The creature commando gives the weasel of the Suicide Squad a tragic backstory

The old DC Extended Universe is officially dead, and the Arrowverse along with it. In their place, a new DC Universe is being created, as James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios makes its mark with the first title in the new cinematic universe. Instead of starting with Superman, or another founder of the Justice League, or whatever character will be the foundation for this entire endeavor, The DC Universe begins with the “Creature Commandos”.

The show follows Task Force M (for Monster) – basically just a suicide squad but with Universal Classic Monsters, super-human outcasts and other weirdos who… It does not fit the category of “human”. The team is sent to a foreign land to prevent an international incident, where a militia led by a Themysciran witch and a group of people are planning to invade an Eastern European-inspired country. The team consists of “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” – Inspired by Nina Mazursky, The Bride (of Frankenstein), Eric Frankenstein himself, a GI robot obsessed with Nazi killing, and the radioactive skeleton Dr. Phosphorus, all led by Rick Flag Sr.

The team includes Weasel, arguably the most curious member of the Creature Commandos. The character first appeared in “The Suicide Squad” where he was mostly there for comic relief and managed to sit out almost the entire movie by accidentally declaring KIA before the opening battle. Sean Gunn played the character, who is extremely gruesome but hilarious – and who is said to have killed 27 children before being locked up in Belle Reve Prison.

Talk to NerdSean Gunn talked about wanting to give an emotional performance despite having fewer props in animation than in live action:

“James (Gunn) always described a weasel to me as being like a big dog, and if you know anyone who has a dog, you know that a dog experiences a whole range of emotions. They feel happy, they feel sad. They get frustrated, they get angry, they get All of those things, so I still have all of these emotions at my disposal when I play Weasel, and I’m trying to overcome what Weasel feels all the time acting work that I think I’ve ever done in my career.”

Like a large dog, Weasel faces a lot of prejudice about his appearance, as everyone he meets treats him as terrible and dangerous. Over the first four episodes of “Creature Commandos,” we get brief glimpses of flashbacks: shots of Weasel with children, shots of a school fire, and Weasel dragging a young child through the fire.

However, in Episode 4, we learn through flashbacks that the weasel was just a lost creature found by a group of schoolchildren who loved to play with him, and treated him as a pet. They seemed happy, but of course it didn’t last.

When one of the children discovers that the school door has been left open, they begin playing inside, where a child accidentally knocks over a bottle of alcohol next to a child playing with matches. The resulting fire spreads quickly, and when one of the groundskeepers sees the weasel, he grabs his gun and begins shooting at the creature, accidentally causing an explosion that kills him and most of the children. To make matters worse, the police arrived, shot the weasel and took him away – not realizing that they had dropped the only surviving child behind them to be crushed under the collapsing building. The episode ends with Weasel falling asleep crying for his friends in the midst of his nightmares, while the sounds of “Hjerteknuser” by the Kaizers Orchestra play over the end credits.

talking to Collider“(‘Creature Commandos’), at its core, is really a tragedy,” said James Gunn. In fact, even when talking about violence, sex and irreverent humor, the key to the show is that the team is “willing to go there with the tragic nature of it.”

Nowhere is this more evident than in Weasel’s story and the way it recasts his role in “The Suicide Squad” – where he was left for dead after being imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. In “Creature Commandos,” there are not only sad moments, but the emptiness with which these moments arrive, especially the deaths. Characters die for no reason, not as a heroic sacrifice or a shocking betrayal, but simply as another casualty in battle. This doesn’t have much impact on the story as a whole, or even on the team, which the series makes clear are expendable, and the characters are replaceable.

Weasel is the character who ends up being the heart of the “Creature Commandos,” which makes sense. After all, James Gunn has a long history of writing endearing and tragic stories about animals. Look no further The haunting depiction of animal abuse in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, It’s difficult to watch, but essential to the story of trauma and abuse the film tells. He has arrived in the DC Universe, and even now, his heart lies not in truth or justice, but in a mutant weasel.