Warning: full spoilers ahead for The Suicide Squad!

Now that James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is out in theaters and on HBO Max, the typical comic-book movie question is being asked: Does the movie have mid- and post-credits scenes?

Well, we're here to answer all that and more! Read on…

Does The Suicide Squad Have a Post-Credit Scene?

The Suicide Squad absolutely does have an end-credits scene and a mid-credits scene, and we’re going to explain what they mean and what comes next if you want to know!

But to explain the end of DC’s The Suicide Squad, we’ll need to go into full spoilers, so beware!

The Suicide Squad Mid-Credits Scene: Weasel

The Suicide Squad mid-credits scene returns us to the Corto Maltese beach from the beginning of the movie where many Task Force X members met their grisly end. We see that Weasel (Sean Gunn) survived his apparent drowning and is back on his two furry feet.

Weasel’s watery death was played off as a joke, as the mission coordinators back at base blamed each other for not checking to make sure Weasel could swim before sending him on a mission where he would have to dive into the ocean and swim to shore. But now Weasel is alive, so who’s laughing now? Maybe he'll even show up in a Suicide Squad sequel eventually…

The Suicide Squad Post-Credits Scene: Peacemaker

The Suicide Squad’s post-credits scene reveals that John Cena’s Peacemaker also survived his seemingly mortal wound. Two of Amanda Waller’s subordinates, John Economos (Steve Agee) and Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), check in on him recovering in a hospital, saying they need him for a new mission.

Peacemaker lost his climactic gun duel against Idris Elba’s Bloodsport and caught a teeny, tiny bullet in his neck, and though the blood gushing from his neck looked convincingly fatal, it turns out he managed to hang onto dear life. This twist won’t be a surprise to anyone who already heard the news that Peacemaker will be starring in a TV spin-off series set to debut on the HBO Max streaming service in January 2022.

The Peacemaker show is written by The Suicide Squad’s James Gunn, who will also be directing some of its eight episodes.

Cena will once again play Peacemaker as part of an ensemble cast. Reprising their roles from The Suicide Squad is Steve Agee as John Economos and Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt. Freddie Stroma will play Adrian Chase aka Vigilante, a gun-toting DC Comics anti-hero. Joining them will be two characters created for the show, Clemson Murn (Chukwudi Iwuji) and Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks).

What the Suicide Squad Ending Means

Though no official plot details have been released, the post-credits scene leads us to believe the show will follow Peacemaker on whatever new mission he’s been assigned. Given how his secret mission to destroy all evidence linking the United States to Starro was a key point in The Suicide Squad, it wouldn’t surprise us to learn more about how he became Amanda Waller’s (Viola Davis) special enforcer. Whether or not it will delve into the repercussions of the death of Joel Kinnaman's Rick Flag at the hands of Peacemaker remains to be seen.

It’s probably a given that the show will delve into Peacemaker’s backstory. In the comics, he was a troubled army veteran named Christopher Smith who became dedicated to the contradictory philosophy of achieving peace through whatever violent means necessary. After committing a heinous war crime, he was “rehabilitated” by the US government, and became the costumed anti-hero Peacemaker. So there’s plenty of material for the Peacemaker show to cover.

What did you think of The Suicide Squad and its two end-credits scenes? Let us know in the comments. And also be sure to check out our The Suicide Squad review and our breakdown of everyone who died in The Suicide Squad.

Full spoilers ahead for The Suicide Squad!

In a film called The Suicide Squad, it’s a given that there would be a high body count, even among leading characters. After all, the James Gunn-directed film’s marketing tagline is “don’t get too attached.” So we were warned!

And as promised, The Suicide Squad kills off many but not all of the lower-tier DC supervillains and antiheroes — along with several other supporting characters — comprising Task Force X.

So, once again, we are about to get into full spoilers for James Gunn’s latest comic book movie …

Click through the slideshow above or read on for a full accounting of what happened to each Squad member (and their friends/enemies) during their attempt to disrupt Project Starfish.

Who Dies in The Suicide Squad?

• Polka-Dot Man
• The Detachable Kid
• Blackguard
• Captain Boomerang
• Starro the Conqueror
• Ratcatcher I
• Savant
• Mongal
• The Thinker
• Colonel Rick Flag
• Javelin
• Presidente General Silvio Luna & Mayor General Mateo Suarez
• Milton

Polka-Dot Man

Standing tall alongside the Squad in their heroic last stand against Starro the Conqueror, the mommy issues-laden Abner Krill (played by David Dastmalchian) proudly declares himself a superhero — and is then quickly squashed by one of Starro’s massive prehensile extremities. Abner’s journey from outcast to antihero, and his finding people to finally belong to, is one of the key emotional character arcs in James Gunn’s film.

The Detachable Kid

Early on in the film, Nathan Fillion’s T.D.K., aka The Detachable Kid, is called into action during Task Force X’s beachhead assault on Corto Maltese. As his name implies, The Detachable Kid’s powers are … strange and silly. He detaches his arms, which hover across the beach to slap around the rebel gunmen. Needless to say, slaps prove ineffective and the armless T.D.K. is summarily riddled with bullets and dies on the beach.

Blackguard

Task Force X already includes a member named Weasel but a case could be made that Pete Davidson’s Blackguard turned out to be the biggest weasel of them all. After selling out the team’s position to the Corto Maltese, Blackguard approaches the rebel gunmen on the beach declaring he’s the one they made the deal with. Instead of making it to safety, though, Blackguard gets his face shot off by the rebel troops instead.

Captain Boomerang

He survived the first film and a run-in with the Flash but Jai Courtney’s Aussie supervillain doesn’t make it out of Corto Maltese alive. During the opening beachfront assault, Boomer gets toasted in the explosion of a crashing helicopter, his boomerang-clutching severed arm left standing, almost defiantly, in the aftermath.

Starro the Conqueror

It took the combined efforts of a javelin-wielding Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Polka-Dot Man and King Shark to finally bring down the massive cosmic kaiju Starro as it laid waste to Corto Maltese and threatened to escape the island. Starro’s death is not without a degree of sympathy, though, as the creature bemoans that it was happy out among the stars before humans incarcerated it.

Ratcatcher I

Taika Waititi played the small but pivotal role of the father of Daniela Melchior’s Ratcatcher II. She recalls how her father taught her the value of these overlooked animals, deemed vermin and outcasts by most of society. Ratcatcher I, though, was a drug addict and he died in the streets of Portugal of an overdose, leaving his daughter alone, save for her beloved rats.

Savant

The Suicide Squad opens by following Michael Rooker’s long-haired supervillain from recruitment to deployment on Corto Maltese. But after seeing how outmatched his team is, Savant panics and flees from the beach and back into the ocean. Despite repeated warnings from Amanda Waller to return to the fight, Savant keeps wading out into the water — at which point Waller has the explosive implanted in Savant’s neck detonated. His decapitated corpse floats in the bloodied water, a bird landing atop it in a darkly humorous wink to the bird Savant killed with a ball back in prison.

Mongal

The desk jockeys at Belle Reve wondered aloud whether Mongal (played by Mayling Ng) was an animal or an alien. They never get their answer because she only lasted mere moments in the film, perishing in the early beach battle. Mongal grabs onto the landing skids of a military helicopter, causing it to crash and burn, killing her and more in the process.

The Thinker

After decades of experimenting on Starro the Conqueror, the giant cosmic kaiju breaks free from his confinement in the Jotunheim lab and gets his revenge on his longtime tormenter, Peter Capaldi’s Thinker, by tearing him to bloody, chunky pieces.

Colonel Rick Flag

Task Force X’s field commander, once again played by the first film’s Joel Kinnaman, is slain by Peacemaker (John Cena) during a brawl in Jotunheim. Flag wanted to expose the nefarious, US government-backed goings-on at Jotunheim, while Peacemaker vowed to adhere to Amanda Waller’s instructions to keep the matter secret. A fight ensues between the two men as Jotunheim begins to fall apart, with Peacemaker finally getting the upper hand and stabbing Flag in the heart.

Javelin

This ostentatiously garbed, javelin-wielding D-lister, played by Flula Borg, suffers mortal wounds in the beach assault on Corto Maltese. He dies lying next to Harley Quinn, bequeathing unto her his javelin — the meaning behind which is lost on Harley until the final battle against Starro.

Presidente General Silvio Luna & Mayor General Mateo Suarez

Having just made love to Harley Quinn, Luna (played by Juan Diego Botto), the newly installed dictator of Corto Maltese, has big, romantic dreams of how Harley could become his wife given the love his people have for her. But when Luna reveals his plans include the loss of innocent life, especially children, Harley shoots him dead in the chest. Even Harley, who was once madly in love with Joker, has a line she will not cross.

Luna’s top military officer, played by Joaquín Cosío, takes over after Harley kills Presidente Luna. Alas, Suarez’s reign proves even shorter than his predecessor’s. He is among the Corto Maltese citizens who become controlled by the spores Starro launches, turning into one of Starro’s possessed minions. Suarez and the others all perish when their host Starro is slain by the Squad.

Milton

Ah, Milton, we hardly knew ye. The team’s van driver (played by Julio Cesar Ruiz) just sort of tags along during the Squad’s final assault against Jotunheim, getting shot dead in the process. Sadly, no one else on the team even remembers him except for Polka-Dot Man.

Who Survives in The Suicide Squad?

• Harley Quinn
• Bloodsport
• Peacemaker
• King Shark
• Ratcatcher II
• Weasel
• Amanda Waller
• Tyla DuBois
• Sol Soria
• Waller’s Crew

Harley Quinn

Despite James Gunn’s proclamations that he had “carte blanche” to kill any character, Margot Robbie’s merch-moving maven of madness was indeed the safest bet on who would survive to the end credits. Despite Harley surviving, Robbie has said she needs a break from playing Harley Quinn for a while so it’s not certain when fans will see Harley again.

Bloodsport

Idris Elba’s master assassin, Robert DuBois, blackmails Amanda Waller into granting him his freedom and sparing his daughter Tyla from her devious machinations. DuBois gets his second shot at life but it remains to be seen if Elba’s time in the DCEU is one and done or if we will see Bloodsport again.

Peacemaker

Although it looked like Bloodsport had killed him during the final act on Jotunheim, stay through the end credits scene and you'll learn John Cena’s Peacemaker survived Bloodsport’s attack. But he is badly hurt. Peacemaker is hospitalized with multiple injuries but is expected to survive. After all, he has his own HBO Max series on the way which will once again see him working on Amanda Waller’s covert ops missions.

King Shark

“Haaaaand!” The simple-minded Nanaue (voiced by Sylvester Stallone) survives multiple thrashings from Starro and numerous gunshots. If or when King Shark will return to the DCEU, though, remains to be seen.

Ratcatcher II

Daniela Melchior’s character is the heart and soul of The Suicide Squad, the least violent and most compassionate of the outcasts populating Task Force X. Ratcatcher II — and her beloved rat Sebastian — survives the devastation of Corto Maltese and has a chance at a new life thanks to Bloodsport’s climactic blackmailing of Amanda Waller.

Weasel

Like Peacemaker, Weasel is another character whose fate didn’t turn out to be as fatal as it first seemed. After apparently drowning during the beach assault on Corto Maltese, the mid-credits scene reveals Weasel survived. The creature, played by Sean Gunn, wakes up spitting up water before scurrying off into the wild.

Amanda Waller

Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller is arguably never more imperious, frightening or flat-out villainous than she is in The Suicide Squad. But despite her own staff violently rebelling against her wishes to kill Task Force X and let Starro escape, Waller survives to scheme another day. It’s not known yet if or when Davis’ Waller will return to the DCEU.

Tyla DuBois

Bloodsport’s daughter (played by Storm Reid) was probably never at any true risk of dying but her future nevertheless seemed bleak until the end. Estranged from her dad Bloodsport and with prison time hanging over her head due to a recent offense, Tyla is ultimately spared thanks to her dad’s blackmailing of Amanda Waller, who threatened Tyla’s freedom just to get Bloodsport on her team.

Sol Soria

While the Corto Maltese freedom fighter (played by Alice Braga) lost many of her troops along the way, Sol Soria and her allies prevailed in the end in ousting the Luna administration and taking back their government.

Waller’s Crew

Amanda Waller’s aides John Economos (Steve Agee), Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), and Flo Crawley (Tinashe Kajese) rose up against Amanda Waller and lived to tell about it. Economos and Harcourt are seen in the end credits scene and will also reprise their roles for the forthcoming HBO Max series Peacemaker.

Were you surprised by who lived and who died in The Suicide Squad? Sound off in the comments. And for more on the DC film,, be sure to check out our The Suicide Squad review and our end credits scenes breakdown.

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Kristen Schaal has had a lot of success over the years thanks to Flight of the Conchords, Bob's Burgers, and other comedy hits. But few realize that she also had a short stint as a writer on South Park in 2007, mostly because she was fired after just one month.

In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Schaal opened up about her time in South Park's writer's room, admitting that she was a shade too eager to earn her keep. "I was pitching too much. I’d never been in a writers’ room before. So I was just like, let me earn my keep. I was like, 'How about this? How about this? How about this?' And that’s not how it works."

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Key advertisers say they are re-evaluating their relationship with the Overwatch League in the wake of California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit against Activision Blizzard.

According to new statements acquired by The Washington Post, both Coca-Cola and State Farm, who are two of Overwatch League’s seven sponsors, say they are re-assessing how to move forward with Activision Blizzard’s popular esports league.

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