A team of criminals set up by Amanda Waller, designated Task Force-X- although known as the Suicide Squad to it's members- in order to go on highly dangerous missions in return for time taken off their prison sentences.
The members are locked in cells beneath the Starling City A.R.G.U.S Headquaters, where they stay while they wait for new orders and are inplanted with nano-bombs in the base of their neck for obiediance.
ARROW:
Amanda Waller first mentions the "Suicide Squad" (Season 2 Episode 12- Tremors) while visiting Ben Turner in Iron Heights prison, stating she needed someone with his "singular qualifications." When he asks her what the team she is recruiting is, she replies that "It's more of a Squad."
In "Suicide Squad", Waller gives John a mission to go to Markovia and steal a powerful nerve agent that was in the posetion of an Afghanistanian drug lord called Gholem Qadir, who John had saved in his time in the army. When Waller tells him he has to get his team in she introduces a confused John to "Task Force-X" consisting of three of both his enemies and enemies of Arrow, Ben Turner (Bronze Tiger), Mark Scheffer (Shrapnel) and Floyd Lawton (Deadshot.)
