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A team of expendable and deniable criminals and damaged heroes in The DCU who are sent on secret missions for the US government expected to have a very high mortality rate.The first Suicide Squad printed was a try-out feature in The Brave and the Bold, starting in #25 (August-September, 1959) and appearing on and off up to #39 (December, 1961-January, 1962). They were a quartet of non-powered adventurers who fought monstrous menaces, as was common in the 1950s. Despite the name, none of them actually died in the original stories. In fact, in concept they were closer to Jack Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown.There was also a World War II team called the Suicide Squad, or possibly two of them. One was a feature in Star-Spangled War Stories from 1963-1966 fighting "The War That Time Forgot"; it was a top secret Ranger outfit trained to handle missions ordinary volunteers would not survive. The other was a Dirty Dozen-style collection of military riff-raff and criminals assembled to handle Suicide Missions. It was retconned into existence to provide a through line from the World War Two version, through the Fifties version to the new Suicide Squad debuting in the 1980s.The modern version debuted in Legends #3 (January, 1987). In that Crisis Crossover event, Darkseid had manipulated events such that superheroes were unable to operate in public. So when the nuclear menace Brimstone appeared, the job of stopping it was handed over to Task Force X, a secret government agency dedicated to handling paranormal menaces that had languished since the beginning of the modern superhero boom. The agency deployed their newly created "Suicide Squad" team, which succeeded in destroying Brimstone, at the cost of the first Blockbuster's life.The team was then spun off into their own series, Suicide Squad, starting in May, 1987 and was written by John Ostrander. The premise was that of a covert ops team that would handle situations too shady or bloody for the government to call regular superheroes in on. Most of the operatives were costumed criminals who served in exchange for reduced jail terms, shepherded by a few dark or damaged heroes. For easy access to their personnel, the team operated out of Belle Reve prison in Louisiana.The head of the Suicide Squad was a character almost unique in super-hero comics, Amanda Waller. She was a middle-aged, full-figured black woman who'd clawed her way out of poverty to become a well-respected political operative. Ms. Waller was also a rare female Magnificent Bastard who would stop at nothing to act in the interests of the United States as she saw them. (Later appearances in other series have tended to leave off the "magnificent" part.)The field leader for the first part of the series was Rick Flag, Jr. A Badass Normal special forces officer, he was (supposedly) the Sole Survivor of the previous Suicide Squad incarnation. Ultimately got killed off and replaced by his second in command Bronze Tiger, a martial artist who'd become The Atoner after serving the League of Assassins while Brainwashed and Crazy.
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Psychological Torment Zone: The Diabloverde jungle. Maybe. There's also the possibility it is a malevolent Genius Loci, or that there's some sort of chemical in the air causing the hallucinations. The only two unaffected are Deadshot (who's wearing his mask) and Poison Ivy (who's immune to toxins anyway).
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Pregnant Hostage: In the second issue of the 2011 series, it is revealed that the MacGuffin the Squad is sent into the stadium to retrieve is a pregnant woman. Although, this being Suicide Squad, all is not as it seems.
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Villain's Dying Grace: Inverted. After the Apokolips debacle, Darkseid inflicted a particularly brutal fate to the Squad: returning them home so they could stew in their memory of the pointless deaths and how it could all have been avoided. This resulted in many cases of Survivor Guilt, up to and including Amanda, who has since become near-suicidally reckless. Given what said God of Evil subjected them to...
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Anyone Can Die: Whether by Waller's hand, or during a mission, anyone in the group is at risk of dying. Lampshaded in one early arc where everyone comes home alive, prompting even the callous and selfish Captain Boomerang to smile at the thought. Then the squad finds out they were on a decoy milk run, and the real job ended a failure with ten dead and one survivor, the bulk of the damage being infighting. Another run took the team to fight Darkseid. Any other comic would have had perhaps a token death. The Squad loses several long-time members, including supporting cast.
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Darker and Edgier: Right around the time the 90s Audience-Alienating Era was starting up, with overstylized costumes and ridiculous storylines, the book took this approach and made it work. The team became mercenaries for hire, saboteurs and spies, and lost the costumes entirely for upwards of 20 issues. The body count got higher, the crazy people got crazier, and none of it felt gratuitous.
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Evil Versus Evil
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Evil Versus Evil: The fundamental principle of the series; various super criminals being sent on potentially suicidal missions to stomp on other criminals. The very existence of the Suicide Squad is based on the cynical idea that no matter which side ends up dead, some good has come out of it.
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Gone Horribly Wrong: That tends to be the modus operandi for the Squad's missions more often than not, with two of the biggest disasters being the Firebird fiasco and the Dragon's Horde arc. They do have a genuine success every once in a while to balance things out.
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Poor Communication Kills: Had Amanda talked a bit with Flag after he witnessed Tolliver's moronic extortion scheme, the Squad would have remained a secret and she would have never lost control of it. Also, when she stumbled onto Kobra's Janus Directive plot, rather than tell others, she kept it quiet which resulted in the deaths of 38 Checkmate Knights, the destruction of Checkmate headquarters and almost the entire Force of July. Lampshaded when the President demotes Waller, snapping all that could have been avoided by her coming forward and he's tired of her "lone wolf" moves.
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Playing with Fire: El Diablo. It's easy to guess how he got that name.
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Who Shot JFK?: It’s heavily implied in the 1988 annual that Control, the head of Argent (the domestic branch of the original Task Force X), discovered that Kennedy’s murder was arranged by the Cuban government in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt on Fidel Castro. Realizing that such a revelation would likely lead to World War III, he deliberately hid this information for the good of mankind.
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Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb:
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Iconic Sequel Character: Almost every major character from the third incarnation of Suicide Squad, such as Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and the Bronze Tiger, as well as the team's boss Amanda Waller, did not appear in the lineup until its Retool in 1987, over two and half decades since the team first appeared in 1959. Harley Quinn didn't join until the 2011 New 52 series (and thanks to the film is now the group's best-known character). Colonel Rick Flag, Jr. was the only major character involved from the very beginning.
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Black Comedy: Common in most iterations of the team, but taken up to eleven in the Keith Giffen run, which is often considered to be the villainous counterpart to his work on Justice League International.
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Aborted Arc: At one point, it’s brought up that Black Orchid has been sneaking into the team’s command center after hours in order to view their computer databanks. Why exactly she’s doing this is never made clear, and even though Waller talks about wanting to get to the bottom of whatever Orchid is up to, nothing ever really comes of it. The fact that the character was Killed Off for Real in Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid mini-series likely contributed to this plot point being dropped, while in the pages of Suicide Squad, Warden Economos simply says that she's vanished and nobody knows where she went.
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Boomerang Comeback: Captain Boomerang does it to Jaculi of the Jihad in the second issue. Surprisingly badass.
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Cardboard Prison: The official cover story during the early part of the series was that any operative seen in public had somehow escaped from Belle Reve, and coincidentally happened to deal with the emergency situation. Waller has no issues with being put on trial and going to jail, because she knows the second the government needs her, she'll be out - and she never spends much time waiting.
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Heel–Faith Turn: Shrike, though her religious beliefs were... unorthodox. Resulted in Redemption Equals Death.
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Mythology Gag: The vigilante William Hell is a dark reflection of Batman — a wealthy heir carrying on a vendetta against the segment of society he holds responsible for his parents' death, with a variety of gadgets including a Grappling-Hook Pistol, and a loyal manservant Secret-Keeper.
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Alliterative Title: Suicide Squad.
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Spiritual Successor: Several series have, since the book's cancellation, been heavily inspired by Suicide Squad. Thunderbolts (especially post-Civil War) and Secret Six exist mainly because of the popularity of Suicide Squad.
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Bilingual Bonus: El Diablo speaks Spanish when stressed, surprised, or while praying.
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Ax-Crazy
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Later in the series, Bronze Tiger is forced to recruit squad members from Arkham Asylum, including the finally-diagnosed Ax-Crazy Deadshot. Deadshot refuses to fall to the bait, knowing he'd survive any mission he'd go on, and attempting to provoke Tiger into killing him. Tiger responds by threatening to break Deadshot's hands in such a way he'd never hold a gun again, and instantly Deadshot falls into compliance.
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Psycho for Hire
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Played straight with Waller's niece, Flo, a filing clerk who has a thing for reformed Psycho for Hire Bronze Tiger. Tiger's hooked up with supermodel superhero Vixen. To impress him, Flo decides to go on to field duty for just one mission, which leads us directly to an entirely different trope.
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C-List Fodder: Pretty much all the characters who weren't created specifically for the series, though some of them got promoted to B- or A-list during or subsequent to their use in Suicide Squad.
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Scary Black Man
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Scary Black Man: Bronze Tiger is a brutal Blood Knight who also happens to have beaten Batman fair and square in a fistfight and is considered one of the top five martial artists in the DCU.
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Time Stands Still: The team uses one of Chronos's devices as part of their takedown of William Hell, to freeze time briefly and set Hell up for a public defeat. It's noted that the device is unstable and can't be used again.
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Mugged for Disguise: During an early mission into Russia, the members of the Squad end up having to steal clothes and passports from some American tourists in order to escape the country. This then causes a problem that is often overlooked in other uses of this trope, as the Squad have no way of reliably detaining the replaced Americans (aside from killing them, which nobody but Deadshot and The Penguin will even consider) long enough to reach the border. Nemesis winds up having to stay behind disguised as a Soviet so that he can pretend to arrest the real tourists, which subsequently leads to his own capture. In the aftermath of the crossover between the Suicide Squad and the Justice League International, Nemesis escapes from Russia by stealing the clothing and identity of a Russian black market dealer. The logical issue mentioned above is solved when the Bound and Gagged dealer is blackmailed into going along with his own capture and subsequently keeping quiet about what happened even after being freed. When the Thuggee cultist Ravan joins the Squad, he practically brags that he didn't get any blood on the uniforms he had just acquired for the team, leaving Bronze Tiger to remember just what kind of person Ravan was.
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Nemesis resigns from the team after getting fed up with Waller's amoral actions. He returns for the 50th issue, though.
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William Telling
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William Telling: Deadshot does it to Captain Boomerang in an early issue as part of a plan to discredit a vigilante called William Hell. Boomerang was not pleased.
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Breaking Speech: Kobra uses this on the Hayoth's AI member Dybbuk to convince him he has to prove to everyone he isn't a puppet made by some programmers, and gives him a couple of ideas... In a subtler example, Ravan utterly deconstructs Bronze Tiger's Then Let Me Be Evil facade during the same arc.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Unsurprisingly, Bats is not a fan of the squad, and infiltrates their headquarters seeking evidence needed to shut them down. He finds it, despite everyone looking in the wrong place. And then Amanda Waller stares him down, revealing she's got his fingerprints, since he didn't wear gloves in his disguise.
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Trojan Ambulance
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Trojan Ambulance: In #4, the Squad pull a Staged Shooting on Vigilante Man William Hell (actually a disguised Deadshot) as part of a scheme to discredit the real Hell who is a white supremacist agitator. Members of the Squad disguised as paramedic load the fake Hell into an ambulance and drive off as a riot starts, vanishing in the confusion.
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Trojan Prisoner
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Trojan Prisoner: Batman does this in order to infiltrate Belle Reve.
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In a subtler example, Ravan utterly deconstructs Bronze Tiger's Then Let Me Be Evil facade during the same arc.
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Pie in the Face: A Running Gag subplot with a mystery pie-thrower.
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Power Loss Depression: Enchantress non-fatally shoots Nightshade in an ill-thought attempt at restoring her magic. When an irate Waller asked Dr. LaGrieve why she'd done so, given her initial motive for joining the Squad was to have her powers brought under her control or better yet removed, the psychiatrist made a point to mark the difference between voluntarily relinquishing power and having it forcefully taken away.
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Surprise Inspection Ruse: In Suicide Squad Annual #1, Bronze Tiger and Vixen bluff their way into a private college that is actually a front for the Kobra Cult by pretending to be bureaucrats from the Department of Education investigating noncompliance with government minority quota rules.
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Staged Shooting: Used to fake the death of radical agitator William Hell.
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Mission Briefing: A common scene in the series.
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Rhetorical Request Blunder: A shellshocked Rick Flag discovered a Congressman was trying to blackmail the Squad into ensuring his re-election with the risk of exposure, so he set out to kill him. Amanda Waller gave Deadshot (who was not exactly stable at this point) the order to stop Flag from killing the Congressman by any means necessary. Deadshot did so — by killing the Congressman himself.
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Awesome Aussie: Captain Boomerang is one of the most thorough Deconstructions of this trope imaginable.
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Get into Jail Free: In #6 of the reboot, Harley Quinn shoots up a police car outside of a police station in order to get herself arrested and taken inside the station where the Joker's skinned face is being kept.
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Stop Being Stereotypical: After helping to save Australia from an alien invasion, Captain Boomerang expects to be lauded by his fellow Aussies as a hero. Instead, he is confronted by a mob who are so sick of him giving Australia a bad name by embodying so many many elements of The Bogan on the international stage that they toss him off a ferry into Sydney Harbour.
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Wham Shot: In Issue #5 of the 2019 run, Osita demands a goon put her in touch with who Lok reports to. He puts her on a video call...with Ted Kord.
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Cutlery Escape Aid: In Most Wanted, Deadshot snaps off pieces of his utensils to construct a shiv that he uses to take out out a guard and escape.
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The Atoner: El Diablo, ever since he assaulted the base of a gang that refused to pay him homage — and accidentally killed the bangers' innocent girlfriends and children he didn't know were inside. He didn't resist when the police came, and ever since has devoted himself to God for forgiveness.
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Fans of later entries may be surprised at how differently the squad is handled in Ostrander's run: Instead of being kept in check by an Explosive Leash, members had wrist-mounted explosives that are removed if its members prove to not be liabilities. Due to the bombs only working when in close range of the detonator, their handlers would also occasionally just take them off so its members could operate more effectively. Belle Reve is only treated as temporary accommodation for the criminal members, with Captain Boomerang being given the privilege of his own home and assumed identity that he only loses when he tries to run a hustle on the side by impersonating the late Mirror Master (the first one). Most of all, while Waller expresses that the team is expendable, she doesn't consider them to be cannon fodder and even offers Rick condolences when his entire team is wiped out on a mission, saying they would never have been sent if she'd known it'd end that badly. While later runs would have the team consist primarily or entirely of criminals who were drafted either willingly or unwillingly, Ostrander's squad has a sizable contingent of non-criminal volunteers, at times taking up a full half of the team's roster.
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Shock Collar: The more villainous members of DC's Suicide Squad were fitted with these on missions. If they got too out of line, the collar could also be commanded to blow off their heads.
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Can't Default to Murder: Conner Kent is forced onto the Squad by Amanda Waller. Though he is forced to go along with and help this team of violent psychopaths and bloodthirsty vigilantes, he steadfastly holds to his mentor's ideals by refusing to let his teammates kill anyone. This makes him the most despised member of the team, with Nocturna stating how much she hates him and Peacemaker punching him out while he's under the effects of kryptonite.
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Sassy Black Woman: Amanda Waller. She also counts as Badass Normal.
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Danger Room Cold Open: The Jihad, a team of superpowered terrorists, get one in the issue that introduces them. The issue opens with an attack on an American airport demonstrating each team-member's abilities, causing massive casualties including the President. It's then revealed that the airport is a mock-up and the attack was a training exercise/client demo — but because they're bad guys, the people recruited to populate the fake airport are really dead.
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From Dress to Dressing: During "The Janus Directive" crossover, a disguised Manhunter (who is Dressing as the Enemy) is almost garrotted by Ravan. Having cut his hand blocking the garrotte, he pulls off Captain Boomerang's scarf and uses it to bandage his hand. When Boomerang complains and claims the scarf is genuine silk, Manhunter responds "It's genuine rayon and I'll buy you another one!"
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Adaptational Attractiveness: In the New 52 reboot, the heavyset Amanda Waller becomes much slimmer, younger, and more conventionally attractive. Later issues◊ have toned down her attractiveness, making her more of a traditional Black Boss Lady than a supermodel, but still slimmer and younger than the original.
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Pop the Tires: In 2016's Suicide Squad Annual #1, Shado demonstrates her Improbable Aiming Skills by using arrows to firstly pop the tyre on Deadshot's motorcycle and then the two front tyres on a car, which causes it to flip spectacularly.
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Hate Plague: This is one of the powers of Badb, one of the later members of the terrorist-for-hire group The Jihad. She possesses powerful telepathy, and is able to mentally dominate others by manipulating their emotions and fears. She can read the minds of others to project fearful or hateful imagery into their minds, and force them to harm themselves or others. And she revels in the chaos she causes. In The Return, the Black Vault causes everyone in Belle Reve to become homicidally and crazy... except for Harley Quinn. As she's already homicidal and crazy to begin with, it has the opposite effect on her and causes her to become calm and rational.
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Rubber Man: Yo-Yo discovers his stretching powers after he survives being eaten by King Shark.
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Lodged-Blade Recycling: When they wound up on Apokolips, Count Vertigo is stabbed by Kanto; some time later, he turns out to have been playing possum and stabs Kanto in the back with his own dagger.
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Red Herring Mole: The writer introduced Manhunter into the book specifically to tease him as this.
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Eyepatch of Power: Privateer. Notably, it's an affectation.
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Time Skip: The first series has a year-long gap in the middle, during which the Squad is disbanded and Amanda is in prison.
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Only I Can Make It Go
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Only I Can Make It Go: Briscoe and Sheba
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Sacrificial Lamb: In the first issue of every run, somebody goes. Mindboggler, almost the entire Injustice League, and Savant, though in the last case he wasn't actually killed and was a member of the team again later on.
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Badass Normal: Rick Flag. Amanda Waller, to the point where she's nicknamed "the Wall", and even her nominal allies and friends can't predict her. Waller gets points for being one of the few people who fans celebrate as being able to stare down BATMAN, and who once tried to shoot Darkseid. Ben Turner aka The Bronze Tiger one of the few men to take down Batman in one on one combat.
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Very clearly going on in Rick Flag's Heroic Sacrifice.
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Implacable Man: Stalnoivolk. When someone's tough enough to take on Batman and walk away like nothing, you know you shouldn't mess with him.
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Fake Memories: Raise the Flag establishes that Rick Flag Jr. is actually a random soldier brainwashed into that identity. The program attempting to turn the deceased Mindboggler into a new Ifrit tried to give her these. However, her abrasive personality made it difficult to stick. It's revealed in the 2021 Annual that "Superboy" is actually Match, and Waller implanted copies of the real deal's memories to get the superhero she wanted.
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Too Kinky to Torture: Harley Quinn. Hell, everyone in the new Squad. You gotta wallow in this trope, just to enter the Squad.
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Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell: Towards the end of the original run, Zastrow and other former Soviet officials are portrayed as hardliners unwilling to let go during the transition away from Communism.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: In-universe example. Someone literally names her Duchess because they see her as John Wayne's Distaff Counterpart.
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Fake Town: President Marlo of Qurac had a perfect replica of an American airport in the middle of the Quraci desert, with the intent of demonstrating the effectiveness of the Jihad, his sponsored terrorist unit. He even had it fully staffed to imitate a Senator visiting - during which the Jihad brutally attacked and killed everyone.
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Godzilla Threshold: Several arcs involve more mainstream superheroes overcoming their disgust for the Squad's modus operandi and members to work with them when something critical is at stake. Waller hits this a few times, too, drafting characters like the General even though she's not sure they can be controlled because the mission requires it.
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Politically Incorrect Villain: The white supremacist W. James Heller, who masquerades as a vigilante who somehow only ever seems to catch suspects who are people of color. That said, Captain Boomerang's not much better, the two characters even hitting it off a little.
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Don't Create a Martyr: The "Flight of the Firebird" arc revolves around a young Soviet author named Zoya Trigorin, who has been imprisoned for writing a book called The Firebird that is critical of the regime. Mikhail Gorbachev is seen arguing that Firebird was mediocre on its own merits, and that by arresting Zoya, the Soviet authorities have only succeeded in making her work significantly more popular than it would have been had they simply left her alone. At one point, the idea of releasing her to the West and allowing her to fall into obscurity due to her own lack of literary talent is raised, which Gorbachev finds vastly preferable to making her a martyr by murdering her. She ultimately winds up being killed anyway, which grants her the martyrdom Gorbachev so feared.
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Invoked by one of the Limelight Twins after Savant and Deadshot exchange harsh words: "Ugh, you two should kiss already."
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Boxed Crook: The criminals were offered shorter sentences in exchange for their services—the "stick" was an explosive bracelet that would go off if the wearer got too far out of line. The series itself shows this is a bad idea, and the original offer was sentence commuted outright. Captain Boomerang screws it for everyone.
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Bolivian Army Ending: Stalnoivolk is last seen in mid-battle against considerable odds, still trying to get home.
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Animal-Themed Superbeing: Vixen is the All Animal Abilities type. Raven and Bronze Tiger, Black Spider, and the Penguin are the Animal Alias types. King Shark is the Animal Abilities type.
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Laughably Evil: Ravan was surprisingly funny at times.
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Freak Out: Harley has one in #4 when she finds out the Joker is dead. The next several issues are about her going rogue and the Squad's attempts to recover her.
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Outlaw Couple: Punch and Jewelee
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Adaptational Slimness: Amanda Waller, famously nicknamed "The Wall" because of her weight and strong force of personality, is redesigned with a much skinnier appearance than she ever had.
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BFG: Duchess is fond of these.
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Hopeless Suitor: Flo Crawley was this for Bronze Tiger, who had hooked up with Vixen. It didn't end well for her.
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Badass Boast: Deadshot, after William Telling Captain Boomerang, says it was an easy shot. So easy, in fact, he did so with his eyes closed. Flipping back the pages reveals he really did just that. Later in the series, Bronze Tiger is forced to recruit squad members from Arkham Asylum, including the finally-diagnosed Ax-Crazy Deadshot. Deadshot refuses to fall to the bait, knowing he'd survive any mission he'd go on, and attempting to provoke Tiger into killing him. Tiger responds by threatening to break Deadshot's hands in such a way he'd never hold a gun again, and instantly Deadshot falls into compliance. Captain Cold gets a quotable one during his brief stint on the team:
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Black-and-Gray Morality
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Black ops supervillains on an Explosive Leash. Sunshine and rainbows this comic ain't.
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Blinded by the Light: The second Rustam does this to Deadshot in the Raise the Flag mini, igniting his flaming sword right in his face when he had thermal vision on. Harley Quinn also does it to Deadshot in #7 of the reboot series. She kills the lights, waits for him to turn on his lowlight scope and then ignites a magnesium flare.
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Villain Protagonist
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Mind Rape: After Plastique betrays the mission, the Squad does this to her so she wouldn't remember them. Thinker later reveals this to her when she's drafted into the Squad a second time.
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A somewhat less idealistic use of the trope.
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Confronting Your Imposter: Captain Boomerang once posed as Australian arms dealer Billy Tidewater. His ruse was uncovered because the group he tries to deal with is already holding the real Billy Tidewater hostage. Boomerang made a valiant attempt to claim that he and Tidewater were cousins, and their fathers thought it would be funny to give their sons the same name.
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Two-Timer Date: Boomerang once tried to take part on a mission as both himself and Mirror Master. Turns out the whole thing was orchestrated by Waller to let Boomerang know that she was on to his little masquerade and humiliate him in the process.
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Team Title
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Token Good Teammate: Bronze Tiger.
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Laser-Guided Karma: When "rescuing" Count Vertigo, Poison Ivy made a point to keep him enthralled with her toxins, keeping him addled and enslaved. When she was forced to release him so he could use his powers to disarm a salvo of missiles, she beat feet and tried not to approach him again. However, in the "Wrath of the Gods" crossover, she was captured and left to die in a pit. She was reduced to pathetically begging for her life and promising her life to anyone who could release her. The only person to hear her was Vertigo, who laughed his ass off and left her there.
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Military Brat: Rick Flag, Jr. Or not, as it turns out.
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The Bus Came Back: The Red Wave Beast, a Silver Age monster defeated by the first Suicide Squad in the fifties, is back to bedevil the new team. The 2021 series brings back Match, a decade and multiple reboots after his last appearance.
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Leeroy Jenkins: Deadshot, sometimes.
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Villainous Breakdown: When Deadshot kills Senator Cray, his mind crumbles. He's left with the belief he finally succeeded in his first killing - the death of his father, as commanded by his mother - with Flag as a stand-in for his brother, who he'd accidentally killed instead of his old man. His Ax-Crazy persona kicks in then. Things get worse.
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There Are No Therapists: Averted. Both professional psychiatric doctors and a chaplain were important and useful characters. That said, Waller has a tendency to ignore and override their recommendations.
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As You Know
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As You Know: At the beginning of the "Firebird" story arc, the Penguin starts presenting his mission plan by explaining what the mission is, which the reader doesn't know yet but the characters he's talking to do. Lampshaded; Waller tells him to hurry up and tell her something she doesn't know already.
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Evil Counterpart: Zastrow, astonishingly, manages to be this to Amanda Waller, since he's a Communist hardliner willing and able to go to lengths even she normally balks at. The Red Shadows and the Jihad act as these for the Squad as a whole, with Rustam of the Jihad being Rick Flag,. Jr.'s rival in particular.
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Suicide Mission: Generally walks to the edge of this. The team goes on dangerous missions, and their commanders aren't too worried about their well-being—but team members can hope to survive long enough to retire.
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Hey, You!
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Hey, You!: Played with when Father Richard Craemer is appointed team chaplain:He later acknowledges he's begun responding to "hey you".
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Affirmative-Action Legacy: Both Jaculi and the Djinn of Jihad are replaced by women — a new Jaculi and Ifrit (who was formerly Mindboggler).
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Chessmaster
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Chessmaster: Amanda Waller. The General, which is why Waller finds it so satisfying to keep him under her thumb.
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Did You Actually Believe...?
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Did You Actually Believe...?: The final story arc of the original series has Waller discovering a sect of the CIA has offered some unstable cons a deal of freedom in exchange for controlling a small island nation. She complains about to Sarge Steel who openly asks if Waller never once considered the possibility that the government would use her idea of the Squad, only without her in charge. "Are you actually naive enough to believe someone wouldn't copy your plan?"
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: The series was well known for this with its few surviving members. Deadshot was originally a rarely used and barely remembered gimmick villain who fought Batman; this series fleshed him out and gave him a lot more exposure. Captain Boomerang was originally a rarely used and barely remembered gimmick villain for the Flash; after being a major character in this series he was established as the most famous and visible member of the Rogues. Barbara Gordon, by the time of her appearance in the original ongoing, had been shot and paralyzed by the Joker and was at risk of being forgotten. Instead, Ostrander and company reinvented her as Oracle, the foremost computer expert in the superhero community, which she stayed as until the New 52 reboot.
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Mood Dissonance
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In an exceptional example of Mood Dissonance, Dr. Light takes time out from an apocalyptic battle to quote The Firesign Theatre's Rocky Roccoco (from "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger").
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Sole Survivor: Rick Flag, more than once; it takes an increasing emotional toll on him. This was typically the case with any of the nobler members of the team. If anyone with heroic tendencies stayed on, it was usually because they knew things would get worse for the others if they left. The first issue of the 2001 series ended with Major Disaster the only known survivor of the mission — though it was later revealed that Cluemaster survived as well.
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Working with the Ex
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Working with the Ex: Rick Flag and Karin Grace, the only two survivors of the previous Suicide Squad, are both hired by Waller for the new enterprise, Flag to lead the squad and Grace as part of the team that runs the squad's home base. Flag and Grace were an item before their relationship died messily in the ruins of their disastrous final mission, and now they really do not get along.
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Slipping a Mickey: More than once, the Squad gets around Boomerang's lack of interest in getting killed by drugging his drink and dragging him off; by the time he wakes up, fighting is his only option.
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Nuke 'em
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Nuke 'em: How Rick Flag destroys Jotunheim.
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Tree Buchet
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Treebuchet: During the Time Skip, Waller stranded Captain Boomerang on a Deserted Island. When she turns up to collect him a year later, Boomerang claims he doesn't need her, as he has spent the time constructing a giant boomerang that will carry him to the mainland; launched from a tree-turned-catapult. Waller calmly cuts the rope and launches the boomerang, which crashes into the ocean a few hundred metres offshore. Boomerang then agrees to join her reformed Squad.
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Punk in the Trunk
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Punk in the Trunk: One of the advance team's masters of disguise takes the place of a villain's chauffeur to learn his plans, leaving the real chauffeur tied up in the trunk.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Amanda. What's her reaction upon hearing Boomerang wants to quit?
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Face–Heel Turn
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Face–Heel Turn: The 2019 run has Ted Kord apparently having undergone one, revealing them to be Lok's equally sadistic boss. Subverted: it was actually Black Mask impersonating Kord.
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Black Helicopter
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Black Helicopter: Sheba
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Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder
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Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder: The entire premise. The team is filled with the most dangerous criminals in the world. If they succeed in a dangerous mission, they are either freed from prison or taken years off their sentence, among other things. If anyone defies an order or slips up, they can be executed for being a flight risk. If they happen to die during a mission... well, that's just one less villain to worry about. Captain Boomerang is especially adept at this, killing and maiming several people over the course of the series precisely because nobody expects him to be anything more than a joke.
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Take That!
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Take That!: "The Writer", the Grant Morrison's Author Avatar from Animal Man was killed in an issue by John Ostrander.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Boomerang took a program that offered him immense benefits and tried to spin it so he could use it to keep committing crimes at his leisure under the persona of Mirror Master. Then he got caught... as Mirror Master, and got drafted into the Squad as well. It didn't end well for him. Yo-yo in the New 52 reboot. He thought King Shark was too still and got too close while in his vulnerable thin form, effectively giving King Shark a free meal of thinly-sliced deli meat. That said, Yo-Yo survived and managed to crawl out of King Shark's mouth several issues later. Also from the original series, Derek Tolliver. First, he sent the Squad on the disastrous Flight of the Firebird arc, assuming the titular dissenter would want to escape, never thinking he might be dealing with, oh, let's say, someone who would die for her beliefs. He was strongly chewed out by Waller, and to salvage his career, leaked the Squad's existence to the moronic senator Joe Cray to force Waller's hand. It ended very badly for both Tolliver and Cray.
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Tonight, Someone Dies
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Tonight, Someone Dies: The first cover of the series—after that, team deaths just weren't a bankable event anymore.
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Love Triangle
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Love Triangle: Flo has a crush on Bronze Tiger, who mostly ignores her (thinking of her as a kid) in favor of Vixen.
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Tyrant Takes the Helm
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: The 2019 run begins with Waller being fired with no explanation and replaced with a sadistic bully named Lok. Osita later claims that Task Force X had secretly been hijacked behind the scenes from the U.S. Government into serving other interests.
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Costume Copycat
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Costume Copycat: Used by the squad against the vigilante-with-an-agenda William Hell; Deadshot impersonated him at a public appearance and persuaded the crowd that the real Hell was an impostor trying to undermine the values that Hell claimed to stand for.
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Mission Control
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Mission Control: Oracle begins her role as this late in the book, most notably in the Dragon's Hoard storyline.
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Circle of Shame
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Circle of Shame: Captain Boomerang experiences a hallucinatory one when Mindboggler unleashes his greatest fear in an early issue. He hallucinates that he surrounded by the superheroes who have defeated him the past; all laughing at him.
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Unwanted Rescue
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Unwanted Rescue: In the "Flight of the Firebird" arc, the Squad is sent into Russia to free a dissident writer from The Gulag. After breaking her out, they discover that she did not want to be rescued. So long as she was in prison, she was a symbol to other dissidents. If she escaped, she became just another defector. Ultimately she was killed during the escape attempt, thus becoming a martyr.
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Aesop Amnesia
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Aesop Amnesia: The final issue of the original series has Waller, having seen countless deaths and disasters, shutting down the Squad, stating "it's been flawed from day one, I've just been too stubborn to admit it." Three years later, the Squad is revived, Waller back in charge and continuing to insist it's needed.
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Artifact Domination
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Artifact Domination: The Thinker helmet. It has no will of its own, but it's suggested it amplifies the negative aspects of the personality of the wearer. Combined with the massive intellect boost, most people are likely to get very easily hooked. Amanda herself, not the most shining example of morality, wore it briefly to locate the second Thinker and began developing the addiction, and proposed using it as a piece of her personal arsenal. However, she was broken out of it by her old friend, former Belle Reve psychiatrist Simon LaGrieve, who asked whether he was speaking to Amanda... or to the helmet. She was so pissed at being manipulated by a non-sentient thing, she shatters the helmet, screaming SHE'S in charge. She very briefly regrets doing so.
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Gunship Rescue
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Gunship Rescue: Happens more than once with Sheba.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: In the "Firebird" arc, an innocent bystander whose ID papers get stolen as part of the squad's escape plan is named Dudley DuReight. In an exceptional example of Mood Dissonance, Dr. Light takes time out from an apocalyptic battle to quote The Firesign Theatre's Rocky Roccoco (from "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger"). During the Time Skip, Poison Ivy escapes to the South American nation of Puerto Azul and seduces The Generalissimo in charge. After it's revealed that she was only using her position as "first lady" to make herself rich at the expense of the people, she quips "It worked on Broadway!" The Red Shadow's vampire member is named Schreck, a nod to Max Schreck, the actor who played the title character in Nosferatu. When Ramban is asked by Waller to provide a distraction, he starts chanting "By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth!" He even states he stole the line from a comic. In the 2021 run, Ambush Bug's narration at one point refers to Peacemaker as "star of the silver screen and soon to be streaming to a smartphone on your Earth"
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Brainwash Residue
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Brainwash Residue: The reason why Bronze Tiger always declines to lead the Squad; he's afraid the brainwashing he received at the hands of the League of Assassins could kick in any time. Rick Flag consults him on how to avert this in Raise the Flag.
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Retirony
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Retirony: In Issue 6 of the New 52 version, Savant says that he is on his last Suicide Squad mission. In Issue 7, he accidentally steps on a land mine. In Issue 8, he survives.
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Iron Lady
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Iron Lady: Amanda, in spades. However, her own issues often led her to devolve into Evil Matriarch territory, most notably her possessiveness. In fact, she acknowledges◊ this. She hired a doctor because she knows he would be extremely protective of his supervillain patients, despite her having no issues violating their medical rights.
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Legacy Character
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Legacy Character: Adam Cray, the Atom for a while; Captain Boomerang Jr. The 2011 series features an "El Diablo", but it's unlikely he's ever even heard of Lazarus Lane or Rafael Sandoval.
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Taking You with Me
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Taking You with Me: El Diablo drags Rose Tattoo back to the hell dimension she came from, knowing he has to go along, but trusting God to eventually get him out.
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Beware My Stinger Tail
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Beware My Stinger Tail: Manticore
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Bronze Tiger versus Stompa in the issue where the Female Furies attack Belle Reve.
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Character’s Most Hated Song
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Character’s Most Hated Song: In King Shark's 2021 series, the titular character goes into a feral rage whenever he hears the children's song "Little Shark". His friend Defacer assumes it's because the song is "racist" to sharks, but a flashback later on reveals it's actually because it was the song that was playing on the radio when Amanda Waller took him away from his family.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Several people do this over the course of the series, mostly to Amanda Waller. Waller eventually reveals that Flagg and Bronze Tiger are on the Squad for just this reason.
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Western Terrorists
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Western Terrorists/.Terrorists Without a Cause: Averted in the 1980s series with the super-terrorist group called the Jihad, whose members' politics were made abundantly clear. Interestingly, only a few of them are actually Islamic terrorists.
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Magic Bus
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Magic Bus: Sheba, Briscoe's Black Helicopter, may be this. Nemesis thinks it's all done with technological wizardry, but Briscoe keeps slyly hinting that there is something out of the ordinary about Sheba.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: In the first issue, Flo is white, with a slightly different hairstyle. She's retconned into being Waller's niece thereafter.
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Magic Is Feminine
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Magic Is Feminine: The Ostrander run featured four female mystic characters; in addition to the aforementioned Nightshade, Enchantress, and Vixen, there was Black Orchid, a Plant Person whose powers were tied to the Green, the mystical force connecting all plant life on Earth and the aforementioned Vixen.
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted with Deadshot; his therapist Marnie Herrs falls for him (and he's clearly not indifferent to her), but when she realizes that he's not interested in fixing his damage, and that Waller won't support her in trying, she sensibly walks out. Played straight with Waller's niece, Flo, a filing clerk who has a thing for reformed Psycho for Hire Bronze Tiger. Tiger's hooked up with supermodel superhero Vixen. To impress him, Flo decides to go on to field duty for just one mission, which leads us directly to an entirely different trope.
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Lightning Bruiser: Bronze Tiger.
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Ship Tease
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Ship Tease: Harley Quinn with Deadshot (New 52) and Rick Flagg (Rebirth).
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Tattooed Crook
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Tattooed Crook: El Diablo. They have something to do with his powers; they disappear if he really exerts himself, necessitating him to get inked again as soon as possible.
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Psychic Nosebleed
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Psychic Nosebleed: Amanda gets one when wearing the Thinker helmet.
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Doctor Light, who had suffered Badass Decay on a level rarely seen, going from taking on the assembled Justice League, to infamously being a repeat Butt-Monkey for the Teen Titans, to getting defeated by unpowered child commandos due to phobias about kids overpowering him... until he overcame his phobia by killing a kid hero on a mission, laughing about his newfound 'success'.
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Bad Habits
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Bad Habits: In one story, the Penguin is disguised as a Russian Orthodox priest while undercover on a mission in Russia.
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Amanada Waller does it to a courier working for a terrorist group to find out what he was transporting in Suicide Squad #0.
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Amanda Waller. She started in the slums and through pure determination, got herself into high place in US security - all to help her children get a better life.
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The Cape: A recurring problem for the Squad. Not only were most of their members supposed to be in prison, but the missions were often shady at best—not something you want a law-abiding hero to know about.
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Ethnic Scrappy: Captain Boomerang is this in-universe. Nobody, even his fellow Australians, seems to like him.
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Assassin Outclassin': In the New 52's iteration, this is how Deadshot was sent to Belle Reve Prison. He was supposed to assassinate a senator in Gotham, but was thwarted by Batman, causing Deadshot his first career miss.
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The Mole: Karin Grace and Duchess/Lashina.
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Plot Tailored to the Party: Early issues borrowed from the Mission: Impossible template and had operations plans that used each member's skills for one step of the larger plan.
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Trial Run Crime: #1 of the original series opens with Terrorists Without a Cause the Jihad staging an attack on an airport to assassinate the US President, and causing massive civilian casualties in the process. It turns out the airport is a mockup and all of the murdered people actors, with this being a test by the Quraci to see whether the team was ready to be sent into the field.
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: In an early issue, a team member who tried to sell out to the other side is processed to remove all memories of the Suicide Squad before being returned to prison. The process is depicted as being prolonged and agonizing, and several members of the Squad object to Waller that it's clearly inhumane; Waller, on consideration, admits they're right and agrees not to use it again.
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The Plan: Kobra's plan to trigger WWIII. He gives some pointers to Dybbuk, as seen in Breaking Speech above: one, do something his makers really wouldn't want him to do. Two, see if said action can't wind up doing some good. Three: there's this old, ugly building which is preventing the most glorious temple for virtually every major Western religion ever from being built. Why not level it and see to the construction of the temple? How was that old mess called, anyway? The Dome of the Rock?
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: A few of the loonier or more inhuman members edge into this territory, such as Shrike, Stalnoivolk, and (in some incarnations) King Shark.
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Exact Words: Deadshot had a problem with this, as seen above. Since these events, Deadshot has continued to abide by his very exact word, a trait that has continued into Secret Six. Everybody who works with him is rather irritated to observe their own orders thrown back at them with such flippancy. The most obvious case is when the Squad is told to stop Flag from killing corrupt Senator Cray by any means. Deadshot's solution? Put a bullet into Cray's head. Lampshaded in his talk with Waller later. Later on, Deadshot is hired by Waller to shoot William Heller (who had hired Deadshot to kill her. Waller simply outbid him). Batman shows up but can't stop Deadshot from shooting Heller. However, he does note that Heller was shot non fatally...
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Jerkass: Captain Boomerang is one of the best examples.
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Resignations Not Accepted: Especially Captain Boomerang, who just never seemed to be able to get off the Squad for any considerable length of time. While he was dead, the Squad recruited his son, Captain Boomerang, Jr. When the original returned it was only a matter of time before Amanda Waller got her hands on him again.
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Not a Morning Person: Captain Boomerang
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Played with. Apparently, Control, a one-time nemesis of the Squad, arranged a second Nedelin Catastrophe in retaliation for JFK's death.
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Goldfish Poop Gang: The Red Shadows. Especially Bolshoi.
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Kill and Replace
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During an early mission into Russia, the members of the Squad end up having to steal clothes and passports from some American tourists in order to escape the country. This then causes a problem that is often overlooked in other uses of this trope, as the Squad have no way of reliably detaining the replaced Americans (aside from killing them, which nobody but Deadshot and The Penguin will even consider) long enough to reach the border. Nemesis winds up having to stay behind disguised as a Soviet so that he can pretend to arrest the real tourists, which subsequently leads to his own capture.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area: The first issue opens with a terrorist attack by the Jihad at an American airpot intended to assassinate the US president. The mission is a total success. It is then revealed that the attack was a training run conducted at a mockup of the airport constructed in Qurac, with actors hired to play the roles of the victims. However, nobody told them that the assassins would be using very, very real bullets and blades...
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Martial Pacifist: El Diablo is extremely loath to use his powers unless he believes doing so is in some way vanquishing evil. This includes refusing to defend himself from ravenous zombies until he has absolutely no choice — because his attackers are innocents.
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Refused Reunion
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Refused Reunion: In Raise The Flag, it is revealed that Rick Flag Jr. is actually Anthony Miller, a soldier who was thought to be killed in action but was in reality brainwashed by Wade Eiling into believing he was the son of Rick Flag Sr. Even after getting his memories back and being offered an opportunity to see his family again, Flag refuses, seeing himself as Rick Flag and declaring Anthony Miller "dead".
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One-Steve Limit: An aversion fueled the Squad's last adventure in the early nineties. A reckless team of killers and vandals took the Suicide Squad name as the enforcers of a Banana Republic tyrant, and Amanda was so personally offended she decided to embark on their last mission to take said morons out permanently.
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Redemption Equals Death
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Redemption Equals Death: Pretty much the point of the series. Played for laughs with Dr. Light, who announced he intended to turn his back on villainy to be a true and noble hero. He's shot from a dozen angles in the next panel.
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Bad "Bad Acting"
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Bad "Bad Acting": Boomerang trying to lure out William Hell.
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It's revealed in the 2021 Annual that "Superboy" is actually Match, and Waller implanted copies of the real deal's memories to get the superhero she wanted.
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Mercy Kill: Amanada Waller does this to Duren after he is mutated by Regulus's bomb in Suicide Squad #0. It was this act that made her determined that any future special ops team she commanded would be composed of disposable operatives.
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Blackmail Backfire: Holding Cray at gunpoint, Flag points out just how stupid an idea it was to try and blackmail a team of super-villains.
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Darkest Hour: When Amanda gets revealed as still controlling the Squad, when she was supposed to be out of the game, the public goes feral. It got From Bad to Worse when Deadshot killed a senator and evidence appeared that revealed the Squad was imperiled by the senator. Amanda is logically assumed to have ordered the hit (she didn't - Deadshot just got creative with his orders) and with most of the Squad's supporting cast dead, Amanda was ready to quit it - except the LOA crime syndicate was still running about, and she had her Boxed Crook privileges for one last night...
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Shoo Out the Clowns: The pie-throwing Running Gag ends just as an especially brutal conflict reaches the Squad. Vixen and Bronze Tiger's relationship is destroyed by Sarge Steel just before the LOA mess, destroying much of whatever light-heartedness Suicide Squad had at the time. Additionally, Punch and Jewelee are written out around the same time.
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Laser Sight: The comic featured a confusing example: a laser pistol with a laser sight.
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Hoist Hero over Head: Granny Goodness inflicted this on Amanda Waller during the Apokolips run.
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Explosive Leash: The "stick."
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I Call It "Vera"
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I Call It "Vera": Briscoe named the Black Helicopter 'Sheba' after his dead daughter.
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Depending on the Writer: Ostrander tended to portray Waller as someone with a deeply buried, often compromised sense of morality who insisted from the start that Squad missions would not be for political purposes. Other writers, especially in recent years, have tended to portray her as someone who puts U.S. interests ahead of anything else. More generally, the circumstances under which a Squad field leader or Waller will trigger the explosive "leash" on agents vary from writer to writer.
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Death Seeker: Deadshot. Count Vertigo. However, he wants to die on his terms, and he keeps surviving everything the Squad throws at him. Very clearly going on in Rick Flag's Heroic Sacrifice.
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Circle of Shame / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Cold Sniper / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Color Animal Codename / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Color Character / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Comic Books of the 1980s / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Confronting Your Imposter / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Consummate Professional / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Costume Copycat / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Cutlery Escape Aid / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Dirty Coward / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Disability Immunity / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Do-Anything Soldier / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Emerald Power / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Evil Is Not a Toy / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Explosive Leash / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Fake Town / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Fatal Flaw / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Fighter, Mage, Thief / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Flaming Sword / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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From Dress to Dressing / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Get into Jail Free / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Going Cold Turkey / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Hate Plague / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Hey, You! / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Hoist Hero over Head / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Hot Witch / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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I Am a Monster / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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I Call It "Vera" / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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I Never Told You My Name / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Iconic Sequel Character / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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If I Wanted You Dead... / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Instant Allegiance Artifact / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Invisible President / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Involuntary Suicide Mechanism / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Jack up with Phlebotinum / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Kavorka Man / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Kidnapped by the Call / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Kill Steal / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Large and in Charge / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Laser Sight / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Lawful Neutral / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Lodged-Blade Recycling / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Lonely Funeral / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Lower-Deck Episode / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Lunacy / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Magical Girl / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Magical Girl Warrior / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Man, I Feel Like a Woman / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Master-Apprentice Chain / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Mathematician's Answer / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Mind-Control Music / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Most Definitely Not a Villain / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Mugged for Disguise / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Necessarily Evil / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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No Medication for Me / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Nominal Hero / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Not a Morning Person / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Not My Driver / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Only I Can Make It Go / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Only in It for the Money / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Only Sane by Comparison / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Our Manticores Are Spinier / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Panthera Awesome / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Pie in the Face / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Pietà Plagiarism / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Plausible Deniability / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Play-Along Meme / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Pop the Tires / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Porn Stache / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Postmodernism / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Power Loss Depression / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Pregnant Hostage / int_bc7736c8
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Prison / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Progressively Prettier / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Psychological Torment Zone / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Rage Against the Heavens / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Redemption Promotion / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Refused Reunion / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Religion of Evil / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Reset Button / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Resignations Not Accepted / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Retirony / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Rhetorical Request Blunder / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Rubber Man / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Sacrificial Lamb / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Sanity Ball / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Sanity Has Advantages / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Sassy Black Woman / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Scary Black Man / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Sensitive Artist / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Sequel Displacement / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Seven Deadly Sins / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Shock Collar / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Shooting Superman / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Sinister Scimitar / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Spectacular Spinning / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Split-Personality Switch Trigger / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Spot the Imposter / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Squad Nickname / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Squishy Wizard / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Staged Shooting / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Stop Being Stereotypical / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Suicide Mission / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Super Team / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Surprise Inspection Ruse / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Taking You with Me / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Tattooed Crook / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Team Member in the Adaptation / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Team Title / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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10-Minute Retirement / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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The '40s / int_bc7736c8
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The '50s / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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The Alcatraz / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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The Big Easy / int_bc7736c8
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The Fatalist / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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The Last Dance / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Thoroughly Mistaken Identity / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Threat Backfire / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Time for Plan B / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Token Super / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Token Wizard / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Trading Bars for Stripes / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Trial Run Crime / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Trojan Prisoner / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Two-Timer Date / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Unwanted Rescue / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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We Need a Distraction / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life / int_d1b2f6e8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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William Telling / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Wizard Duel / int_bc7736c8
 Suicide Squad (Comic Book)
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit / int_bc7736c8