The finale of Suicide Squad Isekai was definitely a bombastic fireworks show and suitably over the top. Let’s go over the final big battle and what worked and didn’t work in this episode as well as a summation of the series as a whole.
The episode begins with Clayface turning into a griffin and fighting a skeleton griffin. Clayface turns out pretty inept in a slapstick induced battle. From here, we see the tone of the finale is going to be not at all dramatic and be the most comedic episode of all as there is another gag, and fifty more to come after that. Deadshot and Peacemaker attempt to carry around Enchantress’ mysterious doppelganger, but they drop her and wacky cartoon sound effects play. Eventually, Hurting the doppelganger also hurts Enchantress. Deadshot and Peacemaker are able to take Enchantress’ doppelganger to her body and something quite interesting happens. The two bodies fuse and we find out the Enchantress the Squad was fighting turned out to be possessed. With this fusion, Enchantress is now in charge of her own body. She says that she does not care about Harley’s Squad, but she does want revenge on the demon queen for possessing her. She attacks the demon queen. Clayface inquires if Enchantress is actually a tsundere, continuing Clayface’s tendency to name drop anime tropes throughout the series.
In the next scene, Deadshot finds an artifact that seems to be a homage to Saint Seiya, as he has a transformation sequence in the style of that anime classic. His gun can now shoot giant magic lasers that devastate the evil skeletons.
King Shark ends up effortlessly defeating Killer Croc in a scene that lasts barely five seconds. It turns out that Killer Croc was pretty much an afterthought in this show. Peacemaker puts his hand on the gills of a giant fish man who he effortlessly kills. If you remember last episode, Katana was built to be a major threat, but she just disappears.
Deadshot reunites with the rest of the Squad and gives them magic armor where they each have a transformation scene. Clayface makes Michael Jackson noises while transforming in another memorable gag. The characters’ new costumes are suitably over the top and goofy. They beat up more skeleton people as the very silly and wacky final battle continues.
Harley Quinn finally meets the new, edgier version of Fione and
she finally gives approval to her. They talk about the current threat of the demon queen and hatch a plan to defeat her. The plan turns out to be what you’d expect as Fione and Harley switch places. Fione dresses as Harley Quinn uses her magic to summon the sword needed to kill the demon queen and decapitates her. Harley dressed as Fione uses her baseball bat to deliver the final blow.
The day is saved and Fione gives the Squad a scroll at a ceremony. Harley rejects it as scrolls are boring and she can’t read it (it is a common trope where main characters in an isekai can perfectly understand the spoken language of the fantasy world, but not the written one for some arbitrary reason). Fione forgives her and says the prize she really wants, a feast, is waiting for her.
Rick Flag phones Amanda Waller and asks the question DC fans have been asking the whole time, why did the normally heroic Katana turn out to work for the dark side in this adaptation. It turns out the “Katana” the Squad thought was an imposter as Waller says Katana has been on Earth this whole time.
The big cliffhanger twist is the identity of the Katana imposter. The shapeshifter takes several forms before revealing his true form as Mr. J himself. Waller tells Rick Flag that the new mission goal is to hunt down the Joker. This seems to be setting up a season two showdown with the Joker. Let’s see if that actually happens.
All in all, for most of its run, this show has been about the Suicide
Squad fighting against orcs, skeletons, and generic fantasy monsters in decent but rarely spectacular action sequences and the characterization of the Squad and the wacky gags saved this series from being complete mediocrity. The finale and it dialing the wackiness up to eleven was indeed the high point. This show was decent entertainment and I’d be cool to see a season two, if only to see DC’s most iconic villain go up against the Squad..
