Amanda Waller
Amanda Waller is a female comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Amanda Waller
In Kansas, Waller operated a secret black-ops facility located underground that stored Kryptonite in order to weaponise it. With the substance, an elite military team was assembled and were infused with the element where they formed the Last Line that was to serve as a failsafe to eliminate Superman. (Superman/Batman v1 #47) Chief among these operatives was a secret weapon in the form of young soldier Josh Walker who had signed for the bio-weapons immunisation program but was taken for an experiment that used Kryptonite to fuse the genetic material of Doomsday to his body. Thus, he was transformed into a Doomsday-like creature that grew Kryptonite shards and was known as the All-American Boy. The operation was discovered by Superman and Batman when they were looking to remove all Kryptonite from the planet. After defeating the Last Line, the All-American Boy was deployed where his battle with Superman brought them to Smallville. It was only stopped when Batman brought Walker's parents who helped calm their transformed son. In the face of this incident, the Last Line abandoned Waller and Batman had recovered files indicating the illegality of Amanda's project. She agreed to drop her program and help in restoring the damage from her black ops budget in exchange for the files where she revealed that her Kryptonite weapons were purchased from LexCorp. (Superman/Batman v1 #48)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Amanda Waller
During the Parademon invasion which led to the creation of the Justice League, Waller was present with Steve Trevor when they met Maxwell Lord for the first time, who tried to use his Checkmate organization to take over the operation and target every superhuman on the scene, hero and villain alike. (Justice League v3 #12) Losing faith in the government, Waller wound up in Malaysia, spending her days playing pinball in a bar. However, she wound up getting recruited by a CIA team led by Lawrence Duren, who asked her to help them fight a nearby Basilisk operation. Waller agreed, but in the end, she alone walked away from the mission. This tragedy, coupled with her Team 7 experience and the anger of the Duren family, led her to pursue a radical plan - to recruit bad people to do bad things, so that good people would be safe. (Suicide Squad v4 #0)
Meanwhile, the Squad had connected with Boomerang and escaped from Basilisk, though Deadshot was killed in the process. Waller, with Quinn and Boomerang, attended a military funeral held for him, which was interrupted by the Joker, who, via Joker Venom, rendered unconscious all attendees save his one-time partner Harley Quinn, with whom he fled. After recuperating at the Belle Reve infirmary, Waller elected not to announce Quinn's escape and risk exposing the Squad, or to detonate her explosive implant. (Suicide Squad v4 #14) She watched her interactions with the Joker through contact lens cameras she had inserted into Quinn's eyes, anticipating that the Joker would come for her. Waller shared the footage with Yo-yo, who she hoped to recruit as an informant on the Suicide Squad and in Belle Reve, and granted release to Captain Boomerang for his undercover work within Basilisk, discovering at the same time that Quinn had escaped the Joker and voluntarily returned to her custody. (Suicide Squad v4 #15) Waller also attempted to recruit the undersea treasure hunter Black Manta, incarcerated at Belle Reve, onto the Suicide Squad, but her offer was declined. (Aquaman v7 #14)
After the invasion from the Dark Multiverse, the Source Wall was broken with the Justice League informing the U.S. Government of the event. This led to the intelligence community first being aware of the existence of a barrier at the edges of the universe. This prompted Waller to seek out knowledge of other threats out in the cosmos with her sensing an opportunity when Brainiac attacked Earth. She gathered a large team of psychics to rip the knowledge from his mind leading to her uncovering the existence of the Omega Titans. Waller learnt of the existence of a dormant cosmic seed and sought to prevent it from calling forth the Titan. (Justice League: No Surrender v1 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Amanda Waller was created by John Ostrander, Len Wein and John Byrne where she made her first appearance in Legends #1 (November, 1986).
Alternate Versions
- In Future State: Suicide Squad, an alternate version of Amanda Waller was shown in the possible timeline of Future State. By the mid-21st century, she was noted to had performed a terrible crime in the defence of Earth whereupon she fled to Earth-3. Once there, she used a number of coerced Metahumans to form the Justice Squad to defend the planet that she planned to seal from the rest of the Multiverse. Each of its members were forced to work for her due to bombs implanted on them with the team headed by Kon-El who had assumed the mantle of Superman. In response, a Task Force X team was dispatched to Earth-3 to recover her where they were headed by Peacemaker.
In other media
Television
- In Young Justice, Amanda Waller appeared in the animated series where she was voiced by actress Sheryl Lee Ralph. She was shown as being the warden of Belle Reve prison.
- In Arrow, Amanda Waller appeared in the television series set in the Arrowverse where she was portrayed by actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson.
- In Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles, the character appeared in "Bomb" where she was voiced by actress Penny Johnson Jerald. She was shown as being the President of the United States of America and when Brainiac had escaped he went out of control threatening to destroy the city. In the Oval Office, attempts were made to call Superman for assistance but they received no response and National Science Adviser Doctor Sivana suggested the deployment of a low yield nuclear weapon to destroy the threat. This suggestion horrified President Waller but she reluctantly ordered a bomber to deploy the bomb but luckily Superman managed to end the danger.
Films
- In Green Lantern, the character appeared as a minor character in the live-action movie where she was portrayed by a ctressAngela Bassett.
- In Suicide Squad, Amanda Waller first appeared in the live-action film set in the DC Extended Universe where she was portrayed by actress Viola Davis. It was revealed that she was heading a secret black ops covert program called Task Force X that sought to use Metahuman criminals as special operations squads. She had made a number of attempts to get government approval with this seemingly having failed. During this time, she had spent her time scouting for recruits with among them being Dr. June Moon who had been possessed by the extra-dimensional entity called the Enchantress where she managed to tae control of her by holding onto the creatures secret heart. After Superman's apparent death, Waller brought the project back to the government and managed to get authorization to form a squad of such criminals to be deployed on special missions.
- In Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, Amanda Waller appeared in the setting of the animated film where she was voiced by actress Vanessa Williams. She was the head of Task Force X and served as the warden for the supervillains that were assigned on the Suicide Squad. At some point, she was informed that she suffered from a terminal condition and came to fear about her fate in the afterlife. Thus, she sought to learn of a means to avoid going to Hell for her actions and sought mystical knowledge. This led to her discovering the existence of the 'Get Out of Hell Free' Card and used the Suicide Squad to acquire it for herself.
Video games
- In DC Universe Online, the character appeared in the MMORPG where she was voiced by actress Debra Cole.
- In Batman: The Enemy Within, Amanda Waller appeared in the Telltale Series where she was voiced by actress Debra Wilson. She became the head of the Agency who had the authority to take control of any local law enforcement operations. Waller came to Gotham City following the re-emergence of the Riddler where she was accompanied by Special Agents Iman Avesta and Vernon Blake.
Appearances
- Legends v1: (1986)
- Suicide Squad v2:
- Superman/Batman v1:
- Justice League: No Justice v1:
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