Out of all the Suicide Squad members there are a few that seem interesting enough to really give a solo movie to, and El Diablo is one of them. So the movie didn’t perform as well as people thought it would, there are reasons for it to be honest. The origin stories of those recruited for the romp into the city were either messed up beyond belief or were never given time to really develop and tell the people what they needed to know about the characters. There were little blurbs here and there about each character and what they’d been through before getting locked up. El Diablo even went into a bit of his back story in order to fill people in. But when it comes to origin stories people want more.
He didn’t fight nearly as much as the rest of the squad, but he figured it wasn’t his fight. People might want to know why he was so hesitant to really get into the thick of things, why it wasn’t ‘his fight’. Given the amount of power he wields and the fact that it’s been stated that there’s no real determination of his upper limit it feels like he should have been able to fry the villains of the movie with hardly a thought. But the whole idea that this wasn’t his fight was still carrying over throughout the movie, making him hesitate even when he was attempting to protect the others in his squad. As we saw in Suicide Squad it might be too late to see just what life might have in store for him now that he was blown up along with one of the main enemies, but it’s very likely that people will want to know how he became El Diablo. Those that read the comics will already know undoubtedly, but those that don’t read the comics and like the movies would probably be interested in finding out.
El Diablo was gifted his powers by Lazarus Lane, a man that had been made host to a spirit of vengeance that controlled fire. When Chato Santana, a reformed gang leader, was sent to the hospital after being shot, Lane found him and discovered that he could be a fitting conduit for the spirit of vengeance. As Lane was dying anyway, he bequeathed the spirit to the unconscious form of Santana and then passed away. Unfortunately Santana, who was healed thanks to the spirit, couldn’t always control the power and wound up doing more damage than he’d meant to, which drew the attention of those that knew how to detain people like him. His origin story would be fairly simply but would have to center on Lazarus Lane for just a little bit in order to get the full gist of it. Of course this would probably stoke a bit of ire from Marvel fans as it would seem too much like Ghost Rider unless something was done to differentiate the two stories.
To be fair, the first El Diablo was created in 1970, and the Ghost Rider was created in 1972. But the current El Diablo was created in 2008. So long as they found a way to keep things just different enough, an origin story would be workable.
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