Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Suicide Squad informatics Part 06: Rick Flag


Richard "Rick" Flag Jr is a Colonel in the Special Forces who was recruited by Amanda Waller to lead Task Force X. But he does not always agree with her goals or methods.

Personality
Rick Flag Jr. is a hardened man, considering he served in the military for quite some time. He seems to have a serious look on him all the time. He puts up an intimidating pose in order to make sure the Task Force X members don't get out of hand. He seems to be quite irritated by the antics of Harley Quinn, notably her quick robbery at a jewelry store.


Equipment
Salient Arms International Tier One AR-15: a select-fire assault rifle designed and developed by humans. The weapon is chambered in the 5.56×45mm NATO round featuring a standard 30 round magazine. Flagg's rifle features a fixed butt stock, ACOG Scope, laser-Flashlight attachment and handguard attachment.

Suicide Squad informatics Part 05: Harley Quinn


Dr Harleen Quinzel was a former psychiatrist who used to be in charge of the Joker at Arkham Asylum. She eventually fell in love with her patient and became obsessed with him. Having lost her sanity due to frequent torture, she soon joined Joker and took on the criminal identity of Harley Quinn, viewing life as one big joke.

Personality
Harleen was once a calm and compassionate young lady, before the Joker transformed her both mentally and physically into "Harley Quinn". Through the shock therapy and the Joker's manipulation, her mind and emotions were twisted and she was made into a homicidal, sadistic, child like psychopath, who would often use sexuality and her playful personality to achieve her goals or to entertain herself, usually harming others in the process. As of current time, she follows the Joker in whatever he demands of her, blindly and obsessively smitten with the ruthless psychopath, affectionately referring to him as Pudding.

Harley carries almost an innocent persona, wide-eyed and bright, finding humor in otherwise dark situations, much like Joker himself. She is also shown talking to voices in her head, saying that they told her to kill everyone and escape, before laughing it and saying that they said something else, potentially something worse.


Equipment
Chiappa Rhino 60DS: For long ranged combat, Harley sports a customized Chiappa Rhino 60DS, 6 cylinder magnum revolver. She carries it in a black leather holster slung under her arm.

Good Night: For melee combat, Harley carries a personalized wooden baseball bat which says "Good Night" down the side of it. She does have an urge to play with it, one example being when she pretends she's holding a shotgun.

Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Suicide Squad informatics Part 04: The Joker


The Joker is a psychopathic and homicidal maniac based in Gotham City, and is by far the most dangerous adversary that Batman has ever faced. Joker has a colorful personality, and tends to use theatricality and clowned or circus themes in his appearance and equipment. Completely unpredictable, with no regard for human life, the Joker revels in every moment of chaos he creates, and is often joined by his accomplice and girlfriend Harley Quinn, whom he had once turned psychotic. No one really knows who he was before and where he came from...


Personality
The Joker is characterized as nihilistic, maniacal, sociopathic, sadistic, homicidal, narcissistic, and egotistical. He completely unpredictable and utterly malevolent, with no regard for human life, and takes sadistic pleasure in the murder, mayhem and physical, mental and emotional suffering of others, easily managing to find humor, or even sport, in it. The reasoning behind his plans and crimes, as well as the mayhem and suffering he causes, usually only makes sense to him. Despite his diabolical and maniacal personality, he is shown to actually be very intelligent and in his schemes, the Joker usually manages to stay one step ahead of the police, and sometimes even Batman himself. He is a genius at planning and improvising criminal activities, despite his personality being capable of sometimes impairing his higher thinking.

The Joker possesses an obliviousness (or carelessness) to danger that makes him invulnerable to fear, which is usually Batman's greatest weapon in combat, making the Joker one of the Caped Crusader's most formidable enemies. His capacity for heinous torture and murder are enough to frighten low-level thugs and make them work for him out of the sheer fear of what he would do to them if they do not. Hence, the one quality that Joker has in common with Batman is the very intimidating presence that he commands, which gives Joker a tough and bold attitude. The Joker does not fear death and will even threaten his own life to achieve his goal or make a point.

Suicide Squad informatics Part 03: Deadshot


Floyd Lawton, better known as Deadshot, is an international assassin, and one of the world's best sharpshooters. An expert marksman and an outstandding assassin for hire, he enjoys hunting down his kill and prefers working alone. Despite all this, Floyd is a conflicted criminal who wants to do right by his daughter Zoe, whom Amanda Waller uses to exploit the gunman into joining their mission.

Abilities
Floyd Lawton has incredible precision and is highly skilled with long range weaponry, such as snipers. Lawton's proficiency is also slightly enhanced due to the use of his eye scope. In addition, Floyd is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter.

Personality
Deadshot is portrayed as a consummate professional; as long as he's been paid to kill someone, he will always carry it out, without exceptions. Despite his sarcastic, tough attitude, he cares deeply for his daughter, keeping a picture of her with him throughout his time as a convict and as an assassin.


Equipment
Eye-Piece: One of Floyd's signature trademarks is the high-tech eye-piece that he wears over his face mask, on his dominant left eye. This eye-piece augments his already amazing marksman skills, and when combined with his sniper rifle's scope, makes it almost impossible for him to miss his target.

Deadshot Suit: When in the field on an assignment with Task Force X, Floyd always dons a bulletproof red-and-black vest and body suit, with many holsters, containing various firearms at all times.

Wrist Guns: Floyd is armed with wrist mounted, gauntlet like firearms, which are the equivalent of sub machine guns in terms of firepower. They have trigger buttons on the hand, fire magnum and high caliber bullets and even ejects bullet shells like normal guns. He uses them in close combat along with his rifles and pistols.

Salient Arms International Tier One AR-15: Floyd's primary weapon of choice is the use of an AR-15 assault rifle, modified with a scope an vertical hand grip.

Modified Glock 17: Floyd's sidearm is a heavily modified Glock 17, with a compensator and red dot sight.

Monday, August 01, 2016

Suicide Squad informatics Part 02: Lowdown on the team


Task Force X, unofficially known as the Suicide Squad, is an organization that enlists incarcerated super villains and metahumans to undertake black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

Members
Director Amanda Waller - Operations Commander
Colonel Rick Flag - Field Leader
Captain Boomerang (George Harkness)
Deadshot (Floyd Lawton)
Katana (Tatsu Yamashiro)
Killer Croc (Waylon Jones)
Harley Quinn (Harleen Quinzel)
El Diablo (Chato Santana)
Slipknot (Christopher Weiss)

Ally
The Joker, lover of Harley Quinn

Former ally
Enchantress (Dzamor combined with June Moone)

Suicide Squad informatics Part 1: Introduction


Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film, based on the DC Comics antihero team of the same name. The third installment in the DC Extended Universe, the film is written and directed by David Ayer, and stars an ensemble cast featuring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood and Cara Delevingne. In Suicide Squad, a secret government agency led by Amanda Waller recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions and save the world from a powerful threat, in exchange for leaner sentences.


Cast
Will Smith as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot
Jared Leto as the Joker
Margot Robbie as Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn
Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag
Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
Jai Courtney as George Harkness / Captain Boomerang
Jay Hernandez as Chato Santana / El Diablo
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Waylon Jones / Killer Croc
Cara Delevingne as June Moone & Dzamor / Enchantress
Karen Fukuhara as Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana
Adam Beach as Christopher Weiss / Slipknot
Jaime FitzSimons as Seargant Ames
Ike Barinholtz as Captain Griggs
Ted Whittall as Admiral Olsen
David Harbour as Dexter Tolliver
Robin Atkins Downes as Angelo
Shailyn Pierre-Dixon as Zoe Lawton
James McGowan as Panda Man
Jim Parrack as Jonny Frost
Common as Monster T
Ezra Miller as Barry Allen / The Flash
Frank Zupancic as General Phillips
Andrew Bee as General Decker
John Byers as General Williams
Matt Baram as Dr Van Chris
Scott Eastwood as Lieutenant Edwards
Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne / Batman

Saturday, June 04, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 4: The baddies


Shredder
The most iconic of the TMNT's adverseries and the antagonist in most of the universes. The leader of the Foot Clan, the Shredder wears a modified samurai armor with lethal blades covering his arms, shoulders and lower legs. He and Eric Sacks wanted to release poison gas from the roof of Sacks building, and turn around and sell to the government the cure made from the mutagen in the turtles blood, while Shredder will force the remaining people to live under his rule. He was defeated by the combined might of the Turtles and April where he falls to the street below. As the police converge on Shredder, he does manages to crawl to the spilled mutagen sample that fell with him.


Karai
Karai is a high-ranking member of the Foot Clan and will do whatever it takes to get the job done. She's fiercely loyal, smart, and a warrior when it comes to honoring the task at hand. The Foot Clan is her family and she has the utmost respect for Master Shredder —although she does question his decision to recruit Bebop and Rocksteady.


The Foot Clan
In the reboot films, the Foot Clan are no longer considered an international ninja cult, but rather an modern American terrorist organization.Instead of black unitard-clad masked ninjitsu warriors, they are portrayed as fully armed men that wear black military-like uniforms and often wore kabuki-style masks to conceal one's identity.


Rocksteady and Bebop
A bumbling henchmen duo under Shredder's command. Rocksteady was a red-haired Caucasian man sporting simple beige cargo pants, while also occasionally sporting a strong army helmet on his head in his mutated form. Bebop was a plump African American man with spiked bracelets and a purple mohawk. The Shredder developed a plan to defeat the Turtles by mutating members of the street gang that Rocksteady and Bebop are a part of so that they would have abilities greater than the Turtles'. Rocksteady and Bebop both volunteered to undergo the procedure (though neither was particularly aware of what it would entail) first with the promise that it would allow them to exact revenge on the Turtles. Although the transformation did make them larger and stronger, they remained incompetent simpletons and were completely inept at stopping the Turtles or carrying out Shredder's plans. Throughout most of the series, they tried to attack the Turtles with brute force, without applying knowledge and strategy.


Krang
Krang was originally a warlord from Dimension X who commanded an army of Rock Soldiers under the leadership of General Traag and Lieutenant Granitor. He took the completed Technodrome (a powerful mobile battle fortress) for himself, and then banished Drakus (who helped Krang build it) to Earth. Eventually, Krang would be banished from Dimension X as well, but not before being stripped of his body and reduced to a brain like-form. To compensate for his lack of a full body, Krang makes use of an android body with incredible strength and the ability to increase his size.

Friday, June 03, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 3: Supporting allies


Splinter
Splinter is a mutant rat, foster father, and sensei of the Ninja Turtles. He raises them into adolescent fighters to combat the Foot Clan and protect New York. April meets Splinter, who remembered April before he mutated, when he and the Turtles were ordinary test animals in a lab manned by Dr. O'Neil and Eric Sacks. April used to videotape herself in her fathers lab when she was little, and loved Splinter and the Turtles, personally naming them and feeding them pizza, which they all loved.
However, Dr. O'Neil learned that Sachs was up to something evil, and burned the lab down, at the cost of his own life. April saved Splinter and the Turtles, and took them to the sewers to be safe, with Splinter alone possessing enough intellectual ability at this time to remember April and her kindness. The mutagen soon took effect, granting Splinter and the Turtles enhanced intellect and anthropomorphic bodies.


April O'Neil
As a child, her father used the Ninja Turtles and Splinter as test subjects for his mutagen experiments, with April treating them as her pets, feeding them pizza when they were little. After her father destroyed his lab, she placed the Turtles and Splinter near a sewer grate.
As an adult, she worked in journalism at Channel 6, but felt that her talents were under-utilized reporting on relative puff pieces such as a new sports movement. While trying to follow up on an attempted story of stolen chemicals from a docking port, she first witnessed the Turtles active as vigilantes, later finding them when they thwarted a Foot Clan attempt to take hostages in a subway station. After hearing their names, she realized their ties to her father's work, but revealed the truth to Eric Sacks before the Turtles and Splinter could warn her of his real agenda.


Vern Fenwick
In this reboot Vern Fenwick acts as April's cameraman, but is always trying to personally win over his attractive female colleague for himself. After he learns of the existence of the Ninja Turtles, he displays heroic characteristics despite his lack of fighting skills and contributes significantly to the happy resolution of the plot as he is the one who knocks out Eric Sacks.


Casey Jones
Casey Jones
is a corrections officer who works as a vigilante at night, and a close ally of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He eventually begins a relationship with April. He wears a hockey mask in battle, and wields either a hockey stick or a golf club when battling the Foot Soldiers.

Thursday, June 02, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 2: The main Turtles


The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are four fictional teenage anthropomorphic turtles who are named after four Renaissance Italian artists. They were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu. From their home in sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated animals, and alien invaders while attempting to remain hidden from society.


Leonardo, more affectionately called Leo, is the eldest of the four and older brother to Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo. He is the tactical, courageous leader of the team and devoted student of his sensei Splinter, who firmly believes it's his ninja duty to protect the people f New York. As the most conscientious of the four, he often bears the burden of responsibility for his younger brothers, which commonly leads to conflict with Raphael. He can be identified by his blue mask and twin katana blades which he wields in battle.


Raphael, also known as Raph, is often regarded as having an aggressive nature as well as a rebellious streak (often struggling to comply to orders), and seldom hesitates to throw the first punch. He is often depicted with a very pronounced New York accent. His personality can be fierce, sarcastic and maddened, and oftentimes delivers deadpan humor. Despite his anger issues and fiery temper, Raph is determined and would stop at nothing to fight against evil, even when suffering from life-threatening injuries such as a broken shell. He wears a red mask and wields a pair of sai.


Donatello, also known as Don, is the "official" scientist, inventor, engineer, and technological genius of the brothers. is perhaps the least violent turtle, preferring to use his vast knowledge and calculative talk to solve conflicts, but never hesitates to defend his brothers. Don is known to be very calm and measured, and often being able to stay composed under stress, as seen when he managed to stop the toxic poison activated by Shredder on Sacks Tower in the first movie. He can be identified by his purple mask, and wields a telescopic bo staff in battle.


Michelangelo, more commonly known as Mike, is free-spirited, relaxed, and often goofy jokester and known for his love of pizza. He provides the comic relief, though he still has an adventurous side. The least mature and youngest of the four Turtles, he shows characteristics of a "surfer" type and is often depicted with a Southern Californian accent. Though identified by Master Splinter to possess the most "raw talent" of the brothers, Mikey seems to be more interested in goofing around. He wears an orange mask and wields a pair of nunchucks in battle.

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 1: Intro


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows is the sequel to the 2014 hit film TMNT.
When danger threatens New York City, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles must emerge from the shadows to protect their home. The sequel sees the turtles team up with fellow masked vigilante Casey Jones to fight the Foot Clan and its leader, the evil Shredder, as well as mutated punks Bebop and Rocksteady, and alien warlord Krang.

Live-action
Megan Fox as April O'Neil
Stephen Amell as Casey Jones
Will Arnett as Vern Fenwick
Brian Tee as Oroku Saki / The Shredder
Tyler Perry as Dr. Baxter Stockman
Brittany Ishibashi as Karai
Laura Linney as Police Chief Rebecca Vincent

Voice actors and motion capture
Pete Ploszek as Leonardo
Alan Ritchson as Raphael
Noel Fisher as Michelangelo
Jeremy Howard as Donatello
Tony Shalhoub (voice) and Peter D. Badalamenti (motion-capture) as Splinter
Gary Anthony Williams as Bebop
Stephen "Sheamus" Farrelly as Rocksteady
Brad Garrett as Krang