The Suicide Squad: Who Is Polka-Dot Man? David Dastmalchian Explains

Anyone who walked into a theater in 2014 not knowing their “Groot“ from a “Gamora“ knows that James Gunn likes to dig deep into the canon for his comic book movies. That absolutely remains true seven years later as the filmmaker dives into The Suicide Squad, an R-rated DC Comics team-up that features the likes of King Shark (Sylvester Stallone), Javelin (Flula Borg), and Peacemaker (John Cena). But there’s arguably no more obscure member of the team than the wonderfully-named Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian), a Batman villain dating back to the 1960s whose entire “thing“ revolves around polka-dots. “A deep, deep, deep cut character. Literally voted like one of, I think, the least popular characters in all of the DC canon,“ Dastmalchian told Collider and a roundtable of other outlets on the Atlanta set of The Suicide Squad. Sitting next to him, Steve Agee, who plays John Economos and provides the motion capture for King Shark, interjected: “I think the