10 “Big Picture” Manipulators In Comics

Having lost her two oldest children and her husband to gun violence, Amanda Waller made the choice that she would never lose again. She got her final three children through school and put herself through school, gaining a degree in political science. She then took over the campaign of Democratic Congregational hopeful Marvin Collins and got him elected. While looking through bills, she discovered the old OSS organization called Task Force X.

When the monster Brimstone threatened Mount Rushmore, Waller recruited Rick Flag and a team of villains as a new Suicide Squad. With their success, the President authorized the group to continue under Amanda’s command.

Waller set up the new team at Belle Reve prison in Louisiana, and she argued against sending the Squad on purely political missions and especially stupid ones. She came to blows with NSC liaison Derek Tolliver for sending the Squad on a disastrous mission to Moscow, saying that even though they were expendable, they weren’t garbage.

Amanda Waller’s inability to compromise with people, coupled with the recent public outing of the Suicide Squad and Checkmate, caused Waller to be put on trial for the death of a leader of an organized drug cartel. She was later pardoned after a year and reorganized the team as an independent group. She became part of Lex Luthor’s cabinet as the Secretary of Metahuman Affairs and later as the White Queen of Checkmate.