Suicide Squad's New Villain Could Destroy Superman Better Than Doomsday
Warning: Spoilers for Suicide Squad: Blaze #1!
The Suicide Squad has assembled to take down a new villain, and on an ideological level, he could destroy Superman in a way Doomsday never could. This happens in the Black Label series Suicide Squad: Blaze. The series is written by Simon Spurrier and illustrated by Aaron Campbell.
The story starts off like any other Suicide Squad tale. A threat causes Amanda Waller to assemble a typical iteration of Task Force X comprised of members Peacemaker, Harley Quinn, King Shark, and Captain Boomerang. Where this story differs from most is that Waller also compiles five other non-super powered inmates and then gives them powers in a process called the Blaze. The downside is these powers significantly reduced the inmates’ lifespans. So essentially, the procedure is fatal.
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The threat they are facing is a super-powered cannibal who is being driven by his base instincts to feed. When the new members of the Suicide Squad question their involvement, it's speculated that the threat this cannibal poses isn't just physical but also ideological. He is allowing the public to question the nature of superpowers and people are becoming suspicious of superheroes in the process. If left unchecked, this super-powered cannibal can tarnish the idea of a Superman so much that his reputation can take a hit that the hero might never recover from.
It's even mentioned in the book when a reporter asked Superman if he ever acts off of pure instinct. This is a psychological seed that's planted in the public's consciousness about whether super-powered people should even exist at all. It's an interesting dynamic because the only thing that
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