‘Gotham’ to Cash In on ‘Suicide Squad’ Buzz With Killer Croc, Harley Quinn
“Gotham” is adding a few of the supervillains from “Suicide Squad.” Well, sort of.
A “proto-version” of Killer Croc and a “forerunner” for Harley Quinn are headed to the faux Fox city, though “not necessarily” this season, executive producer John Stephens said Monday.
When asked to clarify what a “proto-version” is, he said, “That might just be, like, Reddit talk for, ‘We haven’t quite figured it out.'”
Oh, OK.
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“It’s sort of like you see the first version of it, and you see how it comes from [that] after-the-fact,” Stephens continued. “As if you see someone who has a scientific anomaly so their skin grows in a certain way, and [you say], ‘Oh, I’m gonna take that and grow Killer Croc from that in the future.'”
Got it.
“Gotham” and “Lucifer” shared a panel this afternoon at Fox’s Television Critics Association summer press tour. From the other end of the Beverly Hilton stage, “Lucifer” producers revealed that Michael Imperioli is joining Season 2 as angel Uriel, the devil’s brother.
The TCA tour continues tomorrow with FX presentations. The whole thing wraps on Thursday.
18 'Suicide Squad' Characters Ranked, Worst to Best (Photos)
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Abuses prisoners at Belle Reve, collaborates with the Joker, never gets any kind of comeuppance. I guess this ranking will have to do.
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17. Incubus
What was this CGI monstrosity? He looks like a cast-off from “Gods of Egypt.”
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16. Batman
Remember that time he punched Harley Quinn in the face underwater and all the dudes in the theater laughed? Not a great moment for humanity there. And yet it's nearly Batman's entire involvement in this movie.
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15. Slipknot
When he randomly showed up in the movie as a member of the Suicide Squad without ever being mentioned before, my friend leaned over and was like, “Who is that?” And that about sums up Slipknot, since he got his head blown off like 45 seconds later.
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14. Rick Flag
Had two Gs in his name in the comics, yet they removed one of them here? Also he's one-note and boring. That probably matters more.
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13. Enchantress
This 6,000-year-old magic lady who builds a magic hole in the sky that can apparently knock over aircraft carriers thousands of miles away had to ask someone how to destroy the human armies.
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12. June Moone
I guess she's better than Enchantress by default, by virtue of simply of being the tangible human half of that CGI horror.
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11. Jonny Frost
A Joker henchman who makes absolutely zero impression. Pretty hard to pull off!
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10. Monster T
Hey remember that time Common got cast in a franchise comic-book movie as a known comic book character only to get murdered in his first scene? Yeesh. This character was wasted so badly I didn't even have a picture of him to use for this slide.
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9. Lieutenant GQ Edwards
This dude, played by Scott Eastwood, was treated in pre-release as a mystery character who either had a secret identity or would become a famous comic book dude. And then he spent the end movie hovering in the background before blowing himself up. All right.
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8. The Joker
Compared with most of the other nonsense in the movie, Jared Leto's Joker is inoffensive and sparingly used enough to make it in the upper half of the rankings.
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7. Harley Quinn
Has characteristics and established personal motivations, making her an instant standout in "Suicide Squad." Except it's all ruined when it's revealed that all she, the Joker's girlfriend, really wants is an upper-middle-class lifestyle with a husband who wears a suit to work.
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6. Katana
Really loves her husband, who lives in her soul-stealing sword. They should do a movie about her trying to figure out how to get him out of there.
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5. Amanda Waller
There's a part where she randomly murders a bunch of FBI agents who work for her and it was a pretty awesome moment, even if it doesn't make any sense.
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4. Deadshot
Does the most killing of any of them, so that's cool. Is played by Will Smith, so that's even cooler. Hates Batman, so he's basically my best friend.
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3. Killer Croc
Nobody ever says what it was he did to get locked in a blacksite prison forever. I assume it was just racism.
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2. Captain Boomerang
This dude I identify with strongly: he's got bad facial hair, is constantly drinking beer and is woefully unqualified for battling magic monsters. Though he doesn't really contribute at all, he's my favorite of the bunch.
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1. El Diablo
I like his tattoos and also his ability to set a million people on fire at once. I also identify strongly with his desire to not kill a million people at once -- which, in the context of this movie, makes him easily the best.
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The definitive judgment on who did and didn’t suck in the latest DC Comics movie
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