The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad ’s secret villain may have been bring out as Justice League scourge Starro The Conqueror . The hint comes good manners of a antecedently unseen tiny detail in the DC FanDome exclusive first - look footage that James Gunn uncover as part of his control board . beforehand of DC ’s unprecedented online digital upshot , Splash Reporthad tease that Starro was the independent baddie , but it was n’t until footage from the issue was poured over that Starro ’s involvement was uncover . The Illuminerdiwere the front - runners on offering that corroboration .
James Gunn’sThe Suicide Squadis not a sequelto David Ayer’sSuicide Squad , but only a linked follow - up that reboots the belongings while retaining key element like Margot Robbie ’s Harley Quinn , Viola Davis ' Amanda Waller , Joel Kinnaman ’s Rick Flag , and Jai Courtney ’s ( now Captain ) Boomerang . Once more engaged as Task Force X , those original member are joined by a huge fresh roll , including Idris Elba , John Cena , Sean Gunn , and Nathan Fillion in a huge secret deputation to write the public again in what Gunn called a 1970s war movie homage .
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So far , the identity element ofThe Suicide Squad ’s villain had been kept under wraps and was mostly overlook as the improbably starry cast was announced , but now there ’s a firm mite of whatBloodsport , Harley , TDK , Weasel and the unexampled crop of villains will be up against . And give the facts about traditional Justice League villain Starro , it reckon like they ’re break down to be face an incredible project . Quite literally .
How Starro Was Confirmed As The Suicide Squad’s Villain
As the Illuminerdi confirmed , the teaser from DC FanDome showed grainy footage of battlefield casualties around the Suicide Squad in whatever tropical country is shown in the footage . At least two of those fallen enemy have violet maven - like beast attached to their faces , which is , of class , the modus operandi of Starro The Conqueror . While it has n’t been confirmed yet , the majestic color scheme and how they ’re fitted to the ostensibly idle extra is huge evidence to Starro being behind it all .
Who Is Starro?
Starro The Conqueror was a big enough menace in the comics that he was chosen to be theJustice League ’s first foe after debut inBrave and the Bold#28 in 1960 . An improper character by comic Holy Scripture movie criterion , Starro is a supremely sound alien starfish creature with one giant eye and an army of spore clones up to of attaching themselves to victims and taking over their bodies . He ’s largely invulnerable , capable of extreme level of genial suggestion , and is drive by a world - capture hunger . Basically , the form of villain you would n’t want to ware proficient wedge on .
What Starro’s Plan In The Suicide Squad Could Be
Despite the fact that Starro ’s brain - control power dangerously harken back toEnchantress ' body - snatching inSuicide Squad , Starro ’s affair in the sequel should be a good matter . Presumably , his intention here will be what it normally is in the cartoon strip - universal territorial dominion . And fall in the setting for the action sequences shown in the footage , it would make sense that Starro ’s invasion site is the nation of merciless South American dictator General Luna ( Juan Diego Botto ) . Whether he is unwisely knead with Starro and building an army of drones to infest the US or if Task Force X is employ to salve his country ( perhaps as a secret friend to the US ) remains to be view , but it should be one of the two .
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Gunn has previous with wanting to utilise supremely sinewy foreign invaders . When he was ask during aGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2Q&A onFacebookabout which character he ’d wish to use for succeeding Guardians movies , he enjoin he was do-or-die to use Annihilus . So it sense like he ’s channel that all - conquering scale intoThe Suicide Squadinstead . And as for who is recreate the scoundrel ? Well , Taika Waititi ’s character is still to be announced …
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