DC Extended Universe Creating Task Force X Amanda Waller is introduced in
Suicide Squad as an
FBI official in charge of A.R.G.U.S.. She is shown to be in contact with vigilantes such as
Bruce Wayne / Batman, to whom she provides intelligence in order for him to apprehend criminals such as
Floyd Lawton / Deadshot. Following the death of
Superman, Waller, concerned that the "next Superman" may not "share his moral code," creates Task Force X, later known as the "
Suicide Squad", by enlisting incarcerated metahumans and other extraordinary criminals such as Deadshot,
Harley Quinn,
Captain Boomerang,
El Diablo, and
Killer Croc. She also attempts to enlist
June Moon / Enchantress and
Slipknot, but Enchantress goes rogue and creates a global threat while Slipknot is executed for
desertion by squad leader
Rick Flag during the squad's mission to contain Enchantress. The squad is forced to rescue Waller, much to their chagrin, as she is attempting to cover up her role in Enchantress' escape. After the team neutralizes Enchantress, freeing Moon from her possession, Waller rewards most of its members except Captain Boomerang with 10 years reduced from their sentences and various gifts. She later meets in-person with Bruce Wayne, giving him
classified government documents on several metahumans including
Arthur Curry and
Barry Allen so he can recruit them for
his own team, in exchange for Wayne protecting her reputation and concealing her involvement with Task Force X.
Destroying Project Starfish Waller deploys two Task Force X groups, each squad initially unaware of the existence of the other, in
Corto Maltese following an anti-American coup to disrupt the country's "Project Starfish", revealed to be also a mission to conceal America's role in the inhumane experiments while besides destroying the said project before being weaponized by the new regime. The first squad, led by Rick Flag and also including Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, and several others, attacks via
amphibious warfare and save for Flag, Quinn, and teammates
Cory Pitzner / T.D.K. and
"John Doe" / Weasel, is annihilated by Corto Maltesean defenses, with Flag being rescued by the local rebellion group, the Freedom Fighters, Quinn being captured by the military and T.D.K. and Weasel being left for dead but still had survived. Waller personally executes a terrifying teammate
Brian Durlin / Savant for
desertion by remotely detonating an explosive planted in his head. The second squad, consisting of
Robert DuBois / Bloodsport, whom Waller personally blackmails into joining and leading the second team by threatening to incarcerate his daughter Tyla into Belle Reve,
Chris Smith / Peacemaker,
Nanaue / King Shark,
Cleo Cazo / Ratcatcher 2 and her pet rat Sebastian, and
Abner Krill / Polka-Dot Man, infiltrates while the Corto Maltesean military is distracted by the first squad, which was merely a deliberate decoy. The second squad rescues Flag and Quinn before converging on the location of Project Starfish at Jötunheim, a Nazi-era research facility. Both revealed by their captive, the project's head geneticist,
Thinker, who was forced by the team to help them infiltrated Jötenheim, that he had been hired by both the United States and Corto Maltesean governments to oversee the project and Waller's real attention to assembled this squad. Waller has also specifically planted Peacemaker to ensure no one leaked the project. The ensuing scuffle results in Peacemaker remorsefully killing Flag and almost killing Cazo before Bloodsport subdues him, in addition to
Starro, the giant, starfish-like alien at the center of "Project Starfish", breaking out, kills Thinker for the experiments on it, wreaking havoc on the island and taking control of its inhabitants. Waller orders the remaining squad members to evacuate, seeing that Starro's escape their secrecy and that it would help bring down the current regime, but they defy her orders, out of concern for Corto Maltese's citizens. Enraged for risking their secrecy, Waller threatens to execute them all before her subordinate Flo Crawley knocks her out and, along with the tactical support team, including
Emilia Harcourt and
John Economos, give the squad the go-ahead to save Corto Maltese from Starro. After they kill the giant alien, Bloodsport is able to negotiate with a recovering Waller to let him and his remaining squad teammates Quinn, Nanaue, Cazo and Sebastian go free and airlifted them off the island along to still drop his daughter's incarcerate, using the evidence he took of the American involvement in Project Starfish as a bargaining chip.
Project Butterfly Several months after Project Starfish, Waller commissions a new team to contain an extraterrestrial threat, an alien race called the Butterflies, with Clemson Murn assigned to lead and Peacemaker assigned after his recovery, unknown to her that Murn is killed and controlled by a rogue Butterfly named Ik Nobe Lok. As punishment for their insubordination during Project Starfish, Economos and Harcourt are also assigned by Waller, much to their chagrin as they feel as if they are being forced to "babysit" Smith. Waller's daughter Leota Adebayo, also assigned to the team, is conflicted between following her mother's orders to incriminate Smith and her bond with him. Leota, becoming disillusioned with her mother, later leaks Waller's involvement with both Project Butterfly and Task Force X, clearing Smith's name and putting a shocked Waller in a predicament in the process.
Release of Teth-Adam After
Teth-Adam is awakened from a 5,000-year slumber in
Kahndaq, Waller contacts
Carter Hall / Hawkman and the
Justice Society, dispatching them to contain Adam and prevent him from potentially unleashing another rampage for which he was imprisoned by the Council of Wizards. After coming to terms with Adam and facing off against
Intergang, the Justice Society take in Adam, who surrenders out of remorse and feeling unfit to be a hero. However, Adam is
broken out of his containment by
Kent Nelson / Doctor Fate and helps save the country from
Sabbac. Waller contacts Adam, who has now adapted the more modern name
Black Adam, warning him not to leave Khandaq and sending a since-resurrected Superman to have a word with him.
DC Universe Forming the Creature Commandos In the new continuity of the
DC Universe, this iteration of Waller heads the Advanced Research Group of the United States, which monitors and potentially intervenes with metahuman, paranormal and occult activities. After Leota Adebayo exposed her involvement with Task Force X, an injunction was made to prevent Waller from exploiting the human population of Belle Reve by the U.S. congress. Since then, to protect the allied nation of
Pokolistan and its heiress, Princess Ilana Rostovic, from the attacks of the rogue
Amazonian sorceress
Circe and her followers, the Sons of Themyscira, she assembles and sends a black ops team of non-human Belle Reve inmates, from their Non-Human Interment Division, called Task Force M, also known as the
Creature Commandos. The team is led by Gen.
Rick Flag Sr. and consists of
Nina Mazursky,
Alex Sartorius / Dr. Phosphorus, the
Bride,
G.I. Robot, and a returned, reconvicted
Weasel. After the team manages to apprehend Circe, who destroyed G.I., Waller, Flag, and Economos meet her in the interrogation room at Belle Reve, where Circe tries to prove her claim that they were dooming the world, by showing Waller visions of an apocalyptic future. In it, Waller sees Rostovic become a ruthless warlord who works with
Gorilla Grodd to conquer other nations and murder numerous superheroes. She later verifies the vision with Themyscyran expert Alisa MacPherson, who confirms Circe's clairvoyant powers as legitimate. She then orders Flag to return with the Commandos to Pokolistan and assassinate Rostovic, but Flag refuses, believing that the vision may have been falsified. After dismissing Flag, Waller assigns the Bride as the new leader of the Commandos. Later, Waller learns that Flag has been hospitalized after suffering serious injuries, and that
Eric Frankenstein helped to get him there. Some time after, Flag regains consciousness, and tells Waller that the assassination mission is a set-up, prompting her and Economos to investigate MacPherson's home. They learn that the real MacPherson has been killed and impersonated by
Clayface, who attacked Flag and Frankenstein, leading them to believe that Circe tricked them into potentially starting a war. Waller contacts Rostovic's Amethyst Knights and manages to stop them from apprehending the Commandos, though she was too late to prevent Nina's death at Rostovic's hands. Unbeknownst to Waller, Rostovic was working with Clayface to trick both her and Flag, but, after seeing a video footage of the princess and Clayface, the Bride, who became fond of Nina, deduces Rostovic's deception and kills her before leaving the country with the rest of her team. Some time later, Waller assigns the Bride, as well as the Commandos, along with G.I. who have been rebuilt with a giant body, with a new living space within Belle Reve, while also appoints three new members to the team:
Nosferata,
Khalis, and a reconvicted
King Shark.
Stepping down from A.R.G.U.S. Following Task Force M's successful operation in Pokolistan and amidst continued congressional scrutiny regarding Task Force X's creation, Waller left her responsibilities as director of A.R.G.U.S. and was immediately succeeded by Rick Flag Sr. at the request of the
President of the United States. Flag Sr. immediately demanded access to confidential documentation pertaining to the death of his son
Rick Flag Jr. during "Project Starfish" in Corto Maltese, and learned about Waller's orders to
Chris Smith / Peacemaker to assassinate Flag for threatening to expose the country's collusion. ==Reception==