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DC Comics created a magical version of the Suicide Squad known as Suicide Squad Black in 2019 during the DC Rebirth run. It was created by Jai Nitz and Scot Eaton . The team have a six-issue comic series titled Suicide Squad: Black Files .
That's the charm of Task Force X, perhaps better known by its nickname: the Suicide Squad. This team of super-villains, assembled by their director Amanda “The Wall” Waller, undertakes high-risk covert operations and in exchange receive commuted prison sentences.
The Suicide Squad is a team of imprisoned super-villains who perform high-risk missions for the U.S. government in exchange for commuted sentences. Formally known as Task Force X, the team's actions are highly classified, and the government is able to deny any involvement by claiming that they...
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The Suicide Squad, officially known as Task Force X, is a covert paramilitary team comprised of incarcerated super-villians, orchestrated by Amanda Waller out of Belle Reve Penitentiary.
Origins
The Suicide Squad was established with the remit of putting incarcerated supervillains into United States Government service in exchange for a reduction in their prison sentences. Under the direction of Amanda Waller, the Squad was led in the field by Colonel Rick Flag, and included members such as Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Bronze Tiger, the Enchantress, and Duchess. On an early mission for which it was joined by new member Battle-Taur, the Squad was set against Brainiac and tasked with recovering an item from a crypt accessed by aerial drop. Another member, Nightshade of the Land of Nightshades' royal family, joined the Squad to help her brother, but was ultimately the last of her line. Mark Shaw, a Manhunter agent who later became head of the Leviathan Organization, also served with the Squad. Leadership passed to Bronze Tiger, during whose tenure the Squad was betrayed by and suffered the death of team member Florence Crawley to Duchess, who was in reality Lashina of the Female Furies. Following the Flashpoint and its consequences, the Suicide Squad was reformed—for what was believed to be the first time—by Waller to address the threat posed by Regulus, the terrorist leader of Basilisk and her former compatriot within Team 7.
DC Rebirth
While under threat of dissolution by US president Barack Obama, the Suicide Squad was deployed to Mongolia and tasked with retrieving geneticist Mark Ljungberg from the terrorist organization the Dogra War. Ljungberg's creation, the metagene bomb, had been used to grant the terrorists superpowers, forcing the overwhelmed Squad to kill the geneticist to recover the bomb and keep him out of the Dogra War's hands. After triggering the weapon once again and removing the enemy's powers, the Squad was extracted by Colonel Rick Flag, now a disgraced Navy SEAL recruited to lend the team legitimacy and accountability as its field leader. Flag led the Squad, joined by past member El Diablo and bounty hunter Mad Dog, on a covert mission to retrieve former US Secretary of Defense and Black Mountain Security head George Foster Carmody, abducted by the vigilante group Strikeforce Europa to be prosecuted for war crimes at the Hague. Tasked with freeing Carmody while in transit from detention to trial, Flag and Deadshot infiltrated and hijacked his security detail while the rest of the Squad drew out Strikeforce Europa with a feint at the court. The Squad withdrew once their plan was unveiled, save Mad Dog, left for dead by Captain Boomerang, whose explosive implant was detonated by Waller to conceal their involvement. Flag and Lawton, in turn, lost custody of Carmody to Shado, a mercenary sent by Black Mountain, but were able to reunite with the Squad, intercept Shado, and retrieve their target. They fled by boat to England, pursuit impeded by a fire set by El Diablo and a storm over the English Channel, and from there flew to the United States. With Carmody back on American soil and an international incident defused, Waller executed him for his crimes.
Infinite Frontier
Prior to Harley Quinn's release from the Suicide Squad, she, Peacemaker, the Weasel, and Ambush Bug defended Belle Reve from a break-in by former inmates King Shark and Defacer. The two intruders secured a pardon for Defacer in return for King Shark's return to the Squad. Quinn, the Shark, Peacemaker, and the Weasel were joined by Katana for a protection detail on Santiago Gallo, son of a Corto Maltesian general and US collaborator. Going undercover as staff members at Gallo's high school in the Swiss Alps, the Squad defended him from attacks by the Legion of the Steer, only to discover that Gallo was in fact a demonic sorcerer with plans to plunge the world into eternal darkness. He dominated the Squad members' minds, incapacitating them all save for the Weasel, who, being insufficiently intelligent to fall under Gallo's sway, devoured him, saving the world at the cost of their mission. Operating under her own initiative without government sanction, Waller conceived of a plan to create her own Justice League and abandon her own Earth to invade another. When Rick Flag objected and attempted to interfere, Waller detained him and replaced him with "Superboy"—in reality a clone known as Match conditioned to believe he was Connor Kent. Waller also involved herself in Task Force Z, a team of undead supervillains resurrected with Lazarus Resin and led by Harvey Dent, providing the program with Clifford DeVoe whose brain scans would allow the corpses of the Task Force to assumed their former identities. Squad member Bolt teleported himself and his teammates Peacemaker, Film Freak, and Shrike into Arkham Asylum to recover the Talon William Cobb. However, Bolt was killed by the seemingly insane Cobb, and Film Freak and Shrike fell victim to a Joker gas attack, leading Peacemaker to call in reinforcements: "Superboy," with the super-strong Culebra, vampiric Nocturna, telepathic Mindwarp, and portal-creating Exit. Though the Squad was delayed by "Superboy's" desire to save the asylum staff and lost Mindwarp and Exit to the gas, the survivors were able to return to Belle Reve with Talon through a portal created before the teleporter's death. Joined by Talon, the phytokinetic Branch, and new team teleporter Keymaster, the Suicide Squad was next tasked with capturing a speedster student of Titans Academy, Bolt, while she was away from the safety of Titans Tower, but the attempted escape and subsequent death of Keymaster, with "Superboy's" opposition to the mission, allowed her to escape. Rather than return empty handed, the Squad infiltrated the tower with the aid of Red X, a member of the academy who Waller saw as a potential recruit. Drawn to mementoes of Conner Kent's history with the Titans, "Superboy" set off the academy's alarms before the team could escape with Bolt in tow. Set upon by the students and betrayed by Red X, the Squad abandoned Bolt and were extracted by Warp, another teleporter, taking their would-be ally captive instead. While Peacemaker fomented dissent against Amanda Waller within the Suicide Squad, Red X was able to trigger a prison break in Belle Reve and escaped in the chaos. At the same time, the imprisoned Rick Flag was freed by Talon, whose insanity was merely an act. Waller deployed a pair of Task Force X operatives to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis to investigate the Genesis Fragment, an alien power source. Breaking from their orders, they attempted to steal the fragment only to be caught by Atlantean forces, creating an international incident between the kingdom and the United States. Bloodsport, an operative sent to collect assets and intelligence from alternate Earths, was captured by Ultraman of the Crime Syndicate while hunting Black Siren on Earth-3, a world Waller deemed to be amenable to her control. To rescue him, the Suicide Squad—now equipped with a mechanical teleporter—captured the metahuman criminal Night Terror and used her vibration-based abilities to travel to Earth-3. While the Squad recovered Bloodsport and Black Siren, "Superboy" engaged Ultraman only to be destabilized by his anger in battle, forcing Waller to divert the team to a Russian facility. There, they were confronted by the genuine Superboy, who had learned of the Squad's impostor from the Titans and was attacked by Match, who discovered his true nature as his body and speech broke down. With her machinations uncovered, Waller broke contact with the Squad to evacuate Belle Reve, leaving the team to venture the facility, a cloning laboratory formerly operated by Match's creators the Agenda, where they discovered further Superboy clones and the chemical used to preserve their clone's false identity. With the Justice League en route and Checkmate at the abandoned Belle Reve, the Squad was teleported by Waller to the remote Task Force X Island, their new headquarters as fugitives. While the rest of the Suicide Squad was sent to Earth-3, Waller gave Peacemaker command of a splinter Squad, simultaneously testing his loyalties and tasking him with the capture of the Swamp Thing. Releasing a Prescot Industries bio-agent in India's Kaziranga Forest to draw their target's attention, the new members—Nightmare Nurse, Heat Wave, Parasite, and Chemo—were each defeated in turn, leaving Peacemaker alone against their quarry. Questioning his opponent's motivations, the Swamp Thing removed Waller's explosives from Peacemaker's body and freed him from her control.
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Footnotes
1.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #1 2.Suicide Squad 2021 Annual (Volume 7) #1 3.Deathstroke (Volume 4) #33 4.Event Leviathan #6 5.Harley Quinn (Volume 4) #20 6.Harley Quinn (Volume 4) #18 7.DCU: Rebirth #1 8.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #0 9.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #6 10.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #7 11.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #8 12.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #9 13.Resurrection Man (Volume 2) #9 14.Grifter (Volume 3) #15 15.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #10 16.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #12 17.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #11 18.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #13 19.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #16 20.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #14 21.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #15 22.Teen Titans (Volume 4) #18 23.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #17 24.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #18 25.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #19 26.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #20 27.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #23 28.Justice League of America's Vibe #5 29.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #22 30.Birds of Prey (Volume 3) #34 31.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #24 32.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #25 33.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #26 34.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #27 35.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #28 36.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #29 37.Suicide Squad (Volume 4) #30 38.New Suicide Squad #17 39.New Suicide Squad #1 40.New Suicide Squad #2 41.New Suicide Squad #3 42.New Suicide Squad #4 43.New Suicide Squad #5 44.New Suicide Squad #6 45.New Suicide Squad #7 46.New Suicide Squad #8 47.Convergence: The Flash #2 48.Superman/Wonder Woman #19 49.New Suicide Squad #9 50.New Suicide Squad #11 51.New Suicide Squad Annual #1 52.Deathstroke (Volume 3) #11 53.New Suicide Squad #13 54.New Suicide Squad #14 55.New Suicide Squad #15 56.New Suicide Squad #16 57.New Suicide Squad #18 58.New Suicide Squad #19 59.New Suicide Squad #20 60.New Suicide Squad #21 61.Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1 62.Suicide Squad: War Crimes Special #1 63.Harley Quinn (Volume 4) #1 64.Suicide Squad: King Shark #12 65.DC's Saved by the Belle Reve #1 66.Task Force Z #10 67.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #2 68.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #3 69.Teen Titans Academy #3 70.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #4 71.Action Comics #1033 72.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #6 73.The Swamp Thing #8 74.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #8 75.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #9 76.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #10 77.Task Force Z #5 78.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #11 79.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #12 80.War for Earth-3 #1 81.Suicide Squad (Volume 7) #13 82.The Flash #780 83.War for Earth-3 #2 84.Dawn of DC Primer Special Edition #1 85.Unstoppable Doom Patrol #2 86.Catwoman (Volume 5) #62 87.Suicide Squad: Dream Team #1 88.Suicide Squad: Dream Team #2
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Amanda Waller-now back in control of the Squad-sends a new Squad into Arkham Asylum to “recruit” the deadly Court of Owls assassin Talon while she interviews another new candidate: Superboy.
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