Task Force X (more commonly referred to as the Suicide Squad) are the names of several teams in the DC Universe.
Suicide Squadron[]
The original Task Force X, AKA the Suicide Squadron, were criminal soldiers forced to fight for America for clemency.
Origin[]
Created during World War II, Task Force X employed criminal soldiers for extremely dangerous missions in exchange for clemency for their crimes.
History[]
In World War II, the United States Army created a special unit designed to be extremely expendable to be sent into missions so dangerous that they border on suicide. To this end, they recruited soldiers who were imprisoned for various crimes, promising clemency if they survived their missions. The secret unit was called Task Force X, though was informally referred to as the Suicide Squad or Suicide Squadron. Members often worked in pairs and moral was as low as its casualty rate was high. Often team members had to work past contentious differences to work together to accomplish their missions. During World War II, many of the members where required to fight their wars on Dinosaur Island, an atoll of strategic importance that was overrun with rampaging dinosaurs. During this period, Rick Flag took command, a veteran soldier who instilled a sense of teamwork despite various ill-will within the group. Following the war, the team was dissolved but the program was reinstated during the Korean War. Eventually, they were put under a larger umbrella group, also called Task Force X, where they were converted into a covert operations group.
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Diggle is recruited by Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S. to stop a warlord he knew from his time in Afghanistan. Always the soldier, Diggle agrees to help. However, he's not prepared when Amanda introduces him to the rest of the team – Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, and Shrapnel, all criminals he and the Arrow helped put away. Lyla defends the team and explains the world is a complicated place, but Diggle isn't sure he agrees. When the mission takes a dangerous turn, Diggle is forced to make a difficult decision.They shall retrieve a nerve agent from an arms dealer named Gholem Qadir - a man, John Diggle saved during his time in Afghanistan.
John Diggle and the Suicide Squad have arrived at the Fine Art Auction in Markovburg, Markovia. As planned, Diggle bumps into Qadir, where they quickly conversed before Deadshot provided a fake assassination attempt. Ben Turner poses as John Diggle's bodyguard and fakes getting shot by Deadshot in order to help Diggle gain Gholem Qadir's trust. However when Deadshot tries to leave location, his getaway driver Shrapnel speeds of without him. Shrapnel attempts to escape only to be blown up by Waller who implanted an explosive chip in his head.
In order to thank him for saving his life, Qadir invites Diggle to a Humanitarian Benefit he is holding. To bring Deadshot into the house as well, they copy Diggle's fingerprints. That night, Diggle and Lyla arrive at the party, bypassing the finger scanner at the door by walking through with Qadir. Deadshot's finger prints are checked. They match with John's who is on the guest list. Thus Deadshot is granted access to the Benefit party, too.
Lyla plants her purse in the house for Deadshot to pick up. Inside that purse are his eyepatch and one of his wrist guns. Armed he searches for the nerve agent. Deadshot finds the nerve agent. However the vessel is in no position to be transported unseen, due to its enormous size. Upon hearing this, Amanda tells him to stay put and orders Diggle, Lyla and Ben to gather at the rallying point as she calls in a drone strike. Diggle, in order to evacuate everybody, revealed the truth to everyone about him. Qadir suddenly recognized Lyla from Afghanistan and threatened to kill her. Bronze Tiger promptly stabbed him through the back, killing him.
Diggle refuses to let Deadshot die and persuades him to leave the building for the sake of his daughter Zoey, whom he leaves money in a blind trust and tries to keep her life safe and easy by staying away from her.
They flee in a truck only to discover that the drone is locked onto the chip inside Deadshot. Lyla cuts the chip out allowing the missile to explode some distance from them. However, the Markovian government were annoyed at the drone detonation in a no-fly zone, and threatened retaliation against the American government.
At A.R.G.U.S. headquarters Amanda is visited by an "old friend" that turns out to be Oliver. He asks her for help finding Slade, whom Amanda believed to be killed by Oliver. Instead she shows him some footage of a new player they've been tracking calling him "Deathstroke". Because meanwhile Diggle was with the squad, Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) was being attacked by his old "friend" Slade Wilson commonly know as Death Stroke.
Tv Shows[]
Comes out in ARROW
Task Force X appears in Justice League Unlimited.
Movies[]
Appears in movies Suicide Squad [2016] and The Suicide Squad [2021].