WARNING: Contains spoilers for The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad writer and director James Gunn has taken to Twitter to tease fans that a character from the film may not have actually died in the movie's opening scene. Gunn’s soft-reboot of David Ayer's 2016 Suicide Squad was released earlier this summer to rave reviews, receiving a Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans were treated to a variety of teasers prior to the release, which revealed a colorful array of new characters joining the squad. However, unfortunately, the majority of these characters don’t make it to the credits.
The Suicide Squad sees a group of misfit supervillains, each with their own unique set of skills, sent on a high-stakes mission to the island of Corto Maltese to uncover ‘Project Starfish,’ with the promise of a reduced prison sentence upon completion. While fans may already be familiar with some of the squad members from Ayer's 2016 film, such as Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), the rest of the group are new additions to the line-up. Fans did not have long to get acquainted with some of these new characters, however, as the opening scene showed viewers exactly what they could expect from the rest of the film. After arriving on the beach of Corto Maltese, the Suicide Squad immediately live up to their name as almost all of them are taken out by the military in an explosive and highly impressive opening scene.
However, during a watch party hosted on Twitter by Gunn and some of his The Suicide Squad cast members, Gunn revealed that one of the characters supposedly killed in the brutal scene may still be alive. The director pointed out that if you look closely at the life signals on the screen in the comms hub after the ambush, Nathan Fillion’s character, The Detachable Kid (more commonly referred to as TDK), is not actually dead. Check out Gunn’s tweet below:
The Detachable Kid has the superhuman ability to detach his limbs and then control them while they are independent of his body. While this ability is certainly something to behold, it didn’t serve him too well in the film, as he was swiftly taken out by the Corto Maltese military. Viewers naturally believed he was just one of Gunn’s many, many casualties in the movie. Fillion’s cameo as TDK was well received by fans, who were shocked to see his character gunned down in that dramatic opening scene, but now it appears that this may not be the last fans see of The Detachable Kid.
Gunn is no stranger to revealing easter eggs and fun facts following the release of his movies, and his latest reveal has left fans wondering what became of The Detachable Kid if he did in fact survive the initial attack on the beach. Could this mean that TDK could pop up in future DC projects? The end credit scene of The Suicide Squad set up the release of HBO’s Peacemaker series, after revealing that John Cena’s character Peacemaker had survived his gunshot wound, inflicted by Bloodsport (Idris Elba). Fans are now curious as to whether or not Nathan Fillion could be making a cameo in this new series, perhaps simply as a call back to The Suicide Squad or maybe even with a more involved role to play. As for now, it remains to be seen what the future holds for The Detachable Kid.
Source: James Gunn/Twitter
