Amanda Waller

Amanda Waller is a high-ranking official of the United States Government and the Director of A.R.G.U.S.. She has ties to several espionage and law enforcement agencies, and is the commanding officer for the expendable.
Still having an operation to accomplish, Waller hired Clemson Murn to lead a new team, while rescuing one of the Task Force X Members, Peacemaker to be re-recruited. In revenge for being betrayed, Waller also sent her former assistants Emilia Harcourt and John Economos to get involved in Project Butterfly and offered her daughter, Darmita Waller to join the mission. In the aftermath of Project Butterfly, Leota made Waller's underhanded operations publicly known.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
==== Director of A.R.G.U.S. ====
Amanda Waller at some point became the Director of A.R.G.U.S. and swiftly built up a fearsome reputation for herself, being nicknamed "The Wall" due to how ruthless, dominating, and unrelenting she is when dealing with others. As a result, many frightening stories about Waller are told by those who have encountered her (as a warning), but practically everyone disbelieves them until dealing with her personally. Waller, therefore, is one of the most feared and respected people in the US government.
At some point she had a daughter named Darmita. Waller wanted Leota to follow her steps and join A.R.G.U.S. but Leota rejected the offer every time Amanda pressured her about it. Despite this causing tension between the two, Amanda and Leota continued to be in good terms with each other. At some point, Waller ordered the creation of under the sea in Antarctica, where various dangerous metahumans began to be imprisoned.
=== Project Butterfly ===
==== Forming a new Task Force ====
: "This is the guy Waller's giving us? I told you she's fucking us.""She's not fucking us.""Is that an eagle in his backseat?""She's fucking us."
: ―Emilia Harcourt, Clemson Murn, and Darmita Waller[src]
In the aftermath of the entire fiasco, Peacemaker was found buried under the rubble of Jotunheim and was taken to the Mount Rouge Health Center to recover under Waller's orders as she still had other plans for the vigilante and he was the only one who wasn't included in Bloodsport's blackmailing. Waller planned to create an unofficial branch of Task Force X to conduct Project Butterfly, she knew that any attempt to investigate the Butterflies would be shut down by her superiors, forcing her to conduct the mission illegaly by covertly diverging funds from other operations. Waller hired the mercenary Clemson Murn to lead the new team, due to the illegal nature of the mission the team had to work with very limited resources, so Waller had her staff assigned Emilia Harcourt and John Economos, to look after Peacemaker and participate in the mission as payback for them turning against her.
==== Recruiting her daughter ====
: "Well, why the fuck did you even come?""Because I lost my job and my mother offered me this one!"
: ―Emilia Harcourt and Darmita Waller[src]
Around the same time Waller's daughter Darmita Waller had lost her job, when Waller found out about it she offered Leota a job at Project Butterfly which Leota reluctantly agreed due to needing the money despite knowing that it was yet another of Waller's attempts to recruit Leota into A.R.G.U.S.. Waller prepared a forged diary of Peacemaker which contained fake evidence meant to incriminate him for whatever crime her undercover team would commit throughout Project Butterfly. Waller instructed Leota to sneak the fake diary on to Peacemaker's house so that the police could find it later.
==== Call to Leota ====
: "Empathy in this business, Darmita, that would make you kill.""Yea, well, it doesn't really matters, that's it? I appreciate it but after this job is done, and I will be back to our feet, and I'll find a job that I actually like."
: ―Amanda Waller and Darmita Waller[src]
Once the team recruited Peacemaker, Leota made a call to her mother at night, while they talked, Darmita commented on her teammates, Clemson Murn, John Economos and Emilia Harcourt. When Adebayo asked if they should tell them the whole plan, Waller told her no since she was the only person she trusted, Waller then asked her daughter if she had the fake diary, to which Adebayo showed it to her, so that Waller gave her the instructions on how to leave it in the trailer. Waller then asked her what she thought of as Peacemaker, to which Adebayo said that he was quite a character, however she also felt some sadness in him. Waller then warned her that in this job empathy would cost her life, Leota told her that when the mission is over she would return to her normal life since she was not made for that. Waller remarked that Leota was "wasting her talents" by not joining her at A.R.G.U.S. full time, but then she had to leave to go sleep and said goodbye to her daughter, ending the call.
==== Sending Caspar Locke ====
: "Waller said you needed my help."
: ―Caspar Locke to Clemson Murn[src]
Early into Project Butterfly Peacemaker killed Annie Sturphausen who turned out to be a Butterfly herself, this prompted the Evergreen Police Department began an investigation on the murder which would put the entire operation in danger if Peacemaker were to be arrested. In response, Waller contacted Caspar Locke to inform him that Clemson Murn required his aid in keeping the Evergreen Police off Peacemaker's tracks for the time being by posing as the captain of the Police Department so that he could intercept any evidence that would prove Peacemaker's guilt. During one of the team's missions Harcourt informed the rest of the team of the illegal nature of their operations. The forged diary was used against Peacemaker earlier than Waller had anticipated when the Butterflies took over the entire Evergreen Police Department including Locke who had retrieved the diary. The incident also forced Leota to reveal that she's Waller's daughter.
==== Battle at Coverdale Ranch ====
: "Mom, there are a wave of more butterflies that we thought, and the whole team is injured."
: ―Darmita Waller to Amanda Waller[src]
Eventually Waller's undercover team reached the location of the Butterflies' Cow, Leota called Waller asking if she could call to help out in the mission, Waller initially asked if they would be able to wait long enough for backup, but Harcourt emphasized that they didn't have the time to do so. Thus, Waller gave instructions on how the operation would be carried out. Did come to learn of the situation at the Coverdale Ranch, either by Waller's influence or other means. By the time arrived however the battle had already ended much to the irritation of the 11th Street Kids.
==== Exposed to the world ====
: "What the fuck?"
: ―Amanda Waller[src]
A few days later, Leota called for a press conference where she publicly leaked all of Project Butterfly's secrets, clearing Peacemaker's name by clarifying that the incriminating diary was a forgery, and leaked the existence while also revealing Amanda Waller's involvement with the program. Waller watched the press conference on TV through the KWUE news channel, shocked by the turn of events.
== Personality ==
Waller pressured her daughter, Darmita Waller to join A.R.G.U.S. and follow in her own footsteps, making comments that Leota was wasting her talents by not joining her, something that left Leota visibly troubled over afterwards. Leota implied that; Waller had attempted to recruit her to A.R.G.U.S. several times over the years. Despite pushing Leota toward a career that doesn't interest her, Waller does seem to care about her daughter, offering her a job when she was struggling to get on her feet; which Leota appreciated. Waller has also stated that Leota was the only one she could trust with the true purpose behind Project Butterfly.
== Abilities ==
* Gifted intellect: Amanda Waller is exceptionally intelligent and resourceful, which extends to her immensely formidable political science, leadership, tactical, demagogic, investigative, manipulation, hacking, exploitative networking, and leveraging skills.
=== Weaknesses ===
* Arrogance: To be added
== Equipment ==
To be added
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
* Joseph Waller - Husband
* Joseph Waller, Jr. - Son
* Darmita Waller - Daughter
* Coretta Waller - Daughter
* Martin Waller - Son
* Jessie Waller - Son
* Archie Waller/Deadeye - Nephew
=== Allies ===
* A.R.G.U.S. - subordinates
** Emilia Harcourt
** John Economos
* NSA
* United States Army
* Cray	
=== Enemies ===
* Weasel
* Butterflies
* Christopher Smith/Peacemaker - willing ally and subordinate turned incriminatee
== Trivia ==
* Amanda Waller is one of the extremely few individuals who know Batman's secret identity.
* Waller is an inexperienced golfer, practicing in Belle Reve to not look foolish in front of Senator Cray.
== Behind the Scenes ==
* Oprah Winfrey and Octavia Spencer were the other two front runners for the role of Amanda Waller alongside Viola Davis.
* Viola Davis signed a three-film contract in her role as Waller starting with 2016's Suicide Squad.
* Amanda Waller in the DC Universe is the fourth live-action incarnation of the character, following incarnations portrayed by Pam Grier, Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Angela Bassett.
== References ==
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# ↑ Peacemaker: 1.02: Best Friends, For Never
# ↑ Peacemaker: 1.01: A Whole New Whirled
# ↑ Peacemaker: 1.05: Monkey Dory
# ↑ Jump up to:11.0 11.1 Peacemaker: 1.08: It's Cow or Never
== External Links ==
* Amanda Waller on DC Database
* Amanda Waller on Wikipedia