"Never assign to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance."
"Great stories will always return to their original forms"
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." James Baldwin
Waller began as a pretty nuanced character. Which makes sense, she's involved in Black Ops and Real Politik. Read any reviled or loved Politicians biography and it'll reveal the heinous things they did often came out of fear of something significantly worse.
Of course now they just write her as a lunatic.
I’ve always seen this recent series as a kind of natural escalation of her character because of crisis level events she has to live through as part of the DC universe. She can put as many villains in enemy countries as she wants to pull off black ops missions, but what does it matter if there are people who erase everything at the snap of their fingers. Hell its probably been building since No Justice and Dark Nights Metal because I remember how she wanted to Nuke parts of the world in an effort to stop an alien invasion, used psychics to steal from Brainiac, and watched as the dark multiverse invaded. Hell who knows how she reacted to Doctor Manhattan.
"It's fun and it's cool, so that's all that matters. It's what comics are for, Duh."
Words to live by.
I wonder if Ambush Bug and Blood Pouch are going to argue over who gets to break the fourth wall.