Here’s the point at which The Suicide Squad happens in the DCEU timetable. James Gunn’s development to 2016’s Suicide Squad isn’t exactly a spin-off nor a full reboot, yet its own, largely standalone story. All things considered, it exists inside the larger system of the DC Extended Universe, forging ahead the excursions of a few recently settled characters. That is most remarkably Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, yet additionally Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), and Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney).
Anyway, exactly where does The Suicide Squad fit into the DCEU timetable? Gunn himself has recently affirmed that The Suicide Squad happens in 2021, as he uncovered it’s set “in the year it comes out.” That implies it happens after both Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), and likely a reasonable piece after the two of them. Suicide Squad was set in 2016, that very year it delivered, as proven by the case records of the characters. The specific year of Birds of Prey’s occasions isn’t as clear, however it’s anything but absurd to accept that it’s additionally in the time of delivery, which would place it in 2020. That would figure out Harley Quinn and Joker’s relationship, with four years of threatening Gotham behind them, and then mean there’s around a year to year and a half before The Suicide Squad happens.
That would comparatively fit well with Harley Quinn?s DCEU course of events. Harley appears to be changed in The Suicide Squad to Birds of Prey, and enough time has passed that she’s been captured again and is back in Belle Reve, prepared to rejoin Task Force X, so it’s a good idea that it’s anything but set excessively near the occasions of that film, despite the fact that it is forging ahead her story. In view of this, then, at that point Harley is approximately 30-31-years of age in The Suicide Squad (since the primary film affirmed her birthday as July 20, 1990), with around a time of wrongdoing added to her repertoire.
The Suicide Squad trailer’s other significant reference to the DCEU course of events accompanies Robert DuBois, otherwise known as Bloodsport (Idris Elba), who is said to have shot Superman with a Kryptonite slug. That makes one wonder of whether that occasion occurred before Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, or after Justice League. In the event that previously, that would mean Bloodsport perpetrated the wrongdoing at some point between Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, and he could be the way Lex Luthor knew kryptonite would be so compelling. In any case, it was in BvS that weaponizing kryptonite turned out to be so unmistakable, and it’d bode well on the off chance that it was accessible on the bootleg market subsequently, proposing this could’ve occurred post-Justice League all things being equal, which would uncover in any event somewhat more concerning Superman’s life after that film.
It stays not yet clear exactly the amount The Suicide Squad references past DCEU films, or the amount it feels associated with things like Birds of Prey. Gunn appears to be especially dedicated to recounting his own story, which implies that, while it’s set in the present of the DCEU course of events, it will not affect the movies around it much in any case. Yet, since it is progressing forward Harley’s excursion, and apparently sets up additional experiences for her to come, then, at that point feeling like there’s some coherence there will be significant.