DCEU Suicide Squad Characters Ranked From Least Heroic To Most Villainous
DCEU: Suicide Squad Characters Ranked From Least Heroic To Most Villainous
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The best characters in the DCEU’s first Suicide Squad movie aren’t exactly heroic but some of them are definitely bigger villains than others.
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One of the big questions at the heart of the 2016 Suicide Squad movie is what would happen if it was up to a group of supervillains to save the world? Fittingly, none of the characters really step up to the role of a hero, but some of them that are definitely more villainous than others.
The best characters from Suicide Squad are by no means the most pure-hearted and the real villains of the story deserve as much recognition for their acts as the reluctant antiheroes get for theirs. The least heroic of the squad are still by no means good people, but ranking the main characters by their villainy does help to understand some of the key themes at play in the movie.
10 Captain Boomerang
Captain Boomerang’s best quality seems to be that he’s a bit of a child deep down. His general demeanor and his love for a soft pink unicorn toy that he keeps close to him is almost sweet at times. While he’s clearly an untrustworthy and unlikable criminal who enjoys committing crimes, he doesn’t kill any actual people in the movie, just the drone soldiers that Enchantress creates.
He’s certainly no hero though, he looks out for himself essentially at all times. Boomerang is just as bad at being a villain as he is at being a hero but Jai Courtenay’s empathetic performance also implies that he could have some redemptive qualities somewhere in there.
9 Rick Flag
Flag is the closest thing that the movie has to a conventional hero but he’s no choir boy by any means. He’s a highly trained special forces soldier who makes it clear that he’s done some very questionable–maybe even downright illegal–things in the past.
Deadshot even marvels a little Flag’s two-faced nature as he attempts to cut his own side deals with people in the movie’s great game of lying and leveraging. He still has a conscience though, and he’s ultimately motivated by his love for Dr. June Moon, so there’s hope for him yet.
8 El Diablo
Diablo is the only member of the squad who actively and consistently shows remorse for their past actions which is a positive quality. However, it’s somewhat overshadowed by the severity of his past crimes.
Diablo accidentally killed his own wife and children in a fit of uncontrolled metahuman rage, with his status as a murderous criminal kingpin preceding him. He tries very hard to not be a villain but, despite his tragic backstory, his powers make him very good at being one.
7 Killer Croc
Killer Croc is the secret heart of the movie in a lot of ways. He encapsulates the running theme that society creates its own villains, clearly establishing that his monstrous nature stems from how he had been treated in his past due to his appearance.
Though KC did indeed become the beast that the world painted him as he’s still a thoughtful individual in a lot of situations and he needs relatively little convincing when the squad has to turn it all around and do the right thing.
6 Harley Quinn
Harley is another character who comes quite close to looking like a hero in the movie but they’re ultimately bound to a very dark past full of numerous mistakes. She’s a complex character in the sense that Harley’s relationship with the Joker paints her as a victim, even after the reshoots, while she’s also shown to be a very strong-willed person in other situations.
One thing that’s certain is that Harley has made her own decisions in life and she certainly has an undeniable dark side. She enjoys psychologically manipulating people in moments of boredom and her association with the Joker alone makes her one of the biggest criminals in the DCEU.
5 Deadshot
Deadshot is a professional killer and a general low-life but he’s actually quite self-aware. He has no delusions of grandeur despite a metahuman-like skill with firearms and operates by somewhat of code.
Deadshot’s love for his daughter is also one of the most human and all-around good qualities that any of the characters in the movie display and it’s an integral part of his character. Nevertheless, that aspect of him is balanced at all times but his job as a “serial killer who takes credit cards”, as Flag puts it.
4 Slipknot
Slipknot doesn’t have much backstory or personality revealed in Suicide Squad as most of it was cut but what little info the audience gets on him is all very bad stuff. He’s unlikable right from the word go and never demonstrates any redeemable or relatable qualities.
The only thing holding him back from the ranks of the movie’s greatest villains is that he’s not particularly competent either. Slipknot is the first of the squad to exit the group by getting the explosive charge in his neck detonated in a foolhardy escape attempt. He may have not even done it had he not been talked into it by the clearly untrustworthy Captain Boomerang.
3 The Joker
Joker is as sadistic in Suicide Squad as fans would expect from the iconic criminal and he certainly does nothing but bad things throughout the movie, but there’s ultimately still some hope left in Jared Leto’s performance. Many speculated that Leto’s Joker could even be a transformed Jason Todd but the theory was shot down quite quickly by the movie’s director.
Nevertheless, fans do get a glimpse of a normal Joker played by Leto during Harley’s vision in the finale and that, plus the vulnerability that he exhibits in his more private moments with Harley, mean that there could one day be some redemption for this version of the character, despite their horrible deeds such as murder, intimidation, and torture.
2 Enchantress
In terms of superpowers, Enchantress is the real big bad of the movie. Together with her brother Incubus, she kills untold numbers of innocent civilians and soldiers when she lays waste to Midway city and her aim seems to be total global destruction.
She’s never in any danger of straying into heroics throughout the story but there is a somewhat sympathetic quality to her beyond just the host body that she inhabits, Dr. June Moon. Enchantress is more of an alien figure within the makeup of the DCEU’s world and she doesn’t really seem like she wants to be there but is drawn into a personal game of revenge when Waller seeks to control her. Enchantress also shows some genuine affection towards her brother, which means that she’s not quite the most self-interested character in the entire movie.
1 Amanda Waller
While Amanda Waller isn’t the villain trying to destroy the world in Suicide Squad, she does effectively cause the situation and she shows absolutely no remorse for the incident whilst also receiving no punishment either. A lot of people die as the result of her manipulation of Enchantress but, by the end of it all, she seems to be in as strong a position of power as ever.
Waller is the true master manipulator in the movie, controlling not only the squad but the whole government it would seem. A team of supervillains logically needs an even bigger supervillain pulling the strings and Amanda seems more than willing to take on that role.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/best-suicide-squad-characters-ranked-heroic-villainous/
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