What DC CW Should Try Next

So not too long ago I did a piece on the DC CW massive crossover called “Invasion” where they fought evil aliens to fair to mixed results.

So what should they do next?  Well, Legends of Tomorrow is ramping up the “Legion of Doom” story arch and that’s all well and good but that doesn’t feel very “all encompassing”.  Yes we’re getting villains that have appeared in all three shows, but it doesn’t feel like a major threat.  But “Invasion” did give us something to work with.

A.R.G.U.S. sets the stage for a shadowy government agency involved with the dark dealing of the world, with director Lyla Michaels overseeing its operations.  They make an appearance throughout “Invasion”, but they also come into conflict with Agent Smith (noted as “Glasses) who knew of the aliens in the 1950’s and tried to make deals with them in the modern era.  The end of “Invasion” saw the president reassigning Agent Smith to possibly run a “Department of Extra-Normal Operations”, maybe even being relocated to the artic as suggested by Kara.  However Supergirl, in making this suggestion to the president, may have given new life to the Suicide Squad for the CW.

Under Waller’s watch, A.R.G.U.S. ran Task Force X (aka the Suicide Squad) as a means to handle “off the books” operations.  If you gave a guy like Agent Smith an organization like the DEO, after an alien invasion crisis, he would not hesitate to build his own force of bodies to combat what he deemed potential threats.  Since he was thwarted by the heroes during invasion, I can guarantee they would be the top of his “potential problems” list.  He already knows their secret identities, and he knows about Barry’s time manipulation.  He knows Barry can cross into alternate dimension and pull even more powerful beings into “our world”, and that there are more and more powerful meta-humans appearing every day.

In the films it’s established that Task Force X was designed to combat super-human threats, and in a previous post I commented on what they were really designed to take out, so to alter its focus from “black ops” to “anti-meta-human” isn’t that big of a leap story wise.  Plus you could actually make use of all these amazing characters that the CW doesn’t really do anything with.  Its established already in “The Flash” that the cells at STAR Labs aren’t the only place they are housing metas, and since Team Flash is working so closely with the CCPD, they can’t be holding them there indefinitely due to the Constitution of the United States.  They have to go somewhere, and after that, the new DEO could get their grubby hands on them.  You could even bring back Deadshot and Captain Boomerang for grins and giggles.

That said: Who would be on my short list for the CW Suicide Squad if it was designed to combat the CW heroes?

Deadshot, Cupid, Boomerang, Chemo, Bronze Tiger, Knock Out, Mirror Master and Top.  Give them a wider color pallet and watch the magic.

Thanks for reading.