It's not often that movie fans are allowed to slide into a frenzy of fanboy speculation, but given the current climate of multiple sumptuous comic-book movies, it's hard not to. It's easy to spend hours and hours theorizing about every tiny detail of the plot, dissecting trailers and images with all the cunning of a modern Sherlock Holmes. And then there's the post-credit scene. It's usually a tidbit that teases a forthcoming movie, and as such, can be as detached from the main feature as it wants. Luckily for pop-culture fanatics, this means possibility upon possibility, potential movie upon potential movie, and it's incredibly easy to get over excited. But, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. If 2011's Green Lantern taught us anything, it's to not prematurely blow your load, a poorly misjudged after-credits tag setting up a movie that never saw the light of day. That being said, it's quite hard to imagine Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice missing the mark equally as badly, and that means those rabid post-credit scene dreams may actually come to fruition at the end of March.
8. The DC Cinematic Universe's Big Bad Is Unveiled
It'd be a great disappointment if the big, universe crushing villain of the DC movie universe was a pseudo ninja turtle, but that's the idea many fans got from Batman v Superman's second full-length trailer. Doomsday landed with a whimper rather than the bang that was hoped for, ending the many theories and speculative rants that ultimately declared him the main antagonist of The Justice League. Just as Thanos threatens Iron Man, Captain America and the rest of the Marvel universe, the DC movies will surely have their own endgame villain, the huge boss level that each individual movie will build up to. Every interconnected movie-verse needs some connective tissue, a reason for all these heroes to come together - and we'll probably see this threat after the credits roll on March 25th. DC have unabashedly taken leaves out of the Marvel playbook left, right and centre, from the team-up movie to the 'heroes fighting' movie to the sad under-utilization of female and minority characters. With Doomsday seemingly out of the picture, there's room for an all consuming, epic post-credits supervillain to take centre stage. And, with Batman and Superman uniting, this villain has the perfect challenge lying in front of them.
Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.
