Suicide Squad 2 Is Copying The Worst Part Of Enchantress’ Original Movie Plan

James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is copying one of the original movie’s biggest mistakes – introducing secondary villains who really don’t matter.

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James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is repeating the worst mistake of the original Suicide Squad’s villain plot. Despite ostensibly being a reboot (though not a true one, given the returning Suicide Squad cast members) and an opportunity to avoid the sins of its predecessor, the upcoming DC sequel looks set to tread familiar body-snatching ground.

David Ayer’s much-maligned Suicide Squad was far removed from the director’s original vision for the film, thanks to studio interference inspired by concerns that the tone was too dark in the wake of criticism of Batman v Superman. The original film’s villain plot, with Enchantress at its center, was one of the most significant changes, with Ayer revealing that she was supposed to team up with Jared Leto’s Joker for the climax. Ultimately, Leto’s Joker was largely edited out of the movie, bar a distracting glorified cameo and what was left was Enchantress as an ethereal identikit villain with an ominous sky beam and grand designs on global destruction. There were no personal stakes – which there would have been with Joker’s involvement because of his link to Harley Quinn – and her army of faceless body-snatched drones didn’t help.

Now it seems that James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is going for a similar plot element by using classic comic book villain Starro as the villain. Fundamentally, that could be dangerous because it not only risks drawing too much of a parallel to the first movie (which Warner Bros. has been careful to avoid embracing) but it also risks repeating the reason why Enchantress’ drone army was so boring in the first place. Just as with The Avengers’ use of the Chitauri as canon-fodder for the third act, bringing in impersonal grunts to fight the lead characters is simply not satisfying.

Starro’s plot to invade the Earth, which appears to be the plot of Suicide Squad 2, is an interesting one. It even provides a reason for why Task Force X is called in to fight rather than the Justice League (because they’re expendable and risking powerful heroes being turned would be disastrous). But the problem is that it’s hard to really feel the stakes in a hero vs villain (or in this case anti-hero vs villain) dynamic when the bad guy is no more than shark bait. In stark contrast to a story like Black Panther or even the Infinity Saga, the hook of a personal link to the villain – which vastly improves the writing and the emotional heft – cannot be achieved simply by sending in swarms of bad guys. The audience also knows that the threat is ultimately less concerning.

There is, of course, some hope for Gunn’s take on this familiar dynamic because Starro is a slightly different prospect to Enchantress and there is more of a discernible reason tying Task Force X to the invasion. If they are deployed in order to stop the world losing any valuable heroes, it actually plays more into the film’s concept of them as an expendable force – an actual Suicide Squad – and members of the team being turned against their former allies is different to them simply being swallowed up by black magical goo. The key is that Gunn must avoid direct comparisons with Enchantress’ part in Suicide Squad because the idea of The Suicide Squad being different enough to warrant its “semi-reboot” label but simultaneously setting alarms bells of familiarity off is asking for trouble. Luckily, Gunn’s overall villain should hopefully have a personality, which would immediately set him apart from Enchantress at the very least.

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