If you had a Suicide Squad made up of villains in literature (not that comic books aren't literature, but you know what i mean), who would be on your team and who would play the Rick Flagg part; the man who keeps them all in line?

Sephiroth

That's pretty much it

-stg

@serpinethegreen: Does Final Fantasy count as literature? :)

- Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)

- Jack Frost (From Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book)

- Mr. Croup and Vandemar (Neverwhere)

- Sauron (LOTR)

- Ender Wiggins (Ender's Game, Rick Flagg character)

How would this concept play differently than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Those characters are ruined when the stories end.

@vampireselektor:Well, i don't think you can really 'ruin' a character which has been around for such a long time and is so indelibly etched into the public conciousness. If a reader doesn't really like what is done to a character by a new writer, they can always go back to the original or, thanks to the ever expanding joy of fan fic, create your own version which errs closer to the original concept or read the twenty squillion new versions enthusiastic amateurs produce by the minute (comicvine has it's own rather impressive stable of writers doing that very thing right now!) And ho would this concept play differently to LOEG? It's not actually a comic book, is just a question in a thread and it's not written by Alan Moore :)

@impervious: Fantastic group. I'd read it :)

@feebadger: I meant "ruined" as in their lives are ruined. Many of the Leaguers end up murdered, if not maimed or severely traumatized after serving a government that cares little about them, like Suicide Squad. And yes, I know, I was just making a comparison ;).

Ig Perrish (Horns)

Roland (The Dark Tower)

Palmer Eldritch (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch) - He'd take Rick Flaggs role

Ser Robert Strong (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Charlie Manx (NOS4A2)

Roy Batty (Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?)