Fitting in between Teen Titans: The Judas Contract and The Death of Superman in the New 52 DC Animated Universe, Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay has Professor Zoom (C. Thomas Howell) still alive, despite being shot in the head by an alternate world Batman in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. He wants a “Get Out of Hell Free” card, a magical relic that was being kept by a former Dr. Fate, Steel Maxum (Greg Grunberg), who was kicked out of the Tower of Fate when Scandal Savage (Dania Ramirez) and Knockout (Cissy Jones) stole the card.
Task Force X boss Amanda Waller (Vanessa Williams) wants that card, as she’s dying from a brain tumor. As Professor Zoom and his henchmen Blockbuster (Dave Fennoy) and Silver Banshee (Julie Nathanson) search for the relic, she assembles a Suicide Squad of Deadshot (Christian Slater), Harley Quinn (Tara Strong), Captain Boomerang (Liam McIntyre), Killer Frost (Kristin Bauer van Straten), Copperhead (Gideon Emery) and Bronze Tiger (Billy Brown) to get there first.
I really liked the way that this movie presented the Suicide Squad as criminals out to kill one another that can barely work together, other than Deadshot, who often finds himself having to become a hero. It’s way better than Suicide Squad or the sequel and feels like the closest that media has come to getting the John Ostrander comic book on screen.
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