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Since it was first announced that Idris Elba would be taking on a mystery role in James Gunn’sSuicide Squadsequel ( simply titledThe Suicide Squad ) , fans clamor for rumor on which DC Comics character he would be playing . Those rumors were finally put to respite during the company ’s practical issue , DC Fandome , finally confirmingIdris Elba will be playing the supervillain Bloodsport .
Like many of the flick ’s cast of super - criminals , Bloodsport is both an sometime character and one that most of the general populace knows very little about . But unlike most of the film ’s other characters , Bloodsport ’s comic book origins are considerably less zany and far more ground in the material - world violence harry America today .
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Though not a metahuman , Bloodsport possesses a individualize teleportation gadget that provide him to transport an almost straight-out variety of military weaponry , both big and small-scale , right into his hands . The first sentence he used this trick on Superman , he managed to take the Kryptonian off sentry duty andfamously inject him with a kryptonite bullet – which Superman later remarks had never been done before . The with child Boy Scout would have exit right then and there were it not for Jimmy Olsen intervening . Like with his first flak on civilians , DuBois ends it with a passion - induce rant centered around Vietnam before once again fly the coop .
As it turn out , Bloodsport ’s in high spirits - technical school terror spree in Metropolis was being financed by none other that Superman ’s dandy foe , billionaire Lex Luthor . Hoping to tap not only DuBois ’s military expertness , but also his shaky mental state , Luthor hired psychologists to fanaticize him against his mortal enemy . arm him with the most state - of - the - artwork weapons in LexCorp ’s illegal arsenal , Luthor hoped Bloodsport would amount at Superman with a level of brutality even the ostensibly invulnerable extraterrestrial being would n’t be able to survive . What Lex did n’t promise was that Bloodsport ’s mental nation would drop to such a arcdegree that he would openly kill civilians , and to Luthor ’s minimal credit , he actually does send his security military group out to kibosh him .
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In their final encounter , Superman attempted to reason with Bloodsport – even offer to obtain him a Dr. to help him overcome the Scheol he went through in " that useless war . " While DuBois and Supes battle it out through Metropolis , Jimmy investigate DuBois ' chronicle , eventually realizing Bloodsport was n’t even in Vietnam – he was a potation dodger . After receiving his Induction Notice DuBois fled to Canada , but his young brother Mickey decided to extend himself off as Robert and take his place to keep his pal from being brand a coward . But while in Vietnam , Mickey suffer a life - threatening injury that left him a quadruple amputee . Though Robert expend years in psychiatrical hospital try on to process his brother ’s trauma , the guilt became too much for the old chum to bear , and it speedily nick aside at his psyche .
Realizing there was only one world capable of stopping Bloodsport , Olsen reach out to his younger pal and convince him to blab sense into his mentally unwell sib . The plan work , and Bloodsport was left sobbing into his brother ’s lap covering . In a unique wrench , it ’s actually Jimmy and not Superman who rescue the final monologue at the goal of the issue , reflect on the fact that for the DuBois brothers ( and many veterans of the era ) , Vietnam never end . And though he never served , Robert DuBois was nonetheless another victim of one of America’s"useless"wars .
Though he was send to Stryker ’s Island Penitentiary , Bloodsport would extend to come out in later comedian , often depicted as a soldier of fortune place to assassinate Superman or one of his Kryptonian friend . He even previously appear in alive - military action form ( played by David St. Louis ) in an episode ofSupergirltitled"Girl of Steel , " hired by corrupt real estate of the realm tycoon Morgan Edge to take down National City ’s waterfront slum area to make way of life for new high lift buildings . In the episode , Bloodsport is seen using stealth fight vehicles equipped with cloaking gadget and plasma weapons . He also antecedently appeared in the animated seriesJustice League : Unlimited , first as one of Roulette ’s Meta - Brawl champions and then later as a member of the Legion of Doom .
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Internet researchers will also discover that while in prison , Robert ’s codename was appropriated by a White Supremacist named Alex Trent . Like his predecessor , Trent was embed with the same teleportation machine that allowed him to cite weapons at his command , which he used to go on a anti-Semite terror fire throughout Metropolis . The two Bloodsports eventually met in prison , and DuBois closely killed Trent in a fight – but is stopped by Superman ( though the Aryan Brotherhood later burn off Trent alive in his jail cell ) . Tragically , DuBois is dash and belt down by prison house guards not long after while assay to run .
Like many of John Byrne ’s Superman reference of the 1980s , Bloodsport is a villain ground in a dark realism not often seen in other depictions of the Man of Steel . He ’s not just a villain , he ’s a mass - shooter – make in a time before such ugly events were even discussed candidly in comic book . And he represent an more and more leave geological era of American history , where the United States forced new men to fight and die in an unneeded warfare , and then condemned them after they return home . A subtitle in the final panel ofSuperman # 4reads " Dedicated to the names on the Black Wall – and those who remember them , " a clear reference to the famous Vietnam Veterans Memorial .
While James Gunn’sSuicide Squadsequel promises to be abloody activity rompfull of gore andwacky characters , the fact that they have award - winning actor Idris Elba playing such sombre character think there is probably more emotional system of weights to this film than meet the heart .
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