Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad is a team of imprisoned supervillains who perform high-risk missions for the U.S. Government in exchange for commuted sentences. They are formally known as Task Force X.
The team's actions are highly classified, and the government is able to deny any involvement by claiming that they are not responsible for the damages of a random supervillain attack. Their commander is Amanda Waller, who runs the organization out of Belle Reve prison.
==Other Media==
===Arrowverse===
====Arrow====
The Suicide Squad appears as an anti-hero team in Season 2 and Season 3 of the Green Arrow TV series Arrow, led by A.R.G.U.S. commander Amanda Waller. This team consists of Deadshot, Shrapnel, Bronze Tiger and Lyla Micheals.
They were used as a spy group assembled by Amanda Waller to handle national threats with extreme measures.
Shrapnel is killed by Waller for bailing on a mission, while Deadshot had a tracking device implanted in his eye to attract a drone-strike to blow up a chemical compound (thus making the informal moniker "Suicide Squad" literal), but the team manages to remove the tracking device in time.
John Diggle also freed them to take Amanda Waller hostage in the Season 2 finale so that she doesn't drone-strike Starling City (because of Slade Wilson's army tearing the city apart).
In Season 7, the Suicide Squad was reassembled under the name "The Ghost Initiative" when A.R.G.U.S. director Lyla Michaels and John Diggle started investigating a terrorist financier known only as Dante. This incarnation consists of Ricardo Diaz, Joe Wilson, Cupid and China White.
====Possible TV series====
Talks were made among the producers of Arrow that a spinoff series based on the Arrow-verse's version Suicide Squad could be made and could "connect the tissue of the last season [Season 2] to the beginning of the [third] season".
Given that a Suicide Squad film came out in 2016 (see below), the idea of creating the spinoff is not out of the question (as of yet, at least).
===Smallville===
The Suicide Squad appeared in the Tenth Season of Smallville. However, on the show, they are recruited by Checkmate, which is still headed by Amanda Waller. They were a secret branch of Checkmate used when normal agents weren't suitable: either for political reasons, or because super-powered individuals were needed to get the job done.
The Squad was led by Rick Flag. He and the rest of the Squad were presumed dead, at least by Tess Mercer, after the destruction of Checkmate by Zod.
However Flag survived and had been leading a new surviving incarnation of the group. Amanda Waller mentioned the Suicide Squad when she welcomed Cameron Mahkent to their ranks immediately before firing a gun at him.
After the fall of Checkmate, Rick Flag led the Squad in the abduction of Oliver Queen. He was kept in a secure location at the Metropolis docks where he was tortured and beaten for information on the terrorist attacks on monuments by the Kandorian Army.
The Squad later put tracking marks on the Justice League.
The group consisted of Flag, Amanda Waller, Deadshot, Plastique, Icicle II, Emil LaSalle and Chloe Sullivan.
===DC Extended Universe===
As mentioned above, a film about the Suicide Squad was released in August 2016 as the third film in DC Comics' new DC Extended Universe. The team includes Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Killer Croc, El Diablo and Slipknot.
When the Enchantress and her brother Incubus attack Midway City, the Squad is dispatched into the city to retrieve a target (who is eventually revealed to be Amanda Waller). As in the comics, each member is outfitted with a bomb to ensure his obedience. The Suicide Squad is accompanied by a team of soldiers led by Colonel Rick Flag and Katana.
After their helicopter crashes, the team is forced to travel Midway City on foot, resulting in various battles with the city's inhabitants who have been turned into hostile beasts by the Enchantress. After retrieving Waller, the group is attacked by the Joker who escapes with Harley Quinn.
Quinn later rejoins the team when her helicopter crashes and, led by Flag once more, the team went after Amanda Waller who had been captured by Incubus.
With combined efforts, the team defeats and destroys the Enchantress and Incubus. Although they rejoice their victory, Waller showed up and uses the threat of blowing up their bombs to force the Squad members to continue their prison sentence, although some members obtain special rights. 10 years of each member's sentence are removed and they resume their prison sentence. Later on, however, Harley is busted out of prison by the Joker.
==Members==
==Trivia==
*The Suicide Squad was created by John Ostander, the late Robert Kanigher, and the late Ross Andru.
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