| “ | It is our time. The Sun is setting on the magical horizon, and the metahumans are a sign of change. | „ |
| ~ The Enchantress flaunting her delusions. |
The Enchantress is the main antagonist in Suicide Squad.
She was a power-hungry maniac who walked in off the extra-dimensional street and made primitives worship her and her equally evil brother all while she wore a hideous chain-link bikini until they had enough and sealed her in a cave. Reawakening in the 2010s, she became hellbent on mass destruction, thinking it would make her all-powerful and she would be worshipped again. This led Amanda Waller to assemble Task Force X to put Incubus in his place, since Enchantress briefly blended in despite leaving before the group could even be deployed, leading her to end up being taught a lesson as well.
She was portrayed by Cara Delevingne.
What Makes Her a Scrappy?[]
- While she was written to be unlikable, she wasn't meant to be outright hated, and either way, she is instead despised for different reasons than what the screenwriters intended:
- She is a very poor adaptation of her graphic novel counterpart, who is genuinely interesting.
- Many viewers feel that the final battle between her and the Suicide Squad is very cheesy and underwhelming for them to watch.
- Her design is universally seen as the very definition of unfashionable.
- Her agenda to go back to being a false goddess includes way too much chatter and not nearly enough action.
- She is so gullible that she lets Harley Quinn walk up to her and slice her with Katana's sword (her telepathy notwithstanding).
- Her motivation makes no sense, as she knows she and her brother were betrayed for being unpopular false gods, and they still think they'll be worshipped again, and she awkwardly flip-flops as to whether she wants to make everyone kneel and serve at her feet or if she wants everyone dead, which makes her come off as an incompetent supervillain at best.
- While some primitives may have given her the adoration she craved, this does not automatically mean that modern civilization will give her respect that she obviously does not deserve.
- She is such a horrible copy of Apocalypse, a supervillain from a Marvel movie that came out the same year, which wouldn't be as huge of an issue if either of them had a real threat and intimidation factor, or at the very least, could give Magneto and General Zod a run for their respective money. However, due to the above, Enchantress is now seen by the few people who remember her as just Apocalypse all over again but with even worse clothes than him.
- Their backstory sums up to are false gods who used to be in charge of primitive pre-Common Era civilizations until the people had enough of them and betrayed them resulting in them laying dormant under stone for millennia.
- Both are power-hungry maniacs who delusionally think they can go back to being false gods as soon as they wreak mass destruction with a poorly constructed superweapon.
- Both spend most of the movie coveting an anatomical McGuffin that'll bring them to complete dominance, at least in theory (Enchantress' heart and Professor X's mutant genes respectively).
- Both of them are crushed into oblivion when the protagonist beats them into submission (Jean pummeled Apocalypse but she needed Storm to electrocute him for it to work, and Harley slashed open Enchantress' torso but she needed Rick to squeeze her heart so it would work).
- Both of them are universally hated by the audience and are a huge but not crucial reason their respective movies got critically ravaged in the first place (with 29 and 47 scores respectively on Rotten Tomatoes).
- She is so immature that she dresses like a gothic stripper and tells Rick Flag that he lacks a pair of testicles.
- Any "Evil is Cool" vibes immediately get drowned out by her hypocrisy and goddess complex, just like Steppenwolf.
- Her one positive aspect is that she mourns Incubus' death (and any other Scrappy would likewise be highly wroth if they watched their own brother be slain).
- Overall, she is remembered to merely be a female version of Apocalypse without anything remotely entertaining about her by fans, with them seeing her as one of the blandest supervillains in the history of the superhero genre by far.
Trivia[]
- She is so hated that people compare her to a belly dancer because she moves around like one. Screen Junkies even says she looks like "inflatable arm things outside car dealerships" and calls her a "hula-hooping witch" and HISHE even plays electronic music when she's shooting lightning and swaying her hips over-dramatically.
- Reportedly, Cara Delevingne only got the role because she's infamously promiscuous in general and the other actress didn't want to run around in the forest butt-naked out of self-respect.
- While the Enchantress is a Scrappy, her nemesis Harley Quinn is a Main Light Horse going to show just how much these two women are absolute polar opposites.
- The Enchantress is one of five Scrappies from the DCEU along with the Joker, Cassandra Cain, Steppenwolf. and the cameos.
External Links[]
- The Enchantress on the Villains Wiki
- The Enchantress on the Near Pure Evil Wiki
- The Enchantress on the Likability Scaling Purgatory Wiki
- The Enchantress on the DC Extended Universe Wiki
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