"Bad Guys" in Comic Books-Connor Foley Assignment 2

Over the past year, aside from books that were assigned to me as schoolwork or homework, the majority (if not all) of the books that I read were comic books. At first I thought that there wasn’t much to say about them, but as I reflected more on my favorite comic I read, Suicide Squad, I realized a story element that I highly value in all works of fiction. I personally despise the “good vs. evil” dichotomy that a lot of fiction media works itself into. The “this character is bad and this one is good” that plagues so many tv shows, movies, video games, etc. The whole purpose of Suicide Squad however is to give insight to the “bad guys”. The story makes no effort to try and imply that the main characters (all of which are working off prison time doing tasks for the federal government) are saints, but it explores two things that I think are very important to every “bad guy”. Why they became what they are and why they continue to do what they do. By giving these characters that are usually the “bad guys” of the story and nothing more understandable motivations, it makes them more interesting as characters.