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In September 2019, director James Gunn confirmed 24 cast members who will appear in his standalone film, including Idris Elba, seen above. Jessica Miglio/™ & © DC Comics

If you're not familiar with the comics, the Suicide Squad usually follows a revolving door of DC villains and former villains who work for a government agency called Task Force X. If they step out of line on their missions or try to escape, they're instantly killed, usually by a device attached to their necks or implanted into their heads.

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Though you'll notice a few familiar faces from the first Suicide Squad movie, including Viola Davis, Margot Robbie, and Joel Kinnaman, Gunn's film is considered a standalone. (We explain more here.)

Gunn himself said he likes to think of his film as a sequel to John Ostrander's original run of Suicide Squad comics.

From Harley Quinn to Polka-Dot Man, meet the squad featured in the new film, out now in theaters and on HBO Max.

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The last time we saw Harley, she was riding off with Cassandra Cain in Birds of Prey after moving on from her breakup with the Joker. Gunn's film will deliver another new look for the character that pulls from a mix of the video games, comics, and her animated origins.

According to press notes, Quinn is re-incarcerated for making a cash withdrawal with her car. She joins the squad as a way to buy her freedom and is single and ready to mingle.

The government official is the one responsible for rounding up and selecting a group of DC baddies to work undercover as her fall guys from Belle Reve prison.

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If the group doesn't perform the tasks she orders, or if they try to go astray, she simply blows them up by pressing a button that explodes a chip in their heads.

In Gunn's The Suicide Squad, Flag comes across as a bonafide hero. It's not noted why he joins the squad, but as a military man, he likely does it as a service to his country. He's tasked with keeping the rest of his squad in line and that isn't always easy.

We didn't really learn much about the Flash villain in the first Suicide Squad movie. As you can probably guess, his character has an affinity for using boomerangs as weapons.

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The minor Batman villain has never received any love on the big screen. Polka-Dot Man appears in Detective Comics issue No. 300. Warner Bros.

Batman villain Abner Krill is one of the quirkier characters from his rogue's gallery. His white costume is covered in an array of colored spots. In the comics, the spots can come off of his costume to be used as weapons or transportation.

Gunn comes up with a completely new tragic backstory for the villain, telling he wanted to take the dumbest super villain from DC and give him a soul.

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Here's how the character's described on promotional material sent to : Dourly dispirited Polka-Dot Man wears his rainbow-pustuled dermis with all the shame of an acne-riddled teen going stag to the prom. But when he fires his deadly polka-dots, he can turn even the smoothest criminal into Swiss cheese.

Peacemaker, aka Christopher Smith, is a world-class marksman obsessed with keeping peace at any cost. That doesn't mean he's against killing other people.

The mercenary character goes after Superman, at the behest of Lex Luthor, with kryptonite bullets. It's noted briefly in the film that this version of the character does too and that's why he's serving time in Belle Reve.

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There have been three iterations of Bloodsport in the comics. Here, Elba plays Robert DuBois, the first Bloodsport who had a mental breakdown after he skipped out on the Vietnam War draft and his brother went in his place, only to lose his limbs.

Gunn revamps the character a bit in his film. Like Peacemaker, he's also a world-class marksman and that puts the two at odds a bit in the film. In TSS, he was trained by his mercenary dad from birth and turned to a life of crime. His only soft spot is his daughter.

Sylvester Stallone worked with Gunn on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. King Shark first appeared in the Superboy comic. The character appeared on The Flash and is a main character on the animated Harley Quinn series. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images, Warner Bros.

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In The Suicide Squad, the character isn't simply a flesh-eating monster. He's an experiment that went wrong and views the world with the naivete of a child. Instead of referring to him as King Shark, the squad respectfully calls him by his first name, Nanaue.

In a virtual Q&A, Gunn told Cinemablend's Sean O'Connell that they hired three different actors for the role before asking Stallone, his friend, to do the role.

I wrote the role for Sylvester Stallone. I was afraid… Sly's my friend. … What if it didn't work? He's Sly! I would've just had to have a voice that didn't work, Gunn said.

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We had one voice actor come in and do the whole movie. It didn't work. We had another voice actor come in and do the whole movie. He didn't come to life. We had an actor -- a really, really famous actor who was also a friend of mine -- come in and do the voice. And that didn't work, Gunn continued, saying he then called up Stallone who said he would love to do it.

Brian Durlin (aka Savant)was introduced in Birds of Prey in 2003. He tried doing the whole superhero thing and then found himself better at extortion. He's a masterful martial artist and, like Batman, the heir to a fortune.

More recently, the character was added to the Suicide Squad roster in the comics and was placed on a mission to track Harley Quinn.

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In TSS, Durlin really doesn't want to join the squad, but it's not like he has much say in the matter. He joins the crew to avoid boredom and to knock a few years off his current sentence.

Sean Gunn is director James Gunn's brother. They also worked together in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. Jerod Harris/Getty Images, Warner Bros.

In the comics, John Monroe was teased as a college student with his classmates sometimes referring to him as a weasel. In his comic introduction, he originally wears a weasel costume when he turns to a life of crime to get revenge on students at Stanford.

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The character was later re-envisioned to look like more of an actual animal. In Gunn's film, Weasel definitely isn't a man in a weasel costume. His real name is unknown.

There are a few versions of the character, but the first one, Clifford DeVoe, was a Flash foe, appearing on the CW series. The inventor built a powerful cap which allows him to essentially be a living A.I. The character is a bit reminiscent of Brainiac, a Superman nemesis.

Daniela Melchior plays Ratcatcher 2 in The Suicide Squad. Ratcatcher first appears in Detective Comics' #585 in 1988. Carlos Rodrigues/Getty Images, Warner Bros.

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The Suicide Squad introduces a gender-flipped version of the character who was first introduced in Batman's Detective Comics in 1988. Otis Flannegan took on the moniker Ratcatcher because of his personal connection with the animals and ability to train and control them to do his bidding.

In TSS, Cleo Cazo controls a legion of rats using an electronic wand, something she learned how to do from her dad, the original Ratcatcher. Her main sidekick is an adorable rat wearing a backpack named Sebastian.

Mongal is the daughter of a tyrant named Mongul the Elder. She and her brother have gone after Superman in the past. She has super speed and strength among other powers which should make her an asset to the squad.

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She's out for revenge after General Luna and General Suarez killed her entire family. She's hoping she overthrow and take control of the Corto Maltese government with her group of rebels. She'll cross paths with the squad as their missions intersect.Margot Robbie has put in three performances now as Harley Quinn, but it seems the actress is going to take a bit of a break from the popular character.

… and filming this, so I was kind of like, oof, I need a break from Harley because she’s exhausting, ” Robbie told

In a new interview. “I don’t know when we’re next going to see her. I’m just as intrigued as everyone else is.”

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She went on to add some thoughts, saying, “I guess it’s kind of like the comics, ” Robbie said. “The film version of the DC universe, I actually think they’re a lot like the comics. You pick up one