Tag: The Suicide Squad

With the roster for James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad stacked with wildly disparate and relatively unknown DC Comics villains, we thought it would be great to get to know each of them in 400 words or less. Don’t get too attached after reading though, because there’s a good bet most of them won’t be around for the sequel! It’s time to meet and greet the members of Task Force X!

Bloodsport is a moniker that three mercenaries hold in DC history. The initial version, and the one we will focus on, is Robert DuBois. He made his first appearance in Superman Vol. 2 #4. After his brother went to the Vietnam War after in his place, he had a mental breakdown. Lex Luthor seizes this opportunity to tell him that Superman is an enemy and provides him with guns loaded with kryptonite bullets.

He even manages to hurt the Kryptonian while rampaging through Metropolis. It was Jimmy Olsen that stopped his rampage by getting his quadriplegic brother to talk him down. The character ends up getting killed while fleeing from Stryker’s Island Penitentiary. The prison guards end up shooting him down. His mantle was then taken over by Alexander Trent, who hated DuBois. This was mostly due to the character turning out to be a fanatical racist. Currently, an unnamed third person has continued the Bloodsport alter-ego. this version of the character has teamed up with Hellgrammite and Riot.

There have been many rumors about who Idris Elba might be playing. Early in the casting, we believed that he would be a new version of Deadshot. So, the Bloodsport reveal is a welcome surprise and a deep cut in comic history by James Gunn. It also played with our exceptions as Elba is a high-profile actor with films like Hobbs & Shaw, Star Trek Beyond, and Cats on his resume. To some degree, we expect these types of actors to play well-known characters.

Robert DuBois has appeared in various media in the past. He was included in an episode of Justice League Unlimited, where he fights Electrocutioner. There was a brief storyline where he featured in Supergirl‘s third season. However, The Suicide Squad will be the characters’ first appearance on the silver screen.

Murphy’s Multiverse Dead Pool Predictions

Predicted chances of survival: 15%

Predicted manner of death: with gun’s blazing

RIP Bloodsport

With the roster for James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad stacked with wildly disparate and relatively unknown DC Comics villains, we thought it would be great to get to know each of them in 400 words or less. Don’t get too attached after reading though, because there’s a good bet most of them won’t be around for the sequel! It’s time to meet and greet the members of Task Force X!

Detective Comics #585 introduced the world to the Batman villain Ratcatcher. Otis Flannegan once worked as an actual rat-catcher in Gotham City. Through his profession, he had a clear understanding of the city’s sewage systems like the back of his hand. During his time there he discovered his ability to talk and train rats. After he got into a fight and ended up stabbing someone, he was locked up in Gotham State Penitentiary. To take his revenge, Otis kidnapped the officials that got him arrested and developed his alter-ego.

During this time, he was able to train rodents to do his bidding. He commonly used them to torture or restrain his victims. It wasn’t until his rat army killed a man that Batman was alerted to his presence. Once again behind bars, he carved a flute to summon his minions. He actually built up a reputation as a smuggler by using his rats to carry items through the ventilation system. The character even built up a friendship with fellow rouge Magpie. To protect himself, he uses a repurposed gas gun. It is also the reason he wears his iconic gas mask. At one point, the villain became an unlikely hero to a group of homeless people. One of them turned out to be an OMAC sleeper agent that vaporized him out of existence.

In The Suicide Squad, Daniela Melchior will be playing a gender-flipped version of the character. It is uncertain if Otis might make an appearance. She holds the title Ratcatcher 2 hinting at her being a legacy character. This will be the Portuguese actress first American film, she appeared in Portuguese films like The Black Book and Parque Mayer. The character has no previous ties to the group, so it will be interesting to see what role she will have for this particular mission.

Murphy’s Multiverse Dead Pool Predictions

Predicted chances of survival: 25%

Predicted manner of death: rat bomb a.k.a. cruel irony

RIP Ratcatcher 2

With the roster for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad stacked with wildly disparate and relatively unknown DC Comics villains, we thought it would be great to get to know each of them in 400 words or less. Don’t get too attached after reading though, because there’s a good bet most of them won’t be around for the sequel. It’s time to meet and greet the members of Task Force X!

A wealthy genius whose memories become tangled in time, Savant first appeared in 2003’s Birds of Prey #56. Initially a Gotham City vigilante whose run in with Batman forced him into a career move, Brian Durlin decided to use his skills behind the keyboard to dig up information and become a big time blackmailer who set his sights on the big prize: the true identity of the Batman! Savant’s plan to uncover the name of the man behind the cowl saw him tangle with the Birds of Prey, holding Black Canary hostage in hopes that Barbara Gordan would spill the beans. Instead, she spilled some of his blood but rather than throw him away, Babs saw a pathway to redemption for Durlin and brought him on board the team in hopes that his impressive tech skills would help them out.

Savant’s inability to totally divorce himself from his criminal ways found him going back and forth between two worlds and his behavior at the intersection of those two worlds led to him being dismissed from the BoP more than once. Having developed feelings for Barbara, however, he kept coming back in hopes of making it work. That never worked out for him and he never quite got along with Batman either, but Savant never seemed to be a truly evil character. When DC rebooted their universe in 2011, Savant was part of Amanda Waller’s new Task Force X whose job was to hunt down Suicide Squad mainstay, Harley Quinn.

Savant will be brought to life on the big screen by James Gunn’s BFF for life, the great Michael Rooker. Rooker, like Dastmalchian, is no stranger to superhero or comic book fare having starred as Yondu in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, Gunn’s dark superhero comedy, Super, and The Walking Dead. Rooker has also been in pretty much everything Gunn has ever made.

Murphy’s Multiverse Dead Pool Predictions

Predicted Chances of Survival: if negative numbers worked in percentages, I’d go lower than 0.

Predicted Manner of Death: something incredibly horrific. Given Gunn’s relationship with Rooker, I’m guessing this death will be the most absurd of them all. Let’s go with a particularly bad case of being cut in half.

RIP Savant

With the roster for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad stacked with wildly disparate and relatively unknown DC Comics villains, we thought it would be great to get to know each of them in 400 words or less. Don’t get too attached after reading though, because there’s a good bet most of them won’t be around for the sequel. It’s time to meet and greet the members of Task Force X!

Abner Krill, the bizarre Polka-Dot Man, first crossed Batman’s path in 1962’s Detective Comics #300 after battling with the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder. Using a series of detachable dots from his unitard, Krill was able to piss Batman off pretty badly by capturing Robin. Of course Krill’s fancy dots (which include some that turn into flying saucers, act as flashbangs or even allow him to teleport) were no match for Batman’s utility belt and he found himself on the inside of a jail cell.

Years later, Krill would return to his criminal endeavors; however, even the Polk-Dot Man can fall on hard times. Without a constant income, Krill decided to go on a good old fashioned heist using a baseball bat as a weapon (see the image above!). Krill would go on to square off the Gotham PD and Nightwing over the years, routinely finding himself on the wrong side of a beating and heading back to jail before meeting his demise in 2009’s Final Crisis Aftermath: Run #4 when his head was, inconveniently, located under a manhole cover as it descended towards Earth. Recently, Krill was briefly a part of Task Force X in the Injustice comics before being quickly dispatched by the good old neck bomb.

David Dastmalchian landed the esteemed and sought after role of Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad. Dastmalchian is no stranger to CBMs having been seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and in Marvel Studios Ant-Man franchise. 

Murphy’s Multiverse Dead Pool Predictions

Predicted chances of survival: 0%

Predicted manner of death: detonation of neck bomb by Rick Flag

RIP Polka-Dot Man