James Gunn's The Suicide Squad has finally been released to critical and audience acclaim, but the wild speculation that permeated geeky spaces doesn't seem to have quelled just yet. In fact, ideas are already floating around excited fan discussions regarding who might show up in a potential sequel. Sure, this one already seemed to require some heavy scuba gear to accommodate for how deep Gunn dove to come up with a few of the characters. But somehow, there's always more.

Where movies like The Avengers zig by bringing together famous heroes like Captain America and Thor, The Suicide Squad zagged with its inclusion of classic names like... Ratcatcher 2 and... Polka-Dot Man. On the surface, it sounded absolutely bizarre and positively doomed to fail. Then the movie came out and it was incredible. People fell in love with a rat and cheered for a bipedal shark who eats people. The world is a strange and horrifying place, so people have to find their comfort wherever they can, and that's ok.

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So on that note, the possibilities for another Suicide Squad (no, not that other one) are seemingly endless. Hungarian Photoshop artist m.design34 decided to take that as a challenge and offered their own ideas from deep within the murky bowels of DC's archives. From less wacky characters who have already been tackled in recent years like Solomon Grundy and Firefly to the most surreal of the surreal like Condiment King and Mr. Camera, apparently nobody is off-limits here. Frankly, it seems like something Gunn might want to pay attention to.

Many of these cartoonish villains also feature casting suggestions thanks to m.design34's Photoshop skills. So fans are treated to such star power as Neil Patrick Harris playing Condiment King (wearing what looks like a modified version of Barry Allen's outfit on The CW's The Flash), Dave Bautista as Solomon Grundy, Olivia Wilde as The Mask (not Jim Carrey's version, though there's an idea...), and Rila Fukushima pulling double duty as the Kabuki Twins. The collection even includes Sean Gunn portraying Calendar Man, whom he already played in The Suicide Squad itself. Keep in mind that every single one of these characters is an actual official DC entity who has appeared in real comic books that people have bought in real stores with real money.

The concept of seeing people like Harry Styles as fabulous thief The Cavelier and friendly woke Disney boy Josh Gad in his role of a lifetime Simon the Pieman sounds absolutely bonkers at first. But think about how The Suicide Squad blasted audiences in the face just during its opening. Pete Davidson, Flula Borg, Michael Rooker, it was a whacked-out star fest and everybody was invited (temporarily, at least). So who's to say a follow-up film couldn't crank that particular dial up to 11 and then yank it off for good measure?

The unexpected nature of The Suicide Squad, as well as the way it made audiences care about almost every bizarre specimen on screen, is absolutely Gunn's strong suit. So as hilarious as some of these ideas sound, don't count them out just yet. This time a few years from now, audiences could be bawling their eyes out over the heroic sacrifice of a guy who really likes ketchup.

The Suicide Squad will be released on Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital HD on October 26, 2021.

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Source: m.design34/Instagram (First collection, second collection)