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Amanda Waller
Interior artwork from Suicide Squad vol. five #viii (February 2017). Art past Jim Lee.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First advent	Legends #1 (November 1986)
Created by	John Ostrander Len Wein John Byrne
In-story information
Full name	Amanda Blake Waller
Team affiliations	Suicide Team Agency Checkmate A.R.G.U.Due south. Shadow Fighters Team 7 The states Army Justice League of America
Partnerships	Joseph Waller (husband) Damita Waller (daughter) Coretta Waller (daughter) Claudia Patterson (daughter) Celine Patterson (girl) Leota Adebayo (daughter; DCEU) Odalys Valdez (daughter) Joseph Waller, Jr. (son) Martin Waller (son) Jessie Waller (son) Bubba (son-in-law) Mary White (sister) Flo Crawley (cousin) Edna Mae (cousin) Darmita (granddaughter)
Abilities	Skilled strategist Utilizes political influence Skillful utilise of firearms Expert markswoman

Amanda Blake Waller (née White), also known as "The Wall", is a fictional grapheme appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Legends #1 in 1986, and was created by John Ostrander, Len Wein, and John Byrne.^[1] Amanda Waller is an antagonist and occasional ally to the superheroes of the DC Universe, occasionally described as a supervillain.

Amanda Waller is a character in the DC Universe. She is the managing director for the mortiferous missions of the Suicide Squad and a specialist who oversees enquiry into people with powers. Although she lacks superpowers herself, the grapheme is a ruthless, high-ranking government official who uses guile, political connections, and sheer intimidation to attain her goals, often in the name of national security. Waller is usually associated with the fictional regime agencies Checkmate and A.R.G.U.Due south.

In recent years, the grapheme has been essentially adjusted into animated and live-activeness media. Several actresses have voiced or portrayed the graphic symbol: C. C. H. Pounder for various animated projects; Pam Grier on the live-action series Smallville; Angela Bassett in the live-action flick Green Lantern; Sheryl Lee Ralph in the animated series Young Justice; Cynthia Addai-Robinson in the live-action series Pointer; Yvette Nicole Brown in the franchise DC Super Hero Girls; and Viola Davis in the DC Extended Universe films Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad, likewise as the HBO Max serial Peacemaker.

Publication history [edit]

The people most responsible for shaping the character in her primeval appearances were John Ostrander and Kim Yale, in the pages of the Suicide Squad serial in the late 1980s.

Nicknamed "the Wall", she is a erstwhile congressional adjutant and government agent often placed in charge of the Suicide Team, a semi-undercover authorities-run group of one-time supervillains working in return for amnesty. She after served equally Secretarial assistant of Metahuman Affairs nether President Lex Luthor, earlier beingness arrested in the wake of Luthor's public fall from grace. Waller was reassigned to the leadership of Checkmate as White Queen, but was forced to resign considering of her involvement in Operation Conservancy Run.

Fictional character biography [edit]

Early history [edit]

Amanda Waller in Who's Who in the DC Universe #1 (Baronial 1990). Art by Luke McDonnell and Geof Isherwood.

Amanda Waller has been established as a widow who escaped Chicago'due south Cabrini–Green housing projects with her surviving family later on one of her sons, i of her daughters and her married man were murdered.^[2] Waller excelled in political science and became a congressional aide. During that fourth dimension, she discovered the existence of the first two incarnations of the Squad. Taking elements from both of these, she proposed the evolution of its third incarnation to the White House and was placed in charge upon its approval.

Federal service years [edit]

The Agency was formed by Amanda Waller to serve as a minor, quasi-independent branch of Chore Force X.^[iii] Valentina Vostok brought quondam NYPD Lieutenant Harry Stein into the Agency every bit an operative. Amanda Waller afterward promoted Stein to the command position and demoted Vostok. Harry Stein would afterwards reorganize the Agency and name information technology Checkmate.

Waller'southward tenure as the official in charge of the third Suicide Squad was tumultuous and controversial. Despite many successes, she developed a habit of defying her superiors in Washington in lodge to achieve goals both legitimate and personal on more than i occasion. The earliest conflict between her and her superiors revolved around the leadership of the Suicide Squad. Although she proposed the Statuary Tiger, the man she had helped out of his brainwashing, atomic number 82 the team he was instead relegated to second-in-command, and Rick Flag Jr. was made the leader. Waller resentfully presumed the state of affairs to be racially charged, related to not simply her ain status as a black woman, but as well Statuary Tiger's own skin tone, although the Tiger himself did not believe this was a factor, instead believing this was a result of mistrust due to the brainwashing imposed upon him by the League of Assassins.

Her relationship with the Squad itself was one of mutual dislike. Most of the team'southward criminal members did not actually take to Waller's methods (most notably Captain Boomerang), and even the team'southward heroes were ofttimes at odds with Waller. Waller'southward inability to deal and compromise with her troops led to Nemesis'due south departure from the team and the death of a US senator, which indirectly caused the death of Rick Flag Jr. Those blazon of conflicts, nonetheless, were non only limited to her superiors and her squad, but also extended to Batman, who opposed the forming of the Suicide Team (although he would afterward assistance to reform information technology). Nonetheless, the team remained loyal to her, oft choosing to side with her instead of the government.

It was ultimately revealed the reason Amanda Waller kept the heroes such every bit Nightshade around, was in social club for them to act as her conscience. Over the course of her kickoff run with the Suicide Team, her actions became increasingly erratic every bit she fought to retain control of the Squad. This was heightened by the public revelation of the Suicide Squad, and her being officially replaced, although her 'replacement' was in fact an histrion, and Waller remained the team's director.

Fifty-fifty that secret would eventually be revealed and Amanda Waller would be put on trial. During this time, the Squad besides became involved in an interagency disharmonize in a crossover between the Checkmate and Suicide Squad titles called the Janus Directive.

I of the field missions is against her will, every bit many members of the Team, Waller included, are forcibly kidnapped and taken to Apokolips. This is considering team member Duchess remembered her past equally Lashina of the Female Furies, instead of being amnesiac as she pretended, and wished to return home with suitable sacrifices. The Team suffers fatalities battling Apokolips' forces, with Waller personally confronting Granny Goodness. However, the confrontation ended with the deaths of Dr. Low-cal and one of Waller's own nieces, and Count Vertigo near-fatally wounded.

She somewhen found herself serving prison house fourth dimension for her pursuit of an organized crime cartel based in New Orleans chosen the LOA and killing its leadership, using Team operatives Ravan, Poison Ivy and Deadshot in the process.

The Suicide Squad'southward rebirth [edit]

Waller is somewhen pardoned and released a year later to reorganize the Suicide Squad equally a freelance mercenary group at the behest of Sarge Steel to deal with a crunch in Vlatava, Count Vertigo's habitation country; Waller allowed herself to enter prison house because she knew two things perfectly well: 1, by against the LOA with Squad operatives, she had crossed the line, and ii, she would return to her position quite hands if she was e'er needed over again. Afterwards, the Suicide Squad performs a diverseness of missions, often treading dangerous political terrain when dealing with Soviet and Israeli interests. Most notably, the Squad assistance destroy the plans of a shadow organization to throw Qurac, Israel and the US into political disarray.

During the course of her renewed tenure with this team, Amanda became closer to her operatives, even accompanying them on their field missions. This allows for her and her team to bail more than finer, although she retains her dominant and threatening personality.

Waller quits afterward a later field mission, in which she personally takes downward the seemingly immortal dictator of a small, S American isle nation. As it turned out, he wasn't immortal, but had an immense amount of psychic ability, and past tricking him, Waller merely provided a form of assisted suicide.

Soon afterward, Amanda Waller organizes the Shadow Fighters to confront the villain Eclipso. Once again, she would confront Sarge Steel. Her first attempt at a team, formed with the assistance of Bruce Gordon and his wife Mona, did non go well. Most of the team are brutally murdered infiltrating Eclipso's stronghold. Her second endeavor with a much larger team has much more success.

During the Bloodlines debacle, the President sends Guy Gardner to fetch Waller from her isle 'retirement'. She leads a multi-hero affair that results in the devastation of the alien parasites.^[4] She rejoins federal service, initially as Southeastern regional director for the Department of Extranormal Operations. She is promoted to Secretary of Metahuman Affairs as a fellow member of the Lex Luthor Presidential Administration.

International service [edit]

Lex Luthor's cursory tenure in function leads to Amanda Waller existence jailed. This does not concluding long. She is released past Luthor's successor Jonathan Vincent Horne, who orders her to take command of the hole-and-corner agent organization Checkmate. The organization had been shaken up due to The OMAC Project debacle and the related murderous leadership of Maxwell Lord whom Waller has had previous history with. Waller takes the rank of Black King until the United States and Un decide what to practice with that organization. In the latter issues of 52, Waller is shown commissioning the imprisoned Atom Smasher to organize a new Suicide Squad to assail Blackness Adam and his allies. This ends with the death of Team fellow member Persuader and the expected public relations plough against the Black Marvel family unit.

In the revamped Checkmate series set in the One Yr Later continuity, Waller is shown to have been assigned past the UN to serve as Checkmate'south White Queen, a fellow member of its senior policy-making executive. Due to her previous activities, her appointment is contingent on her having no direct control over operations.^[5] Regardless, she continues to pursue her own calendar, secretly using the Suicide Squad to perform missions in favor of American interests^[6] and blackmailing Fire.^[vii] It is also implied that she may have betrayed a mission team in an effort to protect her secrets^[eight] and facilitated an attack on Checkmate headquarters for her own gain.^[9]

Amanda Waller every bit the White Queen in promotional art for Checkmate. Art by Jesus Saiz.

She and then is in accuse of Functioning Salvation Run, an initiative involving the mass deportation of supervillains to an alien world. When this was discovered by the residual of Checkmate, she was forced into resigning as White Queen in exchange for their delay in revealing what the US regime was doing.^[9] She continues to run the Suicide Team, and has been implanted with nanotechnology to permit her to straight command Chemo during missions.^[nine]

During the Superman/Batman storyline "K", it is revealed that Waller has hoarded Kryptonite and used it to power an anti-Superman group called the Terminal Line, and a Doomsday-similar creature codenamed "All-American Male child", who has Kryptonite shards growing out of his body. All-American Male child, (real name: Josh Walker) was deceived into an experiment to use Kryptonite to bond jail cell scrapings taken from Doomsday to a man host, battles Superman, devastating Smallville in the process. Batman, with the help of Brannon, the Last Line'south leader, locate Josh's parents who convince him to stop. Waller is forced to pay towards repairing Smallville in render for her dealings in the AAB project to remain secret. 'Terminal Line' itself rebels confronting Waller because of her deceptions.^[10]

In the eight-outcome series of Suicide Team: Raise the Flag, she is once more seen leading the Suicide Squad at some point when the General returned to Earth after his exile, and was promptly drafted into the Squad with special explosive implants grafted into his arm and brain to make him compliant with Waller's demands. Here, she personally uses applied science devised by Cliff Carmichael to gain a measure out of control over Chemo, allowing her to utilize the toxic behemoth for the Squad's benefit. Rick Flag is revealed to take survived the events at Jotunheim and was returned to Waller, who revealed to him Rick Flag Jr. was never anything but an alias, and that he was in reality a brainwashed soldier remade into Flag to serve Eiling's ends.

She leads, as Chemo, an attack on a Dubai supercorp intending to release a deadly virus. Nonetheless, Carmichael, with Eiling and part of her squad, betrays her equally function of Eiling's plan to benefit from the release of the virus, and she is nearly killed when Eiling orders a compliant Flag to employ her pen, actually a transmitter, to detonate her own explosive implant. Instead, Flag, tricking him, detonates Eiling's own, releasing her and ultimately rejoining the Squad, refusing the chance of a normal life.

She later attempted to forcibly return several members of the Secret Six (Bane and Deadshot) into the Suicide Squad, and when her plan backfired due to the events of Blackest Night and the defiance of the Six, she was shot by Deadshot and privately revealed to King Faraday to be their new secret leader, Mockingbird. When Faraday questioned the demand to be informed of the state of affairs, and even the need to bring the Six under the banner of the Squad when she already controlled them, Amanda simply shrugged information technology off, stating "her left and right hand just knew what the other was thinking" in a strict need-to-know ground, implying Faraday volition ane day need that knowledge.

The New 52 [edit]

In The New 52 (a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe), Amanda Waller is shown to be in direct command of the Suicide Squad, choosing its members and having concluding say over when and if their implanted explosives are detonated. Information technology is revealed she requested a command of a unit of measurement she could send to their deaths without regret after an operation she was involved in resulted in the death of all other squad members, including several she had personally recruited. She was also involved with Team seven in some capacity while serving in the The states Army every bit a Captain, which led to her temporarily leaving the spy business concern. Besides, this version of Amanda Waller is re-imagined every bit a young, thin woman in contrast with her original blueprint.

Amanda Waller later formed the Justice League of America that is dissever from the main Justice League where she is shown as the Director of A.R.G.U.Southward.^[11] Recently, she has recruited James Gordon Jr. who was revealed to exist alive despite his apparent death at the hands of his sis Barbara while saving their female parent. However, it is shown that James Jr. only agreed to bring together as he is in love with Waller.

During the "Forever Evil" storyline, Amanda Waller is shown at Belle Reve trying to get Black Manta to join the Suicide Squad at the fourth dimension when Deathstorm and Power Band infiltrate the prison.^[12] Amanda Waller after contacts Deadshot in guild to get the Suicide Squad back together.^[13] Afterward clues point to an imposter Amanda Waller causing trouble backside the scenes.^[14]

DC Rebirth [edit]

Amanda Waller returns to her original design with the DC Rebirth initiative. When confronted past Barack Obama about Chore Forcefulness X, she convinces him the Suicide Squad needs to exist to deal with threats neither the President or the Justice League tin can be aware of, while conceding to nominate a non-criminal field leader to acquit out her directives during missions and keep the convicts in line. She visits Rick Flag in Guantanamo Bay, where he had been imprisoned for disobeying directly instructions in gild to relieve his teammates, and tries to convince him to piece of work alongside supervillains for a greater practiced; she succeeds, releases him and makes him the field leader of Task Force X.^[xv]

In issue #11 of Suicide Squad (2016), as a part of DC Rebirth, Amanda Waller is shot and killed. Her death is confirmed in issue #12. Yet, it is revealed in consequence #15 she faked her death with the help of Deadshot, who fired a bullet at her eye, and Enchantress, who magically moved the bullet to the well-nigh reparable part of the human heart. Because of this, she is able to use Deadshot against the villain Rustam and the international shadow organization known but as the People.

Other versions [edit]

Flashpoint [edit]

In the alternate timeline of the "Flashpoint" event, Amanda Waller is an counselor to the President of the United States who tells him Hal Hashemite kingdom of jordan is insubordinate and irresponsible. However, the President tells her the world needs Hal as a hero.^[sixteen]

Batman Beyond [edit]

Amanda Waller appears in the Batman Across comic serial, set earlier the events of "Epilogue", where she was involved in the cosmos of Dick Grayson's clone to create a new Batman, reasoning that Grayson was more stable than his mentor, only for the clone to become the new Hush and kickoff killing off Batman's old rogues' gallery, including retired villains such as Signalman and Calendar Man. Even after the clone's attempt to destroy Gotham is only narrowly averted by Terry McGinnis, the existent Dick Grayson, and the new Catwoman, Waller is shown to still be working on further clones of the original Batman and his allies.^[17]

Pointer [edit]

In Pointer necktie-in comic, Arrow: Flavor 2.5, Waller sends Suicide Squad to bargain with state of affairs in Kahndaq where a terrorist members and its leader Khem-Adam brainstorm executing a lot of people due to Khem-Adam's desire to save a state from foreign influence. Her team is successful in killing members of the group, except for Adam who is taken away by Nyssa al Ghul and Sara Lance in Nanda Parbat where he is executed past a member of the League of Assassins.

The Flash [edit]

In The Flash tie-in comic, Season Cypher, Waller sends Suicide Team (consisting of Cupid, Captain Boomerang and Floyd Lawton) to survey King Shark destroying an aquarium, then sends them to extract him. Waller takes Lamden to A.R.Chiliad.U.S. detention eye to exist chained up. She takes a woman to see him, before cutting him open to carefully dissect him. After dissection, Waller sends him across the other side of the country to brainstorm equally part of the Suicide Squad. Soon, Barry Allen comes to rescue him, just Waller sent some drones subsequently him, created by General Wade Eiling. They somewhen find where Rex Shark had been, simply Barry is quickly captured and is told of what happened to Lamden.

DC Comics Bombshells [edit]

In DC Comics Bombshells, Commander Amanda Waller is the head of the "Bombshells" projection during World War II.^[18] In DC Comics Bombshells Annual one, she is shown to also be Superintendent of the United States Armed services University.

Injustice 2 [edit]

In the prequel to Injustice ii, Waller breaks into the Quiver (Green Pointer's hideout) to arrest Harley Quinn, believing Harley should all the same be punished for her crimes despite Harley's role in taking down Superman. Later Deadshot aids her in capturing Harley, she forces Harley into the Suicide Team.^[nineteen] Withal immediately afterwards, she is killed by Jason Todd, who was going around equally an impostor Batman.^{[20] [21]}

DC Comics Surreptitious Hero Society [edit]

Amanda Waller is the guidance counselor, truancy officer, and head of detention at Justice Preparatory Academy.

In other media [edit]

Television [edit]

• Amanda Waller appears in Justice League Unlimited, voiced past C. C. H. Pounder. This version of the grapheme leads the hush-hush Projection Cadmus at the United States regime's behest to create a counter-forcefulness to the Justice League should they get rogue like their alternating reality counterparts. Under her watch, Cadmus created the Ultimen, Galatea, and Doomsday. Originally distrustful of the League, Waller frequently deals with Batman (which forms most of the interaction between Cadmus and the League). In "Ultimatum", she reveals that she knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman. In "The Doomsday Sanction", Batman discovers her identity to which Amanda presents the threat the League would pose if they went rogue. Waller is a primal grapheme during the Cadmus 4-function finale arc when the Question discovers Cadmus files so is captured by Luthor, Waller orders Dr. Moon to interrogate. Shortly subsequently Question is rescued by Superman and the Huntress, Luthor momentarily hijacked the Justice League'southward binary fusion cannon to obliterate Waller's Cadmus and implicate the League. In response, Waller sends an army of mass-produced Ultimen clones nether Galatea's control against the expended Justice League and have Galatea overload their enemy's reactor with the team inside. While watching the satellite, Batman presents Waller testify of Luthor's deception. Upon realizing that Luthor betrayed her, she calls off the attack on the Watchtower, and has the Justice League back-trail her to attempt to finish Luthor's plan. In the episode "Epilogue", Terry McGinnis seeks out an aged Waller to observe out almost the truthful past. Waller reveals that she was responsible for the Batman Beyond Project in an effort to take Batman'southward hereafter replacement as she had come to respect and admire the hero, and was aware of the possibility that he would eventually retire every bit he anile. Although she gave up on her original program, after the Phantasm, Bruce's ex-fiancée, talked her out of it she encourages Terry to take care of his own loved ones.
• Amanda Waller appears in Smallville, portrayed past Pam Grier. Introduced in the ninth season ii-60 minutes episode "Accented Justice", this version is a ranking amanuensis of both Checkmate and the Suicide Team. It's noted by several characters that Waller would end up causing conflict in her paranoia to be ready for a fight. In the episode "Checkmate", Waller captures Martian Manhunter in the agency's headquarters after declining to kidnap and recruit Light-green Arrow for the government. In the episode "Cede", Waller is working with Stuart Campbell (aka the White Knight) to track down Tess Mercer to lead Checkmate to the Kandorians, leading to a confrontation with Major Zod. Waller is presumed dead in the tenth season, equally Flag is seen acting on his own to "protest" the Vigilante Registration Act.

• Amanda Waller appears in Young Justice, voiced by Sheryl Lee Ralph. This version was the warden of Belle Reve. In episode "Terrors", afterwards she failed to terminate a breakout, she was replaced past Hugo Foreign. She returns in the episode "Leverage", where she has formed the Suicide Team from Rick Flagg, Blackness Manta, Helm Boomerang, and Monsieur Mallah. Waller sent them on a mission to Russia to eliminate the Rocket Carmine Brigade before they can be formed. Nevertheless, they're foiled in their mission by the Team. When the Suicide Team is returned to Belle Reve, Waller reveals them as her special ops team and voices her knowledge of the Team's germination. She threatens Aquaman Ii with exposing his "little play-group" (referring to "the Team") if he exposes the Suicide Squad.
• Amanda Waller appears in Arrow, portrayed by Cynthia Addai-Robinson. This version is the Manager of A.R.M.U.Due south., making her start appearance in the 2nd flavour episode "Keep Your Enemies Closer". She had John Diggle abducted as she needs him and the Arrow's assist in retrieving Lyla Michaels from Russia (who was searching for Floyd Lawton to call back him as well), and is aware that Oliver Queen is Arrow. She later on appears briefly in the episode "Tremors" talking to Bronze Tiger after the latter returns to prison. She offers him a position on her unit, heavily hinted to exist the Suicide Squad, in order to reduce his judgement and because she needs someone of his talents for her team. In the episode "Suicide Squad", Waller assemble the team (consisting of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Michaels, Shrapnel and Diggle) to destroy a biological weapon in Markovia. It is unsaid that Waller first met Oliver (equally they're on a outset proper name basis) during the latter's fourth dimension every bit a castaway along with Slade Wilson.^[22] She is seen once more in the episode "City of Blood" where Diggle and Felicity ask for her to help them find Oliver having gone missing after his mother's death, and traces Oliver down for them. In the following episode "Streets of Burn", Waller is shown to be preparing to flop Starling City to contain Slade's Mirukuru army. After Oliver reveals to her that he has the cure for the Mirukuru, she gives Oliver until dawn to end Slade and his army. In the episode "Unthinkable", Waller calls off the drone from bombing the urban center after Slade's defeat. In the finale scene in a flashback, she rescues and recruits Oliver in Hong Kong. Throughout the beginning of the 3rd season, flashbacks explore how Waller attempts to get Oliver to cooperate and train to become a valuable asset of A.R.G.U.South., and has to utilize blackmail and other tactics to ensure his loyalty and commitment to training. She sends Oliver and Maseo Yamashiro to get Alpha-Omega virus from Red china White and her Triad to foreclose bid for buyers. After they succeed, a military general Matthew Shrieve goes rogue and begins to kill anyone in Hong Kong with bio weapon, including to kill Amanda as well, merely is saved from Oliver and Maseo. In present-solar day episode, "Suicidal Tendencies", Waller sends Suicide Squad (including John and Lyla) in Kaznia to extract US senator Joseph Cray from terrorists who is held as a hostage, but this was revealed as a ruse by Cray. When Lyla persuaded Waller to acknowledge the truth of this mission to the world, she refused it, which leaves Lyla and John bitter around her leadership and her mannerisms. She is shot in the caput and killed in the fourth season episode "A.W.O.L." when A.R.G.U.Due south. is infiltrated by the criminal paramilitary organisation Shadowspire after Waller confirms that she cannot be forced to give Shadowspire access to any information from A.R.G.U.S. records, including its Rubicon protocol. Waller likewise appears briefly in flashbacks when she sends Oliver on Lian Yu to investigate drug harvesting performance by Shadowspire (under the leadership of Baron Reiter), but is revealed to be a finding a mystical object who would afterward announced in present day. Lyla Michaels later becomes Waller's successor, and works to reform A.R.G.U.South. through such acts as disbanding Task Force X, although she keeps criminals such equally Rex Shark locked upwardly for security purposes.

Picture show [edit]

• Amanda Waller appears in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, voiced once more by C. C. H. Pounder. This version is depicted as more sympathetic, betraying President Lex Luthor'due south offering of a prominent position in the President's "new world gild" to provide Superman and Batman with information they tin can employ to destroy a Kryptonite Asteroid heading for Earth.
• Amanda Waller appears in Green Lantern, portrayed by Angela Bassett.^[23] This version is a scientist who works for the DEO under the command of Senator Robert Hammond. After the xenobiologist Hector Hammond acquires the ability to read minds from exposure to Parallax's DNA (a fragment of which remained in Abin Sur's body until Hammond was called on to perform the autopsy), contact with Waller reveals that her family unit was killed by a gunman when she was younger. Hammond attempts to kill her using his telekinetic powers in a later confrontation, simply Green Lantern caught her in a ring-formed 'pool' of water that afterward carried her out of harm's way.
• Amanda Waller appears in Batman: Assault on Arkham, with C. C. H. Pounder reprising her role. Gear up in the universe of the Batman: Arkham video games, she is shown in a rather negative low-cal, sending the Suicide Squad in a smoke screen mission whose but existent purpose is killing Riddler, as the villain knows how to defuse the Suicide Squad'south implanted bombs. At the end of the movie, she is warned by Batman to avert activating the Suicide Squad in the future and dismisses his warning, challenging him to try and denounce her. She finds a laser dot from Deadshot'south gun on her in the final scene, but, equally revealed in Batman: Arkham Underworld, Batman prevented Deadshot from ultimately carrying out the bump-off.
• An alternate version of Amanda Waller appears in Justice League: Gods and Monsters, voiced past Penny Johnson Jerald. This version is the President of the United states in the alternating reality that this series takes place in. Unlike her many by incarnations, Waller is shown to be a more than sympathetic person, not willing to take lives, fifty-fifty if necessary.
• Amanda Waller appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High, voiced past Yvette Nicole Chocolate-brown.
• Amanda Waller appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Twelvemonth, voiced again by Yvette Nicole Dark-brown.
• Amanda Waller appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games, voiced again by Yvette Nicole Chocolate-brown.
• Amanda Waller appears in Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain, voiced again past Yvette Nicole Brown.
• Amanda Waller appears in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, voiced past Vanessa Williams. Over again, she monitors the Task Force Ten Squad while threatening to kill them with the bombs implanted on their necks if they rebel. Later discovering that she has a last disease, Waller sends her Squad to find Steel Maxum and acquire a mystical card he (formerly) possessed.
• Amanda Waller appears in Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High, voiced once again by Yvette Nicole Brownish.
• Amanda Waller appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis, voiced once again past Yvette Nicole Brown.
• Amanda Waller appears in Batman: Hush, with Vanessa Williams reprising her part. She shows up to transfer Bane out of Blackgate Penitentiary before the fiend breaks costless. With Batman's assistance, she's able to tranquilize Bane in order to capture and use him for her Suicide Squad. Since she has not died between films, it means Waller either found a mode to prolong her life or her illness is in remission.
• Amanda Waller is mentioned in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. Harley Quinn reveals that she died of cancer (which was revealed to exist in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay). Following her death, Harley took over leading the team, using Stryker Isle equally a base.

DC Extended Universe [edit]

• Amanda Waller appears in Suicide Squad, portrayed by Viola Davis.^{[24] [25]} A senior civil servant and managing director of A.R.Yard.U.S., this version of Waller established the Suicide Squad and finds herself an occasional ally-of-convenience of Batman, whose secret identity she is aware of. After the death of Superman, she spoke with several others speaking her business organisation that the next Superman may not come across his world views. To make full the gap of power, Waller wanted to assemble Task Forcefulness X, a team of expendable metahumans who would be used to execute covert operations against dangerous threats. 1 of Waller's greatest assets was June Moone, the host of the witch Enchantress, and was partially controlled by Moone's young man and Waller's central marry Rick Flag.
• Amanda Waller appears in The Suicide Squad, with Davis reprising her part.^[26] Waller deploys two Task Forcefulness 10 groups in Corto Maltese following a insurrection to disrupt the country'southward "Projection Starfish", revealed to be a mission to muffle America's function in the project.
• Waller makes uncredited cameo appearances in the Peacemaker flavour ane episodes "A Whole New Whirled" and "It's Cow or Never", with Davis reprising her role. In the starting time episode, Waller has a conversation with her daughter, Leota Adebayo, regarding her secret mission while working on Project Butterfly. In the season finale, she is seen watching a broadcast of Adebayo exposing Job Force 10 and Projection Butterfly to the public, too every bit Waller'due south involvement in both programs. Throughout the first flavor, Waller is revealed to accept used Adebayo in an endeavor to wrongfully frame Peacemaker and put him in prison.

Video games [edit]

• Amanda Waller appears in DC Universe Online, voiced past Debra Cole. In the Bludhaven Warning, Major Force mentioned to the players that Waller has sent him to Bludhaven to gather samples of Chemo and to examination out the Chemoids. If the setting is turned on when queuing for an example, she may recruit hero players into Chore Strength Ten and order them to consummate the instance every bit villains, or recruit villain players into Suicide Squad who must complete it every bit heroes, and provide intro messages in both cases.
• Amanda Waller is mentioned in some pre-game dialogues betwixt Vixen, Captain Cold, Black Adam, Cyborg and Deadshot in Injustice ii.
• Amanda Waller appears in Batman: The Enemy Within, voiced by Debra Wilson. She is the director of the Agency and arrives in Gotham to track downward the Pact, a group of criminals led past a former employee known every bit Riddler. Seizing control of the GCPD, Waller works with Batman to capture the group. After learning the vigilante's identity from one of her agents following the death of Riddler, she threatens to reveal it if he doesn't cooperate with her. It is eventually revealed that Waller has likewise been planning to obtain the LOTUS virus from SANCTUS, synthesize a usable version, and blackmail the members of the Pact into working for the Agency using it equally an incentive. Nevertheless, these are rapidly put in disarray when one of her agents contaminates Riddler's blood, preventing the Agency from doing so. During the last episode depending on which path Joker takes, Waller either works with Batman to capture the Joker or tries to threaten him into handing over both the new vigilante and the LOTUS virus. Regardless, she leaves Gotham with the Agency in gratitude for his actions and promises not to reveal his identity while also reaching an understanding with James Gordon.

Arkham serial [edit]

• Amanda Waller appears in Batman: Arkham Origins, voiced over again by C. C. H. Pounder. In the post-credits scene, she approaches Deathstroke at a prison house cell and offers a spot in her Suicide Team in commutation for a commuted prison sentence to which Deathstroke is left considering.
• Amanda Waller appears in Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, voiced again by C. C. H. Pounder. She is heavily unsaid to exist the truthful mastermind backside the prison insurgence, having orchestrated the events and manipulated both the criminals and the agents in order to observe the best candidates for the Suicide Squad. She purposely hired Catwoman to break Bane out of Blackgate, though the mission was a failure due to Batman's involvement. However, Waller picked out Deadshot and Bronze Tiger every bit two new candidates for the Suicide Squad.^[27]
• Amanda Waller will appear in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League with Debra Wilson reprising the role from Batman The Enemy Inside, in both vocalisation and facial capture.^[28]

Lego series [edit]

• Amanda Waller appears as a playable grapheme in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced past Cynthia Addai-Robinson. She is part of the DLC "The Squad". Waller as well narrates "The Squad" level.^[29]
• Amanda Waller appears as a NPC in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Yvette Nicole Dark-brown.

Web series [edit]

• An alternate version appears in Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles (which is a companion to Justice League: Gods and Monsters), voiced past Penny Johnson Jerald. She's the President of the United States.
• An alternate version appears in DC Super Hero Girls, voiced past Yvette Nicole Brown.^[xxx] She is the principal of Super Hero Loftier.
• Amanda Waller appears in Lego DC Super Hero Girls, voiced over again by Yvette Nicole Brown.

Miscellaneous [edit]

• Equally an alternating reality game to promote the Green Lantern film, Amanda Waller's official weblog—written by Waller'southward creator John Ostrander—was posted online. "Waller" invited readers to participate in the Zooniverse project;^[31] participants were rewarded with sound clips of the picture's characters.^[32]

Further reading [edit]

• The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Crawly Female Characters from Comic Book History by Hope Nicholson, Quirk Books (2017)

References [edit]

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2. ^ Greenberger, Robert; Pasko, Martin (2010). The Essential Superman Encyclopedia. Del Rey. pp. 465–466. ISBN978-0-345-50108-0.
3. ^ Greenberger, Robert (2008). The Essential Batman Encyclopedia. Del Rey. pp. 365–366. ISBN9780345501066.
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12. ^ Forever Evil #1
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18. ^ DC Comics Bombshells #eight
19. ^ Injustice ii #1
20. ^ Injustice 2 #2
21. ^ Injustice 2 #46
22. ^ Narcisse, Evan (February 21, 2014). "Sectional: Amanda Waller Unleashes the Suicide Squad on "Pointer"". Comic Book Resource.
23. ^ "News: How Stella Got Her Greenish Lantern Back". Latino Review. 2010-03-24. Retrieved 2011-01-30 .
24. ^ Kroll, Justin (December ii, 2014). "'Suicide Squad' Cast Revealed: Jared Leto to Play the Joker, Will Smith is Deadshot". Variety. Los Angeles, California. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
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26. ^ Gonzalez, Umberto (April v, 2019). "Viola Davis to Render as Amanda Waller in James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad' (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved Apr five, 2019.
27. ^ Totilo, Stephen (October 25, 2013). "Today's New Batman Games Tease A Very Absurd Possible Sequel". Kotaku. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
28. ^ "SUICIDE SQUAD: Impale THE JUSTICE LEAGUE Cinematic Trailer".
29. ^ Boccher, Mike (December 23, 2014). "Lego Batman 3 Across Gotham Interview With TT Games' Arthur Parsons". 1080 players. Archived from the original on Dec 27, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
30. ^ yvette nicole brown [@YNB] (Oct 23, 2015). ""Merely heard that #DCSuperHeroGirls got a choice up for more episodes! And at that place are DOLLS! I voice #PrincipalWaller! 😊 t.co/p/gDBKPqacHR"" (Tweet). Retrieved Nov xi, 2015 – via Twitter.
31. ^ Green Lantern online tie-in lets fans do existent, useful astronomy research; at BoingBoing; by Cory Doctorow; published June one, 2011; retrieved June ix, 2013
32. ^ Dark-green Lantern: "This is my aroused swan. At that place are many similar it, but this 1 is mine." Archived 2013-07-20 at the Wayback Machine at HideAndSeek.cyberspace; by Tom Armitage; published Baronial 30, 2011; retrieved June nine, 2013

External links [edit]

• Amanda Waller's "official blog" (via annal.org)
• DCU Guide: Amanda Waller
• Comic Book Awards Almanac

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