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5. Squad goals
I’ve mentioned that Identity Crisis is really cynical, and really gratuitous, but it’s also incredibly petty.
It takes shots at and trashes huge parts of the DC Universe with throwaway lines and moments. Take, for example, its numerous shots at the Suicide Squad. The League seems to view the Suicide Squad as villainous and evil, using its members as a suspect list for Dibny’s murder. Suicide Squad was not just one of the most innovative titles at DC for years, but was also a vehicle that turned its characters into DC icons. Suicide Squad MADE Deadshot and gave Captain Boomerang more character. But instead of using that, Identity Crisis just turns them into one-dimensional caricatures, before shuffling Boomerang out the door for good.
A book like Secret Six, a true successor to Suicide Squad, took the idea of bad guys being real characters and ran with it. But Identity Crisis takes a very simplistic and cynical look at villains. And then it continues to jab at the Squad for the rest of the series. Because that isn’t petty, at all.
