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 over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!
