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** Kite Man was originally going to included, but was replaced with Polka Dot Man because James Gunn felt he was too much of a go-to ButtMonkey, but left it open for future sequels.
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[[WMG: Waller is saving Deadshot for another mission.]]
His absence is, of course, actually because Will Smith wasn't available, but it makes sense in-universe as well. Deadshot is quite possibly the world's most skilled marksman, so he's too useful an asset to have been cannon fodder on Team A. However, coming from a non-military background, his skills might not save him in a prolonged, all-out-warzone firefight, meaning he's not quite as useful to Team B as Bloodsport or Peacemaker. He would probably fair better in a more discreet, assassination-oriented mission, so it would stand to reason that Waller is keeping him on the sidelines until he's needed for a mission where his expertise can be better utilized.
His absence is, of course, actually because Will Smith wasn't available, but it makes sense in-universe as well. Deadshot is quite possibly the world's most skilled marksman, so he's too useful an asset to have been cannon fodder on Team A. However, coming from a non-military background, his skills might not save him in a prolonged, all-out-warzone firefight, meaning he's not quite as useful to Team B as Bloodsport or Peacemaker. He would probably fair better in a more discreet, assassination-oriented mission, so it would stand to reason that Waller is keeping him on the sidelines until he's needed for a mission where his expertise can be better utilized.
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[[WMG: Savant was read into Project Starfish]]
* Waller always has a card up her sleeve. While the first team may have seemed filled with joke characters, it also had experience members like Harley, Boomerang, and Flagg on it. Mongal could have identified Starro, being an alien herself, TDK would have been useful during the scene where Peacemaker's arm couldn't reach the steering wheel of the truck he was crashing. Theoretically, if Blackguard hadn't sold them out they could have been as effective on the mission as team 2. But Waller being Waller, she had two teams and decided to relegate the first to being a distraction when their landing didn't work out. Still, she didn't have to waste resources by blowing up Savant, a skilled professional was fully onboard for the mission and likely would have been for future missions if they don't start with an ambush. So why kill him when he fled? Because if team one succeeded, he was likely the person who filled Peacemaker's role of destroying the information about America's involvement in Project Starfish. She couldn't let that information get back, and if he showed he was willing to ignore orders for his personal gain she couldn't trust him to live like she could Peacemaker.
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** Perhaps in line with this movie's critique of US militarism and foreign policy, Onslaught could be revealed to have been formerly sponsored by the US to cause trouble in Qurac or other enemy nations before going rogue (paralleling the argument that US intervention in Afghanistan and its support of the mujahideen contributed to the rise of Al-Qaeda).
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* Note that the other Task Force was horrified to learn that Flagg wasn't being held prisoner by the Corto Maltese government; the resistance rescued him, and he decided to ally with them to overturn the coup. Amanda set them up to succeed by telling them to terminate everyone with impunity. She didn't tell them the truth because given Bloodsport has EvilVirtues and wouldn't kill innocents for the fun of it, everyone except King Shark would have hesitated.
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* Look at his expression when Peacemaker turns on him; he's not surprised. It took him a few minutes to put two and two together after the Thinker had revealed that American astronauts had delivered Starro to Corto Maltese to turn the alien into a thinking weapon. Flagg knows that he's too principled for the Wall's lack of ethics, and especially when the other Task Force revealed that Waller ordered them to terminate his captors, mistakenly thinking that the government had captured him. Why does he decide to fight for the USB instead of evacuating his crew? Because Peacemaker is thorough, and Flagg is not going to go down gently.
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* It seems unlikely that Ratcatcher 1 was able to create an advanced device capable of controlling rats despite being a penniless drug addict (it's not the most implausible thing a mad scientist in a comic has created under similar circumstances, but it's certainly not them most plausible). However, this could be explained if the Ratcatchers were both metahumans with the power of controlling rats, who only ''thought'' that their abilities came from technology, much like how the New 52 rewrote some of the Flash's Rogues to be metahumans. This would also justify why Waller selects Cleo to be on the team despite the fact that she's not well suited to the mission (she has no combat experience, spends a lot of her time sleeping, and is more moral than Waller would like) instead of giving the device she uses to a trusted soldier: the device wouldn't work for other people, because she's the reason it can control rats.
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[[WMG: Potential members for a sequel]]
If a sequel for the film is greenlighted, and a new roster for Task Force X is reestablished:
* Bronze Tiger
* Plastique
* Clock King
[[WMG: The supervillain team Onslaught will be introduced in a sequel]]
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[[WMG: Ratcatcher's rat-controlling technology is a MagicFeather.]]
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* Alternatively, his hallucinations are because he //didn't// kill her: perhaps he wanted to kill her, but she died from unrelated reasons (maybe an accident at STAR Labs, or even just natural causes), leading him to have no outlet for his resentment against her except by killing people he hallucinates as being her. That could be why he sees her "everywhere": he wasn't even able to receive the catharsis of killing her in real life, and thus remains haunted by his memory of her.
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* Alternatively, his hallucinations are because he //didn't// kill her: perhaps he wanted to kill her, but she died from unrelated reasons (maybe an accident at STAR Labs, or even just natural causes), leading him to have no outlet for his resentment against her except by killing people he hallucinates as being her. That could be why he sees her "everywhere": he wasn't even able to receive the catharsis of killing her in real life, and thus remains haunted by his memory of her.
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[[WMG: Waller didn't send the team to rescue Flagg; she sent them to dismantle the resistance]]
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[[WMG: Flagg figured out that he was set up to die.]]
* Look at his expression when Peacemaker turns on him; he's not surprised. It took him a few minutes to put two and two together after the Thinker had revealed that American astronauts had delivered Starro to Corto Maltese to turn the alien into a thinking weapon. Flagg knows that he's too principled for the Wall's lack of ethics, and especially when the other Task Force revealed that Waller ordered them to terminate his captors, mistakenly thinking that the government had captured him. Why does he decide to fight for the USB instead of evacuating his crew? Because Peacemaker is thorough, and Flagg is not going to go down gently.
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* This is further supported by the fact that we never saw the first team receive the intel that the second team got, meaning that they were expendable fodder in any case, only receiving information on a need-to-know basis. Furthermore, the deaths of Rick Flagg and Harley Quinn would only work in favor of Waller's plans - Harley is a nutcase and liability, potentially the biggest on the team, and Flagg's sense of honor and decency could prevent the Peacemaker from fully completing his secondary assignment.
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[[WMG: Amanda Waller either knew about or was in on Blackguard selling out his team.]]
It's shown Waller is willing to do absolutely anything for the mission to be completed, so sending one team as fodder to distract the soldiers so the other team can safely make landfall is definitely something she would do.
It's shown Waller is willing to do absolutely anything for the mission to be completed, so sending one team as fodder to distract the soldiers so the other team can safely make landfall is definitely something she would do.
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[[WMG: Polka-Dot Man killed his mother, either accidentally or on purpose.]]
He doesn't give a straight answer to the question of where his mother currently is, saying only that he sees her everywhere. The hallucinations are a pretty clear indicator of his trauma and the resentment he holds towards his mother, but they could also indicate guilt on his part for something he did to her. It's not out of the question that he eventually lashed out at his mother, instinctively or in response to her abuse, and disintegrated her with the dots.
He doesn't give a straight answer to the question of where his mother currently is, saying only that he sees her everywhere. The hallucinations are a pretty clear indicator of his trauma and the resentment he holds towards his mother, but they could also indicate guilt on his part for something he did to her. It's not out of the question that he eventually lashed out at his mother, instinctively or in response to her abuse, and disintegrated her with the dots.
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Considering how all the others seemed like, well, regular boomerangs, and this was the one he was clutching when he died it wouldn't seem to weird to assume that that particular boomerang had some kind of special force - probably creating a shield around him to protect him from the incoming helicopter. Would also explain how he survived all the previous missions.
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Considering how all the others seemed like, well, regular boomerangs, and this was the one he was clutching when he died it wouldn't seem to too weird to assume that that particular boomerang had some kind of special force - probably creating a shield around him to protect him from the incoming helicopter. Would also explain how he survived all the previous missions.
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[[WMG: Captain Boomerangs glowing Boomerang had some kind of special power]]
Considering how all the others seemed like, well, regular boomerangs, and this was the one he was clutching when he died it wouldn't seem to weird to assume that that particular boomerang had some kind of special force - probably creating a shield around him to protect him from the incoming helicopter. Would also explain how he survived all the previous missions.
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[[WMG: Captain Boomerangs glowing Boomerang had some kind of special power]]
Considering how all the others seemed like, well, regular boomerangs, and this was the one he was clutching when he died it wouldn't seem to weird to assume that that particular boomerang had some kind of special force - probably creating a shield around him to protect him from the incoming helicopter. Would also explain how he survived all the previous missions.
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* [[spoiler:Sort of? I mean Thinker's role in the film is that he's experimenting on Starro, who goes on a rampage when the Squad accidentally break him free, Thinker is definately behind the Starro threat, but they are in no way alligned, and Thinker is his first victim when he escapes.]]
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[[WMG: The orignal Ratcatcher will appear in a prequel]]
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** [[spoiler:Confirmed. He survives, and blackmails Waller into freeing him and the remaining members]].
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[[spoiler: Flag is not the sole survivor, but he is the only one not captured.]]
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[[WMG: "Arm-Fall-Off Boy" will be a mocking nickname for TDK]]
Supposedly, TDK is based on the (in)famous Legion of Super-Heroes joke character Arm-Fall-Off Boy, but renamed to the slightly-less-obviously-silly "The Detachable Kid". However, at some point in the movie, someone will make fun of him by calling him "Arm-Fall-Off Boy" and the nickname will stick.
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[[WMG:King Shark is intelligent but seems Stupid because...]]
English is not his first language. As the descendent of an ancient Shark God and a Hawaiian Woman (presumably as that is his origin in the comics), his first language would be Hawaiian.
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** Counterargument: She promises to keep Bloodsport safe in the trailer, in the new rain trailer we see her summon an army of rats and seems to have a sad smile on her face looking at an approaching threat. That pretty much screams {{HeroicSacrifice}} while keeping her word.
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** Counterargument: In a recent [[https://ew.com/movies/margot-robbie-harley-quinn-the-suicide-squad/ interview]] Creator/MargotRobbie stated that she's unsure when she'll be playing Harley again, due to how physically exhausting the role has been for her. This ambivalent reaction on her part could indicate that Harley might possibly die in the film. Nothing could further prove Director/JamesGunn assertion that "nobody's safe" than by killing off the most popular and ostensibly lead character in the film.
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** Counterargument: In a recent [[https://ew.com/movies/margot-robbie-harley-quinn-the-suicide-squad/ interview]] Creator/MargotRobbie stated that she's unsure when she'll be playing Harley again, due to how physically exhausting the role has been for her. This ambivalent reaction on her part could indicate that Harley might possibly die in the film. Nothing could further prove Director/JamesGunn's assertion that "nobody's safe" than by killing off the most popular and ostensibly lead character in the film.
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