6) Enchantress Is The Movie’s Villain
This one isn’t so much of a plot twist within the film itself, as it becomes clear that Enchantress is the central villain of Suicide Squad fairly early on. However, the marketing for the third entry in the DCEU had led us to believe that Jared Leto’s Joker would be the movie’s big bad and that Enchantress would just be one of the members of Task Force X, as in the comics. Boy, how wrong we were.
The result of this bait-and-switch was one of the worst superhero movie villains ever. In terms of her character, villainous scheme and performance, the Enchantress is undercooked, hokey and laughably bad. Plus, with hardly any screentime, Leto’s Joker came across as a gimmick-laden pencil sketch of Mr. J, leaving Warner Bros. to contemplate alt-Jokers to rehabilitate the character.
At least director David Ayer admitted to his mistake and has gone on record as saying he should have made the Joker the antagonist of the movie. Unfortunately, it’s a little too late for that now, Dave.