The DCEU STILL Doesn't Know What A Suicide Squad Level Threat Is
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Peacemaker episode 3!
Whether it's an enchantress with a giant sky beam, a giant cosmic starfish, or legions of alien butterflies, the DCEU has yet to accurately quantify what constitutes as a Suicide Squad-level threat, and Peacemaker does nothing to help). In David Ayer's Suicide Squad and James Gunn's The Suicide Squad, Task Force X was sent in with ulterior motives beyond saving the world. Now, John Cena's Peacemaker is being deployed on his own with a small support team. However, the newly revealed threat they're facing certainly looks big enough to warrant the entire Suicide Squad. As such, what is the true metric for when Task Force X gets deployed in the DCEU?
In the first Suicide Squad film, Task Force X was sent in to bring down Dr. June Moon, who had been possessed by the powerful Enchantress. While she had a god for a brother and a giant sky beam that was threatening to raze the world while she corrupted civilians into her army, Task Force X wasn't sent to simply save the day. Moon was meant to be a Suicide Squad member before the Enchantress went rogue, resulting in the mission being a cover-up operation for director Amanda Waller and ARGUS. Likewise, The Suicide Squad had a similar mission: find Project Starfish on Corto Maltese, with the true mission directive being to destroy all evidence tying the U.S government's ties to Starro the Conqueror, the giant mind-controlling starfish that the Squad ultimately defeated (but only after they defied Waller and risked being blown up).
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Essentially, saving the world has never been the sole reason Task Force X has been deployed in the DCEU. Does this mean
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