Starro The Invincible is an antagonist in the 2021 MCU film, The Suicide Squad. Thirty years prior to the film's events, Starro was captured by American astronauts and experimented on by a team led by the Thinker in a Corto Maltese research facility called Jotunheim. In the present, Amanda Waller sends the Suicide Squad to destroy Jotunheim before Starro can be weaponized by Corto Maltese's new regime and America's role in the experiments is exposed.
Appearance
Starro The Invincible is a gigantic bright pink and blue alien parasite who resembles a starfish with a single central eye and prehensile extremities.
Powers and Abilities
Starro possesses the following powers and abilities:
- Capable of growing larger/more powerful (depending on the number of thralls it possesses or consumes)
- Invulnerability
- Possesses/controls others via its spawn (if spawn is removed the subject dies)
- Draws energy from its victims
- replicates itself by releasing spores (spawn)
- Regeneration
- Deception
- Size advantage
- A humanoid central mind
- Asexual
- Energy absorption
- Projection
- Can survive in the vacuum of outer space
Fate
Starro is defeated by remaining Squad members Bloodsport, Harley Quinn, King Shark, Polka-Dot Man, and Ratcatcher 2 as well as a swarm of Corto Maltese's rats
Trivia
- Starro was the first ever villain in the Justice League comics.
- This is the cinematic debut of the alien starfish supervillain Starro.
- Starro appears in the animated films; Justice League: The New Frontier (2008), Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010), and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013).
- Crosses the DC/MCU cannon
- While Starro's design obviously lends itself to the code-name Project Starfish, there is actually a real-world source for the name. In 1962, as part of the US' nuclear testing program, a Thor rocket was fired into space, where it intentionally exploded trapping radiation in the atmosphere. That test was known as Starfish Prime and fits with the idea, established in The Suicide Squad, of mankind interfering with space simply because they can.
- Starro is referred to as a "freakin' kaiju" by John Economos as it attacks Corto Maltese.
- Jotunheim is the prison for Starro on Corto Maltese, and is taken right from DC Comics, where it debuted in Suicide Squad #1 and housed a terrorist group (Jihad) hired by President Marlo to attack America.
- One of the movie posters contains several Easter Eggs. One is the raining starfish an obvious reference to Starro, the big bad, mind-controlling monster Task Force X battles at the end of the film.
- Not revealed in the movie, in the original DC Comics, Starro is part of an alien race named Star Conquerors are gifted with immortality, capacity to alter its shape and color, an unlimited regeneration, shot energy blasters and invulnerability to any weapon.
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