James Gunn Teases The Suicide Squad's Weasel Is Innocent
James Gunn, director of The Suicide Squad, has teased that at least one of the supervillains in Task Force X may be innocent of the crimes they've been accused of, namely Weasel. The character is portrayed by the director's brother Sean Gunn, who has also appeared as the Ravager Kraglin in the Guardians of the Galaxy films and provided the motion-capture of Rocket Raccoon. As his name suggests, Weasel is a giant, anthropomorphic weasel. In the DC comics, Weasel is a dissatisfied college teacher who donned a weasel costume to kill his colleagues and ensure promotion. Gunn's version of Weasel diverges greatly, being a literal weasel that acts and thinks accordingly, apparently inspired by Bloom County's Bill the Cat.
He is one of several supervillains recruited by Viola Davis' Amanda Waller to undertake a black ops mission on the fictional South American island of Corto Maltese. Things don't go well for Weasel however, as he drowns almost immediately after being thrown out of the team's transport helicopter. Heroically dragged to shore by Michael Rooker's Savant, Weasel is assumed to be the first casualty of the team's operation (one of many). However, in one of The Suicide Squad's post-credits scene, Weasel is shown waking up on the beach where his comrades died before scurrying off into the jungle.
On the way to Corto Maltese, the character is revealed to have killed 27 children, much to the horror of Weasel's team-mates. However, now Gunn has suggested that Weasel could in fact be innocent of his crimes. Speaking to Indiewire, Gunn noted that "There’s a lot of people in prison for crimes they didn’t commit" and also highlighted that if a number of children died and Weasel was nearby, one might be inclined to accuse him and that Weasel lacks the intelligence to truly defend himself from these accusations. Read Gunn's full comments below:
There’s a lot of people in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Don’t you think that if there were 27 [dead] kids and Weasel was living on the block, that you’re going to blame Weasel. Is he guilty? I think it’s a Project Innocence situation for Weasel and he deserves to really have the legal team that he probably did not have the first time through. I mean, he is one step above a Greyhound, if that, when it comes to his brain capacity.
The potential innocence of several members of The Suicide Squad's members is a recurrent theme in Gunn's film, with the director going a long way to offer depth and complexity to the film's supervillains. In particular, Daniela Melchior's Cleo Cazo/Ratcatcher II, who is very much depicted as the emotional heart of the team, is also implied to be innocent of her crimes, or at least not as guilty as is initially suggested. She reveals to Idris Elba's Bloodsport that upon coming to America, after living her life on the streets of Lisbon, she was arrested for armed robbery with the weapon in question being her rat Sebastian. While Cleo frequently utilizes the rats she controls as weapons in the film, it's hard not feel sympathy for the character who has been seemingly mistreated for so much of her life.
Likewise with Weasel, even if Gunn is joking, there is level of tragedy to the character as an incredibly dim-witted creature seemingly coerced into being a part of Waller's Suicide Squad and sent to his death. While the character is very much treated as a joke within the film, and suitably so considering his ridiculousness, if Weasel is truly innocent then there is at least a level of catharsis offered by his escape into the jungle of Corto Maltese at the end of The Suicide Squad.
Source: Indiewire
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