Weasel: The DC Comics Origins Of Sean Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Character Explained

Bullies From Weasel’s College Days Inspired His Supervillain Alias

In John Monroe’s DC Comics debut, a flashback to the 1960s shows him as a student at Stanford University, where he was treated as a bit of an outcast by people who constantly tormented him and gave a disparaging nickname. Care to guess what that name was? If you said, “Weasel,” give yourself a pat on the back. But what exactly inspired Monroe to channel this traumatic memory into a life of crime.

Years later, John Monroe would become a teacher at Vandemeer University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where many of the same people who bullied him at Stanford also happened to be employed. Somehow convinced that his former classmates may pose a threat to his tenure, Monroe decided to get back at them with an act of furry vengeance. Wearing his self-made costume and referring to himself as the very creature his classmates cruelly branded him as, Monroe sought them out and brutally murdered them one by one.