Suicide Squad
TheSuicide Squad’sKing Sharkis in the end transitioning from being a baddie to a full - fledged hero , in more ways than one ! The fan favoriteSuicide Squadcharacter has decided to use his part on that squad to do good instead of just doing what Amanda Waller evidence him to do . The change of nub come after being doused with liquid from the Well of Evolution in thelast issue ofSuicide Squad : King Shark .
Suicide Squad : King Shark , a serial publication written by Tim Seeley with art by Scott Kolins and John Kalisz , recently delved into King Shark ’s backstory and motivations . King Shark is the false name of Nanaue , theson of the Hawaiian shark god Chondrakha . As a child , his male parent entrusted Nanaue ’s detention to Amanda Waller , the commandant of the Suicide Squad , a squad of supervillains used by the governance to deal with perceive threats to America . Chondrakha intended for King Shark ’s clock time with Waller to make him impregnable enough to work as the Ocean ’s champion in the Wild Games , a tournament held once every ten thousand years to determine what type of creature will be the rife metal money on Earth . To ensure their species ’ primacy , the superior of the tourney is grant to bath in the Well of Evolution , which will imbue their essence into the force that connects all animal life , the Red .
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In issue # 11 ofSuicide Squad : King Shark , King Shark and the other attendee of the tournament all bathe in the Red after a climactic conflict with the Man - King result in the Well of Evolution spilling its contents onto everyone in its immediate neighborhood . This send their genes thousands of years into the time to come , root on a generation of beast heroes show to be members of the Legion of Super - Heroes . It also exalt King Shark to become a wedge . When hereturns to Belle Reveafter the Wild Games in the issue 12 , he tell Waller that he will retort her task force-out , but only if he stick to choose his missions . An example of one of these mission break that he is rescuing a group of caged children , an act far more heroic than anything he has antecedently done .
This determination stems from a recognition he had while in the Wild Realms . King Shark tells Waller that he knows now that the worldly concern does n’t live just for him and he ca n’t keep move like it does . While this Twelfth day comes partially from bath in the ancestry of the Well of Evolution , it also stems from his newfound friendship withDefacer , a Suicide Squad memberwho accompanied him to the Wild Games . Before his time in the Wild Realms , King Shark was lonely and longed for someone to be his Quaker . Over the course of instruction of the tourney he inflame a abstruse , wholesome friendship with Defacer . The two are shown to be proceed to maintain this relationship even after King Shark render to prison house , and their descendants answer together in the future Legion of Super - Heroes .
It will be interesting to see what kind of adventures King Shark will enter on now that he has become a hero . As he make clear-cut when put his terms with Waller , he knows that nothing he does will deepen the fact that he is still a murderer . ButKing Shark ’s determination to do goodshows that anyone can become a hero , even theSuicide Squad ’s man - eating human - shark loan-blend .
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