Summary
- Absolute Power: Origins #2 puts a new twist on the Suicide Squad’s purpose in the DC Universe, revealing Amanda Waller always intended to use the team to take down the Justice League.
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Waller’s strong dislike of superheroes led her to create a powerful contingency plan using the Suicide Squad as a weapon against the world’s strongest superpowered people.
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Now, with complete control over Earth, Waller’s sophisticated Suicide Squad poses a formidable threat to the depowered Justice League in their fight for survival.
Warning! Contains spoilers for Absolute Power: Origins #2!The Suicide Squad has always been one of DC’s most dangerous and darkest teams – and now their terrible, secret true purpose is finally revealed. Amanda Waller forged this team to be the ultimate contingency plan against the Justice LeaguePut an entirely new spin on the Suicide Squad and Waller’s hunt for more metahumans to check out.
DC’s preview for Absolute Power: Origins #2 – written by John Ridley, with art by Alitha Martinez – presents the true beginning of the Suicide Squad. Instead of Waller simply taking metahumans as prisoners for random missions to benefit America, she started the idea as a contingency plan for the Justice League.
Waller lost her family to violent random crimes, and the superheroes of the world weren’t there to save her. This gave Waller a strong dislike of superheroes, and it was the first step she took to create a way to deal with them.
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The Suicide Squad is Amanda Waller’s ultimate anti-Justice League contingency plan
Absolute Power Origins #2 – Written by John Ridley; Art by Alitha Martinez, Norm Rapmund, Andrew Dalhouse & Steve Wands
Once Waller gathered enough people with appropriate powers, she began using the Suicide Squad for their true purpose, acting as a contingency plan for the Justice League.
Amanda Waller has some of the best contingency plans in DC, even beyond Batman, and the Suicide Squad is her ultimate plan. Initially, the squad was simply created to act in America’s best interests in foreign affairs, such as destabilizing countries or defeating the enemies of the Methhumans. Considering the squad started out with mostly non-powered people, such as Captain Boomerang, it makes sense that their missions are equal to their powers. But over time, Waller continued to add more and more powerful members, and now the true purpose of the squad was revealed.
Once Waller gathered enough people with appropriate powers, she began using the Suicide Squad for their true purpose, acting as a contingency plan for the Justice League. This has been shown several times over the years, such as in Justice League vs. Suicide Squad. Now that Amanda Waller has managed to seize total control of Earth, The only thing standing in your way are the few heroes who have not been captured. With Superman and the rest depowered, Waller would likely unleash her Suicide Squad in combination with her Amazo forces to finally fulfill their true purpose.
Waller not only has the Amazo drones, but she also has the Suicide Squad at her command, and she’s been refining them for decades to be the perfect Justice League contingency plan.
From the beginning, the Suicide Squad was made to defeat the Justice League
Amanda Waller’s ambitious plan for Absolute power
It seems that Amanda Waller has full control over the earth and that nothing can stop her. While there is no doubt that the Justice League will do their best to rally and take Waller down, she has every contingency. Waller not only has the Amazo drones, but she also has the Suicide Squad at her command, and she’s been refining them for decades to be the perfect Justice League contingency plan. Without their powers now, hThe Justice League will be in the fight of their lives against the Suicide SquadThe one team that was made to beat them.
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