Suicide Squad
Warning : contains spoilers forSuicide Squad : Get Joker # 1 !
TheSuicide Squadis the brainchild of Amanda Waller , but there ’s more than one reason why dangerous felon are take for missions . Waller ’s notorious Task Force Xis almost always comprised of the worst of the worst , with the occasional hero contrive in to lead the other members of the team - and occasionally bump off them if they render to get off . But inSuicide Squad : Get Joker # 1,written by Brian Azzarello with art by Alex Maleev and colors by Matt Hollingsworth , Waller ’s straight motivations are revealed in a brief commutation with the young penis of the Suicide Squad : Robin .
The drawn-out issue ( 51 pages , as opposed to a comedian ’s usual 24 ) begins with Robin recollecting his death . This is Jason Todd , who was " remove " by the Joker , only to return in 2005 as the black vigilante Red Hood ( similar tothe resurrection of Bucky Barnes , another young sidekick ) . Amanda Waller visit Jason in prison house and proffer him a deal : a lot of his sentence will be commuted in exchange for run a new Suicide Squad . The mission : locate and wipe out the Joker .
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Robin is introduce to the team : elder villain like Firefly and Plastique , fledgeling like Yonder Man , Pebbles and Meow Meow , and Harley Quinn - perhaps the villain comfortably - suited for track down the Joker . As the team develop their gearing and board the helicopter to Gotham City , Robin is concern about the speed of the mission . “Thought some team - building would have been in monastic order . “he says to Waller . As Robin is injected with the Suicide Squad ’s signature gadget -an explosive in the cervix that only Waller can control- she calmly replies"Why ? They ’re just cannon fodder . "
Waller has never obliterate her distain for supervillains and metahumans , but this is perhaps the first clock time she ’s admitted her reliable flavor concerning the Suicide Squad : she activelywantsmost of the squad to die . This is not just a case of the name make away the plot ; there ’s a discernible remainder betweenexpectingher soldier to pop off andhopingthat her soldierswilldie . Waller does n’t occupy herself with good or evilso much as bare practicality ; she scorn loose end , and the fewer villains that return after a clandestine mission , the better .
Suicide Squad : Get Joker # 1reinforces how Amanda Waller pick up the humanity , and how she sees masses : some are to be protected and some are to be used however she sees fit . Thus the Suicide Squad fulfills two function : it ’s the thoroughgoing agency to deny the government had a hand in any closelipped missions , and it ’s a agency toexecute supervillains without due operation . Either room , Amanda Waller wins and theSuicide Squadeither dies … or live to die another day .
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