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Amanda Waller (DCU)

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Quote1 The United States is in the business of saving the damn world by any means necessary. Quote2
— Amanda Waller src

Amanda Waller is an American government official known for her callous and manipulative nature. She is the former director of A.R.G.U.S., and during her time as director, she founded and supervised the Task Force programs, through which she has blackmailed metahuman criminals to perform dangerous covert ops missions for their country.

Early career

Amanda Waller is a U.S. government operative who mothered a friendly and ambitious daughter named Leota, who she trained to be an incredible combatant. Her cold demeanor and deceptive nature drove them apart, and Leota went off to run a dog shelter.[2] Waller eventually rose to power as the director of A.R.G.U.S., the government's division for dealing with metahumans and other superpowered threats to national security.

Eventually she founded the Task Force X program, through which she blackmailed metahuman criminals from Belle Reve Correctional Center to perform off-the-record covert ops missions with low chances of survival in exchange for shortened prison sentences. Colonel Rick Flag Jr. became the team's field leader, and criminals such as Harley Quinn became regular members.[1]

Project Starfish

In 2022,[note 1] the island nation of Corto Maltese, where the Americans had been performing illegal experiments in the Nazi-era research facility Jotunheim since the Cold War, had its rulers overthrown by Silvio Luna, a ruthless terrorist who hated America. Fearing American involvement in the experiments would be leaked to the public, Waller dispatched the Suicide Squad out to destroy Jotunheim. However, she told the majority of them it was to protect the world from the powerful and dangerous Project Starfish, the primary experiment of the compound, only telling the jingoistic vigilante Peacemaker of the mission's true intent, and instructed him to destroy evidence of American involvement by any means necessary.

A week after Luna's takeover, Waller sent out two strike teams of Squad members, one full of useless, weak villains and people she just didn't like, including Harley Quinn and Rick Flag Jr., to distract the Corto Maltesean forces on one beach so the other team with Peacemaker on it could complete the mission. The second Squad, led by the mercenary Bloodsport, which she blackmailed by sending her thieving daughter Tyla at Belle Reve if she is found guilty, was on its way to a nightclub to capture the Thinker, Jotunheim's head scientist, when Waller realized Flag was still alive in a camp with troops. Knowing he'd be suspicious if no one came for him, Waller sent out the Squad to retrieve him, and they slaughtered the majority of the troops before learning they were a rebellion against Luna's regime who rescued Flag.

When Waller regained communication with the Squad, which Quinn joined after she was captured by the current regime and being proposed at marriage by Luna until she killed him for his willingness of infanticide and escaped, Jotunheim had been destroyed and the enormous starfish-like alien creature at the center of Project Starfish, Starro, was free to go on a destructive rampage across the nation. Seeing this, Waller ordered the Squad to stand down and return home since Jotunheim was destroyed, even though Starro was killing dozens in its destructive rampage as she wanted to keep the Squad's secrecy. Bloodsport wasn't satisfied, however, having learned the truth about the Americans' involvement in the project, and led the team back to destroy Starro. Even Waller's aides helped them out, not wanting to see so many innocents die, with Flo Crawley knocking Waller unconscious so she couldn't stop the Squad, and John Economos and Emilia Harcourt helping guide the Squad to fight the creature.

When Waller came to, she discovered that Peacemaker had been incapacitated after killing Flag for the incriminating records within Jotunheim, and that Bloodsport had uploaded the records to a secure server, presumably with the help of Waller's aides. He then demanded a ride back to America for him and his remaining teammates, as well as freedom for all of them and still dropping Tyla's court trial, or he'd leak the records to the public. Waller begrudgingly agreed, and the Suicide Squad was freed, leaving only Peacemaker loyal to Waller, but in the hospital in critical condition.[1]

Project Butterfly

Some time after the Jotunheim mission, Waller was contacted by Clemson Murn, a soldier who, unknown to her, is actually killed and possessed by a rogue alien Butterfly named Ik Nobe Lok, who informed Waller that his species' queen planned to conquer Earth with the rest of the Butterflies. Seeing an opportunity to further utilize Peacemaker and get back at Economos and Harcourt for betraying her, Waller assembled a subsidiary of the Task Force X program headed by Murn, and consisting of Economos, Harcourt, and, when he had recovered, Peacemaker. She also drafted her daughter Leota, who was struggling financially and needed the money.[3][4]

Knowing Peacemaker was the son of the white supremacist supervillain the White Dragon, Waller picked him out as the perfect scapegoat in case the mission went wrong. She assigned Leota to hide a fake diary in Peacemaker's home so that if the police were onto the team, they could point to their plans as being Peacemaker's conspiracy theories. However, after the Butterflies were defeated, Leota turned on her mother and held a press conference after the mission, revealing the existence of Task Force X to the public, effectively disarming the entire operation.[2][5]

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  • Waller seemingly never learned Murn was a Butterfly, instead believing him to be the Nyasiran mercenary he possessed, even after his death at the hands of the Butterfly queen.[4][2]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Suicide Squad (2021)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Peacemaker: "Stop Dragon My Heart Around"
  3. ↑ Peacemaker: "A Whole New Whirled"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Peacemaker: "Murn After Reading"
  5. ↑ Peacemaker: "It's Cow or Never"
  6. ↑ James Gunn on Creature Commandos and Killing Nazis in His New DC Universe – IGN on YouTube
  1. ↑ In the DCEU, the Project Starfish mission took place in 2021. In the DCU, the Project Starfish mission is said to have occurred two years prior to the events of Creature Commandos season 1, which are confirmed to have only occurred months before the events of Superman. Given that Superman is confirmed to take place in 2025 via viral marketing, that places the events of The Suicide Squad in 2022 in the DCU timeline.
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