
* StickyFingers: Mentioned she's kleptomaniac.
* {{Teleportation}}: Can teleport herself and others. Her limits haven't been explored.
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[[folder:Fin]]
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* BashBrothers: With his brother Scale.
* FishPeople: He and his brother are Atlanteans that look fish-like.
* ForcedToWatch: The Shark chewed his brother in half in front of him without being able to intervene.
* ItsPersonal: He vows to kill The Shark for killing his brother.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Kills The Shark by injuring him underwater and letting him be eaten by a swarm of sharks, not only to separate him from his telepathic link, but as revenge for his brother.]]
* PsychicLink: He and Scale shared one, and once he dies, Fin can't help but feel half-empty. He can also extend the mental link to others in order to have private conversations.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Forced to work alongside The Shark, who ate his brother.
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[[folder:Deadly Six]]
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* SevenDeadlySins: He can use the device on his chest to inflict his targets with one of the seven deadly sins, although he says he wouldn't want to weaponize {{Lust}}.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jog]]
!!!'''Samuel Song'''
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: The issue which shows his backstory and POV is the one were he dies.
* AlliterativeName: His name is revealed to be this [[spoiler:when he was at the morgue]].
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:After dying, he reawakens at a morgue, greeted by his father the ''Black Racer'', now he can use his speed without exhaustion, probably matching the Flash.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Him reviving, being Black Racer's son and running just in time to save The Revolutionaries from death screams of this.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Knowing he failed to take the detonator of his explosive, he remains calm and tells Osita to chase down those who control them before dying.
* {{Irony}}: He considers ironic that he, someone who hates running after being forced to flee so many times in his life, has speed-related powers.
* MellowFellow: Because of his powers, he's rather laid back. [[spoiler:He's not even that shocked to find out the Black Racer is his father.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He stands out for not having them, needing lots of rest and food to be able to use his powers, and only for short periods of times.
* SuperSpeed: He has this power, although unlike other speedsters, he can only use them in short bursts. He does have the HealingFactor of other speedsters, which allow him to mostly heal from an explosion that nearly charred his face in a matter of hours.
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[[folder:Chaos Kitten]]
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* BadassNormal: So far the only member of the Revolutionaries that hasn't shown any powers or special abilities.
* NiceHat: Wears a hat that says 'Nope'.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Anti-Hero for sure, but when she finds a dog at the clinic of a BackAlleyDoctor, she insists on taking it with them, and then she leaves it in Deadshot's care (who by that point had fulfilled his sentence and was free to go).
* ThoseTwoGuys: Usually seen with Thylacine.
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[[folder:Thylacine]]
!!!'''Corinna'''
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* CaptainEthnic: She's Australian, possibly aboriginal, with supernatural senses and whose codename is an extinct marsupial.
* LivingLieDetector: Her hearing is so good she can easily identify when someone is lying.
* ScaryBlackWoman: Unlike Deadly Six who is at least civil, Thylacine can be pretty intimidating. Best shown when she kills Magpie.
* SuperSenses: This is her apparent power.
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!!2019 Series Support Staff
[[folder:Lok]]
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* BadBoss: You think Waller is bad, Lok is worse, electrocuting Lawton with a cattle prod for no reason other than questioning his orders, electrocuting them again for not doing the things he ordered exactly like he wanted and so on.
* TheBully: He's even called a one-dimensional bully by Jog.
* BullyingADragon: He makes the team go all the way to Australia to capture Captain Boomerang...[[spoiler:only to order Lawton, who considers Boomerang an actual ''friend'' to shoot him in the head or Lok and his men will start detonating the Squad's bombs one by one. Lawton instead shoots Zebra-Man in the shoulder to take down Lok's force-field and then shoots Lok in the head.]]
* TheDragon: He's revealed to be this to [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord]]]] of all people.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Lok is missing his right ear and has burn scars on the right side of his face, as if he was caught in an explosion at some point.
* HateSink: He's just there to be an a-hole to the Suicide Squad, no backstory or sympathetic qualities for him.
* SmugSnake: The guy likes to act as if he can make the Suicide Squad function much better than Waller, but its clear very soon he's just a short tempered psychopath who is not as smart as he thinks. [[spoiler:He doesn't even know the Revolutionaries let themselves be drafted into the Suicide Squad to screw over the plans of whoever is calling the shots for him.]]
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!!2021 Field Agents
[[folder:Superboy]]
!!!'''Conner Kent'''
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-> See [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peacemaker]]
!!!'''Christopher Smith'''
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->See [[ComicBook/{{Peacemaker}} his page]] for more info.
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[[folder:Bolt]]
!!!'''Lawrence Bolatinsky'''
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* DyingToBeReplaced: Gets killed on his first mission with the Suicide Squad so the speedster Alinta can use the codename Bolt without confusion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film Freak]]
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-> See [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 Batman Rogues Gallery]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shrike]]
!!!'''Boone'''
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-> See Characters/{{Nightwing}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Talon]]
!!!'''William Cobb'''
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-> See Characters/{{Nightwing}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nocturna]]
!!!'''Natalia Mitternacht'''
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-> See Characters/{{Batwoman}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Culebra]]
!!!'''Alejandra Cortez'''
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: She doesn't seem to get how gross it is when she talks about shipping Nocturna and Superboy and mentions feeling hot when Superboy acts assertive against Peacemaker.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Culebra means snake in Spanish, but neither her outfit nor her powers involve snakes, so she fits the Animal Alias category.
* TheBigGuy: The main reason Waller recruited her was due to her strength.
* BrawnHilda: She's big, muscular and not conventionally attractive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Loves making witty comments and ribbing on her teammates and even Waller.
* MauveShirt: She survives her first appearance, while fellow newcomers Mindwarp and Exit die on their debut issue.
* MotorMouth: She never stops trying to lighten the mood of a situation, to the annoyance of Peacemaker.
* SuperStrength: She's strong enough to use a special needle made to penetrate a Kryptonian's skin.
* StoutStrength: She's huge, heavyset and very strong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Branch]]
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* GreenThumb: Mentions he can hear plants and he can also control them.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ultraman rips him in half and then burns what's left with his heat vision.
* PlantPerson: Some sort of experiment turned him into one.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's not really a criminal, he's just someone Waller drafted into the Squad and just wants to leave.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodsport]]
!!!'''Robert [=DuBois=]'''
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-> See Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL
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* RetCanon: He's given a new armor and helmet that matches his appearance on ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' movie.
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[[folder:Black Siren]]
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* AffablyEvil: For an evil version of Black Canary, Black Siren gets along surprisingly quick with the Suicide Squad, who forcefully drafted her and took her from her home universe.
* BareYourMidriff: Always seen with an open jacket that shows her stomach.
* BoundAndGagged: By gagging her she can't use her sonic scream.
* CanonImmigrant: Her design is based on the character from ''Crisis on Two Earths'', while her codename comes from the DCAU but that became much more popular thanks to the ''Arrowverse''.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Just like her main universe counterpart.
* SinisterShades: She's always seen with sunglasses.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, a cab driver is shown trying to guess exactly what Hispanic group she belongs to. Her somewhat ambiguous appearance is due to her MixedAncestry, ancestry, with her being the child of Amanda Waller and an unidentified Latino father.
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[[folder:Black Siren]]
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* AffablyEvil: For an evil version of Black Canary, Black Siren gets along surprisingly quick with the Suicide Squad, who forcefully drafted her and took her from her home universe.
* BareYourMidriff: Always seen with an open jacket that shows her stomach.
* BoundAndGagged: By gagging her she can't use her sonic scream.
* CanonImmigrant: Her design is based on the character from ''Crisis on Two Earths'', while her codename comes from the DCAU but that became much more popular thanks to the ''Arrowverse''.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Just like her main universe counterpart.
* SinisterShades: She's always seen with sunglasses.
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[[folder:Yasemin]]
!!!'''Yasemin Soze'''
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Yasemin Soze was a Turkish smuggler and assassin who was forced into the Suicide Squad.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her outfit shows a lot of cleavage.
* CameBackWrong: Shortly after her death she was reanimated as a Black Lantern.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Challenging [[CombatPragmatist Deadshot]] to a gunslinger duel was not going to pan out as she thought.
* DirtyCoward: On her first mission, she was overcome by the fear of possibly dying when the task became too much for her and she ran, which bought her great shame among the Suicide Squad.
* TheGunslinger: Styles herself as one, as she's at least competent, until her serious lapse in judgement.
* HonorBeforeReason: Against all logic or reason, she challenges Lawton to a duel, and he shoots her dead before she even starts counting.
* TooDumbToLive: Giving a blatant opening to an opponent known for their uncompromising nature in order to get a duel was a foolish idea and it got her killed.
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!!!'''Yasemin Soze'''
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Yasemin Soze was a Turkish smuggler and assassin who was forced into the Suicide Squad.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her outfit shows a lot of cleavage.
* CameBackWrong: Shortly after her death she was reanimated as a Black Lantern.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Challenging [[CombatPragmatist Deadshot]] to a gunslinger duel was not going to pan out as she thought.
* DirtyCoward: On her first mission, she was overcome by the fear of possibly dying when the task became too much for her and she ran, which bought her great shame among the Suicide Squad.
* TheGunslinger: Styles herself as one, as she's at least competent, until her serious lapse in judgement.
* HonorBeforeReason: Against all logic or reason, she challenges Lawton to a duel, and he shoots her dead before she even starts counting.
* TooDumbToLive: Giving a blatant opening to an opponent known for their uncompromising nature in order to get a duel was a foolish idea and it got her killed.
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[[folder:John Economos]]
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John Economos is the warden of Belle Reve Penitentiary. Though not directly responsible for its actions, he works with Amanda Waller and her Suicide Squad.
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* WardensAreEvil: Subverted. He might be the warden of the [[HellholePrison Belle Reve Penitentiary]], but he's a pretty okay guy.
* NiceGuy: He's fairly pleasant and grounded when compared to Waller.
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John Economos is the warden of Belle Reve Penitentiary. Though not directly responsible for its actions, he works with Amanda Waller and her Suicide Squad.
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* WardensAreEvil: Subverted. He might be the warden of the [[HellholePrison Belle Reve Penitentiary]], but he's a pretty okay guy.
* NiceGuy: He's fairly pleasant and grounded when compared to Waller.
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[[folder:Catseye]]
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Cats and especially leopards.
* ArtificialHuman: He's apparently a bioengineered meta-human that serves as enforcer for the Yakuza.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gets scratched by his own poisonous claws when fighting Bronze Tiger.
* MysteriousPast: His real name and origin remain a mystery.
* PoisonousPerson: His claws are coated with poison.
* TattooedCrook: His entire body is covered in tattoos that make him look more feline-like.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Cats and especially leopards.
* ArtificialHuman: He's apparently a bioengineered meta-human that serves as enforcer for the Yakuza.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gets scratched by his own poisonous claws when fighting Bronze Tiger.
* MysteriousPast: His real name and origin remain a mystery.
* PoisonousPerson: His claws are coated with poison.
* TattooedCrook: His entire body is covered in tattoos that make him look more feline-like.
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->See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Justice League villains]] for more info.
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* BloodKnight: Ben first got into martial arts in the hope that they would serve as an outlet for his deep-seated urge to inflict suffering on others. Said urge began back when he was ''10'' and used a kitchen knife to slaughter a burglar who'd attacked his parents.
--->"But what scared me was that I wasn't sorry for ''killing'' him. I was sorry it ''ended'' so soon."
--->"But what scared me was that I wasn't sorry for ''killing'' him. I was sorry it ''ended'' so soon."
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* LatexPerfection: Following the Squad's dissolution, General Rock vanished leaving behind only a lifelike face mask. The implication is clearly that this individual was not the real Rock, and may in fact have been the Unknown Soldier, a World War 2 era character known for being a MasterOfDisguise.
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* LatexPerfection: Following the Squad's dissolution, General Rock vanished leaving behind only a lifelike face mask. The implication is clearly that this individual was not the real Rock, and may in fact have been the Unknown Soldier, Comicbook/UnknownSoldier, a World War 2 era character known for being a MasterOfDisguise.
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* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDiffernce: She’s a white woman in her first appearance.
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* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDiffernce: EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She’s a white woman in her first appearance.
