Friday, April 28, 2023

A to Z Challenge: Task Force X

 I'm not sure there's a real X for DC Comics heroes.  With Marvel you always have X-Men and stuff.  The closest I could think of is that the Suicide Squad is called Task Force X.

I already did Harley Quinn, Katana, and whoever, but there were some more figures I got for the first crappy Suicide Squad movie.  My favorite was El Diablo, who I always thought had the most fleshed-out backstory of anyone in the stupid movie besides Harley Quinn and Joker:


There was also Deadshot, the Will Smith version:


Rick Flag:


And Captain Boomerang:


Sadly I don't think they made Slipknot, the guy who could climb anything.  I didn't get Jared Leto's Joker so I don't think I ever got all the pieces to make the Killer Croc guy.

McFarlane made a bunch of figures for the second Suicide Squad movie:


There's also a mega-sized King Shark:


Mattel did a King Shark from the Flash TV show but that was a build-a-figure so you'd have to get 6 figures or buy it off eBay.

They didn't do a Ratcatcher II figure, which is weird given how important she was to the movie.  Maybe they couldn't get the likeness rights or whatever.  If you get all the Crime Syndicate figures from Target you can make Starro the Conqueror too.

I don't think they've made an Amanda Waller figure, which is too bad.  They should do a Build-A-Figure of the comic book version who is supposed to be a huge fat black woman nicknamed "the Wall."  Maybe that would be insensitive for these days.

2 comments:

C. D. Gallant-King said...

You would know better than I, but I don't understand how they decide to make which figures. Like Amanda Waller, while a major characater, I guess wouldn't be a very INTERESTING figure. Yet that made that infamous "Bob the Goon" figure from the original Batman movie...

Timothy S. Brannan said...

I take it you are no fan of Enchantress then. (obviously I am)

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