DCEU Movie End-Credits and More Teases That Never Paid Off

Опубликовано 16 марта 2023, 16:35

Sometimes – even when multiplexes have been dominated by superhero movies for over two decades – things just don’t pan out. Occasionally the best-laid plans get their neck snapped like General Zod after a horrific battle that levels half of Metropolis. Which brings us to the DCEU...

With DC’s Cinematic Universe about to reset with this summer’s multiversal mayhem movie, The Flash, as the DCU reins are handed to James Gunn and Peter Safran, a ton of teases, setups, and planted seeds from the past decade of DC movies are going to wind up going nowhere. The Snyderverse is officially dunzo, so let’s take a look at the many storylines that are getting the shaft. Gunn’s DCU means what once was will now…never be.

Let’s start with Shazam! Yes, even the charming, comedic bubble created by the first Shazam! film has a few connections to the Snyderverse saga, and those threads are probably gonna get snipped. Everything is still supposed to shake out and straighten up when Gunn’s Gods and Monsters refresh kicks in but these past few years definitely spotlight an awkward phase in the already scattershot DCEU. There was even enough of a power vacuum that Dwayne Johnson tried to capitalize on it with Black Adam, with the promise that the hierarchy of power was going to change. It didn’t. The Rock’s cooking, however, was not smelled - smelt? - and we’d learn very soon after that movie’s release that actor Henry Cavill wouldn’t be a part of Gunn’s vision for Superman.

And that news, like a plummeting Kyrptonian escape pod, took Johnson’s Teth-Adam down with it. You know what they say…

But what about Wonder Woman? Martian Manhunter? Mr. Mind and Dr. Sivana? Batman's Knightmare?! Let's dig into it.

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