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Pre-Release theories

Taika Waititi is voicing King Shark.

Let's be honest, it would be more surprising if he wasn't. This is definitely the type of character he would play, in the vein of Korg and IG-11. It's also pretty suspicious that Taika was the only one on the cast list whose character wasn't confirmed in the teaser.

• Jossed, it's already been confirmed Steve Agee is King Shark.
  • It's been confirmed that's he's the on-set stand-in for King Shark. His voice is still unconfirmed.
• It’s possible they could get Ron Funches to do the role here since he’s already become an iconic voice for the character.
• Jossed with the first trailer. Sylvester Stallone is voicing him.
• Or alternatively, Waititi will voice Starro telepathically speaking to the other characters.
• The first batch of behind the scenes stills indicate that he'll be Ratcatcher 1.
  • Confirmed.

Pete Davidson will be the Sacrificial Lamb.

Davidson seems so wildly out of place in this story and cast that it makes a lot more sense for him to be a Joke Character who dies early on than to actually be part of the squad. At least let’s hope so, cause Davidson’s a shit actor.

• Just for that, I hope Gunn trolls us all and has Blackguard live and be an annoying jackass for the whole movie.
  • I personally don’t see that happening since they’re bringing back Captain Boomerang, who fulfills the role of obnoxious jackass. Given Boomerang always makes it through every mission in the comics and he’s popular enough to be one of only four characters who’s returning, I think he’s definitely safe, which means that any other character who comes across a similarly obnoxious douchebag is in danger of getting the axe, since they probably won’t want two or more of the same archetype present on the main squad. Davidson almost exclusively seems to play obnoxious douchebags, so I’m inclined to think he’ll play one here and die.
  • One way around that would be too make him and Boomerang into Those Two Guys.
• Confirmed. Both Blackguard and Boomerang die early on.

This film will have a much higher body count among the squad than the previous entry.

Given the much larger amount of characters, it stands to reason that several of them won’t make it out alive.

• Confirmed. Only five of the Squad members (six if you count Sebastian) survive to the end.

Sol Soria is the gender swapped version of Juan Soria

The original Ratcatcher will appear in a flashback

• Confirmed. He appears in two.

The squad will suffer a much larger body count than in the previous movie

The first movie was widely criticized for having too many characters, meaning that a lot of them got pushed to the side without proper characterization or plot use. So the idea that they’d introduce us to an even bigger squad feels like it’s a setup for a ton of them to die. Specifically, I believe a decent amount of characters will die early in the mission, and tune well probably see a couple more go along the way too.

• More or less confirmed via Word of God. Granted, only two members of the squad died in the previous film, so beating those numbers while still allowing several characters to live could be done be fairly easily.
• Confirmed. Most of them don't even make it to the opening credits.

Who will be safe?

Which of the characters can we be sure will make it out of this?

• Harley Quinn: Obviously safe
  • Confirmed. She survives.
• Bloodsport: Appears to be the new Deadshot like leading man, so he seems pretty safe
  • Confirmed. He survives, and blackmails Waller into freeing him and the remaining members.
• Rick Flag: A squad mainstay and the official leader, he’ll be safe
  • Jossed. Peacemaker kills him.
• Captain Boomerang: A fan favorite, and the fact that they’d bring back a minor character from the previous film means he’ll definitely be safe
  • Jossed. He dies in the opening battle.
• King Shark will very likely make it out fine due to his profile and popularity greatly rising recently, especially since it looks like he’ll be based on his extremely loved portrayal in Harley Quinn. The fact that he’s even going to be one of the main characters in the Suicide Squad video game helps his chances as well. Same goes for Harley and Boomerang.
  • Confirmed. He survives.
• Peacemaker is set to have his own Spin-Off so unless the show is a prequel or part of a different continuity, he seems safe as well.
• Confirmed. Though his survival is not revealed until The Stinger.

If this film’s a success, then Will Smith will come back as Deadshot

I don’t know when, and I don’t know if it’ll even be in a Suicide Squad movie, but it’ll happen.

How would the new members be introduced?

Aside from Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang, what would be their possible origins and introductions for the new members?

• The Squad is already assembled when the film starts. There is some vague exposition for certain members of the main Squad, but most of the others are not given backstories.

Starro will be the Big Bad

• Confirmed.

At least half the team will die stupidly in X-Force fashion

Before even getting into their assigned positions, like parachuting in the wrong places. Or they can fall into obvious traps.

• Confirmed. Most of these deaths happen in the first battle.

Ranking Likelihood of Death

• Harley Quinn: Safe (I mean come on, it’s obvious)
  • Counterargument: In a recent interview Margot Robbie stated that she's unsure when she'll be playing Harley again, due to how physically exhausting the role has been for her. This ambivalent reaction on her part could indicate that Harley might possibly die in the film. Nothing could further validate the slogan "don't get too attached" than by killing off the most popular and ostensibly lead character in the film.
    • Lives
• Amanda Waller: Safe (Waller never dies, it won’t happen here)

  • Lives

• Captain Boomerang: Safe (Boomerang always makes it out against all odds, and the fact that he’s being brought back for this one despite being a minor role in the first makes me think James Gunn likes the character and actor and wants to do more with him)
  • Counterargument: He appears in the trailer alongside other members that are clearly goners. He doesn’t have a single scene with a core team, meaning he could be the first Sacrificial Lion of the film.
    • Dies.
• King Shark: Safe (A squad mainstay who has recently experienced a huge surge in popularity. I really doubt they’re gonna kill off a character who’s recently become so beloved, especially since it seems like he’ll be based on his wildly popular portrayal in Harley Quinn)

  • Lives

• Rick Flag: Safe (The team leader who always survivors to call the shots once more, and the fact that he’s looking more comic accurate this time means they’ll probably try to do him justice unlike the last film, which would be harder to do if they killed him)
  • Counterargument: Rick Flag seemingly died decently early on in the original John Ostrander run, which this movie has said to be taking lots of inspiration from. He was presumed dead for 18 years until 2007. Joel Kinnaman was also one of the people saying to not get attached. Rick Flag dying would be something unexpected, with source material still being very available.
    • Dies
• Ratcatcher 2: Probably Safe (The character could bite it, but considering this is a brand new, genderbent incarnation I doubt that Gunn will kill her off)
  • Counterargument: She promises to keep Bloodsport safe in the trailer, in the new rain trailer we see her summon an army of rats and seems to have a sad smile on her face looking at an approaching threat. That pretty much smacks of Heroic Sacrifice while keeping her word.
    • Lives
• Bloodsport: Probably Safe (The new leading man filling in for Deadshot, so he looks pretty safe, but I could imagine the possibility of him getting a big Heroic Sacrifice near the end given the character’s obscurity. However, I’m guessing that won’t happen and they’ll leave him open to continue appearing)
  • Counterargument: Bloodsport could probably be killed off to give an opening for Deadshot to return in a potential sequel. The character was originally written to be Deadshot, but if Will Smith returns, to have Bloodsport and Deadshot in the same movie might seem redundant. They might kill Bloodsport off to avoid that.
    • Lives
• Polka Dot Man: Probably Safe (He might die, but I think he’s gonna be a fan favorite who the average person will think is a Joke Character, but will prove to be a useful badass. At the very least, even if he winds up dead, it’ll happen close to the end)
  • Reinforcement: Being The Eeyore (as his "We're all gonna die" line in the trailer shows), he will most probably survive out of sheer irony.
  • Counterargument: In the "Rain" trailer, he happily declares "I'm a superhero!", which kind of screams that he's going to die immediately afterwards.
  • Reinforcement: However, being who he is, he might intentionally try and tempt fate by invoking as many deathflags as possible, only to survive in the end anyway against all odds in a fit of ultimate irony.
    • Dies
• Sol Soria: Probably Safe (First off, apparently she’s an ally to the squad and not a member, meaning she’s likely more innocent than them. She also appears to be a genderbent character, and as I noted, making a new character like that could help, cause would they want to kill off this new incarnation? However, if they want a sad moment, killing off a more innocent revolutionary could make it happen. Granted we don’t know just how innocent she is)
  • Counterargument: if a female character does die, it'll probably be her; Juan Soria, the character she's apparently based on, only appeared in two comics ever and died in his second appearance. Even the comics version Blackguard has more to his name!
    • Lives
• Weasel: Leaning Towards Dead (On one hand he’s played by the director’s brother and could be a sort of Team Pet like character, but there’s already the cuter King Shark, and Weasel is comparatively unknown and less successful on the squad in the comics. I think he’ll make it a decent way into the film, but I am expecting right now that he’ll probably die)
  • Reinforcement: He's played by Sean Gunn, who tends to be a Chronically Killed Actor in his brother's movies
    • Seemingly dies, then in the scene before the credits role is revealed to have lived
• Peacemaker: Leaning Towards Dead (On one hand, he’s played by the ever popular Memetic Badass John Cena who’s clearly being built up as one of the film’s stars. However, that means he could easily be a perfect Sacrificial Lion. There’s also the fact that his character seems like an unstable man who could definitely end up rebelling. He could make it through here, but I think he seems ripe for a surprise death)
  • Counterargument: He's getting his own HBO Max show, and I don't think that many people would watch a prequel about someone who we've already seen die. Of course I could be wrong.
    • Seemingly dies, then in the post credits scene is revealed to have lived
• Savant: Probably Dead (I think he’ll get some cool moments and last awhile, but something about Michael Rooker in that silly costume just screams death.

  • Dies

• Mongal: Probably Dead (Worth noting, she’s not part of the team. Based on comics she should be the most powerful person here, but I feel like that means she’ll be end up dying either as a Sacrificial Lion or in a Heroic Sacrifice.

  • Dies

• The Thinker: Probably Dead (Right now I’m thinking he’ll take on a villainous role given his character is treacherous in the comics and he just looks so dastardly here. If he stays on the squad’s side, I think he could survive though, but I’m not predicting that)

  • Dies

• TDK: Dead (He’ll get some time to shine and show off his hilarious powers, but I just have an unshakable feeling that he’s a goner)

  • Ambiguous: While his arms get riddled with bullets, a closer look at a monitor shows him to be in critical condition while the rest of the dead team members are explicitly labeled deceased. Word of God states that he's alive, but still…

• Javelin: Dead (As much as I want to see Flula Borg impaling people with a javelin as a former Olympic athletes turned criminal, I don’t see how a character like this lasts too long. Captain Boomerang is already the team’s Improbable Weapon User and I don’t see how Javelin outlasts him. Him getting to the first act would be lucky. He’ll get some time to show off a bit though)
  • In a couple shots of the first trailer, Harley is carrying his Javelin (Including during the rescue scene), so probably confirmed.
    • Dies
• Blackguard: So Fucking Dead (There’s no way this guy lasts long. In addition to being an obscure and uninteresting character, he’s being played by a questionable actor, has a generic costume, and Davidson was apparently listed as a cameo. The man’s clearly a goner).

  • Dies, the first onscreen death but surprisingly not a sole casualty like Slipknot

Multiple characters will be blown up by the explosive collars instead of just one.

• Jossed. Only one character dies via their explosive.

One of the team members will be a traitor, with the larger number of squad members making it harder to figure out who The Mole is.

• Confirmed to an extent. Blackguard betrays the team as soon as they arrive at Corto Maltese, but is immediately gunned down anyway.

One member of the Suicide Squad will either escape in the field or have the chance to but stay to help.

Savant will have a Surprisingly Sudden Death in the middle of a Badass Boast or a Sherlock Scan.

• Yes, though it's in the middle of an attempt at running away from the battle

Ratcatcher's running gag will be that she's always talking to her rats as if they're sentient.

A Funko Pop leak confirmed that she's named at least one (Sebastian), and considering she's a goofier concept for a character to begin with, being a Cloud Cuckoo Lander who's so into her job as "Lord Of The Rats" that she thinks she can communicate with them would seem like a fun direction to take the character.

• Animal talk is an established power thanks to Aquaman, so she wouldn't be seen as crazy.

None of the Suicide Squad Will Die

The ultimate subversion.

• Jossed. James Gunn has said explicitly that this won't happen. Only six of them survive.

Bloodsport's team is sent in after Harley's team fails.

When I was watching the trailer, I noticed that Bloodsport, Ratcatcher, Peacemaker, Polka Dot Man, and King Shark, don't interact with many of the other characters. My theory is that they are the 2nd team sent in after the Squad Harley is a part of jacks up something royal, or goes missing.

• I had a similar assumption, only I was thinking that two teams would be sent in at the same time. One to do one mission, the other to do another.
  • Yes, though that team was clearly sent in to die

The Thinker is actually The Man Behind the Man for Starro.

There have been two hints establishing this theory:

• Firstly, there was a scene in the trailer where Rick Flag, Harley Quinn and Bloodsport threatened the Thinker with death if he does something suspicious.
• A batch of character posters contain each character being surrounded by multiple objects. The Thinker's poster has starfish colored blue and purple, which is Starro's actual form.
• Sort of? I mean Thinker's role in the film is that he's experimenting on Starro, who goes on a rampage when the Squad accidentally break him free, Thinker is definately behind the Starro threat, but they are in no way alligned, and Thinker is his first victim when he escapes.

Rick Flag will be the sole survivor of an early mission.

A shot in the trailer shows Flag in full combat gear with a team that includes Captain Boomerang, Weasel, Blackguard, Mongal, Javelin, TDK, and Savant. Of these, only Flag is shown in scenes with the film's primary team. In Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad Special #1, Flag is the sole survivor of a team that goes on a mission to Nicaragua. Notably, this team includes Weasel and the original Thinker, both characters in this movie. Flag is not the sole survivor, but he is the only one not captured.

King Shark is employing Obfuscating Stupidity

He's pretending to be dumb so that people will underrate him, and he's actually a cunning individual.

One or more of the Squad members will appear to die early on, only to show up again later brainwashed into serving Starro

Which will probably lead to them actually dying, since I doubt anyone on the team has qualms about pulling Shoot the Hostage.

Peacemaker will get a heroic moment set to "The Time is Now."

Peacemaker will be seemingly killed or abandon the team. As one of the antagonists prepares to kill the Squad, he'll dramatically return with the song blaring.

• Jossed.

The Polka-Dot Man tried to be a hero.

Based on his "I'm a superhero!" line from the "Rain" trailer, the Polka-Dot Man was someone who was inspired by Superman to put on a costume and try to make the world a better place as a superhero. But his first outing went so disastrously wrong that it resulted in him being labelled a supervillain and thrown in prison. His depressed, death seeking demeanor is the result of the guilt and shame he feels over being a complete failure.

• Confirmed to an extent. His mother experiemented on him and his siblings because she wanted to make her own superheroes, but this failed.

King Shark is intelligent but seems Stupid because...

English is not his first language. As the descendent of an ancient Shark God and a Hawaiian Woman (presumably as that is his origin in the comics), his first language would be Hawaiian.

"Arm-Fall-Off Boy" will be a mocking nickname for TDK

Supposedly, TDK is based on the (in)famous Legion of Super-Heroes joke character Arm-Fall-Off Boy, but renamed to the slightly-less-obviously-silly "The Detachable Kid". However, at some point in the movie, someone will make fun of him by calling him "Arm-Fall-Off Boy" and the nickname will stick.

• Jossed. He does survive the beach.

Post-release theories

Captain Boomerangs glowing Boomerang had some kind of special power

Considering how all the others seemed like, well, regular boomerangs, and this was the one he was clutching when he died it wouldn't seem too weird to assume that that particular boomerang had some kind of special force - probably creating a shield around him to protect him from the incoming helicopter. Would also explain how he survived all the previous missions.

Polka-Dot Man killed his mother, either accidentally or on purpose.

He doesn't give a straight answer to the question of where his mother currently is, saying only that he sees her everywhere. The hallucinations are a pretty clear indicator of his trauma and the resentment he holds towards his mother, but they could also indicate guilt on his part for something he did to her. It's not out of the question that he eventually lashed out at his mother, instinctively or in response to her abuse, and disintegrated her with the dots.

• Alternatively, his hallucinations are because he didn't kill her: perhaps he wanted to kill her, but she died from unrelated reasons (maybe an accident at STAR Labs, or even just natural causes), leading him to have no outlet for his resentment against her except by killing people he hallucinates as being her. That could be why he sees her "everywhere": he wasn't even able to receive the catharsis of killing her in real life, and thus remains haunted by his memory of her.
• Confirmed by a deleted scene where the Thinker brings up Abner's past in an effort to manipulate him. Abner claims that he accidentally killed his mother in an attempt to defend himself from her.

Amanda Waller either knew about or was in on Blackguard selling out his team.

It's shown Waller is willing to do absolutely anything for the mission to be completed, so sending one team as fodder to distract the soldiers so the other team can safely make landfall is definitely something she would do.

• This is further supported by the fact that we never saw the first team receive the intel that the second team got, meaning that they were expendable fodder in any case, only receiving information on a need-to-know basis. Furthermore, the deaths of Rick Flagg and Harley Quinn would only work in favor of Waller's plans - Harley is a nutcase and liability, potentially the biggest on the team, and Flagg's sense of honor and decency could prevent the Peacemaker from fully completing his secondary assignment.

Waller didn't send the team to rescue Flagg; she sent them to dismantle the resistance

Note that the other Task Force was horrified to learn that Flagg wasn't being held prisoner by the Corto Maltese government; the resistance rescued him, and he decided to ally with them to overturn the coup. Amanda set them up to succeed by telling them to terminate everyone with impunity. She didn't tell them the truth because given Bloodsport has Evil Virtues and wouldn't kill innocents for the fun of it, everyone except King Shark would have hesitated.

Flagg figured out that he was set up to die.

Look at his expression when Peacemaker turns on him; he's not surprised. It took him a few minutes to put two and two together after the Thinker had revealed that American astronauts had delivered Starro to Corto Maltese to turn the alien into a thinking weapon. Flagg knows that he's too principled for the Wall's lack of ethics, and especially when the other Task Force revealed that Waller ordered them to terminate his captors, mistakenly thinking that the government had captured him. Why does he decide to fight for the USB instead of evacuating his crew? Because Peacemaker is thorough, and Flagg is not going to go down gently.

• Confirmed in the deleted scene where Flagg realized that his team was sent as a diversion while having a conversation with Bloodsport. It was for a petty reason, however.

Ratcatcher's rat-controlling technology is a Magic Feather.

It seems unlikely that Ratcatcher 1 was able to create an advanced device capable of controlling rats despite being a penniless drug addict (it's not the most implausible thing a mad scientist in a comic has created under similar circumstances, but it's certainly not them most plausible). However, this could be explained if the Ratcatchers were both metahumans with the power of controlling rats, who only thought that their abilities came from technology, much like how the New 52 rewrote some of the Flash's Rogues to be metahumans. This would also justify why Waller selects Cleo to be on the team despite the fact that she's not well suited to the mission (she has no combat experience, spends a lot of her time sleeping, and is more moral than Waller would like) instead of giving the device she uses to a trusted soldier: the device wouldn't work for other people, because she's the reason it can control rats.

Potential members for a sequel

If a sequel for the film is greenlighted, and a new roster for Task Force X is reestablished:

• Bronze Tiger
• Plastique
• Clock King
• Punch & Jewelee
• Black Manta
• Wild Dog
• Deathstroke
• Count Vertigo
• Condiment King
• Killer Moth
• Man-Bat
• Lobo
• Firefly
• Vigilante
• Sportsmaster
  • Kite Man was originally going to included, but was replaced with Polka Dot Man because James Gunn felt he was too much of a go-to Butt-Monkey, but left it open for future sequels.
• Poison Ivy
• Dogwelder, who was originally meant to be part of the roster for this movie. Gunn didn't use him because he's an animal lover and a guy who welds dead dogs to people was too far for his tastes, but never say never, right?
• Sixpack, Dogwelder's teammate.
• Tommy Monaghan
• Planet Master
• Ten-Eyed Man
• The Eraser
• White Rabbit
• Egg Fu
• Blue Snowman
• Codpiece
• Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
• Magog
• The Fiddler
• Brother Power, the Geek
• Catman
• Lord Death Man, could make a joke about how he actually can't technically be kept in line with the bomb
• Elmer Fudd (the incarnation who fought Batman)
• Red Tool

The sequel will have all the surviving members of Task Force X from both movies

James Gunn did indeed make sure Deadshot's character wasn't retconned given how he was one of the best characters from the 2016 film so it's possible that they could do the same for the other old cast members. It could allow the old Task Force X to be given more depth like Killer Croc and Katana. And their interactions with the new squad would be interesting. It would also make their potential deaths all the more saddening as we've spent two movies invested in these rogues.The Squad in the third movie would hence be comprised of:

• Bloodsport
• Deadshot
• Harley Quinn
• Katana
• Ratcatcher II
• King Shark
• Killer Croc
• Weasel
• TDK (his death was never shown, just that he was critically injured and Gunn even confirmed he's alive)

Circumstances for how they get back together is that they could bring back Enchantress and properly do her character

The supervillain team Onslaught will be introduced in a sequel

Onslaught would make a good foil to the Suicide Squad, as Onslaught is an international team of superpowered terrorists for hire whereas the Suicide Squad is a United States government-sponsored black ops team.

• Perhaps in line with this movie's critique of US militarism and foreign policy, Onslaught could be revealed to have been formerly sponsored by the US to cause trouble in Qurac or other enemy nations before going rogue (paralleling the argument that US intervention in Afghanistan and its support of the mujahideen contributed to the rise of Al-Qaeda).
• That said, after the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the creators of the next film might want to ensure that the sequel is Distanced from Current Events and thus not have Middle Eastern terrorists as the villains. At the very least, they might be separated from Middle Eastern conflicts (much like Jotunheim was originally in Qurac in the comics, but was moved to being in Corto Maltese), perhaps casting them as a much more international group of mercenaries for hire, with no links to Middle Eastern regimes, real or fictional.

Savant was read into Project Starfish

• Waller always has a card up her sleeve. While the first team may have seemed filled with joke characters, it also had experience members like Harley, Boomerang, and Flagg on it. Mongal could have identified Starro, being an alien herself, TDK would have been useful during the scene where Peacemaker's arm couldn't reach the steering wheel of the truck he was crashing. Theoretically, if Blackguard hadn't sold them out they could have been as effective on the mission as team 2. But Waller being Waller, she had two teams and decided to relegate the first to being a distraction when their landing didn't work out. Still, she didn't have to waste resources by blowing up Savant, a skilled professional was fully onboard for the mission and likely would have been for future missions if they don't start with an ambush. So why kill him when he fled? Because if team one succeeded, he was likely the person who filled Peacemaker's role of destroying the information about America's involvement in Project Starfish. She couldn't let that information get back, and if he showed he was willing to ignore orders for his personal gain she couldn't trust him to live like she could Peacemaker.

Waller is saving Deadshot for another mission.

His absence is, of course, actually because Will Smith wasn't available, but it makes sense in-universe as well. Deadshot is quite possibly the world's most skilled marksman, so he's too useful an asset to have been cannon fodder on Team A. However, coming from a non-military background, his skills might not save him in a prolonged, all-out-warzone firefight, meaning he's not quite as useful to Team B as Bloodsport or Peacemaker. He would probably fair better in a more discreet, assassination-oriented mission, so it would stand to reason that Waller is keeping him on the sidelines until he's needed for a mission where his expertise can be better utilized.

• He was also happy with his deal at the end of the first film, so he's probably not as desperate as last time and would need more coaxing to sign up while refusing missions obviously doomed to fail.

Calendar Man's appearance here was a Mythology Gag

• As an inmate at Belle Reve, he mocks Polka-Dot Man by asking if he can perform at his kid's birthday party. In his last appearance outside of comics, Calendar Man is also behind bars and apparently forgot his son's birthday.

Weasel is secretly a genius

• He is not a brainless creature as the movie wants you to believe. He can actually swim. He pretended to drown and die. Just play dead on the ground until the close is cleared. It was all part of his plan to escape Amanda Waller and prison life. He is actually pretty smart.

Anyone in this franchise can die except for Harley Quinn

• Harley is way too popular of a character to be killed off.

Captain Boomerang faked his death

• In the comics, Boomerang tried to commit crimes while on the Suicide Squad by pretending to be fellow Flash Rogue Mirror Master, a character whose equipment allows him to create illusions and teleport through reflections. Perhaps Digger used his colleague's tech here as well, and his glowing boomerang was actually a hologram projector to make it look like he died while he teleported away. It would explain why a notorious coward decided to Go Out with a Smile, and would fit his comic counterpart's knack for surviving against all odds.

Anthony Miller might appear in future Suicide Squad films

Peacemaker sustained brain damage from his throat injury denying oxygen to his brain, causing him to develop the delusions of his comic counterpart

In the comics Peacemaker believes that his helmet contains the souls of the people he's killed and that they speak to him. It would make sense that this incident, combined with the guilt of killing Rick, will cause him to hallucinate both Rick and his deceased father (who has already been cast for the series).

• The show could use this as part of a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane explanation for Peacemaker's belief that he can see ghosts, since while the "logical" answer is that he's hallucinating or suffering from PTSD, the presence of the supernatural in the DC universe also allows for the possibility that Peacemaker isn't delusional. This comes partly true in the final episode of Peacemaker's show: he hallucinates his father's ghost ranting at him, with said spirit appearing when Peacemaker is right next to one of his helmets. While Peacemaker acknowledges that this is just a hallucination, it also evokes the idea that his helmet is linked to the souls of the dead.

Sebastian is named after the king of Portugal

• Since Ratcatcher 2 is Portuguese, she may have know about that king and the legends surrounding him. Bonus points for the King in the Mountain myths with king Sebastian, where he's supposed to reappear in Portugal's darkest hour.

Waller orchestrated the entire film - up to and possibly including the Squad killing Starro.

• Amanda Waller is one of the greatest Chessmasters in the DC Universe itself, and everything in the film is the result of careful planning and precision.
  • Blackguard: Waller knows the best way to slip a team in unnoticed is to create a big enough distraction. As the above WMG points out, she must have at least known about the sell-out. If she organized it, she probably tasked it to Blackguard alone and simply told him the team would be taken prisoner instead of killed - hence his surprise when they come out with guns blazing.
  • Harley: If General Luna is taken at his word, Harley is a popular figure in Corto Maltese, and Amanda likely knew this and figured out how to exploit it. Notice that Harley is taken prisoner fairly easily, and when Luna finds out he almost seems like he was expecting her to be there. The soldiers on the beach likely had orders to watch for Harley and capture her if necessary. At the same time, Waller knows Harley has a softer side and wouldn't put up with Luna's brutality once she found out about it, and is more than competent enough to kill everyone in her way out of the palace.
  • The beach team: Barring Blackguard (who dies immediately), Boomerang (whose weapons are powerful but can only kill a few at a time) Flagg (while skilled, he's just one guy), and Harley (who probably only brought one RPG), everyone on the beach team is a close-range brawler at best. Even Savant, who is described as being an expert marksman, is sent in without a gun. The team as a whole was designed to fail.
  • Flagg: More of a Xanatos Gambit; if he dies on the beach, Waller got rid of someone who would likely expose Starfish rather than follow orders. If he survives, the rest of the team has a competent special forces soldier to add to their ranks, and Waller still has Peacemaker if he gets too far.
  • Starro: Here's where things get iffy. While Waller likely didn't expect Peacemaker to (seemingly) bite it, she expected there to be a good chance that Starro would break out, even if a building was collapsed on top of him. From here, things become another Xanatos Gambit; if the team takes her at her word and leaves, then Corto Maltese is more or less screwed and the U.S. considers it a good development. If they decide to stick around, they kill Starro and Corto Maltese is open to diplomacy. She even says at the end that she turned Bloodsport into a leader. The only possible wrinkle is her not expecting the team to make it out with the data and open her up to blackmail. There's also the point of her team knocking her out, but maybe she predicted that too.

Bloodsport’s equipment is made out of shape memory material.

• It would explain how incredibly modular his equipment is if it was made out of some kind of advanced shape-memory material (possibly of his own invention).

Polka Dot Man siblings are Color Kid, Kaleidoscope, Rainbow Girl, Crazy Quilt and Rainbow Raider.

• All of those villains/heroes have a superpower related to the colors and are just as ridiculous as Polka Dot Man in the comics. If the team meet them(Specially Ratcatcher II and Bloodsport), they can comfort them because of their brother's lost during the mission in Corto Maltese and also they can be part of the team in the next movie or in another medium like a series or television special. It would be pretty cute to see them as siblings of Abner and meet Ratcatcher II, even James Gunn explained that Kaleidoscope can be one of Polka Dot Man siblings who survived the experiments of his mother.

The relationship between Rick Flag and June Moon (from the previous movie), ended between that film and this one; and Flag would have become a love couple with Sol Soria had he not died.

The former film ended with Rick Flag and June Moon getting back together again after the villainness was defeated. But in the current film, Rick Flag's interactions with Sol Soria show a lot of Unresolved Sexual Tension; they are clearly attracted to each other. Now, Rick Flag was probably single again at the start of this movie; he and June Moon ended the relationship, or she possibly died. Flag and Soria didn't have the opportunity to act on their desires, seeing they were busy in combat, civil war and saving the country/world. However, if Flag had survived, he'd get together with Sol now that Starro and the corrupt regime were gone. Probably he would even choose to stay in Corto Maltese forever, seeing how much he got disappointed with, and betrayed by, Amanda Waller and the American Army in general by the end of the movie.

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