The Suicide Squad (2021)

Intelligence officer Amanda Waller sends two Task Force X teams led by Colonel Rick Flag and Bloodsport to the South American island nation of Corto Maltese after its government is overthrown by an anti-American regime. The squads, mostly comprising Belle Reve penitentiary inmates promised lighter sentences, are tasked with destroying Jötunheim, a Nazi-era laboratory that holds a secretive experiment known as “Project Starfish”. Upon arriving, Flag’s team is ambushed by Corto Maltese military, resulting in the deaths of Savant, Captain Boomerang, Blackguard, T.D.K., Javelin, and Mongal. However, the skirmish creates a distraction that allows Bloodsport’s team of Peacemaker, King Shark, Polka-Dot Man, and Ratcatcher 2 to enter the country undetected. After finding Flag at a base camp for rebel soldiers, the squad convinces rebellion leader Sol Soria to assist them.

The squad accomplishes their next objective of capturing the Thinker, a metahuman scientist in charge of Project Starfish. They are joined by first team survivor Harley Quinn, who escaped the Corto Maltese government after learning of the new regime’s plans to use Project Starfish against other nations. Breaking into Jötunheim, most of the squad rigs the facility with explosives as Flag and Ratcatcher 2 enter the underground laboratory with the Thinker. They discover Project Starfish to be Starro the Conqueror, a giant alien that controls its victims through smaller versions of itself. The Thinker reveals that Starro was brought to Earth by the American government, who have been secretly funding the experiments on Corto Maltese for decades.