George "Digger" Harkness (Earth 1)

**George "Digger" Harkness** was a notorious criminal from Australia known as **Captain Boomerang.**

## George "Digger" Harkness

### Aliases

Digger HarknessCaptain BoomerangBoomer[1]George Green

## Biography

### Early life

George Harkness was born on September 12, 1985, in Kurrumburra, Australia, to Betty Harkness, where he was raised in poverty as the illegitimate child of W. W. Wiggins, an American toy manufacturer. His stepfather, Ian Harkness, hated the boy and subjected him to abuse and cruelty. As a child, George learned how to craft sophisticated boomerangs and even developed them into weapons. At some point he came to own a pink unicorn stuff toy named Pinky, a toy which he would keep well into his adult years.

During his teens he had a relationships with Mallory Ryan, a girl from Bindoon. There was friction between Digger and Mallory's father, the policeman Stanley, who considered Digger a liar, a cheater, and a thief hailing from a family of liars, cheaters, and thieves. That friction was resolved more than a decade later when Digger threw a boomerang into the tail of Stanley's helicopter mid-flight, causing it to crash. Stanley was killed, and his daughter joined the police force in his stead.

### Spiritual Retreat

At the age of 14, Harkness went on a spiritual walkabout that took him nearly four months to complete, giving Harkness a sense of serenity that he needed in his life. When he finally returned home, Harkness initially believed that he could carry and maintain that feeling of peace that would hopefully help guide him into adulthood.

### Search for his father

At age 15, he and a friend robbed a general store and escaped with the money he obtained thanks to a boomerang. Nonetheless, his stepfather banished him from the house as a result of the incident, but Betty bought her son a plane ticket to Central City, Ohio, and told him to get in touch with his biological father.

During the search, Harkness learned that Wiggins Game Company had been searching for a spokesman, and took the chance to audition under the alias George Green for the job which he landed. Wiggins became impressed with his son's boomerang-throwing skills and gave him the title Captain Boomerang.

### College Years

Boomerang alluded to having attended college at some point, a time when he may have experimented with certain drugs.

### Thievery

Boomerang, however, had other plans for his new alter ego and began a string of thefts in Australia. On a scene of his robberies in Perth he met again Mallory Ryan, now become a police officer. She told him to stop, but he cut her arm with a boomerang before she could react, giving him the opportunity to make his escape.

### A fresh target

After robbing all banks of Australia he returned to Central City and came to the attention to the metahuman Flash. The deranged boomerang-thrower continued to clash with the Flash during his criminal activities, such as when he tied the unconscious metahuman to a rocket, only to be captured again when the lightning-fast vigilante was able to free himself. In their final encounter, the Flash finally caught up to Boomerang participated in a heist on a Diamond Exchange.

There, Boomerang betrayed his associates, throwing a boomerang at the man's head to knock him out before collecting the loot for himself. Before he could leave, he was swiftly and easily incapacitated by the Flash and later incarcerated at Belle Reve, where he spent this time lashing out at guards from inside Cell D-108.

### Saving the world

#### Recruited into Task Force X

At some point, he caught the attention of Amanda Waller, who included him in her list of choices for Task Force X. By then his files indicated that he had a prior history for sexually harassing women,vocalizing racist beliefs, betraying comrades and murdering innocent citizens.

Captain Boomerang was escorted to the rest of the Task Force X team outside of Belle Reve shortly before they have dispatched to Metropolis. He was transported in a yellow body bag and immediately lashed out against nearby soldiers when released. He was welcomed by Rick Flag, who transported each of the member's equipment needed for completing their mission, then traveled to Metropolis with the goal being to stop The New Toyman from destroying the city.

### Tricking Slipknot

The Task Force X crash-lands in Metropolis, and Boomerang, secretly wishing to test how real the implanted nano-bombs are, promptly tricks Slipknot into believing that the bombs are a fake bluffing tactic of Amanda Waller. Pretending to join in the escape attempt, Boomerang allowed Katana to subdue him, while Slipknot began scaling a building. Rick Flag activating the nano-bomb, exploding Slipknot's head and killing him. Boomerang, having his suspicions confirmed, wisely chooses to stay with the group. Attracted to Katana, Boomerang asks if she has a boyfriend.

#### Battle of Midway City

Soon after, the group encounters toy soldiers. When Rick Flag approaches them, the toy soldiers became hostile and attack. Instead of fighting with the rest of the squad, Boomerang cracks open a can of beer and watched the fight.

However one of toys attacks him, bringing him into the fight. During the fight, Boomerang's pink unicorn falls on the ground. After taking down a few creatures Boomerang and the rest of the squad watched as Deadshot gunned several creatures from atop a car until they were all gone. After the battle Boomerang picks up his pink unicorn and chastised El Diablo for not helping during the battle. Diablo told him that he doesn't use his powers anymore and produces a flame from his hands. Boomerang then mocks him by lighting his lighter.

#### Retrieving HVT1

Continuing the fight through the city, the Squad heads into a building their target is residing in. They encounter resistance in numerous Eyes of the Adversary that were formerly soldiers that were accompanying them; as Flag's death meant their own, the Squad was forced to fight with the objective of protecting him.

The group is lead to where their target is residing, being told to wait while Flag brings them out of their safe room. To Boomerang's surprise, the person the group is to protect is Waller herself; she has another screen to detonate the bombs to keep the Squad from trying to enact revenge on her.

The group is lead to the roof, where they would be extracted by helicopter. However, it turns out the chopper was hijacked by the Joker to rescue Harley Quinn; she promptly boards, as her bomb had been turned off by the kidnapped Van Criss. Waller contracts Deadshot to kill Harley, but he promptly misses, earning further respect from Boomerang. However Waller calls for a missile strike that downs the chopper, with Harley seemingly dead, Boomerang sympathized with the disheartened Deadshot. Once another chopper arrives, Waller leaves but is brought back down by Incubus. The group head to ground level, finding Harley survived the crash, Boomerang then returns the bat she had left behind.

The Squad finds the crash site, and Deadshot finds files in the chopper and shows the team that Waller is responsible for the entire situation; Flag explains Waller made the unwise move of sending Enchantress to place a bomb to kill Incubus, unaware of their relation. Once Enchantress took control of her host, she began building a machine to ravage the military bases on Earth. Boomerang, promptly disgusted that he and the others are basically a mop-up crew heads into a bar for a drink.

### Drowning sorrows

Having drinks, Boomerang listens as Deadshot explains that they were meant to be patsies to take the blame for everything going on; for a brief moment, he had hope. El Diablo quips that a killer having hope wasn't something he thought was possible, explaining about his past. To Boomerang's shock, Diablo once had a happy married life with children, despite being an arsonist-for-hire in the gang world. One night, however, Diablo's anger and powers cost him his family.

When Harley told Diablo to own his actions, Boomerang snapped and noted that while Harley was attractive, her personality was ugly. Harley retorted they were all ugly on the inside, except Croc, who was ugly on the outside as well; however, Croc laughed that he was beautiful on the inside. Flag then enters the bar, takes the device controlling their neck explosives off his wrist, and smashes it on the table. Boomerang quickly takes advantage of this and leaves the bar with handfuls of beer, but when Harley and Deadshot had decided to help Flag complete the mission, Boomerang rejoined them along with the other squad members.

### The Final Fight Against Toyman

The squad attack Toyman, while King Shark and Flag's platoon of Navy SEALs plant a bomb beneath the subway to kill Incubus. El Diablo embraces his pyrokinesis, sacrificing himself to maneuver and keep the toy soldiers in the right spot. Toyman invites the squad to join him, and Harley pretends to be tempted to get close enough to steal the device from Toyman. Flag shuts down the force shield around Metropolis.

### The Deal

Waller, still alive, emerges and the squad members are returned to Belle Reve and given ten years off their sentences. All but Captain Boomerang are allowed special privileges; Harley is given an espresso machine, Deadshot is allowed to visit his daughter Zoe (supervised) and King Shark is given a television set with cable access but Waller will give the squad a mission soon.

### Back To Belle Reve

Boomerang was afterwards sent back to Belle Reve. There, he would continually rage against the unfair circumstances he was brought into, desiring to be back in Australia and wondering why his teammates were settling for life within the prison. Every few days he would rage and tear everything within sight in his cell. When he would calm down, the guards would come in to replace everything that had been damaged or destroyed, allowing his cycle of anger to go on yet again.

### Life on the run

At an indeterminate time after the events in Metropolis, Boomerang was once again out of prison and wanted by the Gotham City Police Department.

## Relationships

### Family

* Grandmother
* W. W. Wiggins - Father
* Betty Harkness - Mother
* Ian Harkness - Stepfather

### Allies

The Suicide Squad

* Colonel Rick Flag
* Director Amanda Waller
* Floyd Lawton / Deadshot
* Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn
* Chato Santana / El Diablo †
* Nanaue / King Shark
* Jade Nguyen / Cheshire
* Christopher Weiss / Slipknot †
* Anatoli Knyazev / KGBeast †
* Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana

### Enemies

* Flash

* Belle Reve
	+ Hunter Griggs
	+ Ames
	+ Fitzgibbon

* Joker

* Jack Nimball / The New Toyman †