She notably supervised the original incarnation of Task Force X that was dispatched to stop the Enchantress from taking over Earth alongside her brother, as well as a second iteration of the team that infiltrated the remote island of Corto Maltese in order to destroy the fortified base Jotunheim and neutralize an extraterrestrial being known as "Starro".

agents alongside former Task Force X member Christopher Smith / Peacemaker and her estranged daughter Leota Adebayo, to destroy an alien species known as Butterflies to prevent a global invasion.

Following its completion, Adebayo leaked the existence of Task Force X and Waller's involvement, leading the U.S. Congress to bar her from exploiting any human subjects.

Waller instead forms "Task Force M", a conceptually similar strike team now composed of monsters and metahumans, who are sent out to Pokolistan in order to stop an ongoing invasion effort by the Amazonian sorcereress Circe and the Sons of Themyscira, while protecting its Princess Illana Rostovic.

Waller has often been featured in other media based on DC Comics, with voice actresses CCH Pounder, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Tisha Campbell voicing the character in cartoons and animated films such as Justice League Unlimited, Young Justice, the DC Animated Movie Universe, and Harley Quinn,[2][3] as well as being portrayed in live action by Pam Grier in Smallville,[4] Cynthia Addai-Robinson in the Arrowverse,[5] and Angela Bassett in the film Green Lantern.

[13] Amanda Waller is introduced in Suicide Squad as an FBI official in charge of A.R.G.U.S.. She is shown to be in contact with vigilantes such as Bruce Wayne / Batman, to whom she provides intelligence in order for him to apprehend criminals such as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot.

She later meets in-person with Bruce Wayne, giving him classified government documents on several metahumans including Arthur Curry and Barry Allen so he can recruit them for his own team,[b] in exchange for Wayne protecting her reputation and concealing her involvement with Task Force X. Waller deploys two Task Force X groups, each squad initially unaware of the existence of the other, in Corto Maltese following an anti-American coup to disrupt the country’s "Project Starfish", revealed to be a mission to conceal America’s role in the inhumane experiments.

and "John Doe" / Weasel, is annihilated by Corto Maltesean defenses, with Flag being rescued by the local rebellion group, the Freedom Fighters, Quinn being captured by the military and T.D.K.

The second squad, consisting of Robert DuBois / Bloodsport, whom Waller personally blackmails into joining and leading the second team by threatening to incarcerate his daughter Tyla into Belle Reve, Chris Smith / Peacemaker, Nanaue / King Shark, Cleo Cazo / Ratcatcher 2 and her pet rat Sebastian, and Abner Krill / Polka-Dot Man, infiltrates while the Corto Maltesean military is distracted by the first squad, which was merely a deliberate decoy.

Enraged, Waller threatens to execute them all before her subordinate Flo Crawley knocks her out and, along with the tactical support team, including Emilia Harcourt and John Economos, give the squad the go-ahead to save Corto Maltese from Starro.

After they kill the giant alien, Bloodsport is able to negotiate with a recovering Waller to let him and his remaining squad teammates Quinn, Nanaue, Cazo and Sebastian go free and airlifted them off the island along to still drop his daughter's incarcerate, using the evidence he took of the American involvement in Project Starfish as a bargaining chip.

After Teth-Adam is awakened from a 5,000-year slumber in Kahndaq, Waller contacts Carter Hall / Hawkman and the Justice Society, dispatching them to contain Adam and prevent him from potentially unleashing another rampage for which he was imprisoned by the Council of Wizards.

Since then, to protect the allied nation of Pokolistan and its heiress, Princess Ilana Rostovic from the attacks of the rogue Amazonian sorceress Circe and her followers, the Sons of Themyscira, she assembles and send a black ops team of inmate monsters, from the Belle Reve Non-Human Interment Division, called Task Force M, also known as the Creature Commandos.

[16] The plot description and characterization were adapted from Amanda Waller at the DC Extended Universe Wiki, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.