In the beginning, it was reported that The Suicide Squad was recasting Will Smith with Idris Elba as Deadshot, but it was later revealed that Elba’s character would be someone else – it just wasn’t clear who. Among the ones chosen were obscure villains like Polka-Dot Man, Weasel, Calendar Man, Blackguard, and Savant. Not unlike his approach to the MCU’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies, James Gunn relied on underutilized, underappreciated, and forgotten characters from DC Comics’ library. The rest of the cast is filled out by brand-new additions to the DCEU, with most (but not all) of these characters being villains who have never been used in live-action before. Gunn’s take on the government-sanctioned supervillain team from DC Comics includes only four characters from its predecessor, with those being Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), and Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney). Though technically a continuation of the first movie, The Suicide Squad is being treated more like a fresh start and less like a proper sequel, hence the title.

Elba’s character is just one of over a dozen DC characters to make appearances in James Gunn’s first DCEU movie. He also came to suspect that the ghosts of those he’d killed (and those killed around him) gathered inside his helmet and offered him commentary.īeyond that, the comics’ Peacemaker helmet has sometimes had an array of “utilitarian” features that seems more all-purpose than Peacemaker’s single-gimmick chrome dome: In addition to the ultrasonic beam, the helmet has had a fuse for an RDX bomb, a laser-ray, a pocket radar, voice duplication equipment, and “underwater mode” abilities.In The Suicide Squad, Idris Elba plays the role of Bloodsport, a minor villain in DC Comics.

Paul Kupperberg and Tod Smith’s Peacemaker miniseries revealed that he believed the spirit of his dead father haunted him, criticizing his every move as he tried to fight for peace to make up for his father’s Nazi history. Initially he was a pacifist diplomat who used non-lethal force to “maintain” peace around the world later on, he adopted more violent means.Ī mid-’80s reboot of the character reimagined his motivation. Though a few people have picked up the mantle as Peacemaker through the years, the main one (and the one that James Gunn seems to have based both his The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker versions on the most) is Christopher Smith.

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