Captain Boomerang

"*"Th' names Captin Boomerang. Here's why."*"
— George "Digger" Harkness

Captain Boomerang's unofficial Icon

**George "Digger" Harkness**, better known as Captain Boomerang, is the second in command of the Suicide Squad.

## History

### Early History

Digger has been noted to have been part of the Suicide Squad before. He is very familiar with the ropes and how Amanda behaves. After some missions he was retired as a member and had his initial bomb removed. He committed some crimes and ended up in Blackgate Penitentiary before the events of the RP.

At some point, Digger was in Gotham prior to the Earthquake, as he said that he had previously fought Wildcat and lost. If this was before his first run with the Suicide Squad or after is unknown.

### Post Earthquake

Digger was woken up during the Earthquake that ripped Gotham from the main lands. He and his prison mate, Shrapnel, took the chance to get out. While making a run for it, Shrapnel betrayed Digger and shoved him to the ground allowing him to get stampede and left unconscious by the other fleeing prisoners. He soon Woke up strapped down in a chair with a bomb implanted in his head.

### Back in the Squad

Being one of the few returning members of the Squad, Digger did not react much to being in this (sadly) familiar situation. He even managed to calm down Karma, a newer member of the group, by explaining what Amanda would do to him. Amanda quickly puts him in charge as he is the only one she can trust in the group.

### As Leader

As leader, Digger is often breaking the team into smaller chunks. In his first mission he broke the group into two and traveled with Fin, Karma, and Polka-Dot Man and made King Shark, Copperhead, and Persuader go off on their own. After containing various riots at Arkham, and beating the snot out of Mad Mad and taking his cane, the group returned to Blackgate. Digger also met Grapplah for the first time, thoroughly annoyed by him. He and King Shark then encountered Poison Ivy, who attacked them in an effort to get Mods cane for herself, only for her to lose to them badly. He then regroups with Grapplah and Rebbecca Langstrom, trying to find Mod and his cane. They eventually do, finding and killing him with the help of Copperhead.

### Learning the Truth

After picking up Poison Ivy, Hugo Strange, and Amanda Waller from the Cauldron, Digger along with the others learned that the quakes were in response to Superman's demise, that any attempts to leave Gotham will result in death, all of them are currently being tracked, and the only potential chance of their escape is to clear off as much of the List of Undesirables as possible. Digger is pissed at Waller, almost killing her with a boomerang before Ivy steps in. They all agree to a truce, and Digger goes to take a nap in a cell. Some time later, he wakes up to find notes from Waller nearby, and freaks out when he sees one of them is a romantic confession from her. The ruckus attracts Ivy, and the two have a conversation that ends with them searching the prison for Fox. Digger tries asking King Shark for help, but accidentally-on-purpose ends up pissing Shark off and ends up starting a fight between himself, King Shark, and Ivy. Ivy and Digger end up killing Shark, leaving him to bleed out. Digger had no time to mourn though, as Wildcat came in with promises of a truce, which both Ivy advised against but they ended up teaming together when Kyd told them Waller had been kidnapped by Fin.

### Team Bonding

Joining with Briscoe in his plane, Boomerang and Ivy start scoping out certain parts of the city with Wildcat, only to find several clusters of bombs spread throughout the city. They eventually deduct that Fin is hiding with Amanda in the Arkham sewers, and they send Kyd Wykkyd to scout ahead only for him to get attacked by a group of Fin’s cultists. The remaining group make their way into the sewers, finding Waller deeper in. Digger makes the choice to have him and Ivy take Wallers battered body to her greenhouse in Robinson Park, while Wildcat and his group goes even deeper in to find Kyd. When he and Ivy arrive at her base, putting Waller in stable condition and Digger receives an antidote to the various poisons and spores floating around. The two then chat again, with Ivy confiding in him that he’s probably closest thing to a friend she has at the moment. Before Digger can respond, Wildcat comes in very angry and carrying an unconscious Kyd. He and Digger almost get into another fight, before Ivy forces them apart and makes them continue their partnership (if only because Ivy threatened Wildcat, and they were doing this solely for Kyd and Amanda). The group splits up once more, with Wildcat and Ivy going to meet with Deadman for a potential cure for Kyd and Digger watching over the greenhouse.

### External Threats

After the pair return with Deadman, Ivy and Boomerang look for Firefly on her security system, find him at St. Charles, and at her insistence, the dynamic duo find him there, and start threatening him. This eventually deteriorates into a brawl between Ivy, Ethan Bennett, and Firefly that ends with Digger forcibly pulling Ivy off of the pyromaniac, Bennett taking over the fight, and Firefly bolting towards Marrero Park. Digger is the first to catch up to him, sabotaging Lynns’ jet pack in the process. And after another two short fights (Him, Bennett and Ivy against Firefly, and him and Ivy against Bennett) the group finally takes care of Firefly, with him getting roasted by his own flamethrower. Digger and Ivy then take another quick detour at the Cauldron, before returning to Ivy’s Greenhouse and have Kyd and Amanda finally wake up. Imperfect timing though, as Deadshot finds the team, kills Briscoe, and sends everyone into a panic. He and the rest of the team subdue him, and even strike a deal with Lawton and he ends up re-joining the squad along with Polka-Dot Man. Good times aren’t to be had for long though, as not too long after the team discovers Ivy’s been kidnapped by Firefly. However, during the rescue attempt, Digger and Deadshot were quickly subdued by Firefly’s borrowed fear toxin and knocked out for at least a few days. After being awoken by a pair of tweezers accidentally thrown to his face by Ivy, he’s brought up to speed on all that’s been happening and learns of Wildcat’s critical condition. He and Ivy then make their way to Wayne Manor and eventually WGTU Radio to alert other vigilantes to the threat of Onomatopoeia.

## Relationship

* **Amanda Waller**: He is often very joking towards Amanda. It is unknown if this is a coping mechanism or something else. And as strangely specific as it sounds, he seems to have no romantic attraction towards her, as evidenced by his horrified reaction towards the confession she left him.
* **Grapplah**: He does not like Grapplah and is often annoyed by him. Their relationship is strained at best.
* **Poison Ivy**: Boomerang and Ivy get along well, having known each other before the quakes and getting along well while on the Task Force. Their feelings of respect and friendship are reciprocated.
* **Briscoe**: Digger had a passive aggressive back-and-forth with Briscoe, and made fun of him for sitting on his plane *Sheba*, but it was always friendly at its core and Digger was actually distressed when he saw Briscoe dead.
* **Killer Moth**: Digger seems to have a long history with Killer Moth but not much is known about their relationship.
* **Wildcat**: Wildcat doesn't much care for Digger, and Digger is somewhat scared of him, or at least of fighting him. They recognize each other as allies.

## Trivia

* In his original fight with Ivy he used all his current boomerangs and that included a punching bag boomerang, though he restocked and found more.
* Digger has mentioned having a son in Central City, and obviously cares for him a lot as he almost kills Amanda in retaliation for probably never being able to see him again.
* Digger seems to get along well with his fellow Central City rogues, all except for Mirror Master and Heatwave.
* Digger has been on prior Suicide Squads/Task Forces, most notably one with Deadshot, Icicle, and Harley Quinn. He *really* doesn’t like Harley, as she betrayed them and almost got the rest of the squad killed. It’s unknown if he was being serious or over-exaggerating the story.
* Digger started his criminal career at 21, and is currently 30 years old.
* His greatest fear was shown to be being laughed at by those around him (The Squad, The Flash, The Rogues, Wildcat) during a fear toxin induced hallucination, as well as the death of his son.
* Is Deadman's preferred body to possess.

## OOC Notes

* The out of universe explanation for Digger to be the leader is because he was the first RPer to work with Amanda RPer in building the squad.
* His icon in the wiki is not the same as in the RP because his player doesn't want to change his actual icon, he does however acknowledges it.
* His player does not use a bot when Role playing. He simply has his nick name in the Discord as Captain Boomerang.
* His Player is allowed to control the other Suicide member bots when Amanda's player in unavailable.
* His player writes in what is considered Digger's accent when in character.
* Even though Digger's player loves laughing at Grapplah, Digger himself is shown to not like Grapplah.
* It is hard to keep track of Captain Boomerang as one of the editors screamed sarcastically while writing this article.
	+ Said editor didn't sarcastically screamed but instead had a near mental breakdown after being the only editor for over 10 different people and the whole of the discord's history. Clearly that changed but it is still hard to keep track of one of the main people.

## See also

**No Man's Land**

*36 Characters* | *10 Locations*