Idris Elba and Pete Davidson put on Crocs in The Suicide Squad (and we're weirdly into it)

James Gunn's The Suicide Squad is lastly right here. And whereas it's obtained all of the laughs, motion and rated-R jokes you'd hope for from the DC gang (and that we categorically didn't get from the 2016 movie tackle the comedian e-book adventurers), it's additionally reminded us that Crocs are right here to remain.

Undoubtedly probably the most hotly anticipated movies of the summer season, The Suicide Squad doesn't open with an action-packed battle sequence as you would possibly count on, however fairly with a close-up on a pair of vivid orange Crocs. Yep, you learn appropriately. The most important superhero film of 2021 opens on a hero shot of plastic sous chef sneakers. 

Worn by Michael Rooker's prison-bound Savant within the opening scenes, the slip-ons are then seen on the ft of latest Squad members Idris Elba and Pete Davidson, every pairing them with satsuma-hued boiler fits. Product placement or not, the colourful plastic sneakers lived rent-free in our minds for the remaining two hours of the film. 

It's hardly shocking the fugly slip-ons, characterised by their holey building and again straps, have made it onto the large display. The previous few years have been arguably probably the most definitive within the model's 19-year-long historical past. Crocs just lately collaborated with Justin Bieber – who put out two sellout iterations of the footwear – whereas the model's different companions embrace Submit Malone, Dangerous Bunny and, most just lately, Versace sneaker designer Salehe Bembury. 

The plastic sneakers additionally made their strategy to the 2021 Oscars, the place The Roots vocalist Questlove slipped right into a pair of golden Crocs, and the Emmys, to which Succession and GQ cowl star Nicholas Braun wore a pair of embellished slip-ons. 

Crocs have even left their mark on the style business. It's secure to imagine that Kanye West's futuristic foam RNNRs, which went on sale late final 12 months, have been impressed by the footwear, whereas Daniel Lee over at Bottega Veneta has simply dropped a pair of “Puddle" slip-ons that look remarkably like Crocs, with an Italian-made, luxe rubber building as an alternative of plastic. Elsewhere Balençiaga collaborated with the US-based model by itself platform model.

So should you're heading out to look at The Suicide Squad tonight (you need to; it's good), beneath are the Crocs you need to snap up and slip on.

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