Back in 2021, The Suicide Squad was released as DC’s lone movie of that year, playing in theaters and being available to stream with an HBO Max subscription simultaneously. Although there are a few scenes I’ve rewatched in the years since, it wasn’t until recently that I finally rewatched The Suicide Squad in its entirety, and it was alongside someone who’d never seen the movie at all. Now that this full series of events is fresh in my mind again, I’m hoping that one of the characters killed off in the James Gunn-written and directed feature will be reimagined in the DC Universe franchise.
I’m talking about Peter Capaldi’s Gaius Grieves, a.k.a. The Thinker, the scientist who spent 30 years experimenting on Starro and was promptly ripped in two by the gigantic alien starfish once it was freed from captivity in Jötunheim. Capaldi played an original take on Thinker rather than an adaptation one of the characters who’ve gone by that supervillain moniker from the comics. Frankly, there wasn’t anything in The Suicide Squad to distinguish Grieves as superintelligent rather than just a gifted scientist other the electronics in his head, which made him resemble the New 52 version of The Thinker.
