Characters
The Heroes and Villains Who are Members of the Suicide Squad
| Black Orchid II | Black Orchid was a human/plant hybrid created by NAME based
on the DNA of Susan Linden. She became super-heroine, though an especially mysterious one.
She was a mistress of disguise, and had super strength, invulnerability, and the ability
to fly. She joined the Squad to have access to their information databanks, which she
presumably used in her personal fight against crime. The Black Orchid who was a member of the Squad was killed by agents of LexCorp, though a second Orchid was grown and she has been recruited by the squad |
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| Bronze Tiger | (real name: Ben Turner) Bronze Tiger was a friend and ally of Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter. He was later kidnapped and brainwashed by the League of Assassins. With the help of King Faraday, Nightshade and Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger was rescued and the conditioning broken. He joined the Squad, and in return, they agreed to help him recover the time he lost while under the control of the League. Bronze Tiger is one of the best martial artists in the world, in Batman's league if not his equal. |
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| Captain Boomerang | (real name: George "Digger" Harkness) Captain Boomerang, the former enemy of the Flash, was recruited into the Squad during the Legends affair. His misbehavior after receiving his pardon caused him to be dragged onto the Squad for an interminate period. Captain Boomerang had no super-powers, but was very accurate with the trick boomerangs of his own devising. He was also a totally unrepentant rogue, who simply enjoyed being a criminal. For a brief time, he used the gadgets of his old friend, the Mirror Master, to commit petty crimes while still a member of the Squad. He was caught at it and was forced to stop. |
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| Captain Cold | (real name: Leonard Snart) Captain Cold, a former enemy of the Flash, was recruited into the Squad to stop Doctor Z.Z. and his agents on Earth, and was forced to help them stop the Jihad during their second rampage. After his release, he attempted to go straight, but was tempted back into a life of crime. Captain Cold had no powers of his own, but possessed a "cold gun" that shot beams of cold, generating ice. |
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| Count Vertigo | (real name: Count Verner Vertgio of Vlatvia) Count Vertigo is a Vlatvian nobleman who had an experimental implant that allowed him to fly and project waves of disorentation. He was a manic-depressive who committed his crimes as a release from his insanity. He was recruited into the Squad. |
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| Deadline | Deadline is a freelance metahuman assassin for hire. He has the ability to turn intangible, and has various gadgets, like flight discs on his feet and an energy pistol. He was recruited into Task Force X Mark II as part of the crew on Diabloverde. Dealine was killed during a mission in No Man`s Land by Ataris. |
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| Deadshot | (real name: Floyd Lawton) Deadshot, a former enemy of Batman, was recruited into the Squad during the Legends affair. Deadshot had no super-powers, but was one of the best marksmen in the world. While he was a reliable member of the Squad, he was also the most personally troubled. |
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| Doctor Light II | (real name: Arthur Light) Doctor Light was the partner of Jacob Finlay, who invented the Doctor Light powersuit to become a super-hero. Light killed Finlay, and used the suit to commit crimes. A run of bad luck (culminating in his capture by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys - 3 children without any powers or training) landed him in prison. He was inducted into the Squad, and had a lackluster career there. He also was haunted by Finlay's ghost. Eventually, Finlay convinced Light that he was such a loser as a villain beause he was meant to be a hero. With a new heroic attitude, Light charged into battle on Apokolips, and was killed immediately by parademons. Light and Finlay appeared in Hell, in front of the Demon Biff O Stoffles. Mister biff toyed with their souls for a time (Light and Finlay died about 3 times each), and eventually allowed Dr Light to have another chance. Since then, he has faced Green Lantern, and had his powers transfered from the suit to him and amplified. While in the Squad, Dr Light's costume gave him the ability to fly, project laser beams, and create objects out of "solid light." |
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| Javelin | Javelin was a small-time super-criminal who used trick javelins as a gimmick. He was a member of the Squad twice - first when they went the Russia to rescue Nemesis, and secondly when they fought Circe during the War of the Gods. | |
| Jewelee | Jewelee is that partner in crime to Punch. The two of them use a variety of "clown like" gimmicks to commit crimes, including shoes that allow them to fly, and Jewelee's jewel that allows her to control people like a marionette. The two served a strange and whacky time in the Squad, and quit when their term had been served due to Jewelee's pregnancy. The two had allegedly gone straight, but they have since slipped back to their criminal ways. | |
| Manhunter / Privateer | (real name: Mark Shaw) Mark Shaw was recruited by the Oan robots known as the Manhunters to be used against the Justice League of America. He was trained to be a master combattant and given access to Manhunter technology. He broke away from the Manhunters when he realized they were using him for their own reasons, and not for justice, as he had thought. He became a super-hero "the Privateer", but turned out to be really working against the Justice League again. He did time in prison and was recruited by the Squad against the Manhunters. After helping to defeat the Manhunters on Earth, Shaw took the name Manhunter again, and worked as a bounty hunter for costumed criminals. As Manhunter, he worked with the Squad, but wasn't officially a member. As the Privateer, he relied on his highly impressive martial arts skills. As Manhunter, he supplemented his skills with his old Manhunter baton (which had a variety of functions), and a new mask, which had a bunch of sensory equipment installed. |
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| Nemesis | (real name: Tom Tresser) Nemesis, a vigilante hero, was recruited by the Squad after the government saved him from a helicopter crash in which it was believed he had perished. Nemesis was an excellent combattant and marksman. However, that was surpassed by his skill at disguising himself as almost anyone, making him an excellent spy. |
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| Nightshade | (real name: Eve Eden) Eve Eden was the daughter of the Queen of another dimension known as the Realm of Nightshades. When the kingdom was overthrown, her mother escaped to Earth. She married a US Senator and had two children, Eve and Larry. The three went back to the Realm of Nightshades in an attempt to retake the throne. Eve's mother and brother were captured, but the young Eve escaped. She trained herself as a superheroine so that some day she would be ready to rescue her family. She joined the Squad in return for permission to take the Squad on a mission to rescue them. The mission went poorly, as her mother was dead and her brother possessed by the Incubus, the demon who ruled what was left of the Realm. The Incubus was killed and the team escaped. Nightshade had the ability to create darkness, open teleportational/dimensional tunnels, and turn herself into shadows. Nightshade was also a well trained combattant and spy. Nightshade quit the team after she learned Waller had revealed her secret identity to her father, but assocaited with the Squad occasionally after they became a mercenary force. |
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| Outlaw | (real name: John Henry Martin) Outlaw was a friend of Manhunter's from prison who gained super-powers after the alien Gene Bomb went off. He had super strength and invulnerabilty, but little control over his strength. He was hunted by the police and Manhunter for murder and faked his own death. He later tried to get work with the Squad and accompanied them on the War of the Gods mission, and their final mission. |
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| Punch | Punch is that partner in crime to Jewelee. The two of them use a variety of "clown like" gimmicks to commit crimes, including shoes that allow them to fly, and Jewelee's jewel that allows her to control people like a marionette. The two served a strange and whacky time in the Squad, and quit when their term had been served due to Jewelee's pregnancy. The two have allegedly gone straight, but they have since slipped back totheir criminal ways. | |
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| Shade, The Changing Man | (real name: Rac Shade) Rac Shade was a police officer from the otherdimensional world known as Meta. He was framed for murder and escaped to Earth with the experimental Metan weapon known as "The M-Vest". It surrounds the wearer with a force field, allows him to fly, gives him superhuman strength, and projects a psionic field so that the force field resembles that which the target fears the most. He encounted the Squad while he was trapped in the "Zero Zone" (a dimension between Earth and Meta) and they were on their way home from the Realm of Nightshades. Using Nightshade's power and the M-Vest, he was able to transport them all back to Belle Reve, where he joined the Squad so that he could stop his Metan enemies on Earth, and then find a way back home. |
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| Slipknot | Slipknot, a former agent of the 2000 Comittee and enemy of Firestorm, was recruited by the Squad to stop Firestorm, who was threatening to personally destroy America and the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. On a later mission against the Manhunters, Slipknot tried to run away, and the explosive bracelet all criminal members of the Squad were forced to wear exploded, blowing his arm off. Slipknot was an expert with the ropes and lassos he would use to tie up or strangle his opponents. | |
| Stalniolvolk | (Real Name: Stalniolvolk) For the last several years, Stalniolvolk (the only name he answers to anymore) has been doing "enforcement for hire" for the Russian mafia. However, he finally got tired of kissing the ass of a person whom he feels is unworthy and went looking for better horizons. As for his powers: his skin is as hard to damage as battleship armor. He weighs just over 400 pounds, and he is strong enough to bench press a fully loaded pickup truck (somewhere around the four ton range). He can bounce bullets (though heavier calibers can bruise him). He is an untrained hand-to-hand fighter (frankly, he's never had to learn), and disdains the use of guns. He has many of the "subsidiary abilities" of superhuman strength, such as the power to leap great distances. The other side of his powers is this: although he looks like a man in his early 50's, he is actually close to 90 years old. He ages, but at a much slower rate than normal. He has fond memories of his work under the command of Comrade Stalin. And now, he is looking for challenges. |
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| Tattooed Man | Abel Tarrant discovered a wonder chemical with the avility to form "real" solid shapes. He decided that the best way to employ it would be to cover himself with tattoos painted on with the chemical, which he could then animate whenever he found himself in a jam | |
| Vigilante | (real name: Winston) Adrian Chase, a judge, became the original Vigilante when he got sick of seeing guilty criminals go free on technicalities. He gave up the suit for a while, and the name and costume fell to a guy named Dave Winston. Winston was killed by the Peacemaker and Chase got the suit and name back. As skilled as Adrian Chase was, he was not a doctor, so Winston might not have been dead. Adrian Chase was killed after a long train ride to Washington. Five or ten years went by without a Vigilante. During one of Deathstroke's visits to Gotham city a Gotham police detective briefly became Vigilante. |
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| Vixen | (real name: Mari McCabe) Vixen possesses the Tantu Totem, a magical African artifact that lets her have the powers of any animal she can think of. She was a member of the Justice League before it disbanded (during the Legends affair). She went back to modeling, and joined the Squad after everyone on a shoot but her were killed by drug trafficers. She spend a long time with the Squad, and is close to Bronze Tiger. |
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Crew
| Waller, Amanda | A former Congressional aide, Amanda Waller discovere the history of the original Suicide Squad and decided that a new Squad was just what the country needed, to do the necessary deeds that super-heroes would never touch. Although she had no super-powers or special training, her intelligence and strength of will made her one of the most formidable players in the DC Universe. She's even faced down Batman. |
| Sarge Steel | Sarge Steel, a top government agent, frequently locked horns with Amanda Waller until he was finally placed in charge of all US government metahuman resources. The two continued to wrangle. However, he did assist Waller in restarting the Squad as a mercenary agency. |
| Craemer, Father Richard | Father Craemer is the chaplin of the Squad, and it's unofficial counselor. He was also something of a conscience to the team. |
| Economos, John | The Warden of Belle Reve Penitentiary, John Economos is famous for his ability to come up with ways of imprisoning super-powered felons, as well as his endless string of ex-wives. |
| McCoy, Doctor | Doctor McCoy became the staff psychiatrist of the Suicide Squad after Dr LaGrieve quit. He was an old friend of Jack Kovacs, and decided he could get himself a job as a psyciatrist by blackmailing Waller into letting him work there in return for him not blowing Kovac's identity as J. Danforth Kale. On Father Craemer's advice, he also stipulated that, unlike LaGrieve, he'd quit if Waller sent anyone into the field against his reccomendations. |
| White, Dr Mary | Doctor White is the head doctor for the Squad. She is also Amanda Waller's older sister. |
| Murphy, Daniel J. ( "Murph") |
Murph is the head of security at Belle Reve. While he doesn't really enjoy his job, he is very good at it, and he keeps getting raises when he threatens to quit. He is something of an amateur detective. |
| Callendar, Dr Yvonne | Dr Callendar is the chief scientist assigned to the Squad. Her duties included helping Shade work on a way home and programming Ifrit. She is also one of John Economos' numerous ex-wives. |
| Sekofsky, Mitch | Mitch Sekofsky is the chief mechanic at Yeager Field, the military airport that services the Suicide Squad. Mitch is an excellent mechanic. He is also openly homosexual and is estranged from his son. |
| Mindboggler /Ifrit | (real name: Leah Wasserman) Mindboggler, a former agent of the 2000 Committee, and a foe of Firestorm, was recruited into the Squad for it's first mission against the Jihad. She was killed by Rustam, who shot her in the back. Captain Boomerang could have warned her, but he decided to let her die, since she had humiliated him in front of the rest of the Squad. She had the ability to project illusions directly into her opponents' minds. After her death, the Jihad used her mental patterns as the basis of Ifrit, a computer generated energy being. Ifrit's madness was cured by Dybbuk, and the two AI's (now named "Leah" and "Lenny") were engaged to be married. |
