Regarding The Suicide Squad.
Obvious plot spoilers below. So beware!
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Pros
- Many female enemies in the regime forces.
- They appear in multiple ranks from low level grunts to officers barking orders
- We get a number of close up shots of their faces rather than just fleeting background shots.
- They are randomly occurring and not part of some special group. Just regular troops.
- No silly costumes but regular functional ,military gear and attire.
- A few are shown being directly offed by the heroes*. One even gets a flechette in the eye courtesy of Bloodsport.
- Some nice shots of indirect fatalities they suffer as a result of the goodies plans involving explosives.*
Cons
- * However the vast majority of direct kills by the heroes are against the male goons. I only counted one or two female regime mooks getting slotted like this.
- *The vast number of female mooks biting the dust occur indirectly, i.e when the explosives set by the goodies go off prematurely. Or when the star fish alien runs amok.
- All gratuitous villainous mook deaths are male. No female regime mooks get garroted, sliced etc.
- I don't think any get shown being bumped off by Harley Quinn when she tears through the presidential palace. This is hugely disappointing as there were female guards present in scenes just before. This would have been the ideal moment.
- Barring the above scene and the bit towards the end, the heroes actually rarely directly attack and eliminate regime forces generally. Never mind female ones. The only other direct examples of them bumping off enemy females are when they mistakenly comically kill off some of their supposed rebel allies. There are some nice shots here, but these are not villainous mooks.
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That being said, overall 7/10 as far as female mooks is concerned. Although most of this score is purely due to their sheer presence. I haven't seen this level of female mooks in a military context in a big budget film ever I think...
