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Suicide squad may refer to:
- A group that carries out a suicide attack
- Suicide Squad, a fictional organization featured in DC Comics books
- Suicide Squad (film), a 2016 American supervillain film based on the DC Comics organization
- "Suicide Squad", the name of a season two episode of Arrow, in reference to the DC Comics organization
- A nickname for certain members of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT) program's rocket research project
- Suicide Squad (hooligan firm), a group of soccer hooligans in England
- Suicide squad (New Zealand), 25 politicians appointed in 1950 to the New Zealand Legislative Council to assist passage of an Act of Parliament to abolish the Council
- Suicide Squadron, US title for the 1941 British film Dangerous Moonlight
The Suicide Squad is a football hooligan firm linked to the English Premier League team, Burnley F.C. The self-imposed title is derived from previous behaviour at away games where the single minded involvement in violence against overwhelming odds could be described as suicidal. The name became synonymous with the group during the early 1980s and many of the original members, now in their forties are well known to the police and have a string of convictions for violence.
The suicide squad in New Zealand was a so-nicknamed group of New Zealand Legislative Councillors appointed in 1950 by Prime Minister Sidney Holland tasked with voting the New Zealand Legislative Council out of existence.
Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics antihero team of the same name. It is the third installment in the DC Extended Universe. The film is written and directed by David Ayer and stars an ensemble cast featuring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood and Cara Delevingne. In Suicide Squad, a secret government agency led by Amanda Waller recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions and save the world from a powerful threat, in exchange for leaner sentences.
By February 2009, a Suicide Squad film was in development at Warner Bros. Pictures. Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014, and by October, the casting process had begun. Principal photography began on April 13, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario, with additional filming in Chicago, Illinois, and ended in August that year.
Suicide Squad premiered in New York City on August 1, 2016, and was released in the United States on August 5, 2016, in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D. Following a strong debut that set new box office records, the film has amassed $509 million in global ticket sales. Critical response to the film was generally negative, with reviewers finding the direction and editing choppy, the plot muddled, and the characters thinly-written, though the performances of Viola Davis, Jared Leto, Will Smith, and Margot Robbie were widely praised.
Suicide Squad: The Album is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. The album was released on August 5, 2016 by Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records. A separate film score album, composed by Steven Price, was released on August 8, 2016 by WaterTower Music. The digital edition of the film score album contains eight bonus tracks.
Usage examples of "suicide squad".
That work had doubled since a suicide squad had destroyed Freehold Jump Point One.
One brother dead and another wounded and a third the leader of the Maccabees suicide squad inside the Old City walls.
The six had been a suicide squad, hiding when the others vacated, waiting for the opportunity to catch us alone.
Laying bridges with sharpshooters and machine gunners lining the ramparts on the other side at point-blank range, backed by heavy artillery, will call for a suicide squad of engineers.
It would also have to clamber over such gigantic rocks and boulders that only a suicide squad could get in.
We stood there in the middle of everything, watching the suicide squad from the challengers throw themselves at the front lines.
Give her a hundred skim-wings and she would be able to wipe out the Deoran GHQ with one suicide squad or, at most, two.