Do you think squad A could have completed the mission.
It's an AU. Blackguard never betrayed the team so Amanda didn't make them into a scrape goat and they made it past the beach. There's no squad B which could also mean that Amanda placed Peacemaker on this team or one of the original members is her inside man.
Everything I'm about to say is a mix based on the movie(s?), A quick search through wikis, and just what I think would make for a good story/movie.
The Lineup
Harley and Rick have both proven themselves as very smart and capable people so I'm going to focus on the others.
Mongal: This is someone that went head to head with Superman AND LIVED she definitely should not have died via fire. She has super strength, super speed, and invulnerability. She's also an alien warrior so she knows how to fight. In the comics she has an energy chest cannon and since her costume has the same design feature imma go ahead and give her that.
T.D.K: He's definitely Arm-Fall-Off-Boy/Splitter so I'm going to have to be very generous with him. Wiki says that his arms cannot reattach, they instead can regrow within minutes, and in the comics he's shown to regularly use them as blunt weapons. What does this mean? It means that no matter what happened to his arms once they detach they should not have any affect on his main body at all. The movies make it clear he has telekinetic control over them and while, yes, only 2 arms attacking you is kind of pathetic a good dozen, however, is nightmare fuel. He's also 1 of 2 members of the team that started off as a hero. In fact as far as I can tell he was never a villain in any of his comic appearances.
Savant: The other member that started off on the right side of the track. Well, he was a pretty violent vigilante so maybe middle of the road is a more apt term. His on screen persona seems to be much older than his comic counterpart so it's safe to say he's been doing villainy for a while now. By far the smartest member of the team, despite being an expert marksman his most dangerous ability is his hacking. Which he used as a villain to blackmail and extort others.
Blackguard: He's an idiot but he's an idiot you'd want in your corner during a fight. His suit grants him ergokinesis, control of energy, which he uses to construct weapons such as shields, maces, and whips. Considering he's also an expert marksman it's not an impossibility that he could make energy bullets either. Wiki states he's got superhuman strength, idk if that's all him or if it comes from the suit. Either way he's got it.
Javelin: He is an Olympic athlete who, as far as I can tell, turned to villainy just for the hell of it. I already said I think his weapon is magic, what I didn't mention was that I think his javelin is an all-in-oner. Everything his specially engineered javelins could do in the comics his magic javelin can do in the movie. Smoke screen, explosions, etc. The reason Harley couldn't do that is because only he knows all the secrets of the magic javelin.
Captain Boomerang: This is the man that knocked out The Flash with a boomerang and tied him to a rocket boomerang. I don't know if these were on the same day but the fact remains he did it. He's deceptively smart, no one manages to rob every bank in Australia without a couple of good braincells. Unlike movie!Javelin he actually does make all his own specialized weapons. He's also an explosive engineer, do with that what you will.
Weasel: He has killed 27 children before so there's obviously some bloodlust that the team could possibly weaponize, but then again they were children so there's no knowing how good he can actually fight, and then again again he's a weasel and they can be mean mfs. Basically, jury's out on this one.
The Dynamics
Sometimes a family is an exasperated father (Savant), his 6 kids and their murderous pet weasel that's still alive somehow.
Blackguard would definitely be the little brother that T.D.K, Harley, and Boomerang like to mess with. He'd try to go to Rick or Savant to get them to stop. He'd learn pretty quickly Ricks the only one who'll actually try to help.
Javelin flirts with everyone (bar weasel) at least once. Mongal threatened to stick his javelin where the sun don't shine. T.D.K is described as being mischievous and fun loving so there's a good chance he flirted back. Savant glared at him menacingly until he apologized and backed away. Blackguard, the poor idiot, couldn't tell he was being hit on so it just made the exchange funny/awkward for all involved. Boomerang definitely flirted back with a sexual innuendo about his own "javelin".
When the truth comes out I can see T.D.K immediately siding with Rick. Savant would need a bit more convincing, like say the death/threat of death of one of his kids teammates.
Idk if I want Weasel to "die" on the beach only for him to come back later as a joke/dues ex machina. Or for him to try and eat/attack his teammates like Nanaue did but because they can't reason with him it just goes "No, bad Weasel. Bad Weasel." *Spray bottle*.
Just watched The Suicide Squad tonight and it was a very James Gunn movie, it was brilliant. I knew that with the 20-ish DC villains that were in the movie most of them would be killed but some even surprised me. Harley Quinn was her usual awesome, whacky, ruthless self. Bloodsport was a good team leader and a brilliant marksman. Peacemaker was the douchey Captain America he was described as. King Shark was the Big Gun of the team. But the real MVP’s and cutest characters in the movie were Ratcather 2 (Cleo) and Sebastian. Also loved the mini coup staged against Waller to help save the people of Corto Maltese “get on the satellite Dale, ya fucking dickhead.”
One of those movies where the sequel eclipses the original movie, far better. Can’t wait to see Margot Robbie in Harley’s next movie.
