Suicide Squad Explains Why Amanda Waller Considers Rick Flag Expendable
Warning: contains Spoilers for Suicide Squad #12!
Despite their many years as allies, Amanda Waller has long considered Rick Flag surprisingly expendable, and the newest issue of Suicide Squad just unveiled why. Ever since Flag and Waller teamed up to run Task Force X, Waller has doubted Flag's commitment, even as she used his skills as team leader to assemble team after team of supervillains for the common good. While it seemed that the two had reached a point in their relationship where Waller would see Flag as an out-and-out ally, Suicide Squad #1 saw Waller imprison Flag so he wouldn't be able to stand against her radical new plan to claim an entire reality as her own personal fiefdom, with Flag subsequently escaping and forming his own task force to stop her.
In issue #12 of the current Suicide Squad series — from Dennis Hopeless, Robbie Thompson, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira and Dexter Soy — Rick Flag is determined to put an end to Waller's endgame of sealing Earth-3 off from the rest of the multiverse. Things don't go as planned at the very end though. After managing to prevent her from detonating the explosives implanted in any Squad members, Flag and his team finally confront her… only to find they've been led into a trap. The ground opens up and swallows them whole, with Earth-23's Clayface waiting for them and enveloping the whole team.
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Waller then begins her plan to conquer Earth-3 and reveals why she sees Flag as someone to dispose of rather than a valuable ally to win to her cause at all costs. Speaking in an internal monologue, she states «Flag only [ever] saw the mission. I see the endgame. And that's where we are now. And
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