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As Amanda Waller’s Suicide Squad plans continue to face setbacks, two rivals decide to set aside their differences to take her down together.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Suicide Squad #8, available now from DC Comics.
Ever since the start of the Infinite Frontier era, Amanda Waller has made no shortage of enemies as she expands the scope of the Suicide Squad’s mission throughout the DC Multiverse. From infiltrating Earth-3 to kidnap a member of the Crime Syndicate of America to creating her own line of cloned Superboys to serve on Task Force X, Waller’s increased ambitions are beginning to catch up to her. And with Waller’s actions putting herself and the Suicide Squad on the run from the DC Universe’s superhero community, two prominent figures that had a lethal feud in the DC Extended Universe’s The Suicide Squad have decided to join forces to take Waller down for good.
Rick Flag was one of Waller’s earliest, most vocal opponents when she unveiled her plans to take the Suicide Squad across the multiverse as previously hinted during Future State. This led to Waller imprisoning Flag rather than letting him expose her illicit activities to the general public but Task Force X’s old field commander was freed during a jailbreak from Belle Reve instigated by the masked vigilante Red X. Since then, Flag has quietly been traveling around the world to recruit his own rival Suicide Squad with the explicit purpose to take Waller down before she goes further out of control, with Mirror Master among his earliest recruits. And in Suicide Squad #8 — by Robbie Thompson, Eduardo Pansica, Dexter Soy, Julio Ferreira, Marcelo Maiolo and Wes Abbott — Flag’s latest recruit is none other than Peacemaker.
Peacemaker was similarly disheartened by Waller’s change in agenda, seeing her more of an impediment to his obsessive commitment to ensuring peace at all costs rather than helping him further his plans. Peacemaker conspired to overthrow Waller and seize control of the Suicide Squad for himself but was discovered by Waller and remanded to a mission to apprehend Swamp Thing. Instead, the elemental superhero deactivated the explosive device Waller implanted in Peacemaker to ensure his continued compliance, with the antihero going off the grid before he was approached by Flag to join forces against their old boss.
Even beyond Flag’s growing team of rivals, Waller faces threats to her leadership from within Task Force X itself. Doctor Rodriguez, whose family Waller threatened to gain her compliance in providing crucial support to the team, is similarly conspiring against her. While apparently staying off of Waller’s radar, Rodriguez approaches the Talon William Cobb, revealing she is aware he is not as deranged as Waller thinks. She shares her plans with him to eventually exact their own bloody revenge on Waller when the time is right, with the Talon evidently and silently complying with this gesture as their conspiracy remains secret.
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From multiversal extraction missions to literally sending the Suicide Squad to Hell, there is a strong argument that Amanda Waller is punching above her weight and making the kinds of enemies that may be even too powerful for her to handle, no matter who she brings onto Task Force X. And with plenty of familiar faces joining forces against her, the noose is rapidly tightening on Waller as she attempts to maintain control of the Suicide Squad, no matter the cost. Rick Flag and Peacemaker are not close friends by any means but, in sharing a common enemy in Waller, the two are more than willing to set aside their differences for the moment to take her down.
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