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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#1: Aug 19th 2016 at 6:19:28 AM

Got to thinking: the Suicide Squad is kind of ingenious. What if there were a version of the squad, but with characters from anime and manga. People always want a team of anime heroes to form a justice league. What about a team of villains forced to work together?

  • The Suicide Squad comes from DC comics (as if you didn't know that). It's typically led by Amanda Waller, who forcibly conscripts imprisoned super-villains into working for her.
  • As the SS film "Assault on Arkham" demonstrates, Waller coerces the fiends to work together by planting microbombs on them.
    • Not every member is always working under threat. Characters like Rick Flag even volunteer, some like Deadshot have other motivations.

Knowing this, I figure these would be the rules for an anime version:

  • Roster must include villainous characters. However, morally fluid/anti-hero characters like Deadshot or Harley Quinn also count.
  • 4-6 people.
  • Characters must be from a modern time period (not the date they were created but in-universe) or a modern setting. Loophole being that if a character has a reasonable method of being present in the modern say (ex - Inuyasha) they can count.
  • Obviously, if they can't be subdued and forced to work with others, they can't be on the team.

For additional consideration:

  • In addition to picking members for the squad, who would be the Amanda Waller/coordinator be?
  • Who would be team leader?
  • What kind of threat (from any anime/manga source) would unite this team/keep them from killing each other?

edited 19th Aug '16 6:29:25 AM by Soble

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fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#2: Aug 19th 2016 at 8:27:25 AM

Saw your post in the Medaka box thread, and I realized: Kumagawa would be an excellent coordinator for this squad. He's all the threat you need to keep the members in check, he's devious and cunning, and most importantly it will be hilarious.

A good slew of other good points too: it's easy to tie into the main Medaka Box story, since he essentially disappears off the face of the Earth. Not too farfetched that he'd go underground and try to make the world a better place in a way only his demented mind can. Maybe not as the Amanda Waller, but as the vice chief so to speak (which ties in nicely to his role as VP in the student council!).

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mythbuster Since: Jan, 2010
#4: Aug 29th 2016 at 4:40:19 PM

Deidara, because he doesn't much care whose stuff he blows up; he just wants to blow stuff up.

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