Suicide Squad Owns Up to a Movie Hero's Problematic Roots
Warning: Contains Spoilers for Suicide Squad: Blaze #2!
The newest Suicide Squad comics are finally owning up to one of Captain Boomerang's problematic roots. While he started as a Flash villain, Digger Harkness has risen to become one of the most reliable members of Task Force X. Though fans love him, it's undeniable that he reflects more than a few negative stereotypes and those are finally getting called out in Suicide Squad: Blaze.
Suicide Squad: Blaze has been nothing short of a surprise in its first two issues. Powerful heroes have fallen, a new dangerous power with horror roots has been unveiled and of course, true to Suicide Squad fashion, characters have been killed off. The series sees the Suicide Squad face a powerful cannibal who has the potential to destroy Superman. However, the first big shocking loss of the series was Captain Boomerang after he's taken by their target, presumed dead. What the narrator says after the Squad regroups though is an interesting insight into how problematic the character has become. The issue is though that his current portrayal is rooted in problematic stereotypes, and Blaze was not afraid to call this out in its latest issue.
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In Suicide Squad: Blaze #2 by Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell, Captain Boomerang is taken away by the target that critically wounded Superman. While there's never a body shown, it's safe to assume that Boomerang can be seen as good as dead given what happened to the Man of Steel. When the subjects of project Blaze reconvene with the Squad to celebrate none of them getting killed, someone points out "The drunk guy didn't. Whatsisname. Captain Cultural Appropriation." This would later
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