Pete Davidson’s Face Gets Blown Off Less Than 10 Minutes Into ‘The Suicide Squad’

Warning: This article contains The Suicide Squad spoilers, though, to be fair, all plot points discussed below happen within the first 15 minutes of the movie. 

If you’re planning to watch The Suicide Squad—which is now playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max—just for Pete Davidson, I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is, you won’t need to clear very much time out of your schedule to catch Davidson’s scenes. The bad news is that’s because Pete Davidson’s face quite literally—and quite viscerally—gets blown to bits less than 10 minutes into the film.

This may not come as a surprise to anyone who knows a thing or two about the team of anti-heroes known as the Suicide Squad in DC Comics, or for anyone who paid close attention to The Suicide Squad trailer. They are a team of ex-convicts and supervillains who have been recruited by the government for the Task Force X program to embark on highly dangerous missions in exchange for reduced sentences.

In the case of The Suicide Squad—the standalone sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad—a squad has been assembled by Task Force X leader Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to infiltrate the fictional nation of Corto Maltese to assassinate General Silvio Luna. They are expecting fatalities—Waller’s team even places bets on who will die—but no one is expecting the mission to go quite as bad as it does. Pete Davidson’s character, Blackguard, is a member of the A-Team alongside Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), and a bizarre creature named Weasel.

Weasel drowns almost immediately because no one checked to see if the creature could swim. But the next guy to go is Blackguard, aka Pete Davidson. It’s quite the exit, made all the more shocking—or hilarious, depending on your perspective—by the fact that it happens within the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Here’s how it goes down: As soon as the A-Team, minus Weasel, arrives on the beach, Blackguard abandons his position, stands in the middle of the beach, and announces the team’s arrival. “I’m the guy that called you!” he yells out. Blackguard betrayed the squad, and he thought he would be spared by the Corto Maltese military. He was wrong. Less than 30 seconds after stepping out onto the beach, Davidson gets shot.

Actually, “gets shot” is a gross understatement to describe what happens to Davidson in The Suicide Squad—he gets freaking obliterated. His face is quite literally blown off, leaving nothing but a bloody, gaping hole where his head used to be. Chunks of Davidson spew out in all directions across the sand. It is absolutely disgusting, and also, weirdly satisfying.

From there, the rest of the mission devolves quickly, and nearly everyone else dies, too—only Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) make it out alive. The real suicide squad, we learn, is the B-Team, aka Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), King Shark (Sylvester Stallone), Polkadot Man (David Dastmalchian), and Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior). So Davidson can take comfort knowing he wasn’t the only character who bit before the end of Act 1 (there’s also a quick additional scene with Davidson immediately afterwards, as part of a flashback, in case you want more)—after all, Nathan Fillion dies too—and knowing that at least he outlived the weasel.

(What’s that? The weasel might still be alive after all? Oops. Sorry, Petey.)

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