Warning: Spoilers ahead for Absolute Force: Origins (2024) #2!
Modern day Suicide Squad is famous for being By Amanda Waller private task force, but that was never the original plan. DC instead revealed that Task Force X was fully equipped to handle the original set Justice League – even has its own “Superman” on the list.
Absolute Force: Origins (2024) #2, by John Ridley, Alitha Martinez, Norm Rapmund, and Andrew Dalhouse, reintroduces readers to the first version of Task Force X's colorful roster of titles. Cyclotron, Johnny Sorrow and Rustam. But there are some heavy hitters on the list: Doctor Polaris, the Emerald Emperor, and even the Main Man himself, Lobo.
This sequence reinforces the idea that the original Task Force X was never a “suicide squad” – he was fully equipped to take out the Justice League from the start.
Task Force X Was Always Meant To Be The Anti-Justice League
While most of the villains that make up the first Suicide Squad may be obscure, the list actually comes from its pages. Justice League vs. Suicide Squad (2016)They are hired by Maxwell Lord to get revenge on Waller. Absolute Power: Origins #2 fills in critical information as to why they want revenge: namely, for Waller, who almost killed them in the explosion after ordering Lobo to execute the Cyclotron. Justice League vs. Suicide Squad this highlights the power held by the original team, holding their own against the modern Suicide Squad and Justice League.
Check out the first six-part Suicide Squad
Justice League vs. Suicide Squad
(2016), Rob Williams, Tim Seely, Joshua Williamson, Fernando Pasarin, Riley Rossmo, Robson Rocha, Tony S. Daniel, Christian Duce Fernandez, Jason Fabok, Jesús Merino, Giuseppe Cafaro, and Howard Porter.
Lobo in particular is very important to this squad. As a nearly immortal Charnian and one of Superman's classic foils, he provides a strength that Waller has struggled to match on later rosters. At the point of view, the Suicide Squad team was involved Absolute Power leading series, Suicide Squad: Dream Team (2024), He gives a lot of bankroll to Bizarro to provide muscle for the team – but Bizarro is a poor man's Lobo, harder to control and work with despite having greater power (especially with his innate magical talent). Waller knows that his Anti-Justice League isn't complete without a Superman stand-in.
Check out the four-part list of Bizarro, Dreamer and more
Suicide Squad: Dream Team (2024)
By Nicole Mains, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Adriano Lucas, José Luis and Adriano Di Benedetto.
Suicide Squad was a watered-down version of Waller's ambition—until now
Absolute Power: Origins #2 makes it clear that after the first team's disastrous mission, Waller had to make do with the members he could control via brain bombs – severely hampering the power he could command and turning what was meant to be the “Anti-Justice League”. turned into a smaller covert operation group. This no longer applies: Waller not only has his own crew of Task Force VII Amazos, but he also has Failsafe and Brainiac Queen under his thumb. Suicide Squad it was always meant to knock down Justice League – but now By Amanda Waller ambitions were fully realized.
Absolute Power: Origins
#2
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