And...goddamnit, Waller.
Just came to another horrible realization. The reason Waller needed extraction was that she stayed behind. The reason she stayed behind is that she wanted details on the mook-conversion process...which she plainly had no intentions of actually sharing in a useful manner, since she wiped drives and murdered witnesses.
I know that Waller in the comics is characterized as being the Hard Woman making Hard Choices for Patriotism, but this incarnation of her was 100% interested in getting information on how to mutate civvies into super-mooks to fill out her own private army. There is no reasonable explanation for her personally staying behind and not, you know, evaccing early and bringing in an actual team with expertise on observing metahumans.
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And now that I think about it, I realize the source of the massive disengagement I had with this movie walking out of the theater. The short version is Literally Everyone Sucks.
The Squad? Well, as the preview said: "Shoots people. Burns people. Stabs people. Eats people." The only member of the Squad who don't get their straight-up murder on are Slipknot and the Enchantress's host body, and neither of them are real characters.
The gaolers? Well, either they're running an illegal off-the-books black site on American soil...or laws about prisoner treatment and detention have gotten liberal enough that they're footsoldiers in a tyranny.
Which brings us to the military members we've seen! We get Flag's lovely sanctioning of Waller's murder of her loyal tech crew, and the strong implication that he's done similar himself. He and his team took an oath to defend the Constitution, and that oath does not exempt you from the inconvenient bits like the Thirteenth Amendment.
I barely even need to mention Joker, Waller, Enchantress, and Incubus, but yeah, all evil in varying shades of body-count, and remarkable similarities in terms of methods and results.
Even Batman comes across as an asshole for working with Waller in the end credits scene.
Hell, Deadshot's daughter has come to terms with his murdery profession by the end, and while it's true that there could be reasonable and legitimate reasons for him to be shooting people from atop a building, she damn well shouldn't be cheerful about it.
Literally the only non-extra cast members whose actions don't make me cringe are the heroic transit officer and physician who do their best to tend to Incubus's host as Incubus is being born, and they are horrible killed for it.
Am I missing anyone? Or did this movie genuinely fail to back up Harley's claim of "We're the bad guys!" by forgetting to include any good guys whatsoever?