'Suicide Squad': A Brief History of the Black-Ops Bad Guys — hollywoodreporter.com

As the casting announcements this week made clear, David Ayer’s Suicide Squad is a movie that’s likely to draw a lot of attention when it’s released in 2016. The second of Warner Bros’ upcoming slate of movies based around DC Entertainment properties — and third movie in the current DCU movie universe, following Man of Steel and the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — the relative obscurity of the property makes it look as if Marvel went directly from Iron Man 2 to Guardians of the Galaxy. For those who might be wondering just what kind of characters gather together to kill themselves, then, here’s a quick primer on who, what and why when it comes to DC’s black-ops bad guys.

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