While its box office performance may be indicitive of the ongoing pandemic's effect on the film industry, Warner Bros.' The Suicide Squad has enjoyed glowing reviews from both fans and critics, with many praising the vision of director James Gunn, best known for his work on the Guardian of the Galaxy films. For fans of Gunn's previous work, namely within the realm of video games, one scene may have stuck out as resembling the style of a beloved title known as Lollipop Chainsaw. Gunn has now confirmed that one of the best scenes in The Suicide Squad was inspired by his collaboration with game deisgner Goichi Suda, Lollipop Chainsaw.

Lollipop Chainsaw was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Warner Bros. Interactive in 2012, the game is an action hack-and-slash title that centers around Juliet Starling, a high-school cheerleader who doubles as a zombie hunter, as she fights off hoards of zombies while trying to protect her boyfriend, Nick. Nick spends pretty much the entire game as a decapitated head attached to Juliet's waist as she attempts to find a body to attach him to after he is bitten by a zombie.

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The game was a collaboration between beloved video game designer Goichi "Suda51" Suda, creator of games such as No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned, and The Silver Case, and James Gunn, who at the time was still mainly known for his work on horror and black comedy projects such as Slither and Super. The game also featured writing from Mindless Self Indulgence singer Jimmy Urine.

When discussing a scene in which Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) breaks out of a prison, which is heaily styalized with animated flowers and birds glittering each frame as Harley brutally attacks the prison's guards, Gunn revealed that the visual style of this sequence was directly inspired by Lollipop Chainsaw, which often contrasts brutal, gory imagery, with a cutsy color pallette and pop music. Gunn stated "I did a video game called Lollipop Chainsaw, and I always loved the sort of ... In that game, which I did was with Suda in Japan, I always loved the way that the hearts and beautiful little things came out of people mixed with blood. So, a lot of it goes back to that, the aesthetic of mixing this horrible gore with Harley's starry-eyed way of looking at life and creating Harley-vision basically."

The relationship between Suda and Gunn still seems to be going strong today, as back in 2014 Suda and Gunn reunited for the Japanese premier of the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, and in 2019, while being interviewed for IGN regarding Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Suda revealed that James Gunn is his favorite director. While it's often forgotten about nowadays, Lollipop Chainsaw is a classic among Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture's projects, and still influences the studio's projects today, with an alternate universe version of Juliet most recently appearing in Travis Strikes Again. With any hope, the two will collaborate again some day to bring us another gory, glittery adventure.

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Source: Collider, IGN