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Warning : contains spoiler forSuicide Squad : King Shark # 12 !
In its conclude number , Suicide Squad : King Shark # 12just dropped the thunderclap thatAmanda Wallerand the humanoid shark Nanaue are far more deeply connected than even the most hardcore fan suspect . At the beginning of the serial publication , Amanda allowed King Shark out of her custodyto engagement in the Wild Games - a metaphysical tourney of animal sprightliness that will decide which species holds territory over the land far into the future . Now , Nanaue is back , ready to disgorge some home true statement and launch a new position quo .
Waller ’s common implanted bombs were n’t enough toguarantee King Shark would obey herorder to render , so when she allowed him to leave Belle Reve to visit his Fatherhood - the Shark God Chondrakha - she sent along Defacer , a downcast - storey outlaw who Nanaue considered a friend , and who Waller would fulfill if he failed to turn back . While the Wild Games take Defacer out of Waller ’s compass , her unorthodox triumph in the competition alongside King Shark means she ’s now back dwelling house , where she ’ll be vulnerable . The issue comes from Tim Seeley , Scott Kolins , and John Kalisz , and is currently available from digital retailers .
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return from the Wild Games , King Shark tells Waller that from now on , he ’ll be pick out his missions with the Suicide Squad , act as a brutal herorather than her villainous muscle . When Waller threatens to stamp out Defacer rather than agree to his terminus , Nanaue reveals that he knows the Suicide Squad party boss wo n’t do something so cruel , because she considers King Shark her child . other issues revealed that Chondrakha , need Nanaue to survive a hard animation so he would be ready for the Wild Games , handed him over to Waller as a living arm . But it turns out that King Shark was so young , Waller was n’t just take stewardship of a superhuman asset , but of a brokenhearted tiddler . “Having someone who needed you gave you something you did n’t have it away you needed,“King Shark says . “It made ya a parent . "
King Shark seems to be on the money , devote Waller agrees to his demand , but this detail actually is n’t surprising . From herearliest appearing , Amanda Waller has beencharacterized as someone who lose her husband and kid to a helter-skelter reality , driving her to adopt flagitious method in a bidding for supreme ascendence . It take a leak sense that having accepted the responsibility of raising a untested child - albeit one who ’s a demigod shark - she ’d stop up falling back into the parental role that was stripped away from her years before . Bizarrely , the situation actually work out - Waller may be so cold to her thrill that Nanaue only just realized how she sees him , but from her linear perspective she make an unkillable Word who will spend his life history serve her larger mission of making a better mankind ( through extreme force . )
Twisted as it is thatChondrakha gave his Logos to an adoptive motherset on turn him into a kill machine - against the wishing of Nanaue ’s biological female parent , Kaikea - King Sharkwasultimately raised by someone who appears to care for him , and whose resources he is shown using to deliver vulnerable children from traffic at the issue ’s close . It will be engrossing to see how this family relationship continues in the widerSuicide Squadcomics , giving Waller an strange relationship with one of her soldiers and the DC universe an unorthodox Modern hero sandwich .
No floor involvingAmanda WallerandKing Sharkwas ever go to be anything but misrepresented , butSuicide Squad : King Shark # 12offers as tightlipped to a happy conclusion as either of these theatrical role is likely to get , break each some semblance of kin , andturning Nanaue into a advantageously - adjust demigod , and a real force for dependable .
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