Originally, it was reported that Elba was going to take over the role of Deadshot from Will Smith, who was unable to reprise his role for the sequel. The Suicide Squad will be in theaters in late 2021.Played by Idris Elba, Bloodsport was the villainous codename for Robert Dubois, a mercenary who became notorious for putting Superman into the ICU with a kryptonite bullet. Later, he stole some Daxamite tech that was in military hands, and then tried to attack Supergirl with a submarine, but she stopped him, and sent him to jail. He was contracted by Morgan Edge to bomb the National City Waterfront - a crime which was foiled by Supergirl, but DuBois got away. The only other times Bloodsport has been seen is in a throwaway scene where Guardian stops him and Riot from trying to steal water during a disaster and background appearances in the Salvation Run miniseries.ĭuring his appearance on Supergirl, the show established that DuBois did have a military record, and that after he left the service he had become a mercenary and terrorist. Bloodsport was only one of a number of members, including Silver Banshee, Hellgrammite, Kryptonite Man, Livewire, Puzzler, Toyman, and Riot. There is not much information about him, since he has not been used as a solo/stand-alone villain at all as far as we can tell.īloodsport III first appeared immediately following Infinite Crisis, when a mostly-depowered Superman was facing a new, Intergang-backed Superman Revenge Squad. ![]() He is killed by prison guards, and Trent is brought back to his cell.but then burned to death by other members of the Aryan Brotherhood who were dissatisfied by his performance in the fight.Īs we alluded to above, there is some question as to whether Bloodsport III is somehow DuBois or a new character altogether. Eventually DuBois gets the upper hand, but rather than killing Trent, he steals a Toastmaster (a massive, powerful gun designed by John Henry Irons), and tries to escape by blasting a hole in the prison gate. While Superman arrives to help out, he's managing the crowd while the main event takes place. That is a self-evidently terrible idea, and the fight sets off a prison riot. The violence was going to happen anyway, so the prison tried to mitigate the damage by having it be a boxing match which could happen within a set of rules and have guards there to keep things from escalating. In The Adventures of Superman #526, the two Bloodsports meet for the first time - in prison.īeing a white supremacist, the decision by Trent to take over the identity and power set of a Black man is a strange one - and of course, it is a bit awkward when he and Trent come to the realization that they are wearing the same dress to the dance, so to speak. Later in that first appearance, Bloodsport took a group of hostages and tried to force Superman to choose between them by using two missiles the Man of Steel outwitted the trick, of course, but it sets up a whole story of Bloodsport chasing after Ron Troupe, a then-recent addition to the Daily Planet newsroom who was also black. The introduction of a new Bloodsport was also something that tied easily into the events of the titles at the time because white supremacist views and the ability to make weapons appear seemingly out of thin air made him an interesting foil for the newly-introduced Steel, a Black man who had spent years developing military weapons and who had been horrified when some of those high-powered guns made their way into the hands of street gangs. ![]() So pairing it with a murderous white supremacist was a bit on the controversial side. Following the death and return story, some of the titles seemed to embrace the grim and gritty nature of the early' 90s comics boom enthusiastically - so much so that the week before Bloodsport's first appearance, Superman had failed to save Cat Grant's ten-year-old son Adam from being murdered. That illusion is short-lived, though: Bloodsport also killed the woman he had just "saved," because she was black.īloodsport II came along at a dark time in the Superman titles. Introduced when a group of thugs were beating up on a woman in an alley, it was at first implied he might be an antihero rather than an outright villain: he kills the thugs and "rescues" her. ![]() This one, too, had an agonizing and politically-tinged backstory but much less sympathetic. Just two months after Superman was "back for good" from his death at the hands of Doomsday, another Bloodsport appeared.
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