What shall I say about DC? The studio is more clueless than a child with a credit card. After the massive box office failure of The Flash, I think the only hope fans have is from James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy which will release next week. However, there are two more DC releases coming this year. Two? Surprised? You thought only Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is left from DC’s 2023 slate. Well, there is another – Blue Beetle. I won’t blame you if you didn’t know about this film. Warner Bros. isn’t pushing it too much as well, to save marketing money. The film is made only on a budget of $120 million. Honestly, I hadn’t heard much about the film until I saw the trailer in theatre previews. The trailer looks good and for such a low budget film, the visual effects are impressive.
One of the major problems of other DC movies was that they won’t make sense in the longer run when James Gunn takes over. However, it looks like Blue Beetle won’t have the same problem as after the credits there is more story to tell.
Blue Beetle Has More Story To Tell After The Credits!
The concept of post credit scenes was started by Marvel Studios in modern cinema. Giving the audience just one more nugget of the film that teases about the upcoming developments in the franchise. After Marvel, DC also followed the trend and soon post credit scenes became a norm in the superhero genre. However, recently many mainstream Hollywood franchises have also adopted this tradition with Fast X having a post-credits scene where we saw Luke Hobbs’ return. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts added a mid-credits too in order to revive Mirage.
There are still some franchises which opt against the trope. For instance, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse didn’t have a post-credits, for example. Unlike Across the Spider-Verse, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One and Meg 2: The Trench, Blue Beetle does have a post credit scene. In fact, there are two. Several media outlets have pointed to this possibility. Journalist Luke Bugg tweeted after seeing the film, “Two post-credit scenes”.
While Puerto Rican fan Josh Herrera not only revealed the “2 Post Credit Scenes” but that he thinks, “there’s more story to tell!” The full list of DCEU films and their number of post-credit scenes can be seen below:
- Man of Steel – zero
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – zero
- Suicide Squad – one
- Wonder Woman – zero
- Justice League – two
- Aquaman – one
- Shazam! – two
- Bird of Prey – one
- Wonder Woman 1984 – one
- The Suicide Squad – two
- Black Adam – one
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods – two
- The Flash – one
- Blue Beetle – two
While we don’t know what the post credit scenes are about but it has been made clear that Xolo Maridueña’s teenage hero could potentially remain a part of the DCU going forward, meaning these post-credit scenes may be the indication of where the story could be going .
Blue Beetle is scheduled to be released in theatres near you on August 18, 2023.
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