Editor’s Notice: The next accommodates spoilers for the Creature Commandos Season 1 finale.

The seventh episode of Creature Commandos can be the DC Universe collection’ first season finale. As such, it’s fairly eventful, charged with concluding many of the season’s principal storylines. Regardless of this, there are nonetheless just a few Easter eggs and references to DC historical past and different media unfold all through the ultimate half hour.

‘Creature Commandos’ References Marvel’s Ghost Rider

Creature Commandos Physician Phosphorous (Alan Tudyk) and The Bride (Indira Varma) proceed to change sarcastic jokes at each other’s expense, with one of many latter’s closing jibes on the former making a telling reference to a Marvel Comics character. When The Bride’s immortal stalker, Eric Frankenstein (David Harbour), confronts the workforce throughout their mission to kill Pokolistan’s Princess Ilana Rostovic (Maria Bakalova), The Bride promptly shoots him within the chest a number of occasions, knocking him out a window. Phosphorous sardonically asks if Erik is a, “Paramour of yours?” to which The Bride replies, “Oh, can it, Ghost Rider.”

For those who don’t know, the Ghost Riders are antiheroes within the Marvel universe, often people possessed by demonic spirits that pursue violent vengeance in opposition to vicious criminals. When a Rider’s full energy is in use, its host’s physique is reworked right into a flaming skeleton, therefore the resemblance to the skeletal, irradiated Phosphorous. The Riders are a staple group of characters in Marvel historical past, with Nicolas Cage and Gabriel Luna having performed live-action variations in a pair of movies and the Marvel Cinematic Universe tv collection Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D., respectively. Along with being a merely amusing reference to a extra well-known group of characters that Phosphorous seems like, the name-drop additionally establishes a small however vital element in regards to the world of the DCU. Marvel and DC Comics continuously reference each other, with every firm typically being proven to exist within the fictional universes of the opposite in order that the characters could make applicable references to their well-known counterparts, which in each other’s realities, are fictional. The MCU and the DCU’s predecessor, the DC Prolonged Universe, have replicated this dynamic, and it is smart for the brand new franchise to observe swimsuit, given how outstanding the MCU has made many facets of Marvel canon in trendy popular culture.

‘Creature Commandos’ Introduces Nina’s Father From the Comics

Episode 7, titled “A Very Humorous Monster,” options flashback sequences depicting the heartbreaking backstory of Commando member Nina Mazursky (Zoë Chao), which additionally introduces the character’s father, Edward (Gregg Henry). Though, within the comics, Nina’s father is known as Myron, Edward performs a task practically an identical to his counterpart’s. A superb scientist, Edward performs a dangerous process on Nina to restore a lung situation she suffers from, however, as in a single model of her comedian e book story, this ends in her remodeling into her distinctive, fish-like kind and solely with the ability to breathe underwater.

‘Creature Commandos’ Fills Out the DCU Map With Metropolis and Blüdhaven

The flashbacks to Nina’s previous additionally proceed Creature Commandos’ work of introducing most of the fictional areas from DC Comics into the DCU. Nina grew up in Star Metropolis, often called the hometown of superhero Oliver Queen/Inexperienced Arrow and associated characters. After working away from Edward’s house to dwell within the metropolis’s our bodies of water, Nina is captured by frightened residents and regulation enforcement brokers, with a tv information reporter mentioning how animal management consultants from Metropolis and Blüdhaven assisted within the apprehension. Metropolis, after all, is the house of Clark Kent/Superman, who will likely be performed within the DCU by David Corenswet. Launched to the comics universe in 1996, Blüdhaven is a neighboring metropolis to Gotham from the Batman mythology. After leaving his position as Batman’s accomplice, the unique Robin, Dick Grayson, takes on the brand new superhero moniker Nightwing and ultimately strikes to Blüdhaven within the hopes of ridding it of corruption, which is commonly proven as being much more rampant within the new metropolis than it’s in Gotham.

Throughout her closing confrontation with Ilana, The Bride initially feigns casualness by perusing the princess’ private library whereas talking. A number of well-known books, together with Don Quixote and Wuthering Heights, are proven among the many assortment, however most important is the second through which The Bride briefly takes maintain of Mary Shelley’s Mathilda. Shelley is the novelist who created the preliminary literary iterations of Eric and The Bride. The daddy of the titular character in Mathilda additionally harbors incestuous emotions for his daughter, recalling the incestuous relationship Creature Commandos’ model of The Bride’s creator, Victor Frankenstein (Peter Serafinowicz), had together with her. Throughout this scene, The Bride additionally calls Ilana “a power-mad, sadistic, narcissistic, Disney princess,” although that is seemingly only a normal description of the latter’s harmless, nearly infantile façade relatively than an meant reference to any particular piece of Disney media.

Activity Drive M Will get Some New Acquainted Faces

Within the episode’s closing scene earlier than the credit roll, John Economos (Steve Agee) explains to The Bride that, on Amanda Waller’s (Viola Davis) orders, a part of the non-human interment wing of Belle Reve Penitentiary has been given refurbishments in order that the members of Activity Drive M/the Creature Commandos can dwell extra comfortably of their downtime, implying that A.R.G.U.S. will proceed using the group for covert missions. Stress-free within the quarters are Phosphorous and one other surviving Commando, Weasel (Sean Gunn), a rebuilt and upgraded G.I. Robotic (additionally Gunn), and a trio of latest recruits for the workforce. The primary of the latter is Nanue/King Shark (Diedrich Bader), who beforehand served on the titular workforce within the 2021 DC movie The Suicide Squad (through which the character was performed by Agee and Sylvester Stallone), whereas the opposite two, who make solely wordless cameos, seem like DC characters Nosferata and the mum often called Khalis. The implied addition of the latter to the collection’ forged is particularly telling, as a model of Khalis heals Nina at one level within the comics, suggesting that the latter’s presumed demise by the hands of Ilana could possibly be reversed sooner or later.

Frankenstein Refuses To Take the Trace

Talking of reversing deaths, the finale has a post-credits scene that confirms that Eric survived The Bride’s assault and nonetheless stays obsessed together with her. Eric is proven sharing a meal of soup with the feminine operative of his, referred to within the credit merely as “Previous Girl” (Bakalova), who knowledgeable him that The Bride was in Pokolistan within the season premiere.

The primary season of Creature Commandos is out there to stream on Max.