Task Force X

Belle Reve Penitentiary (formerly)

### Current Members

**Field Team:** Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, El Diablo, Cheshire

**Chaperones:** Azucar, Juniper

**Admin Team:** King Faraday, Karin Grace, Clemson Murn, Emilia Harcourt, John Economos, Flo Crawley, Briscoe, Simon LaGrieve, Hugh Evans, Jess Bryant

### Reserve Members

Katana, Captain Cold, Cheetah, Plastique, Cluemaster, Bloodsport, Ratcatcher, Polka Dot Man, King Shark, Killer Frost

### Past Members

Starling, Nemesis, Nightshade, Enchantress, Peacemaker, Pooch, Terra, Windfall, Boomer

**Deceased:** Mindboggler, Slipnot, Blackguard

## Background

Task Force X is a team of heavy-hitting anti-heroes & incarcerated villains who undertake high-risk secret missions in exchange for either parole, work release and/or reduced prison sentences. The dangerous nature of their missions has led to them also being called Suicide Squad.

Each member of the Task Force is expendable & has an explosive device that has been surgically placed in their neck. Currently, only Amanda Waller & Rick Flag have the authority to detonate the bombs. The team was originally based out of Belle Reve Penitentiary, a high security containment facility which houses some of the deadliest super-villains in the world, under the directorship of Amanda Waller & ARGUS.

The line-up of the team is always changing, as Waller will pick certain criminals based on their skillset. She usually employs a hero to help Flag with commandeering the villains. They act as a supervisor of sorts. Some notable chaperones have been Katana, Pooch & Nightshade. Currently, that role is being filled by ARGUS Special Agent Zahra Abed (aka Juniper) & Checkmate Agent Veronica Lopez (aka Azucar).

In 2010, Waller sent the squad on a mission to Corto Maltese. It went so bad, to say the least. Two members died, the task force became public knowledge & Belle Reve was shut down. The government mostly disavowed the prison & Rick Flag (as a scapegoat) to protect their image as the higher ups were fully aware of what was going on. Almost a year after the hype died down, the task force was reassembled at Arkham Asylum & Flag was pardoned.

## Trivia

* Harley once joked that they were like a family & Deadshot told her they weren't even a team but just the ones who kept surviving.
* Terra is the youngest member to join, at age seventeen.
* Juniper is also an ARGUS Representative.
* The original team line-up was Rick Flag, Katana, Nemesis, Deadshot & Captain Boomerang.
* Thomas Tresser was employed by Waller to join through her connections to Checkmate. He acted as a supervisor.
* The most constants members are Captain Boomerang, Deadshot & Harley Quinn.
* Notable missions:
	+ 2003, June: The Task Force is assembled. They are tasked with taking down the L.O.A. cartel in exchange for their freedom or time off their sentences. They hunt the leaders down & kill the ones that did not surrender.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Nemesis, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang
	+ 2006, December: Infiltrate the Qurac-based terrorist group Jihad. Nightshade & Nemesis go undercover. The terrorists massacre a large group of civilians in their first demonstration, leaving Nightshade horrified at being an accessory to the crime. Plastique betrays the team & is knocked out by Nemesis. The team destroys the Jihad.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Nightshade, Nemesis, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Plastique, Mindboggler (KIA)
	+ 2007, March: Sent to Bhutran to stop a political prisoner from getting executed. Things go flawlessly for the first time in months.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Nightshade, Nemesis, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot
	+ 2009, January: Phoenix Gambit. Sent to Vlatava to handle a group of American right-wing extremists that are intending to spark open war with Russia by funding a revolution led secretly by brutal Vlatavan General Kaligari. The revolutionaries attempt to hire Deashot to kill Waller for $100,000 but Waller counters with an offer $100,001 to shoot Kaligari. Killer Frost stops the revolution by kidnapping Kaligari, who Deadshot then kills.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Killer Frost
	+ 2009, June: Sent to Russia to rescue the imprisoned author Zoya Trigorin. Enchantress goes on a rampage & Nightshade's powers reach its limit. The team is forced to escape by helicopter extraction. Zoya dies & Nemesis is captured while holding off the soldiers. Waller forbids a rescue mission.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Nightshade, Nemesis, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, El Diablo, Enchantress
	+ 2009, August: Flag & Nightshade lead an unauthorized rescue mission for Nemesis. The president sends the Justice League. They bring Nemesis to the embassy for "questioning" but allow him to escape with Nightshade. Nightshade & Nemesis leave Task Force X.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Pooch, Nightshade, Peacemaker
	+ 2010, February: Sent to Corto Maltese to destroy Jotunheim, the headquarters of military project that experiments on political prisoners. The group is captured by soldiers. Blackguard outs the task force. Harley Quinn kills the Corto Maltese dictator. Flag, Harley, Bloodsport & King Shark return. Peacemaker disappears. Slipnot & Blackguard are killed. Surviving members of the task force are pardoned. Rick Flag becomes a scape goat & is sent to prison. Belle Reve is shut down.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Blackguard (KIA), Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Harley Quinn, King Shark, Slipknot (KIA)
	+ 2010, December: Task Force X is reassembled at Arkham Asylum. Rick Flag is given a pardon.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, El Diablo, Killer Frost, Cheetah, Cluemaster
	+ 2013: Unknown. Pooch leaves Task Force X.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Katana, Pooch, Bloodsport, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, El Diablo, Killer Frost, Cheetah, Cluemaster
	+ 2016, January: Sent to Kahndaq to capture Black Adam & his family. The team is stopped by the Question & Renee Montoya.
		- Line-up: Rick Flag, Juniper, Azucar, Boomer, Deadshot, El Diablo, Harley Quinn, Terra

## Notes

* Deadshot made a similar quote in *Justice League vs. Suicide Squad Vol 1* #3.
* The Jotunheim Mission is a nod to DCEU film, *The Suicide Squad*.