Suicide Squad is an episode of season 2 of Arrow. It premiered on March 19, 2014.
Synopsis for "Suicide Squad"
Appearing in "Suicide Squad"
Featured Character:
- Task Force X/The Suicide Squad (First full appearance)
- Bronze Tiger (Ben Turner) (Joins team)
- Deadshot (Floyd Lawton) (Joins team)
- Freelancer (John Diggle) (Flashback and main story) (First appearance as Freelancer) (Joins team)
- Harbinger (Lyla Michaels) (Flashback and main story) (Joins team)
- Mockingbird (Amanda Waller) (Joins team)
- Shrapnel (Mark Scheffer) (Dies) (Joins team)
Supporting Characters:
- Team Arrow
- United States Government (Behind the scenes)
- A.R.G.U.S.
- United States Army (Flashback only)
- Ted Gaynor (Flashback only)
Antagonists:
- Bratva
- Alexi Leonov (Dies)
- Deathstroke (Slade Wilson) (First appearance as Deathstroke)
- Gholem Qadir (First appearance; dies) (Flashback and main story)
- Gholem Qadir's Security (First appearance)
- Taliban (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- Channel 52
- Bethany Snow (On a TV or computer screen)
- Harley Quinn (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Laurel Lance
- Moira Queen (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
- Shado (In dream sequence only) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Thea Queen (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
- Zoey Lawton (First appearance) (In a photograph only)
- Anatoly Knyazev (Mentioned only)
- ASIS (Mentioned only)
- Charles Manson (Mentioned only)
- Deadshot's victims (Deceased)
- Andy Haskell (Mentioned only)
- Danny Anselm (Mentioned only)
- Joseph Cray (Mentioned only)
- Jim Pate (Mentioned only)
- Ken Shane (Mentioned only)
- Rob Murdoch (Mentioned only)
- Ryan Doucette (Mentioned only)
- Todd Pittson (Mentioned only)
- Wes Anselm (Mentioned only)
- H.I.V.E. (Mentioned only)
- United Nations (Mentioned only)
- United States Marine Corps (Mentioned only)
- OJ Simpson (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-1 (Unnamed)
- 2008
- Afghanistan (Flashback only)
- 2014
- Europe
- Asia
- Qurac (First appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
- Afghanistan (Mentioned only)
- Kahndaq (Mentioned only)
- Macau (Mentioned only)
- North Korea
- Pyongyang (Mentioned only)
- North America
- United States of America
- Starling City
- A.R.G.U.S. HQ (First full appearance)
- Bratva's Garage
- Felicity Smoak's Apartment (Cameo)
- The Glades
- Verdant
- Ostrander Hotel (Single appearance)
- Queen Consolidated (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
- Queen Mansion (Mentioned only)
- Starling National Bank (Mentioned only)
- Cambridge
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mentioned only)
- Starling City
- United States of America
- Oceania
- Australia (Mentioned only)
- 2008
Items:
- A.R.G.U.S. Predator Drone
- Deadshot's Bionic Eye
- Deathstroke's Sword
- Deathstroke Suit
- Mirakuru (Behind the scenes)
- Oliver Queen's Bow
- Markov Device (Mentioned only)
- Task Force X's Bombs (First appearance)
- Nerve Gas
Concepts:
- War in Afghanistan (Flashback only)
Notes
- Although she's not named in the episode, the female prisoner in the A.R.G.U.S. Facility is Harley Quinn.
- This episode reveals that Milo Armitage was trying to sell the Markov Device to Gholem Qadir in "Tremors".
Trivia
- Ostrander Hotel and Giffen Street are named after the Suicide Squad writers, John Ostrander and Keith Giffen.
- The bomb code, "BATB-25", is a reference to Brave and the Bold #25 which marked the first appearance of the modern Suicide Squad.
See Also
- 7 Images from Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Suicide Squad
- Episodes of Arrow (TV Series)
- Images from Arrow (TV Series)
- Gallery for the Arrow (TV Series) series
Recommended Media
- None.
Links and References
- None.
Footnotes