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* OffWithHisHead: When [[spoiler:Copperhead's explosive detonates, it cleanly decapitates him, unlike Vertigo's total head destruction. It's probably due to having his head frozen in solid ice at the time.]]
** Harley also does it to a frozen security guard with her bat.

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** Harley also does it to After Killer Frost murders a frozen security guard by freezing him solid, Harley decapitates him by smashing his head with her bat.



** [[spoiler:At the beginning of the film, he gives Jewelee a MercyKill to spare her from experiencing [[YourHeadAsplode having her head blown off]].]]

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* MakeMeWannaShout: Silver Banshee's main offensive power is her sonic scream. She can fire controlled sonic booms that simply knock people to the ground, or powerful waves capable of toppling a truck.

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Big Bad Wannabe is a villain who is seen as a significant threat but can't back it up when it comes to the crunch (Zoom is a very significant threat and nearly succeeds in his goal). Aversions should not be listed unless they are notorious. A Shout Out is intentional, not fan-perceived similarities.


* BigBadEnsemble: Vandal Savage and Zoom. [[spoiler: Also Waller. All three have the exact same goal, all three have equally selfish reasons for wanting it, and all three are willing to kill as many people as it takes to get their hands on it.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Too bad for Vandal Savage, not only does Zoom outmatch him physically but the evil speedster also knew that he would hide the card inside his own body and took some countermeasures.]]
** [[spoiler: Zoom himself gets hit by this as he is outplayed by Killer Frost (who is in turn killed by Waller) then killed by both Batman AND Deadshot at the same time. Really, all of the main villains are reduced to wannabes in this, and the order in which they die is as much down to bad luck as anything else.]]

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* BigBadEnsemble: Vandal Savage Savage, Zoom and Zoom. [[spoiler: Also Waller. [[spoiler:Waller]]. All three have the exact same goal, all three have goal and equally selfish reasons for wanting it, and all three are willing to kill as many people as it takes to get their hands on it.it.
* BigBadWannabe:
** Vandal Savage. [[spoiler:Not only does Zoom outmatch him physically but the evil speedster also knew that he would hide the card inside his own body and took some countermeasures to both extract the card and cause Savage's death.
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* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Too bad for Vandal Savage, not only does Zoom outmatch him physically but the evil speedster also knew that he would hide the card inside his own body and took some countermeasures.]]
** [[spoiler: Zoom himself gets hit by this as he Subverted with [[spoiler:Zoom. He is outplayed by Killer Frost (who and apparently frozen to death. However, Frost is in turn killed by Waller) then killed by both Batman AND Deadshot at Waller and Zoom manages to break free of his icy prison, becoming the same time. Really, all of final and most dangerous threat to the main villains are reduced to wannabes in this, and the order in which Squad as they die is as much down try to bad luck as anything else.secure the mystic card.]]



* BoxedCrook: Wouldn't be the Suicide Squad without this trope.

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* ColdSniper: As always, Deadshot plays with this trope.

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* CoolCar:
** {{Subverted}} and {{played for laughs}}. When Waller is showing the Squad what she requisitioned for their mission, the camera switches to do a cool reveal... and it's just an old RV.
** Also averted with Professor Zoom's team. He, Blockbuster, and Silver Banshee just drive around in an old van, since none of them have the means to get a better or fancier vehicle that could still transport Blockbuster.
** And to keep up the trend, the team steals [[spoiler:a yellow missionary bus]] when the RV is no longer an option.

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CoolCar: {{Subverted}} and {{played for laughs}}. When Waller is showing the Squad what she requisitioned for their mission, the camera switches to do a cool reveal... and it's just an old RV.
** Also averted with Professor Zoom's team. He, Blockbuster, and Silver Banshee just drive around in an old van, since none of them have the means to get a better or fancier vehicle that could still transport Blockbuster.
** And to keep up the trend, the team steals [[spoiler:a yellow missionary bus]] when the RV is no longer an option.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Scandal Savage sells out her father after he leaves Knockout for dead.]]

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Scandal EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
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* ShoutOut: The van that the Squad use to mobilize resembles Max Tennyson's van from ''Franchise/Ben10''.


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* SpoilerCover: The cover features the main members of the Squad, except for Killer Frost. This gives away that [[spoiler:she leaves the team before the end of the mission, as she agrees to join Zoom once he removes the explosive in her neck]].
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* ClothingConcealedInjury: Reverse-Flash is one of the main villains of the movie and one of many trying to get their hands on the fabled [[KarmaHoudini Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Card]]. Then we find out why: [[spoiler: He takes off his mask and reveals a ''hole in his forehead''.]] This is the same Reverse-Flash from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'' who was [[spoiler: shot in the head by Batman, and he used his powers to slow his bodily processes split-seconds before dying, and he's desperate to find the card before his time runs out.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Per the Suicide Squad's traditions. [[spoiler:The entire opening scene team, except Deadshot, and their target Tobias Whale die in the intro. Professor Pyg is shot in the head. Vandal Savage is killed when Zoom rips the card out of his body. Silver Banshee and Blockbuster are killed by Frost freezing them from the inside out. Copperhead's explosive is detonated by Waller to take out Killer Frost, killing him as well. Bronze Tiger bleeds out from the many cuts Zoom inflicts upon his body. Zoom finally succumbs to his headshot wound inflicted by Flashpoint Batman, furthered along when Deadshot shoots him repeatedly in the torso. And though it doesn't happen onscreen, Waller presumably doesn't have much longer before she dies from her disease.]]

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* AnyoneCanDie: Per the Suicide Squad's traditions. [[spoiler:The entire opening scene team, except Deadshot, Deadshot and their target Tobias Whale pilot Black Manta, die in the intro. Professor Pyg is shot in the head. Vandal Savage is killed when Zoom rips the card out of his body. Silver Banshee and Blockbuster are killed by Frost freezing them from the inside out. Copperhead's explosive is detonated by Waller to take out Killer Frost, killing him as well. Bronze Tiger bleeds out from the many cuts Zoom inflicts upon his body. Zoom finally succumbs to his headshot wound inflicted by Flashpoint Batman, furthered along when Deadshot shoots him repeatedly in the torso. And though it doesn't happen onscreen, Waller presumably doesn't have much longer before she dies from her disease.]]
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''Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay'' is an American animated film produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. It is the thirty-first film in the ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies'' series and the second story based on the ComicBook/SuicideSquad antihero team. Although ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' previously featured the Suicide Squad, that film is set in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' video game universe and this is part of the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse. The slated voice cast includes Creator/ChristianSlater reprising his ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' role as ComicBook/{{Deadshot}}, Creator/TaraStrong reprising her role from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' and onward as Harley Quinn and Vanessa Williams as ComicBook/AmandaWaller. The film was released digitally on March 27, and physically on April 10.

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''Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay'' is an American animated film produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. It is the thirty-first film in the ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies'' series and the second story based on the ComicBook/SuicideSquad antihero team. Although ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'' previously featured the Suicide Squad, that film is set in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' video game universe and this is part of the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse. The slated voice cast includes Creator/ChristianSlater reprising his ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' role as ComicBook/{{Deadshot}}, Creator/TaraStrong reprising her role from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' and onward as Harley Quinn and Vanessa Williams as ComicBook/AmandaWaller. The film was released digitally on March 27, 2018, and physically on April 10.
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* FanDisservice: Steel Maxum is a source of fanservice for the ladies in-universe, but to the viewers he is deliberately portrayed in the most off-putting way possible. His design is oversexualized, he is shown enjoying having his face licked by Silver Banshee, and is introduced in a prolonged striptease scene that never seems to end.
* {{Fanservice}}: In one of the most gratuitous uses of this trope in any DC movie, a scene focuses on Knockout relaxing in a bathtub. She exposes her naked body as she approaches Scandal for a kiss, with only a very faint shadow covering her lady parts.
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*BadBoss: Usually, Waller uses Task Force X for matters of national security. [[spoiler:Here, she's using the team for her own personal stakes: she's dying, and is attempting to escape her inevitable place in Hell. She also refuses to give medical treatment to Bronze Tiger when he is seriously injured, nor has any problem sacrificing any members when it's convenient, such as when she detonates Copperhead's explosive to take Killer Frost out with him.]]

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*BadBoss: * BadBoss: Usually, Waller uses Task Force X for matters of national security. [[spoiler:Here, she's using the team for her own personal stakes: she's dying, and is attempting to escape her inevitable place in Hell. She also refuses to give medical treatment to Bronze Tiger when he is seriously injured, nor has any problem sacrificing any members when it's convenient, such as when she detonates Copperhead's explosive to take Killer Frost out with him.]]



* YouWouldntShootMe: Since the [[spoiler:Get Out of Hell Free card]] works precisely once, anyone holding it can invoke this to anyone who might wish to take it from them. [[spoiler:You can't just kill them, because that would burn the card out, so you have to be able to relieve them of it non-lethally.]]

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* YouWouldntShootMe: Since the [[spoiler:Get Out of Hell Free card]] works precisely once, anyone holding it can invoke this to anyone who might wish to take it from them. [[spoiler:You can't just kill them, because that would burn the card out, so you have to be able to relieve them of it non-lethally.]] Theoretically, if the person holding it is genuinely heroic and good, you would be able to kill them if they were holding the card -- but that is a moot point because such a person would have no use for it to begin with]].

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* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: [[spoiler:Zoom is channeling the speed force and delaying his death from when Batman shoots him in the head at the end of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', all this time searching for the " Get out of Hell free" card.]]

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[[spoiler:Zoom is channeling the speed force and delaying his death from when Batman shoots him in the head at the end of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', all this time searching for the " Get out of Hell free" card.]]
** Seemingly averted [[spoiler:for Knockout. Vandal was close enough to deliver a ''coup de grace'' shot, but the film cuts away when he does. When shown hospitalized later and in the comic, she doesn't have serious injury to her head or face.
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** [[spoiler:Vertigo arrogantly believing that double-crossing Waller could be simple.]]
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--> '''Waller:''' (disdainful grunt) "Of course she would live..."

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--> '''Waller:''' (disdainful grunt) "Of "Ugh. Of course she ''she'' would live..."
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* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Count Vertigo makes one when the Squad cuts through the roof of Tobias Whale's train and drops down into the carriage.
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* CarMeetsHouse: Harley comes to the Squad's rescue by driving the RV through the wall of the strip club. Unfortunately for her, getting out is not quite so easy.


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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Punch uses his psychic string to take control of Tobias Whale and force him to blow his own brains out.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatDown: After learning that Steel Maxum is a stripper, the Squad goes searching for him in a male strip club, much to Harley's obvious delight. She immediately volunteers to search backstage.

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* YouCanLeaveYourHatDown: YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: After learning that Steel Maxum is a stripper, the Squad goes searching for him in a male strip club, much to Harley's obvious delight. She immediately volunteers to search backstage.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatDown: After learning that Steel Maxum is a stripper, the Squad goes searching for him in a male strip club, much to Harley's obvious delight. She immediately volunteers to search backstage.
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* SpentShellsShower: When Whale's men open up on the Squad with fully automatic weapons on board the train, a rain of spent casings is shown hitting the floor around their feet.


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* TrainJob: The film opens with the Squad hitting Tobias Whale's private train while it is in motion in order to steal a flash drive full of sensitive information from him.
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* AppealToObscurity: When the Squad having their {{Explosive Leash}}es injected, the technician tells them not to move because they don't want the apparatus triggering to early.
-->'''Technician:''' That happened once to the Ten-Eyed Man.\\
'''Captain Boomerang:''' Who?\\
'''Technician:''' Exactly.
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* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: [[spoiler:Zoom is channeling the speed force and delaying his death from when Batman shoots him in the head at the end of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', all this time searching for the " Get out of Hell free" card.]]
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* Bare your midriff: Silver Banshee has her stomach and belly button exposed every time she appears.

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* Bare your midriff: Silver Banshee has her stomach and bell button exposed every time she appears.

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* BadBoss: Usually, Waller uses Task Force X for matters of national security. [[spoiler:Here, she's using the team for her own personal stakes: she's dying, and is attempting to escape her inevitable place in Hell. She also refuses to give medical treatment to Bronze Tiger when he is seriously injured, nor has any problem sacrificing any members when it's convenient, such as when she detonates Copperhead's explosive to take Killer Frost out with him.]]

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* BadBoss: Bare your midriff: Silver Banshee has her stomach and bell button exposed every time she appears.
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Usually, Waller uses Task Force X for matters of national security. [[spoiler:Here, she's using the team for her own personal stakes: she's dying, and is attempting to escape her inevitable place in Hell. She also refuses to give medical treatment to Bronze Tiger when he is seriously injured, nor has any problem sacrificing any members when it's convenient, such as when she detonates Copperhead's explosive to take Killer Frost out with him.]]
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* JokerImmunity: Harley Quinn, who survives the events of the film without so much as an injury. This gets lampshaded.
--> '''Waller:''' (disdainful grunt) "Of course she would live..."
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* RoleReprisal: As mentioned above, there's Creator/ChristianSlater reprises his ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' role as Deadshot and once again, there's Creator/TaraStrong as Harley Quinn. Additionally, Creator/CThomasHowell reprises his ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'' role as Professor Zoom. [[spoiler:In Howell's case, this is because he is ''the exact same Thawne'', clinging to life after being shot in that movie.]]
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** Copperhead [[spoiler:pins down Killer Frost, who starts freezing him in response. Expecting him to simply spit acid on her face? Nope, he just stands there as the ice slowly covers his body. When it's clear he is about to die, Waller decides to detonate the explosive in his head, killing both Copperhead and Killer Frost.]]

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** Copperhead [[spoiler:pins down Killer Frost, who Frost and starts to strangle her, who begins freezing him in response. Expecting him to simply spit acid on her face? Nope, he just stands there as the instead repeatedly tries and fails to take a bite out of his opponent, getting more of his body covered in ice slowly covers his body. with each attempt. When it's clear he is about to die, Waller decides to detonate the explosive in his head, killing both Copperhead and Killer Frost.them both.]]

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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Killer Frost's decision to betray the Squad and take the card leads to her death. Even if she had succeeded in getting away, Waller would have gone after her and captured her anyway.]]

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[[spoiler:Killer Frost's decision to betray the Squad and take the card leads to her death. Even if she had succeeded in getting away, Waller would have gone after her and captured her anyway.]]
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* TooPowerfulToLive: The only members of the Suicide Squad to survive the events of the movie are [[spoiler:Deadshot, Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang, who are all [[BadassNormal badass normals]]]]. [[spoiler:Zoom and his lackeys are all killed off as well]].
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* StoryBreakerPower: Two of them.
** Zoom's SuperSpeed, as usual. Deadshot points out he could have massacred the entire Squad in a fraction of a second if he wasn't in a weakened state.
** Killer Frost's [[AnIcePerson cryokinesis]] allows her to [[spoiler:create frozen spikes inside her opponents' bodies, stabbing them from the inside]]. She is implied to conceal the true extent of her powers for most of the movie for the sake of surprising her enemies and cheap shotting them.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: '''Killer. Frost.''' While she is already one of the strongest members of the Squad for most of the movie, it's not until the last few minutes that her powers are revealed to be so extreme they allow her to [[spoiler:freeze people from the inside out]].
--> '''Killer Frost''': "You were right, speedy. Nobody knows what I'm capable of."
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* DoubleEntendre: "Of all the junk, the thing that Nabu cherished the absolute most was actually the smallest" (cut to a close-up of Dr. Fate's crotch).
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Amanda Waller is depicted as younger and slimmer than in most depictions. [[spoiler:There's even a justification for her size: she has a terminal disease, probably cancer. Deadshot indicates briefly that she's been grumpier since she lost weight, implying that it's all due to the disease.]]

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Amanda Waller is depicted as younger and slimmer than in most depictions. [[spoiler:There's even a justification for her change in size: she has a terminal disease, probably cancer. Deadshot indicates briefly that she's been grumpier since she lost weight, implying that it's all due to the disease.]]
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