James Gunn's The Suicide Squad unveils a massive cast of potential future dead characters
If there was just one thing people didn’t love about David Ayers’ Suicide Squad movie—there wasn’t, but bear with us here for a second—it’s that it never really lived up to the title. In the comic books—especially John Ostrander’s famed run from the late ’80s and early ’90s—the Squad’s body count for personnel was suitably, well, suicidal; it was rare for a storyline to go by without at least one, and most likely more, of its named characters getting offed. (Hell, Ostrander famously killed off fellow comics writer Grant Morrison—who’d inserted himself into the DC Universe at the end of his famed Animal Man run—in one particularly bloody arc.) Ayers’ movie managed to give the axe to two measly Squad members (R.I.P. Slipknot), which seems kind of, well…bloodless, for a movie that’s all about disposable bad guys getting disposed.