As to Suicide squad (James Gunn, 2021), the last feature film from the DC Extended Universe on display, we have talked about it being “a hilarious and brutal action rampage”, that one of its leading actors has played more different characters in the films and Marvel and DC series than any other or, heck, the unexpected cameo they’ve included from an actress from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (Gunn, 2017), Avengers: Infinity War Y Endgame (Joe and Anthony Russo, 2018, 2019).
Also, from what the movie does not clarify about Nanaue, the lovable King Shark (Sylvester Stallone), and the significant new tattoo of Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). And now it’s time for us to describe the three Batman enemies and to one of flash who have peeked out for a moment during the footage of Suicide squad. Together or separately.
The Rat Hunter
Perhaps the most obvious is the rat catcher (Taika Waititi), whose daughter, Cleo Cazo (Daniela Melchior), is part of the main team of antiheroes who save the day in Corto Maltés. This Gotham villain came out of the feverish imagination of screenwriters Alan Grant and John Wagner, and was drawn by Norm Breyfogle for the number 585 of Detective comics (1988).
His name is Otis Flannegan, and after really hunting rats, he immersed himself in the world of crime with his uncanny ability to communicate with and train these rodents. But, for the flashbacks of Suicide squad in which Cazo tells his story in Portugal, it seems unlikely that his progenitor is the villain who faces Batman. So if your daughter’s criminal record resembles Flannegan’s in the comics, it is most likely a female adaptation of it.
Crazy Quilt and the well-known Calendar Man
But that of the Ratcatcher is not the only sex change of an antagonist in the James Gunn film. One of the inmates of the Belle Reve prison from which Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) takes members of Task Force X is Crazy quilt, and we recognize her by her skin colored as a variegated mosaic instead of her original outfit. The mythical Jack Kirby introduced him to the number fifteen of Boy Commandos (1946) as a criminal painter from Gotham where he watches Batman who goes blind from a shot and who, shortly after, a successful experiment allows him to see only bright colors.
On the other hand, we have the best known Calendar Man (Sean Gunn) in Suicide squad, with the months as a tattoo on his insane forehead, that mocks Abner Krill or Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian) in the same penitentiary. His real name is Julian Gregory Day and he works as a serial killer who kills people according to the specific date he does it, which is why Batman is after him; Y the number 259 of Detective comics (Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff, 1958) saw the birth of his homicidal delusion.
Double Down, an enemy of the Flash in ‘The Suicide Squad’
Along with the Calendar Man who laughs at Abner Krill in the Belle Reve of Suicide squad it rises Double down, one of DC’s villains with the most nauseating characteristics. This gambling scammer is called Jeremy Tell and he came up in the comic The Flash: Iron Heights (Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, 2001).
The night he lost all his money betting on a game of cards, in a burst of anger, he charged the opponent who had taken it from him. Y the magic deck of which the victim was the owner advanced towards his murderer, later sticking to his epidermis and replacing it. But what is terrifying and downright disgusting is that from then on, the guy can shed the cards, pieces of his own skin, and direct them at anyone in a deadly slashing attack. If he is chosen to intervene with his powers in a UEDC film after James Gunn’s, what a gore awaits us.