Creature Commandos: Everything we know about Amanda Waller in the DCU

Creature Commandos, the first entry in the DCU brought back Viola Davis's Amanda Waller from The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker Season 1. While the first Peacemaker season and The Suicide Squad were retconned into the DCU, Davis's first stint as Waller, 2016's Suicide Squad isn't canon anymore.

However, the DCU does retain one aspect of Waller that the 2016 movie and comics hinted at.

The retained aspect is Amanda Waller refusing to see that her black-ops team idea is inherently flawed. Waller is a ruthless operative who plants bombs inside the supervillains' heads to control their actions during the missions.

However, despite that, something always goes awry with the mission. While things work out in the end, the mission succeeds despite Waller's involvement and not because of her.

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Amanda Waller from the DCU and Creature Commandos explained

Almost every adaptation of Amanda Waller has been described as ruthless and cunning, except for Angela Bassett's Waller in the 2011 Green Lantern movie. Whatever the continuity, be it the Arrowverse version, animated version, DCEU, or DCU, Waller controls the actions of her Task Force by planting a bomb in their heads.

However, even if the Task Force X or M/ Creature Commandos members were in line, there are always things that don't go their way. And when the team successfully manages to save the day, she gets the credit because her idea worked on paper. Creature Commandos also seems to hint that Amanda Waller might be incompetent.

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How was Amanda Waller from Creature Commandos incompetent?

The final episode of Creature Commandos reveals that Nina Mazursky was wrongfully imprisoned. While Amanda Waller describes Nina as the most reasonable, she also describes the aquatic woman as a formidable opponent under the water.

However, based on the Creature Commandos finale, we see Princess Ilana Rostovic killing Nina under the water, proving Waller wrong.

However, that's not the only thing that Amanda Waller was wrong about. She is also indecisive throughout the entirety of Creature Commandos. She assigns Rick Flag Sr. and Task Force M to protect Rostovic from the Sons of Themyscira under the Amazonian sorceress Circe.

Then, in the fourth episode, Circe shows a dark future for which Princess Rostovic is supposedly responsible.

A professor, who is an expert in Amazonian culture, confirms that Circe possesses pre-cognitive abilities. However, Flag Sr. and Eric Frankenstein supposedly uncover evidence that the professor is dead, and the one who confirmed the pre-cognitive powers was Clayface in disguise.

Amanda Waller after learning this tries to call off Task Force M's new mission of killing the princess.

However, that's too late as Ilana has already killed Nina and the Bride (who is the new Creature Commandos leader) gets Waller's orders only after Nina's death. However, the Bride puts together that Circe's visions were actually accurate, and Clayface was acting on Ilana's orders.

To avenge Nina, the Bride fatally shoots Nina, meaning Task Force M completed another mission despite Amanda Waller.

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What's next for Amanda Waller after Creature Commandos?

While it is unclear whether Amanda Waller will appear in the next two DCU projects Superman and Peacemaker Season 2, there is a series titled Waller. It was confirmed that some Peacemaker team members will appear in the series that boasts of behind-the-scenes talents of Christal Henry and Jeremy Carver.

However, that changed in November 2024 when Gunn responded to a fan that Waller was still moving ahead on his Bluesky account.

Gunn has been clear in several interviews that no DCU movie will move to the shooting stage until the scripts are ready. This may be why The Brave and the Bold featuring Batman and his biological son Damian Wayne hasn't been shot or cast yet.

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Will Amanda Waller's luck run out? This question will be answered only in the future. Until then, you can watch the first season of Creature Commandos on Max.