Enter Amanda Waller (Viola Davis, reprising her role). Due to legal restrictions on using human operatives like the Suicide Squad, Waller pulls a technicality: if they aren’t human, the rules don’t apply. She assembles a new black ops team from Belle Reve’s most inhuman inmates: .
Creature Commandos is streaming on Max. New episodes release weekly.
DC Studios’ new animated series, Creature Commandos , has officially kicked off the new DC Universe (Chapter One: Gods and Monsters) with a bang—literally. The first episode, titled wastes no time establishing that this is not a team of conventional superheroes. Instead, it’s a suicide squad of monsters, led by the same hard-nosed Amanda Waller, with all the chaos, dark humor, and emotional baggage that implies. Plot Summary: A Mission Straight Out of Frankenstein The episode opens in the fictional European nation of Pokolistan, where a princess named Ilana Rostovic (voiced by Maria Bakalova) is under threat from a deadly shapeshifter known as the “Sons of Themyscira.” Desperate, she turns to the U.S. government for covert assistance.
The episode’s centerpiece is a brutal, rain-soaked fight between the Commandos and the Sons of Themyscira—who are revealed not to be Amazonians, but genetically modified assassins with clay-like skin. The Bride tears through them with surgical precision, while Frankenstein smashes skulls like a drunken tank. True to James Gunn’s storytelling style, "The Collywobbles" is structured around flashbacks that reveal how each monster ended up in Waller’s custody.
