If We Have To Sit Through Another Suicide Squad Movie, It Should At Least Be More Evil

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Nobody really asked for a sequel to Suicide Squad. In fact, I consider the idea that the most lukewarm (and vaguely racist) of DC films being allowed an attempt at a franchise overly generous. Especially after it accomplished little more than not being a complete train wreck and giving us a decent Kehlani single. Yet here we are, getting another installment in a film franchise many of us would rather forget. Such is Hollywood these days. But if we have to suffer through another Suicide Squad rollout, the bright side is that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has been brought in to right the ship David Ayer steered off course. However, you can’t solve a problem without an understanding (or at least a guess) of what the problem actually is. When you’re telling a story like the kind you get from the Suicide Squad (at least in the comics) while also trying to build a world comparable to the epic, time spanning universe we’ve gotten from Marvel over the past decade; it’s important to establish a team that’s different from the others we’ve seen in DC’s continuity. You want the audience to feel like they’re getting a different experience. For example, whereas the Avengers are the mightiest, most noble heroes Earth has to offer, Gunn’s Guardians are characterized as unorthodox rogues who sometimes end up saving the galaxy as a sidenote to their routine mischief. Ultimately, they are led by conscience more often than not. Otherwise, how else wou…