"The Suicide Squad" is an awesome, scary, hilarious,
badass, and ultimately heartwarming movie. It's also a pretty straightforward story,
one whose loose ends get wrapped up pretty thoroughly. Well, most of the
loose ends. Here are some of the biggest unanswered questions in "The Suicide Squad."
The first action scene of the movie sees
part of Task Force X land in the water and set up for a beach assault.
Blackguard walks out first and reveals that he sold everyone out to the hostiles,
completely blowing everyone's cover and plan. He then promptly gets his face blown off for
his troubles and kicks off a firefight that kills almost everyone on the beach.
This raises the first unanswered question of the movie: How could he have possibly reached them
while locked up? He's in a heavy security prison, likely being monitored for much of the day.
How did he find his way around this, especially in the short amount of time between getting his
assignment and deployment, and contacting the soldiers in Corto Maltese? Seeing as
he's the first death of the movie, it's unlikely we'll ever get the true story.
This goes hand in hand with the question
of how Blackguard betrayed everyone. Though she's an expert at appearances,
Amanda Waller doesn't know everything about everybody. She was, after all, completely
blindsided by Bloodsport's fear of rats — "I'm not shaking the rat's hand."
— and seemingly didn't know that Blackguard was going to blow everyone's cover immediately.
But it's hard not to wonder if she saw this group, which she noted was a diversion,
as even more disposable than the average Task Force X operation.
This is a pretty pathetic group of heroes. Weasel drowns almost immediately, but it's hard to say
what Weasel could have contributed under the best of circumstances. Harley is a fan favorite, but
"audience popularity" doesn't make up for the fact that she doesn't have many skills that would help
in a firefight -- and she survived largely by dumb luck. TDK is particularly pathetic, only using his
detachable arms to lightly slap his opponents. Characters occasionally remark that they didn't
pick the team, which is true -- Waller did, and she's willing to sacrifice anything and
anyone to get what she wants. Did this group just have bad luck, or were they always cannon fodder?
This is one question we know is going
to get some kind of an answer, and we've known for some time. Bloodsport shot Peacemaker in the neck
and left him to bleed out in the rubble. That's about as certain a killshot as one can get.
"Nothing like a bloodbath to start the day!" Yet the post-credits scene shows Peacemaker
in a hospital, and Waller's underlings saying that he'll help save the world.
This is all setting up for the HBO Max "Peacemaker" series, so there's a near 100%
chance that we'll either see or hear about his rescue and survival. Even so ... a shot to the
neck is a shot to the neck. He may be a fighter, but that's a hard thing to overcome -- especially
from one of Bloodsport's proprietary bullets. We'll just have to wait and see on this one.
Either way, it just shows what wrestling fans have known for years: John Cena never gives up,
and recovers from injury at miraculous speed. Let's see if Peacemaker can win the Royal Rumble.
"Is this thing a dog?"
Weasel is the definition of a throwaway character.
In fact, Weasel is several different kinds of throwaway. He drowns pretty much right away,
with his meaningless death helping set the movie's comic and violent sensibilities.
But he's also a literal throwaway character, as in he was thrown away, out of a helicopter.
But wait! A post-credits scene reveals that Weasel survived! He coughs up some water and
wanders into the woods, seemingly oblivious to everything that transpired. Now what?
Seriously, though, what happens now? Will we ever see Weasel again? Did Weasel get immunity
due to Bloodsport's deal with Waller, or was he exempt since he knows nothing of the hard drive?
Will Weasel become the Bigfoot of Corto Maltese? There's so many unanswered questions here,
certainly enough to justify a short on HBO Max -- or at least some bonkers fanfic.
The possibilities for more Weasel are endless.
Amanda Waller is a dangerous person to be
associated with under any circumstances. If you're her enemy, you're probably going to
die. If you're her ally, she could turn on you the moment you're no longer useful -- at which point,
she doesn't care if you live or die. Even if you're a loyal employee, you might end up in
the wrong place at the wrong time and -- as her team in the first "Suicide Squad' movie
learned -- she'll probably kill you herself. Given that she once executed her own team
entirely because they accidentally ended up in a mission they weren't cleared for,
it's easy to see why people fear her. As such, it took an incomprehensible amount of courage
for her team to literally knock her out and let Task Force X save the day here. The question is,
will she let that violent insubordination stand? The movie ends after Starro is defeated and
Bloodsport makes his deal with Waller. What her team knows of the deal is uncertain. What does
matter is that they struck one of the most dangerous and vindictive people on Earth in
the head, and it's hard to see them getting away with that. Even if she's not going to kill them,
she certainly has other ways of making their lives hell -- and
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