Suicide Squad

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Suicide Squad is a team of incarcerated supervillains and antiheroes in DC Comics who undertake high-risk black-ops missions for the government in exchange for reduced sentences.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf DC Comics team
black-ops team
fictional superhero team
affiliation Task Force X NERFINISHED
alias Task Force X NERFINISHED
baseOfOperations Belle Reve Penitentiary NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
creators Robert Kanigher NERFINISHED
Ross Andru NERFINISHED
editorialLine DC Comics modern age relaunch in the 1980s
firstAppearance The Brave and the Bold #25 NERFINISHED
firstAppearanceYear 1959
genre action
espionage
superhero fiction
governmentControl United States government NERFINISHED
hasAdaptation Suicide Squad video games
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay NERFINISHED
hasSpinOff Suicide Squad (2016 film) NERFINISHED
The Suicide Squad (2021 film) NERFINISHED
leader Amanda Waller NERFINISHED
medium comic books
missionType black-ops missions
high-risk covert missions
notableArtist Luke McDonnell NERFINISHED
notableMember Captain Boomerang NERFINISHED
Deadshot NERFINISHED
El Diablo NERFINISHED
Enchantress NERFINISHED
Harley Quinn NERFINISHED
Katana NERFINISHED
Killer Croc NERFINISHED
Rick Flag Jr. NERFINISHED
notableWriter Adam Glass NERFINISHED
John Ostrander NERFINISHED
Rob Williams NERFINISHED
primaryMotivation sentence reduction for incarcerated villains
publisher DC Comics
riskCharacteristic expendable members
high casualty rate
teamComposition antiheroes
supervillains
teamType covert operations unit
government strike team
theme moral ambiguity
redemption
universe DC Universe NERFINISHED
uses coercive control methods
explosive implants

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Slade Wilson affiliation Suicide Squad
Amanda Waller appearsIn Suicide Squad
this entity surface form: Suicide Squad (comic series)
Ratcatcher 2 faction Suicide Squad
DC Universe hasFictionalTeam Suicide Squad
Roman Vasyanov knownFor Suicide Squad
Bane memberOf Suicide Squad
Bloodsport memberOf Suicide Squad
King Shark memberOf Suicide Squad
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje notableWork Suicide Squad
David Ayer notableWork Suicide Squad
Dody Dorn notableWork Suicide Squad
Jai Courtney notableWork Suicide Squad
Jared Leto notableWork Suicide Squad
Margot Robbie notableWork Suicide Squad
Scott Clinton Reeves notableWork Suicide Squad
Steven Price notableWork Suicide Squad
Will Smith notableWork Suicide Squad
Amanda Waller team Suicide Squad
Deathstroke (DC Comics) teamAffiliation Suicide Squad
subject surface form: Deathstroke
Peacemaker teamAffiliation Suicide Squad
Polka-Dot Man teamAffiliation Suicide Squad
Rick Flag teamAffiliation Suicide Squad