DCAU: Suicide Squad - Hell to Pay

First things first - this hasn't come out yet, but we already know it's going to be better than actual Suicide Squad. Time will tell if it's as good as Assault on Arkham. Speaking of... this new Suicide Squad animated movie won't be in the same.. "universe" .... so it's not a sequel.

Yeah, that's right. This Suicide Squad is DCAU while Assault on Arkham is technically more in the Arkham game universe. Which is why everyone looks different.

It's good because Deadshot is not built like a tank in the new one (which I always thought was stupid because he's the gun guy, the sniper... it wouldn't matter if he was skinny or short. Why can I fit two of me in AOA Deadshot's silhouette alone?? Why are his shoulders so far away from his neck?? How is he alive??) I don't like Killer Frost's redesign in HTP as much as her AOA one... it just doesn't seem to have any personality?
Boomerang is pretty much the same.. that's fine. Harley...

Oh Harley.

Harley looked amazing in AOA - even if her modified bodysuit revealed her most dangerous weapon - not the dirty-bomb mallet but the razor sharp bony ass hips she had - and she was blatantly used as a sex object for most of the movie (kinda like Maggot Robbie, but the animated version at least had a character arc and some decent lines!) 

This HTP Harley looks kinda hideous, face wise. You guys already know that I think the blue/pink eye shadow is a terrible costume choice. At least she has face paint on her original flesh tone body, not the Joker dip dye, I guess. It just seems weird that she's wearing evening gloves and matching thigh high stockings.. with generic Daisy Duke jeans and hipster sneakers? 

Like, did they run out of your costume and you had to improvise? Did you feel like the only way to show that you're a jester was to wear denim? Was the shoot on a fatty/bloated day and you honestly couldn't get into your original pants? Was there an urgent need for tiny, useless pockets?

Also it kinda looks like she's wearing bananas on her head instead of actual hair and in the above picture, her arms look like tiny sticks incapable of wielding any kind of weapon. I guess we'll see what she's like character wise and fingers crossed she'll be decent. It's funny that Tara Strong (her voice for most of the Arkham Games) is doing this iteration of her while Hynden Walch (the voice actor from The Batman) did AOA. To be honest with you, I can only stand Tara's version of Harley in small doses. I love all her other work, but she's just so squeaky as Harley Quinn that it gets on your nerves a bit. 

The teams are still pretty similar - gun guy, crazy girl, boomerang guy, other token female, token black guy, token weird animal/creature guy....

New plot is Amanda Waller (skinny version) has her team on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful that they'll risk their own lives to steal it. There is another team trying to obtain it as well, which means they're in a race, I hope I win, hoping to ah ah ah ah stay alive, because second place isn't an option.

Voice Actors/Cast:

Deadshot: Christian Slater
Bronze Tiger: Billy Brown
Captain Boomerang: Liam McIntyre
Killer Frost: Kristen Bauer van Staten
Copperhead: Gideon Emery
Harley Quinn: Tara Strong
Amanda Waller: Vanessa Williams

Zoom: C. Thomas Howell
Scandal Savage: Dania Ramirez
Professer Pyg: James Urbaniak
Silver Banshee and Jewelee: Julie Nathanson
Vandal Savage and Vertigo: Jim Pirri
Steel Maxum: Greg Grunberg
Blockbuster and Tobias Whale: Dave Fennoy
Knockout: Cissy Jones
Darma: Natalie Lander
Punch: Trevor Devall
Two-Face: Dave Boat
Savage Gunman: Matthew Mercer

I have to say... this line-up makes it sound a bit like the Secret Six are somewhat involved. There are a lot of classic Suicide Squad members too which is nice. Some names I don't recognise, like Darma and Savage Gunman/Steel Maxum/Tobias Whale.

It is nice to see DC remember that there were several Suicide Squads before the recent iteration.. that is, before it became Harley and some other people she hangs out with Squad. 

Seriously, if this animated movie is just going to be another episode of Harley Quinn doing lol-so-crazy bullshit and ignoring the other people on the cast list I'll probably scream like a banshee myself.