Suicide Squad: Difference between revisions

* Count Vertigo, an inbred noble with a [[Disability Superpower]]. The device used to correct his inner-ear problem allowed him to project nausea and loss of balance to others. At the time he was a member of the Suicide Squad, Vertigo suffered from manic-depressive behavior, and was something of a [[Death Seeker]].

* Deadshot, a [[Badass]] [[Death Seeker]], who (almost) [[Improbable Aiming Skills|never misses with a gun]]. The [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] of the series, Deadshot got his own spin-off miniseries during the course of the book's run, as the series moved the villain into full-blown [[Nineties Anti Hero]] mode.

* Nemesis, a [[Master of Disguise]] who did a lot of advance work for the team.

* Oracle, a.k.a. [[Batgirl|Barbara Gordon]], who'd reinvented herself after her [[The Killing Joke|crippling]] at the hands of the Joker to become a computer whiz.

* Ravan, a Thugee (though his version of the religion was clearly stated as non-standard) and former member of the Jihad, the Suicide Squad's archenemies. He served very unwillingly, but liked the killing part.

* [[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 [[Anyone Can Die|trope]].

* [[Anyone Can Die]]

** And how. Lampshaded in one early arc where everyone comes home alive, prompting even the callous and selfish Captain Boomerang to smile at the thought. {{spoiler|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.}}

* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Shrike, though her religious beliefs were...unorthodox. Resulted in [[Redemption Equals Death]].

** "I'm a-coming, Jesus!"

{{quote| '''Murph:''' So what do we call you? Father Richard? Reverend Craemer? Hey you? <br />

'''Craemer:''' 'The Reverend Hey You' has a certain ring to it, don't you think? }}

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Karin Grace}} and {{spoiler|Duchess/Lashina}}.

* [[Mugged for Disguise]]: 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.

* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Captain Boomerang

* [[Only I Can Make It Go]]: Briscoe and Sheba

* [[Red Herring Mole]]: The writer introduced Manhunter into the book specifically to tease him as this.

* [[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. With Junior dead and the original back, it's only a matter of time before Amanda Waller gets her hands on him again.

* [[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 [[Land Mine Goes Click|steps on a land mine]]. {{spoiler|In Issue 8, he [[Subverted Trope|survives]].}}

* [[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 — [[Exact Words|by killing the Congressman himself]].

* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: The [http://www.comics.org/issue/42829/cover/4/?style=default first cover] of the series--after that, team deaths just weren't a bankable event anymore.

* [[Trojan Prisoner]]: [[Batman]] does this in order to infiltrate Belle Reve.

* [[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.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: When Deadshot {{spoiler|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. [[It Got Worse|Things get worse]].

* [[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.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Kobra's plan to trigger WWIII. He gives some pointers to Dybbuk, as seen in [[Hannibal Lecture]] 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?