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Other important personnel included:
* Captain Boomerang, depicted as the dirty coward's [[Dirty Coward]]. Master of the [[Precision -Guided Boomerang]], he had joined the team largely to get that shortened prison sentence, but his stay on the team kept getting extended because of his cowardice, constant engagement in criminal activities while on leave from the team, and disdain for Amanda Waller.
* 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.
* Duchess, a mysterious woman with a warrior mentality and [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]. The amnesia wore off (though she didn't let on for a while), and Duchess was eventually revealed to be Lashina, one of Darkseid's minions who was betrayed by her fellow Female Fury member.
* Enchantress, aka June Moone, who had a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] with strong magical abilities. Once activated, she would quickly become as much a menace to the team as to their opponents.
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* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Privateer
* [[Fake Memories]]: ''Raise the Flag'' establishes that {{spoiler|Rick Flag Jr. is actually a random soldier brainwashed into that identity}}.
* [[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.
* [[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 {{spoiler|the Joker's skinned face}} is being kept.
* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: The Red Shadows. ''Especially'' [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Bolshoi]].
* [[Gunship Rescue]]: Happens more than once with Sheba.
* [[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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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Shout -Out]]: In an exceptional example of [[Mood Dissonance]], Dr. Light takes time out from an apocalyptic battle to quote [[Firesign Theatre]]'s Rocky Roccoco.
{{quote| {{spoiler|"Oh no! That's me...and I don't look at all well! I'm dead!"}}}}
* [[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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